You can never compare a type1 diagnosis to a type2 diagnosis.
@AdamJames - just a thought, looking at your salad ingredients, have you tried roasting some of them, letting them cool and add in that to the leafage? Little tomatoes and peppers are amazing roasted, maybe with a clove or two of garlic - and it takes away the totally “raw rabbit food” feeling of a lot of salad. The oil you cook them in make a lovely dressing, too. Almost makes salad bearable!
My pleasure! I love food so much, and am determined to still love what I eat, even though it’s so different these days. Lidl do jars of chargrilled veggies in oil, which are fab to warm slightly and chuck in a salad, maybe with some olives and feta.Wonderful idea! I love garlic, and olive oil for the roasting is very much on the allowed (even recommended) list!
I've been realising recently that just doing different things to the same food really helps keep things interesting.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Either it should be this satisfying, or I must be crazy, as your full house made me (quite idiotically) happy!I don't know if it should be as satisfying as it is, but it just is
I have never been obese so I found it difficult to understand why I am diabetic and was in denial for a while!
My favourite thing to to with a bowl or leaves is slather it in mayonnaise
Good nutrients is OK but not fat.Hi again. Thanks for your reply. You're obviously struggling to get the right balance but by low-carbing where you can you are doing the right thing food wise. My wife struggles to keep weight down compared with me as her metabolism is much lower than mine. If we eat the same food on holiday (not low-carb) she gains weight twice as fast as me. She has to almost starve herself together with low-carb to maintain a good weight; very frustrating for her. I claim she absorbs nutrients from the air!
dear judgemental persons, don't run to a security guard when you find me with my strides half down in a bog having an injection tho I've not done that for 20 years, don't tut when I blood test when eating out, dont require me to leave your cafe as I injected at your table, don't imply my illness is self afflicted, don't compare me to the anecdotal perfect diabetic who never hypos, don't tell me I shouldn't swim if I risk hypos afterwards, don't tell me I failed at full time employment and I'm a lazy bar steward just working part time when I'm as fit as I am.
Oh and you don't need to tell me that I don't look ill either, nor assume I'm drunk or drugged up when sat sweating outside your shop with my shopping and I don't know if I paid for that Mars bar at the till, what Mars bar even.
In fact, just get lost afore you get here as I could go on
There’s so, so much cultural, emotional, societal and psychological stuff attached to food...Thanks for the hug @Mel dCPI think most of my unhappy face was for the alcohol bit!
Mars bars I could always take or leave, but I always packed them in my rucksack while hiking. I feel strangely naked while in the hills without a Mars bar in my rucksack. I suppose I should continue to pack them, because if I get into trouble in the middle of nowhere, managing T2 will very quickly seem like the least of my worries, and it may become more important to have a source of quick-acting energy!
I'm beginning to realise just how psychological a lot of the whole food thing is. After months of abstinence, I'd got used to no alcohol at the weekends and stopped craving it. But when I started doing lots of big walks in the mountains a couple of months ago, at the end of the long days of walking, I find myself craving alcohol again. Probably because I have lots of memories of drinking at the end of a day's walking, like a lot of people do. I know I can't go down that road again unfortunately, as it always leads to me inhaling food the next day.
Good nutrients is OK but not fat.
Fat is absorbed in a section of the intestine which is currently being experimented on.
Flushed as becomes too congested which makes fat absorption for longer.
I'll try and find a better detailed report.
I know mentioned by Dr Steel on This Morning programme last month.
It wasnt this but very similiar.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...simple-gut-operation-cures-controls-diabetes/
Current evidence is pointing towards carb consumption playing a far larger part in atherosclerosis than fat ( it is in fact showing that fat is neutral to beneficial). Cardiac events are prevalent in uncontrolled Type 2 diabetics with higher than usual blood sugars so hence a lot of us use the LCHF diet to keep blood sugars low, reduce insulin stimulation thus allowing our bodies to burn fat which in turn leads to weight loss. I would go for LCHF (using fats to maintain satiety) over Slimming World, Weight Watchers or any other commercially based dietary regime. For me, to put it simply, it has worked.I agree , I cannot personally do the LCHF diet anyway as I can't stick to it and disagree with eating High Fat when , My dad who had T2 for years , had a heart attack at 59 from atherosclerosis ; isn't heart attack a high risk factor for diabetics ? I'm in a dilemma as I need to lose weight but Slimming World has too many high carbs ? What diet should I really be on?
Current evidence is pointing towards carb consumption playing a far larger part in atherosclerosis than fat ( it is in fact showing that fat is neutral to beneficial). Cardiac events are prevalent in uncontrolled Type 2 diabetics with higher than usual blood sugars so hence a lot of us use the LCHF diet to keep blood sugars low, reduce insulin stimulation thus allowing our bodies to burn fat which in turn leads to weight loss. I would go for LCHF (using fats to maintain satiety) over Slimming World, Weight Watchers or any other commercially based dietary regime. For me, to put it simply, it has worked.
Maybe check out the fat emperor (Ivor Cummins) on youtube. Aseem Malhotra (cardiac surgeon) and Dr Jason Fung (also you tube) Quite a few videos on www.dietdoctor.com too.Thankyou for that , it has been most informative , I will try again , I do prefer eating nuts and fried eggs , I never really knew what my dad ate ( except at meal times) as he had a secret stash. I see myself ending up injecting if I can't give up chocolate & wine . ( wine not every day mind and definitely not alcoholic) ~` Many thanks Pre- Diet
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