Diabetic anyone?

[WhiteTigress]

Originally Posted by SoulSearcher

As for the carbs and starches... She said I could have between 15-30 carbs per snack and 45-60 per meal. I do watch my carbs also... Instead of eating like potatoes at dinner, I either eat a salad or a yogurt cup. She said a great thing to do is to incorporate your desert into your meal instead of eating as desert. For example: The eating the yogurt cup in place of the potatoes.

SS,

I hope you are talking about 15-30 and 45-60 GRAMS of carbs. I don't want anyone mislead that these numbers count for servings. The one thing that so many people forget is that vegetables ARE carbs. They just aren't all starch carbs.

In my best days (and I plan to get back to them soon), I used to have a half cup of non-fat milk with an ounce of protein and a starch for my early morning meal. I would have a snack around 9:30 of a piece of fruit with another ounce of protein (usually cheese) and a sugar-free Jell-O. For lunch I would have 2 ounces of a meat/cheese and a salad. If I had the time, I would have another snack of fruit and cheese around 2:30. Then dinner was usually 3-4 ounces of meat with raw veggies or I would make a stir-fry that I could eat over a few days. My nutritional counselor had me on approximately 8 carb servings during a day, as a component of an 1800 calorie per day plan.

Timber brought home a copy of the diet that one of hir patient's was given to start treating their diabetes, and they had them on 2000 calories a day, with 16 carb servings. I thought that was preposterous. I can only guess that this person was going to have a more difficult time with fewer calories and carbs, but I'll almost guarantee that at some point in the future, they will have both their calories and carbs cut back significantly.

I would have to say that everyone who has this diagnosis really needs to participate in a diabetic care class, that includes an individualized meal program for their specific needs. I know that I shared copies of my plan with Andrew, and I think that he found it very helpful, but I also know that he's been under the watchful eye of his own care team, too.

WT

Oops sorry, yes I did mean 15-30 grams and 45-60 grams of carbs, so sorry about the confusion.

Originally Posted by WhiteTigress

SS,

I hope you are talking about 15-30 and 45-60 GRAMS of carbs. I don't want anyone mislead that these numbers count for servings. The one thing that so many people forget is that vegetables ARE carbs. They just aren't all starch carbs.

In my best days (and I plan to get back to them soon), I used to have a half cup of non-fat milk with an ounce of protein and a starch for my early morning meal. I would have a snack around 9:30 of a piece of fruit with another ounce of protein (usually cheese) and a sugar-free Jell-O. For lunch I would have 2 ounces of a meat/cheese and a salad. If I had the time, I would have another snack of fruit and cheese around 2:30. Then dinner was usually 3-4 ounces of meat with raw veggies or I would make a stir-fry that I could eat over a few days. My nutritional counselor had me on approximately 8 carb servings during a day, as a component of an 1800 calorie per day plan.

Timber brought home a copy of the diet that one of hir patient's was given to start treating their diabetes, and they had them on 2000 calories a day, with 16 carb servings. I thought that was preposterous. I can only guess that this person was going to have a more difficult time with fewer calories and carbs, but I'll almost guarantee that at some point in the future, they will have both their calories and carbs cut back significantly.

I would have to say that everyone who has this diagnosis really needs to participate in a diabetic care class, that includes an individualized meal program for their specific needs. I know that I shared copies of my plan with Andrew, and I think that he found it very helpful, but I also know that he's been under the watchful eye of his own care team, too.

WT

[Andrew, Jr.]

WT,

I actually shared your plan with my support group! The folks in charge of it made more copies of it, and plan to use it in the future. It really has excellent outlines of what to do, the meal plans, etc. I will never forget when I saw some jack*** who told me to just eat eggs for all 3 meals, and to check back in with him in a month. Yuck! You are so right about getting educated on this disease. It can go on for years and run havoc on your body. I know it - it has done it to mine.

Thank you, WT. You rock!

[violaine]

Baked Vegan Donuts



Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour [i use a combo of oat, chickpea, sorghum, fava, and sometimes, white rice]

1/2 cup sugar [can subsitute with yacon, agave, chopped dates, figs, et c.]

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder [i use ener-g baking powder replacer - no high sodium]

1/4 tsp salt [ i skip all together]

1/4 tsp nutmeg [i use more!]

1 shake of cinnamon

1/2 cup soymilk [or subsitute / mix with - almond, coconut, rice]

1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla [french vanilla kicks it up a notch!]


Egg replacer for 1 egg (I used Ener-G Egg Replacer.)

4 tablespoons Earth Balance or other vegan margarine

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350º F.

In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients with a whisk to mix thoroughly.

In a small saucepan, combine wet ingredients over medium low heat & mix until margarine is melted. You should be able to stick your finger in the mixture without burning yourself. Don't make this too hot for the dough!

Add wet to dry & mix until just combined, forming a soft spongy dough.

Using a tablespoon measure, scoop out dough into an ungreased nonstick mini donut pan & smooth out the tops of them. If using a regular sized donut pan (like I did), fill them until just below the rim. Make sure not to overfill them or they'll have uneven muffin tops. If you under fill them, they'll be skimpy, but still edible.

Bake them for 12 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.

Invert the hot pan over a cooling rack to release the donuts & allow them to cool completely before decorating.

[Andrew, Jr.]

Oh my dear sweet Belle,

Thank you! I love donuts! I miss them so very much. In fact, I go and stare at them in the grocery store back in the bakery. The smell, the taste...I just miss them sooo!

You are such an angel!

Love you from the bottom of my fat little heart,
Andrew
ox

[Andrew, Jr.]

I am trying to get blood out of my fingers for the finger stick - glucose testing. I can't. Nothing. I "milk" my fingers - nothing. I run warm water over them. Nothing. So I changed up, and I got a AccurCheck lancet. It lets you lance your hands, forearms, legs, and so on. Well, it works very well, but no blood will come out. So I have been using my toes. I called my doc and she read me the riot act. I am back to the beginning. Any ideas? Yes, I am using the highest no. for the deepest cut.

My one forearm is very scarred up from where I tried to lance it before. I have tried to cover up the scars with lotion to try to heal the wounds, but nothing seems to work on that either. I am using Neosporin now. But the scars are still there. And my fingers are callased.

I would highly recommend talking to your doctor in person. It could possibly be that your blood is too thick for you to get any blood out. You may need to be on a blood thinner or even 1 aspirin a day as I have been told that it also helps in thinning out your blood.

I certainly am no doctor but that is the only thing I can think of. I know my blood tends to be thick quite often and drs have trouble drawing blood from me sometimes because of it.

So just check that out and I am sorry I could not be of further assistance. Also make sure you are poking in the right spots such as kind of on the tip of your finger. It always works for me there. And occasionally i have to push the stick thing down like into my finger kind of before i push the button to release the pricker as I call it.

Hope you figure something out soon.

Originally Posted by Andrew, Jr.

I am trying to get blood out of my fingers for the finger stick - glucose testing. I can't. Nothing. I "milk" my fingers - nothing. I run warm water over them. Nothing. So I changed up, and I got a AccurCheck lancet. It lets you lance your hands, forearms, legs, and so on. Well, it works very well, but no blood will come out. So I have been using my toes. I called my doc and she read me the riot act. I am back to the beginning. Any ideas? Yes, I am using the highest no. for the deepest cut.

My one forearm is very scarred up from where I tried to lance it before. I have tried to cover up the scars with lotion to try to heal the wounds, but nothing seems to work on that either. I am using Neosporin now. But the scars are still there. And my fingers are callased.

[MsTinkerbelly]

Originally Posted by Andrew, Jr.

I am trying to get blood out of my fingers for the finger stick - glucose testing. I can't. Nothing. I "milk" my fingers - nothing. I run warm water over them. Nothing. So I changed up, and I got a AccurCheck lancet. It lets you lance your hands, forearms, legs, and so on. Well, it works very well, but no blood will come out. So I have been using my toes. I called my doc and she read me the riot act. I am back to the beginning. Any ideas? Yes, I am using the highest no. for the deepest cut.

My one forearm is very scarred up from where I tried to lance it before. I have tried to cover up the scars with lotion to try to heal the wounds, but nothing seems to work on that either. I am using Neosporin now. But the scars are still there. And my fingers are callased.

Andrew....

As others have said drink lots of water, and instead of pricking the tips of your fingers use the sides of your fingers. It doesn't hurt nearly as badly on the sides as it does pricking the tips, and the blood flows much more freely (for me) than the tips ever did.