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Diet to put weight on....

dwelldon

dwelldon

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Type of diabetes
Other
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I am type 2 and my weight was around 12 St 10lbs last year and now i am 10st. I am wanting to put weight on but it just keeps coming off.I am 6ft so you can imagine my weight is a concern too me. All I can find is advice for losing weight and not gaining.

What I really need is advice and ideas of what I can eat without banging the blood sugar up. An example or two of daily diet would be ideal
 
I am a skinny type 2
I eat lots of veg putting butter on them ,nuts are a good snack so is cheese, full fat natural yog with berries and almonds .If you can manage a cracker load it with butter and cream cheese and avocado or smoked salmon if you like it .Up the fats and snack between meals
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what are you eating now? are you typically full after meals or could you eat bigger portions of the low/zero carbs elements.

From reading posts on this forum and reading info from things like the Newcastle study it seems that once you have lost weight (from around internal organs) then you can tolerate more carbs without raising blood glucose levels.

This of course would be person specific, so you would have to test it to see. Do you have a meter? (if not ask your GP for one - if you are super lucky you will get one, if not the SDcodefree from Home and Health (or Amazon) are cheapest for the test strips).

Things like avocado are good for energy dense tasty foods that being low carb will minimise BG raises, as are nuts, full fat yogurt, cheese etc

Are you eating full fat?
 
My diet is pretty good. For example today I had porridge with nuts and cinnamon. I then had a protein shake with 3 strawberry mixed with milk and water. For mid morning snack I had some pieces of chicken, lunch just had small pork pie treat now n then. 4 fillets of mackerel with two slices of pumpkin bread
 
even the yanks are waking up to the idea

American diabetic association http://www.professional.diabetes.org/

http://www.professional.diabetes.or...=DP&s_src=vanity&s_subsrc=nutritionguidelines

Evidence is inconclusive for an ideal amount of total fat intake for people with diabetes;
therefore, goals should be individualized; fat quality appears to be far more important
than quantity.

In people with type 2 diabetes, a Mediterranean-style, MUFA-rich eating pattern may benefit
glycemic control and CVD risk factors and can therefore be recommended as an effective
alternative to a lower-fat, higher-carbohydrate eating pattern.
 
I had the same problem (loosing weight). I increased my meat and fish intake, eg mixed grill (with salad not chips) when eating out and eat loads of nuts, this worked (I put on a stone+ in 6 weeks but the increase in protein caused my bg levels to rise a little, I have since cut back a little on protein and increased my fat content. Fat has no effect on bg levels, whereas protein can if eating lots.
I now have around 40g butter / day, 30g coconut oil, 150ml double cream, plenty of mayo, an avocado, and now chose fat cuts of meat whenever possible (chicken legs, pork and lamb chops etc.).... and this maintains my weight, and has done now for 3 months.....still a stone heavier than I was.
 
Ian thanks for the advice,.

Yes I tend to eat full fat, nuts, Greek yogurt, only like mozzarella cheese so haver that on toast.
 
Dwelldon
Have you looked into the possibility that you might be LADA / T1.5.
I was originally diagnosed T2, but loosing weight. I asked for a GAD test, this will define whether you are T2 or T1. Have a read / look up LADA, and see whether you fit the symptoms.
 
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