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sineadk

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i have changed from all white flour products to brown. I have gone from white bread to the brown sort but the healthy sort with whole wheats (the say vollkorn in Germany). I changed to whole wheat pasta and brown rice and I have say a breadroll for breakfast with low fat chicken and then I have some fruit and yohgurt for lunch and at night I have a small portion of brown rice/pasta with meat and a big load of veg. I have been having a package of the belvita breakfast biscuits as a snack. I have lost 3 pounds this week so far. I just hope I am making healthy choices. Tonight I am on my own and don't feel like cooking so going to order something. Just trying to decide what. Is it OK to be a little bold once in a while?
 
Believe it or not original recipe KFC is fine but just don't eat more than one paper bag of the fries, or less of them if you can.

HINT: Original recipe still has the bones in to prove it's chicken.
 
Thanks for the tip. I am in Germany and I will order online so it is mostly chinese or pizza or pasta or something like that, I will try to choose wisely and I will not be going mad :-)
 
Sounds good so far.

I found KFC chicken wasn't bad, but I avoid it now as I low cal, so it's low fat all the way.

Chinese, but I tend not to eat a lot of rice or noodles.
Indian, again, dry rather than a creamy sauce, and basmati rice isn't too bad.

Do you have a meter?
It's good to get an idea of what you react to.

Pasta wasn't good for me, brown wasn't as bad as white, but I don't get on well with any.
Basmati wasn't bad, but brown rice was a bit worse.
I don't do badly with rye, or heavily seeded bread, but only a slice or two.

Congratulations on the weight loss, I found that was the biggest thing that improved my bs.

And no, it doesn't hurt to eat, moderately, once in a while.
It looks like you know what is healthy, so stick to that, and if you can, get hold of a meter, even if you test once for each food, you'll find your own good and bad carbs.
But you have really got off to a good start there!
 
Thanks so much. I ordered a grill plate with ribs, chicken breast and a mince meat pattie. I had to order a side so out of fries and twisters etc I went for a baked potato which was the only bad thing. I Hope it won't cause too much damage. I have no meter at the moment as the doc said not to make myself crazy and see how I get on with just diet for the first few months. I am also watching my fats but found that I was starving without pasta etc so am choosing the whole wheat.
 
I try to low carb as much as possible. Seems to be working for me. I spoil myself once a week with a shared Chinese takeaway. I try to eat only a few spoonfuls of rice and top up on veggies.


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Hi

I would recommend getting a cheap meter to give you an idea of your levels. Only then will you know what effects you.
Lots of us use SD Codefree which is fairly cheap and the strips are one third the price of others.

Along with my beloved Carbs and Cals books it's been a great help to me to see what raises my levels.

Knowledge is power!

Cara
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Hi. You are doing the right things. Yes, do get hold of a meter as it enables you to take control and take a scientific approach rather than guessing. I hope the yogurt doesn't have added sugar as most fruit ones do. Don't worry about the fats as there is great doubt about the damage they cause; it's the carbs as you know.
 
Daibell said:
Hi. You are doing the right things. Yes, do get hold of a meter as it enables you to take control and take a scientific approach rather than guessing. I hope the yogurt doesn't have added sugar as most fruit ones do. Don't worry about the fats as there is great doubt about the damage they cause; it's the carbs as you know.
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Muller light, fat free 99 calories, and only 14g of carbs per pot.
As to the doubt over fat, I low cal, so I figure if I remove the fat, I remove the doubt.

Having said that, I see by your sig you're on 180g of carbs, I'm actually on less, not that I count methodically , but based on a 1200 calorie a day diet, even at 50% of my input, carbs would be no more than 150g. As I watch them though, it's probably not that high a proportion, probably more protein to make my calories up, as I'm also trying to be fat free.
 
How many carbs per 100g in muller light ? In my natural yog there is 7 g per 100g .Some times the size of pots can be misleading
CAROL
 
douglas99 said:
.....Muller light, fat free 99 calories, and only 14g of carbs per pot.
As to the doubt over fat, I low cal, so I figure if I remove the fat, I remove the doubt....
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Based on 7.9g carb per 100g, 7.1g or which sugars, and a pot size of 175g.
Fructose being the listed ingredient.
Strawberry flavour.
 
sineadk said:
i have changed from all white flour products to brown. I have gone from white bread to the brown sort but the healthy sort with whole wheats (the say vollkorn in Germany). I changed to whole wheat pasta and brown rice and I have say a breadroll for breakfast with low fat chicken and then I have some fruit and yohgurt for lunch and at night I have a small portion of brown rice/pasta with meat and a big load of veg. I have been having a package of the belvita breakfast biscuits as a snack. I have lost 3 pounds this week so far. I just hope I am making healthy choices. Tonight I am on my own and don't feel like cooking so going to order something. Just trying to decide what. Is it OK to be a little bold once in a while?
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Hi, all of this will turn into glucose; whether the original product is white or brown. Low fat yoghurt is made palatable by filling it with sugar; the ultimate 'low fat' product - a kilo of sugar has zero fat in it. That's all well and good if you have a functioning pancreas but if you don't it is the carbs you need to worry about and not fat or protein.

The advice to get a blood testing monitor is excellent; you can use that to work out how much carbohydrate you can tolerate, some diabetics can eat a surprisingly large amount and maintain good blood sugars (i.e. below 7.3 mmol/l - the level at which damage starts to be done to you), but some, like me, can hardly eat any.

So, I don't think you really are making healthy choices there; you can only tell when you see what your blood sugars are doing.

Fat is not a problem unless it comes with carbs.

Best

Dillinger
 
I don't.

I eat carbs that aren't too bad for me.
I don't particularly watch how many, I just have an overall calorie count, and I base it on types and amounts of carbs from results from my meter previously, I exclude fats as they're high calorie, and I'm not entirely convinced they're completely healthy as a main diet.

I avoid fat, others don't so each to his own that works for them.

The no fat yoghurt I eat has a very small amount of fructose, but I'm fine with it.
No reason to needlessly pile in fat I don't want, so I don't go for a high fat yoghurt.

I'm fine on my diet, I've lost 3 stone, and got my bs levels down to a normal range.

There is no miracle diet, you have to find one that suits you personally, and lets you control your bs your way.


eg, just sorting out my dinner.

stuffed marrow, curried, stuffed with small amount of basmati rice, onions, dry spices, maybe some chickpeas.

No fat, no meat, but it's food I'm ok with.
Low carber probably wouldn't touch it though.
 
sineadk said:
Thanks for the advice but now I am totally confused. Are you saying no carbs at all?
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Hi,

I'm sorry to confuse you; and it is confusing!

The general advice we get as diabetics is to eat carbohydrates and to minimise fats/proteins; what many of us have found is that the opposite works; to eat fats/proteins and minimise carbs.

It's pretty impossible to eat zero carbohydrates so that's not what I'm saying; have a look in the low-carb element of this forum for many discussions and lots of really good recipes.

The real test of what you are eating though is your blood sugar monitor; you cannot guess what your blood sugars are - you need to test them after eating to see the effect that that food has on your blood sugar. Like I said some people can eat quite a lot of carbohydrate without problems, but the key point is we are all here because we have problems metabolising carbohydrate to some degree. You need to find out what that degree is with you.

I posted this the other day in response to another thread but hopefully this will give you some comfort that this advice is not totally crazy:-

http://authoritynutrition.com/23-studie ... fat-diets/

Kind regards

Dillinger
 
Some interesting studies.

I think the only conclusion is that a diet helps, and if you eat less, you lose weight, and you need to get to 12 months on any diet to see a lasting effect.
 
With diabetes it is not about a diet but about a way of eating that controls your glucose to a level that will avoid complications .So it is a way of eating for life .If you try a diet or way of eating for 12 months without checking what it is doing to your BGs you could be causing your body to lead to serious problems
CAROL
 
carty said:
With diabetes it is not about a diet but about a way of eating that controls your glucose to a level that will avoid complications .So it is a way of eating for life .If you try a diet or way of eating for 12 months without checking what it is doing to your BGs you could be causing your body to lead to serious problems
CAROL
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That's why most of the studies referred to don't really help us.
They mostly stop at 6 months, so there is no way of knowing any long term benefits or adverse effects.

At least our generation will manage to produce some credible results though!
 
And I seem to have told a lie on the squash.

It's a spaghetti squash, 7g carb per 100g.

So I'm low carbing after all (apart from a bit of rice, and it's a bit, and it's basmati)


It seems more and more that a decent healthy good diet can be achieved from any direction, whether it's low carb, or low cal, just so long as you put in a bit of effort, look for healthy food, resist temptation and go hungry occasionally, and don't beat yourself up over the times when you know you shouldn't have, but did anyway.
 
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