so, last night in my DE class the dietitian was teaching about carbs and nutrition. all of this information i thought was very good and well presented. and she did address how carbs no matter what type turn into glucose which will effect our blood sugar.
in the last half of the class she taught on diet planning. in her diet plan i am supposed to consume 60g of carbs per meal. I am averaging around 60 per day. so i felt this was my time to ask a question. i asked her, many of the items on her list of carbs, starch and grains spike my BG. her response was that 60g of carbs a day was to low, and not sustainable. i told her that if i averaged 180carbs a day my bg would be pushing 200 all the time. her response was then i need more medication. i asked her again, why would i eat a high carb diet that i know will raise my BG and cause me health problems, when instead i could eat a reduced carb diet and manage my BG with my meter, and not need all the medications?
her response was, well we need to move on here so that we can get through this information.
oh well, i didn't expect much more. some of the information was good, but i think the diet she was teaching was for a non diabetic, not someone with impaired insulin response.
in the last half of the class she taught on diet planning. in her diet plan i am supposed to consume 60g of carbs per meal. I am averaging around 60 per day. so i felt this was my time to ask a question. i asked her, many of the items on her list of carbs, starch and grains spike my BG. her response was that 60g of carbs a day was to low, and not sustainable. i told her that if i averaged 180carbs a day my bg would be pushing 200 all the time. her response was then i need more medication. i asked her again, why would i eat a high carb diet that i know will raise my BG and cause me health problems, when instead i could eat a reduced carb diet and manage my BG with my meter, and not need all the medications?
her response was, well we need to move on here so that we can get through this information.
oh well, i didn't expect much more. some of the information was good, but i think the diet she was teaching was for a non diabetic, not someone with impaired insulin response.