what is LADA? My snacks inculde Yeggie brand potatoe chips made with tomato puree and spinach powder has 1g sugar. Planters Nut-rition (peanuts) energy mix packs 6g sugars.Sugar free iced tea as well as Crystal Lite fruit punch mix 0 sugars and other sugar free drinks...I dont snack alot at home mostly at work...I have changed all cereal to whole grain type as well as bread and rice and pastas,,salads with olive oil.I eat less portions of meats etc...I eat more fresh fruit plums,oranges,banannas(not too ripe)...BTW I see some use coconut oil as a suppliment, what is that good for?? Thanks Mario TCB.....
BloodSugar101 gives a quite
easy-to-understand explanation of LADA (<- click link), and upon scrolling down, you'll find this little nugget:
...most thin people who are incorrectly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes turn out to have LADA.
You might be giving yourself higher BG by reducing your protein & increasing fruits etc. This is where you let your meter be your guide, and test before meals, as well as 1-hour and 2-hour intervals after the meal. The goal is to keep your blood glucose (BG) under 140 at all times. Many of us set a lower level than 140, but it's a good place for you to start out.
By testing before you eat, you have a picture of where you started. By testing one hour after your first bite, you get an idea of how much that food spiked you, and you want to keep it under 140. Test again two hours after your first bite & you should be dropping back down to where you began. Whatever foods cause significant elevation of your BG should be tested again a time or two, but if the spike persists every time you eat it, you might then consider restricting or removing that food from your menus.
Many of the things dietitians & diabetes educators insist are good for us and
MUST be included in our diets, are, in reality, very unhealthy for us, and only serve to increase the amount of medication required to attain healthy low blood glucose. I can't think of any good reason we would follow that advice if it only means buying and using higher & higher doses of meds or insulin.
At any rate, start testing the foods you eat, but don't be surprised if you get spikes from the whole grain foods, the oranges/bananas/plums, and the Veggie potato chips too.
As diabetics, we need to build our meals/menus around protein & fats; what little carbs we eat can come from high fiber vegetables. Processed foods and anything labeled low-fat or fat-free—these are the villains. Any time the food industry removes the fats from normal healthy products, it is replaced with carbs. When you're reading the labels, it isn't the "sugars" you look for, it's total carbohydrate. If it also lists the dietary fiber, you may deduct those grams from the carbohydrate grams if you wish, but not everybody does.
Here is the label for the Veggie chips:
Calories in Whole Foods 365 Veggie Chips - Calories and Nutrition Facts. You've been checking the sugars when it's the carbs you gotta watch. Carbs turn into sugar as soon as you start chewing, and these chips have 19g in one ounce of product . . . that is a big load of carbs. The
label for the Nutrition energy mix shows the 6g of sugars you mentioned, but they have 13g of carbs. Nuts ARE great for diabetics though, and if you avoid packaged mixes & just buy the raw nuts, you'll be way ahead of the game. Roasted/lightly salted aren't too bad either.
Sorry for the essay . . . I'll shut up now & let somebody else talk!
