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We were out over lunch so partner bought me a chicken sandwich, l was shocked to see no nutrition guide on the packaging but discovered there was mayo in there whilst eating it, numbers rocketed 2 hours after so l think l shall cut mayo out for a while. Why they had to 'butter' the bread in mayo for a 'plain' chicken sandwich is beyond me. My eldest son and daughter have well stocked my fridge with pepsi max and flavoured waters both are well into label reading now.
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Hi Rachel, I think I would be putting the high levels after the sandwich down to the bread rather than the mayonnaise.
 
Mayo and butter shouldn't have much effect on your BG levels, as Radders says it will be the bread.
 
Definitely the bread.
 
Your right, l do not think it was wholemeal as the label suggested.
I have cut right back to a slice a day for supper with a yogurt and l have not seen a double figure reading since 🙂

But my doctor is not happy with what l am eating as he now says l must lower my cholesterol too.
Surely my cutting out the baddies (white bread, pasta, rice and root) will be helping?
lm just starting to feel good and don't want to change much for fear of feeling like l did.
 
Rachel2802 said:
l must lower my cholesterol too
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A lot of us on LCHF have found nicely reduced cholesterol as well as BG, dietary cholesterol is not the culprit, it's our livers producing cholesterol as a result of excess..... Wait for it...... Wait for it...... Carbs!!!
 
Rachel2802 said:
Your right, l do not think it was wholemeal as the label suggested.
I have cut right back to a slice a day for supper with a yogurt and l have not seen a double figure reading since 🙂

But my doctor is not happy with what l am eating as he now says l must lower my cholesterol too.
Surely my cutting out the baddies (white bread, pasta, rice and root) will be helping?
lm just starting to feel good and don't want to change much for fear of feeling like l did.
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Your meter is going to be your best friend for a while 🙂
If you are cutting down on the carbs, you may find your cholesterol lipids improve, along with other bio-markers, fatty liver etc.
Did your get or can get a printout of your blood test?This is a good video on bloods and cholesterol

Losing weight can throw your cholesterol out too.
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2012/06/i-lost-weight-and-my-cholesterol-went-up/

I found bread is bread, it doesn't matter if it's wholemeal, brown or wholegrain, It all sends my sugar high. I think as soon as they grind the wheat, all bets are off the table.
I found yogurt can be tricky too, I'm ok with the natural ones (sour), but the processed fruity ones spike me silly. I can mix the natural yogurt with some frozen berries and keep my BG alright. Because I'm low carb, I also buy the full fat yogurt, about 10% fat.
 
Thank you Bilbie, had he explained it in simple terms like that l wouldn't have spent the entire afternoon feeling a failure!
He said l should be looking at around 200g carbs a day and l told him l was doing quite well at the moment having between 40 - 50 which is probably a 10th of what l was having a day before l began really looking. l also found out the vipidia (alogliptin) is to reduce cholesterol and not for my high readings which is what he originally told me.

Bilbie, thank you, that is an interesting video and explained a lot. My reading was HDL 5.4 (l say 'was' as lm hoping next time will be better).

l find meal planning during the day easy and l keep myself 'full' and do not have the sickly episodes anymore, supper is tricky as l am trying out different things to stop the waking numbers rising. l found the natural yogurt (l froze mine with a few berries already thrown in) helped heaps but l didn't have any last night, just half an apple as l was so tired and woke to a 10.0.
l really need to experiment on supper dishes to help through the night.
l have my appointment for the diabetic clinic now, 7th September.
 
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I thought HDL is the "good" sort of cholesterol?
 
HDL is the good. Its the LDL that's bad.
 
Hello again!
Well l have now had my next lot of results and to say the GP has confused me is an understatement.
l have lost 5lbs in weight over the month which is good. My cholesterol is down to 3 which l thought good but he wants it lower.
My blood sugars were lower at 84 not sure what this was as l do the 0.0 thing. He said this was getting there but really wanted it down to 53, so l googled and l could have looked at wrong info given but isnt that around 2.9? Im worried that would be way too low.
I said l had a meter and found that if l checked my blood when l felt shaky and sweaty and starving l was averaging 5.4 - 5.8
but felt immediately better after grabbing a snack. He told me off for using a meter saying l didnt need one then said if it happens again that l should not eat anything until my next meal as 5.8 was very high and did not mean l needed anything to eat!
He has now doubled my metformin to 2000mg a day.
My readings are still not always below 7.0 but never higher than 8.4 for the last week 2 hours after eating.
GP has now reffered me to see the diabetic nurse and for my eyes screening.

Rachel.
 
you have come a long way in a short time, the feeling funny with 5.4-5.8 is called a false hypo, I think you did the right thing having a nibble, as you get use to lower numbers you won't get the sweaty and shaky.
84 means an average blood sugar of 13 over the last 3 months. With the numbers you are seeing now. when you have a blood test after a full 3 months of this way of eating, the 84 will be in the 40's and reflect the numbers you are seeing on your meter now. This converter should help you make sense of it. Put the 84 in the middle box
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-units-converter.html
 
Thank you again 🙂
I had been looking at the US and UK conversion! l did not realise there was another set of numbers too.
l have another test booked for 8 weeks time.

I am feeling so much better now and have a tiny bit more feeling in my dodgy foot.
I would never have come this far if l hadn't found this forum and all you lovely people 🙂
 
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