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Do you follow a reduced carb diet?

Do you follow the advice on reducing carbs given to the new members on this site?

  • Yes - I have done for over 5 years

    Votes: 1 2.5%

  • Yes - I have done for over 4 years

    Votes: 1 2.5%

  • Yes - I have done for over 3 years

    Votes: 5 12.5%

  • Yes - Other

    Votes: 3 7.5%

  • Yes - I have done for over 2 years

    Votes: 8 20.0%

  • Yes - I have done for over 1 year

    Votes: 5 12.5%

  • Yes - I have done for under 1 year

    Votes: 13 32.5%

  • No - but I am thinking about doing so

    Votes: 2 5.0%

  • No - I just follow the advice of my HCP

    Votes: 1 2.5%

  • No - I eat as many carbs as I like

    Votes: 1 2.5%
  • Total voters
    40
Denise - I had to tick the 'yes other' box as your survey didn't cover lapsing/intermittent low carbing. Being an all or nothing kind of girl, I severely restricted carbs for 8 months, then partially restricted carbs for around six months, then used the eat carbs and cover with insulin technique and now I'm back to moderate restriction (where hopefully I'll stay) :D
 
I have voted "Yes - other"

Which can be taken as roughly:

I have noted the advice about carbs on this site and followed SOME of it :-)

I do think carbs are not emphasised enough (as a thing to cut down on) by the HCPs.
I have reduced my carb intake and improved my blood glucose control and reduced my weight - two out of three of these please my diabetes nurse greatly; I ignored her platitudes about needing to eat plenty of carbs.
However I don't have a carb counting book and I don't practice carb counting - I just cut out the major processed carb sources most of the time.
Also, I do have a meter and I do test for several days from time to time but I don't test every day or every week even. I don't have any problems getting test strips and lancets as my GP is very supportive, and impressed by the output of the computer tool which can read and graph my results.

So (especially after having read the link for new members again) I follow some (most?) but not all of the advice.

I still find it hard not to eat carbs, but the less carbs I eat the less cravings I have.

Good luck with the poll.

LGC
 
Thanks for the votes, interesting results so far. More votes please ....
 
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