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Might add if you gotta have bread, look for sprouted grain bread, and yea it will be pricey. Grain contains lot starch which when seed grows, the baby plant uses until it can produce its own food from sunlight. So sprouted grain/beans have used lot starch already.
I don't know the numbers or the lingo yet. Just wondering besides lowering sugar intake what I am looking at.
I have never had a sweet tooth. I presume this is due to all my simple carbs.
Ironically, I have a totally new sweet tooth thing going on. Is that due to the pre-diabetics somehow or just a coincidence?
I suddenly started wanting candy and cake and so forth. Used to, I'd never finish a candy bar on the rare occasion I bought one. Now I eat part of one every night. A pretty decent part of a large one.
Anyway, no more coke. Iced tea with no sugar, even though it doesn't have the same caffeine kick. Oh, the sugar could be related to depression. I've noticed a mood lift by drinking more coke, the very thing I shouldn't have. I hate artificial sweeteners.
If you use sugar instead of artificial sweeteners, you are probably consuming a lot more sugar than you think you are. (Not that art. sweeteners are good for you, but just saying...the sugar in your beverages & cereals & breads, etc., count, and can add up quickly.)
Exercise is as important as what you eat. Being sedentary is one of the risk factors of diabetes.
Nope, you've got to be willing to change. Your body is giving you a warning. Will you listen.
Diabetes is the leading cause of heart attacks. It can lead to blindness, amputation of limbs...
You can take charge and re-educate your tummy and taste buds to LOVE foods that won't aggravate your pre-diabetes into full-fledged diabetes.
The choice is up to you...
Fingers crossed you love yourself enough not to get sicker and sicker...
Well, I don't want to get into the whole thing, but I really am limited on what I can digest. However, my np insists that this was a mistake to begin with. She said my sugars are not high at all. Totally normal. She checked and re-checked the labs and says she has no idea why the other np told me that before.
I hope that is right. I was trying to get another blood draw. They said insurance wouldn't pay until late March and then COVID. I told her my concerns on the phone and she said their lab is closed but if I have actual symptoms she would have me go to Quest. If I have no symptoms, she wants me just to wait for a blood draw.
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If you can, get yourself a meter, pokers and test strips (50). Together ~$100. It's over the counter. Avoid medicare/medicaid/health insurance since they will limit your purchases, limit the purchases thru certain providers, and will be just inconvenient.
My D2 is IMO related to my high triglycerides. Lab tests are often misleading the doctors...they expect certain things and discount other stuff that can affect your D2.
My wife and I were talking yesterday. She's a retired Medical Technologist and hospital laboratory manager. I'm a Type II diabetic that's chosen to be on an insulin pump.
She said you know, there's no such thing as a pre-diabetic. They're just not as diabetic (as I am.)
My pump is adjusted by taking a finger stick and putting in my blood sugar number. Then I estimate the number of carbs the meal I'm getting ready to eat. The pump is just an automatic insulin syringe.
The pump allows me to eat more normally, and it keeps my blood sugar levels stable. Best thing is those on the pump live 2 years longer on average than those that are not on it. I wouldn't go any other way.
We're getting ready to go on a stricter diet--eliminating anything "White." That means no bread, potatoes, rice, cakes/cookies, etc. Getting rid of ice cream is mandatory too. We're going to meats and green items.
Good luck to you. Getting on a diabetic diet is not the end of the world. It's just a healthier way of life for anyone. We Americans just don't eat as well as we should.
My wife and I were talking yesterday. She's a retired Medical Technologist and hospital laboratory manager. I'm a Type II diabetic that's chosen to be on an insulin pump.
She said you know, there's no such thing as a pre-diabetic. They're just not as diabetic (as I am.)
My pump is adjusted by taking a finger stick and putting in my blood sugar number. Then I estimate the number of carbs the meal I'm getting ready to eat. The pump is just an automatic insulin syringe.
The pump allows me to eat more normally, and it keeps my blood sugar levels stable. Best thing is those on the pump live 2 years longer on average than those that are not on it. I wouldn't go any other way.
We're getting ready to go on a stricter diet--eliminating anything "White." That means no bread, potatoes, rice, cakes/cookies, etc. Getting rid of ice cream is mandatory too. We're going to meats and green items.
Good luck to you. Getting on a diabetic diet is not the end of the world. It's just a healthier way of life for anyone. We Americans just don't eat as well as we should.
I get that. I have a particular problem with food choices. That there is no point in going into, because it can't be solved. There is not anything I can't live w/o, it's a matter of something to replace it with.
Can I drink milk? That is a primary source of protein for me.
So I hopefully will be very lucky on this.
The last np I saw, I expressed concern and asked about medication. She said she has no idea why the other np told me that. Triple checked my labs from before, and insisted my sugar levels were 100% normal.
I do have to try harder at the obvious things. Unsweet tea instead of coke. Cutting out as many empty carb snacks as possible, etc.
Gosh, I love coke too much and that isn't good for anyone. NP said to have a 'baby' coke (the little 8 oz cans) and then switch to tea. The one that thought I was pre-diabetic.
I appreciate the responses to remind me that I can't just think it's ok to ignore it completely.
Used to for health and weight, I had systems like 'no chips, have an apple, and then if you still want chips, you can have a few'. But for this, the fruit is going to be sugary too!
It's just not as easy for some than others.
When things are normal again regarding COVID, they are going to do another blood draw. I am overdue, but she said unless I am having symptoms and need to be sent to a lab, they are not doing blood draws. Telemedicine only.
I don't have a sweet tooth but as a kid growing up, omg, and I've changed so so much. I don't want diabetes. And I did eliminate bringing bread into my house about 11 yrs ago.
Just recently my glucose has gone up, and I'm thinking it's older age, and I don't do fasting labs so my labs can come in higher on the sugar I would think, and since I'm home so much I've been eating probably too much, gluten free pizzas... so my doc suggested that I take Berberine to keep the sugar levels down and I'm into 2 months on Berberine. She has other patients taking it also.
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