Thank you Ziggy, although well meaning it is taking high sugar or high carb remedies is what got my blood so high in the first place. A little history. Diabetic for 10 years, never had any problem controlling b/g. I had really good HBA1C’S for many years, usually around 5.5. My doctor said I was a star patient because I kept b/g and weight down. One day for no reason I had a hypo. My b/g was 6.8 pre breakfast, then I ate a breakfast of 2 weetabix, sat down to watch Lorraine and saw the telly screen moving about, called my husband and blacked out and vomitted. So no reason for hypo.
It scared me a bit but mainly scared my husband who sent me to see the doctor, who sent me to see a nutritionist who put me on a high carb diet. She said if I ate carbs at every meal I would keep a stable b/g, despite the fact I had never had unstable readings or previous hypo. Anyway, I trusted her advice and after 4 months my HBA1C was 11, my weight had also increased by 4 kg so I stopped eating high carb but (not having found this diet) just cut out too much bread and got my HBA1C down to 8.1 and then I found this diet. That is why I don’t want to counteract low readings by having glucose tablets (pure sugar), jelly babies or anything else like that. I will take the earlier advice of having some nuts, a couple of prunes or a slice of meat. But thank you anyway.
I don’t know what forum you use but I have not found one that recommends this diet, just high carb, low fat, and all the traditional thinking. This is a new world. Let me know what it is called and I will have a look.
Many thanks for your interest and for answering my post.
