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<blockquote data-quote="AdamJames" data-source="post: 1643719" data-attributes="member: 459333"><p>I've just, for political reasons, clicked 'agree' under some recent posts, both those strongly against diabetics eating this sort of food and those in favour within reason.</p><p></p><p>I do agree with both, and I think both; that's the problem with being human, you can intellectually know for sure that you shouldn't be doing something, but also think that you may get away with it occasionally and it makes the experience of being human more enjoyable while you're doing it.</p><p></p><p>For me the problem, as so many people on this forum have realised, is that nice-tasting food that's high in carbs seems to be much more addictive than nice tasting LCHF food. I've been on a mince pie bender for 3-4 days now. I have lost 3 stone in 3 months and the overall picture in that time is that my calorie intake, carb intake and exercise levels are all in a radically better place than they were just a few months ago. In 3 months I've had a few lapses of discipline and I always will.</p><p></p><p>The most guaranteed way for any lapse of discipline to last for more than a day for me seems to be the combination of eating nice-tasting carbs, plus having more of those nice-tasting carbs in the house and easily accessible.</p><p></p><p>While, as I've posted earlier, I had a surprising result yesterday and found that in spite of about 250g of carbs from mince pies, all it took was about an hour of exercise and my postprandial 2hr readings were surprisingly "okay", the fact is that I've been waking up in the mornings over the last few days with bgs at about 7, instead of around 5 which I'd been managing to achieve before the mince pie fest.</p><p></p><p>So they have had a measurably negative effect on my overall goals. And they were delicious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AdamJames, post: 1643719, member: 459333"] I've just, for political reasons, clicked 'agree' under some recent posts, both those strongly against diabetics eating this sort of food and those in favour within reason. I do agree with both, and I think both; that's the problem with being human, you can intellectually know for sure that you shouldn't be doing something, but also think that you may get away with it occasionally and it makes the experience of being human more enjoyable while you're doing it. For me the problem, as so many people on this forum have realised, is that nice-tasting food that's high in carbs seems to be much more addictive than nice tasting LCHF food. I've been on a mince pie bender for 3-4 days now. I have lost 3 stone in 3 months and the overall picture in that time is that my calorie intake, carb intake and exercise levels are all in a radically better place than they were just a few months ago. In 3 months I've had a few lapses of discipline and I always will. The most guaranteed way for any lapse of discipline to last for more than a day for me seems to be the combination of eating nice-tasting carbs, plus having more of those nice-tasting carbs in the house and easily accessible. While, as I've posted earlier, I had a surprising result yesterday and found that in spite of about 250g of carbs from mince pies, all it took was about an hour of exercise and my postprandial 2hr readings were surprisingly "okay", the fact is that I've been waking up in the mornings over the last few days with bgs at about 7, instead of around 5 which I'd been managing to achieve before the mince pie fest. So they have had a measurably negative effect on my overall goals. And they were delicious. [/QUOTE]
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