There's nothing you can say about losing my boy, but I appreciate every mention, my faith keeps me going and prayer.Sounds scrummy, you know my fave is a full English with sausages, black pudding, 2 eggs and three bacon. No bread, I dont miss it now. Of course washed down with a cuppa tea. It keeps my full all day. Great talking with you. Kind regards Q.
When someone passes, especially when they're so young, there's no desire to take care for oneself. The reason kindof goes out of your life, which is perfectly normal. It takes a while to come back from that, though we never really do, not 100%. Grief tends to stay with us, though the shape of it changes over time. Thankfully, otherwise we'd never get out of bed ever again after a loss.You asked if my derailing back on to living on crisps and cakes which have done the damage was emotional, you're right.
My grandson died suddenly and it broke me, I didn't care anymore and that's why I can't control, and need help with, controlling the snacking and the pull to carbs is so strong. He was just 19.
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He was partly right on the processed foods part.. very little to do with high meat content sausages and fats though..Sausages and fats and processed foods had brought me that day.
So was I but apparently that’s not a thing they do in the way they do with kidney stones for example. They believe the stones will just reform so it the whole thing out. Knowing what I do now about long term dietary changes I’m not so sure that’s correct but I don’t suppose it’ll change anytime soon. Maybe once low carb eating and it’s benefits are more widely accepted and some of the cholesterol myths are also put to bed.hoping they can get the stones out and keep to gallbladder as I dont fancy an 8" scar, hence the laparascopic interest.
Yep it is. We’ve all done the same abseil too though and lived to tell the tale and enthusiastically jump over and over again when we realise how good it is.Telling me fats are OK is like asking me to fall backwards off a cliff and everything will be OK
Yes, I can see now how you all have done so.Yep it is. We’ve all done the same abseil too though and lived to tell the tale and enthusiastically jump over and over again when we realise how good it is.
(unsure ATM what trans fats are, assuming dairy).
Good day to and thanks for taking a few minutes yo write to me.Hi @Q007,
Given the recent tragedy you have faced and the pesky aspects of diabetes, grief counselling and counselling about eating problems are important considerations for you. Why your GP has not referred you for such is beyond belief.
Low carb high fat diet for T2Ds research has been published and the NHS has fast tracked the Low Carb for T2Ds program developed by the administration of this wensite in conjunction with Dr David Unwin's practice.
In fact Dr Unwin's wife is a clinical psychologist in the group practice and has made important contributions to the programme and patients in terms of helping people with decision-making and also with help about eating problems.
In the USA the low carb diet has been recognised as one of the three successful ways of weight reduction in T2Ds ( along with calorie restriction and gastric banding ( surgery).
I do wonder how up to date your health team really is.
With a very low carb diet ( ? < 35 g carbs per day) the amount of fat and protein one eats increases. These two are the best at relieving hunger and enable many of us to feel full enough that two meals a day is sufficient.
With carb intake that low we tend to switch from burning carbs for fuel to burning fat, as @bulkbiker describes above.
The switchover does create a temporary glitch in our well being called the keto flu, in the first few days on the diet and dietdoctor.com covers the explanation of this and what to do about it.
Fat has been demonised in the past but there was a lot of bad and misleading research involved and the food and pharmacetical industries have tried to falsify research to continue this myth in their own interest.( profit)
If you need a reference to rebutt what your DSN and doctor say about fat, ask them nicely to subscribe to zoeharcombe.com.
Zoe is a Welsh nutritionist, independent of food and pharmaceutical industry, lobby groups and Government who has reviewed all the literature about fat, heart disease, cholesterol and dug out all the statistical fudges which have been made to try to continue this myth about fats and heart disease and trying to discredit low carb diets.
If your health team cannot be bothered to read her work and others she references then they are truly blinkered and not open to change. A mind is like a parachute, it only works when open.
The choice of what you may do is yours and although we cannot give you medical/ nurse advice or opinion there are many on site who have embarked on the low carb high fat diet, some by themselves or with suggestions and support from this site and others through the program, and succeeded.
There is no shame in following exactly what your health team are suggesting. Those that have followed similar advice will be able to tell you of how they fared and why some changed.
Please obtain help for your eating troubles though as managing diabetes is a challenge without that added troubles.
The best success is to succeed, by hook or by crook.
BestvWishes
Pretty much we all have (minus the heart issues) been told the same as you. We chose try something else.Please walk a yard in my shoes,
brilliant.I'm eating to my meter in the transitional period and, that's reasonable to expect.
Eat more fat, and maybe protein, til we maintain instead of loseWe need carbs for fuel dont we? Yep I get it, we burn fat but when the fat and weight under control what'd I do then?
keto is typically stated as being 20 carbs or under but can often work a bit higher. Everyone needs to find their own limits where they are achieving pre and post meal numbers they like and weight is going where they want it to. You need to know the carbs per 100g and then work how many in your portion. Online calculators or books can help with this.Several versions of low carbs mentioned as a ceiling; 25, 35,75. 25 and 35 are extremely low it seems but what's the number I have scales now where portions need to be measured out
Excess carbs are more likely. I’ll try and find the fireman diagram that’s often used to explain this.but if fats dont cause atherosclerosis, then what does.
I've asked several times, maybe I've missed it somewhere but if fats dont cause atherosclerosis, then what does
We need carbs for fuel dont we?
We need carbs for fuel dont we? Yep I get it, we burn fat but when the fat and weight under control what'd I do then?
Thanks very much for the reply, I've lived on cakes and ready meals for the past 6 month. So I'm adjusting gradually so I dont give up (I only ever do that once).We burn dietary fat when glucose from carbs is not readily available. Plenty of slim people with no body fat to lose are fat burners, and several of them are members of this forum. NO we do not need carbs for fuel. We need fats and protein to keep us alive, we do not need carbs at all. We can live healthy fat fueled lives without them. All carbs do is raise our blood sugar levels, make us fat because of the needs for too much insulin to keep the glucose levels down (insulin is a fat carrying hormone), and cause inflammation.
One excellent way to help heart and stroke issues is to avoid all liquid oils except olive oil. This means no vegetable or seed oils for cooking, and no commercially baked or fried foods, ready meals and junk food. We need plenty of foods that contain omega 3 and as few as possible that have excess omega 6. That means foods such as oily fish like salmon, tuna, mackerel etc., nuts and seeds (flax seeds, chia seeds) Foods that are antioxidants such as strawberries, raspberries, dark chocolate, kale, red cabbage, spinach, and believe it or not, red wine. Oh .... and a 20 minute brisk walk every day.
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