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Here in Australia, one of our states (South Australia) has just started a covid lockdown (albeit fairly brief for now) that bans *any* outdoor exercise! The frustrating thing is that at the same time they are explicitly allowing people to go out to buy alcohol (because that is apparently...

I do a lot of low carb cooking in general (well obviously because that's what I eat), but up until now not much baking. I've seen recipes for things like this before, but never really bother to make them. Until yesterday that is. :) It sounds really weird in a cake, because I usually associate...

Has anyone else tried this bread? I'm not sure when they started stocking it, as I don't usually even look at the bread aisle, but I've been buying it for the past few weeks and it's been great. :) Only 5.4g carb per 100 grams, and quite high in protein and fibre. It totally has the texture of...

Does anyone else get annoyed by just how freely the advice "... and avoid saturated fat" can be offered by any person, in any publication, in advice to any ailment, without ever requiring a shred of evidence? It's just something that is so deeply assumed to be true that it is simply never...

Has anyone one here tried fried green bananas. I just tried them for the first time today and they were quite amazing. When raw they are some type of totally inedible starch that tastes absolutely awful, I mean horrible to even touch a tiny bit on your tongue, but when sliced and fried they were...

Apart from the false advertising (it contains neither pumpkin or nickel) I'm getting quite fond of the stuff. This dense whole rye bread seems to be pretty good at not spiking my blood sugar levels (provided that I eat it in moderation of course). Going by the info on the package though, it's...

I'm not sure if this has been posted here already, but I've noticed that quite a few news stories in the past few days have been touting the headline that "butter is not so bad for us after all". The summary of the latest "meta studies" is that butter consumption does NOT increase rates of...

Just thinking about this today. Every time that someone in the media here starts talking about the modern T2/obesity problem they always say the same big three: sugar, fat and take away food. Now since I'm doing really well on a LCHF diet I obviously don't think that fat is really the bad guy...

Someone linked this on another website today and I thought it was an interesting read. BTW. This blog is from David Gillespie, the author of "Sweet Poison". http://www.juicedaily.com.au/food/how-much-imitation-food-did-you-eat-today/

http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2013/06/30/weekend-bonus-the-older-brothers-oldest-sons-faux-carb-pizza/ I'd seen this pizza recipe before but never tried it. To be honest I was a little leery about making it, thinking that it might be a bit of a disappointment compared to the "real...

I've got an Accu-Chek Nano that takes 2x CR2032 lithium batteries. The first batteries that came with the meter lasted pretty good (more than 6 months) but lately the replacements I've been using only seem to last about a month or so. I guess I've got to find a premium brand battery to use...

I've never really paid a lot of attention to most diets and their names, like Atkins or Paleo and so on, and to be honest I wasn't even entirely sure of what exactly was "in" and "out" with these diets. Then just a few days ago I was watching a show on TV that was explaining the "Paleo" diet...

I often cook curries with meat and vegetables. At different times I use a variety of premixed curry pastes or curry powder, and basically just about any meats or veggies seem to work ok in these meals. Now however I want to use coconut milk/cream in the mix, and I'm just wondering if there are...

Today I decided to have a bit of a fast and to monitor my BG levels throughout. For those who don’t like to read long stories, the bottom line was that as I fasted my BG levels got higher, but as soon as I ate (LCHF) they went down considerably. Pretty interesting, and it's not the first time...

Hi. So far I've been mostly avoiding sweeteners. Basically by just not having much sweet stuff, and if I do then just use very small amounts of sugar to sweeten it. Anyway I've been thinking about trying one of the so called natural sugar polyol alternatives. I recently heard about Xylitol here...

Let me say right upfront that I don't believe this is true. Yet I've heard several people say it to me, including a diabetic/dietary nurse! The latest incident was just today when I mentioned to someone about my LCHF diet. She immediately replied that her husband (T2 on 40 units of insulin per...

Hi all. I just wanted to share an extract from a local TV show (Catalyst: ABC Australia) that aired late last year, and which originally got me interested in considering a low carb diet. One of the things that I like about this program is that they do seek commentary from both sides of the...

I didn't realise how many carbs milk contained. For some reason I had it in my head that it was about 3% (3 grams per 100ml) but now I realise it's more like 5% (I think at some stage I must have mixed up protein levels with carb levels here). So now I feel like a dumb ****. I've been drinking...

Probably a fairly technical question, but I've never been able to figure out why the DCCT% measurement isn't just one tenth of the millimole per mole figure. One mole is 1000 millimoles right. So surely each 10 millimoles should be 1%. What have I got wrong here?

I'm thinking of doing a three day hiking trip some time in spring (probably Sept) and it will involve carrying everything with us except for water (well carrying some water of course, but there will be places to refill along the track). I've never done a trek like this before, and I always...