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Just diagnosed & need some help please!

@JoKalsbeek oh and no I’m not on the steroids at the moment. I also don’t like the texture of milk so I have a tiny drop of skimmed in my tea, if having a rare cereal (like today) it’s skimmed milk also. I the idea of a coffee with full fat cream as don’t like it with milk, I remember doing that a few years ago when people where doing Atkins although I wasn’t doing the diet.
 
If you want pizza then google fat head dough.

It took me a couple of goes to get it right . It's very filling but you can keep a portion in a poly bag in the fridge.

Check the labels of everything in your cupboards. Learn all the different names for sugar.
 

You might want to learn about keto baking... I've made keto pecan cookies a few times now and they are pretty good. And they freeze well. On a hot day I don't defrost them, still good. https://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/chewy-keto-pecan-cookies-low-carb/ might replace the tea bisquits. (And you don't have to use *salted* butter, of course). Piri piri and pepper and such should be okay. Strawberries are fine, as are basically all other berries, though preferably taken with heavy or clotted cream, but oranges and especially banana's... You want to stay way from. A banana is about 24 grams of carbs, that's more than 10 sugar cubes. An orange is 17 grams... So stick with the berries. (Sorry). As for lasagna, you could use sliced courgette instead of pasta leaves.

As for skimmed milk, again, full fat is always better, if you want to use milk at all. There's milk sugars in there (lactose), and as it's a liquid it hits the system a bit quicker than a solid would. And in skimmed there's more than in full fat. Best would be some form of cream, if you want to use it. Nothing mandatory though.
 
@JoKalbeek Thank you so much for all the advice and explanations, I seem to have my BG under better control now 6-9. Wouldn’t have done this without you
 
@JoKalbeek Thank you so much for all the advice and explanations, I seem to have my BG under better control now 6-9. Wouldn’t have done this without you
You did the work! Excellent results, well done!!!
 
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