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Dad put his longevity down to eating a good diet (67 years a diabetic ).
When he was first diagnosed and in hospital they put him on a diet of cabbage water for a week he was so hungry he gave the chap in the next bed 6pence for the fat he had left on the side of his plate .

He started every day with porridge, he almost never ate 'simple' carbohydrates so that meant no cakes/sweet biscuits/sweets. The sugars he ate came from fruit. He could however eat bread and potatoes . He was a bit naughty at Christmas and had a day off


ETA I am making this post in the hope that it will give encouragement to diabetics and prove that diabetics like the rest of us can have a long and healthy life

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We tried it TBH it wasn't for us we felt, prefer to go down the no sugar route with squash made with artificial sweeteners like aspartame.

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I was diagnosed with Type II about four years ago, or it could have been five, anyway, apart from the initial high blood sugar (which was too high for the little meters at the surgery) which saw me admitted to hospital and on a drip for 48 hours, my sugar has remained around the 4-7 mark, and as 6 is considered to be the norm, I feel quite complacent.

I will be honest, I have actually not altered my diet much at all. I have always used sweeteners as have been on a perpetual diet almost all my adult life. I do not have all that much of a sweet tooth. I have the occasional biscuit with my cuppa at night, and sometimes a cake or slice of cake with my morning coffee. I have days when I eat very little at all, and others when I have a big dinner. I rarely have much for lunch, and when I do it is usually soup and roll, or soup and sandwich. (okay, I know I had a pasty today, but that was exception), I do take three metformin a day, and that is about it.

So whatever am doing, I must be doing something right hey??

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Hi Julie,

What would have been my calorie intake for today. I had:

Bran Flakes with Soya Milk. Tea.
Ham Roll. Water.
Gammon, 2 Pots., Carrots, Brocolli, Tea.

Sue xx

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The thing is, SusieJaeger, there is really no way to calculate your calorific intake without weight/volume measurements. After All you could have had as few as 50 gm of the bran flakes, or as many as 200! 2 tiny new pots, or 2 huge boiled ones, how much ham in the roll? how big was the roll? See the problem?

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I have a slightly different problem for which need suggestions/advice. My three 'outer' toes are curled under, and the second smallest is particularly squashed and consequently I have an almost permanent corn on the outer edge. Before the diagnoses I would simply have used a corn plaster, but now that is a big no no! So anyone have any knowledge as to what to do about corns when one has diabetes?

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I'm sorry daisymay, I can't help you but I hope someone can help or advise you. What does your diabetic nurse suggest?

One of the worse things to set your diabetes haywire is stress.
So the more you worry about your calorie intake, or carbs the less likely you are to get your levels down and on an even keel.
Also, not eating enough is not good for you either, it causes too many lows and gives a false reading. And I read that drinking tea and coffee could lower your diabetes (A BBC article - I'll try and find it)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8411605.stm this wasn't the one I read but it amounts to the same thing.

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Hi Daisymay, yes I understand the problem now. About your toes I have the same problem, on my left foot, the 2nd from the little toe has grown outwards, deformed and my little toe is creeping under it, which forms a hard corn at the side of the toe, which is very painful especially when you put your shoes or slippers on. I did go and see my GP about it, he did call it something, can't remember now and said it's due to my Diabetes and that I should see a specialist at the Hospital, but I haven't done that yet, because I am scared they might say, we will have to amputate your toe. I know they can operate on your toe.

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Interesting reading Janela, but if I drunk 4/5 cups of tea during the day, I would permanently be on the toilet, it's bad enough now that I get up 4 times in the night which really disturbs everyones sleep.

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The thing is SusieJ my feet have been this way almost all my life. Apparently caused by too tight socks as a baby. I actually saw a podiatrist several years ago who said this was probably the cause, and when I queried whether it would be a possibility that my toes could be broken and reset straight I was told no. Just have to put up with it.

Did you know by the way that despite the fact that there are a growing number of people with Type II, and that care of the feet is vital for diabetics, the government has stopped referrals to a podiatrist via the NHS and if you want to see one you have to pay!