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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2763108" data-attributes="member: 517579">I'd really endorse the advice to get a meter and to test before and at +2 hrs after eating - it shows very plainly which foods do what to your BG levels.On carb level - the usual estimate is that 130g/day is the break point for low carb. Some people's personal level will be above or below that, and you'll need to find out where yours is - and it might well change.  If we assume that it is 130, if you stick below that you should, all being well, force your system into a) getting by with lower blood glucose levels and b) perhaps start using some bodyfat to make up for the glucose deficit.  I haven't heard of anyone on 100g getting into full ketosis, though.  I'm a 20g/day ketosis person so I'm not really experienced with how things go at the 100g level. I didn't attempt that because the calculations and the "I can have a bit of that but not too much...what's too much?" was not something I wanted to do. 20g is comparatively easy - you just don't eat anything with carb in any amount and the 20g gets made up from the incidental amounts in veg, mainly.  In the five years since I've seen no change in cholesterol levels (which were "good" in 1990, "too high" in 2020, both the same figure) while a bigger proportion of what I eat is natural animal and dairy fat. If you drop carbs you've still got to get your energy from somewhere, and that will be from fats and proteins, most probably.  At 100g/day there is much less scope for including processed and packaged foods, which to my mind is a good thing anyway. You might find this an interesting read - the American College of Cardiology in 2020 abandoning the "saturated fat causes high cholesterol" hypothesis: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109720356874?via%3Dihub=&utm_source=arrow.proteinpower.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-arrow-188[/URL]I'd also recommend Dr David Cavan's book "How to reverse Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes".  It's been recently rewritten and republished, and while it does feel a bit dated in places it does put together a pretty good plan for action.best of luck. The forum is a great resource, and you are encouraged to ask as many questions as you like.</blockquote>

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