Thanks Fi,I would of calculated the carbs for the tomatoe puree an Worcestershire sauce but not the time, just as you did.
I know it takes a whole to get used to weighing every thing but you do get used to it.
Weighing things helps me with portion control and getting the right ratio with fat, carbs an protein.
I use an app on my iphone/iPad from mynetdiary to log my BG levels and my food.
Good luck with low carbing
That's my experience too, @Pasha. I think diabetics underestimate the effect that wildly swinging BG levels have on mood. I'm much more even-tempered these days than ever before.My experience with LCHF is that it prevents or much lessens depression. ie smooths out the roller coaster aspect of mood swings.Pity I didnt know this earlier on in life.
On the subject of counting carbs, I am interested to know exactly how precise people are about it. I am new to carb counting and just got the 'Carbs and Cals' book the other day. I made a meatloaf and I weighed and calculated the carbs in the veg I used but I also used 2 tbsps of tomato purée, 2 tbsps of Worcestershire sauce and 1 tbsp of dried thyme. I calculated the carbs for the Wor Sauce and tom purée but not the dried thyme. I ate one quarter of the meatloaf which had 6g of carbs. Was I being too picky in carb counting the flavourings? It does make baking from scratch slower and harder as I can't just read the nutritional label on the packaging. Your views please!
Thanks for the reassuring posts Indy and Pasha. I just panicked when I saw what Danny had written about lack of complex carbs making depression worse. Also I have read a lot about the role of nutrition in mental health and there is a strong emphasis on eating whole grains like brown rice and oats because they contain most of the B vitamins which are considered essential for mental health. This may be true but I followed a strict macrobiotic diet for two years when I was younger and in it whole grain rice is considered the 'perfect' food and I ate 3 large bowls of it everyday and not much else. Oh and Miso Soup. All it made me was miserable.
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This is roughly what I eat a day, between 900 and 1200 calories a day, as I want to lose weight. Well lose a lot of weight at the moment I am 100kg and I would like to get to 60kb on day. At the start of this year I was 110kg, so have lost 10kg so far.
Keep smiling
Mynetdiary is what I use. You can use it on your pc/Mac, android or iosFi, is this ^^^^^ MyFitnessPal ? Or another app ?
Thanks!
Signy
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