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My GP (Dr Doom).
Depends how many carbs you can tolerate, and on portion size.
We recently bought some Carbzone low carb gluten free granolas from Amazon.
Surprisingly low carb.
My husband loves them, but they disagreed with me.
Worked out at around 6-7g carbs per portion.
Not too shabby, if they suit you.
Alternatively, if you google ‘low carb muesli’ or ‘low carb granola’ there are many recipes out there - sure to be one that suits you.
Disagreed with you? As in digest distress?
My guts are silly sensitive - more so than a normal person. These granolas have soy flakes and lots of fibre. Could have been either of those that set my little special snowflake guts off. Lol.
My husband’s normal guts took to them without a murmur, and he has just reordered, so they agree with him very well.
The way they are telling you to eat does not work in our modern environment, your body agrees with this sentiment just like mine.What am I missing with the low carb thing, after 8 weeks on the NHS XPERT course they told us to embrace carbs and to make sure they were a 1/3rd of my diet. As I've already said, I trusted and followed them; I lost weight and my Hba1C dropped to 40.
Now for reasons unknown my last Hba1C shot up to 101. I can't get my bgs down, even my night fast bloods are 10 why is that then, anyone know? I will follow advice from here although the fridge is full of baby potatoes, they told us to eat them, seeded breads and wholegrain rice and spaghetti for slow release carbs. Isn't that OK? Thank you for your kind comments. I've been diagnosed with HF and had a PCI and three stents so if my sugar stays 101 doctors said I'm on course for a large stroke, I couldn't go on if I became incapacitated like after a big stroke. Q.
Afternoon, thank you for the reply, I'm switching to advice from this site. But, what is keto? Would you know why my BG is 10+ after night fast and 10.7 after scrambled eggs and bacon breakfast with squeezed lemon juice, I just dont get it. Kind regards Quentin.The way they are telling you to eat does not work in our modern environment, your body agrees with this sentiment just like mine.
If you want to do a third of your diet as carbs, then find your safe list. I would suggest the below as starting points:
Asparagus
Broccoli
Cauliflour
Beansprouts
Celery
Raddish
Cucumber
Courgettes
If you have no autoimmune issues most of the above should be fine with good ratios of protein and fat.
XPERT is better than standard of care in my view, but for a 3 digit HbA1c person I would consider Keto as a minimum.
Depending on where you started from xpert may have been an improvement to your original diet. Did you lose weight as well and drop hb1ac? That may have helped regardless of what you were eating. Initially and for a while anyway. Then the continued eating of carbs probably has made your insulin resistance worse since so a more recent lapse into sugary as well as carb laden foods has caused it to go up again. What sort of hb1ac have you had since the 40 until the recent 101 and over what period of time?What am I missing with the low carb thing, after 8 weeks on the NHS XPERT course they told us to embrace carbs and to make sure they were a 1/3rd of my diet. As I've already said, I trusted and followed them; I lost weight and my Hba1C dropped to 40.
Now for reasons unknown my last Hba1C shot up to 101. I can't get my bgs down, even my night fast bloods are 10 why is that then, anyone know? I will follow advice from here although the fridge is full of baby potatoes, they told us to eat them, seeded breads and wholegrain rice and spaghetti for slow release carbs. Isn't that OK? Thank you for your kind comments. I've been diagnosed with HF and had a PCI and three stents so if my sugar stays 101 doctors said I'm on course for a large stroke, I couldn't go on if I became incapacitated like after a big stroke. Q.
Thank you, I'm testing 60 mins after e meal that's what they told us to do on the course, is two hours the correct way then? QuentinPeople running those courses have to toe the party line on carbs. I have met a few doctors and other medically trained diabetics and, while they eat low carb themselves, they have to teach patients the eatwell plate method.
I couldn't eat any of the foods that are in your fridge but you might be able to. To find out if you can you should take a blood glucose reading just before eating and another two hours later. If the second test is less than 2.0 more than the first test then your body has tolerated the quantity of that food item that you have eaten. You should follow that protocol for each food item and also do it if you increase the quantity you eat.
We are all different in what our bodies can tolerate. There are things i can eat but which others can't and some people can eat a lot more carbs than me - and that is why it is important that each of us test to find out what we can each eat.