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<blockquote data-quote="SirLance-alot" data-source="post: 2365519" data-attributes="member: 537817"><p>MrsA2, thanks for your reassuring words. To be honest, I'm finding it hard to see the wood from the trees, in terms of "odd signs and things happening" - I'm newly (unexpectedly, and traumatically) separated and single, recently unemployed and now on benefits (never saw THAT one coming ?!!), struggling financially (savings all gone) and diagnosed 2 months ago with depression, and now more recently with Type 2. It would all be a bit overwhelming, if I let it. The diabetes thing is, in some ways, the lesser of my various evils - I am trying to see it as an opportunity to sort out my lifestyle and diet. As a passionate home cook (ex-restaurant chef) I have a deep relationship with food, which is now being challenged - but TBH I am embracing the idea of exploring low-sugar / low-carb alternatives - for example I made an amazing Smoked Mackerel Kedgeree today, using cauliflower rice and home-smoked fish... it was honestly lovely, and 5 grams net carbs, and made me feel quite proud. I'm very impressed with Xylitol as a sugar alternative... just need to find a decent Bread recipe that is low carb and doesn't taste like Victoria sponge. I miss pasta very much, but found Konjac noodles recently - have ordered some, but not tried them yet - fingers crossed. Fruit, too, is a big gap - I have apple and pear trees in my garden, and a freezer full of them .... :-( However - I have found zero sugar and zero carb fruit jellies, in Lidl, that are doing the trick for now. Maybe I'll splash out on a "proper" fruit crumble, once things have settled down. For now though, I'm going to give this hard-core Keto thing a month, to see what happens. The weirdest thing at the moment,m is a nagging pain in my back, close to where I imagine my kidneys to be (but just on the right hand side). Maybe that's the gap left by Croissants in the morning <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SirLance-alot, post: 2365519, member: 537817"] MrsA2, thanks for your reassuring words. To be honest, I'm finding it hard to see the wood from the trees, in terms of "odd signs and things happening" - I'm newly (unexpectedly, and traumatically) separated and single, recently unemployed and now on benefits (never saw THAT one coming ?!!), struggling financially (savings all gone) and diagnosed 2 months ago with depression, and now more recently with Type 2. It would all be a bit overwhelming, if I let it. The diabetes thing is, in some ways, the lesser of my various evils - I am trying to see it as an opportunity to sort out my lifestyle and diet. As a passionate home cook (ex-restaurant chef) I have a deep relationship with food, which is now being challenged - but TBH I am embracing the idea of exploring low-sugar / low-carb alternatives - for example I made an amazing Smoked Mackerel Kedgeree today, using cauliflower rice and home-smoked fish... it was honestly lovely, and 5 grams net carbs, and made me feel quite proud. I'm very impressed with Xylitol as a sugar alternative... just need to find a decent Bread recipe that is low carb and doesn't taste like Victoria sponge. I miss pasta very much, but found Konjac noodles recently - have ordered some, but not tried them yet - fingers crossed. Fruit, too, is a big gap - I have apple and pear trees in my garden, and a freezer full of them .... :-( However - I have found zero sugar and zero carb fruit jellies, in Lidl, that are doing the trick for now. Maybe I'll splash out on a "proper" fruit crumble, once things have settled down. For now though, I'm going to give this hard-core Keto thing a month, to see what happens. The weirdest thing at the moment,m is a nagging pain in my back, close to where I imagine my kidneys to be (but just on the right hand side). Maybe that's the gap left by Croissants in the morning :-) [/QUOTE]
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