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[AndBreathe]

I'm on a tight budget so eat the same things every day:

Breakfast is an egg sandwich of one egg and two slices of Soya and Linseed bread = ~28g carbs

Lunch is an Asda Good and Balanced Ham and Boiled Egg salad with a squirt of salad cream= ~8g carbs

Evening meal is a chicken breast with ~60g leafy salad with a squirt of mayonnaise = ~2g carbs

Snacks are usually pork scratchings or tinned mackerel or a slice of ham and cheese.



It's a bit boring having the same thing everyday but I just look at food as medication.

Do you ring the changes on your menu by flavouring your Mayo, or adding a few bacon bits or onions? A while ago, I was looking for cheap, cheap salt mills, without any metal parts (as here, those just rust really quickly), and discovered some salts in B&M. We have garlic, and another is chilli, garlic and salt and finally, another with BBQ seasoning. If I recall, the salt mills, including contents were something like £1.40, or two for £1.99, so suited my purpose perfectly. We had sort of thought we would probably ditch the contents, but we have been using them. The chilli, garlic and salt one is fab on eggs of all descriptions, and on veg.

Well done for sticking to low carb on a budget. It's one of the things new people often comment is very hard to do.

 

[Brunneria]

@VinnyJames
Hi,

The personal fat threshold is the amount of fat a person can carry before they trigger glucose intolerance.

For example, a person might have an apparently normally functioning metabolism at 9, 10 or even 14 stone. But when the scales hit 15 stone, they start to experience glucose intolerance, which makes weight gain easier, and as the pounds pile on, type 2 diabetes appears. What has probably happened is that some of the fat gain has accumulated around the organs and through the liver, causing it to struggle (think of fois gras geese)

If that person loses weight (and the diabetes hasn't caused too much permanent damage) then they may dip down below their personal fat threshold - and their diabetes may 'reverse'.

Of course it is far more complicated than that. Not all type 2 diabetes is caused by a fatty liver. People's personal fat thresholds change over time (may be your PFT was 14 stone when you were young and fit, but maybe it drops to 11 stone by the time you are 50 yrs), muscle, fitness, carb intake, alcohol usage are likely to influence your PFT. Everyone has a different PFT - someone might develop type 2 at 10 stone, someone else might not develop it at 40 stone.

It's obviously complicated and very variable but hopefully that gives you a rough idea.

 

[VinnyJames]

Thanks @Brunneria

I had a hypothesis along them lines tbh.

I did wonder why I could eat chocolate etc and carbs and it had little effect (within reason) and another person on here - who is very fit - really struggled.
We are both slim and work out.

My hypothesis is that I have less damaged beta cells in my pancreas than he does.

Of course, I may be wrong.

 

[Manuela10]

Is this just your breakfast? What do you eat for other meals?

During the week I have 2 tblespns of hot oat cereal with 1 tablspn of oat bran and a small amt of flax seed mixed with water and F/F milk and sweetened with Stevia or some bran flakes with hazelnuts and almonds and at w/ends or days off I usually have 2 slices of seeded sensations bread with 2 eggs either poached, scrambled or fried.

 

[Daphne917]

Is this just your breakfast? What do you eat for other meals?

It depends - If I'm at work I usually take a salad with some cheese followed by a full fat Greek yogurt and blueberries or fruit puree or sandwiches with 2 slices of seeded sensations bread and a meat filling with yoghurt. When I'm home it could be anything as long as it doesn't have too many carbs!