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Can you eat bread on a low carb diet?

Now bread was only part of the OP's problem with some of us. How about sugar free jelly then? Now I would eat that if I could, but I can't because no matter what sweetener is in it I get a bad reaction. :( Too many sweeteners in the past methinks. :rolleyes:
 
zand said:
Not the ones in jelly any way. I've tried them all and I get pains and an odd sensation in my kidneys. I'm happy having double cream on its own though. :D
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I like adding essence to double cream. Lakeland do a nice banana one. It tastes like banana but without the carbs of a banana.
 
Celeriac said:
So vegetarians get a no meat products in here forum and that's fine, but it's not fine to want a properly low carb forum without bread and sugar-free jelly, because some people can't give up junk food ?

No wonder HCPs are sceptical about low carb, if the people saying that they low carb are eating processed food and carbs !
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Everybody interprets low carb differently. For example at week-ends I eat one slice of seeded toast and 2 poached or fried eggs for breakfast which I consider to be low carb but not junk food. I also eat other carbs such as potatoes, rice, pasta and cereals as part of my diet. I have cut down on my carbs but my BS readings indicate that I can eat some carbs.
zand said:
Now bread was only part of the OP's problem with some of us. How about sugar free jelly then? Now I would eat that if I could, but I can't because no matter what sweetener is in it I get a bad reaction. :( Too many sweeteners in the past methinks. :rolleyes:
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The ironic thing is that the tub of sugar free jelly that I occasionally eat only has 1.2g of carbs and you can't get lower than that!!
 
Closing up this thread to a degree (by sounding a bit like a summary) but this post is really interesting - if even only to show that concept of low carb is a spectrum of sorts and there are as many people as there are different understandings of low carb - it's what works for you. As, ultimately, low carb isn't really about following a diet, it's a lifestyle.
 
zand said:
Is this not belittling also?
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I suppose the point it shows is that there are people who *do* eat bread and still consider themselves to follow a low carb diet. And there are some that don't feel it's appropriate to call that low carb.

If your concept of low carb is simply eating less that Xg of carbs per day, as long as the bread came under that I think the concept of following a low carb diet is valid?
 
Perhaps I need to start a thread to determine what is 'low calorie' then?
I am still confused and bemused by the title of this thread.
 
Celeriac said:
Hey don't worry, I'm going to find a proper low carb forum where people don't eat bread and processed junk and call it low carb.

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Whilst I respect your choice @Celeriac, I for one would be sad and would miss your contribution to the forum. As someone who is physically unable to LCHF I have gained so much from reading the threads about low carb/high fat in relation to diabetic control. I have, as a result of this forum changed the carbs I have to eat - with a slight but still positive effect on my brittle blood sugars. And I believe I am a good example of the positive influences of this forum. I could have dismissed the LCHF threads because I can't do it but was drawn into the discussion (the real important bit to me), and as a result both my behaviour and my diabetes changed. Whether I can or can't do it, or whether I choose to or not to do it doesn't matter. It being able to access the information, the facts, peoples experience good and bad that matters, so people may make an informed choice. Think we would all be on the 'eatwell plate' otherwise! :eek: :) Sue xxxx
 
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