What should I be eating?

[cuddly61]

I had gestinal diabetes during pregnancy and was told I was more at risk as I got older to get diabetes.
I’m now 57 and for quite a few years been tested every year.
Doctors rang me yesterday to tell me they wanted to do another test in six months as my level was 40 so at 41 it would had been diabetes.
I’m lost at what I should be eating to get my level down.
I do only eat one meal a day and sometimes I don’t have a meal just snack. This is due to my mental illness lack of motivation to cook etc.
But this has been a wake up call . My partner is type two tablet controlled diabetic but just carries on eating what they like .
It seems a lot of foods have sugar in .can anyone advise me please.

I would recommend a low carb diet,have a look at the boot camp threads? Diabetes type 2 is managed by control of blood sugar.

Eating carbs will not help, you need to avoid bread, pasta, rice etc as well as sugar as they all end up as sugar in the body.

Best diet would be basic meat and veg, fat included. Also look at threads for the blood sugar diet, book of the same name by Michael Moseley.

Disclaimer - not medical but reversed type2 a few years ago and still in normal range.

I was also going to suggest low carb, perhaps combined with fasting, which can reverse type 2, as the pp says. Google Dr Jason Fung

Exercise is very important too. As much as you can try and have a walk after every meal

You do not need to avoid anything. everything in moderation. No more than 2-3 portions of fruit a day. Exercise is good. Brisk walks etc.
Look at diabetes U.K. loads of useful info and recipes on there.

Low carbs, plenty green veg - 7 - 10 cups per day, fish, cheese, healthy fats, olive oil, berries. I went ketogenic and it has worked wonders. You want your body fat burning not sugar burning. So worth it.

Also, moderate walks, and try to sleep 8 hours each night. Keep at the foods I mentioned above, if you let it slide you'll just end up with the diabetes symptoms again, it has to be maintained. Garlic and avocadoes good too. Don't listen to diabetes associations and western docs, they just want to keep us sick. They make money from us being sick. F*ck them. My blood sugar was 9 last year, 5.7 now, feel so much better.

I think Dr Michael Moseley is good:

thebloodsugardiet.com

thebloodsugardiet.com/michaels-story/

Michael Moseley's blood sugar diet is exactly what you need. Low carb, no sugar - excellent