Yes, traditional white table sugar is CARBS, but so is flour, rice, potatoes, fruit, and corn to name a few. You are in more danger from flour, rice, and potatoes than you are from a teaspoon full of sugar!!!
Can you imagine eating a cup of sugar, teaspoon full by teaspoon full? Yuck.
Now, imagine you are eating/drinking a cup of rice or potatoes or pasta or bread or applesauce or soda pop. Yummy? Danger Danger Will Robinson! Now you are beginning to understand CARBS.
Hi, first i want to tell you that I am not diabetic. I think it is important that I tell you this so you can judge for yourself what I say. My Mom's husband is, and I always had lower blood sugar, so I do my best to follow a diabetic diet as I find I feel much better.
Now in the foodregardss. You want your grains to be as close to nature as possible. Brown rice, not white rice. UncleBen'ss might be a lower score due to fat added in the rice mix?
1. "is it important that I also eat (breads, pasta, potatoes and rice in small quantities)?"
Yes, eating these foods in small quantities is possible. But to each individual what is considered small, medium and large may differ. What you may consider small to another person may be medium. You must test preprandial and postprandial to see how much, if any, you can tolerate.
2. The difference between simple and complex carbs can be found on the GI.
oh and with the carbs, i wasnt talking about simple carbs(white bread, white rice, pasta) but complex carbs like brown rice, whole wheat breads, oatmeal, wholewheat pastas, sweet potatoes....you can eat white rice and bake potatoes as well, but try and get as many complex carbs in your system as you can, they dont convert to sugars like simple carbs do and they take usually at least 8 hours to digest and the body uses them up as engery not as fat!!
Right now, even though you are only eating fruits and rice and chapati, your diet is mainly sugars and carbs. I know how important rice is for an Asian diet. But honestly... to control weight gain you have to reduce it to very little or none at all. It's only 9 months. Try to reduce your rice/chapati to once a weeks at the most.
In order to control my own weight, I ate cooked vegetables, lean meats, and fish. How your food is prepared is very important too.
simple carbs are those found in sugary foods, white breads and regular pasta, sodas, etc. Simple carbs are broken down quickly and if not used right away for energy, will be stored as fat. These are the ones that should be avoided.
Complex carbs are those found in vegetables, most fruits and whole grains. Complex carbs are the dietary fiber we need, to fill us up. These take longer to break down and are not absorbed, as fat.
While this probably isn't the most healthy thing to do, the best way to achieve this is to cut all starch/carbs eg. Bread, potatoes, rice etc. And cut all sugar (other than natural sugars in fruit). Basically go paleo and you'll drop the water weight in a few days.
My daughter got T2 in her 6th month. She has one month remaining. Were you T2 before your became pregnant? My daughter has made an amazing impact on her glucose levels, by doing what I do: Treat carbs like they're a poison to your body. I don't calculate glycemic loads, or consider good carbs and bad carbs. Rather, I avoid them entirely if at all possible. Now... I live on handfuls of almonds, peanuts, walnuts, and cashews. Cheese!.
ll need to eat more fat and protein along with whole grain slowly digestible carbs. Avoid highly process carbs and cakes, candies, cookies - things which break down easily and will raise your sugar..
Make sure you put fat with your carbs as it also slows down the absorption.
Use natural fats as much as possible. Ie butter or cream in your potatoes, cream in your coffee. Do not use low fat foods. Regular fat cheese and yogurt, etc. Eat the fat from your meats.
You are in far more danger from potatoes rice and flour than you are from sugar. (Danger-regular soda pop and fruit juices are the exception-too much sugar in them unless they are a diet version.)
I have a new appreciation of taking a baby aspirin or two per day. Cherry-flavored baby aspirin is just like dessert so make it your after-dinner mint!
All veggies were not made equal. Avoid corn and this includes popcorn.
Carbs are necessary for energy production, but there are 2 types of carbs - simple and complex. Simple carbs include things like bread, potatoes, white rice, pasta, etc. Simple carbs cause blood glucose levels to spike when we eat them. Complex carbs are those contained in whole grains (fiber), vegetables, etc. They take longer to digest so don't increase glucose levels as much.
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Avoid foods made with white flour [breads, crackers], starchy foods like white rice and potatoes, pasta [Dreamfields brand has only 5% digestible carbs], as these elevate blood sugars rapidly. Instead, eat whole grains, vegetables, fish, lean poultry [remove the skin] and lean meats. Eat fruits with other foods to slow the absorption of fructose [fruit sugar]. Understand the difference between Simple and Complex carbs.
I walk a lot! 20 miles a week most weeks. I wear a water weight loss belt that makes my stomach sweat profusely. It gives me instant gratification. But for the more long term results, I stay away from unnecessary salt and processed carbs. I also don't eat good carbs(brown rice, whole wheat pasta, Sweet potatoes) after lunch. Soups and salads are a girls best friend!
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Hi,
the best way to avoid diabetes is to eat a diet that is low 