successful blood glucose control and hunger

[millenium]

Do they always go hand in hand?

From what i observed, if a patient includes resistance training, the hunger could be even worse. What are your experience?

 

[Ragmar]

I work out 5 times a week doing resistance training and 30 minutes cardio. My glucometer says my average is 5.6, necessarily I don't feel hungry. I eat liberal low carb 100 or 130 per day.

I snack on these cans of tuna that are single serving, they give me fat and protein but have no carbs in them.

 

[rom35]

Do they always go hand in hand?

From what i observed, if a patient includes resistance training, the hunger could be even worse. What are your experience?

With real LCHF you can eat a lot of meal - no hunger. It´s one of the best things, you have not to count calories. Full meal 3x a day and no hunger.

 

[millenium]

I work out 5 times a week doing resistance training and 30 minutes cardio. My glucometer says my average is 5.6, necessarily I don't feel hungry. I eat liberal low carb 100 or 130 per day.

I snack on these cans of tuna that are single serving, they give me fat and protein but have no carbs in them.

U eat high protein, zero carb tuna when u feel hungry. Do u crave for carb?

 

[millenium]

With real LCHF you can eat a lot of meal - no hunger. It´s one of the best things, you have not to count calories. Full meal 3x a day and no hunger.

I think my father is not eating enough lean protein, that is why.

Need to watch the waistline though. A thicker waist will increase insulin resistance.

 

[Ragmar]

U eat high protein, zero carb tuna when u feel hungry. Do u crave for carb?

I'll have the tuna before heading to the gym and working out, I don't crave carbs and am trying to phase them out of my diet and presently trying to lower the amount I take in but unfortunately need some carbs for my workout regiment but I'm eating to my meter and so far everything is going great.

 

[Guzzler]

When actively cutting carbohydrates one must find fats and to a lesser extent protein to assuage hunger.
The transition period of LCHF is a learning curve and highly individual so the amounts of fats and proteins will differ from person to person. Carbs are addictive and in the beginning this can be tricky to overcome but the fewer carbs one has then the sooner the addiction is conquered.
Resistive training is imo the best excercise one can take to aid bg management. There are quite a few recipes for low carb snacks on Dietdoctor.com and on Youtube (Headbangers Kitchen is a good channel for Keto recipes).

 

[NicoleC1971]

Tighter bg control on a high carb diet = more insulin = more roller coasters and more hunger hormones.
Exercise does deplete sugar in the muscles (glycogen) and you will therefore get an urge to refill those muscles IF you are a carb burner as are most of us due to ou high carb diets. This is one of the reasons going to the gym and doing cardio won't help with weight loss (it makes you hungry) but if you turn yourself into a 'fat burning beast' then there will be less hunger and blood sugar wobbles because that fuel tank is so much bigger than the stores in our liver and muscles. Weight training increases insulin sensitivity leading to less insulin resistance.
It depends on where you are now in your approach and one of the hardest things to get your head around is that eating low carb means eating more fat (a homonym that isn't helpful ) or you will definitely be hungry so forget lean protein!