Thank you all for your responses. Being newly diagnosed an knowing there are support like yourselves available makes the journey feel much earlier to get through
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@Rachox I too have a very sweet tooth. I will keep these as a standby and not a all the time snack as I would like to avoid snaking where possible. I do sometimes find that I get quite hungry in the late afternoon when travelling home from London so there is a rather big gap between lunch and dinner. I also keep a bag of nuts in the backpack
I wonder if a fresh look at what food really is & how we use it would be useful.?
I think I fell into your 'energy hunger gap' when I was first diagnosed
A few years down the road and I see food in a different light.
Previously it was a love affair, an anytime, anywhere feast .
Now, while I still enjoy my food, it's tempered with it being more like fuel.
Each meal a pit stop designed to get me as far as possible before the next one.
It took a while, but that premise had me eating more fats, as they satiated me for longer
& Less sugary empty carbs as that was shorter lasting .
I now eat my fill at meal times .
Less hunger, less snacking
The whole idea of LCHF, but it took me a while to see it
Finding that blueberries & a little Greek yoghurt could sustain me to teatime better then my previous sandwiches & croissant did, was a revelation for me.
I used to be amazed seeing the explorer type shows, where they meet some lost tribe, whose hunters manage on a few berries & nuts when the hunting is poor , as in "how on earth do they cope eating so little "
But since my explore of LCHF, I 'get it' now.
Btw, welcome to the club .
Best forum around imho.