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@trishanna

Hi, everybody. I've just been diagnosed with diabetes type 2 and I've a question. I can't see the dietitian until the end of May, and all my pcp said was 30 grams carbohydrates three times a day, with two snacks of 15 grams. I feel like I've been thrown into the deep end of the pool with no life preserver. I'm just over the prediabetes threshold, am not overweight, exercise regularly, etc. However, I've only one CKD kidney stage 3 and IBSd, both of which require special diets of their own. How much wiggle room do I have dietwise? At least until I can get a handle on all this. And kamama94, I'll be taking my copy of your recipe book with me. One thing I'm not prepared to do is to up my IBSd to ulcerative colitis - at 80, there's a quality of life issue, I think.

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@trishanna, you might be pleasantly surprised at what you can eat. BUT I have to ask you not to take a copy of the cookbook with you because it isn't finished yet and there are mistakes in the rough draft I posted. I posted it as much for feedback from others in the group about the recipes themselves. My doctors still are going over it so I can come up with a finished and final copy and once that's done, feel free to give it to your docs and anyone else who might want it. But let's hold off until then. One other thing I do need to tell you about the cookbook and that is it doesn't contain carb counts but is based on the "old" calorie counts because vegetarians and vegans do consume more carbs than meat-eaters. Later on I may include carb counts in an additional version but they're not in this one.

Let me do this: I'll post the newest draft here in a few minutes and that draft you can take with you if you explain to anyone you share it with that it isn't finished yet and my medical team hasn't finished evaluating it. Give me ten minutes or less, OK?