How Many Carbs.....

[Beachbag]

Type2 insulin dep on Humalog mix 25. I eat Less than 20g
most days. BGs steady between 4.6 and 5.8, with the occasional 3.8 following a fish meal. Prob should add a little more carb but am happy in my diabetic world, have lost weight including 4ins from my waist, no cravings now, no hunger pangs and enough energy to walk as far as I like with my dog. I do sometimes have a little siesta but that's a rather delicious privilege of retirement


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[hawnet]

Hi Mo sorry got distracted by a boiling bath

A sort of general menu l eat some days may be a bit less not usually more than this.
2 scrambled eggs for breakfast, no milk in it and dry cooked.
nothing till lunch then
100 gram yogurt (4.1carb /100gram weight)
50 gram weight raspberrys
2 or 3 spring onions works out about 20 to 30 gram weight l try not to go over 30 weight (7gram acrb/100gram weight)
5 thin slices prepacked salami or peparrami small slices
50 grams chedder cheese
2 crackerbreads with butter (love these they go all chewy by lunch.... 3.8 gram carb each)
Then nothing till dinner around 19;00
Some sort of meat or fish
sprouts or cabbage or spinach something along those lines usually 2 veg about 50gram weight / veg
If l remember or have it in 2 squares (18gram weight) of lindt 90% which is carbs18g/100gram
if fish have some hellmann full fat may l don't like fish so have 14 grams/1 portion never finish it again it is just to add a bit of taste

Post evening exercise about 21:30 +/- have around 50gram cheddar and 3 slices of the prepacked salami or peparrami small slices

i am trying to wean off my nightly 250ml hot milk full fat we use goats milk,,, it does help me sleep l think but l am sleeping without on my trials that's about 8.8 grams. And if l have it to have it after exercise so being used up.

Around 6 coffees a day but most l don't finish a sip or 2 (no sugar ick and refuse to use sweetners) use about 8ml single cream/mug again almost no carbs and given how much coffee l don't drink l don't count it. In total probably about 2 full mugs coffees a day.

It seems to do me but wont do everyone, l am not hungry and my bloods range between 4.9 to 5.8

l am looked on as a weirdo at work as we have lots of boxes of chocolates and l am not interested in any.

I like posts like this because I can get ideas and see how strict you are and compare my days food, I think you do well to be honest.

 

[Totto]

I have between 20 and 70 g a day of carbs. I love nuts!

 

[badcat]

30-50g a day for me.

 

[hawnet]

I am trying to keep as low as possible but I do like the jelly and cream, i dont have a lot but its still high in fat!!!!!!! same as the chocolate nuts and almost bounty, and i think that maybe quinoa I am having too much I am not sure about that yet..i need to do the carb maths.

 

[ElyDave]

100g today for me, with a 40 minute run at lunch and an hours yoga in the evening.

I would happily take it lower, but I think that would restrict my ability to exercise.

Breakfast - bowl of porridge with a few berries, made with water and almond milk - 30g
Lunch - omlette with cheese and mushrooms on a small slice of toast, 9-bar peanut - 25g
Dinner - 4 oatcakes, cheese, sardines, small apple and peanut butter, a few prunes. - 45g
Snacks - probably not necesary but a couple of handfuls of nuts.

 

[Daibell]

Hi Hawnet. Don't worry too much about the fat; it's the carbs that affect you most

 

[SamJB]

100g today for me, with a 40 minute run at lunch and an hours yoga in the evening.

I would happily take it lower, but I think that would restrict my ability to exercise.

Breakfast - bowl of porridge with a few berries, made with water and almond milk - 30g
Lunch - omlette with cheese and mushrooms on a small slice of toast, 9-bar peanut - 25g
Dinner - 4 oatcakes, cheese, sardines, small apple and peanut butter, a few prunes. - 45g
Snacks - probably not necesary but a couple of handfuls of nuts.

You'd be surprised, Dave. I don't do as much exercise as you, but before work I'll swim a kilometre or run for 30 mins on nothing but a protein shake.

 

[hawnet]

Hi Hawnet. Don't worry too much about the fat; it's the carbs that affect you most

That is good news Daibell, I still have to keep the fats low and I consider that little bit bit of cream is within the law (I had a high cholesterol figure at the same I had my high sugar...7.7 chol and 16.9 bg), the cream and a few eggs through the week, maybe a small bit of cheese.

 

[pumppimp]

Round about 100g a day although can vary anything from 50g up to 150g, depends on what I'm doing excersice, or just wanting a treat. I do have the odd occasions when I go out for dinners christmas etc where it goes up to 300, for example on Thursday I'm going back to Northern ireland. It's physically impossible to go to anyone elses house and not be offered a sandwich, biscuit, full meal etc I'm perfectly happy to oblige especially with all the different types of spuds, roast, mash, new, sweet. And not forgetting the 15 desserts on offer! mmmmm..... baggy pants are packed!