Ok...typical day breakfast either 1/2 grapefruit or few spoons of Greek yoghurt with a few strawberries or rasps. I slice of wholemeal /seeded toast cos I`m usually really hungry. Lunch either bacon, egg & mushrooms, home made veg soup or avacado with prawns. 1 bit of fruit (apple,pear,orange)
Evening meal...meat of some kind (lamb, pork chops, chicken...I like them all!) veg of some kind (spinach,swede,asparagus,etc) cauliflower rice sometimes or a very small salad potato. Strawberries or raspberries for dessert with a small shot of squirty cream. My big problem is the lack of pasta &potatos ...I never feel full on this diet! And also I have to avoid stuff with a lot of fibre as it upsets my gut.
Bs levels vary wildly atm but are usually 7s-8s in the morning (fasting) & anything from 10s(highest) to 5.6 yesterday before evening meal. None of this show any patterns to what I`m eating! I have halved the levels since diagnosis...it was 16+ then) so i know I`m going in the right direction but I am finding the diet very hard. lots of info on what NOT to eat but not much on enjoyable stuff you can eat. I miss pasta & potatos big style & also my milky coffees
Point one: Coffee's not a problem! Toss in some proper heavy cream though, (unsweetened), it's better than milk, less carby, more filling, and very tasty. (You might also want to google Bulletproof coffee. It's surprisingly good!). You're still eating a lot of fruit. Berries are okay, but you do need something fatty to go with them, so the greek yoghurt or some cream is fine. A medium sized apple contains something like 21 grams of sugar. Not the best choice. (Fruit yea and nay's:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fruits ). The wholemeal/seeded toast: 12 grams per slice. That's almost 3 teaspoons of sugar. It adds up, so yeah, there is an actual relation to what you're eating and the spikes you're seeing. (I eat less than 20 grams of carbs a day, usually hovering around 9... Bread used to spike me into the 20 mmol/l's.). Swede is a little high in carbs, but the rest sounds good. More do's and don'ts:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/vegetables <-- focus on the do's.
And the website is jam-packed with meal suggestions. Knock yourself out.
Thing is, if you're hungry all the time... You should eat until you're full, and that's easier if you add in more fats. Extra avocado, no lean cuts of meat (Fatty ones are cheaper and tastier anyway, so yay), proper butter, heavy cream, cheese, olives/olive oil, fatty fish like salmon or tuna, mayonnaise, walnuts, pecans, extra dark chocolate, bacon... I bulk up my cauliflower rice with bacon and grated goat's cheese (and a bunch of herbs/spices so we never eat the same thing twice in a row), and there's actually a few types of pasta you might be interested in.... They take a little getting used to because the texture is different, but could well be worth it.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=konjac+pasta&i=grocery&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 (basically it'll be available as Konjac or Shirataki pasta, if I spelled that correctly). No excess of fibre in there either, so shouldn't be a problem. Otherwise you might want to look into Courgetti? (Spiralised courgette)
There's a lot of "you can't have that" 's, but if you want to find replacements for food you love, just google them with keto added in the search bar. You'll be inundated with options. There's loads of alternatives, some admittedly tastier than others, but they are out there. (Heck, I never thought I'd come to love cauliflower as much as I am! And bacon, every day!). I mean, there's even recipes for low carb chocolate lava cake available online, so.... If there's a will, there's a way. Oh, one more thing, you might want to check out Chaffles.... They could maybe replace bread too. I never had them myself, but I've heard good things about them. (There's entire cults for them on facebook, haha).
Don't give up. This will get easier.
Jo