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Five years in and struggling with nerve damage / depression


I'm one of life's weirdos, in that I don't care for chocolate, but I do know folks buy their lower carb chocolate in the main supermarkets, including Lidl and Aldi and probably online too. I believe the magic thing is 70% or more cocao solids, so it tends to be darker chocolate, but once you have it a few times, milk chocolate tastes very sweet.

I'm sure others with more info than me will pop in with their favourites.
 
I think I covered quite a bit in my post “who’s to blame” so I won’t go into too much. All the advice given is great & what people are saying is that’s what works for them which doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for you, but that doesn’t mean you’ve failed it just means move on to something else. Sometimes the way Diabetes and its effects are described can scare the **** out of you hence why I call it my “health issue”. I’m not in denial it’s how I cope mentally with it. Anyway, I fast intermittently and have the occasional treat but in the early days I had no control, I liked to eat. It’s a bit like shopping when you’re hungry, you buy things you wouldn’t if you weren’t hungry so what I did was to cook up 12 or so hard boiled eggs and leave them in the fridge so I could take one if I fancied one. I’d cut up cubes of cheese & take a couple if I fancied them. Now I know some won’t agree but I also cooked up loads of chipolatas and leave them in the fridge. Sometimes I’d have an egg, 2 chipolatas, 2 cubes of cheese or just one or the other. It’s easy to grab the wrong stuff if we have to faff about preparing something so my way was to get good stuff prepared. A word about the chipolatas and sausages, most supermarket ones are bad news and I never buy them. Go to a good butcher who uses a high percentage of actual meat. As I said earlier this is how I deal with it, if it helps you or anyone else great but if not try something else. Good luck with whatever you try
 
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