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I pick a sandwich with a thick (low carb) filling and give the top bread to my husband...chow down on cocktail sausages and deep fried bits of chicken...fill my plate with salad or even the parsley/tomato garnish if there is no salad - but mainly EAT FIRST and drink plenty of water too. If...

Water first, then salt...but you might also try Epsom salts to up your magnesium - very cheap, no side effects. Dose is between one pinch up to half a teaspoonful, once a day. My sister just chucks it down her throat but I think it tastes DISGUSTING so drop it in my morning coffee when I can't...

When I started running, and got fit enough to run three to five hours cross country three times a week, my mother and my dentist were both convinced I was anorexic. No, thank goodness, I wasn't. Just fitter than I ever had been. Ah happy days! Twenty years later - back and knees stopped me...

I have found that its perfectly possible to still want to overeat -for example going into the kitchen and leaving it without eating something is very very hard for me to do, hungry or not, or deciding to eat something then eating more of it than necessary. Because frankly that's what I've...

Please don't bash the eatwell plate so quickly. It is an EXCELLENT replacement/guide for those who tend to live off crisps and doughnuts. That message has to be simple and repeatable for both the advice-givers and the advice-receivers! Unfortunately, it is NOT suitable for those with disorders...

Um...the coffee morning thing...I am catering officer (ie it's me that buys the milk and biscuits and makes sure the kettle is working) for a gardening club that fund raises with coffee mornings...nice range of choccie biccies and WI cakes on offer...what SHOULD I offer to our mainly elderly...

There area an awful lot of variables to the answers to those questions! Blood sugar Pure "artificial" sweeteners do not affect blood sugar directly - but some are a mix of nutritive and non-nutritive sugars (or a mix of a chemical and real sugar to put it simply), so will raise blood sugars...

Hear hear. What a lovely well-balanced approach!

Trying to think about the original question - which I hope I have managed to cut & paste above - I believe the reason is not quite as conspiracy-theory as some have stated. The main reason can be found in a reply a little further down the forum - with the blogger who tried so hard to advise...

It's pouring with rain so I went on a major Google search and found the blinking answer myself! To quote another forum: Erythritol is only 0.2 Calories per gram. It is listed as 25 grand of carbs by difference. In the US at least, anything that is not protein or fat when tested is...

Help! I'm an obese prediabetic following a 20g carb daily diet to try to de-fat my pancreas. I have never liked the taste of artificial sweeteners so assumed I would have to do without "sweet" for some time. Came across this product, which says it is a mix of erythritol and stevia extract...

Hi Winterwatch, some stores must dream more than others...was in our local Big City (Ipswich) today so popped into Lidl, and there were "High Protein Rolls" so bought some. Weigh in at 100g each, so will all be cut in half, 5gc is quite enought to try to fit into 20g of carbs a day, along with...

Hi, I have exactly the same problem, late night snacking is the bane of my life. I am a severely overweight pre-diabetic. At the moment I am struggling with 5:2, gave up on the blood sugar diet as I couldn't keep away from the food enough. About the only thing that helps is going to bed early...

Hi, I have a query about this whole thread - please note, I am NOT diabetic, just pre-d, so may have got the whole thing wrong - but I thought the height of a BG spike was reasonably irrelevant, it is how quickly it goes down again? When you all talk about potatoes or whatever giving you a...

Hello friends, could I ask your advice please? I finally got the machine and all the bits together and started testing, aiming for x7 daily, pre- & 2 hours post- meals (just for a few days). I am pre-diabetic, HbA1c was 6.4 last May, 6.2 October. Have been trying to reduce carbs to less than...

Yes, I agree that dead is dead. But I would counter that with life is not necessarily life! I think compassion and high welfare is vitally important, whether we are considering the treatment of pet canaries or laying hens or killer whales in aquariums. In fact, my bantams are having a lousy...

Donellysdogs - slight misapprehension about the pigs - it was fed to pigs as it was a WASTE PRODUCT (so cheap or free) which also happened to be quite nutritious!

Good point about the palm oil link to deforestation. What I hear about American feed-lot raised animals makes me shudder - animals standing hock deep in **** and fed on corn, with no chance for any natural behaviour. So far, British meat does seem to be raised in a more compassionate way, OTOH...

It's not just the carbs, it's the blinking alcohol. It really messes up your liver and your carb metabolism. But I don't know any exact numbers, so go to an alcohol related thread!

My mother (trained as a medical doctor between the Wars) was told the most profitable specialisation was skin diseases as the patients were desperate for treatment and never got better. (she actually went into obs & gynae, which is also pretty persistent, people will keep having babies!) So...