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danielt

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Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
My OH had his check up this week:

Hba1c 5.5 which I think is 37
Cholesterol total it him no split given 4.8. (Asked him to ask for split but he forgot!)
Lost 1kg so progress lol !

Bmi 38....

I am struggling with such low hba1c and weight or are we rather he is just eating well and now just downsize the portions?

On a morning reading lowest was 9.5 ...... On his own meter....under sufferance testing!!!!

I wondered if anyone has any comments or can it be we have found the right path.....

Only negative was he mentioned I was getting him to go lower carbing.... Then had the eat carbs all the time speech from DN....!

So then when he came home we had a bit of heated debate as she is a health professional and I am not (very abridged version,,I said he should read the forum blah blah and the fact his reading is 5.5 is BECAUSE HE IS EATING LESS CARBS ARHGH LOL,)!!!!
....And yes I did take the credit for it!,,

Stage 2 weight loss and exercise :)
 
hehe, all reductions will have an effect but lowering carbs will have great effect, your doing so great keep it up, you deserve the credit hehe but hes also doing well :)
 
Ha yes if only the ungrateful (for 5 mins) old git realised!!!
He is really pleased and I am not very quietly smug!!!
Just off to feed any bread lying around to the chickens!!!lol!!!
 
danielt said:
Ha yes if only the ungrateful (for 5 mins) old git realised!!!
He is really pleased and I am not very quietly smug!!!
Just off to feed any bread lying around to the chickens!!!lol!!!
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lol i love it!

my life would be so much easier if my wife were like you :)
 
danielt said:
Ha yes if only the ungrateful (for 5 mins) old git realised!!!
He is really pleased and I am not very quietly smug!!!
Just off to feed any bread lying around to the chickens!!!lol!!!
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We keep chickens too, or I wouldn't afford my high-egg-diet!

LCHF rocks, preferably with the occasional rooster thrown in.
 
Hmm ,

we are vegetarian butt do eat our own (chickens) eggs! So it hasn't been easy and not helped with my previous brainwashing of carbs are good fat is bad.....

Cannot believe the difference it has made even without weightloss!
Just that to sort out and it will be fine
 
Hmm , just asked OH if he would like anything ...thinking he would say a cup of tea... No he wanted toast! So explained its possible but will have to retrieve a slice from the chooks... It's eerily silent and a little frosty here now!,

we are vegetarian but eat our own (chickens) eggs! So it hasn't been easy and not helped with my previous brainwashing of carbs are good fat is bad.....

Cannot believe the difference the reverse has made even without weightloss!
Just that to sort out and it will be fine (she says!!!)
 
Next time you say: I would like a cup of tea, love, please could you make me one? Or something like that. Problem solved. And if there is an element of snacking, add: and bring me a piece of the brie, please!

Provided your husband isn't bed-bound, of course. If he is not you may have to train him into being an adult in small steps, like in a cup of tea and a piece of cheese or German cheesecake, virtually carb-free in my version. I will have to post the recipe sometime.
 
Totto said:
Next time you say: I would like a cup of tea, love, please could you make me one? Or something like that. Problem solved. And if there is an element of snacking, add: and bring me a piece of the brie, please!

Provided your husband isn't bed-bound, of course. If he is not you may have to train him into being an adult in small steps, like in a cup of tea and a piece of cheese or German cheesecake, virtually carb-free in my version. I will have to post the recipe sometime.
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Swap you a LCHF friendly Indian curry for that cheesecake recipe..... ;)
 
semiphonic said:
Swap you a LCHF friendly Indian curry for that cheesecake recipe..... ;)
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Any time! The recipe needs translation first though. It is a family heirloom so to speak, from a German nanny who cared for me an my brother in the mid sixties and since I was diagnosed diabetic a month ago I felt I couldn't live without käsekuche so adjusted it to my low-carb standards and it works fine.

I will post it in the low-carb section in a thread called Käsekuche when I get the time!
 
Totto said:
Any time! The recipe needs translation first though. It is a family heirloom so to speak, from a German nanny who cared for me an my brother in the mid sixties and since I was diagnosed diabetic a month ago I felt I couldn't live without käsekuche so adjusted it to my low-carb standards and it works fine.

I will post it in the low-carb section in a thread called Käsekuche when I get the time!
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I'll keep a look out for that. I cook a lot of Asian food for my family, generally speaking most Indian main courses, if cooked from scratch (no shop bought sauces etc), are LCHF friendly. Starters and side dishes however are not. Most, again not all, Chinese dishes are full of sugar so would not be Diabetes friendly :(
 
semiphonic said:
I'll keep a look out for that. I cook a lot of Asian food for my family, generally speaking most Indian main courses, if cooked from scratch (no shop bought sauces etc), are LCHF friendly. Starters and side dishes however are not. Most, again not all, Chinese dishes are full of sugar so would not be Diabetes friendly :(
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Do you make cauliflower rice? Or what do you have instead of rice?
 
Totto said:
Do you make cauliflower rice? Or what do you have instead of rice?
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I really am not a fan of vegetables so I tend to just go without, I'm told celeriac is very nice so I may try celeriac rice? If that fails, popadoms are LCHF friendly :)
 
semiphonic said:
I really am not a fan of vegetables so I tend to just go without, I'm told celeriac is very nice so I may try celeriac rice? If that fails, popadoms are LCHF friendly :)
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Are they? Oh happiness! I love them. And celeriac. But as to how make celeriac rice I am at loss.

Celeriac mash is a nice thing though, made from boiled celeriac and lots of butter.
 
Totto said:
Are they? Oh happiness! I love them. And celeriac. But as to how make celeriac rice I am at loss.

Celeriac mash is a nice thing though, made from boiled celeriac and lots of butter.
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Yes they are!! I have a packet of Tesco popadoms in front of me (and I'm sure they're not as healthy as the ones you cook yourself) -

Each popadom (approx 11g) = 4.2g carbohydrate, of which sugars (this is the good bit!!) 0.1g

Given that the meal I cooked was around 10g of carbs (per serving) and I've eaten around another 5g of carbs today, I could eat 8 popadoms!!!!

I've never cooked with celeriac before, but I'm going to buy a potato ricer this weekend and *hope* that it will work with celeriac
 
I can only get Sharwoods where I live, but suppose they will have to make do. I find them to thick and too small. Sweden never was much for Indian cuisine I suppose.
 
Totto said:
I can only get Sharwoods where I live, but suppose they will have to make do. I find them to thick and too small. Sweden never was much for Indian cuisine I suppose.
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Shop bought pre-cooked popadoms taste like washing-up liquid to me
 
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