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ally1

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i saw the dietician
i was weighed and all she said was lose weight, which i know i have too
she asked what i ate, she said to eat brown bread and potatoes, she doesn,t want to see me again, i,m glad as i wouldn,t have gone back
i get more help and advice from here
 
Sorry that it wasn't a more positive experience , but I am not surprised. I'd steer clear of the carbs, whether brown white or rainbow coloured and eat to your meter . You have made some progress so keep at it. Plenty of support here.
 
Oh dear Ally, I was really hoping you would get some support. I don't understand how a dietician can advise anyone to eat bread and potatoes when they have a lot of weight to lose, irrespective of any diabetes issues. Never mind, put it down to experience and carry on trying yourself, using your meter to help you. (and this forum)
 
How unhelpful! I hate it when these people say "lose weight" as if I hadn't noticed I was 17 stone! We know we need to lose weight, we even know how to a great extent, but it's the support of others that will keep us going when it inevitably gets tough to keep it up.

When I was a kid in the 70s, and you first started hearing ideas about how to diet, the advice was to cut out bread and potatoes. Who'd have thought they got it exactly right?

You keep on with us on here Ally. We'll keep each other heading in the right direction!
 
Yes. I agree that even from just a weight loss perspective, advising carbs is strange. My GP said I needed to avoid them to help me lose the weight that would also help my BS levels. I spoke to him today and mentioned I'd taken him literally and he said good for you, it'll do no harm. So keep cutting them back and test test testing.
 
Ally you've done great so far and you've rightly sussed out that some of the advice out there is a bit outdated. I'm sure that in time things will change, but in the meantime I imagine we all just nod and smile at them...or shoot flames at them

The doctor I saw at work yesterday mentioned my weight and I replied "you know, if a doctor or nurse telling me to lose weight was actually going to make me slim, I'd have been skinny years ago". I think she got the hint...
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Oh dear Ally, I was really hoping you would get some support. I don't understand how a dietician can advise anyone to eat bread and potatoes when they have a lot of weight to lose, irrespective of any diabetes issues.
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Presumably have to follow follow the "starchy foods good" dogma. Possibly without even realising that "eat lots of glucose" is really bad advice.
Wonder if they've ever heard of William Banting. But his approach to dieting was badly received by "experts" in 1863
 
thank you my internet friends for replying
i am taking the advice you all give me
 
i avoid starch like the plauge ahah lots alternatives xx
 
I'm disappointed that you had no more advice Did she not mention of vegetables, dairy and fruit?

@mpe
Banting diet.: This gentleman took a large proportion of his calories as alcohol with many glasses of claret, a tumbler of grog at night and even his dry toast was softened in spirits I have a father that does that. He's thin and alive despite serious heart problems ( and only alive because of drugs, and surgery provided by many , many thousands of NHS funds) I wouldn't recommend it as a diet)
 
phoenix, i didn,t get any advice about vegetables, fuit or dairy
 
What a shame the appointment wasn't more constructive, but you are already seeing results of the work you're doing, so at least you know how to carry on.

Keep up your good work.
 
I've seen many, many posts about dieticians on this forum over the years and most of them are negative. Whilst I'm sure there are good ones out there I have to wonder who the amateurs are who train them all; it's appalling and funded by the NHS
 
The best bit of advice the dietician gave me was if sugar is higher than 3rd on the list of ingredients don't have it and that seem to work fine for me
 
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