High fiber V low carb V Cholesterol.

For a quick no cook breakfast I have full fat Greek yogurt with some milled Flax seed for added fiber, topped off with a few strawberries and chopped nuts.
For ideas have a look at what others are eating http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today.75781/page-91#post-935231

You can quite easily make a granola style mix of Chopped nuts, seeds, and flaxseed, and eat with full fat Yoghurt.

Tasty, full of fibre, full of essential and important nutrients and possibly lower your cholesterol as well.

You could add some Coconut Oil or Butter and bake in a cool oven for a bit, or just eat it raw.

Bananas will likely be a poor choice, if you want to sweeten it a little chuck in a handful of blueberries or raspberries.

You are not going to find a low carb breakfast cereal in a shop. The whole idea of breakfast cereal is itself not very low carb, though there are creative alternatives you can make yourself as noted above.

Do not worry about "high cholesterol" in food (whatever that is?). Cholesterol in food does not affect your blood cholesterol unless you have a very rare genetic mutation. Cholesterol in your stomach is all broken down into its components. Your body then synthesises whatever cholesterol it needs, in the liver. What raises your cholesterol is eating too many calories and particularly too many carbs.

Fibre is not any more necessary than carbohydrate is.

Montyshrew said:

It is when you have Bowel problems, you need ''Firming up'' and Citrus Fruit is not the answer as it can make things worse.

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Too much fibre can cause intestinal issues.

Hi. As has been said in another thread don't worry about cholesterol. Veg is excellent for fibre. Bananas are no-no for diabetics; why? Because they are a hunk of carb and high-GI as well.

soluble fibre try konjac noodles - all fibre no carb or calorie. Do the rest low carb

If you reduce carbs you will need to increase salt. Or if you prefer, don't increase salt, get headaches all the time, get sick, abandon the diet and claim it doesn't work... :-/

Montyshrew said:

To little can cause Brown Pants. I need to eat Fibre I don't need to eat too much, it's just Brown Carbs are the most Fibrous products and I want to know about alternatives.

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I am not sure where your going with this ... Too much fibre can cause diarrhoea.. So can bananas and citrus fruit ! So are you getting diarrhoea then cutting down on these will be good. If you thinking of trying the Low Carb High Fat way of eating, then you have to understand how it works .. You will dramatically reduce your carbs ..about 30 to 50g a day, so next to no below ground vegetables ..like potatoes .. Also Cut out rice, pasta, oats, most fruit ... Carbs turn to sugar when you eat them ... So that's the sugars removed from your eating plan ... Now without all that sugar you need another source of enegery .. This comes from fats ... Coconut oil, olive oil, nuts and if your not vegetarian or vegan .. Animal fats. As your body will get its energy from the fats. Therefor your body has no need to store fat if it's getting it regularly..
The heart foundation is slowly changing its advice about eating fats .. And eating a fat diet you should not 'clog' your arteries.. Quite the reverse .. As personally my cholesterol has reduced since eating high fat .. I am a veggie so get lots of natural fibre from my vegetables.
To be honest I think you should have tests to find out what's causing your tummy problems ... You could have an intolerance to one of the regular foods you are eating
Hope this helps

Edit to add .. Spikers advice to take more salt is correct if you are going to do the LCHF way of eating ...

Montyshrew said:

My salt intake is healthy why fight Diabetes and risk a stroke instead?

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Because everything we've been told about salt is a myth, just like everything we've been told about fats and cholesterol and red meat and God knows what else.

Ummm bit silly to insist on, say more salt, when one woman's 'little' is the next man's huge

Call your surgery and as for a copy of your results. Your entitled, I was able to download patient access app and join online. So now have all my test results since 2007. Really handy to match results with life events....

As for changes in diet have a look around, most of us end up reducing carbs a lot, either in each meal or overall amount throughout the day.
Biggest impact is obtaining a blood glucose meter. Your GP diabetic nurse might be on board with it, but the company line now is unless your on insulin or another blood glucose drug beginning with g, they don't provide it for Type2's as you may scare the bee gees out of yourself. Obviously I'm paraphrasing.

So, like myself, a lot of people buy there own. My only suggestion is look at the test strip price cause ot can get expensive.
I test, fasting. Before food and 2hrs after. Sometimes when testing a new food I'll test every 30mins after the 2hr to see how long raised bloods last for. Now its been a few months testing for me, this has reduced. I also test at bedtime.

It is by testing that some people discover they can eat say porridge for breakfast without a blood spike or like me have to view oats like the devils work itself a mars bar. Dispite the company line to eat 'slow acting carbs like oats' ...everybody's body is different.

I eat so much veg, it is amazing how much we get through. Fiber is not a problem. I also eat moderate protein, under 55g per day. Then to stop the hunger I step up my fats....butter/coconut oil/olive oil... to 70%+ of my total calories for the day, my doc would have a coronary. I would really urge you to look at the research for eating cholesterol and raised blood cholesterol. There isn't that much. Our own SouthportGP forum member has conducted some small trials in Low Carb Full fat eating and had positive results in lowering liver profiles. Even looked for evidence either way... I will cut in paste after with a thread....on phone app.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/83420/

Hopefully that works, you might have to cut n past into google....

But overall welcome to your unique journey. Ask away and just know people are very passionate on here about controlling their condition to avoid the complications that are synonymous with the big D; many different approaches.

GC

Montyshrew said:

Isn't Cholesterol bad for Hearts and Vessels? If I ate only fats then I'm risking them which are in danger due to Diabetes. And the Calorie intake from them is massive.

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On the contrary cholesterol is necessary for a healthy heart. It's cholesterol that is too low that's the bigger problem.

Have a look at my thread re fats/calorie intake and weight loss. Not all calories are equal.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/my-5-day-dairy-fat-fast.81433/

Interestingly for the last 4 days I have been ill with a chest infection and unable to keep my food down. I have put on half a pound with very few calories, but they were mainly carbs. As a diabetic I simply cannot tolerate carbs. My slim son lost 7 pounds with the same illness over the same length of time.