Should I change nutrition goals for Diabetes?
dlattish
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Hello all - I'm coming back to MyFitnessPal after a long absence, and also for the first time since my diagnosis of Diabetes Type 2. I'm updating my profile, and wondering if I should alter my daily nutrition goals - I'm concerned about the heavy percentage of calories from Carbohydrates. I'm attaching a snapshot of the current numbers, and appreciate any advice for how to customize MFP for Diabetics.
Thanks!
Dora
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Dora
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Daily Nutrition Goals Edit
Calories 1200
Carbohydrates 135 g 45 %
Fat 40 g 30 %
Protein 75 g 25 %
Custom Daily Goals
No
Calories by Meal Edit
These are my goals. You should have a discussion with your endocrinologist and a nutritionist.
I was first told to go with 45g carbs per meal and 15 per snacks. 2 snacks per day. Then, if that isn't working for you, reduce the number of carbs.
My situation is a little different in that I have chronic pancreatitis because of a surgical error, which brought on the diabetes. So, I have to really be careful of my fat consumption.
Diabetes is a tricky devil. Too many or too few carbs can cause your blood sugar to go up. Too few, it can spike or plunge you into a low blood sugar too.
It's really best you talk to a dietician or nutritionist. Perhaps you endocrinologist has a dietician attached to his/her practice.
I hope this help somewhat.
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FWIW, I am T2D. Here are my macros in goals.
The 1800 calories a day is a hard limit. I shoot for 1600 calories on average and try to keep the carbs under 10 (net) g/day and the fat under 100 g/day.
With the diet, I have managed to get off meds and my A1C's are in the 5's.
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TheLastMrBig wrote: »What was your starting point?
At diagnosis, my A1C was 12.8. Fasting glucose from the draw in the doctor's office was 340 something. It was not good news. I followed the Diabetes Association diet very strictly and took the prescribed metformin. I was checking my glucose 7 times a day. My numbers were terrible.
Desperate to do something besides adding another med, I decided to try restricting carbs. It made sense to me that it would help, and I figured I could get a baseline and see if there was any impact. At the worst, it would not help anything, but it would get me used to tracking carbs in case things got worse and I ended up on insulin.
It turned out my glucose numbers were consistently lower when the carbs were. I finally saw a fasting number below 200 on metformin. I dropped the carbs some more, and the glucose numbers came down even more. I decided that 20 net carbs a day as a hard limit was "do-able" and settled there.
That was in 2016. I have been doing the <20 net carbs since.1 -
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If you don't choose to do low carb at least look at types of carbs. Beans, cheese, milk, nuts, etc have carbs but are less likely to jack your blood sugar up. If you eat the same amount of carbs in say a donut or soda then your sugars are going to surge. if you know something has carbs in it then try to eat protein with it too as the effects will be reduced. Also fiber helps so whole wheat bread is a ton better than white processed.0
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