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Low carb diet suggestions

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Self absorbed and rude people! Motorists who are oblivious to the rest of the world, and really don't give a ****!
Just found this rather interesting site:

phlaunt.com/diabetes/18856280.php

Janet Rule's
What Can You Eat When You are Cutting Carbs?
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Hope this helps others, I have to cut back on my carbs I know, this looks really inspiring! Think beyond meat and salad :lol:
 
Thanks, I wish chocolate was low carb :(
 
Me too, although the Lindt dark 95 per cent, at just a square or two once in a while is fairly low sugar, plus dark chocolate is reputely good for you :)
 
cocacola
Different brands of chocolate contain differing amounts of sugar.
I buy
Fin Carre
Edel Bitter Schocolade from Lidl
I can't remember the price, but I think it's under £1 a 100g block. It's 33.0% carbs. That means 33 carbs in a whole block.
How much you eat is up to you. It's smooth and delicious.
There's only a very short list of ingredients too.
Hana
 
hanadr said:
cocacola
Different brands of chocolate contain differing amounts of sugar.
I buy
Fin Carre
Edel Bitter Schocolade from Lidl
I can't remember the price, but I think it's under £1 a 100g block. It's 33.0% carbs. That means 33 carbs in a whole block.
Hana
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Thanks Hana, but I'm not a fan of dark chocolate. I did find these biscuits in Asda though that taste really scrummy :mrgreen:
8.9 gms of carb per biscuit, 4.1gms of sugars. Nice for the occasional treat 8) As long as I can just eat one :lol:

greenandblacks.com/uk/what-we-make/biscuits/oat-and-chocolate-crunch-biscuits.html#nutritionInformation
 
8.9 gms of carb per biscuit, 4.1gms of sugars. Nice for the occasional treat As long as I can just eat one ! What a find, I am going to see if my local Asda have them, so miss a nice biscuit, used to love M&S viennese chocolate biscuits. Eating just one is the hard part, just tell myself that more is bad :twisted:

Sainsburys do their own sugar free milk and dark chocolate and marsh mallows - all under a pound and surprisingly edible, also I have some Welch's sugar free butterscotch candy! Holland and Barrett have a delicious range of chewey chocolate covered sweets. This is also an excellent sugar free e-shop for all kinds of nice things:

http://www.sugarfreesuperstore.co.uk/- though this for special occasions or bulk order as quite expensive for delivery!

Enjoy :wink:
 
Re: Low carb talk

Not of any particular relevance, but one I was surprised to learn, on speaking to my son who lives in Canada yesterday, he told me that his father-in-law who is a T2 had fallen off the wagon with his diet - due in part to the nature of his work and being a widower. My son then told me that he was going to go on a strict diet having been well and truly admonished by his doctor and advised that h would be looking at insulin injections if he did not get his sugar levels down - my son said they were around 20! However, he is self-testing and now down to 11 (still high but going in the right direction). The whole point of this post is, that he then went on to say they he was looking at eating more carbohydrates, as his doctor advised (seems they dish out the same advice there)! It must be endemic amongst world doctors :? I then told my son about carbohydrates converting rapidly to sugar, he was surprised, also when I told him about fruit eating. As my daughter-in-law appeared to have gestational diabetes, and my son who has a thyroid condition, they have decided to eat same diet as father-in-law as a precautionary measure, I felt I should point them in the right direction.

However, I did think that Canada had more advanced thinking in treatment of diabetes - as Banting was Canadian (see link below for information on this man who contributed so much early work to the cause of Diabetes), also they rarely shout about it (being a modest nation) they are really quite advanced medically and make all kinds of break throughs in the field which mostly go unrecognised by the rest of the world, but seems I am wrong :oops:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Banting I have actually been to his home in Alliston
 
catherinecherub said:
I found this website and it seems the advice in Canada is not that bad. It would not suit low carbers but would work for me and many others.
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So, out of interest why are you posting it in the Low-carb diabetes diet forum in a thread called 'Low Carb Diet Suggestions' ??? :roll:

I had a look a that site and it seems pretty much what we are told on the NHS. Here's part of what it says:

"First, divide your plate in half. Fill one half with vegetables, preferably with more than one colour. Divide the remaining half into two, fill one quarter with your potatoes/rice/pasta or bread, and the remaining quarter with your meat. Add a fruit and a serving of milk and you are on your way to healthy portions and balanced meals."

If I did that I'd be on my way to sky high blood sugar levels and all the fun of a full set of diabetic complications.

Also, as an aside are they implying that potatoes are not vegetables? Or can I have potatoes in the first half of my plate (say a quarter plate of potatoes and a quarter plate of yams; so both vegetable and both different colours) and have another quarter of a plate of potatoes and then some meat? Just a thought?

Anyway, the original post is good - I think the trickiest low carb meal is breakfast and I like the idea of the low-carb pancakes that they have there. What do other low-carbers eat for breakfast?

Dillinger
 
Potatoes are a vegetable, but they don't count towards your 5 A DAY. That's because the main nutrient in potatoes is carbohydrate (starch). When we eat them as part of a meal, they are generally used in place of other sources of carbohydrate, such as bread, pasta or rice.

Therefore, potatoes are classified as a starchy food. Other vegetables that don't count towards your 5 A DAY are yams, cassava and plantain.

However, other root vegetables such as sweet potatoes, parsnips, swedes and turnips do count. That is because they are usually eaten as a vegetable alongside the main starchy food in a meal.
 
I found this website and it seems the advice in Canada is not that bad. It would not suit low carbers but would work for me and many others.

http://www.diabetescareguide.com/en/hea ... oices.html
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Good point :oops: Guess it was a case of bad judgement :!: Not always sure where to post what. I had made a comment about Canadian Medics giving out the same info as NHS, but another member said they had found the website I listed and though it was pretty good advice.
 
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