Hi Muzza3 and Krystyna23040
Thank you so much for your informative and helpful replies.
I was diagnosed as being pre-diabetic a couple of years ago, then this year experienced chronic pain for about three months. When this passed I discovered my blood glucose levels had moved to the diabetic range. Prior to this I followed a low carb diet and found while it kept my blood glucose levels on a fairly even keel I did not lose weight. Hence my interest in the PE Diet.
I'm afraid macros, ratios, etc are beyond me, and would like some help understanding them and the PE Diet. My current weight is seventy four kilos (eleven stone seven pounds), and I would like to be ten stone (forgot to look up how many kilos). So the PE Diet recommends that I should be eating one gram of protein for each pound of my target weight, and then half this number for carbs and fat. Is this correct or am I hopelessly wrong?
However, when I envisage 140 grams of protein a day, it's not a lot for two meals. I'm sure I am currently eating more on my low carb diet. Half a portion of a rib eye steak could easily be 100 grams, so that only leaves 40 grams for the other meal. How much fish, cheese, eggs, can I get for 40 grams? And I assume that fats, cream, butter, oils, vegetables, salads, etc come out of the other allowed 70 grams.
I've looked on various PE websites, and I cannot find any explicit instructions for the diet. Perhaps it's a way of making people purchase the book. Some of the sites have graphs of what to eat, but I've found the print so miniscule I cannot read it, and when I click onto the graph to make it larger it doesn't work!
Krystyna23040: I love cream! And I've found in the past that cream in coffee has given me the ability to make it through from six in the evening to perhaps twelve the next day. But alas I'm not being very good with the fasting at the moment, and tending to pick in the evening.
Best wishes to you both, and once again many thanks.