Has anyone been given a free 12 week course at Slimming World by their GP?
Can you recommend it? I have looked through the hype on their webpage and their recipes seem very high carb and include potatoes, pasta and rice. This is totally against everything I've learned on here and is going to be a huge about turn in my way of thinking.
It means my shopping list will include skimmed milk, low fat cooking spray, fat free yogurt, tinned beans and rice to name a few. My cooking methods and meals will undergo an enormous change of direction. No cream, cut all fat off meat and remove chicken skin, eat pasta, boiled rice and potatoes ...... my head's in a spin.
If the weight loss is good, do you think it will help establish insulin production and help the type 2 diabetes?
Help!
Round here (High Wycombe) they push Weight Watchers which I believe has a low carb (Atkins, South Beach) option. If you Google Slimming World low carb, some people aren't very complimentary about SW.Has anyone been given a free 12 week course at Slimming World by their GP?
Can I ask a couple of questions?Has anyone been given a free 12 week course at Slimming World by their GP?
Can you recommend it? I have looked through the hype on their webpage and their recipes seem very high carb and include potatoes, pasta and rice. This is totally against everything I've learned on here and is going to be a huge about turn in my way of thinking.
Help!
Can you recommend it? I have looked through the hype on their webpage and their recipes seem very high carb and include potatoes, pasta and rice.
I was told the same thing when I was diagnosed - that my pancreas wasn't producing enough insulin.Too much insulin folks? Now why didn't someone explain that in the beginning? The info I was given at GPs and at clinic was that diabetic's pancreas was damaged and so I assumed NOT producing the stuff. I've spoken to someone at 'headquarters' who was very helpful - well almost too helpful saying you could eat bread, pasta, potatoes, rice etc ........... but didn't mention cheese, or crean and cooking fats.
We'll give it a 'go' when she gets back in touch and I'll ask if they have a low carb 'plan' when I go for the induction (?!!?)
I'll let you know how things pan out.
Type 2s only get put on insulin if they ignore the situation and their poor old pancreas just wears itself out.
Cut back on the carbs and the pancreas eventually gets a rest - there seems to be various different intervals along the way where odd things go on - stable BG, unstable BG, the old energy plummet in the afternoons I used to get which made the last lesson of school so difficult to concentrate on and then in later life made the picking up the kids from school such a labour of love. I tried fasting and got a higher than normal BG level, but this is just 5 months after diagnosis, so all sorts of things might be going on, but hopefully all will be well at the end of a year - that is what I have been aiming for - a year of experimentation and reversal.
Also lots of roast chicken, pork and lamb - mushrooms and tomatoes and salad, cream cheese and celery, sugar free jelly, berries and coffee with cream, oh and beef with sweet peppers and onions, and courgettes, and bacon and eggs, or scrambled eggs with cheese grated in and then thinly sliced tomatoes on top, covered over and left for a minute.
There's not much need for starchy foods with so much else to chose from...
Too much insulin folks? Now why didn't someone explain that in the beginning? The info I was given at GPs and at clinic was that diabetic's pancreas was damaged and so I assumed NOT producing the stuff. I've spoken to someone at 'headquarters' who was very helpful - well almost too helpful saying you could eat bread, pasta, potatoes, rice etc ........... but didn't mention cheese, or crean and cooking fats.
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