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Sausages yes or no?
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nonethewiser
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Absolutely.
As someone with Type 1 diabetes, a healthy diet is the same as for someone without diabetes. The difference is having to calculate insulin doses.
You may read a lot about people with diabetes eating low carb. This may be helpful for someone with insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes). As over 90% of people with diabetes have type 2, the media, etc. tend to focus on this rather than "minority" types like Type 1 and MODY. It is important not to get pulled along in the type 2 wave.
That said, some people with Type 1, find insulin dosing is easier with a lower carb diet.
There is no reason to reduce fats (beyond what is considered a healthy diet for someone without diabetes) so sausages are fine.
You may read a lot about people with diabetes eating low carb. This may be helpful for someone with insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes). As over 90% of people with diabetes have type 2, the media, etc. tend to focus on this rather than "minority" types like Type 1 and MODY. It is important not to get pulled along in the type 2 wave.
That said, some people with Type 1, find insulin dosing is easier with a lower carb diet.
There is no reason to reduce fats (beyond what is considered a healthy diet for someone without diabetes) so sausages are fine.
Leadinglights
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The high meat content sausages are Ok for anybody as long as they fit in with your chosen regime, many are only a few grams of carb for 2 sausages. Some with additives are a bit higher and cheap or ones served in pubs and cafes you can just tell they have lots of cereal added so not so good edited to add for Type 2s
Some of the veggie sausages are pretty good as well.
Some of the veggie sausages are pretty good as well.
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@Leadinglights the OP has Type 1.
Why are you focusing on carbs?
I appreciate you start with "your chosen regime" but then talked about sausages with cereal added being "not so good". Provided insulin is taken for the carbs, why are these not good?
Why are you focusing on carbs?
I appreciate you start with "your chosen regime" but then talked about sausages with cereal added being "not so good". Provided insulin is taken for the carbs, why are these not good?
Leadinglights
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Point taken, but they don't actually taste as good. I have edited.
Docb
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No problem @FieldD88 - hope you are beginning to get things into perspective.
Oh, and congrats to @Leadinglights and @helli for sorting out the misunderstanding over sausages quickly and amicably 😉.
Anyway, I like sausages but prefer something with a bit of taste and you can get decent ones from Aldi if you pick and choose. Here's a recipe... Cut sausages into pieces and fry off. When nearly cooked, add chopped mushrooms and cook them until the water has evaporated then add chopped union or shallot and fry off. Add a glug of white wine to deglaze the pan and boil off the alcohol. Finally add some cream or creme fraise and reduce the sauce to whatever thickness you desire. Bung on plate and eat with whatever you choose and bolus accordingly if you are T1. Everybody else would be wise to watch the carb content in the accompaniment.
Thanks man. Will definitely try. But what's Bolus?
Bolus is the insulin you take when you eat carbs.
In contrast, basal is the background insulin.
This assumes you are on a MDI (multiple dose insulin) also known as basal/bolus regime.
Docb
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@helli beat me to it!
I think you are fairly recently diagnosed so maybe you are yet to be introduced to MDi. As I understand as somebody not on insulin, the idea is that you take a long acting insulin (basal) to deal with background glucose control and then top this up with a short acting insulin (bolus) to take into account glucose produced from eating carbs. By splitting insulin this way you can get better overall control.
The amount of bolus needs to be balanced against the amount of carbohydrate, hence my comment "to bolus accordingly" depending on the carbs in the meal.
Docb
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I'll leave it to a T1 to comment further. They know the characteristics of the different insulins and what does what - I'll just confuse you.
Am i right in thinking you are recently diagnosed? If so, what does the learning curve look like? Getting steeper or beginning to level out?
Yeah, diagnosed on Tuesday this past week. Honestly, it's a hell of a lot to take in, but it is what it is. I'll manage I guess ha!
But this forum has already helped which is great
Lantus is your basal insulin.
The purpose of this is to "mop up" the glucose your liver drips throughout the day and night. It should keep your blood sugars stable(ish) in the absence of food.
NovoRapid is your bolus insulin.
The purpose of this is to work with the food you eat.
It is common for the basal (Lantus in you case) dose to remain the same once your dose has been established.
I suspect you are currently on a fixed dose of NovoRapid. However, this assumes you eat a fixed amount of carbs.
As you get used to injections, the bolus dose will change to an insulin to carb ratio. This will require you to count carbs. This may sound complicated but most of it get used to it pretty quickly as the reward is high: we get to eat what we want and inject accordingly. This is back to comments above. If you like sausages with added cereal, they will contain more carbs so you will need to inject more insulin.
Unless you want to (e.g. if you want to lose weight), I recommend maintaining the same diet you are before your diabetes diagnosis. This will make it easier for your diabetes nurse (DSN) to work out how much insulin you need and what your insulin to carb ratio is because we are all different.
Feel free to continue to ask questions. All of us with Type 1 have been there although some of us more recently than others.
nonethewiser
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Especially as part of a greasy fry up.
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