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Here's some things on my keto shopping list: - Greek yoghurt (10% fat - important it is Greek, look for <4g/100g carb content) - Peanuts (important to check, should be ~7g/100g carbs, some have flavours that add significantly) - Almonds/Hazelnuts/Macadamias/Walnuts; avoid cashews (~20% carbs!)...

Hi all, I play competitive sports and often with important matches where I am aware of being more nervous my blood sugars rise significantly. For example, last week I had a match, hadn't eaten anything for a few hours (I generally do not eat carbs either), my blood sugars were around 8 mmol/l...

Thanks for starting this topic. I was always under the naive and erroneous assumption that "dawn phenomenon" (DP) was a gluconeogenesis in the liver phenomenon, purely. I didn't feel I really suffered from it. Then more recently, I have switched to a carnivore diet (on top of intermittent...

Thanks for the reply. I actually figured it out in the end, it was "haptic feedback" setting had to be on to get the vibration on scanning, which isn't intuitive...

Hi all, A few days ago on my OnePlus 8 pro I had a system update. Now whenever I scan my Libre, I get no vibration, so have to turn on my sound to know if it has scanned and positioned correctly for a scan, which is quite annoying as I used to be able to just rely on the vibration. Has anyone...

@qe5rt you are correct that anecdotal and/or individual stories are not very helpful. That is why you need larger cohorts and this is difficult in human nutrition but in particular to control well for specifics, such as keto. Volek and Phinney have a lot of papers out there that do this and the...

Thanks for the replies! I didn't think I would find someone in the same situation/using a very similar approach to myself. I agree you have to think about goals and what you want out of it. Personally, I find it fine controlling my BS levels on VLCHF keto diet. If I stick to it. I am finding it...

Has anyone who is insulin dependent used a ketogenic diet in combination with an intermittent fasting (IF) diet? I am trying the 16hr fast 8hr feed IF approach but also low carb (<40g per day). Wondering if anyone has experience in this? I wake at 5am, train at gym from 6:30-7:30am (6-7km...

Listen to @AtkinsMo It is typically a lack of adequate salt in the diet when following keto which can give the GI effects often experienced. Have a cup of broth per day, up the salt and water. You excrete more salt on a low carb diet. Also 300g fat is a lot - that is 2700kcal from fat alone...

Not all polyols are equal. Most "diabetic" chocolate is made with malitol which a lot of people find spikes their bs indifferently to sugar or at least very close to sugar. Personally as a t1 on low carbs I wouldn't touch anything sweetened with malitol. Xylitol is better, erythritol the best...

How do / would you describe the way the following sort of situation makes you physically (and mentally) feel: Waking up in AM with sugars at 15 mmol/l. Correcting and later on in day bloods going to 2.1mmol/l. End of day bloods at 17.2 mmol/l. I find it hard to describe to others. For me...

You can talk all day long about how "keto-adaptation ain't thing" when you consider 140g/day of carbs a low carb diet and the results from such a study sufficient to conclude that low carb diets lose less fat than low fat diets. That inherently ignores the modern concept and standard...

Sure it is clear that education is also necessary but quick results (quicker than cam be accomplished through education alone) can and have been seen by raising orices/adding a tax. For example, the Scottish minimum alcohol unit pricing is not effective through education but financing. The...

Atkins bars largely use Malitol as the sugar alcohol sweetener. I react very negatively to Malitol in terms of BG effects and to be honest it is a scandal that malitol can be considered to not qualify as a "net carb" as it is the worst of sugar alcohols. I have read various reports on its GI...

The sugar tax is about saving lives. Mexico was a good example where benefit was seen in the first year. That's the point - reducing T2 diabetes incidence and amputations, heart disease, kidney failure and all the other complications. Lucozade is not the only option we have. We could easily by...