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Feeling so down.

bigbaldnige

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I'm so fed up of not being able to eat the food I enjoyed before being diagnosed T2. It's making me so down and even snapping at my wife. I don't drink never smoked all I had was my love of food now that's been taken away from me I can't see the point existing. Any one else get like this and what do u do to remedy it.
 
Oh dear, I wonder if you need to tweak your diet a bit to make it more sustainable for you personally? If you don't you are in danger of falling off the waggon and making yourself ill.

What are the favourite foods you are missing? Maybe we can suggest some way round it. I know that for me, personally, I could not imagine life without bread and spuds (especially chips) so by eating to my meter I found I can eat these daily with reduced portions and increased fats to help lower the GI, and not raising my levels too much.
 
Chips are the biggest thing I'm missing and our weekly take away usually chicken curry for me. My problem is I'm on a strict diet to gotta loose so much weight.
 
Hi, @bigbaldnige First of all just think how hard it is for your dear wife coping with you and having to think what is best for you to eat..
Many will say it is normal to get snappy etc; in the early stages. However you must snap out of being snappy.
There is lot of great meals you can have, you just have to make sure you are in control.
Have you got a "blood glucose meter"
You will shortly get lot of help from members that have or are still feeling like you.
Best of luck.
 
I rarely eat chips, but once in a while just have some anyway. As far as chicken curry, I would have minimum sauce with it and avoid popadums and too much naan. You can ask for plain boiled rice instead of pilau fried in ghee and then leave some of it if you wish. I hardly restrict my diet yet my HbA1c keeps dropping. I try to exercise loads and eat plenty of salad and veg.
 
Hi
I can send you the recipe of making chicken curry at home
Its really easy and very low carb, its not hard at all, that I can assure you you would not miss it, but dont eat the one's from restaurant as they add different things that are not good and neither low carb
Chips is something unfortunately you would have to reduce a lot
What are your levels like during the day
I suggest you cut down everything to get the sugar in normal range first and then eat to meter may be like a few chips instead of a pack full.
 
First off thanks for ur replies. My wife is also on a diet we both need to shift a lot of weight. We've really changed the way we eat and of course what we eat. I'm just on a bit of a downer and food used to lift me. I know worked out etc helps with mood as I used to be a body builder/Weight lifter but I'm just getting over a broken ankle and have to take it easy at the mo.
 

My levels now start at 7.5 before breakfast and about 5.3 before lunch and on average 2hrs after tea they're about 8. We've looked at sweet potatoes for home made oven chips. The recipe would be great thanks.

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Are you LCHF or calorie controll for your diet .. I have lost four and a half stone in LCHF and my bloods are all returning to normal .. I think you need to experiment a bit more with your foods as you may be surprised what will not spike your sugars .. Do you test regular?
 
We're eating low carb high fibre diet with only 1 exception and that's Sunday lunch lol. I'm not weighing my self until I see the nurse on the 25th and hopping This diet is working for the weight as well as its been working for my bloods.
 
when i was told i was type2 in may and joined here, i thought oh my god i can,t eat anything
since may i havn,t touched chips, have had the odd few potatoes which spiked my reading
i do miss chips and rice but the cravings are not so bad now
 
I have lost 4 stones on low carb/increased fats and am struggling to stop losing even more.

I'll tell you what I did with chips. I tested before and after meals with chips, reducing the portions each time until I found a portion size that did little damage to my levels. These are home made chips, deep fried in rapeseed oil. They are better than shop bought and oven baked. I initially could only have 6, but 6 is better than none. With bacon, eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes it makes a nice meal. I did the same with bread. After testing it out lots of times I discovered I can eat one slice with a meal (not on its own) with no effect, but cannot manage 2 slices at all.
 
Hello,

Try butternut squash chips.... Cutting butternut is difficult.
Chop into chip sized slices
Season with pepper and or salt
Bake on baking paper for approx. 25 minutes, turning half way

Voila!

The first time, I would suggest chopping various sizes, I prefer them thin cut, but by doing them various sizes you can decide which you prefer.
 
bigbaldnige said:
We're eating low carb high fibre diet with only 1 exception and that's Sunday lunch lol. I'm not weighing my self until I see the nurse on the 25th and hopping This diet is working for the weight as well as its been working for my bloods.
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LCHF ... Low carb high fat ...... . ?
 
Hi bigbaldnige I know how you are feeling. I am guessing you must of found out about your type 2 around the same time as me (7th Nov) and I am in the same boat as you, I need to loose a lot of weight (not quite double figures although the doc might argue that) and I love my food. A lot of the foods I am told I should try and eat I don't like. At the moment I am just cutting down on the portion size and trying to eat sensibly but I know that after about two weeks (based on previous diets) the cravings for those things I can't have will hit me (I guess they have hit you already) and that is when my battle will start to keep eating sensibly.

One suggestion for chips (although I cant yet say how affective it is against normal chips this is a recipe from slimming world) is to peel and cut your potato as you wish (chips or chunks) then part boil for about 2 minutes. Then lay on a oven tray and spray with Fry Light, add salt and pepper and then place in the oven at around 180 to 200 for about 20 minutes until cooked.
 
bigbaldnige said:
We've cut out high fats to help loose weight
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The fat part helps with weight loss .. If you eat or swap all low fat foods for normal fat you should loose weight easer .. The body is not needing to store fat if your eating enough of it. It also helped lower my sugars and cholestral.. What are you eating ? And how is it affecting your readings sugar wise ?
 
Chips are best cooked in the traditional way in a good quality oil or if your not veggie animal fat ... They will not rise your sugar so high then.
 
I go the opposite way, I have a curry with two or three popadoms without spiking as long as I do not have rice or bread.

Rice will spike me, especially plain boiled rice. Pilau rice slightly less so because of the fat.

You need to test your levels to see what you can or can not eat without spiking. You should aim for glucose counts two hours after a meal which are no more than 2 mmol of your before the meal counts.
 
I find i have to increase my fats to lose the weight. Since eating more cheese, cream, butter, coconut oil and peanut butter, I've lost so much more weight. If you decrease the carbs you need to get your energy from somewhere else and thats good fats.
 
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