HI @Heathenlass Was the reference to 'low fat cooking' a slip of the pen?
I found breakfast the hardest meal to crack. I started off with Special K thinking that would be ok, but it wasn't. Tried porridge but not much better. Ended up eating granola and then taking 30 mins walking exercise and that seemed to do the trick. In fact it took about six weeks to lose about 20 lbs weight and once that had been done, the blood sugar levels dropped to a reasonable level after my granola breakfast and walk.
I think in the last 15 months I have brought about 5 ready meals in total, as opposed to 4 or 5 week prior to diagnosis, and agree that cooking fresh ingredients from scratch is best.
I have adapted this recipe http://www.booths.co.uk/recipe/spiced-red-lentil-and-butternut-squash-soup/ You can buy hot or sweet smoked paprika and as I like hot spicy foods I use the hot smoked paprika. I have not bothered with the yoghurt garnish, so cannot vouch for that.
I had forgotten the cheese element of my diet. I usually (provided I have not had berries and cream) finish the day off with a supper of extra-hot spicy Mexicana cheese on some rough oat biscuits
I think you're right - I've just had a look at some guidelines for daily nutrition amounts for men which I found here http://www.npt.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=3360 and are as followsI think it's unfortunate the name, the high for some, scares people, yet they may already be on what some others would call a High Fat Diet, I'm definitely Low Carb but High Fat as many people perceive NO, I'm normal fat.
Neil
I think you're right - I've just had a look at some guidelines for daily nutrition amounts for men which I found here http://www.npt.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=3360 and are as follows
Calories: 2,500
Fat: 95g
Sat Fat: 30g
Carbs: 300g (!)
Protein: 55g
Over the last week, I've averaged the following
Calories around 1400
Fat: 81g
Sat Fat: 30.6
Carbs: 24
Protein: 94
So on that basis, I'm on a low carb, recommended fat and high protein diet!
Hi @phil1966 So you are LCRFHP?
When you hit your target weight you are going to have to decide to increase one or other of your macronutrients (I think that is the right word) to increase your calorie intake otherwise you will waste away.
Hi @daddys1
Was aged 56 at diagnosis and a tad under 19 stone, had gained and lost weight over the previous 35 years, so I knew that losing weight was easy, the hard part is keeping the weight down.
I think that I am lucky in that I was caught early and without any diabetes symptoms which has enabled me to deal with the condition by the loss of weight and increasing amounts of fairly gentle exercise. My own belief is that weight loss is the important factor rather than whether I ate fat or carbs. I write however as a Type 2 who was obese on diagnosis, (at just over 13 stone I am still overweight) and I appreciate that other considerations may apply to other people.
Hi @daddys1 I was diagnosed after a routine blood test with a Hba1c of 82 a week before Christmas 2013. I bought a meter, not to test food, but because I didn't believe the test results, unfortunately meter confirmed the lab test. I used the meter to test but other than breakfasts never really altered eating habits as a result.
Was aged 56 at diagnosis and a tad under 19 stone, had gained and lost weight over the previous 35 years, so I knew that losing weight was easy, the hard part is keeping the weight down. Decided that fundamental changes were required, so out goes the junk food and snacking; in came four regular but smaller meals. My BP was high, so out went salt. Pies and oven chips, a staple part of my pre-diagnosis diet went as did the salt that went on them. Avoided the dangerous carbs such as white bread, potatoes and tropical fruit inc bananas (even now they are a high days and holidays treat). In the early days I did avoid high fat dairy products, but I now have reverted to full fat milk and cream as they taste better and I enjoy them more. I think the days of almond milk on my cheerios marked the low point of my diabetic odyssey.
I was not prescribed any meds on diagnosis and was left to my own devices for about six weeks before seeing diabetic nurse. I could see from my meter that as the weight fell off, the fasting levels and the post prandial levels approached normality. We disagreed on whether meds were appropriate, she saying yes and me saying no. We compromised on agreeing to wait for a 3 month hba1c test which came back in April last year at 39 and is now down to 32 on the yearly test last December.
I think that I am lucky in that I was caught early and without any diabetes symptoms which has enabled me to deal with the condition by the loss of weight and increasing amounts of fairly gentle exercise. My own belief is that weight loss is the important factor rather than whether I ate fat or carbs. I write however as a Type 2 who was obese on diagnosis, (at just over 13 stone I am still overweight) and I appreciate that other considerations may apply to other people.
Well it seems the health authority may be in the process of a turn round on the fat issue.@zand I agree that I have been lucky in many ways and have probably had an easier time with my diabetes than many on this forum. Most Type 2 diabetics have had a bad and unbalanced diet at diagnosis and so any sort of diet is likely to be an improvement.
If Dr Deakin reckons than one can get all the nutrients and vitamins one needs from a LCHF diet with a level of HF which does not produce heart problems but does produce weight loss and a lowering of glucose levels then I am not going to argue with the multitude on this forum that follow such a diet. I will, however, delve deeper into this subject (although not to the extent of buying the book) and see what evidence she has relied upon.
I could understand her saying that the studies which proclaimed sat fat as being a danger to cardiovascular health were not robust etc and their conclusions not valid, so that one might increase one's intake of fat without too much danger to your health, but to go one and recommend as she did in the Daily Mail (online) that she herself has now a diet of 82% fat does seem a huge leap. That is what I would like to explore.
As to the since when line, I''d say since prices went right up on property & everything & a households needed 2 incomes to be able to afford things, so had less time to get proper meals & that's where the processed food industry stepped in to give readily available meals. Plus in some cases greed is part of it as a lot these days seem to need everything instead of just living with what is needed to get by.On a wider population.. (With ever increasing diabetes) I just think that looking at the foods that persons ate during rationing (and the qtys) has been pretty good.
The death of eating from the land is contributing to the unhealthiness of the nation...
Since when do humans actually need to eat ready meals and rubbish.
Syd ... You sound as if you have cut the **** and just eating less processed **** food. Whether it's carbs or fat etc.... To me the basis on your improved health has just been getting back to basics... I
I've just receive the May-June "Balance." Still no interview, & still the same advice - Experts say ... . serious implications on long term health, increased chances of heart attacks & stroke.
Ask your GP to refer you to a dietitian...
Thank God for X-PERTs like Dr Trudi Deakin who listened to patients & studied the evidence.
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