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<blockquote data-quote="MrTickle" data-source="post: 1806189" data-attributes="member: 469384"><p>I'm relatively recent on the 'Lower carb lifestyle' and I admit that I cheat more than most people on here and have a much less nutritious diet, but always in the context of my numbers - that is, I measure my morning reading and my pre and two-hour post meal numbers. I'm well within the 'normal range' for blood sugars now and have lost 2.5 stone since March, although will be running a formal HbA1C test next month which I expect to be much better (touch wood).</p><p></p><p>Obviously your mileage will vary, and in the early weeks I was very strict low carb.</p><p></p><p>For breakfasts at work, I tend to try and get there a little early and have a bacon, sausage, egg meal. I've found that if I have that I generally am not hungry at lunch so can get through to the end of the day. If I don't get early enough for the canteen to do breakfast, I skip it and have something for lunch. If I am out of the office, such as visiting our London office, then I've found that a McD's double sausage muffin doesn't appear to raise my bloods too much (no hash brown though of course).</p><p></p><p>When I do have lunch during the week, and assuming the canteen don't have something suitable (they sometimes do steaks, gammon, chicken portions etc), then I either grab some potted jacket potato fillings they sell (tuna and cheese), mix them and eat with a fork, or I nip to a nearby Boots and pick up some mattessons 'fridge raiders' chicken as well as some strawberries and creme fraiche which always goes down well (has some carbs, but not too bad).</p><p></p><p>If I get the urge to snack at home, I always keep some snack-cheeses in the fridge, as well as some M&S cracking crisps and chorizo crisps, as well as some occasional salted almonds. Although I don't feel the need to snack anything as much as I did before starting this.</p><p></p><p>Dinner is my main meal - all the usual stuff - steaks, chicken, eggs, curry (with cauliflower rice) etc. For occasional treats, I find that a KFC doesn't spike my bloods much as long as I swerve the fries, or I have a mixed kebab with chilli sauce but don't eat the naan bread.</p><p></p><p>As I'm going forward I'm trying to introduce more healthy stuff (more veg, avocados etc) into my diet too but I'm not beating myself up too much about that just as long as my blood sugar and weight are going in the right direction. Oh, and I take a multivitamin (multibionta - with the probiotic) each day too, which seemed to take care of increased cramping I had - although I'm not sure that is anything to do with the low carbing as it runs in the family.</p><p></p><p>Good luck with your journey</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrTickle, post: 1806189, member: 469384"] I'm relatively recent on the 'Lower carb lifestyle' and I admit that I cheat more than most people on here and have a much less nutritious diet, but always in the context of my numbers - that is, I measure my morning reading and my pre and two-hour post meal numbers. I'm well within the 'normal range' for blood sugars now and have lost 2.5 stone since March, although will be running a formal HbA1C test next month which I expect to be much better (touch wood). Obviously your mileage will vary, and in the early weeks I was very strict low carb. For breakfasts at work, I tend to try and get there a little early and have a bacon, sausage, egg meal. I've found that if I have that I generally am not hungry at lunch so can get through to the end of the day. If I don't get early enough for the canteen to do breakfast, I skip it and have something for lunch. If I am out of the office, such as visiting our London office, then I've found that a McD's double sausage muffin doesn't appear to raise my bloods too much (no hash brown though of course). When I do have lunch during the week, and assuming the canteen don't have something suitable (they sometimes do steaks, gammon, chicken portions etc), then I either grab some potted jacket potato fillings they sell (tuna and cheese), mix them and eat with a fork, or I nip to a nearby Boots and pick up some mattessons 'fridge raiders' chicken as well as some strawberries and creme fraiche which always goes down well (has some carbs, but not too bad). If I get the urge to snack at home, I always keep some snack-cheeses in the fridge, as well as some M&S cracking crisps and chorizo crisps, as well as some occasional salted almonds. Although I don't feel the need to snack anything as much as I did before starting this. Dinner is my main meal - all the usual stuff - steaks, chicken, eggs, curry (with cauliflower rice) etc. For occasional treats, I find that a KFC doesn't spike my bloods much as long as I swerve the fries, or I have a mixed kebab with chilli sauce but don't eat the naan bread. As I'm going forward I'm trying to introduce more healthy stuff (more veg, avocados etc) into my diet too but I'm not beating myself up too much about that just as long as my blood sugar and weight are going in the right direction. Oh, and I take a multivitamin (multibionta - with the probiotic) each day too, which seemed to take care of increased cramping I had - although I'm not sure that is anything to do with the low carbing as it runs in the family. Good luck with your journey [/QUOTE]
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