- 1kg Minced beef (2-3 lbs ground beef)
- One cup chopped celery
- 2 large or 3 medium sliced carrots
- 1 sliced medium to large onion
- 1 can diced tomato
- 3 crushed/minced cloves garlic
- 1 crushed or grated knob of ginger
- 150gm dry weight (4-5 oz) red kidney beans
- 2 tbs paprika
- 1 tbs cumin seeds
- 1 tbs oregano
- 1 quill or 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup beef stock
- Chili to taste. I use 2 or 3 very hot birds-eye from my garden. Use your favourite.
Type 2 Diabetes - A Personal Journey
Ideas based on my personal experiences in learning how to manage type 2 diabetes. I stress that I am a diabetic, not a doctor nor a dietician. I have no medical qualifications beyond my own experience. Nothing written here is intended as medical advice, and any ideas you may decide to use should be discussed first with your doctor.
About Me
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Chili
Saturday, August 14, 2021
How Many Grams of Carbs Per Day Should I Eat?
How many carbs? What are the limits?
Now that the diabetes world has begun to wake up to the fact that type 2 diabetes is a condition of flawed carbohydrate tolerance I see this question repeatedly on forums and reddit. The time has come to make a brief but clear statement on that subject.
It is per meal which matters, not per day. Your blood glucose rises and falls after every meal or snack containing carbohydrates. Your blood glucose is not stored up for one big spike at the end of the day.
My meter used at my peak after eating guided me to these personal per meal limits:
- Breakfast: <10gms carb
- Lunch: <15gms carb
- Dinner: 40gms+ carb
- Snacks: the same as the previous meal but not more than 15gm.
But those are just my personal limits. Every type 2 has slightly different levels of insulin resistance, first phase insulin response, levels of fitness, other health problems, signalling flaws for glycogen release, dietary limitations, the list goes on. Therefore your limits will be different to mine.
Discover them using this technique at your peak timing after meals: Test, Review, Adjust
Friday, June 14, 2019
How Does Hyperglycemia Cause Damage And What Can We Do To Avoid It?
- Our bodies have a natural ability to heal most wounds or damage with time.
- Short term blood glucose spikes above high normal (~8 mmol/l or 140 mg/dl) cause immediate damage. The higher the spike, or the longer it is maintained, the worse the damage.
- I believe that damage can be repaired by our body given sufficient time but repeated frequent hyperglycemia can have a cumulative effect if the damage exceeds the body's ability to repair it in time.The body needs periods of normal blood glucose level to repair past harm. Constantly elevated blood glucose levels, even if only slightly above normal, impair the body's normal healing processes.
- I aim to maintain steady blood glucose levels as close as is reasonably possible to non-diabetic.
- Avoiding brief blood glucose spikes is wise but nobody is perfect and they will happen. I aim to minimise their frequency and level.
Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
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