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nicola30

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Hi everyone, since I have been diagnosed I am slowly putting on weight, I eat healthy and am quite active. I have been trying to low carb diet but I find it very hard to find something quick and easy for breakfast, I have been eating Weetabix (although not low carb) and this rises by blood sugars, what does everyone eat for breakfast when you are on a low carb diet?

any suggestions would be great
Nicola
 
Berries and Natural Yogurt for breakfast seems popular among those who low-carb.
 
noblehead said:
Berries and Natural Yogurt for breakfast seems popular among those who low-carb.
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Yep,I buy a mixed frozen bag of blueberries and strawberries and defrost a portion in the microwave as required,add some granulated sweetner and mix in some greek yoghurt and you end up with something like a muller fruit corner but far less carby,scrambled egg in the microwave with real butter doesn't take too long and there is now a new low carb bread in waitrose called 'Livlife' that tastes nice but is only 3.8gs of carbs per slice! :thumbup:

Best wishes

Paul
 
I have all bran and it doesn't spike my BSs much. I don't have a lot of it though because I low carb too but a small bowl does seem to fill me up. When I've got time I do a mixed grill or poached egg with burgen bread - the small loaves are 9g of carbs each so I can have two slices and that works a treat.
 
1) A flaxseed muffin with a few berries and a spoon of natural yogurt ( to make the muffin put 1 egg 25g flaxseeds,25g blueberries or raspberries, 1/2 tsp baking powder,1 tsp Splenda and a few drops of vanilla extract in a mug then microwave for z15-20 secs until its cooked)
2) natural yogurt, 10g chia seeds & 10g toasted almonds
3) 2 scrambled eggs with either bacon or smoked salmon
The first 2 are good for getting your fibre intake up
 
I sometimes do myself a scrambled egg in the microwave. this morning, my brother-in-law who is staying with us had half an avocado with natural yogurt and berries.
Hana
 
can soemone please define Low carb and moderate carb for me?

Today I had three meals of 35-40g carb each.

Breakfast - smoked mackarel and a slice of sourdough rye bread toast
Lunch - a bowl of lentils and a few pakora
Dinner - omlette with mushrooms and cheese, oatcakes and PB, and an apple.

I also had half a dark choc bounty and an apple during the day to bring my levels up for driving. So total carbs approx 135g today.

Yesterday was a bit higher as I had a two hour bike ride - 270g in total, but not a lot of insulin needed
 
I would define very low carb as under 30g carbs a day, low carb as something[ between 30 & 60g a day and moderate as something between 60 & 100g a day
I'm not on insulin
 
ElyDave said:
can soemone please define Low carb and moderate carb for me?
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This from the DCUK website:

A research study in 2008[7] used the following brackets to categorise daily carbohydrate intake:

Moderate carbohydrate: 130 to 225g of carbs
Low carbohydrate: under 130g of carbs
Very low carbohydrate: under 30g of carbs



http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diet/low-carb ... -diet.html
 
badcat said:
I would define very low carb as under 30g carbs a day, low carb as something[ between 30 & 60g a day and moderate as something between 60 & 100g a day
I'm not on insulin
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Hmmm, can't see me ever getting that low, maybe down to 100gr a day on non exercise days. That's twice a week. But as I'm currently taking less than 25 units total insulin a day and generally running on the lower rather than higher end of the BG scale, I don't have a need to go low just to manage blood sugar.

But thanks for the info.
 

Thanks NobleHead,

by that measure I'm generally running in the low to moderate region apart from long training sessions where i'm more carb fuelled
 
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