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09-29-2009, 03:33 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Holland, Michigan USA
Posts: 895
| | | Type 2's: What food *can* you eat that you maybe shouldn't or ..
... it should have more of an effect on you than it does?
For me its the entire cabbage family (the leafy stuff) and "deep greens" (beet greens, spinach etc). I can eat HUGE plate fulls darn the carbs full speed ahead, whereas the same amount of net carbs would otherwise send my BGL skyrocketing.
Whats YOUR *free* food? The food(s) you can eat without even opening your meter pouch?
*NOTE*: This is a curiosity thread not a low carb vs high carb vs whatever, I'm just wondering how big the variety of things fall into the *free foods* across the T2 spectrum.
__________________ As always YMMV! High Fructose Corn Syrup = Weapons Grade Sugar Diagnosed: July 3 2008
A1C- 7/10/08= 10.6  11/17/08 = 5.6  5/29/09= 5.3
triglycerides - 7/15/08 = 192  11/17/2008 = 84
HDL - 7/15/08 = 46 11/17/2008 = 74
LDL - 7/15/08 = 106 11/17/2008 = 80
Low Carb Diet (15-50g/day)
Metformin ER 500mg 2x day
Neurontin 800mg 3x day
Meloxicam 15mg 1x day (arthritis)
Multivitamin, B12, fish oil
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09-29-2009, 04:08 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 126
| | | Potatoes. I can eat a baked potato and not see a spike whatsoever. But white rice will kill me. I don't eat bake potatoes very often though. :/
__________________ Type 2, Insulin Resistant, Metformin didn't work for me! Pumping insulin with a One Touch Ping! |
09-29-2009, 05:31 PM
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I am a: Pre-Diabetic | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Greater San Diego area
Posts: 1,424
| | | Avocados are very BG-friendly to me. It's about the only fruit I can eat with breakfast without paying for it, BG-wise.
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Dx prediabetic 02/08 (FBG 127 and 123)
A1c 02/08: 6.5; A1c 05/08: 6.0
A1c 11/08: 5.5; A1c 03/09: 5.3
A1c 09/09: 5.4
No meds
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09-30-2009, 08:45 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chicago
Posts: 54
| | | Pizza doesn't bother me as long as I have a salad with it. However, I can't sit down and eat a whole pizza. I have to limit myself to 2-3 squares (which is enough for me).
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A1C (12/08): 13.2
A1C (5/09): 5.2
A1C (10/09): 5.1 
09/09: 5K Run. Chip Time: 37:09 
10/09: 5K Run. Chip Time: 36:58 |
09-30-2009, 08:49 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: South Carolina
Posts: 1,258
| | | Oddly enough, I do not seem to have any trouble with corn of any type.
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Type 2, Normal would be nice, but I am not sure what normal is anymore
Bitter Melon, Vanadyl Sulfate
Chromium Pichnolate, Gymnema Sylvestre
Protien Hydrosylates, Amino Acids
Hi-Maize 260, Ground and Whole Flax Seed
COQ10, Celery Seed, Magnesium, Potassium, Calcium
Zinc, Selenium, Vitamin E, Fish Oil
Vitamins Bx, C, Ginkgo
Hawthorne, Vitamin D
Alpha-Lipoic-Acid, Biotin, ACAI Berry
Avoiding refined carbs
A1C 5.6,
I am the experimenting type, try, decide, move on. |
09-30-2009, 08:57 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
Posts: 5,429
| | | Second the avocados ... and add the unexpected pleasure of high cocoa content dark chocolate!
Last night I pigged out on fried eggplant (no batter, just eggplant, olive oil, and garlic), and since I did not check post-prandially, discovered this morning that this was not a good idea -- after days and days in the 90's my FBG was 113! I hate to think what it was last evening ...
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Linda Initial A1c Feb 6 09: 12%
Aug 24 A1c (MD office) 5.5%
Jul ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU (blood values normal, advised to continue this dose by endo)
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.8 According to Joslin's Diabetes, 2005 ed., 5 - 30% of those diagnosed as Type 2 actually have LADA. |
09-30-2009, 08:57 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,310
| | | Cheese. Cheese has very little effect on my blood sugar. I like a Canadian Aged cheddar that is a bit sharp. No effect on my blood sugar for a slice or two.
__________________  Nancy Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa diagnosed type 1 October 1986
currently using Medtronic MiniMed
paradigm 715 CLEAR  |
09-30-2009, 08:58 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 39
| | I seem to be able to eat most fresh fruits and veggies without problems. I don't count the carbs in them anymore -- just shovel them right on in I haven't tried a few things like melon and fresh corn yet, so we shall see about those.
I don't know that I'm fully T2, though, so I think I still get a lot more "flex" in my diet because I'm not as reactive as a lot of folks (though give me a corn tortilla and watch me spike thru the roof!) |
09-30-2009, 09:45 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posts: 379
| | | Pepper Jack Cheese and almonds do little or nothing to my BG. They make a great filler when I need a quick meal/snack.
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* Failed the OGTT at dx w/ a 288 at 2 hrs. Diagnosed 5/27/09
* A1c: 5/27/09: 6.6; FBG 99
* A1c: 10/23/09: 6.1; FBG 96
* Home FBGs now 96 -114
* My BG reached 200+ ONLY after drinking the test glucose or when I ate the ADA suggested oatmeal for breakfast 
* Metformin XR (500 @ AM & PM).
* NatureMade Pack/Diabetes Support
* 81 mg. aspirin
* Low(er) Carb & More Motion (44 lbs so far!) |
09-30-2009, 10:04 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
Posts: 5,429
| | | All sorts of nuts, tho peanuts or PB can raise me ... pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds -- I buy raw and skillet roast them with seasonings!
Last night I did sunfl. seeds with BUTTER and they smelled popcorny and tasted great!
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Linda Initial A1c Feb 6 09: 12%
Aug 24 A1c (MD office) 5.5%
Jul ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU (blood values normal, advised to continue this dose by endo)
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.8 According to Joslin's Diabetes, 2005 ed., 5 - 30% of those diagnosed as Type 2 actually have LADA. |
09-30-2009, 10:13 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Michigan
Posts: 535
| | | Well, I can't eat anything so I am no help here. Even lettuce spikes my BG. I am getting used to it though. I do get to bolus less for salads though so that is a good thing.
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Current Meds
Lantus 26 units Split dose
Novolog as needed
Metformin 1500mg
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09-30-2009, 10:30 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: near Cleveland, OH
Posts: 143
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Originally Posted by foxl  -- after days and days in the 90's my FBG was 113! | Man...I'd love to have a 113 reading. lol
__________________ Robin~
 Type 2 DX 2/19/09
-A1C- 9.6 3/11/09
-A1C- 8.3 8/7/09
-Metformin HCL 1,000mg at dinner, 1000mg at bedtime.
-Amaryl 2mg at breakfast, 2mg lunch, then 4mg at dinner.
-Synthroid 100mcg in the morning
-Vit D deficiency- 2000 IU vit D (in addition to multivitamin)
-Iron deficiency-iron supplement  |
09-30-2009, 10:53 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 534
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Originally Posted by foxl All sorts of nuts, tho peanuts or PB can raise me ... pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds -- I buy raw and skillet roast them with seasonings!
Last night I did sunfl. seeds with BUTTER and they smelled popcorny and tasted great! | huh that sounds interesting, so you took raw sunflower seeds, put butter in a skillet and roasted??? hmmm buttery
how long?????? and were do you get the raw seeds from? i can find shelled seeds but they are already salted
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April 09 A1c 6.2%
Dec 08 A1c 6.2%
Sept 08 A1c 7.5%
June 08 A1c 8.5%
Diagnosed: June 08
Metformin 1000mg twice daily
Glypizide 5mg occassionaly when I want to eat lots of carbs
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10-01-2009, 10:01 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 70
| | | KatGirl " Pizza doesn't bother me as long as I have a salad with it."
I do okay with thin crust pizza as long as it's one slice or two small slices with lots of veggies on top. So up to 30g carbs I'll be fine.
telizas "Potatoes. ... But white rice will kill me."
Mashed potatoes for me. 1/2 cup serving is fine. Maybe it's the added butter or whatever fat that makes it good for me. White rice just doesn't work for me either. Even with whole grain rice I measure and just have one small serving. Otherwise it's a problem. I thought I was just odd to be able to have potatoes and not rice.
themarquis "I seem to be able to eat most fresh fruits and veggies"
I envy this. I want to have fruit all the time like I used to. Now I save them for dessert. And berries are better.
so long as I have small portions I'm okay with most fruit. a serving of grapes for me is 6 grapes and I know the rise will be about 14, so not exactly free but okay. Apples seem to work the best.
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as of 11/17/09 I've lost 48 pounds!  <<that's my happy dance.
My BMI is now in the normal range instead of overweight.
still fighting the blood pressure battle.
no longer on anti-diabetic meds (yay!)
still taking daily aspirin and counting carbs
stroke survivor May 12, 2009 (third generation stroke victim on both maternal and paternal lines)
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10-01-2009, 10:45 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Holland, Michigan USA
Posts: 895
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Originally Posted by HealthierMe
I envy this. I want to have fruit all the time like I used to. Now I save them for dessert. And berries are better.
so long as I have small portions I'm okay with most fruit. a serving of grapes for me is 6 grapes and I know the rise will be about 14, so not exactly free but okay. Apples seem to work the best.
| Sigh ... I can't even get in the same room with fruits without a spike
__________________ As always YMMV! High Fructose Corn Syrup = Weapons Grade Sugar Diagnosed: July 3 2008
A1C- 7/10/08= 10.6 11/17/08 = 5.6 5/29/09= 5.3
triglycerides - 7/15/08 = 192 11/17/2008 = 84
HDL - 7/15/08 = 46 11/17/2008 = 74
LDL - 7/15/08 = 106 11/17/2008 = 80
Low Carb Diet (15-50g/day)
Metformin ER 500mg 2x day
Neurontin 800mg 3x day
Meloxicam 15mg 1x day (arthritis)
Multivitamin, B12, fish oil
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