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07-17-2008, 12:19 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 64
| | | Caught up with a couple of friends for lunch recently at a restaurant of my friend's choosing. My BG shot up and rang the bell even as I scanned the non-negotiable lunch menu. My friends were getting all excited over a mushroom risotto that they swore was to die for. How was I going to calculate the carbs in that? (And I didn't want to die for a risotto anyway.) The only thing that I thought I'd have any hope of estimating, believe it or not - the menu was so arcane - was beer battered fish, with chips of course. I was trying to engage in the conversation whilst simultaneously counting out chips and guestimating the carbs in two pieces of battered fish. I guessed about sixty grams of carb, entered it in the pump, then tried to put it out of mind and enjoy myself.
My friends were oblivious. Even though they know I have diabetes, they have no idea what a struggle it can be to work out how much to eat.
Well, I lost that particular game and three hours late my BG had shot up to around the 18 level. I did a correction bolus, had a couple of glasses of water then cycled the 7 k back home without doing a temporary basal. When I arrived home, the exercise had brought my BG back to normal.  |
07-17-2008, 10:25 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Holland, Michigan USA
Posts: 252
| | | Crazy thing about restaurants is that short of a 10 seat hole-in-the-wall type place .. there is no reason a restaurant shouldn't be able to give someone a "ball park" figure from their computer ... heck even the little joint I was at until 6 months ago I could (and did) pull up the base recipe in the order/inventory program and generate a profile. Now I could never say the numbers were exact, but someone with food issues could at least make an informed decision.
__________________ High Fructose Corn Syrup = Weapons Grade Sugar Diagnosed: July 3 2008
A1C- 7/10/08= 10.6 
triglycerides - 7/15/08 = 192  |
07-17-2008, 11:23 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Mt. Dandenong, Victoria, Australia
Posts: 646
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Originally Posted by cyberus  Crazy thing about restaurants is that short of a 10 seat hole-in-the-wall type place .. there is no reason a restaurant shouldn't be able to give someone a "ball park" figure from their computer ... heck even the little joint I was at until 6 months ago I could (and did) pull up the base recipe in the order/inventory program and generate a profile. Now I could never say the numbers were exact, but someone with food issues could at least make an informed decision. | i find that most of the time i am sticking to salads and steak and salad or thai beef salad. (and things along that sort of line).
fortunately, i adore salads.
BUT the big difference is that i am eating my steaks totally "guilt free" now that i know the truth about fat. 
-- Joel.
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Age: 53
Diagnosed: July, 2007
HbA1c's
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early July 2007: 16.2%
early Sept 2007: 8.0%
early Dec 2007: 5.9%
early Jun 2008: 6.4% (after my pancreatitis!)
triglycerides: 71 (0.8)
HDL chol: 50 (1.2)
LDL chol: 15 (0.4)
Diamicron MR 30mg 1 or 2 per day |
07-19-2008, 01:57 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Seattle Metro
Posts: 188
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Originally Posted by BrianSCohen More of a challenge is a restaurant which is narrow and specialized, such as a pho shop or a pasta place. Even in these places you can be creative. Ask for no noodles and in their place ask for veggies... . | Brian,
What did you do with the pho soup? Were they willing to replace the noodles?
My brother-in-law is coming from Sweden Monday and he mentioned wanting pho. Can't get pho in Sweden - that we know of and he is in Stockholm.
~Danielle
__________________ "Never eat more than you can lift."
--Miss Piggy A1C- 7/01/08= 6.5% 
No Meds |
07-19-2008, 03:00 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Holland, Michigan USA
Posts: 252
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Originally Posted by Noturningback Brian,
What did you do with the pho soup? Were they willing to replace the noodles?
My brother-in-law is coming from Sweden Monday and he mentioned wanting pho. Can't get pho in Sweden - that we know of and he is in Stockholm.
~Danielle | I just had Pho night before last, there is a asian food place in the gas station nearby and when I stopped for gas they asked where I had been, they hadn't seen me.
We talked about what I was doing (low carb) and said it eliminated most of what they sell (sniff no more General Tsao chicken), but when I asked if they could leave out the noodles and maybe toss in extra bean sprouts they didn't have a problem .. actually they put in some extra sprouts and some julienne napa cabbage and it was wonderful.
However, I'm looking at the Konjac Shirataki noodles as a long term replacement for my take out Pho in the future, still looking for trustworthy reviews.
__________________ High Fructose Corn Syrup = Weapons Grade Sugar Diagnosed: July 3 2008
A1C- 7/10/08= 10.6
triglycerides - 7/15/08 = 192 |
07-21-2008, 11:58 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oak Hill, VA
Posts: 468
| | | Danielle,
Cyberus has a good idea with the Shirataki noodles, but I bet most Pho shops don't have them around. What they do have around is veggies and a good alternatives for noodles is cabbage. They can slice up cabbage into thin slices and it works out great. The biggest difficulty is communicating if english is not the first language of choice in the shop.
Good luck
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T2 since 7/05. 48 yrs. 5'11 195 lbs.
Exercise, very low carb diet
HbA1c 9/07 - 6.3%, 3/08 - 6.2%, 6/08 - 6.2% |
07-25-2008, 03:38 PM
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I am a: Pre-Diabetic | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Greater San Diego area
Posts: 87
| | | Went with my family to a Turkish restaurant this past weekend. Ordered a ground beef kabob-and-salad plate. One of my daughters ordered, and shared, a beef pie (kind of like spanakopita); I had a small piece with the pastry, but when I had seconds, I scraped the filling out and left the pasty. Didn't eat the dolmas (stuffed with rice), and ate spoonfuls of hummus, or dipped pickled turnips into it, rather than eat the pita bread.
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Dx prediabetic 02/08 (FBG 127 and 123)
A1c 02/08: 6.5
A1c 05/08: 6.0
No meds
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