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How about boiled eggs with mayo for brekkie, or omelette, or bacon and eggs? Think you need to eat more fat like avocado (if you like them), Salad with tuna or chicken and French dressing. Put butter on your veg in the evening. And cream on no sugar jelly with berries in. It doesn't have to be boring. I found I couldn't eat any cereals like porridge or bran flakes. I haven't lost weight either but I think it depends if you have much to lose.

Hows about a good ole English for breakfast but with a high quality meat sausage, Eggs, bacon mushroom? Try and very your dinner maybe cauliflower cheese in addition to meat. Chicken vegetable stir fry without the noodles.

Eating out I haven't mastered yet! But variety is the key. Maybe have a look at some of the recipes on here for some ideas.

Low Carb definitely doesn't have to be boring

jazzywildchild said:

so on week 4 of low carb, breakfast is porridge or bran flakes (30-40g depending on recommend serving)
Lunch is full fat yoghurt and fruit, mainly berries.
Tea is usually meat and veg.
Finding it quite hard eating the same sort of things with being a faddy eater, especially eating out.
How do people cope? The only thing keepin me on low carb is the fact I went to a picnic on Saturday and my bg went really high after eating things like quiche,sausage rolls etc.
Missing bog standard toast and finding it hard watching hubby eat what he wants, not gunna force him to eat like me coz why should we both be miserable? Wouldn't mind if I was losing weight but it doesn't seem to be shifting at all, I'm the same as when I started >_> feeling quite down about it all, got a review coming up in July, nurse mentioned I may be given more meds but really don't want to end up on insulin

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Could be the porridge or bran flakes is a few too many carbs for you....40g is a huge chunk of what many think of as their whole day allowance. (I aim for less than 30g for the whole day and less if I can and have lost a stone in 4 weeks). There are many things you can eat to make your diet more interesting...have a look at the recipe and food and nutrition sections and also the ''what have you eaten today thread'' as it will give you a huge list of things to enjoy and experiment with. It is hard missing the foods you can't have now but there are some low carb breads available...Burgen Soya and Linseed is low and also Lidl do some High Protein Low Carb rolls that are delicious and filling. Try not to get down about it...it gets easier in time

What about cold sliced meat, a piece of cheese, wrapped in a large lettuce leaf with some mayonnaise for brekkie

Hi,

When starting you need to drop all of that; you can't eat cereal and low carb. The milk alone might push your carbs too high.

I would say abandon it for a couple of weeks and then start again; this time eat no more than 30 carbs a day max. After 2 weeks of that see about increasing your carbs slowly and check your blood sugars. Only eat carbs that don't badly elevate your blood sugars. You may find you can tolerate quite a few but you need to tread softly when starting and watch your meter.

There are hundreds of recipes on here for low carb foods. Try cream cheese in ham for breakfast or full fat Greek yoghurt; there are dozens of other things you can eat.

The point of low carbing is to try and get your body from using glucose as a fuel to using fat as a fuel; and it is very easy to drop out of the fat burning ketosis if you go over your own personal carbohydrate threshold. That's why when you start you should go really low to make sure you are below the threshold.

It's not a boring or unpleasant way of eating at all; so if you are finding that it is then I'm pretty sure you could expand your repertoire by looking carefully at different recipes.

Best

Dillinger

Worth trying some different things to see if you like them. I haven't mastered breakfast yet as only started eating it at all after my recent diagnosis and it needs to be something quick so I also have no time to cook. Currently ryvita and cream cheese in the week but try to have something cooked at weekends.

Lunchtime I have salad usually a combination of iceberg or little gem lettuce, spinach, peppers, celery, tomato, feta, avocado, olives, rocket, lime zest and trialling some sprouted seeds (baby rocket today). Just putting one or two different things in at a time can make a huge difference.

Quiche is a good option if you stick to the filling and leave the pastry.

The good thing is you haven't given up. You will find things you like, and are doing the right thing in looking for different ideas. You will get there

Hiya. Changing eating habits can be very difficult so try not to be hard on yourself. We are what we eat, perhaps, so we may feel we're losing all that's familiar, not just the breakfast cereal or whatever. Easy does it then and good luck

Also, if you are struggling for ideas, go and take a look on Instagram and pInterest for the #LCHF. There are loads of recipe ideas and things you can eat. It will give you a bit more variety and keep you a little more interested!

I've found it's fun experimenting and seeing what your reaction is to various combinations.

I make a Nut and Seed Granola (basically Nuts and Seeds,coconut oil and sweetener baked for 30 minutes, served with Greek Yoghurt (the Asda one is very creamy).

Monday I added 15g of Jumbo Rolled Oats, and it appeared to have no effect on BS. Today I upped that to 25g and I was 7.4 at 1 hour and the same at 2 hours, so now I know that 25g is probably too much.

Makes breakfast interesting as well.

It is a learning curve, so don't be too hard on yourself. I am still learning what LC meals I can grab for busy days and creating go-to snacks for when I am craving carbs or sweets. Although, the longer you LC, the cravings depreciate considerably.

If it helps, make a list of breakfast, lunch, dinner (tea?) options and post it on your fridge. That way, you can refer to it before grocery shopping or when you feel like you have been in a rut for a couple of days.

<--- list maker by nature, so that is why it appeals to me. You could do whatever works for you.

jazzywildchild said:

40g of cereal not carbs lol, it's around 20-22g carbs, I'm finicky which cereal I get due to this, not a fan or tomatoes or cucumber so find salads hard, don't have time to cook breakfast in a morning unless I want to get up around 5am. Will have a look T the forums suggested. It's why I love this site, there is always help to be found. Thanks guys xx

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There are things you could prepare beforehand, I made egg mayo to have on ryvita for breakfast, I make enough to last 3-4 days at a time. Or prawn mayo is good too, I buy frozen prawns when they're on special offer so not expensive either Hellmanns real mayo, one of the best things about low carbing

I think it's really easy to get into the mindset of counting carbs instead of calories and trying to get away with having small amounts of toast or cereals and that just makes it easier to fail.

Firstly, because we've bought the bread, cereal etc and it's there in the fridge/cupboard and secondly because if you give yourself an 'allowance' you are literally allowing yourself to eat some of the foods which your body has a big problem, handling. There's no dietary requirement for carbohydrates.

Baking is uber-fashionable at the moment and people are eating cupcakes, cakes, breads and pastries. Not only will this lead to a further rise in diabetes victims in the future, but it often leaves those of us with diabetes feeling left out. Instead of suggesting to friends that they should lay off the 2 bottles of wine and 6 cupcakes on a Friday night in front of the TV, we make low carb variants of cakes ourselves.

If you go into any supermarket with a Free From aisle, it may be gluten-free but it's all cakes and biscuits. Being gluten-free doesn't make the cakes less carby or the chemicals used in much of it, organic. Likewise, using lower carb flours and artificial sweeteners, only makes the cakes lower carb, it doesn't make them wonderfully nutritious. It doesn't break the habit of baking, seeing cakes as desirable and rewarding ourselves for being 'good'.

So it is really tough, especially when friends and family are doing the "one cupcake won't hurt thing" but in my experience, the fewer carbs eaten, the better. If I don't eat the bread, toast, cereal, rice, pasta etc I don't need to test so much.

Have a look at this glorious thread - it's inspiring!

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/vegetarian-vegan-low-carb-recipe-index.61859/