Guest guest Posted December 7, 1999 Report Share Posted December 7, 1999 Sam this all goes to show that YMMV as far as Diabetes goes...if I ate like you do my Bgs would go through the roof. In fact that was the way I ate before diagnosis. It just goes to show that our bodies respond differently, each of us, to this damned disease. My Diabetes educator told me my Bg meter would become my best friend...I think that was the best advice I ever got in managing Diabetes...and the best advice I would pass on. It is only through testing that we can find what it is that causes our own Bg's to rise. For me, control means lo carb. I can go days, weeks without eating sugar, fruit or any carb and have consistently great readings. But the moment something high in carbs passes my lips....watch out...that's me! may not be every body, but it's worked for me. That doesn't mean I eat a pound of bacon for breakfast (yecchhh) but I eat a sensible diet, with as few carbs as possible...and so far, it's working.... >At my house there are pears, bananas, kiwis, mangoes, apricots, plums >ripening on the counter. There is oranges for breakfast. Cantaloupe, >grapes and strawberries in the refrigerator. I eat my fruit with vanilla >yogurt, purchased in quart sizes for $2. I add sweetener to the >grapefruit, to kiwis and some to yogurt. The yogurt has 4 active >bacillus cultures which change your intestinal flora for the better. It >helps with gas and smells. I use fruit for my daily source of >carbohydrates, they raise you sugar levels less than wheat products, and >are gone quickly. I eat about every 2 hours to keep my sugar even.. I >have a salad for lunch with olives, some meat and cheese. I have a small >salad at dinner, steamed vegetable, nuked potato and meat. Enjoy! >Carbohydrates are starches or sugars. Starches are long chain molecules >the body digests to glucose. They are concentrated, they will give you >higher sugars longer than fruit sugar. It occurs to me that plain sugar >is all fruit sugar, from cane or beets. It is merely concentrated. A >writer expressed surprise that bread gave her a higher sugar than >chocolate syrup. It lasts longer as well. You can have sugar as a >sweetener in your favorite chocolate if you make room for it in your >diet. > >> > ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it. -- Jim Rohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 1999 Report Share Posted December 7, 1999 , I listen to you, but I want to make any difference of experience clear between us. We need some carbos, so where are they to come from? I found starches caused me high and prolonged sugars. What I found is if I ate smoothly during the day, I could save some insulin store in the pancreas, and some sugar in the liver. Yesterday I had half a grapefruit and half a small dish of banana and grapes before leaving the house at 0900, I got gas, went to the dentist, was in the chair for 2:30 hours, went shopping, drove home by 1:30 felt fine. I have fruit in small dishes, half at a time. I have fairly even sugars, and little or no hunger. I had a salad, finished my fruit dish, had a half dish about 4, had dinner with a potato at 5, nore fruit at 730, 9, 1030. It was an active day. What foods do you eat, what kind of schedule? Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 1999 Report Share Posted December 7, 1999 At 04:05 AM 12/7/99 -0800, you wrote: > > >, I listen to you, but I want to make any difference of experience >clear between us. We need some carbos, so where are they to come from? I >found starches caused me high and prolonged sugars. >What I found is if I ate smoothly during the day, I could save some >insulin store in the pancreas, and some sugar in the liver. Yesterday I >had half a grapefruit and half a small dish of banana and grapes before >leaving the house at 0900, I got gas, went to the dentist, was in the >chair for 2:30 hours, went shopping, drove home by 1:30 felt fine. I >have fruit in small dishes, half at a time. I have fairly even sugars, >and little or no hunger. I had a salad, finished my fruit dish, had a >half dish about 4, had dinner with a potato at 5, nore fruit at 730, 9, >1030. It was an active day. >What foods do you eat, what kind of schedule? >Sam > generally, I eat something lo carb, like chile or sausage or hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Lunch will be tuna salad and celery, or some good deli salad if I'm in a hurry...Afternoon snack would be celery sticks and peanut butter and an apple or a pear, maybe a little popcorn and some brewers yeast. For dinner I usually eat meat or fish, a salad or steamed veggie, and if I'm feeling needful some sugar free pudding or jello. Maybe late at night if I must munch I will eat another apple but generally I don't eat again till breakfast. I am really busy and since diagnosis have had to make time to eat , and this schedule works great for me. My latest ALC was 5.6 as compared to 11.7 a year ago and my lipids and cholesteral are good too. So that's how my mileage works ib the face of this disease..doesn't mean it works for everyone....I also drink as much water as I can force down and green tea with splenda at breakfast ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it. -- Jim Rohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 1999 Report Share Posted December 8, 1999 Sam, Whats the sugar and carb gram listing on your yogurt nutritional label? Meenie Re: I live on fruit > > > >Sam > >this all goes to show that YMMV as far as Diabetes goes...if I ate like you >do my Bgs would go through the roof. In fact that was the way I ate before >diagnosis. It just goes to show that our bodies respond differently, each >of us, to this damned disease. > >My Diabetes educator told me my Bg meter would become my best friend...I >think that was the best advice I ever got in managing Diabetes...and the >best advice I would pass on. It is only through testing that we can find >what it is that causes our own Bg's to rise. For me, control means lo >carb. I can go days, weeks without eating sugar, fruit or any carb and >have consistently great readings. But the moment something high in carbs >passes my lips....watch out...that's me! may not be every body, but it's >worked for me. That doesn't mean I eat a pound of bacon for breakfast >(yecchhh) but I eat a sensible diet, with as few carbs as possible...and so >far, it's working.... > > > > >>At my house there are pears, bananas, kiwis, mangoes, apricots, plums >>ripening on the counter. There is oranges for breakfast. Cantaloupe, >>grapes and strawberries in the refrigerator. I eat my fruit with vanilla >>yogurt, purchased in quart sizes for $2. I add sweetener to the >>grapefruit, to kiwis and some to yogurt. The yogurt has 4 active >>bacillus cultures which change your intestinal flora for the better. It >>helps with gas and smells. I use fruit for my daily source of >>carbohydrates, they raise you sugar levels less than wheat products, and >>are gone quickly. I eat about every 2 hours to keep my sugar even.. I >>have a salad for lunch with olives, some meat and cheese. I have a small >>salad at dinner, steamed vegetable, nuked potato and meat. Enjoy! >>Carbohydrates are starches or sugars. Starches are long chain molecules >>the body digests to glucose. They are concentrated, they will give you >>higher sugars longer than fruit sugar. It occurs to me that plain sugar >>is all fruit sugar, from cane or beets. It is merely concentrated. A >>writer expressed surprise that bread gave her a higher sugar than >>chocolate syrup. It lasts longer as well. You can have sugar as a >>sweetener in your favorite chocolate if you make room for it in your >>diet. >> >>> >> >ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º > > Average people look for ways of getting away with it; > successful people look for ways of getting on with it. > -- Jim Rohn > >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 1999 Report Share Posted December 8, 1999 Meenie, it is a quart, lists 4 cup servings as 260 calories, 30 from fat fat 3.5 gm, sat fat 2 grams. total carbo 44 grams. It has the 4 active yogurt cultures. It is Alta Dena dairy, it is 1$85 a quart. It has natural vanilla flavoring. I use the plain on nuked potato. I drill a hole with a teaspoon in the center, and pour the water off each time, it gets firm that way, less watery. Regards, Sam in San Diego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 1999 Report Share Posted December 9, 1999 It doesn't list sugar? And is that total carbs for the entire quart? or for a serving?(what's it say is a serving?) Thanks, Sam Meenie Re: I live on fruit > > >Meenie, it is a quart, lists 4 cup servings as 260 calories, 30 from fat > >fat 3.5 gm, sat fat 2 grams. total carbo 44 grams. It has the 4 active >yogurt cultures. It is Alta Dena dairy, it is 1$85 a quart. It has >natural vanilla flavoring. I use the plain on nuked potato. I drill a >hole with a teaspoon in the center, and pour the water off each time, it >gets firm that way, less watery. Regards, Sam in San Diego > >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 1999 Report Share Posted December 9, 1999 Meenie, a carbohydrate is a carbohydrate, what's thsi sugar business? The serving was given as 8 ounces, a cup. 4 to a quart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 1999 Report Share Posted December 9, 1999 Because most nutritional labels list sugar separately from carbs so I wanted to know if the label listed sugar, Sir Sam Meenie Re: I live on fruit > > >Meenie, a carbohydrate is a carbohydrate, what's thsi sugar business? >The serving was given as 8 ounces, a cup. 4 to a quart. > >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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