Low Carb - explained in 60 seconds

ROSIE1988 said:

Smashing thank you.

Would you mind saying why you stopped eating that way? Do you not think its very good really?

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I loved it.
The food was delicious and satisfying.
However, I have some other hormonal nonsense going on that meant that the DD food didn't permit weight loss, even though it was great for my blood glucose.
After a while I moved on to try intermittent fasting.

One point that I will make is that I am a very lazy cook. I love food and enjoy great flavours, variety and freshness. I cook fresh, no processed, but don't want it to be time consuming. DD provided all of those things. My husband adored the DD menu plans and often asks for DD recipes because he enjoyed them so much. He even makes up some of their flavoured mayos himself (which is quite astonishing considering how little interest he takes in cooking).

But because I/we are so lazy in the kitchen, the vast amount of washing up generated by following DD recipes was too much. I rapidly started adjusting the recipes to reduce the number of pans, bowls and baking trays needed. lol.

Also, because DD suggest eating a different main meal every day, I found cooking 7 x a week was a bit much with the hours I work and the amount of time I spend walking dogs and cavorting on this and other forums. My husband works odd antisocial shifts too. So the idea of a sit down family meal once a day is impractical. lol. I am more comfortable with cooking double portions 3 x a week, and eating out at least once - reducing my kitchen labours to a mere 3 sessions a week instead of 7. Sometimes I cook huge amounts of stews, soups and one-pot wonders, then freeze them in portions for minimum effort. Said I was lazy. But we still eat exceedingly well.

There is a good way to use DD recipes and still get your one pot meals - just adjust the quantities on the meal planner to feed more people, then freeze the extra portions.

It didn't take me long to twig this, and start doing it.
But of course, this doesn't work for all the recipes, since many require prep just before serving.

Hi @ROSIE1988

Most dumplings are made with wheat flour, so they (and often the gravy granules that go with the gravy in the stew) are probably too high carb for someone aiming for DietDoctor levels of carb intake. Have a look at the carb content on the ingredients list, or just look up a few 'dumplings' on google, and you will see what I mean.

Each of these has 25g of of carbs per dumpling (which is more that DD suggests we have in a whole day)
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/253214982

Diabetes.uk (blue logo) is a charity and a different organisation from diabetes.co.uk (red logo), so the two organisations are not connected. This forum is hosted by Diabetes.co.uk. I am afraid that I am not familiar with the Diabetes.uk carbs list, so can't comment on it.

Hope that helps.

ROSIE1988 said:

Hi Brunmeria. Thank you. I have been thinking and I am going to stop the very low carb option as I am finding it horrendous. 25g or less a day is totally boring and I feel sick as a dog to be honest. Where on this site can I find out and discuss a ‘normal carb’ level? I read somewhere people normally should eat approx 300g carbs per day!? Is this right? All the diet doctor site pushes is Keto which is too extreme for us and we just know we can’t go on for months or years with absolutely no bread or potatoes. Last night on here I found a few comments where people just watch their carbs but still enjoy potatoes pasta and even chips, and it didn’t effect their blood sugars when they tasted etc. So there must be another way!? Can anyone guide me to a thread or link for this sort of way? Thank you as always. Would be completely lost without this site x

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Hi Rosie,

I suggest that you look through the forum list (hit the Forums button just underneath the Diabetes.co.uk logo near the top right of the page. Scroll through the list and explore the forum. You will find sections for different types of eating and different approaches.

It may be worth bearing in mind that those T2s who eat as many as 300g of carbs a day usually see a progression in their T2 and an escalation of drug therapies, while those who control their carbs are more likely to slow, halt or even reverse the progression of their disease. Also, there are a thousand different variants on eating, including the whole range of carb intake from 0g up to more than 300g a day. We don't have to choose either/or, we can pick anywhere in the middle, as well.

You need to find what works for you, and I would suggest that the more reading you do on the subject, whether on this forum or others, studies and research, books and diet advice, then the better informed you will be.

Hope you find what you are looking for

Andy2 said:

Thanks for the information about the Keto Diet. However I'm a vegetarian and I struggle to find food to eat on the Keto challenge as its all meat based? Any ideas? Regards Andy2

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If you have a look at the www.dietdoctor.com website, they have a vegetarian section. And apparently they have expanded it somewhat. No idea how 'expanded' that actually is, but it might be worth checking out, and using it as a kind of inspiration, even if it doesn't offer enough of a range to live on indefinitely.

You can also google 'keto vegetarian recipes' and see what turns up?