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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
How can you eat so few calories?.. I average about 2,000-2,500 a day but still only have around 20g of carbs.. no grain whatsoever..
typical day for me is something like this
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lots of fat and protein very few carbs.. lots of coffee that day apparently.. usually only have 2 or 3..
This is so helpful, thank you!
I tend not to really eat breakfast (never really have) which I think is part of the problem, and due to my work my lunches tend to be short so I have to grab and go.
Today I should get to about 1600 eating:
Breakfast: slice of toast and 150ml milk (approx 300 cal)
Lunch: Boots sandwich, apple (approx 500)
Dinner: chicken breast, homemade pesto sauce, green beans, peppers, 50g pasta and garlic bread (approx 800 cal)
Snacks: multivitamin, cup of coffee with 50ml milk (approx 25 cal)
And that's going for the "regular" kind of NHS diet. Were I doing LCHF probably be having less for lunch since most of that calorie content is bread. Pre-diagnosis so many of my calories were from unhealthy stuff like crisps and biscuits that removing them has left a massive hole in my diet!
I guess if you're drinking a lot of tea and coffee with milk and/or double cream in it's easier to get up to the 2000s?
Would you mind sharing with me how your spreadsheet breaks down into meals? 125g cheese a day seems like loads but I guess if it's split up over multiple meals it might not.