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The diet you have described doesn't look to be too bad, although I would certainly drop the banana and grapes - these are two of the highest carb fruits you can have. This is where the Collins Gem Carb Counter book would come in handy. In the section on fruits it tells you
"Most carb-controlled diets advise that you don't eat fruits during the induction phase while you're bringing your blood sugar levels under control, because they deliver a burst of easily absorbed fruit sugar into your blood stream. . . . . Bananas are high on the glycaemic index so will be restricted or banned on most low-carb diets, but all kinds of berries, grapefruit, plums, peaches and apples are recommended."
For your lunch, instead of the banana and grapes, you could halve the carbs by putting the cooked meat between 2 slices of Nimble or Weightwatchers bread, or substitute the fruit for a couple of plums or an apple.
One other thing I noticed is that you have a huge gap (7½ hours) between breakfast and lunch. This is long enough for your liver to have gone into overdrive and started pumping glucose into your blood. A high-protein snack mid-morning, like a piece of cheese or a handfull of nuts (not peanuts or cashews) would keep the liver happy and prevent the unwanted glucose production. If high blood sugars in the morning are a problem, then the same kind of snack before you go to bed would do the same thing.
If you can, try to cut down the carbs that little bit more, but make up for it with a larger portion of protein. It is the high protein foods that leave you feeling fuller for longer and will stop the hunger pangs. Remember the old "joke" about Chinese meals - you eat until you're full but an hour later you want another one! The reason is simply that they contain a high proportion of carbohydrate and that's exactly what high-carb food does - fills you up temporarily but the full-up feeling rapidly wears off.
The diet you have described doesn't look to be too bad, although I would certainly drop the banana and grapes - these are two of the highest carb fruits you can have. This is where the Collins Gem Carb Counter book would come in handy. In the section on fruits it tells you
"Most carb-controlled diets advise that you don't eat fruits during the induction phase while you're bringing your blood sugar levels under control, because they deliver a burst of easily absorbed fruit sugar into your blood stream. . . . . Bananas are high on the glycaemic index so will be restricted or banned on most low-carb diets, but all kinds of berries, grapefruit, plums, peaches and apples are recommended."
For your lunch, instead of the banana and grapes, you could halve the carbs by putting the cooked meat between 2 slices of Nimble or Weightwatchers bread, or substitute the fruit for a couple of plums or an apple.
One other thing I noticed is that you have a huge gap (7½ hours) between breakfast and lunch. This is long enough for your liver to have gone into overdrive and started pumping glucose into your blood. A high-protein snack mid-morning, like a piece of cheese or a handfull of nuts (not peanuts or cashews) would keep the liver happy and prevent the unwanted glucose production. If high blood sugars in the morning are a problem, then the same kind of snack before you go to bed would do the same thing.
If you can, try to cut down the carbs that little bit more, but make up for it with a larger portion of protein. It is the high protein foods that leave you feeling fuller for longer and will stop the hunger pangs. Remember the old "joke" about Chinese meals - you eat until you're full but an hour later you want another one! The reason is simply that they contain a high proportion of carbohydrate and that's exactly what high-carb food does - fills you up temporarily but the full-up feeling rapidly wears off.
