Re: What goes up

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Maureen Chesley wrote:

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>Hmmmm...maybe the next topic should be: What makes your BG go up?

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Very good idea for a topic.

My blood sugar goes up when I:

1. Eat too many carbs, refined or otherwise

2. Eat too much food, regardless of type

3. Don't exercise

4. Drink sweet wine on an empty stomach

5. Have Aunt Flo over for a visit

6. Get stressed out

I think that's about it. I'm doing what I can about the above that I

have a choice in - and it's working for me.

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What makes mine go up? Regular soda, pasta, rice...very very badly on rice,

dang it. Some breads. potatoes, but not the new ones. Juices, except the v-8

diet splash, which I absolutely love. I can eat onions, some, but not corn

usually. I can eat one envelope of plain oatmeal, but if it is flavored, o

dear...so I flavor my own with a bit of nuts and cinnamon and splenda. I

love hummus, but cannot have much of it.

Things change though. I could eat some things before that I can't

now....gained a few pounds. Sigh. Now that my shoulder is healing I should

finally be able to get back into exercise and lose the weight I

gained...then, I can eat a bit more variety as weight goes down.

I am sure there are other things I should not have, but just can't think of

em right now.

Tam

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In a message dated 8/15/2004 2:28:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

bebwee@... writes:

> I can eat the same thing

> day after day and get totally different readings.

> WHY??!! and what do you guys eat for breakfast? I

> HAVE to have a good amount of protein with breakfast.

When I was first diagnosed I went right by the diet the diabetes educator

gave me because of the fear of this disease. I would eat exactly what she said

to and on one day it would say one thing, the next day something else. I

started to see that stressing out made it go up even more so I tried to just eat

what she said and give it some time.

After I had lost about 50 pounds I saw a lot more consistency with my numbers

and could start to try different things in varying amounts and see how I did

with it. From that came the way I kept on eating because I found out what

worked for me.

Also, once my bgs got down from very high to 6.2 or lower on my A1c, I could

eat a small amount of a few things that I wasn't able to tolerate without high

bgs even a few months earlier. So I am hoping that when I am at goal weight

(eventually), I would like to think that I will be able to eat even a little

more liberally than now.

But that may or may not happen. I'm planning on just eating what is working

now and if that happens, YAY, if not, I like what I have now anyway.

Eating a healthy food plan consistently isn't a guarantee that you won't have

spikes for seemingly no reason though. Sometimes it just happens. I am on

Prednisone daily, which affects my bgs. I am on an immunosuppressive drug

which, when I get a resperatory infection, causes me to get really sick some of

the time instead of just a little sick. When I go thru that, my bgs are up no

matter what I eat. And last Fall when I had the flu, it was up for as long as

I had my fever. Also when I buried three people I loved in 2.5 months, I had

spikes off and on when I would really be down or upset.

So a lot of factors can affect bgs. Just listen to what people say on here

and especially your doctor and keep working toward getting better and little by

little, if you are consistent, you will see it level out I bet.

One of the best things I believe, sometimes even more than my food plan, is

exercise. I have severe arthritis all over my body and if it wasn't for the

medication I take, I'd be in a wheelchair again. But I go to Walmart or Kmart

almost every day and get a buggie and walk all around the store as fast as I

can for 45 min to an hour, sometimes more if I can tolerate it. I also do water

aerobics. And I hate it. Somebody told me I would grow to love it but I

don't. However, I LOVE what it does for my blood sugar, for my attitude and

my sense of self-respect. I lived a lot of years doing NOTHING but sitting on

my can and eating what I wanted, when I wanted it. So I am reaping the

benefits of that lifestyle now... and to be honest, getting diabetes probably

saved

my life. I am doing now and have been for almost a year, what I have needed

to do for the first 49 years of my life but didn't.

Glad you are with our group Bev. Things will get better gradually.

Shirley from TN

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I am relatively newly diagnosed (June 1) and am still

struggling with my diet. No meds. I'm doing pretty

well except with breakfast. I can eat the same thing

day after day and get totally different readings.

WHY??!! and what do you guys eat for breakfast? I

HAVE to have a good amount of protein with breakfast.

Bev

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> >Hmmmm...maybe the next topic should be: What makes

> your BG go up?

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Shirley

Had to tell you I love your attitude. I'd recommend that all the

newly diagnosed folks out there print out your post and read it over

and over when they get disillusioned or depressed. You've moved

beyond the initial shock and are dealing with all aspects of this

head-on, from testing and refining your diet, to doing exercise

whether you like it or not, with resolve and a sense of humor.

Jim

After I had lost about 50 pounds .....But that may or may not

happen. I'm planning on just eating what is working

now and if that happens, YAY, if not, I like what I have now anyway.

I lived a lot of years doing NOTHING but sitting on my can and eating

what I wanted, when I wanted it. So I am reaping the

benefits of that lifestyle now... and to be honest, getting diabetes

probably saved my life. I am doing now and have been for almost a

year, what I have needed to do for the first 49 years of my life but

didn't.