type 2 diabetes

My sugar fluctuates but it ranges around 130 in the am which is still a little high even with all my exercise. Sugar goes down when I lower carbs .

See a dietician. It depends on a number of factors, including the severity of the disease, age, gender, weight and so in. Even better: attend diabetes education classes. You will be able to consult with a dietician, as well as learn a lot about how to deal with it. It's a bit scary at first, but with proper management, including diet and exercise, you can keep your diabetes under control.

I also have just been diagnosed as T2D. I am reading a book by Calvin Ezrin and Robert Kowalkski called "The Type 2 Diabetes Diet Book". On page 69 they recommend 20-30 grams (max 40 grams) per day during the weight loss phase of their diet. I have had a quick flick through the stabilization and maintenance sections of the book and I have not seen any adjustment to those numbers.
As I said I am only just starting to look at my diet and am probably being overly careful but I have not yet got close to those numbers. My doctor recommended to me that i get closer to them as the carbs give you energy and are an important part of your diet.
Hope this helps.
PC

See a dietician. It depends on a number of factors, including the severity of the disease, age, gender, weight and so in. Even better: attend diabetes education classes. You will be able to consult with a dietician, as well as learn a lot about how to deal with it. It's a bit scary at first, but with proper management, including diet and exercise, you can keep your diabetes under control.

For myself, the dietitian route didn't help me besides teaching me portion control. The one at my doctors office recommended a way higher carb intake than I'm comfortable at, and didn't differentiate between 'good' carbs and 'bad' carbs. When I was following the American Diabetic Associations diet plan my after meal sugars were still hitting the 180s and fasting in the morning was over 130. However, this is my own personal experience

I recently found out I have type 2 diabetes, trying to diet and exercise. I love this website, but I was wondering if anyone knows what the recommended intake should be for Carbs?

Type two here--for me, 50 or less effective carbs per meal, 15 or less per snack. Those were the recommendations from my doctor and my nutritionist based on my situation. My A1c is down to 5.4%, and my diabetes is wholly diet and exercise controlled. I test twice a day.

Edited to say that my am/fasting blood sugar is around 86 most mornings, my post-exercise tends around 70, and my post-meal can be anywhere from 110-130, depending upon what I have to eat.

Kris

Can you explain the effective carbs? I'm type 2, diagnosed last June, I'm doing really well but not as good as you. My A1C is 5.8, and fasting in the a.m. is about 110 to 115. I was recently taken off of glipizide because of extreme lows, but I'm still on Victoza, which essentially just slows emptying of the stomach and digestion.

Roughly, the point of effective carbs is knocking the fiber off the carb count, i.e., a lavash bread that might have 14 grams of carbs per sheet would only have 8 effective carbs because of the six grams of fiber. I guess, in a nutshell, it's knocking off those carbs which are indigestible. Some folks swear by it, others swear it's BS, but it works for me, and encourages me to pack in a lot of fiber.

Hmmm, I've heard of that before, but had forgotten what was taken off of the carbs. I'll have to look at my oatmeal I eat in the morning, that's the meal I'm having the most problems with. My sugar can sometimes spike to 160's and I'm definitely not happy with that number.

It's amazing, the things my body sometimes decides are "bad." The day after I was diagnosed, I had a sandwich with my husband's homemade bread. This bread is absolutely amazing--so "whole-grain-y" it hurts, enough fiber to fix a constipated elephant. I thought it would be fine, but instead, it spiked me to 200, which was shocking to me. That was the end of me and hubby's bread--we tried slicing it so thin it was barely usable, but it still did a number on me. I use Pepperidge Farms light oat or Sara Lee's Delightful whole grain now, and that works just fine for me. I can eat 80 carbs worth of pasta, sauce, salad, and julienned veggies and be fine (around 120), but 80 carbs of Popeye's chicken puts me up around 160 or higher.

I'm still learning, I guess. Surgery last week made it very exciting--blood sugar 190 that night (after a normal meal, one that usually lands me up around 120) and blood pressure right around 75/42. The only sure-fire way for me to keep my blood sugar down is to stay below 50 carbs per meal, and even then, that meal's got to have some fiber and some protein--if I eat 50 carbs worth of Cadbury Fruit and Nut, my sugar will get up into the 130s or higher.