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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1544378" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Sorry to hear that, kaylz.</p><p></p><p>The fear of food issue might take some time to sort out, but the weight loss issue is more pressing as a physical problem.</p><p></p><p>At the risk of stating the obvious, you're losing weight because you're burning more calories than you're eating.</p><p></p><p>So, even though you're wary of carbs at the moment, how would you feel about upping your calorie intake by eating more fat? Fat has twice the energy in it of carbs. Olives, nuts, avocados, bacon, mackerel, all high fat high calories so might help put weight on without you having to worry about carb content throwing readings out.</p><p></p><p>Or have you ever tried sprinkling some soy sauce over sunflower seeds and then toasting them under a grill? Sunflower seeds are mainly fat but also packed with minerals - very healthy and a good way of making up the sort of stuff you might be missing out on. I quite often grill a small bowl of them to snack on while watching a film.</p><p></p><p>Longer term, I'm not a low carber by any means, but it's relatively easy to have a decent meal that's not going to pose any major swing problems. For example, nice bowl of chicken broth full of veg, say, 20 or 25g maybe a slice of buttered toast to dip in it, say 15g the barley in the broth breaks down relatively slowly, the butter mitigates things too, followed up by some lamb chops with the fat on, then 200g of blackberries works out at, wait for it, a mere 10g, (and they're in season here too in Scotland!). None of that is going to mess with levels too much.</p><p></p><p>You've been dx'd relatively recently, so, although it's understandable that you're cautious about keeping stable levels, you still have plenty of room for making errors without anything bad happening to you. While it's never nice going out of range, complications tend to become an issue mainly when people just ignore levels for extended periods and we're talking months/years here - you'd be surprised by the number of people who run around at 15 to 20 for weeks on end. It doesn't sound to me like you're going to do that, but you've taken it to the other extreme. One approach might be for you to work through a range of foods and see which ones work for you. If some are unpredictable and you end up on a flyer in the teens, well, that's not a disaster - you've simply done a bit of experimentation, figured out that one doesn't work for you so scratch it off your list. The occasional flyer in the teens while working out which foods work really doesn't matter in the long term.</p><p></p><p>Best of luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1544378, member: 374531"] Sorry to hear that, kaylz. The fear of food issue might take some time to sort out, but the weight loss issue is more pressing as a physical problem. At the risk of stating the obvious, you're losing weight because you're burning more calories than you're eating. So, even though you're wary of carbs at the moment, how would you feel about upping your calorie intake by eating more fat? Fat has twice the energy in it of carbs. Olives, nuts, avocados, bacon, mackerel, all high fat high calories so might help put weight on without you having to worry about carb content throwing readings out. Or have you ever tried sprinkling some soy sauce over sunflower seeds and then toasting them under a grill? Sunflower seeds are mainly fat but also packed with minerals - very healthy and a good way of making up the sort of stuff you might be missing out on. I quite often grill a small bowl of them to snack on while watching a film. Longer term, I'm not a low carber by any means, but it's relatively easy to have a decent meal that's not going to pose any major swing problems. For example, nice bowl of chicken broth full of veg, say, 20 or 25g maybe a slice of buttered toast to dip in it, say 15g the barley in the broth breaks down relatively slowly, the butter mitigates things too, followed up by some lamb chops with the fat on, then 200g of blackberries works out at, wait for it, a mere 10g, (and they're in season here too in Scotland!). None of that is going to mess with levels too much. You've been dx'd relatively recently, so, although it's understandable that you're cautious about keeping stable levels, you still have plenty of room for making errors without anything bad happening to you. While it's never nice going out of range, complications tend to become an issue mainly when people just ignore levels for extended periods and we're talking months/years here - you'd be surprised by the number of people who run around at 15 to 20 for weeks on end. It doesn't sound to me like you're going to do that, but you've taken it to the other extreme. One approach might be for you to work through a range of foods and see which ones work for you. If some are unpredictable and you end up on a flyer in the teens, well, that's not a disaster - you've simply done a bit of experimentation, figured out that one doesn't work for you so scratch it off your list. The occasional flyer in the teens while working out which foods work really doesn't matter in the long term. Best of luck! [/QUOTE]
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