suzie_girl
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I would say I'm not making a big effort to be very low carbs. I am making an effort to be very low in simple carbs. I wouldn't touch sugary drinks with a barge pole, white bread I have hugely rarely and with thought.
Personally I don't feel an atkins style diet is healthy long term, this is opinion, but I know factually its not good for me, we're all different. I do feel if you cut out virtually all carbs then when you cave and eat it your levels will ROCKET. I am happier to stabilize with the moderate level of complex carbs I eat. I hope I have 60 years in me yet, and I am confident you can't go 60 years on something strict without falling off the wagon. To me its vital a diet is sustainable.
I've found a bunch of rough rules help me:
- Breakfast sets me up to success or fail every day. Toast or cereal aren't that great to be worth your levels rocketing. I have Greek yogart with fruit and spices and a little honey, and so right up to lunch my sugar is low.
- Food combination is king. If I'm offered a choccy in the office I want I take it...... And eat it after my lunch. When its all mixed up with other foods in my tummy it has less affect then on an empty tummy.
- Balance and checks in my mind. I skipped the choccy I was offered at lunch, now I can have a naughty little desert. I had the choccy, now I can't. Mild mental maths that becomes second nature.
- I don't drink sugary drinks, ever ever ever
- I too keep some 90% choccy (im making it sound like I eat a lot of choccy and I dont!)
- Don't eat processed foods- they are total **** full of sugar which taste bad. Luckily my bloke is an epic cook, but Asda say is good for things like prechoped veg for the busy bees amongst us
- make lunch sandwiches the exception, not the rule. Bread throws your sugar up, toast takes mine up 2 points. It doesn't taste good! We buy pastry and make all kinds of simple work lunches, they don't seem to affect my bs. Today I had a spiniach, feta and pine nut filo pie slice, mmmmmm
- gi index, some unexpected foods poke up my bs, the gi index is super handy with predicting these, it does work.
-exercise. I heart body pump! I hope to bring in more aerobic this year. It forgives a lot of sins and knocks your blood sugar down
-share! I have a sticky desert after a restaurant meal, but I give half to a friend. Everyone likes a sharer!
-lots of laughing and bedroom fun. Stress is bad for your blood sugar, and there are fun ways to um exercise ;-)
There's probably other stuff I do without thinking, but that's about the size of what I do. It's fundamentally a game of balance and reading my own body. This allows me to have the odd burger king or Chinese or choccy or cake slice without my sugar going high, I like to stay below 8 at all times, even 2 hours after eating, and before meals I am usually around 5. I am type 2 on 500mg metformin morning and night. Random life rules and hardly scientific! I'm a busy person and its a challenge to even remember to eat never mind count things so counting carbs is not something I will ever be able to achieve.
I feel like this is working well for me and I feel super healthy, but we're all different
Personally I don't feel an atkins style diet is healthy long term, this is opinion, but I know factually its not good for me, we're all different. I do feel if you cut out virtually all carbs then when you cave and eat it your levels will ROCKET. I am happier to stabilize with the moderate level of complex carbs I eat. I hope I have 60 years in me yet, and I am confident you can't go 60 years on something strict without falling off the wagon. To me its vital a diet is sustainable.
I've found a bunch of rough rules help me:
- Breakfast sets me up to success or fail every day. Toast or cereal aren't that great to be worth your levels rocketing. I have Greek yogart with fruit and spices and a little honey, and so right up to lunch my sugar is low.
- Food combination is king. If I'm offered a choccy in the office I want I take it...... And eat it after my lunch. When its all mixed up with other foods in my tummy it has less affect then on an empty tummy.
- Balance and checks in my mind. I skipped the choccy I was offered at lunch, now I can have a naughty little desert. I had the choccy, now I can't. Mild mental maths that becomes second nature.
- I don't drink sugary drinks, ever ever ever
- I too keep some 90% choccy (im making it sound like I eat a lot of choccy and I dont!)
- Don't eat processed foods- they are total **** full of sugar which taste bad. Luckily my bloke is an epic cook, but Asda say is good for things like prechoped veg for the busy bees amongst us
- make lunch sandwiches the exception, not the rule. Bread throws your sugar up, toast takes mine up 2 points. It doesn't taste good! We buy pastry and make all kinds of simple work lunches, they don't seem to affect my bs. Today I had a spiniach, feta and pine nut filo pie slice, mmmmmm
- gi index, some unexpected foods poke up my bs, the gi index is super handy with predicting these, it does work.
-exercise. I heart body pump! I hope to bring in more aerobic this year. It forgives a lot of sins and knocks your blood sugar down
-share! I have a sticky desert after a restaurant meal, but I give half to a friend. Everyone likes a sharer!
-lots of laughing and bedroom fun. Stress is bad for your blood sugar, and there are fun ways to um exercise ;-)
There's probably other stuff I do without thinking, but that's about the size of what I do. It's fundamentally a game of balance and reading my own body. This allows me to have the odd burger king or Chinese or choccy or cake slice without my sugar going high, I like to stay below 8 at all times, even 2 hours after eating, and before meals I am usually around 5. I am type 2 on 500mg metformin morning and night. Random life rules and hardly scientific! I'm a busy person and its a challenge to even remember to eat never mind count things so counting carbs is not something I will ever be able to achieve.
I feel like this is working well for me and I feel super healthy, but we're all different