Glucose Number displayed on screen (for us diabetics)

[morrisangelo]

That's not what this is in this thread.
It is just like playing a song.
It's just playing a number on a screen.

Bingo. I guess I didn't convey that well enough.

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[CurtisB]

Maybe you don't, but for me on long trips to my north Georgia cabin, it's a quick, easy reading telling me if I'm about to have a sugar crash, or I'm running too high prompting an insulin shot while my wife drives.

Anything to make diabetes management easier...

The trick my diabetic brother is to include the same level of carbs in all 3 meals. Pinto beans works. And believe it or not all types of peanuts you can snack on all day and it will help. Do this for over a 4-6 week period and you will see less spikes in your numbers. And you will not drop to dangerous levels. Carbs invade the unwanted sugars.

 

[GenMaster]

The trick my diabetic brother is to include the same level of carbs in all 3 meals. Pinto beans works. And believe it or not all types of peanuts you can snack on all day and it will help. Do this for over a 4-6 week period and you will see less spikes in your numbers. And you will not drop to dangerous levels. Carbs invade the unwanted sugars.

My diabetes doctor says to eat both nuts and berries.. I guess she wants me to eat like a bird!

 

[CurtisB]

My diabetes doctor says to eat both nuts and berries.. I guess she wants me to eat like a bird!

I also weaned myself off the bad stuff. I reduced my old bad foods to once a week, then once a month. Cheeseburgers (fully loaded) and french fries was my biggest bad meal. Now, maybe once every 4 months I have this meal. I don't crave it, because I actually enjoy the taste of chicken, broccoli, greenbeans, fresh pasta, eggs, Oat bread, strawberries, apples, oranges, grapes and all the nuts and salads. Also, where I live, there is an abundance of Asian noodle restaurants. Believe it or not, one of their bowls is freshly made, flavorful and fills you up! And even though the numbers went up after a bowl, they normalized faster afterwards! No severe drops! I had to develop healthy flavorful alternatives. The taste of sugar free alternatives has improved tremendously over the last 40 years. So, if I really want a cookie, there are plenty of delicious sugar free options. My A1.C ranges from 5.8 to 6.2. I use to check my numbers daily but I stopped due to seeing how high my numbers went. After seeing three, 6 month check in's with my A1.C's around 6.1, I quit checking daily. If I didn't eat anything that would cause my sugar to spike, I didn't need to know my numbers during the day.

And lastly, if you really want to get you numbers under control, simply walk for 15 minutes, 5 days a week. Best results is walking after dinner! Pushes your numbers down, helps you to sleep and digest your meal. I sincerely hopes this helps!

 

[Pointyears]

I also weaned myself off the bad stuff. I reduced my old bad foods to once a week, then once a month. Cheeseburgers (fully loaded) and french fries was my biggest bad meal. Now, maybe once every 4 months I have this meal. I don't crave it, because I actually enjoy the taste of chicken, broccoli, greenbeans, fresh pasta, eggs, Oat bread, strawberries, apples, oranges, grapes and all the nuts and salads. Also, where I live, there is an abundance of Asian noodle restaurants. Believe it or not, one of their bowls is freshly made, flavorful and fills you up! And even though the numbers went up after a bowl, they normalized faster afterwards! No severe drops! I had to develop healthy flavorful alternatives. The taste of sugar free alternatives has improved tremendously over the last 40 years. So, if I really want a cookie, there are plenty of delicious sugar free options. My A1.C ranges from 5.8 to 6.2. I use to check my numbers daily but I stopped due to seeing how high my numbers went. After seeing three, 6 month check in's with my A1.C's around 6.1, I quit checking daily. If I didn't eat anything that would cause my sugar to spike, I didn't need to know my numbers during the day.

And lastly, if you really want to get you numbers under control, simply walk for 15 minutes, 5 days a week. Best results is walking after dinner! Pushes your numbers down, helps you to sleep and digest your meal. I sincerely hopes this helps!

Luckily, beef prices have helped me to eat healthier.

 

[GenMaster]

Luckily, beef prices have helped me to eat healthier.

True!!

 

[JonP_Maine]

Didn't mean to open a can of worms with my post, but I do agree diabetes can be managed, and I've both managed it, and let it slip.

For me, it's a combination of laziness, poorly eating on the run with my work schedule, and reaching a conclusion at 62 that I also want to live a little bit...while I can.

The salads, twigs, nuts, and berries thing gets old fast, and sometimes an open-face cheeseburger becomes a mission.

I, too, would like to see a full time fix, but even more, I'd love to know what started mine in 2014.

I suspect the answers are out there, it's just hard to come to a
concensus....which is fairly typical in the medical field.

In the meantime, it has been extremely helpful having that glucose reading in front of me as much as possible.

Hey there; also 62; also diabetic; also well-controlled. For me the key is low glycemic food choices vs. higher ones. I don't fundamentally stuff my face with the mentioned seeds and berries and basically eat what I want within reason with the strategy in mind e.g. wild rice vs. white rice, densely packed nutrient bread; (seeds and berries) vs. white bread. More water and Crystal light vs. sugar sodas etc. etc. More veggies vs. meat; 8 oz steak and a big salad vs. a 16 oz steak and fries.

Thanks for the post. I'll take a look at this.

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