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Eurydice333

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Hi, my name is Amber, im 18 years old and ive recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. ive been browsing the forums and a lot of people are saying that a low carb diet works really well. i decided to give it a go and stocked up with fish, chicken and eggs and of course plenty of fruit and veg. (i won't eat any meat from a pig or cow) but i find that my meals are limited ie. fish and salad/ chicken and boiled veg/ scrambled egg,mushroom,tomato/yoghurt and fruit.

i've found lists of what you can't eat, but what exactly do you guys eat for breakfast lunch and dinner, especially people who have been eating low carb for months/years?

i'm used to eating toast and weetabix in the morning, then a sandwich or noodles or potato for lunch and whatever for dinner. i've never been an unhealthy eater and i never eat fried foods, i love fruit and veg.

any advice, ideas and comments are welcome. thanks :)

oh, i love cheese (on crackers or with fruit), is that okay or a no no?
 
Just asked a similar question on soapbox, take a look at some really good replies! Titled Confused, carbs, GI and sugar!

K :roll:
 
Breakfasts

http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/ ... fasts.html

Plenty more useful information there, Alan has been doing this for years and also collecting and collating information from many other successful diabetics.

My breakfasts usually involve fish and salad: high protein moderate fat and low carb keeps me going for longer than other combinations. For the rest of my meals basically I eat fewer carbs especially starch and more of everything else, masses of vegetables, more fish and nice yummy fatty meat, which in the absence of the carbs actually improves my lipids.
 
I eat eggs for breakfast, cold meats and salad for lunch, sometimes tinned tuna and avocado as a change and a "normal dinner" meat, fish and veggies. ( no potatoes.
I bake a double Fergus loaf every few days and so can have toast as a breakfast variant.
I use Deamfields pasta and have once bought low carb wraps.
I do occasionally have a step off the wagon. shared a pack of microwave chips with husband on Friday
 
Eggs for me every morning, with anything such as bacon, mushrooms, salmon, last nights's roast etc.
Lunch might be tinned mackerel, or tuna, or a chicken breast with some veg and some mayo / mustard / pesto etc.
Dinner is usually meat or fish with all sorts of different veggies cooked in all sorts of ways.
Add some wine, some nuts, some low carb bread and I'm one happy bunny and a complete stranger to bg any higher than the 6's

fergus
 
i see, thanks for the replies! see my problem is i get fed up easily, and i'm thinking to myself, 'this meal could be so much nicer with some potatoes or bread with soup or something'...

Rather than stop having carbs straight away i've decided to just cut down on the amount i have because i don't feel like i've had a proper breakfast if i don't have cereal...

i've already been on that website Trinkwasser as you also posted it in my other post (and on everyone elses it seems) thanks anyway.

oh by the way, isn't having too much egg bad for cholesterol???
 
eurodice333 said:

oh by the way, isn't having too much egg bad for cholesterol???


Another Hornet's nest I think ? :lol:
 
I know I am only 1 person and we all vary but I have eggs nearly every day and my choleterol level was 2.7 and my LDL [bad fat count in blood I think] is 1.4 so they are fine for me :D
Low carbing comes with practice. Have to admit I have felt it today while the kids have been stuffing themselves with Easter eggs and I could murder a bag of chips but it passes.
Do you have a blood glucose monitor? They are very helpful as you can measure your BG about 2 hours after a meal and with a bit of trial and error you can see what you can eat carb wise. I love crackers but I have to say they are a no for me but the cheese can lower the effect it has on your BG.
 
i haven't actually got a monitor yet but i intend on asking for one when i see the doctor in a couple of weeks for my first diabetic clinic appointment, it'll be really useful to see for myself what effect different foods have on me.

has anyone had this before...
i've been eating properly/healthily for about a month now (since being diagnosed), last night at the cinema i must have eaten a quarter pack of pringles and half a packet of sweet popcorn, i had a stomach ache straight after which turned into a strong pain that lasted till i fell asleep about 2am...do you think it could have been because of the food??? (i'm only thinking this because i haven't changed anything else and my bowel movements are fine) :mrgreen:
 
Hi eurydice.

Pringles.....Popcorn.....FOOD ??? I don't think so.
If that's all you ate no wonder you got stomach ache ?

Back to the drawing board I think. :?
 
Oooh that could be the answer that is a lot of carb and sugar even in a small amount :(
It's cruel but it's a fact of life that stuff like that will make you ill. Doesn't mean we don't all do it though at some time or another. I posted on here the other night after I ate a really small muffin and my BG level went to about 11. something....almost double what it usually is. I don't get stomach ache but if I eat something I shouldn't I get a sort of hangover feeling and get dizzy and feel a bit sick. Put it down to experience :)
 
definitely will not be forgetting that experience any time soon samcogle, i think i'm in that state of thinking that 'what i don't see/know won't hurt me', ie i don't see what it's doing to my blood sugars.

by the way cugila i did have a proper dinner about 2 hours before...the cinema episode is suppose to be a one off, i would usually take some nuts or fresh fruit in the cinema with me for snacks.

although i am being really bad this week as i haven''t been exercising and i ate an ice cream today (99 flake to be precise)

fortunately samcogle, i don't know what a hangover feels like because i don't drink...might be finding out some time soon though with the rubbish im eating... :roll:
 
I know I did things like that in the beginning. I munched my way through a family bag of twiglets as the bag said low GI and that they are baked. It feels very weird going out and not being able to be 'normal' at first and I feel like I am constantly saying to my mates "no thanks, i can't eat that" and as you say, when you have no BG measurer it doesn't really count :)
Mmmmm ice-cream and a flake...pure heaven :D
 
samcogle said:
Oh yes big fat flakes and when its mr whippy and it drips down ya chin.....ooooh. Sorry Ken....lordy is this food porn :lol:
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I've heard all sorts in my time - but I think this is a new one even for me.
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Sorry Eurydice, I seem to have derailed your thread. See what happens when you mention ice-cream though...the whole place goes to pieces :lol:
Now I have said 'whole place' and am thinking about fish and chips....bed time I think :shock:
 
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