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y89b9h7m69
y89b9h7m69 Posts: 2 Member
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Hello. My name is Bob and I am new to the group. I am type 2 diabetic and have stage 3 chronic kidney disease. I recently had my right kidney removed. My doctor wants me to follow a low sodium low potassium diet. I am also attempting to limit my protein to 10 ounces per day. This is extremely challenging. Any help out there would be greatly appreciated.

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,097 Member
    y89b9h7m69 wrote: »
    Hello. My name is Bob and I am new to the group. I am type 2 diabetic and have stage 3 chronic kidney disease. I recently had my right kidney removed. My doctor wants me to follow a low sodium low potassium diet. I am also attempting to limit my protein to 10 ounces per day. This is extremely challenging. Any help out there would be greatly appreciated.

    Have you asked your doctor about a referral to a registered dietitian for personalized advice? With multiple medical conditions, that can be the best route.

    It seems like - to my non-expert mind - the kidney condition is wanting you to limit protein, and I would guess that the diabetes requires you to manage carbs somewhat carefully. That leaves fats as a potential thing to vary. That's complicated, so professional advice would be good.

    One caution: I would be wary of trusting the potassium and sodium numbers in the MFP food database without verifying them against an authoritative source, such as the product label or the USDA food database or similar.

    https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/

    The database here is crowd-sourced (entered by regular MFP users like you and me). Some are simply not detailed when they make entries, but (in the US anyway) food labels didn't require potassium to be specified until semi-recently, so the person entering the food may not have had the information there to enter even if they were being meticulous.

    Once you identify accurate entries and log them in your diary, they'll appear first when you search (as long as you continue logging them semi-regularly), so you don't necessarily need to verify every food forever, just more when starting out.

    Best wishes for success with your health!
  • kidiki
    kidiki Posts: 22 Member
    edited September 2023
    Hi Bob: Congratulations on joining this App and prioritizing your health. My husband and I found when we buy Prime Meat from Costco, we are satisfied and full after eating 3 oz. of prime tenderloin or flank steak. From one tenderloin we can get three servings. I’m not sure if that would work for you, but we greatly reduced our protein consumption doing so. Moderation is better than being fully restricted from it! Best wishes.
  • MacLowCarbing
    MacLowCarbing Posts: 350 Member
    Hello Bob! I'm diabetic too (for now still-- on the way to reversing it).

    I agree with Ann, I was gonna say a dietitian is probably your best bet because you wanna be careful in your situation. Like it'd be good to know how many grams of protein per day you should strive for, as opposed to ounces of meat, because different meats have different protein content. 10 oz of a rib-eye steak has 65 g of protein, while 10 oz of chicken breast has about 85 g. of protein, or 10 oz of salmon has about 50 g.

    I'm personally on a high fat/low carb diet, with 25% of it protein (94 g). Basically it's most similar to keto though I don't follow any specific plan. A lot of diabetics have success with that in helping to improve or reverse diabetes, so it might be something for you to consider and talk to your dr/dietitian about.

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