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PreDiabetes recommended Daily Sugar and Carbohydrates intake
Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Feb 12, 2019 | Replies (40)Comment receiving replies
@mickj If you were to eat a relatively high amount of carbs would your own insulin still handle as it does with a person who has never been diabetic? I try to limit my carbs but it would be great if that wasn’t necessary. My treat is often a piece of very dark chocolate and that is fairly low carb. My diabetes is minimal enough that I have been I told that I do not need to test more than a couple of times a week, after eating. It might be interesting to cheat and then test my blood sugar. I too lost a great deal of weight, and of course have a new liver. I do know that after my transplant, when I was on a higher dose of prednisone I had to use insulin for a few weeks.
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@contentandwell I currently eat about 130 grams of carbs per day, about double the amount I was eating a few months ago. It's not having an impact. The path I'm heading down is making sure those carbs have lots of fiber (50 grams) and no added sugar. Dark chocolate can be a great source of fiber. A while ago, I was eating Keto Bark just to increase calories. The good thing about Keto Bark is that there is no added sugar, and almost all of the carbs are fiber. The bad thing about is that it's expensive.
Lovely prednisone did the exact same thing to me. It's what sent me down this learning path. There was no way I was going to finger poke/inject insulin for the rest of my life if I could do something to change that. My diet and exercise did exactly that.
In no way would I suggest that diet and exercise can cure all Type 2 diabetes. I believe it can reverse many who have pre-diabetes. But there are lots of other factors that also come into play. Suffice it to say that a good diet and exercise won't make the problem worse and can only make things better.