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Hi everyone
My GP had urged me to contact the Aust Diabetes assoc in order to help get myself together. So I did and yesterday I headed off to a workshop on cooking held by the Diabetes Association.
Once there. our group was presented with a table of food which was quite literally carb heavy....and the meals that they made in the demonstration included a dessert that had wine, brown sugar and icing sugar PLUS a sponge base in it....
I was a bit confused as I have found that carbs seriously affect my blood sugar levels... so I pulled the presenter aside and asked her about low carb diets.
To cut a long story short she told me that I need to eat lots of carbs...when I pointed out that I couldn't she told me that i need to eat Weetbix breakfast cereal in the morning. I explained that I tried that early on (with half a weetbix) and it spiked my levels significantly...
IN the end ( I was a little exasperated to be honest) I asked her what was mo re important....good blood sugar levels OR eating carbs....and her answer was that I need to do both.....
I feel quite frustrated because this low fat, low salt approach (dare I say it, a traditional diabetic diet) is OBVIOUSLY not working for me and yet they can't provide an alternative..
Does anyone else have experience with this??
Kind Regards
My GP had urged me to contact the Aust Diabetes assoc in order to help get myself together. So I did and yesterday I headed off to a workshop on cooking held by the Diabetes Association.
Once there. our group was presented with a table of food which was quite literally carb heavy....and the meals that they made in the demonstration included a dessert that had wine, brown sugar and icing sugar PLUS a sponge base in it....
I was a bit confused as I have found that carbs seriously affect my blood sugar levels... so I pulled the presenter aside and asked her about low carb diets.
To cut a long story short she told me that I need to eat lots of carbs...when I pointed out that I couldn't she told me that i need to eat Weetbix breakfast cereal in the morning. I explained that I tried that early on (with half a weetbix) and it spiked my levels significantly...
IN the end ( I was a little exasperated to be honest) I asked her what was mo re important....good blood sugar levels OR eating carbs....and her answer was that I need to do both.....
I feel quite frustrated because this low fat, low salt approach (dare I say it, a traditional diabetic diet) is OBVIOUSLY not working for me and yet they can't provide an alternative..
Does anyone else have experience with this??
Kind Regards