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Bread ... why?

and of course people with no bread don't get the spikes (well not from bread anyway)..

edit to add let's get this thread back on course...!
 
I'm doing my first ever full-on OGTT in real time. Next reading will be the 60 minute mark.

It's very sobering. So far, the numbers are telling me

1) I am in fact diabetic, I hadn't been imagining it
2) I'm going to need a bigger meter
3) I shouldn't be eating bread
4) I certainly shouldn't be doing an OGTT
 
I hope you didn't use fried bread for your 75 of glucose..!
 
Apart from bringing back some weird childhood memories, the smell of bread is evocative. Home baked bread and the smell of toast makes me feel good and reminds me of my mum. I can do without it most of the time except when I have a boiled egg and definitely need soldiers.
 
I have watched "The Crown" on Netflix, in the second series, one episode is about Charles and the DoE is giving him a bit of a serve while Charles is having his breakfast soft boiled egg/s.

Charles has two flunkies cutting his toast into "soldiers" for him, which I found funny.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
There are other things to take into consideration as well as carbs. The sadly no longer available Lidl rolls were stuffed full of fibre and omega 3, not to mention protein. I imagine it is similar with other low carb breads.
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I used to like the Lidl rolls - didn’t realise they were no longer available! Shame. I don’t low carb as such but I have reduced it a lot
 
Thanks for the link @lbd, just checked and they sell it at the Stockland Shopping Centre Westpoint Centre Shop 3A, 107 Takalvan St, near where we shop in Bundaberg.

Will be checking it out next shopping day.

Edit: Put the correct shopping centre in.
 
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I have two medium thickness (without crusts) slices of bread which, togerther with sausages, chicken, cheese, tomatoes, fish, etc., etc, give so many suggestions for diabetic meals - the slices are not high in carbs - for my evening/late meal. STOP this insanity or die of starvation and not Diabetes - come on !!??
 

Die of starvation?? Relying on bread or die??

I've not ate bread and still here! 6 months of bread when recommended by certain medics and other diabetic... well, no. Never. And I'm a T1 so can supposedly inject for it.

For me certain foods add to my colon problems and bread is certainly one.

If I have a slither of a piece my meds that night for my colon will have to triple..

I havent starved. Sure with cancer I lost too much weight but that was due to other problems. I got a good BMI of 21 and certainly not starved!!
 
I bought a small unsliced loaf of wholemeal bread today, from my local Tesco's. I ate the end slice, with the crust, it was absolutely yummy. Only about 10 grams of carbs. Hello B vitamins, I said, let me consume you, hello magnesium, hello phosphorous, hello manganese, hello selenium, and hello to some iron too.

It was crunchy, chewy, fresh, absolutely gorgeous.

Apparently, according to an article in the Daily Mail the more you enjoy what you eat, the more vitamins you absorb.

Then I said "Why, freshly baked, unsliced bread, are you so delicious?"
 
check out Amylopectin A and you might not eat bread again
 
BaliRob said:
STOP this insanity or die of starvation and not Diabetes - come on !!??
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I can testify that it is quite possible to put on weight without eating bread. You aren't exactly removing a food group by cutting out bread and it certainly won't lead to either malnutrition or starvation!
 
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