can't stop losing weight

Can anyone help? I need to stop losing weight. Since low(ish) carbing over a few weeks, I now keep my scores below 6 except for the odd slip-up (often unexplainable). However, I don't wish to go below 9st (I'm 5ft 7), neither do I wish to add the weight again (2 st - which was not 'me' except for the last ten years when I've been a bit idle with regard to exercise, now rectified). I'm happy to be 9st once more. But I can't see how to stop it going down every week. It's a little frightening.

If I add carbs in it will put my bg level over 6. Is there food with calories in or something that will not spike the bg? I don't actually need any more food - feel better than in ages - but am happy to eat some if it will curtail the 'diminishing dragongirl' syndrome. Not sure I want any more eggs, meat or fish or cheese really - have enough of that already! Any other suggestion would be really helpful.

And can someone tell me whether exercising after a meal actually keeps bg down (say, I've had something that *might* put it up? I'm not sure I understand the connection properly.

Thanks.

Bump! I really do need an answer.
Hana - I don't have a secret, it just keeps happening.

Thanks for your suggestions, Alice.

I reckon if I add in for the teas and coffees I would be doing around 50 carbs a day. Not sure I can do more than that at the 3 meals without spiking, but from what you say I could add snacks between meals and add some in that way.

Today I ate arbitrarily (and without going into quantities which are all small – used scales and bk to count): blue cheese and cucumber for brekkies; 6 olives, ham, lettuce, pepper and tomato for lunch; mid afternoon had 10 almonds ground on some prawn mayo; and for dinner had 2 smoked haddock with savoy cabbage and some cooked celery. Other days there are combinations of eggs, cheese, chicken and other veg, of course.

I'm not sure it's the extra carbs so much as certain foods that seem to push it up a bit, even things like broccoli and savoy cabbage. So having to have small helpings. But I'm not going hungry at all.

Haven't been eating bread (or the usual list of starch) but have bought some off Fergus which I will make up tomorrow and try out. Fruit seems to be out, though.

So you are saying if I add in some more food I will likely stop losing weight and then stabilise the bgs, right? And it's an experiment to find which does least damage to bg levels? I like the idea of a trial period so I'll give it a go. I really don't think I can cope with my trousers falling down all the time :lol:

Thanks for taking the time to respond!

Thank you, Timo and Alice. It's reassuring at first to have some expert opinion check things out. I'm not a nut fan but grinding them makes them okay so will find some of those you suggest, Timo.

I do feel horribly underweight now, but until I had children I was always somewhat thin and afterwards came in looking better at around 9st 7. Only got to 11 with HRT (which I ditched a couple of years ago) and after a serious illness caused by a typhoid jab 13 years ago. It became the norm but I knew for me it was not ok. Couldn't shift it. Delighted to have done so now but just know that when the doc sees me again she will not be happy (think Biafran refugee), so wish to sort it before then. Then she may be more agreeable to low carbing with no meds for a for as long as it works!

Funnily enough, I bought 2 avocados on offer in Tesco the other day (2 for 1) and was planning to try them today - but meter won't turn on, so have to sort that out first. Those batteries only lasted 6 weeks. Will ask for more and keep a spare set or possibly a spare meter. Good it only happened now, as I am less phased on what to eat today without readings. Feels sort of freeing actually but know I mustn't go for the baked beans (which I sorely miss) :cry:

Thanks again both.

well as a final ps to this thread - I just ate my (Hass) avocado and can't come up with a figure for carbs. Collins says 8 for half (ie 16) while the Salter nutri scales say 3.2 (but I weighed the whole thing before peeling and stoning - oops) and the internet says around 12. I didn't know I was meant to be recording *net* carbs each day for everything (am I?) so am looking for the ordinary figure for one Hass avocado - not that big a one. Anyone?

This is indeed becoming difficult. I'd read those links before but it's a tad hard to apply even tho relatively easy to follow the argument.

Anyway - what is an avocado worth?
Cos I was willing to try upping the carbs for this meal in order to start moving to having no more weight loss. An experiment as agreed above.

So I just had the one avocado in prawn mayo (had the benecol too which is more grams) and pre lunch was 4.6 and one hour after is 4.7. It may yet spike but I've not moved from the 4s all day so far, I am full, though I may need a 4pm snack before dinner tonight as it's a big gap between meals, but I was in the 4s all yesterday with both a mid-afternoon snack and cheese before 10pm. Day before I went to 5.3 on only one score. The last two days there's been a 3.8 or 3.9 before lunch. I don't know what's happening. Something isn't right, tho I feel fine. Well slightly worried but physically okay.

If anyone is going to answer it needs to be soon or I'll have expired!!!!

OK thanks Patch.