I did blood tests a lot when I went on it about 14 weeks ago and my detailed record will not post properly but here is a precis it was done while coming off insulin from 130 units per day now I am on zero insulin.
1/4/2014 1 am 5.9 5.30 am 6.6 6.30 am 5.6 10.30 am 7.2 6 pm 9.1 8,30.pm 6.9 10.30 pm 5.9
2/4/2014 2.30 am 5.4 7.30 am 7.5 12 30 pm 5.8 6 pm 7.8 9 pm 9.6
At this point I was down from 130 total units of insulin per day to 16 units and because of the 9 pm 9.6 I took another 6 units of novarapid. insulin.
I did not record meal times but they are mostly to see what I needed to Jab = with meals.
The last readings on my meter are
6.9 8.9 5.8 7.7 8.3 7.9 6.4 5.8
After 3 months on lo-carb my Hb1C was 6.3 and previously with insulin it was 6.9 7.0 7.0 7.0
What I eat now is a wide range of tasty foods but when I started I tried to find what level of carbs I could tolerate (what sent me high) Breakfast was diet jelly and a small serve of Kellogs all bran or bacon and eggs or leftovers and even home made soup and flat bread.. Lunch was salad with tinned fish or ham. Dinner varied but we had a lot of stir fries and BBQs But no potato pumpkin and zucchini instead, no rice, no noodles no bread. I made flat bread and cup cakes from 1/3 wheat flour and 2/3 nut flour and chocolate rum balls from almond flour. I had 1 or 2 pieces of fruit and I got through a lot of nuts.
My idea now is to make it fun and sustainable and the slower my weight loss the better. I like to make it easy too every second day I make cupcakes with filling in them like sweetened mixed berries so I use an electric pie maker and for the flat bread I use an electric sandwich press and we have just bought and not used yet a slow cooking pot because we have found some great lo carb recipes and cooked them on our stove. (a lot of wasted power slow cooking on a stove)
Sometimes we have crumbed frozen chicken or sausage (no fat) cooked in the flat sandwich press with veg cooked in the microwave.
I have always par cooked veg in the microwave so they BBQ in the same time as the meat.
Occasionally we have corned beef and last time we made fritters with the left over meat using nut flour but usually we do this one It tastes brilliant.
I mash tinned baked beans and mix in lots of curry and peanut butter and ginger and sweetener and add water to a gravy consistency then add the diced corned beef and par cooked chunky cut cabbage. Final cook in the microwave. You will be surprised how easy it is and there is no hint that there is baked beans in it.
You can do some variants with other cooked meat and onion and any left over veg etc.
The net has lots of meat in slow cooker recipe variants using packet onion soup and tin cream of mushroom (stuff like that) plus diet soda orange or coke so we are going to fiddle about with some . Of course you can add veg to these but not potato or sweet potato.
My son makes this chocolate cake in a soup dish.
- chocolate lovers can enjoy low carb desserts, too! If chocolate is your thing, you can make a low carb, three-minute chocolate cake. In a large glass measuring cup, mix together ¼ cup almond flour, one tablespoon cocoa, ¼ teaspoon baking powder, three tablespoons Splenda, two tablespoons melted butter, one tablespoon water, and one egg. Cover the measuring cup with plastic wrap, cut a small slit in it, and microwave on high for one to two minutes or until the cake looks set but still moist. If you enjoyed this, try out our other low carb cake options or our advice on low carb brownies!
I hope that works for you.
