Can I eat Sprouted Rolled Oatmeal as a pre-diabetic?

veggienut57

I have been diagnosed as a pre-diabetic recently. I don't know what I can eat but my doctor says I need to stay away from sugar and carbs. I like eating my sprouted rolled oatmeal with apple in one date is that bad? Otherwise I have no idea what I can eat.

sollyn23l2

🍿let me grab my popcorn first.

Yes, of course you can. Do you want to? That's up to you!

Gisel2015

In the absence of proper guidance from your family doctor, you may have to reach Dr. Google for advice (see below). However, I suggest that you go back to your primary and request more detailed information, guidance, and a referral to a dietitian. It is his/her job to do that, and your right as a patient to get it.

[b]The Best Oatmeal for Type 2 Diabetes
Eating fiber-rich oats can have cardiovascular benefits and may help you control blood sugar. But when it comes to a diabetes diet, not all oats are created equal.
https://www.everydayhealth.com/type-2-diabetes/best-oatmeal-type-2-diabetes/#:~:text=Balancing your carbohydrate intake is[/b]

What To Eat If You’ve Been Diagnosed With Prediabetes
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-to-eat-if-youve-been-diagnosed-with-prediabetes

neanderthin

I suspect your referring to type-2. There's a good reason why most doctors will say stay away from sugar and carbs, because those are why someone develops IR and diabetes and if we stop eating those or reduce them greatly IR and diabetes simply can't happen. Are there outliers who for metabolic and genetics reason where this doesn't apply, sure but they are infinitesimally small. I would find a specialist who deals with this health problem and generally your PCP will be able to facilitate that otherwise many authorities will just advise moderation, which is pretty much a red herring that unfortunately misses the mark for this particular disease.

To answer your question directly and without going down the science rabbit hole, oatmeal, steel cut, will elicit a pretty good insulin spike on it's own with my CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor) with a 32mg/dl over my resting blood sugar. An apple on it's own spiked to 34mg/dl and dates which surprised me considering they had about 55g's of sugar only spiked by 3mg's/dl. Keep in mind everyone will respond differently depending on their individual health and my situation was I was getting close to pre-diabetes so basically insulin resistant to some degree.

Anyway, oatmeal with apple is not what someone with IR wants to have as a go to breakfast, it's basically sugar on sugar, that's how the body sees that. If you take your Dr's advice seriously, which you should your going to have to face the fact that your history of eating has brought you to this moment in time and to basically fix it, changes will need to be implemented and lowering carbohydrates and sugar is what needs to be done.

First of all your breakfast is probably the poster child for eating healthy, say authorities, but lets just put that aside for a moment and consider that there's pretty much no protein in that breakfast, maybe if your adding milk, but that just creates a bigger insulin response.

If you still want something sweet then I would suggest to find a good Greek yogurt but not 0 fat, does that even exist on the farms of Greece, anyway I like full fat but 2% is fine and the fat will also help curtail any insulin response. Instead of an apple try blueberries and with my CGM it didn't even register a response and actually lowered my base line blood glucose later on, so use them and honey was another one that basically did very little to spike my insulin or you could use monk sugar and the dates. So basically for something sweet yogurt with blueberries and honey or monk sugar and dates might be an alternative and elicited 11mg/dl. so a pretty big difference. If you add a couple of eggs to that then the insulin response will be even smaller and add some additional quality protein.

leehall_becky

Try counting carbs. 45-60 each meal, 3 times daily
Snacks 15-30

I've gone through nutrition counseling for this. If you don't know the count of carbs, stick to one cup. Always have a little protein with fruit to help spikes.

https://diabetes.org/food-nutrition/understanding-carbs/carb-counting-and-diabetes

VegjoyP

Sprouted oats are excellent, I would suggest adding healthy fat like flax, chia, seeds or nuts. This will be filling and fiber filled.

poodle_whisper

you should combine some protein with your carb intake. like an egg or two. "you should include lean protein with your carbs because protein is digested more slowly than carbs, University of Wisconsin Health points out. Adding proteins slows down digestion, and that gives you a longer source of energy without the spike in blood sugar you get from carbs alone."