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Food glorious, food...
- Thread starter drillingcat
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Before anybody gives me greif!!!!! look at drillingcats last post !!!!!! all of a sudden hes focusssed. he knows what he is looking at. Dress it up in what ever frills and padding you like but his head appears to me to be pointing in the right direction ???????????
Sitting in the naughty chair because it is my comfort zone !!!!!!
DP
Sitting in the naughty chair because it is my comfort zone !!!!!!
DP
Dennis
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Dave,
I think 5 hours in the naughty chair is long enough - you can get down now. :wink:
I think 5 hours in the naughty chair is long enough - you can get down now. :wink:
sugarless sue
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OK Dave you can come out now.By Jove I think we've done it! :lol:
The Governor
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Hi drillingcat
First thing first, don't despair there's lots you can eat. I'm about 5 weeks in and am still discovering things that i can eat and the variety is increasing bit by bit each week.
I am low carbing myself and have pretty good control, on roughly 20 to 25g carbs per meal.
I wanted to eat as "normally" as I possibly could, without having to go onto a pseudo Atkins diet.
To give you an idea:
Breakfast, one of:
Ready brek - seems to work well for me, doesn't hit my BS too hard.
2 x slices of Nimble and scrambled egg and bacon
Plus a cup of tea with skimmed milk (not loads of milk though)
Lunch
Quite light, 2 x slices of Nimble with ham.
Tea time
50g broccoli, 50g cabbage, plus emat (beef, lamb etc)
Sometimes a small amount of new potatoes (currently about 80g)
Birds Eye frozen rice with peas is good for low carbs too.
Dreamfields pasta is good for carbs (you can get this from the Low carb megatore)
Munch Bunch youghurts have only 5g carbs in.
Supper 50 to 75g of peanuts, great for extra calories without too big a carb hit.
Thortons diabetic chocolate (about 4 squares)
I'm currenly trying to reintroduce fruit into my diet, although the BS hit can be quite high so I'm going careful.
Don't get down about it, my advice would be pick an amount of carbs you want to eat per meal and then just experiment from there.
I picked 20g per meal to start with and my control is pretty excellent, now I'm nudging it up to give myself more wriggle room, but I'm going slow so as not to lose control.
First thing first, don't despair there's lots you can eat. I'm about 5 weeks in and am still discovering things that i can eat and the variety is increasing bit by bit each week.
I am low carbing myself and have pretty good control, on roughly 20 to 25g carbs per meal.
I wanted to eat as "normally" as I possibly could, without having to go onto a pseudo Atkins diet.
To give you an idea:
Breakfast, one of:
Ready brek - seems to work well for me, doesn't hit my BS too hard.
2 x slices of Nimble and scrambled egg and bacon
Plus a cup of tea with skimmed milk (not loads of milk though)
Lunch
Quite light, 2 x slices of Nimble with ham.
Tea time
50g broccoli, 50g cabbage, plus emat (beef, lamb etc)
Sometimes a small amount of new potatoes (currently about 80g)
Birds Eye frozen rice with peas is good for low carbs too.
Dreamfields pasta is good for carbs (you can get this from the Low carb megatore)
Munch Bunch youghurts have only 5g carbs in.
Supper 50 to 75g of peanuts, great for extra calories without too big a carb hit.
Thortons diabetic chocolate (about 4 squares)
I'm currenly trying to reintroduce fruit into my diet, although the BS hit can be quite high so I'm going careful.
Don't get down about it, my advice would be pick an amount of carbs you want to eat per meal and then just experiment from there.
I picked 20g per meal to start with and my control is pretty excellent, now I'm nudging it up to give myself more wriggle room, but I'm going slow so as not to lose control.
DiabeticGeek
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Sorry for the winding up, but what I mean is that I treat these with caution. It isn't very scientific, I know, but I try to avoid counting units (carbs, calories or anything else for that matter). I am aware that counting works for many people, but for me it is bad psychology - if I know that I have a "budget" of a certain number of units then I feel deprived when I hit it and that makes the diet much harder to stick to. I find a total ban much easier to handle - but for a few things I just exercised caution. How much caution?... well:ally5555 said:
- Fresh fruit - a satsuma is OK, a bag of satsumas is not.
- Milk/cream - a splash of milk in tea is fine, a pint of milk is not.
- Plain yoghurt - a small pot for lunch is OK, but living on the stuff, as some people I know seem to do, would be problematic.
- Balsamic vinegar - usually contains quite a lot of sugar, but a few drops on a salad is harmless and makes the salad far more palatable
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Wheat bran, oat bran, rice bran etc. Actual bran, in a bag labeled bran (you can get it in health food shops). You can use it as a flour substitute for many purposes (it makes good pancakes and, so long as you use artificial sweetener, kind of OK muffins). I don't mean the various packaged cereals with "Bran" in the title - they often contain wheat and sugar.ally5555 said:
Carb counting is def not for everyone - for me as a dietitian I have always used it but for some of my pateints I have to use exact portion sizes because theycannot understand the carb concept at all.
A word of caution if u use bran whaich goes in and out of fashio - it can be a little harsh for some people - so introduce it slowly. Also it needs more fluids - water!
A word of caution if u use bran whaich goes in and out of fashio - it can be a little harsh for some people - so introduce it slowly. Also it needs more fluids - water!
drillingcat
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(Just so everyone is aware here, I am a girl, not a boy. Thanks! 
)
I am listening and I am trying but I just wanted some more advice, this whole thing has my head spinning; stupid diabetes!!! :x
Guv - thanks for your suggestion, I'm going to try all different methods here to see what fits me best. I'll set myself levels and try my utmost to stick to them!
Ahh, Diabeticgeek that sort of bran, here was I off to buy AllBran cereal!
Of course, it doesn't help my esteem when yesterday I reminded a complete moron in the office that I have diabetes, he informed me that there was no point in living and I might as well kill myself cos there's nothing left to enjoy.
)I am listening and I am trying but I just wanted some more advice, this whole thing has my head spinning; stupid diabetes!!! :x
Guv - thanks for your suggestion, I'm going to try all different methods here to see what fits me best. I'll set myself levels and try my utmost to stick to them!
Ahh, Diabeticgeek that sort of bran, here was I off to buy AllBran cereal!
Of course, it doesn't help my esteem when yesterday I reminded a complete moron in the office that I have diabetes, he informed me that there was no point in living and I might as well kill myself cos there's nothing left to enjoy.
sugarless sue
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drillingcat said:(Just so everyone is aware here, I am a girl, not a boy. Thanks!
I am listening and I am trying but I just wanted some more advice, this whole thing has my head spinning; stupid diabetes!!! :x
Guv - thanks for your suggestion, I'm going to try all different methods here to see what fits me best. I'll set myself levels and try my utmost to stick to them!
Ahh, Diabeticgeek that sort of bran, here was I off to buy AllBran cereal!
Of course, it doesn't help my esteem when yesterday I reminded a complete moron in the office that I have diabetes, he informed me that there was no point in living and I might as well kill myself cos there's nothing left to enjoy.
Right ,that's it...I'm sending the boys round to your office.Sixfoot,Eddie,Timo,Norman grab some cucumbers!!!!!
Unfortunately you are going to met ignorant people like this all the time.The best defense is to get as healthy and fit as possible and smile pityingly when they are stuffing themselves with carbs and probably clogging their arteries!Once you get the hang of the carb thing you can sit in the office enjoying delicious food and prove them wrong!
