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  1. Sarbak

    Thank you all for your help and advice

    but it's time for me to leave the forum. I wish you all health and happiness :-) x
  2. Sarbak

    This might be a stupid question...

    Disappointingly not pixie dust :(
  3. Sarbak

    This might be a stupid question...

    Well, I thought our organs contained a high water content and... I dunno whether I thought the rest of it was just sloshing around inside us - I guess I've never really given it much thought. But I suppose I didn't really think a piece of steak would be over 60% water. I just googled it...
  4. Sarbak

    This might be a stupid question...

    but what are all the missing grams of nutrition in food that aren't included on nutrition labels? For example, I had a ranch steak for lunch and of the 100g, only 36.6g are accounted for in Fat, Carbs, Fibre, Protein and Salt. Umm what's the other 63.4g? Pixie dust? I know there will be a...
  5. Sarbak

    Why full fat greek yoghurt?

    Yeah, maybe I'll start something. At the end of the day, we're all different - in our will power, choice of foods, calorie restriction level, general metabolism, activity levels etc etc, so results are absolutely going to be different for everyone.
  6. Sarbak

    Why full fat greek yoghurt?

    I've not really been an on again/off again dieter. I'm an all or nothing person, so unless I am 100% committed, I don't even bother to try. So, I've lost weight only once before - about 10 or 11 years ago, where I followed pretty much the same diet I'm doing now (low carbs - focus on low GI)...
  7. Sarbak

    90% cocoa solids dark chocolate

    lol, I don't have a problem pacing myself with chocolate - I don't particularly have a sweet tooth. My go-to was always crisps, not chocolate sweets cake or biscuits etc. That said, I've always had chocolate in the cupboard and my mum could never understand how I could grab 4 or 5 maltesers...
  8. Sarbak

    90% cocoa solids dark chocolate

    Definitely going to try this! ty :)
  9. Sarbak

    90% cocoa solids dark chocolate

    Maybe my jump from 70 to 90 was ambitious lol - I'll get a bar of 85 and see what that's like. But, great idea re chocolate mousse!
  10. Sarbak

    90% cocoa solids dark chocolate

    I wish I liked peanut butter, but I can't stand its clagginess (not a word, but hopefully you understand)
  11. Sarbak

    High Morning fasting number

    Hi @Tiff0543 You might find this helpful...
  12. Sarbak

    90% cocoa solids dark chocolate

    Since my diagnosis in May, I've been including 70% Lindtt dark chocolate as a 'sweet treat', but I know that the higher cocoa solids are even better, so bought a 90% bar and had a square of that yesterday. I usually have 2 squares of 70%, but I couldn't do that with the 90... it was..... not...
  13. Sarbak

    Why full fat greek yoghurt?

    I'm eating around 1400 to 1500 calories a day (I haven't got a strict limit, just monitoring out of interest), with probably 40-50g of carbs, 75-100g of fat and 100-120g of protein. I haven't had a problem with hunger or lack of energy at all. I am a firm believer that a large part of feeling...
  14. Sarbak

    Why full fat greek yoghurt?

    You've said this a few times before, but it's only partially true - there is a limit to which your metabolism will slow and people will often reach a plateau in their weight loss because of this, but it's definitely not true that it's exponential and that you have to continually reduce calories...
  15. Sarbak

    Why full fat greek yoghurt?

    Poor choice of words on my part - I wasn't really disputing that, but my point was that I'm not hungry with my way of eating, so if that's the key benefit then I don't feel like I need it, so I'd rather save the unnecessary calories. Does that make sense?
  16. Sarbak

    Why full fat greek yoghurt?

    Good point and I agree, but I thought protein did the same, ie slowing the uptake of any sugars - so with this having twice as much protein per 100g than a full fat example, I figured it was probably comparable and my fat free version frees up more calories for all the double cream I'm now...
  17. Sarbak

    What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

    I don't know the history of your house purchase, but congratulations!!!! :joyful: A friend of mine is 2.5 years into buying a house off-plan - - it's a big development being done in stages and her house is in the very last phase which was delayed a bit due to covid. She's hoping to be in by Xmas.
  18. Sarbak

    Why full fat greek yoghurt?

    Nope - I'm not testing yet, but I do know that my HbA1c has dropped from 65 to 37 in the last 4 months that I've been including it in my diet, so I'm guessing it's not doing anything terrible.
  19. Sarbak

    Finding love

    Agreed, but unfortunately if that's the only way they know how to interact then that's still not someone I would want as a partner. I'm not inclined to bother correcting behaviours that are ingrained. I have no problem with people being ignorant about a subject (I am about many), but that can...
  20. Sarbak

    Flu vaccination

    We were just discussing this on another thread https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/6-month-into-t2.177005/ I had my flu jab today and pneumonia jab last week :)