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Hi again group. This is only my second post so please bear with me if
you don't mind.
I tried the Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich advertised on tv.
It is a whole grain english muffin with a turkey sausage patty, a
slice
of american cheese and one egg white. Carbs are 30 grams with 2 grams
fiber.
Anyhow I tested about 1 hour after and was 177 mgdl. I freaked out.
I was dx'd in Oct. '07 and am on 32 units of Lantus at bedtime. No
oral
meds due to liver damage. I need some encouragement 'cause in all
honesty this disease is giving me a run for my money.
I try to follow a low carb diet but I don't exercise or test enough.
I'm
a lazy old bachelor of 61! Sorry for the long post and TIA for your
help..
I love this group and lurk daily.
OPE
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A lot of people, me included, can't have a lot of carbs in the morning
without spiking. I usually have a couple of eggs (or if you prefer an
egg white omelet) with a bit of chopped up ham, cheese, leftover
veggies etc., stirred into it. Something like that works much better
for me. Later in the day, I can handle carbs better without spiking,
but your meter will tell you what and when you can handle best.
Welcome, and best to you.

Cheri

.
My granddaughter bought me some of those, they were ok but not as good as
home made.

It is easy to fry up an egg, warm a piece of frozen/cooked sausage and put
it on a toasted English muffin with a slice of cheese. Tastes 1000% better
and costs a lot less too. The English muffins I get have a little over 50
carbs each. Using the light muffins would reduce the carbs. I inject 13
units of Novolog before eating, YMMV.

I'm a lazy old widower of 71. I don't exercise at all because of a bad back
but I do test a lot. I'm a T2 but use insulin like a T1. This allows me to
eat more carbs without high spikes. I know it would be better to eat lower
carbs, more vegetables, etc., but I'm already 71, so what's the use. At this
stage, quality of life is more important to me than quantity

Anon

You might test it without the muffin.  Bread is usually something worth
cutting down on, especially at breakfast.

Some sausages are also worth cutting down on; you might want to check
the list of ingredients to see if there are any likely to include carbs.

If you haven't seen this web site yet, it's often recommended to the new
diabetics who come here:

http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/NewlyDiagnosed.htm

Don't dispair.  This is all part of the learning process.

There are a couple of possibilities here. 1.)  Some people's bodies--and I'm
one of them--don't seem to differentiate much between "whole grains" and
"refined grains".  Treats them all as a fast carb.  That may be what
happened to you.  2.) With the low fiber count, I have to wonder if what you
ate was truly "whole grain".  I'm not sure how they get around it, but it
seems to me a lot of things labeled "whole grain" really aren't.

You know, you could make the same thing at home--easy peasy.  First off, I'd
cook a whole lot of sausage patties, and store them in the freezer for easy
microwaving.  Then I'd use a low carb tortilla (I eat Mission brand) instead
of bread or an English muffin.  (However, with some careful sleuthing
reading labels at the grocery store, you might be able to find some bread or
muffins that are less carby and more fibery--is fibery a word?)  Microwave
an egg (the yolk won't hurt you and is chock full of great nutrients) in a
bowl.  Microwave your already cooked sausage patty.  Slap on a piece of
cheese--whatever full fat flavor you like--and you're good to go.

Sorry but a whole grain English muffin is hardly low carb.  Then again, 177
is not really something to freak about.  Too high, yes, but not massively
too high.

Ope, just cut out carbs at breakfast for the time being. That is when you
are most insulin resistance. Things improve generally as the day goes on.You
won't necessarily have to follow a low carb diet, just a low carb breakfast.

That was the only thing I could buy that looked even close
to acceptable on the DC-NYC Amtrak at 5 am.

I'm glad I didn't test now.

I kept the ingredients label, which I didn't read until
after I ate it (too hungry:-). On the surface it looks like
a simple small muffin with a sausage patty and an egg and
cheese.

When I read this I couldn't believe it. How did they fit all
this in such a small package?

"Ingredients:

MUFFIN:
Enriched bleached flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley
flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, [vit B1],
riboflavin [vit B2], folic acid) Yeast. Contains 2% or less
of each of the following: yellow degerminated cornflour,
yellow degerminated cornmeal, salt, wheat gluten, dextrose,
high fructose corn syrup, calcium sulfate, calcium
proponate, and potassium sorbate (preservatives) natural
fermented sour, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, fumaric
acid, soy flour, distilled vinegar, artificial and natural
flavours, monocalcium phosphate, ascorbic acid added as a
dough conditioner, calcium peroxide, enzymes.

EGG PATTY:
whole eggs, water, soybean oil, nonfat dry milk, modified
food starch, salt, xantham gum, natural and artificial
butter flavor (butter, cream, milk, partially hydrogenated
soybean and cottonseed oil, soybean oil, lipolyzed butter,
natural and artificial flavours), citric acid.

HAM WATER ADDED
Cured with water, dextrose, salt, sodium lactate, sugar,
sodium phosphate, sodium duacetate, sodium erythrordate,
sodium nitrate

PASTEURIZED PROCESS CHEDDAR CHEESE
cultured milk, water, cream, sodium phosphate, salt, sorbic
acid (preservative), vegetable color (annatio and paprika
extract) enzymes

Contains egg, milk, soy, wheat."

Simply amazing. Never, ever again.

This morning I cooked an omelette. Two eggs, two sliced
mushrooms, half an onion, a slice of double smoked ham.

Maybe the ham had some of those things in it's curing
agents, but the rest were as they came from nature.

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg
Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.
--
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com
Latest:Is Testing Worthwhile?
and Cambodia
http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/2008/03/cambodia.html

That's about double the carbs I can tolerate in the morning.

Hi Ope, Sounds to me like that English muffin is what hammered ya. I'm a
lazier old married man of 73 and I keep screwing up too! Test often and
keep notes.

Would encourage you to be smarter by eating less, down to the right
amount:

http://HeartMDPhD.com/BeSmart

Here is a simple parable given in hopes of promoting much greater
understanding:

http://HeartMDPhD.com/Parable

Life in industrialized countries is life in blessed feedlots.

Laus Deo

http://HeartMDPhD.com/LausDeo

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