(net carbs is total carbs minus fiber carbs.) A snack is sometimes suggested to be 15 net carbs. (Yum, chunk of cheese and handful of pecans!) Offhand I dont know the net carb of an apple but you can look that up and think about it.
When the sugar levels in your blood are too high, the blood becomes abrasive to your body.
If you eat all of your carbs all at once, your blood sugar will go higher than if you ration it out over the course of a day.
Reduce the carbs you eat. I took out bread as this started to cause me trouble and replaced with homemade alternatives. One of which was banana pancakes made with ground down almond instead of flour. Delicious!
So bottom line... It CAN be serious but if you make the proper diet changes (i.e. no cokes, less carbs, no high fructose corn syrup, watch your fruit/juice intake) there should be no reason to worry. Drink more water & excercise too. :)
So, now that I've given you all this fabulous info let's see how my blood sugar is in 9 days! I tested my fasting sugar the other day at my grandma's and I was at the low end of normal but I'm not exactly surehow the test works.
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I had heard nuts like almonds and walnuts were high in good carbs, so we have been adding those. I had also heard that chocolate milk was good, she doesn't like chocolate so I added strawberry. We will fill an empty water bottle with it to take to school.
Poster Satu234 consumed close to 21 grams of sugar, not 6. And, 37 grams of carbs is not high and not all carbs ride around on RB cells as excess glucose. The liver and muscle cells take carb sugar and converts it into glycogen. Glycogen is released for energy when needed.
Furthermore, a danger of too low carb diet can cause the body to go into a dangerous metabolic state called ketosis since your body burns fat instead of glucose for energy.
Are you scared of carbs because of weight gain or you have like a phobia? If its due to the possibility of gaining weight, chill out babe. I went for a few years totally avoiding carbs and I lost weight! I ended up going through a bit of depression and started not caring about weight gain. Gained about 10 kilo's Now I'm on a diet and having some carbs. I feel much fuller and healthier for introducing it to my diet. I'm still losing weight. Slowly though because I am type 1 diabetic.
I was wondering how you managed your diabetes and how strict you are with your diet, like do you only eat set meals throughout the day and stay away from foods with a high glycemic index? If you do eat foods with a high GI, like a banana, do you wait a while after taking your insulin to give it a headstart?
Hain weight healthy! So First of all you should prefer carbs. Just like brown rice. Whole grain bread etc. and there are a lot of healthy fats. High in calories. Like avocado, peanut butter and olive oil. Also try to eat the high fat versions.
Just like that:
Breakfast:
-2 cups of oatmeal, one cup of whole fat milk, Greek yoghurt with 10% fat and one large table spoon peanut butter. That add one banana.
Carbs raise BG so restricting carbs will help BG.
when you say 6 units I assume you mean 6 exchanges which is 90 gr of carbs. If you take 250 mg at each meal that is 750 mg a day, the limit is 2400mg a day so you have room to go up on the Met.
It can take 6 to 8 weeks for met to become fully effective.
As far as your blood sugar is concerned, carbs are carbs, whether they come from corn or candy, bread or ice cream, pasta or potato chips. Type-1 diabetics "count" the amount of carbs in a meal or snack and give themselves the appropriate amount of insulin so their bodies can process those carbs. If my daughter wants a snack and doesn't want to give herself a shot, she has some protein or veggies-- a piece of chicken, or some carrots, because their carb count is so low.
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