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...
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...
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.
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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...
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.
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.
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...
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 :)