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<blockquote data-quote="Alexandra100" data-source="post: 1704554" data-attributes="member: 429870"><p>SockFiddler & Guzzler, thanks very much for your replies & encouragement. As regards breakfast, I have to eat something first thing, especially when my fasting bg is low, as fasting tends to spike me. Most people here advise against eating many carbs for breakfast. Cheese & 10g brazil nuts are my solution to that problem. I am calling this breakfast, because it literally breaks my fast, but it is not really a meal, more the pre-breakfast SockFiddler suggests. But yes, maybe I could experiment with eating just the nuts. I don't yet know if that would be enough to avoid spiking.</p><p></p><p>My first proper meal of the two I eat later in the day usually happens about midday. When, as I have, one eliminates almost an entire food group (carbs) from one's diet, and one needs to gain rather than lose weight, that food group has to be replaced by protein and / or fat. I have slightly raised the protein in my diet and greatly raised the fat. I'm wondering if my body will tolerate this. I can't say exactly without going back over my records, but I have been eating under 20g carbs for some weeks. I arrived at this level gradually, reducing and reducing until I arrived at what I consider my irreducible minimum, which allows me to eat 100g low carb vegetables at each of 2 meals, cream in cups of tea and coffee and a few nuts. Cheese is my goto snack and I can't think of anything equally portable, almost no carb and ready without cooking.</p><p></p><p>I have only been taking the Metformin abut 2 weeks. (500mg which at present I am taking with lunch, as my "breakfast" is so low carb it doesn't need it as much as my other meals.) It was my wish to take it, as even <20g carbs does not give me the bg levels I'd like. My GP took some persuading, as in her eyes my bg levels are fine, so at this stage I don't want to discourage her from continuing to prescribe it. I'll wait and see.</p><p></p><p>Thanks again to you lovely members of a lovely community! As of now (after 11am) I'm feeling a lot better and am about to embark on lunch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alexandra100, post: 1704554, member: 429870"] SockFiddler & Guzzler, thanks very much for your replies & encouragement. As regards breakfast, I have to eat something first thing, especially when my fasting bg is low, as fasting tends to spike me. Most people here advise against eating many carbs for breakfast. Cheese & 10g brazil nuts are my solution to that problem. I am calling this breakfast, because it literally breaks my fast, but it is not really a meal, more the pre-breakfast SockFiddler suggests. But yes, maybe I could experiment with eating just the nuts. I don't yet know if that would be enough to avoid spiking. My first proper meal of the two I eat later in the day usually happens about midday. When, as I have, one eliminates almost an entire food group (carbs) from one's diet, and one needs to gain rather than lose weight, that food group has to be replaced by protein and / or fat. I have slightly raised the protein in my diet and greatly raised the fat. I'm wondering if my body will tolerate this. I can't say exactly without going back over my records, but I have been eating under 20g carbs for some weeks. I arrived at this level gradually, reducing and reducing until I arrived at what I consider my irreducible minimum, which allows me to eat 100g low carb vegetables at each of 2 meals, cream in cups of tea and coffee and a few nuts. Cheese is my goto snack and I can't think of anything equally portable, almost no carb and ready without cooking. I have only been taking the Metformin abut 2 weeks. (500mg which at present I am taking with lunch, as my "breakfast" is so low carb it doesn't need it as much as my other meals.) It was my wish to take it, as even <20g carbs does not give me the bg levels I'd like. My GP took some persuading, as in her eyes my bg levels are fine, so at this stage I don't want to discourage her from continuing to prescribe it. I'll wait and see. Thanks again to you lovely members of a lovely community! As of now (after 11am) I'm feeling a lot better and am about to embark on lunch. [/QUOTE]
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