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Hi everyone, I’m Mandy, I’m 52 and have had T2 diabetes for about 15 years. I’m currently on WW and am really enjoying it. However I’m struggling with my breakfasts, I’m having tinned or frozen fruit with oats and yogurt every day, and my weight loss is really good, 11.5lbs in 4 weeks. I’m worried about the amount of sugar in the fruit but am thinking in the long term the weight loss will lower my count anyway. I’m having a lot less carbs so does this balance it out? Any advice would be most welcome
 
MandyW said:
Hi everyone, I’m Mandy, I’m 52 and have had T2 diabetes for about 15 years. I’m currently on WW and am really enjoying it. However I’m struggling with my breakfasts, I’m having tinned or frozen fruit with oats and yogurt every day, and my weight loss is really good, 11.5lbs in 4 weeks. I’m worried about the amount of sugar in the fruit but am thinking in the long term the weight loss will lower my count anyway. I’m having a lot less carbs so does this balance it out? Any advice would be most welcome
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Hi Mandy. Welcome to the forum. Sounds like you are doing really well with weight loss. To answer your question about breakfast..... If the fruit you are using is mainly berries, they are pretty low in carbs, so I wouldn't worry about that, assuming they are not tinned in syrup! Try and avoid higher carb fruits such as tropical fruits etc. I find oats can be a problem for me, as they raise my blood glucose quite a bit, so I prefer to have chopped nuts with my yoghurt and berries. Hope this helps.
 
Weight watchers, or WW as it now wishes to be known, is suffering from an increase in the number of low carbers, so they might be changing their advice to cope - but if you are not testing your blood glucose then maybe it would be wise to start, just to be sure that your diet is suitable for your needs.
So much emphasis is put on weight (because that is what causes diabetes everyone knows that - she says sarcastically) that sometimes it obscures the main objective, normal blood glucose levels.
 
Mmmmmm - the doctor has two main objectives but is only equipped and able to deal with one of them, WW only has the other objective and is only equipped to deal with that one.

Hence Drummer's right - it is entirely up to the individual to deal with both. I just wonder but don't know if the NHS would be prepared to support your weight loss by providing you with a meter to enable you to tweak your diet individually to your diabetic needs?

Otherwise fund that yourself and invest in a Codefree meter and strips (the cheapest reliable meter and strips we know about available on the open market) and follow the advice in http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/10/test-review-adjust.html wherever the meter comes from.
 
I agree, get a meter and test. Frozen or fresh berries are best ime, particularly blueberries. Personally I’d also switch the oats out and make the yoghurt full fat Greek to fill you up, and for protein.
 
Blueberries do tend to be the ones shown as having the highest carb value of the berries - the fruits called berries, that is, not all the botanical berries.
I buy the frozen mixes called Summer fruits as they are lowest carb - watch out for 'smoothie' mixes as they can be grand slam carb fests.
 
I wonder if freezing berries has a similar effect to freezing cooked pasta - do some of the carbs disappear into complex carbohydrates?
 
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I wonder if freezing berries has a similar effect to freezing cooked pasta - do some of the carbs disappear into complex carbohydrates?
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My hunch would be no. What people talk about with cooked and cooled (and then reheated) pasta is resistant starch, and I've not seen any mention of berries. Potatoes and plantains, yes, but not berries.
 
I must just be weird, blueberries definitely don’t affect me as much as strawberries and raspberries.
 
Madeline said:
I must just be weird, blueberries definitely don’t affect me as much as strawberries and raspberries.
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Just another example of how the one thing we all have in common is that we are all different - and a good case for why people need to test.
 
I couldn’t tolerate berries at all, or oats, but I can have 2 slices of Burgen toast with peanut butter or a bacon sandwich. Mandy I agree with the testing approach and would suggest you keep a food diary to track your results so you can tweak meals until you work out what works best for you. In my experience if you get the diet right, the weight will drop anyway. I have been a yo-yo dieter all my life, you name it I tried it at some point, worked soo hard to keep the weight off but couldn’t keep it up. I’ve been low carb for a year now and I love it, I walk a neighbours dog for exercise and I’ve dropped just under 4 stone without trying!
 
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