Welcome to the forum! Glad you found us. Yes, controlling your carb intake is going to be essential in managing your blood sugar. It is not only "sweets" that get you. Its the carbs. Avoid "white foods" they are the highest in carbs....pasta, rice, white potatos, white, bread, etc. Substitute whole grains instead, brown rice, sweet potatoes instead of white. White poatoes are death on a plate for most of us....if you eat a bowl of mashed potatoes or french fries, you might as well be eating a bowl of cake frosting...its going to do the same thing to your blood sugar. I recommend that you start counting your carbs. A really good resource for looking up carb content of many foods is CalorieKing.com. They even have alot of prepared foods and restaurant foods...including fast food. A good starting point is no more than 45gm carb for breakfast and no more than 60 for lunch and dinner. Many diabetics cant even really tolerate that much, but some can so its a good starting point. I hope you have a meter to check your blood sugar...if not...get one. The best way to know how many carbs you can safely eat is to test your blood sugar before meals, then at least 2 hours after...by 2 hours you should at least be back down to where you were before you ate. If you are not...then you ate more carbs than your body can deal with...cut back and try again. Moderate exercise will also lower your insulin resistance so that your body can use your insulin more effectively, thus lowering your blood sugar. I hope you can stick around and please feel free to ask all you need...we are all here to help each other out. There is a lot of great info here on the boards so poke around and lookThanks for all that information 'diabetes86'. The bowl of mashed potato... wow, who would have thought it would be worse for your BGL. Guess i have alot to learn.
Greg
Hi Greg,...........Yes, i forgot to mention my BGL. I've only been testing for eight days now and though the start was mid to high teens, today was 9.2 this morning and 13.4 this evening.
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Welcome to the forum Greg! If you need help and support, you have come to the right place. We have so many helpful members who have much success in managing their diabetes. I was diagnosed at age 40 and it is a life changing experience. I hope you will feel comfortable here and are able to visit often. Take care.Hi Richard,
Thanks for the quick response. Guess i could have left a little more info about myself (I just found a more recent picture too).
I was diagnosed Type 2 diabetes on Oct 6. I had surgery in May to fuze my ankle, the result of an old injury catching up with me. My recovery has been complicated by a second surgery and an infection, and i have just started walking again without crutches. As a result of alot of immobility, i have put on about twenty pounds. I have been witnessing alot of strange feelings and symptoms lately, but it wasn't until my vision started going that i was pointed in the direction of diabetes. Anyway, in just over a week of being diagnosed, i feel much better. With alot of help from my wife, my diet is slowly getting sorted, but we're still not totally sure as to what i should and should not be eating. My doctor also prescribed Metformin 500mg x 3/day and Atorvastatin 20mg x 1/day. I also have high blood pressure and high cholesterol and was told that both often go hand-in-hand with type 2 Diabetes.
This has been a big wake-up call for me. After a few years of neglect, a lack of diet and exercise, and now diabetes, it's definitely time to get healthy again.
Greg
Milk has a lot of Carbs in it, i stay awayI read today that Diabetics should not consume water from 1/2 hr. before to 1/2 hr. after meals. If you need to drink during meals, drink milk.
Eating Rules For Diabetes
Is there any truth to this?
Hmm...I dont know about this one. Water is always good for you and milk has quite a bit of carbs in it.I read today that Diabetics should not consume water from 1/2 hr. before to 1/2 hr. after meals. If you need to drink during meals, drink milk.
Eating Rules For Diabetes
Is there any truth to this?