IanBish
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
That steak looks lovely. And the claret sounds good too.Dinner steak with mushrooms, onion and tomatoes with glass of claret
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That steak looks lovely. And the claret sounds good too.Dinner steak with mushrooms, onion and tomatoes with glass of claret
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Evening @IanBish. Has consuming your starch resistant new potato following meat and other vegetables affected your post meal BG readings?Today, I fancied something resembling a Sunday dinner. So I cooked a sirloin steak with steamed hispi cabbage, a carrot, and a new potato that I found in the fridge. I realise that this may not qualify for this thread, but the potato was rendered starch resistant, and I ate it last!
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Well done @jpscloud for reducing your carb intake. It's challenging at first but, as time goes by, gets easier.Hello all, I've been getting stricter with low carb the last few days and it is showing in my numbers, so I'm very happy. But my bread addiction refuses to die and is sending me hallucinations! (Not really, don't worry!) I have to steer clear of low carb bread options for now as I'm worried they'd be a trigger so in-your-face bread addiction, it's cold turkey for you!
Small glass kefir, small bowl of olives with some oil
Harissa pork mince with full fat soft cheese
2 x pork puffs
Another small glass of kefir
Evening meal will be lamb steak with greek salad
I didn't, @LivingLightly. My blood hasn't been behaving, so it's been taking three test strips to do one test. So that puts me off.Evening @IanBish. Has consuming your starch resistant new potato following meat and other vegetables affected your post meal BG readings?
Have a lovely break. You deserve a break after the start you've had to the year. Wishing you calm, relaxing time (and decent weather!)B: 90 second bread with marmite
2 hour walk, with every type of weather! Did spot a very large herd of deer, very large for this time of year.
L: lettuce wraps of cream cheese and kimchi. Only had romaine lettuce so they were very long narrow wraps, think cigars! But tasty
Mid afternoon lc hot chocolate
D: chicken breast, carrots and a small spoon ready made chilli sauce. Cho coated ice cream with yoghurt
Heading away for 2 weeks tomorrow, so libre on but not activated yet. I must use the time as a break from the bad carb habits I've got in to after winter and various upsets. No more excuses!
I make my own from spelt with added ground flax and hydrated chia seeds, and keep some sliced in the freezer out of sight... if I have a meltdown I can have some of that which stops me buying the overly processed stuff. I read labels but I'm suspicious that they're not disclosing everything. I noticed yesterday that my jar of green olives' label says 0 carbs!Well done @jpscloud for reducing your carb intake. It's challenging at first but, as time goes by, gets easier.
My body does not handle bread well, so I take the easy route and avoid it completely.
Most supermarket bread isn't good for anybody, let alone type 2 diabetics. It's virtually all made by the abominable Chorleywood process nowadays.
That may be because each olive has less than 1 gram of carbs, so the manufacturer can claim it is zero carbs. That is certainly the case with TicTac sweets - since each sweet (1 serving) contains less than 1 g of sugar, they can claim that they are sugar free. That's the law, but who, if they eat TicTacs, ever ate only one of them?I make my own from spelt with added ground flax and hydrated chia seeds, and keep some sliced in the freezer out of sight... if I have a meltdown I can have some of that which stops me buying the overly processed stuff. I read labels but I'm suspicious that they're not disclosing everything. I noticed yesterday that my jar of green olives' label says 0 carbs!
Just curious @IanBish.I didn't, @LivingLightly. My blood hasn't been behaving, so it's been taking three test strips to do one test. So that puts me off.
Know this is directed at @IanBish but it may be helpful to add my experience. I'm certain that potato did raise my bgs early in my journey but now provided I par boil, cool and then open freeze as chips or roast potatoes shapes and then cook in fat from frozen and have just a few they now have no impact on my bg. I do also always eat them last and not that frequently I suppose I regard them as an occasional treat that I can include but we are not all the same and I also feel it's where you are on your own metabolic health journey. I've now not had a diabetic range hba1c in around nine years and only trialled resistant starch potatoes a few years ago.Just curious @IanBish.
When I began my diabetic journey way back in 2003, my GP's practice nurse encouraged me to include a small potato with lunch. I tried various suggestions, including eating the potato last of all, but nothing worked for me; my BG readings rose for hours regardless. That said, we're all handed a different set of genes. It would be great if eating potato last proved effective for some.