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Originally Posted by Rockinonahigh

Hi Gail,tks for the info.I dont have diabetis in my family at all as far as I know,I have always needed a lot of fuel to keep going,im a grazer rarely do I sit and eat a meal its not unuseal for me to eat four or more small meals a day all on the run.I realise there are more than a fue things I can and am cuting out of my food intake.Tonight I had italian herb roasted chicken,I peeled the skin off then I had string beans but I didnt eat any of the new potatos out of them then I added a half tomato with red wine vinager and a touch of olive oil.No bread and no potatos is a start.

Hi Rockin',

Talk to your Dr about a Diabetes Education Class. They are generally offered by the hospitals in your area and they are free of charge, your insurance generally pays for it if there is a charge. They will teach you how to test your sugar (give you a free meter), teach you how to eat and what to avoid eating. Most of it's about reducing your carb intake. For diabetics they want you to eat no more than 35-60 carbs per meal (really it's 60 for men, 45 for women). A lot of it is portion control. You can have like 1/2 cup of mashed potatos, that's 15 grams of carbs. You can have a small apple, that's 15 grams of carbs. I have found a white wheat bread (because I just can't stand brown wheat bread, it's just too dry for me, lol) that has about 11 grams of carbs per slice so you can have a sandwich) it's Nature's Own White Wheat bread.

There is a little book you can carry around with you that has fat and carb content of most foods you can buy at the grocery store and it also lists a ton of fast food restaurants and the values of their food there as well. You can also find it at most bookstores like Barnes & Nobles, Waldenbooks etcetc. You can also search foods at this website to find out the carb content as well.

http://www.calorieking.com/store/pro...ydrate-counter

You really need to test your blood sugar about 2 hours after a meal (since this is all new to you) to find out what your trigger foods are. There will be some that you'd think wouldn't spike your sugar but you'd be surprised.

For instance I love tomato sandwiches. I use the white wheat so that's 22 grams of carbs, mayo doesn't have carbs but I don't use a ton of it anyway, tomato's, one slice has .6 of a carb. So if I tossed 2-3 slices on there I should be good to go right? that's say 24 grams of carbs which is well below the 35-45 you can have per meal. Well, let me tell ya, that sandwich will spike my blood sugar, which I hate, but I still have em now and again, lol.

You can't get crazy with this or you will set yourself up for failure. You have to be able to give yourself a lil treat now and again, like 1/2 cup of ice cream is 15 grams of carbs. Typically you should have 3 meals a day with a lil snack in between each one (limited to 15 grams of carbs on the snack).

Anyway, good luck to ya!