recently diagnosed 22 month old

[Helen Nurse]

Thanks Gem, really useful am going to get them all!

 

[Northerner]

Thanks Gem, really useful am going to get them all!

Looks like my link for the Carbs and Cals book was an old one, here's the latest edition:

Carbs & Cals: A Visual Guide to Carbohydrate & Calorie Counting for People with Diabetes

 

[Mumlé]

Hi Helen - sorry to hear you are in (roughly) the same boat as me!! One thing I've come to learn is that diabetes is not like a broken arm (although people with a broken arm would disagree) - in that each person is SO different it seems. Anyway I am happy to share and receive any advice! And this forum is great for letting off steam. Speak to you again soon! Take care, Charlotte

 

[Mumlé]

Hello Helen

I'm reading this feeling so much sympathy for you! I felt like our diabetic team thought I was pretty much obsessed with carb counting in the beginning. Which I was! (and still am to a fair degree). I would ring them or email them about cooked/dried/soaked apricots, bread - homemade/bought in labelled packet/bought from tesco bakery (no nutritional value on pack), how many carbs in a cooked lentil/ tinned one/uncooked/cooked in a soup with other stuff/cooked on it's own... aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!

it does get easier I promise.
you basically end up knowing a few key things and sticking to them:
banana
slice of brown bread
rice
pasta
apples and pears
potato
a handful of recipes which you make up. I'll email you my soup and banana bread recipe spreadsheet if you like!!

I have to remind myself that it really doesn't matter if she has the same thing 4 times a week.

We have started learning about carb counting but I know that when we start the MDI in a couple of weeks we're going to have to be much stricter about it - how do you do that, especially when you are out and about for example if you get a sandwich in a cafe or fish and chips in a pub and its difficult to know exactly what type of bread it is or how much batter the fish is in etc. It seems there is so much variation - and also some guides seem to say one thing and it is another somewhere else - for example in our collins carb guide it says that 75g of grapes are 10g carbs, so we weighed out them which were 15 grapes, but then in our booklet that the hospital had given us it said that 10 medium grapes were 10 carbs - I thought the ones we weighed were medium sized, so which do we believe? How strict are you and what information do you follow?

 

[Gemma444]

Looks like my link for the Carbs and Cals book was an old one, here's the latest edition:

Carbs & Cals: A Visual Guide to Carbohydrate & Calorie Counting for People with Diabetes

Thanks for putting the links up for me northerner. Think eBay do have the Salter 1440 still available at the moment but only a few. They are the cheapest at around ?25. They are small but I put a bowl on the scales then a plate on top of the bowl. Works for me.

Gem x

 

[Ruth Goode]

We can't always get it right, sometimes just a half unit make a difference to Carly that send her to hypo or hyper because she is still growing - we just do what we can do best, just stay positive and you are doing so well to try to get all the information here 🙂