Could Use Help and Advice

I'm not diabetic, but my Mom was. Fortunately for me, my brother inherited the diabetes. I have a good friend who is diabetic. Due to all that, I've recently joined a diabetic website. I've received some pretty tasty sounding recipes from them & they seem to have a lot of useful information on their site. You might want to check out dlife.com I'll email you the recipes & suggestions I've received from them so you won't have to ferret it out. I think the new rules for diabetics is to keep count of your carbs even more than the sugar. I don't quite understand it, but I do remember both nursing homes my Mom resided in giving her dessert every day. Then they limited the carbs she was allowed for the day. I think my cousin sent me some information on it when Mom was sick & I was upset that they were feeding her sugar with every meal. I'll see if I can locate it & will forward it to you when I can. I suggest you check out dLife & maybe even join so you can see what they recommend. I know Mom kept hers under control for over 10 years just by regulating her diet. I also know it's a real challenge to do it that way!!! Good luck & may God bless you!!!!

Carolbee! One important thing you must remember is not to go hungry for a very long time.GO for a half an hour brisk walk at least 5 days a week.Try to include amla in your diet.Go low on processed foods, oily items, sweets; avoid fruits high in sugar content[like banana, mango];ensure you include more vegetables and fibre in your diet and less carbohydrates. When you starve for a long time and eat ,the glucose gets absorbed very fast in the system and so , you eat at least a piece of cucumber if there is a gap or go in for starch free , sugar free biscuits. Eat wheat bread and not white bread.

I am asking/begging you to please watch your diabetes as best you can. My ex husband has let his go and there is a horrible price to pay now. He was living a very normal life when we were together because I refused to bake cookies and pie. He was maintaining with metformin pills. We haven't been together for a year and a half nd he went right back to eating french fries, junk/fastfood and sweets. Now his metformin has doubled, he also take another strong pill and he takes innsulin needle. His legs often don't work and his kidneys are shot all from the diabetes. People can live with diabetes and live a normal life but you need to look after yourself like never before. I attended a diabetes clinic with my husband a few years ago and he was told for snacks he could have rice cakes, angel food cake not iced of course and there is diabetis jam. There are also diabetic candies no sugar at all and they are quite nice. Good luck dear friend and Please Take Care of yourself. You'll be glad later you did. I have known people who live a full life with diabetes but I'm afraid some people just don't know the seriousness of the desease. My husbands mother went blind from it, which is because it will first hit the smallest arteries, and she also lost some toes. I worked with a lady who liked her drinks and she eventually lost one leg then the other leg till it finally cost her her life, alll because of her lifestyle. I also know of a lady in fact she is a diabetic nurse, she takes insulin as well, married with children, works and lives a very full normal life. The best thing you can do for yourself is take a class on diabetes, here in Canada where I live the class was free and open to the diabetic and the spouse. I learnt a lot and mainly just how serious it can be untreated. Please take care.

So sorry you found this out.....I know you watch it. My sister was also recently diagnosed with Diabetes....she is going to a work shop soon to help her find out what to do....hope you get some good solid info!

Usually doctors will tell you that you should not eat candies and any sweets right? But there is one doctor who is really good in diabetes who makes my father Blood Sugar from 16mmol/L to 7mmol/L in just 3 months. Yes! there is a help of medications but he really modifies the diet of my father. 1. You should not Eat too much Rice and Bread... he told me that it is not only foods that are sweets that are avoided but also foods that contains sugar. When sugar are metabolized in the body it releases many glucose.If you want to eat bread, just eat a minimal amount like 1-2 bread a day or 1/2 to 1 cup of rice per meal 2. You should not Eat too much Cantoons or Noodles- Noodles also contains starch, just eat a minimal amount of it. 3.Get you energy from Fruits- It is a big misconception for people that sweet fruits should be avoided. Fruits contains Fructose and not glucose, you can look it up in the internet... Diabetes has problem with glucose and not FRUCTOSE... Eat fruits rather than sweets. 4. Exercise regularly- it helps glucose to move in to your cells rather than it is intravascularly. 5. Drink 8 to 10 glasses of water a day- it is to cleans your body. 6. As much as possible- avoid softdrinks- 1 glass of Coke is equivalent to 1 cup of rice, if you want to slim down.. stay away from softdrinks and colas. Just drink water! 7. Drink only- Fresh fruit juice- some commercial juices contains syrup(sugar). Only natural juice will do. 8. Monitor your blood glucose regularly. You will know if the treatments are working. 9. If you are taking Metformin- an oral hypoglycemic agents- it can cause lactic acid build up in the body, makes you always tired....( DRINK VITAMIN B complex). 10. Always bring candy... or any foods that has concentrated sugar. In case you will feel dizzy, diaphoresis or any signs of hypoglycemia.... HYPERGLYCEMIA IS MUCH BETTER THAN HYPOGLYCEMIA- this can lead to coma.