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    How to replace breadcrumbs and flour in meatball recipes?

    The linked recipe below contains 22g carbs per 5 meatballs. Not suitable for keto diet. I guess other meatball recipes also contain about the same amount of carbs. link to recipe: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-swedish-meatballs
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    How to improve this daily keto-diet menu?

    About 2 years ago I decided to keto-diet and have breakfast at 6am, cream coffee at 9am, lunch at 12noon, cream coffee at 2pm and dinner at 6pm. Always.. plus these supplements every morning: 1 Wilko's Multivitamins and Minerals for over the 50s 1 Accrete D3 Calcium supplement tablet Cream...
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    Do large volumes of low carb foods increase blood sugars?

    Dr Bernstein suggested many years ago that they do (Chinese Restaurant Effect). The increase in blood sugar is proportional to the amount of stomach 'stretching' caused by larger portions. Larger volumes of anything, even sawdust, water and keto-diet meals would result in increased blood sugar...
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    Foods that may cause ketosis dropout?

    About 2 years ago I started restricting carbs to around 100g per day. Diabetes symptoms improved, but did not go away. For example, I was still fatigued and had difficulties concentrating. So about a year ago decided to try keto diet, but dropped out about 4 times. Once because I was eating 3...
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    What is carb content of 100g cooked celeriac?

    I want to replace potatoes and rice with celeriac for a 20g carb per day keto diet, but I am not sure what carb value to use for cooked celeriac. Tesco: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/255932007 Asda: https://groceries.asda.com/search/celeriac does not say if for...
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    Why are the fish dinner blood sugar values high here?

    Type 2 diabetes, attempting keto-diet... My Dinner blood sugar after two hours the last five days: Saturday: Fried Trout 180g, 7.8mmol/L Sunday: Fried Trout 140g, 7.2mmol/L Monday: Beef Menudo 180g, 6.6mmol/L Tuesday: Beef Kaldereta 200g, 6.8mmol/L Wednesday: Piri piri Chicken 180g...
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    Broccoli and Cauliflower blood sugar rocket

    Have done keto diet for 3-4 weeks now. Getting better at it and from it. Before keto my blood sugars after dinner were 6.7 to 7.7 with most readings above 7. After keto the blood sugars have been 6.0 to 7.2 with most in range 6.0-6.8. Four days ago I started having 100g broccoli and 100g...
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    Eggs - Good or Bad?

    CNN 2019-03-27: Previous studies show decreased and no heart disease risk in those who ate up to one egg a day. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/27/health/eggs-good-or-bad-where-do-we-stand/index.html HEALTHLINE 2018-08-23: The science is clear that up to 3 whole eggs per day are perfectly safe...
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    Is energy need less on keto diet?

    I am learning, experimenting, moving towards a ketodiet... For example: breakfast 1hiloslice+2hamslices+cheeseslice+2frankfurters carb 5+1.6+0+1.4=8 kcal 90+100+100+200=490 morningsnack 20gGreekStyleYogurt+50graspberries carb 2+2=4 kcal 25+5=30 lunch...
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    Type 2 Can large portion of meat/protein raise blood sugar?

    Experimenting trying to get daily carbs down from 70-110g to below 50g... Yesterday's meals BREAKFAST 2 Hi-Lo bread slices carb 10 protein 16 cooked ham carb 0 protein 7 cheese slice Gouda carb 0 protein 6 MORNING SNACK 100g greek yogurt carb 5 protein 4 50g...
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    What urine ketone testing strips to buy?

    I am thinking about going on low-carb keto diet and use urine strips to measure if/when I reach ketosis state. Size: about 100 strips/container. There are many suppliers of strips at amazon.com, but I cannot decide which to choose. Advice appreciated.
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    Type 2 Fiercely hot Vindaloo curry raised my blood sugar

    Had home-made Chicken Vindaloo with 120g new potatoes (no rice, no naan) on two successive days. First day I measured 8.3 mmol/L, the second day 7.9. I expected a value of around 7.3 which I usually get for same amount of chicken-only-no-curry and same amount of potato. Anyone getting raised...
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    Type 2 Making low carb wholemeal bread

    We (self+wife) would like to try to make low carb (5-10g carb) wholemeal bread after seeing the post by Hallii in thread 'Bread Alternatives' posted in this forum 6 years ago: 'How about home made bread that is only 7.5 gms of carb per slice. Yeast, sugar, and a glug of oil. Make it as per...
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    Type 2 Is Fibre always subtracted from Carbohydrates?

    when calculating carb content for (low) carb diets from fibre and carbs on food labels.... For example, on Tesco Granary Wholemeal bread food label: ------------ 100g --- slice Carbohydrates 39.8g --- 17.5g of which sugars 2.4g --- 1.0g Fibre --------- 6.8g...
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    Type 2 When are blood sugar values 'high' for white rice, white bread and potatoes?

    WHEN I EAT: ----- MY T2 BLOOD SUGAR [mmol/L] after 2 hours white rice 200g 13-15 white rice 100g 9-12 1 slice white bread 9-11 2 slices white bread 12.5 or higher 150g boiled new potatoes 7-8 (smiling) 150g boiled old...
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    Blood sugar level after rapid intake of 3kg granulated sugar

    I have just looked at 'Living with Diabetes' section 'Blood sugar levels in diagnosing diabetes' at this website. I am puzzled by the limit value for '2 hours after meal' which is 11.1 mmol/l or more. I don't understand how it can be a fixed limit value. Assume a healthy person dissolves 3kg...
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    Foods equivalent for the Newcastle Diet?

    I have read that the Newcastle Diet (ND) can reverse diabetes after 8 weeks of a low-carb and low-calorie diet based on liquid meal-replacement shakes and green vegetables. The shakes used were OptiFast and the shake part of the Cambridge Diet. Tesco and ASDA in UK sell meal replacements...