Your Doctor should have explained it or his dietitian, call them and ask them to help or for a book on Carbs.

Most Doctors tell to you stick to a certain calorie diet.

If none of these look on line there are many sites for Diabetes 101.

I have a similar problem. If I wait too long to eat my liver starts pumping out glucose. I think it is actually called something else. But my bs numbers can go high. I may eat a big breakfast and not be hungry all afternoon. I am trying to gain more portion control and I have found my higher numbers were often from those times i had gone too long without eating. For me often my late afternoon bs numbers will be higher those times I don't eat. And lower if I at least have a couple of healthy snacks> I guess that slows down the live from pumping the sugar. Hope that makes sense.

My suggestion is to go see a dietitian. They can best help you plan your diet; what to eat and when, and tailor it to your needs. It should include 3 meals a day including a mid-morning, afternoon , and evening snack to keep your BS from spiking or dropping. It gets easier over time and it doesn't mean bland boring meals. My dietitian wrote out a whole plan and suggestions for meals and snacks.

I agree with others here; you need to have a good plan of eating healthy, proper foods, in the proper portions, and the proper times of day. It is recommended to have 3 meals, plus one or two snacks a day. You should probably go to a diabetes educator and have them put together a healthy food plan for you.

Along with proper meds, you can keep your diabetes in control. I'm not saying it is easy, especially with all the junk food available in our society. But if you are determined to fight this battle, you can do very well.

welcome....ok remember it is a healthy diet you want, not fried greasy foods, stay away from the white breads, pasta, potatoes, rice. These items have starches which can hold the numbers up longer and higher, same as the fried items.

Learn to read a food label, watch the carbs and portion control sizes ( carbs are sugars called complex and these are our problems. Most of us average about 35-45 carbs per meal and around 20 for a snack and do fine. Exercise is important also. try to get some each day if possible.

In time that hungerness will go away once the numbers come down to normal ranges, drink water when you get that urge.

Have the doctor refer you to a dietician to help, you don't have to obey everything they say, they also have different ideas. You can go to a pharmacy and they can show you how to use the meter, etc if you can't get the doctor's office/nurse to help you. it takes time, but you will get better. most of us test about 2-3 times a day, usually in the morning before breakfast, late at night, and then rotate one 2 hours after a meal, maybe breakfast, then lunch, then dinner.

Ask questions, keep asking until you do understand, keep notes on questions you want the doctor to answer or even us, read, know that knowledge is power and only you can take this and control it and it can be...

From what I can tell a diabetic diet is very much like a high protein and low carb diet. Not a 'no carb' diet -- that never works. I use the website myfitnesspal.com to keep track of my calories and carbs. I plan out my meals and enter it into the web site and try to keep the carbs under 150 for the day.

I eat Atkins diet snacks...I like them...high protein generally no sugar. My favorite is the Triple Chocolate treat. I also drink Atkins high protein milk shakes...yum......and no sugar.

I wlll eat something whenever I'm hungry. Still I have lost weight.

Hello and welcome! I'm new with T2 since January. I reccomend seeing a diabetic certified dietician. They will be a huge help! The website diabetes.org is helpful also. You should be able to poke around their site for info on the different types of foods. Good luck!

Thank you guys for all the advice ,

I have to see if I can't find an affordable dietician though now I am having the problem of my suger keeps dropping and I am scared to sleep for too long because I wake up shaking and sweating. I have been eating as healthy as possible.

I had one day where I ran out of oranges and when I was sweat shaking I had 6 Oreos , a brownie and half a peanutbutter sandwhich to pull my suger up to 101.

My temperature is running around 96 degrees which isn't normal for me ether...

I exersise usually two miles a day to every other day unless I feel sick and wake up shaking. The day I had the oreo's i hadn't exersised.

I am fairly new to this as well. My Endo (which I do not have anymore, he moved away) set me up with his dietician who was retiring at the end of the week.

Our "conversation" did not last long. She said "You're old enough to know about carbs, right? Good, I will make this short, I am retiring this week; here are the very basics and some reading material. Bye."

My diabetes is still unchecked. I found a new Endo and a new PCP. I hope to find a medication or insulin I can tolerate. I sure feel rotten as of two years ago.

I was just diagnosed last week and am still learning. I had to pitch a number of needles and test strips because I was putting them in backwards (duh), then I screwed up test strips with my wet alcohol hands, I was taking 20 minutes to get one stick, yada yada yada.
I'm hoping reading these posts will help me calm down and eliminate many of the issues FaireFae and I are both experiencing.
The meter showed 455 (no, that's not a typo) when I was first diagnosed. I'm showing about 180 at the morning fast now, and still in the 2's for the evening.
Still waffling on what to eat.

You don't need alcohol to do your finger sticks. Simply washing your hands with soap and water is all you need. If you don't let the alcohol dry totally it can mess your readings up.. Shooting insulin however, alcohol is warranted.

I never use alcohol after speaking to my dr and being told just a simple hand washing will suffice. The reason hospitals and dr offices use alcohol is because you've touched all sorts of things before they test, and it's where sick folks are... So alcohol is warranted in those places.

Here's an article about it:

http://www.diabeticconnect.com/diabetes-discussions/general/15748-skip-the-alcohol-swab

check with your pharmacy also, they can help you learn to test if your doctor/nurse does not show you