Hmmm, maybe my fish for protein was a mistaken suggestion, unless you still eat fish. I have on occasions made nut roasts which do have some bread crumbs but only a couple of slices of good bread which over the whole nut Roast amounts to a small amount of carbs. mixed nuts, mushrooms, peppers, onions, grated carrot, two eggs, herbs, garlic. When cold it slices well, is full of energy and freezes. I used to use this on some of my two day mountain rides before my DX, nutroast lasted two days and I am sure would go longer, did not go off, very filling and gave me energy.
You do much longer rides than I do, a days Mountain Biking for me would be about 80 kilometres, I also carry a sizeable 20 ltr back pack so have room for some luxuries.
Block of coconut (go to the 'ethnic' section of the supermarket). It is delicious and filling and you keep it in the fridge but could chop off a chunk or 3 to take with you.Agree, 100%
I am trying to build up a snack pack for my long distance cycling and running.
Looking for good combination of taste, energy, filling as well low carb. And since dryfruits and nuts are not much affected by rain, so even if it gets wet, it would still last long.
Hence trying to learn from experiences of others
Well sounds interesting option, but carrying it on cycle would be difficult unless i can make tubes of it.I love making my own almond butter which I can then easily eat on the run (bake whole almonds for 10 minutes, blitz with a little coconut oil in a food processor for a while - noisy but it works eventually).
Positive effects on diabetes control pushed me to keep enjoying it for long runs. Weekend long runs really makes a refreshing change. Some how for me it was exercise that made the reversals as changes in my diet where very minimal, like cutting down sugary drinks along with cut down in deserts and other high carb items which anyway was very low.
20ltr backpack would be a luxury to carry
I'm another who look towards the nuts, rather than fruits.
I'm curious though; if your dietary changes have been minimal to bring you to this stage in your control of your diabetes, what makes you think to look to change your on-ride snacks?
Secondly, what plan have you formuklated for the time you suffer an injury or are unable to exercise, for another reason?
Good point, like you I think it's both LCHF and Aerobic Exercise that helped move my Kilos, biggest problem now is maintaining my weight and muscle.I would strongly recommend others to look into other ways of controlling diabetes too, what if LCHF or Keto has long term effects that are not known now.
Except that we do know that throughout history, humans have thrived on non processed foods some of which were low carb. We have a method of producing an alternate energy (ketones and glucose) without eating glucose because of large brains are metabolically demanding and our food supply wasn't as readily available as it is now. Our large brains then devised a way to make large quantities of starch and sugar cheap and tempting for the masses which has probably caused the rises in obesity and diabetes over the last 40 years. So I'd say that our recent high carb processed food diet has been the failed experiment and not eating low carb/high fat.I think for me what worked was being able to burn out extra glucose in blood and I went into remission quite a long time ago.
So I kept following my workout regimes to keep my diabetes under control. Now that I have found that there are others also who had great success in controlling the same with other means like dietary changes. Its no harm to learn, test and practice the other things also as Plan B
I am not sure how long in my life i would be able to keep up with good exercise schemes or physically high active state and as you suggested what if i suffer an injury or unable to exercise so to overcome such scenario i am also trying to test the effects of dietary changes so that i am prepared to handle such fall outs and if this works i can transit to low carb diet until i am back into action.
I would strongly recommend others to look into other ways of controlling diabetes too, what if LCHF or Keto has long term effects that are not known now.
Except that we do know that throughout history, humans have thrived on non processed foods some of which were low carb. We have a method of producing an alternate energy (ketones and glucose) without eating glucose because of large brains are metabolically demanding and our food supply wasn't as readily available as it is now. Our large brains then devised a way to make large quantities of starch and sugar cheap and tempting for the masses which has probably caused the rises in obesity and diabetes over the last 40 years. So I'd say that our recent high carb processed food diet has been the failed experiment and not eating low carb/high fat.
If you can exercise intensively enough to gain or maintain your large leg, back, shoulder and chest muscles then this will help keep your metabolism working well that's great however most people will need to change the way they eat if they are to keep diabetes at bay.
Good point, like you I think it's both LCHF and Aerobic Exercise that helped move my Kilos, biggest problem now is maintaining my weight and muscle.
As for the unknown, well we all have to decide what is at this moment working for us. In my eyes anything that keeps us off the medication or is helping to get someone off the medication or into remission can only be good, let's face it if we do nothing the long term effects of diabetes will very likely be devastating, so we take our chances and face the unknown as an adventure.
I am very pro exercise for metabolic health and general wellbeing ( it is my job) but the idea that modern exercise can counteract our modern dietary habit is a popular myth IMO.There are various narratives to history. One could be that in history the people use to work very hard and hence there high carb or high fat diet was metabolically consumed, slowly we tried to reduce the hard work but we didnt reduced the carbs, but we found innovative ways of consuming carbs and kept on making life sedentary and then when diabities stuck we suddenly started thinking oh, we are consuming lot more than what our body can handle in current state as it has burned out its resources much earlier to control glucose in blood as compared our expected life.
I think diet should not be the only solution. Especially a diet that is based on changing form where body gets energy in long term.
If fat was suppose to be day to day source of energy then human body would have stored glucose in some other form and would have used the fat for day to requirements and not glucose. Ketone is bodies reserve energy mechanism. Its like your inverter in house, which takes up charge when power goes out.
Having said that I dont deny the outcomes of Keto diets, that probably on the expected lines that if you close down the gates and only use taps the house will never get flooded.
A balance of diet, physical exercise and mental well being should be good enough in most cases to get into remission.
Indian yogic practices share many insights on same line, they had mediation for mental well being, yoga and related kriyas for physical exercise, a balanced diet, which also included fasting and prohibition / limitation of certain diet items in certain situations.
Except that we do know that throughout history, humans have thrived on non processed foods some of which were low carb. We have a method of producing an alternate energy (ketones and glucose) without eating glucose because of large brains are metabolically demanding and our food supply wasn't as readily available as it is now. Our large brains then devised a way to make large quantities of starch and sugar cheap and tempting for the masses which has probably caused the rises in obesity and diabetes over the last 40 years. So I'd say that our recent high carb processed food diet has been the failed experiment and not eating low carb/high fat.
If you can exercise intensively enough to gain or maintain your large leg, back, shoulder and chest muscles then this will help keep your metabolism working well that's great however most people will need to change the way they eat if they are to keep diabetes at bay.
If fat was suppose to be day to day source of energy then human body would have stored glucose in some other form and would have used the fat for day to requirements and not glucose.
Which is exactly what indeed happens when we stop overloading our bodies with carbs?
I look at it in this way.
The body processes toxins first to rid them from the body.
Starts with poisons that we hopefully rarely take in
Then goes to alcohol which is processed next
Then carbohydrate which it either uses immediately or turns into fat for storage
Finally it uses its historic fuel fat.
This to me seems the most sensible suggestion for the development of prehistoric man.
Fat is the "preferred" fuel hence we turn other fuel types into it to store. The body runs best when utilising it.
No problem, just visit a store with camping gear or do a google search for refillable tubes.Well sounds interesting option, but carrying it on cycle would be difficult unless i can make tubes of it.
Aka we are the only animals clever enough to make our own food and stupid enough to eat it.I agree. If any diet is the untested diet, it's the low fat diet. It's been a demonstrable calamity. Yet almost everyone clings to the idea of it as though humankind evolved eating deadly diets for three million years and then discovered in 1950 that manmade food was necessary to support life
I agree. If any diet is the untested diet, it's the low fat diet. It's been a demonstrable calamity. Yet almost everyone clings to the idea of it as though humankind evolved eating deadly diets for three million years and then discovered in 1950 that manmade food was necessary to support life
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