never skip meals! eating 6 times a day is more like it!!!! did you only have the bread? carbs with no protein will do it. next time try an egg or 2 and 1 piece of whole wheat toast. I bet it will be better.

I get into this scenario from time to time and realize I haven't been doing my daily exersize, i.e., walking 30 to 40 minutes per day. I try to walk five or six days a week. If I miss walking four or five days I find myself in a situation that you describe.

Hey Ray, how soon after your breakfast did you take your measurement? Also, I really think that you need to establish a baseline for how your body behaves. It is hard to compare one number only and I think it is a lot better to hold off a wee bit before going into panic mode. You may also be getting a bit of a bump from the dawn effect which can happen a while you sleep. Ray, if you have a chance, give my website a try, it is entirely free and all you have to do is to register and you can start logging your numbers there. The website is at http://pcmdr.ca and you can also access it with your cell phone or your computer. We are in the middle of making some changes to it and we will be adding a food monitoring log as well as an exercise log. Also, don't forget that the medication will take a wee bit to really start working in your body, I have been told that it can take 2-3 weeks for the meds to really start to behave as expected. Please, don't lose heart, it took a while for you to become a diabetic and it will take a while for you to get it under control.

You have taken huge steps already, so you are doing pretty well, sir, just be a wee bit patient, it will become easier and pretty soon, you will be an expert on this disease! Besides, we are all cheering for you! All of us here, my friend.

cheers,

lary

Thanks so muc for all of your help can you guys tell me what kind of wheat bread you take in morning

No bread for me..
Skipping meals is a no-no!
The exercise is a yes-yes!
On losing weight , maybe one pound per week is OK - this depends on many things..
Excellent advice here at Our Daily Strength.

I AM NEARLY STARVING MYSELF IN MY QUEST TO LOOSE WEIGHT .

Ray, starving yourself to lose weight is dangerous on many levels! Diabetics need at the very minimum, 3 balanced meals a day. Some divide those into 6 small meals a day.
When you don't eat your pancreas decide you and your muscles need sugar/energy so it dumps extra glucose into the blood stream and your numbers go up.At least I think that's how it goes.
Another thing, if you don't feed your body your weight will come off slower because your body goes into starvation mode and hangs onto any extra fat it can. You need energy to burn fat and that energy comes from proper nutrition.
Here is what I learned at a diabetes education class. You take an ordinary size plate,( no super sized plates) and you fill half of it with veggies. Then on the other half you fill 1/4 carbs and 1/4 lean protein.
Eat a well balanced meal then go for a brisk walk, or do some sort of exercise that gets youer heart rate up and makes you break a sweat. The weight WILL come off.

Ray, if you lose the weight too quickly, it will come back. Also, Ray, just because you lose the weight doesn't mean that you will no longer be a diabetic. What the doctors and diabetic educators are trying to do, as well as all of us here is to tell you, yes, you have a disease and yes, you will always have to be careful. If you can bring your blood glucose into more "normal" control then you can, every once in a while, have some of the "treats" you used to have. Unfortunately, if you go back to eating like you used to, then the problem will come back, probably with other repercussions. Yes it sucks but do this right okay? So you don't get frustrated.

Look, I am a good example, because I did not want to accept the fact that I was diabetic, I ignored it for 9 years. I did nothing to change my eating habits, I did nothing to monitor my BG I wanted to think that I could go merrily along with no issues. Well, it bit me in the butt bigtime. Manohman you have a chance to fix this before they start to cut off body parts. You know what it took for me? I had to lie there in a hospital wondering whether KI was only going to lose a part of my foot or if I was going to lose the whole leg! Thankfully, I only lost about half of my left foot! That summer, I had toi learn how to walk again three times. I remember looking at the 4 steps they had in the physio lab and being told that I had to be able to do those steps 4 times to get let out of the hospital. It took me weeks. That first day, the day after my surgery, I spent more than 6 hours in the gym and I don't mind saying that I cried more that day than I have ever cried.

I learned that the amputation of my foot was caused because I did not do the things I needed to do to adapt to being a diabetic. Eat your meals Ray, but start to make your choices so that you are not ignoring the fact that you have diabetes. Eat healthier food or find substitutes for the things that you enjoyed so much. Go to the website dlife.com they have a fantastic recipe section there and see what they suggest there for snacks and meals. Ray, people want to help but no one ever said it was going to happen instantly. You can do all of this and there are literally millions of diabetics doing this daily. We are here to help but people are making suggestions and you have to take some of them to heart.

Sorry if I am beating up on you a bit but you are just starting on this road, and no matter what, you will always have to be careful with how you eat and keep exercising. I really think that you need to talk to the dietician and the nutritionist at your diabetic education centre and tell your family doctor that you need some help with this. That is what they are there for.

Now, let me fold up my little soapbox and say, don't stop Ray, you can do this okay?

lary

morning fastings are hard to control at times. Instead of the apple, try some greek yougart, the high protein will help control, even a snack of some peanut butter on celery..but try to go for protein snacks in the evening, see if that helps