Ooooh Mez, sorry about your diagnosis. When you go to your appointment at the Diabetic clinic, the specialist nurse will help you out with your blood sugar testing and diet. She/he may arrange for you to see the dietician.
You don't need a special diet for type 2 diabetes, you just need to eat healthily, meat, fish, veggies, fruit etc and cut down a bit on cakes, biscuits, alcohol, fizzy pop, chocolate. Reduce the amount of spuds, pasta etc in your meals and replace it with veg. Once you have some control of your sugars you can have the occasional treat. My gran has good control and hasn't made any drastic changes, just a few small ones and she still enjoys the occasional cake or 3..
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