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[PattiEvans]

Thanks Sasha & Katie,

My diet appears to be OK ran through with Dawn, my nurse, who reckons its pretty healthy, dont drink much, unless Saracens lose, thinking about it, must be drinking a lot...!!!!

Davee, what the nurse thinks is OK may be wildly different to what your body thinks is OK. To a lot of diabetics' utter bewilderment the Health Care Professionals seem to advocate a diet which is high in carbohydrate and yet carbs are exactly what push BGs up. For example they counsel us to have cereal for breakfast and that pushes most people's BGs up by 5 or 6 points at a time in the morning when we are often most insulin resistant. Whereas a protein breakfast would keep the BGs pretty steady. In addition if you are able to reduce the carbohydrate in your diet it also helps to reduce triglycerides which in turn helps with your cholesterol.

In my experience of 6 years reading and contributing to online forums there is no "one size fits all" diet and each person has their own tolerance. I'd bet you a fiver to a penny that you could bring those numbers down by managing your carb load properly. A good starting point is http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/joomla/jennifers-advice which is written for newly diagnosed but is endlessly helpful to those not so newly diagnosed who have not been able to obtain good control.

 

[Davee1234]

Hi Pattie,
Long given up breakfast, always felt rough about 11 ish, will be looking at the web page you suggested. Thanks a lot for your advice.