cool, it has worked great for me.....
ok the basic idea is that carbs turn into glucose, therefore we try to keep them to a minimum, everyone has a different idea as to how many carbs they can and should eat, this is where the testing comes in, if you test before and after your meal you can see if what you are eating is pushing up your blood glucose, your not a million miles away with what your eating, the breakfast yogurt should be full fat, 2 reasons for this are the low fat ones tends to contain sugar, when they take out the fat things tends to taste awful so they add sugar to compensate, so full fat yogurt with berries is great for brekkie, also the fat satiates you so you wont be as hungry as often, but again worth testing in case this dosent agree with you bg, other alternatives would be eggs and bacon, sauages etc, basically any meat is low carb, eggs are great too, the chicken salad is terrific, the sandwich not so good because bread is awfully carbolicious and should really be cut out altogether, any fruit apart from berries tends to be too carby for many, so testing is important here too, better to have some nuts, id avoid slimming world meals if they are ready made, anything ready made tends to be rubbish, this is generalising it may be fine i have no idea whats in it, so meats cheese, eggs, nuts, lots of above ground grown veg, lots of salad, avoid bread, rice, pasta and potatoes, things like cauliflower mash instead of potatoes, i have leaks with chinese five spice with my bolognaise, there are a gazillion different low carb recipes on the forum and the net id suggest having a read through them, how low you need to go will depend on the testing, how you get to your number is again another choice, you could either start low 30g ish and slowly up your carbs after a while and see how your blood tests go or work your way down slowly like i did and see how you go that way
its weird at first but the results for most are amazing, im a huge fan of lchf so im totally biased therefore eveything ive said is my opinion, if you read through the forum you will see different opinions so you will have to decide which way you think is best, but i would suggest trying it, to see how well you will feel and how good your numbers can be
its a huge subject and dont know what you already know so ill stop rambling, please ask any specific questions you have
