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Breakfast suggestions??
| Wed, 07-18-2007 - 2:24pm |
Hi,
I'm doing fairly well with managing my diabetes, but am having a difficult time with breakfast. Before the diabetes I would just skip it, but I know I shouldn't do that. If I eat only fruit I'm starving by lunch, but everything else I would normally cook for breakfast really is not good for a diabetic. I would really appreciate a few suggestions.
Thanks

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Emily,
I typed a long message to you and my blasted computer froze up and I couldn't send it! So I am now on my husband's computer and I have to start over again!
You highlight one of the reasons that we need to test our blood sugars after eating. My husband, who is also diabetic, can't eat rice because it raises his blood sugar too much. I have a problem with potatoes but not rice. Neither of us would know this if we didn't test after eating. All of us react differently to foods and it is important for us to learn, as you have done, what we can and can't eat.
I used to count exchanges but I was switched to counting carbs three year ago because I am on Symlin and I must have 30 grams of carbs or I can't take my medicine. I can switch back and forth between the two systems with ease. It doesn't really matter to me which one is used.
Emily,
I am a lot like you! I work so hard and when I get home I am too tired to cook much. On the weekends I try to cook something that I can eat as a left over during the week. I am not organized enough to plan meals and freeze them. I also spend too much time on the computer in the evenings!
We don't call it a diabetic diet anymore because it is really a life change and a diet is something you go on and off of. In fact it is called medical nutritional therapy and should be prescribed by physicians when they first see the newly diagnosed diabetic. This is as important as any meds that they can prescribe. I love veggies and I just try to make sure that I get enough of them. Right now I am eating green beans and two different kinds of tomatoes out of my garden. My cherry tomatoes tonight tasted wonderful!
Congratulations on your weight loss. I am sure that makes you feel better in more than one way. I am actually going to be a good kid tonight and no stay on the computer so long. I need to eat my bedtime snack and I want to do some of my needlepoint before I go to bed. Mostly I have to needlepoint after Abby goes to bed because the cat thinks she has to catch my needle with every stitch. Since you haven't been around here long, you may not know but Abby is the cat in my siggy. She has just turned one year old and I think she is going through adolescence! She is into everything!
Anyway enjoy your weekend off and do enjoy your quilting.
Goodness gracious!! I just wrote quite a bit to you and I decided to select another emoticon and it didn't do what I thought it was suppose to so genius that I am I refreshed the page! Naturally . . . my first message to you is gone to the wild blue yonder!! Does that sound familiar to you? ha ha ha. Oh me!!
I am so "brain dead" now forgive me if I try again tomorrow. Yes I also think we are a lot alike. Did I just prove it or what? haa ha. Have a great and blessed afternoon. Emily
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