Any diabetes experts out there

[Terry]

Peter,
Your doctor will probably send you to see a dietition to help with your food selection. The dietition can figure how many carbs you should have for each meal.

Just remember that a healthy balanced diet is the key to maintaining healthy blood sugars. Watch your fat and carbohydrate intake and try to eat your meals and snacks at the same time each day.

If you haven't gone there already, the American Diabetes Association has a web site where you can get alot of good information.  www.diabetes.org

Good luck and keep exercising! 

[peternap]

Thanks everyone!
I'll stop the blow by blow commentary....but I finished the day with a high protein dinner, A lean steak, two fried eggs and Turnip greens, unsweetened ice tea.
2 Hours later 131.

[glenn kangiser]

Hey, Peter, the steaks don't have to be lean either.  Some fat is OK if you like-- Check it out and let us know.

Fat and protein does not raise the blood sugar....per Sassy.

She said cholesterol- lipid panel improves even eating meat that is not necessarily lean - nuts, etc.

[peternap]

Hey, Peter, the steaks don't have to be lean either.  Some fat is OK if you like-- Check it out and let us know.

Fat and protein does not raise the blood sugar....per Sassy.

She said cholesterol- lipid panel improves even eating meat that is not necessarily lean - nuts, etc.

I wish Sassy would write a book!

Lots of things I don't understand. We've had a lot of rain the last few days. My asthma isn't bothering me nearly as much. I have no idea if the blood sugar is related, but it's odd. Also, I am sleeping better.

The real thing I don't understand is why the DR. wanted to put me on medication right away.
At least I'm not alone in this. Everywhere I go and say something about it, someone says "Me too". The waitress at Cracker barrel told me hers had gotten to 680 and the Doctor wanted her in the hospital ASAP. She told him she couldn't afford it and was able to get hers down in the 200 range with diet alone.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Peter, if you're allergic to any Sulfa drugs, you can have allergies to the diabetes drugs too (I'm a testament to that.)  I took some of the meds my doc prescribed to help control the blood sugar (it did help some, but I broke out in huge welts and itched like a fleabag dog... quit taking it after one or two days and used diet to control it... worked better, and I didn't have the sudden drops in blood sugar that made me feel kind of faint. )  Hopefully you'll be like me in that when you control your blood sugar, you'll feel better all-round.  I don't think it is a coincidence that your asthma and sleep are both better... I had a similar experience and think that the blood sugar is closely related to your overall well-being.  Anyway, bravo to you for trying to control it with diet first.  It was funny.  I ate way more meat and eggs than I normally would have, and lost weight and felt better overall.  The only thing I did was strictly limit my intake of carbohydrates and monitor my sugar very often. 

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

I guess the reason for keeping this thread open, would be what food to store for diabetics. Darned if I know yet except dried eggs.

I'd add nuts and beef jerky to that list, at the very least.  Greens you could have "stored up" in the garden, frozen, or dried.  I had good luck drying blanched swiss chard to throw in stews over the winters.  You might find that after a while of keeping your sugar down and exercising that you can add some carbohydrates back in moderation (I think this is where things like pumpkin and sweet potatoes come in.)  Hmmm... how about anchovies?  In the Korean stores you can buy bags of tiny dried anchovies that are really good fried with a little soy sauce and oil and sesame seeds and a little jalapeno.  My MIL makes them with a little sugar, too, but they are just as good without it. 

[Sassy]

Hey, Peter, glad to hear you're getting things under control!  Several years ago I studied up on diabetes a lot, was going to get certified as a diabetes educator, but then went to ER.  I did teach classes though, anyway - started a program for our patients in primary care.

There was a young doctor I worked with who would always council his patients to eat high protein diets - didn't matter if they were high in fat, & lots of leafy green veggies (also brocolli etc).  Anyway, I'd have debates with him because everything I'd been taught & had read had the old food pyramid with meats & fats at the top - to limit those & eat whole grains, fruits & vegetables.  I couldn't quite understand how the Adkins diet could help with blood sugar & cholesterol, triglycerides & HDL/LDL's (lipid panel).  I said it would increase the risk of heart disease...

It was really something to see these patients get their blood sugars under control, the lipid panels would improve & they'd lose weight!  Caused a paradigm shift in my brain - kinda like when I 1st started learning about the NWO!  Hard to believe but the more evidence I saw, the more I realized the truth about it. 

Homegrown - your experience totally plays out what we're talking about with the Adkins diet.  I won't drink diet drinks anymore either - especially with aspartame (I used to only drink diet) seldom drink soda anyway.   

(just got back to the Underground Headquarters yest afternoon - then my computer wouldn't work!  - but it started working again this morning    I'll have to catch up on things but want to go outside in the sunshine - it's 58 degrees - was 62 earlier - didn't see the sun for almost 2 wks in the valley - it was overcast, foggy & a good part of the time I was working in ER 12-13 hr shifts down in the basement     so didn't see outside anyway...