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I presently take a 1000 Metformin plus Glipizide plus a B50 pill in the morning and a 500 Metformin plus a B50 pill at dinner.
I am finding information overload when searching the Internet for daily meal plans to keep my blood sugar low.
My counselor has recommended 45 grams of carbs per meal with (2) 15-30 grams of snacks per day.
I was thinking maybe if I try the 30 grams of carbs, the blood sugar will stay around 100 or lower.
Does anyone have links with daily meal plans that are working… read more
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Members emphasized that there is no one-size-fits-all meal plan for managing blood sugar with diabetes, sharing that the most effective... Read more
@A DiabetesTeam Member
Since we are all individuals and are at various stages of diabetes, there is not a plan that is 'one size fits all'. The best way to find what you can eat and keep your numbers low is to use your blood glucose meter to help you. First take a reading before a meal, make a note and also write down what you are going to eat. Then 2 hours after the meal take another BG reading and see if it is significantly higher or lower than you want to be, and work with your food plan to change what is causing the problems. If you had a lot of carbs, first of all try cutting them down, and then if you get to where you want, you will know that meal is OK. You need to know roughly the quantities of the food also. This way you can reduce or eliminate all the foods that shoot up your blood sugar. We have to take into account our likes and dislikes in food and work with that too. If most of the foods you like are high carb, you are going to need to replace some or all of them with other foods that you like, but are not high carb. Some people can allow a little carbs in the food plan, others need to cut it right back. At first when you have high numbers, it is best to cut it right back until you have numbers in the normal range. Then you can try introducing the foods back in a little at a time, keep on checking the after meal BG to see if you are still in range, if. not, cut it back again. Yes, it is a lot of work at first, but once you have worked out what YOU can eat that you are fine, until you come across a new food that you haven't tested. The problem with using other peoples food plan is that it will not necessarily work for YOU.
Also some of your food choices will depend on the medications you are taking. I am using insulin, so I can adjust my insulin for anything that I want to eat. However, if I eat a ton of carbs, I will have blood sugar that jumps around up and down and even though I am taking insulin for it, it doesn't work well with a bunch of carbs. I have learned that my favourite breakfast food which is a crunchy cereal and a no-no for many, is fine for me with a small amount of insulin, and I am sure to measure my bran buds with 1/4 cup measure, and 1/4 cup of Special K, and that it it. My limit. I can add a sprinkle of dried cranberries and some blanched sliced almonds and still take a minimum amount of insulin and be at. 5.8 or so at lunch time. So I know that works for me, and I no longer test after that meal. I had to today, because after breakfast when I went to change my infusion set for my @@ pump, I realized that it was disconnected from the insert in my body, so I wasn't sure if I had received my breakfast insulin. I was at an absolutely horrible number for me of 11.5. I took another 5.5 units of insulin to get me down to where I wanted to be and was 5.9 at lunch time.
@A DiabetesTeam Member
Personally I consume around 130-140 grams of carbs in a day, BUT I use insulin to control my numbers. If I wa using an oral medication, I would probably not be able to eat that many because my numbers would be too high. So you see, no-one can tell you exactly how many numbers in carbs you should eat. You would need to test all meals every day and total up the amount of carbs of each meal. Then see how your blood sugar numbers are doing.....if they are staying fairly even and in good range, then you are eating the right amount of carbs for your body. If you are going high, then you are consuming too many, so would need to cut back on particulalr foods, or eliminate them and start again trying out to see how many carbs you can consume. I think that the general rule is that low carb is considered between 30 - 80 grams, and moderate carbs between 80 to 150 grams, and then over that would be considered high carb. I haven't checked this, but you can find it somewhere on line, by just Goggling the question "How many carbs is low carb?".
@A DiabetesTeam Member Vw. Yrs indeed i use the free styly libre. And getit f5om my healthinsurance. By an stroke i can not use myleft hand. So it isangreat resolutionfor me. By the s4nsor i can test several times a day. I've learned so much on foods by that! So now i know sugarfree is not carb free! Now i wish to eliminate the last numbets! May be the new vaccin? Of coursr i am on diabetics an life long! However i can learn so much more on foods and to keep fun by that foods! Aftet all i think i have ancarb-allergic.
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Ingrid, do your @ nutrition labels just give the percentage of carbs on them? I think our labels in Canada have the total carbs per serving, and also the percentage. I would not think that the percentage would be such a help as the actual number of carbs per serving. Because if you eat a bit more than the serving size, you are eating more which means you have no real idea of the actual amount of carbs you are eating. When you use the number of grams of carbs per serving, you can see whether you are eating the amount of carbs on the label, as they have given the guide of the serving size. Mind you, the serving sizes are often ridiculous, and when you realize that you are eating one and a half serving sizes, then you can calculate how many carbs are in the food.
Maybe I just can't get my head around this, but the percentage amounts like 10% and 40% only give you an idea of the number of carbs that the total package as compared to the rest of the other ingredients.
If your labels show the 'Total Carbohydrates", that is the number to look at, and also the recommended
'Serving Size'. I know you have excellent meats and cheese in Holland, and also nice vegetables. A good place for healthy food. Cheers.
I did the Atkins diet for one year now and my diabetes has gone. It realy works but its hard for the first 2 weeks
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