Diagnosed as “pre-diabetic” on Friday… Had this steak and ale pie in the pipeline already so here’s to the last day before I radically change my eating habits 🙃😅
2025-01-29
Any suggestions for diabetic friendly cooking beyond "eat a salad" would be much appreciated! 🙏🏿👍🏿
Better eat as much chocolate as you can before the diabetes fully takes over. I’m pretty sure that’s how it works.
I’d consult some blogs for healthy eating recipes and tips.
Download an app to start tracking what you eat so you can see how much sugar and carbs you’re consuming each day. Focus on lean protein, non starchy veggies, and complex carbs. Fiber, too!
And exercise daily, even if it’s a walk. Try for 15 mins a day and go up from there.
Cunt pie – two words that mean the same thing. Good luck fighting off debeties!
See you next Tuesday?
Have they offered you the Diabetes Prevention course? I found it pretty useful.
I saw something on reddit somewhere about a study into cinnamon helping with pre-diabetes. It stuck in my head because my boss had just said he’d been told he was pre diabetic. When I informed him, he told me to fuck off.
Low GI! Suddenly fat isn’t so bad after all, compared to things like white bread, white rice and potatoes. You can still have the steak but not the pastry.
(Not an expert, also pre-diabetic and trying to find an eating plan myself)
😂 I did something similar the day before i got my coeliac disease diagnosis, maccys for breakfast, a cheeky burger king for dinner, and dominos for tea. I felt awful from the massive gluten intake, but it was good at the time!
Good luck!.. I received a phone call 7 years ago, while I was holding 2 jaffa cakes in my hand, to tell me my HbA1c was 104 mmol/mol (11.7%). I had blown right past pre-diabetic straight to “Why haven’t you been hospitalised with Diabetic ketoacidosis”. I was late 30s, 5″ 9′ male with a 29″ waist at the time.. my BMI was great actually. Straight to irreversible Type 2 diabetes.
So – make sure if they prescribe you metformin to get the slow release kind (less side effects). Ditch white bread, and generally try to change your meals so they are less ‘carb’ focused, and more vegetable and salad orientated. My dinner tonight was air-fryed boneless chicken thighs with Italian seasoning, salad with sundried tomatoes and mozzarella cheese balls. With a 0 sugar salad dressing.
Bread, pasta and chips are now your enemy. Eat them in limited amounts, but you don’t have to cut it out completely.
Check out the no-added sugar Oreos in Tesco if you’re looking for snackage.
Good luck dude
Generally you’re going to want to get away from carbohydrates. You don’t have to eliminate them, but excess insulin from too much carbohydrate consumption is the primary cause of Pre-Diabetes/Type 2 diabetes.
Intermittent fasting is something worth looking into.
Things to include High glycemic index foods. In terms of carbs for this, you want more fiber. Think brown bread, beans and legumes, vegetables, many fruits.
Incorporating more healthy fats and proteins is pretty key.
Good luck! there are so many good low carbs recipes out there!
Check out the glucose goddess on socials for hacks and tips on how to reduce blood sugar with food swaps.
Remember that low carb and low sugar aren’t the same thing.
It has to be sustainable – you can still have a bit of pie (or whatever), just have a smaller portion with some veggies.
If you’re able to afford it, I’d look into the GLP-1 drugs (wegovy/mounjaro) and use them while sorting out your diet/lifestyie.
Two things I’ve learned since living with diabetes. No sugar treats are not worth it. They are all laxatives. Sweet potatoes, chickpeas and spinach may rule your life
As someone who got zero advice when I was pre-diabetic and ended up diabetic:
– If you’re overweight, restrict your calories to around 1200 and get as much weight off as you can relatively quickly
– Go low carb. No rice, pasta, potatoes, or pastry and no sugary treats of any kind
Do those things for 12 weeks and you’ll probably be OK. DO NOT LET IT GET TO DIABETES if you can help it. It fucking sucks.
This pie is amazing! Reminds me of the cock pie I made!
I’ve lost about 3st in a year just by cutting out Ultra Processed Food (UPF) “treats”: supermarket cakes, biscuits, ice cream, desserts, sweetened yogurts, confectionary, savoury snacks, and reducing my consumption of alcohol, pizza, takeaways, and ready meals. I still adore myself occasional treats from a baker or gelateria. I try to walk at least 5000 steps per day, and consciously eat more fruit and salad, and drink more water. I weigh my portions of starchy carbohydrates (100g dry pasta, 70g dry rice, 140g potato/oven chips). My meals haven’t really needed to change: I can still have the occasional steak or burger, or lasagne, or roast dinner. But I do try to eat fish or seafood for least two meals each week.
Not sure a Cunt pie is top choice for your last meal, but each to his own.
Cauliflower rice. My mum was prediabetic for about a week before becoming actual diabetic so she had no chance, her mismanagement of her diet (adhd!) is making it really really difficult to control symptoms. My only advice would be to take it seriously, you’re playing with your life (and feet) if you don’t
I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic before covid, but went for a test last year as I reckoned I’d be full bhoona Type 2 by now, but for some reason I’m not even pre-diabetic now.
It’s probably down to the fact that takeaways are so fucking expensive that I rarely buy any, and me buying an aIr fRYeR. (Those are the only two significant changes I’ve made to my lifestyle.)
Good luck, friend. I was diagnosed 2 years ago, and now I’m all good! It’s assumed that’s it’s all chocolate and bread (they obviously aren’t good), but it’s “healthy” things, too. I stopped drinking my morning smoothie and eating bananas. It helped a lot!
Why can’t you still eat pie? I thought it was just sugary stuff you have to cut out? Fs I’m probably pre diabetic too with all the crap I’ve been eating for the last 20 years
As someone whose mum passed away from diabetes related renal failure, I promise it is no way to go. Anybody reading this that has diabetes run in their family or if you’ve been abusing your body for a long while, please get yourself checked out. It is so important, and can be done with a quick blood test. The earlier you catch it, the better chance you have to reverse it. And if you are struggling to implement the lifestyle changes, there is help out there for that too.
Good on you for taking the steps necessary to get yourself right. You’ll have days that you slip up, it happens, but stick to your diet and you’ll kick shit out of that diabetes. Good luck!!
Got my diagnosis a few weeks ago. My blood is basically a strawberry milkshake. Enjoy the pie for me!
In the pie-pline.
I was at 44mmol May last year. Remove sugar and starchy food like potatoes, rice and beans from your diet (bananas too:(). No bread. Avoid grapes and peaches. Berries are fine. Beer is a huge no. Even 0%. Same GI for both. Lots of fiber and veggies. I just add mixed seeds to most of my meals now. Makes everything crunchy and nice to eat. Diet based in meat and salad can be great. Cheese is allowed:)
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Better eat as much chocolate as you can before the diabetes fully takes over. I’m pretty sure that’s how it works.
I’d consult some blogs for healthy eating recipes and tips.
Download an app to start tracking what you eat so you can see how much sugar and carbs you’re consuming each day. Focus on lean protein, non starchy veggies, and complex carbs. Fiber, too!
And exercise daily, even if it’s a walk. Try for 15 mins a day and go up from there.
Cunt pie – two words that mean the same thing. Good luck fighting off debeties!
See you next Tuesday?
Have they offered you the Diabetes Prevention course? I found it pretty useful.
I saw something on reddit somewhere about a study into cinnamon helping with pre-diabetes. It stuck in my head because my boss had just said he’d been told he was pre diabetic. When I informed him, he told me to fuck off.
Low GI! Suddenly fat isn’t so bad after all, compared to things like white bread, white rice and potatoes. You can still have the steak but not the pastry.
(Not an expert, also pre-diabetic and trying to find an eating plan myself)
😂 I did something similar the day before i got my coeliac disease diagnosis, maccys for breakfast, a cheeky burger king for dinner, and dominos for tea. I felt awful from the massive gluten intake, but it was good at the time!
Good luck!.. I received a phone call 7 years ago, while I was holding 2 jaffa cakes in my hand, to tell me my HbA1c was 104 mmol/mol (11.7%). I had blown right past pre-diabetic straight to “Why haven’t you been hospitalised with Diabetic ketoacidosis”. I was late 30s, 5″ 9′ male with a 29″ waist at the time.. my BMI was great actually. Straight to irreversible Type 2 diabetes.
So – make sure if they prescribe you metformin to get the slow release kind (less side effects). Ditch white bread, and generally try to change your meals so they are less ‘carb’ focused, and more vegetable and salad orientated. My dinner tonight was air-fryed boneless chicken thighs with Italian seasoning, salad with sundried tomatoes and mozzarella cheese balls. With a 0 sugar salad dressing.
Bread, pasta and chips are now your enemy. Eat them in limited amounts, but you don’t have to cut it out completely.
Check out the no-added sugar Oreos in Tesco if you’re looking for snackage.
Good luck dude
Generally you’re going to want to get away from carbohydrates. You don’t have to eliminate them, but excess insulin from too much carbohydrate consumption is the primary cause of Pre-Diabetes/Type 2 diabetes.
Intermittent fasting is something worth looking into.
Things so avoid – foods high on the [glycemic index](https://universityhealthnews.com/daily/nutrition/glycemic-index-chart/) (sugary snacks, white bread for example). Also Alcohol.
Things to include High glycemic index foods. In terms of carbs for this, you want more fiber. Think brown bread, beans and legumes, vegetables, many fruits.
Incorporating more healthy fats and proteins is pretty key.
Good luck! there are so many good low carbs recipes out there!
Check out the glucose goddess on socials for hacks and tips on how to reduce blood sugar with food swaps.
Remember that low carb and low sugar aren’t the same thing.
This is a favourite dish of mine https://kaseytrenum.com/one-skillet-chicken-asparagus-recipe-ketolow-carb-friendly/ There are other good recipes on the site too.
And here’s one for a pastry to try with your next pie https://www.wholesomeyum.com/recipes/almond-flour-pie-crust-recipe-paleo-low-carb-gluten-free/
It has to be sustainable – you can still have a bit of pie (or whatever), just have a smaller portion with some veggies.
If you’re able to afford it, I’d look into the GLP-1 drugs (wegovy/mounjaro) and use them while sorting out your diet/lifestyie.
Two things I’ve learned since living with diabetes. No sugar treats are not worth it. They are all laxatives. Sweet potatoes, chickpeas and spinach may rule your life
As someone who got zero advice when I was pre-diabetic and ended up diabetic:
– If you’re overweight, restrict your calories to around 1200 and get as much weight off as you can relatively quickly
– Go low carb. No rice, pasta, potatoes, or pastry and no sugary treats of any kind
Do those things for 12 weeks and you’ll probably be OK. DO NOT LET IT GET TO DIABETES if you can help it. It fucking sucks.
This pie is amazing! Reminds me of the cock pie I made!
Keep it filthy peaple!
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I’ve lost about 3st in a year just by cutting out Ultra Processed Food (UPF) “treats”: supermarket cakes, biscuits, ice cream, desserts, sweetened yogurts, confectionary, savoury snacks, and reducing my consumption of alcohol, pizza, takeaways, and ready meals. I still adore myself occasional treats from a baker or gelateria. I try to walk at least 5000 steps per day, and consciously eat more fruit and salad, and drink more water. I weigh my portions of starchy carbohydrates (100g dry pasta, 70g dry rice, 140g potato/oven chips). My meals haven’t really needed to change: I can still have the occasional steak or burger, or lasagne, or roast dinner. But I do try to eat fish or seafood for least two meals each week.
Not sure a Cunt pie is top choice for your last meal, but each to his own.
Cauliflower rice. My mum was prediabetic for about a week before becoming actual diabetic so she had no chance, her mismanagement of her diet (adhd!) is making it really really difficult to control symptoms. My only advice would be to take it seriously, you’re playing with your life (and feet) if you don’t
I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic before covid, but went for a test last year as I reckoned I’d be full bhoona Type 2 by now, but for some reason I’m not even pre-diabetic now.
It’s probably down to the fact that takeaways are so fucking expensive that I rarely buy any, and me buying an aIr fRYeR. (Those are the only two significant changes I’ve made to my lifestyle.)
Good luck, friend. I was diagnosed 2 years ago, and now I’m all good! It’s assumed that’s it’s all chocolate and bread (they obviously aren’t good), but it’s “healthy” things, too. I stopped drinking my morning smoothie and eating bananas. It helped a lot!
Why can’t you still eat pie? I thought it was just sugary stuff you have to cut out? Fs I’m probably pre diabetic too with all the crap I’ve been eating for the last 20 years
As someone whose mum passed away from diabetes related renal failure, I promise it is no way to go. Anybody reading this that has diabetes run in their family or if you’ve been abusing your body for a long while, please get yourself checked out. It is so important, and can be done with a quick blood test. The earlier you catch it, the better chance you have to reverse it. And if you are struggling to implement the lifestyle changes, there is help out there for that too.
Good on you for taking the steps necessary to get yourself right. You’ll have days that you slip up, it happens, but stick to your diet and you’ll kick shit out of that diabetes. Good luck!!
Got my diagnosis a few weeks ago. My blood is basically a strawberry milkshake. Enjoy the pie for me!
In the pie-pline.
I was at 44mmol May last year. Remove sugar and starchy food like potatoes, rice and beans from your diet (bananas too:(). No bread. Avoid grapes and peaches. Berries are fine. Beer is a huge no. Even 0%. Same GI for both. Lots of fiber and veggies. I just add mixed seeds to most of my meals now. Makes everything crunchy and nice to eat. Diet based in meat and salad can be great. Cheese is allowed:)
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