Another attempt at reducing carbs

ianf0ster said:

Hi jpscloud,
I find it strange that both Bulkbiker and Jim Lahey found it easier to go 'no carb' than Low Carb, but we are all different.
I found that going Low Carb but adding Fats to make up the Calorie deficit form Carbs (I didn't need to lose weight) was incredibly easy, apart from working out which were the medium carbohydrate foods (the high Carb ones were obvious).

But I feel I could never have done Low Carb low Fat, because I would have been too hungry all the time.
Even though not vegetarians, my wife and I were used to only eating meat/fish 2 or 3 times per week. Now after a few months we are eating much more meat/fish and now generally have it 4 or 5 times per week. So making the transition to 'no carb' would now be easier - assuming we wanted to do it.

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ianf0ster said:

I find it strange that both Bulkbiker and Jim Lahey found it easier to go 'no carb' than Low Carb, but we are all different.

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Jim Lahey said:

As far as I'm concerned I eat like a rockstar

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jpscloud said:

Hi everyone, I haven't had the audacity to post much on the LC forum ecause any attempts before have been laughable.

I do however firmly believe that low carb is the way to health for me, so I haven't stopped thinking about it and wanting to do it.

Yesterday I had a little breakthrough- I found myself without food on a day at work when I'd decided to do low carb. Options at work are always carby, yesterday was something in pastry served with two portions of carbs (peas and sweetcorn and tater tots) or burger and chips. I couldn't just have the burger because it was an undefined vegetable one, not meat. The salad bar is reserved for those who bought the main meal to have as a side, and even if I'd chosen to ignore that protocol there was no lettuce left, and precious else there anyway.

Now usually on an exceptionally stressful day like yesterday I would have given up and had a baguette or worse, but even though I was stressed and grumpy (BG still over 5 by the way) I ate a couple of emergency walnuts and gave everything else a miss.

That has never happened before, literally never, so I'm heartened that maybe I can eventually achieve low carb as my way of eating. I would never have believed I could fast over 24 hours, but I can, and do.

What i thought may be utterly out of reach was making better food choices consistently, but now, thanks to staying around here, reading Jason Fung and learning to fast, I have some hope.

I'm posting this really to reach out to anyone feeling as I did that low carb makes so much sense for diabetics, but despairing of ever being able to actually do it.

Will I stumble over future food choices? Yes, most certainly. But something about staying around here on the forums even in relapse has helped.

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jpscloud said:

Hi everyone, I haven't had the audacity to post much on the LC forum ecause any attempts before have been laughable.

I do however firmly believe that low carb is the way to health for me, so I haven't stopped thinking about it and wanting to do it.

Yesterday I had a little breakthrough- I found myself without food on a day at work when I'd decided to do low carb. Options at work are always carby, yesterday was something in pastry served with two portions of carbs (peas and sweetcorn and tater tots) or burger and chips. I couldn't just have the burger because it was an undefined vegetable one, not meat. The salad bar is reserved for those who bought the main meal to have as a side, and even if I'd chosen to ignore that protocol there was no lettuce left, and precious else there anyway.

Now usually on an exceptionally stressful day like yesterday I would have given up and had a baguette or worse, but even though I was stressed and grumpy (BG still over 5 by the way) I ate a couple of emergency walnuts and gave everything else a miss.

That has never happened before, literally never, so I'm heartened that maybe I can eventually achieve low carb as my way of eating. I would never have believed I could fast over 24 hours, but I can, and do.

What i thought may be utterly out of reach was making better food choices consistently, but now, thanks to staying around here, reading Jason Fung and learning to fast, I have some hope.

I'm posting this really to reach out to anyone feeling as I did that low carb makes so much sense for diabetics, but despairing of ever being able to actually do it.

Will I stumble over future food choices? Yes, most certainly. But something about staying around here on the forums even in relapse has helped.

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