Low carb menu

Breakfast: Greek yogurt (full fat) with berries, flax and chia seeds, eggs and bacon, omelette with anything low carb added. Cold meats and cheese, continental style. Cold boiled eggs with meats.

Lunch: Any combination, salads, green leafy veg with meat, poultry, game, seafood, fish - tinned salmon, tuna or sardines are easy for quick lunches on the go.

Dinner: As above, recipe's from the low carb section here. Mince dishes are usually very good, as are mixed grills, things like that, just keep an eye on the carbs in things like sausages and burgers. High quality - less fillers.

Snacks: There is a huge list of snacks you can make yourself, cakes, muffins, crustless quiche in the low carb section. Hartley no added sugar jelly with cream, nuts especially almonds and walnuts. Rolls of cooked meat filled with cream cheese is another.

We had a good discussion about this yesterday actually. Have a look at this thread

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=33881

Fraddycat said:

We had a good discussion about this yesterday actually. Have a look at this thread

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=33881

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I think the point Grazer makes in the above post is a very valid one. We are all very different and can tolerate different amounts of carbs. I suggest all new diet controlled, diet/Metformin try different levels of carbs then base meals around that. I don't tolerate carbs well at all, and can have no more than 50g a day, often much less, Grazer can manage 100-150g a day. Eat, try, test everything then you will have a much better idea what you are doing. It will all come right in the end.

Good luck.

debbie24 said:

Thanks so much for that everyone. It's typical isn't it, yesterday I didn't go on the pc and missed all that info, there's a lesson there.
I feel like I've had my blinkers taken off !! As I was reading it all I was thinking 'how come I didn't think of that, it's all so obvious'. Like they say, easy when you know how.

Thanks again

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No problem, and yes, as you say, it's easy when you know how. You will be quite surprised how quickly you do learn though. Today a complete foggy head in a month say, you would be able to rattle off a list to another T2 on diet/metformin. It doesn't take long to get to grips with.

I eat pretty much the same as Defren except that I have a 2-egg omelette cooked in butter for breakfast, almost very day. Full English is okay too - no bread or baked beans or potato waffles, and buy the lowest carb sausages you can find. I get "Debbie & Andrews" from Tesco, but there are others too. Just read the labels.

As for your partner having high fasting readings - that's Dawn Phenomenon, when everybody's liver shoves some glucose into the bloodstream to get us going - only us Type 2s don't have a good insulin reaction to cope with it immediately. Don't worry about it too much. As you persevere with the low-carb, so the fasting reading will go down. It took me at least 12 months to get mine into the mid-5s/high 4s - and I wasn't very high to start with

Let us know how you go on

Viv 8)

debbie24 said:

Thanks folks, I'll feel very reassured by your support and help. Already my partners BG's are falling which is great as he's feeling better in himself. If you remember Defren the first post I put on, I mentioned giving him barley sugars when he was feeling 'hypo' but this morning I gave him a piece of cheese and within about half an hour he'd rallied, so what you said was absolutely true about false hypos. I'll keep you posted on his progress.

In your debt, Debbie

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So pleased for you. It is difficult I know. I came out of the Doctors after diagnosis and walked straight into the Chemist for some Dextrose. I now know I didn't need them, and I gave them to my daughters, but I was expecting to have hypo's all over. T2's on diet or Metformin/diet don't have hypos any more than a non diabetic, but it took this forum to teach me that. Please do keep us up to date, it's so nice to see people start off a bag of nerves and become experts, it makes all the advice I give out worth every singe word.

Take care - Jo

It will soon get easier Debbie.
I've been on this site bout 3 mths and have learnt loads but am still learning. I'm lowcarbing and have lost about a stone and a half. My Bgs are still not down far enough before meals but never go above "normal" (ie not T2) after meals. But I'll get there.

You'll learn new things every time you visit, for instance Vivienne wrote "It took me at least 12 months to get mine into the mid-5s/high 4s - and I wasn't very high to start with " . That's music to my ears as I look at everyone's stats and get concerned mine don't match up!

Keep LOW and carry on!!

debbie24 said:

Thank you Jo and rtee, I'm very priviliged to have been able to join these forums and I'm humbled with the amount of support and advice I'm getting, there's nothing like experience to teach one if one's capable of listening. I went out and bought the Collins Gem Carb Counter yesterday and already I've found it invaluable, without the people on the forum I wouldn't have even known about it. Many thanks again.

Debbie

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You're more than welcome. It's lovely when after giving advice you get positive feedback, all any of us want is all diabetics to have the best chance possible to avoid complications. Keep asking questions, there is always someone around to help.

Take care - Jo.