I'm glad there is another person who can vouch for the GD site as it truly helped me along my GD journey. The diabetic team I had wasn't as informative as what I found out from other gas mums to be and the site I come across. There was plenty of posters up in clinic about increasing your fruit and veg intake etc but like I said I could not tolerate fruit and also some veg like carrots shot my levels up.
It's all about trial and error and finding what food groups work for you. No health professional will recommend a high fat diet but when I done it it worked I forgot to mention in my first post that I also ate a lot of protein too. So I ate everything full fat (even cooking all my food in fat - instead of the low fat cooking sprays etc),piled my plate with lots of protein and reduced the carbs.
I lost count of the amount of full cooked breakfasts I ate lol. I still ate my Friday night Chinese just adapted it from my usual egg fried rice, curry sauce and chips to beef chow mien, mushroom curry and one poppadom. My sugar levels seemed to accept this. You just got to stay away from the sweet and carb dishes.
I also found the Burgen bread (soy and linseed one) was good to eat too. I was able to eat my usual ham and cheese sandwich for dinner in work. Don't eat nothing diet as when something is low fat / fat free it's usually got added sugar in it. So if your a yoghurt lover always buy the full fat version as that will be friendlier on your levels.
I didn't snack between meals as I never do that anyway. I managed to control my levels quite well through the day the only issue I had was overnight fasting levels so I was put on insulin at night to help bring them down.
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im so lazy with cooking at the moment but need to do more from scratch xxx
