i have my meal plan

i went to the pharmacyst slash dietician yesterday and my cholesterol is 129 and they want it at 100. so i am allowed 50 grams of fat a day. that will be hard as to me that seems low. i went over it yesterday because i didnt know until 2 oclock and i am allowed 195 grams of carbs a day. she says next month we will worry about the calories. she says i can eat anything i want as long as i dont go over my allowed carbs and fats. i am going to stay away from candy and pop and stick to flavored water and plain water and my sugar free snacks. she told me about an app for my iphone (smartphones will have it too probably) that will keep track of what i intake and all i have to do is put in the food or scan the barcode of the product and it is called MyFitnessPal and it is free. i have my meal planned out for the entire day and it has told me that i have my allowed fat and i am under in carbs for the day. also i have lost 12 pounds total. i was at 226 when i went to the doctors almost a month ago and now i am at 214. I am proud of my weight loss. now if i can only get the annoying coworker to stop trying to give me candy and breaking my diet than i will be great. it is hard to turn her down when i want it so much. i told her i am diabetic and she states she is too but she dont care. but i do care. i will not give in. i still would love a pepsi but its not worth it. i have made a deal with myself, if i get down to 150 i will allow myself a small can or half of a 6 oz can of pepsi if i think i wont over do it. the hunger pains have stopped. my sugars are getting better although they went to `151. it was either the sub with the salad which had meat in it(only small) or the fact i had to eat it really fast. i have switched to wheat bread instead of white bread and starting today will only allow myself one sandwich with bread a day although i am having tacos tonight but im only allowing one burrito tonight versus two and it wont overdue my fat nor carbs. im going to start getting fat free sour cream for my stuff and only using a little bit of it versus alot of sour cream. i can do this. she also said to add 1 tbsp of peanut butter to my oatmeal in the mornings for protein so i did and it wasnt so bad at all.

You are doing really well with the weight loss!  That's great!  Changing your eating plan to fewer carbs and doing some sort of daily exercise will help you continue that too.  Your co-worker may not care about herself but that's her problem.  She may have given up or just doesn't care.  In any case, you need to take care of you, which is exactly what you are doing.  The best you can do is for yourself and and your family.  You need to be there for them and be healthy. 

When your nutritionist talks about 'fats', is she including olive oil in that, too?  Olive oil is beneficial but it does add calories - not that you should drink it!  Instead of salad dressings like Ranch, Russian, etc. you might try just a vinaigrette with oil and vinegar (or oil and lemon juice).

Sometimes yogurt can be substituted for sour cream.  Check the labels for fat and carb content on them.  I think yogurt may have more protein.

You're doing really well!  Thanks for updating! 

I understand about fitting exercise in when you're working full time.  (That was some years ago for me.)  But you've got the right idea:  parking farther away, walking quickly, etc.  Take stairs instead the escalator at the mall.  If you ever watch TV (on your schedule it might be hard!), get up during the commercial and march in place - that sort of thing.  I imagine you must be on your feet most of the day though.  Sitting is probably a luxury!  Anyway, just keep on keeping your journal and recording your numbers.  You'll know very quickly what you do well with.

Every person is different so it's hard to generalize but when blood sugar is elevated over time (maybe months or years), the body undergoes some effects: neuropathy and organ damage.  Elevated blood sugar is generally over 140.  I know that you have seen your blood sugar much higher, so 150 is a big drop but you want to have your blood sugar lower, as near normal as you can get it. 

It's possible the taco meat mixture has some addititves as fillers that contain carbs.  The shells themselves are made of corn and corn is a grain that will raise blood sugar.  Maybe you can eat the meat mixture with cheese on a plate with a fork or spoon?  That's how I eat a hamburger.  If it's in that kind of a restaurant, I order a burger with no bun (they'll do that, honest!) and eat it with a knife and fork.

Oh this morning I had lost another .2 pounds so 12.2 pounds lost

Well Have done all dr says and my sugar went to 200 todat. I called dr and she said if my sugar goes to 250 to take half of the metformin but I'm going to take half tomorrow anyways. Two days of high testing is enough. My body will adjust. I feel I need to until my sugars get stable .

I know but they took me off it and said to use diet but doesn't seem to be working. But I was thinking can having your period cause your sugar to go up? If so then that can be my problem?

well i am now down 15 pounds as of this morning. in four weeks i have lost 15 pounds and 5 of these pounds was this past week alone. i do recommend if you have diet restrictions and a iphone or smartphone, download the app MyFitnessPal. it really does help keep track of the fat and carbs you eat which will make calculating it easier. if it keeps up i will be under 200 next week.

What a great new app!  It's incredible what these things can do!  Congratulations on the continuing weight loss.  You're doing great!

Very good numbers!  Now, you can see what kinds of food work and what kinds don't.  Try just a couple of spoons of beans rather than a serving and make a salad and eat more of that.  Sometimes it's not really the beans so much as the sauce.  Lots of sauce for beans have sugar.  During the summer when hotdogs seem to be at every cookout, I just don't eat them with a bun.  I eat two on the plate with a knife and fork with all the fixings I want on it.  Same with burgers.  We don't eat these on a regular basis anyway. 

As far as an endocrinologist, it's a tossup.  They vary in their goals for diabetics and also in food plans.  Of course, they are the specialists for diabetes and know far more about the disease than a GP.

Zucchini "noodles" are a good substitute for regular noodles and will go with any sauce.  Try to buy larger and straighter zucchini.  Peel them (I use the peels, too.) down lengthwise and turn them as you go so you will have strips of zucchini.  Stop when you get to the core with seeds. Saute them in a little oil quickly and then serve them with your sauce.  Be careful not to overcook them because they'll end up limp which is ok if you serve them alone but if you want to serve them with sauce, you'd want them firmer.  One or two zucchini per person.  (You can use the cores for scrapple, omelets or whatever if you want.)  This idea comes from the Richard Bernstein Diabetes Solution.

i could do that too smurfy thanks. well two good days of good sugar in a row! wow me i am excited. i know its stupid to be excited over something this small but this is a first since i have been diagnosed. i am now hoping for 3 days in a row. oh  yeah 16 pounds lost now.

well three good days of good sugars yay. 102, 92, and 120. it feels good to run good numbers and the fact that i dont feel sick helps to. no more numbness in the toes either!

Yes I hope so too. I Ate a different sub today a southwest BBQ sub from subway on wheat but it has same amount of carbs and only 3 more grams of fat than my normal so I hope my sugars still run normal. I'll find out at 2:30. I have to see what my body will like.