Re: 5 weeks after being diagnosed diabetic ..

[Guest guest]

Hello sindhisaiin@...,

In reference to your comment:

ð I find it hard to understand why DIET/SUGAR FREE

ð soft drinks increase my BS and have how?

Some people's blood sugars do go up with artifical sweetners, i agree its

bizzare

[Guest guest]

Hello sindhisaiin@...,

In reference to your comment:

ð I find it hard to understand why DIET/SUGAR FREE

ð soft drinks increase my BS and have how?

Some people's blood sugars do go up with artifical sweetners, i agree its

bizzare

[Guest guest]

Hello sindhisaiin@...,

In reference to your comment:

ð I find it hard to understand why DIET/SUGAR FREE

ð soft drinks increase my BS and have how?

Some people's blood sugars do go up with artifical sweetners, i agree its

bizzare

[Guest guest]

Hello sindhisaiin@...,

In reference to your comment:

ð I can eat 2 slices of whole meal bread every meal but

ð adding just one slice more increases my BS.

Lucky you....

I can't eat bread, potatoes, rice, pasta, cereal etc, without noticing a

substanial and long term raise (more than 2 hrs) in my BS.

I can eat protein, and fat and low carb veggies without a change more than 10

pts in my BS (i'm testing the US method, ie norm 80 - 120)

I think you take your numbers and multiply them by 18 to get our numbers.

In which case your 1999 blood readings would have been at diabetic levels.

Congrats on lowering your bs some, and on the wt loss.

Keep up the good work, if you can keep in the range of under 120 or 6.6

your measure, most of the time, with BS only going up for the 2 hrs post

eating, and then coming back down under the 120/6.6 range you'll be doing

fine, and won't need medication,

If not a medication like Metformin, may bring them low enough that this would

be all you would need.

Try to do what i think you've been doing, ie test before getting up in the

am, before feet even hit the floor,

then test 2 hrs after each meal, and write down what you eat, if the food

causes the BS to go above 140 aka 7.7 then try to cut back on the carbs a

bit.

Diabetes is very much trial and error....

for example.

I've found i do better with regular icecream, than with sugar free icecream,

i get a small peak, but drop down under 140 at about the 2 hr mark with a

single scoop cone.

Hope this helps

[Guest guest]

Hello sindhisaiin@...,

In reference to your comment:

ð I can eat 2 slices of whole meal bread every meal but

ð adding just one slice more increases my BS.

Lucky you....

I can't eat bread, potatoes, rice, pasta, cereal etc, without noticing a

substanial and long term raise (more than 2 hrs) in my BS.

I can eat protein, and fat and low carb veggies without a change more than 10

pts in my BS (i'm testing the US method, ie norm 80 - 120)

I think you take your numbers and multiply them by 18 to get our numbers.

In which case your 1999 blood readings would have been at diabetic levels.

Congrats on lowering your bs some, and on the wt loss.

Keep up the good work, if you can keep in the range of under 120 or 6.6

your measure, most of the time, with BS only going up for the 2 hrs post

eating, and then coming back down under the 120/6.6 range you'll be doing

fine, and won't need medication,

If not a medication like Metformin, may bring them low enough that this would

be all you would need.

Try to do what i think you've been doing, ie test before getting up in the

am, before feet even hit the floor,

then test 2 hrs after each meal, and write down what you eat, if the food

causes the BS to go above 140 aka 7.7 then try to cut back on the carbs a

bit.

Diabetes is very much trial and error....

for example.

I've found i do better with regular icecream, than with sugar free icecream,

i get a small peak, but drop down under 140 at about the 2 hr mark with a

single scoop cone.

Hope this helps

[Guest guest]

Hello sindhisaiin@...,

In reference to your comment:

ð I can eat 2 slices of whole meal bread every meal but

ð adding just one slice more increases my BS.

Lucky you....

I can't eat bread, potatoes, rice, pasta, cereal etc, without noticing a

substanial and long term raise (more than 2 hrs) in my BS.

I can eat protein, and fat and low carb veggies without a change more than 10

pts in my BS (i'm testing the US method, ie norm 80 - 120)

I think you take your numbers and multiply them by 18 to get our numbers.

In which case your 1999 blood readings would have been at diabetic levels.

Congrats on lowering your bs some, and on the wt loss.

Keep up the good work, if you can keep in the range of under 120 or 6.6

your measure, most of the time, with BS only going up for the 2 hrs post

eating, and then coming back down under the 120/6.6 range you'll be doing

fine, and won't need medication,

If not a medication like Metformin, may bring them low enough that this would

be all you would need.

Try to do what i think you've been doing, ie test before getting up in the

am, before feet even hit the floor,

then test 2 hrs after each meal, and write down what you eat, if the food

causes the BS to go above 140 aka 7.7 then try to cut back on the carbs a

bit.

Diabetes is very much trial and error....

for example.

I've found i do better with regular icecream, than with sugar free icecream,

i get a small peak, but drop down under 140 at about the 2 hr mark with a

single scoop cone.

Hope this helps

[Guest guest]

Wow, , I'm imprssed that you can eat ice cream in a cone! For me,

that's a food of the past. Vicki

<< for example.

I've found i do better with regular icecream, than with sugar free icecream,

i get a small peak, but drop down under 140 at about the 2 hr mark with a

single scoop cone.

Hope this helps

>>

[Guest guest]

Wow, , I'm imprssed that you can eat ice cream in a cone! For me,

that's a food of the past. Vicki

<< for example.

I've found i do better with regular icecream, than with sugar free icecream,

i get a small peak, but drop down under 140 at about the 2 hr mark with a

single scoop cone.

Hope this helps

>>

[Guest guest]

Wow, , I'm imprssed that you can eat ice cream in a cone! For me,

that's a food of the past. Vicki

<< for example.

I've found i do better with regular icecream, than with sugar free icecream,

i get a small peak, but drop down under 140 at about the 2 hr mark with a

single scoop cone.

Hope this helps

>>

[Guest guest]

Hello whimsy2@...,

In reference to your comment:

ð I'm imprssed that you can eat ice cream in a cone! 

ð For me, that's a food of the past. 

nods, i eat the icecream, not the cone, about 2-3 x a week, a single scoop.

during the winter i've been substituting this with my fav warm treat which is

a large size dunchachino (dunkin donuts coffee/hotchocolate mix)

I do this when my bs is under or about 110.

I never go over 140 or so by the 2 hr mark, it may go up higher, but then it

comes baack down under that.

and my HBA1C's have been staying at the 6.0/6.1 range since March/april

During the summer i could handle a double scoop due to the increase in

exercise i was doing.

I'm still losing wt, although its slow, but it always was.

[Guest guest]

> November 30 Fast 6.3 and 9.0 2HRafter bkfastfood

> December 3 Fast 6.5 and 7.9 2HRafter bkfastfood

***I'd say you're making good improvement, but possibly eating too many

carbohydrates for breakfast. Because of the dawn rise in blood sugar, many

of us seem to be more sensitive to carbohydrates in the morning than later

in the day.

> I have no idea if I should be happy with my results or

> go see my doctor if I need to take medicines to lower

> my BS to normal?

***I'll bet if you read Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution

(http://www.diabetes-normalsugars.com) and perhaps lower your carbohydrate

intake more for now, you'll be able to have normal bs numbers soon. It

sounds like you are testing alot and keeping good notes, and that's very

important. This is a self managed disease. Your fasting test in the

morning, right as you are arising, will tell you how you did the day before.

My personal goal for fasting is 6.0 (120) or less. Lately it's been around

5.55 (100).

Looks like you're on the right road :-) Welcome.

Barb