Switching from extremely low carb to moderately low carb

[Lawrencepa]

So someone here has advised I up my carb intake a bit to avoid cheat days that I've often succumb to. How many carbs should I aim for? I have been going 20g a day with the cheat days I've mentioned. If I aim for 50g a day what kind of food should I be eating? I presume a couple of slices of bread would be ok. What other food would fit a 50g limit?

 

[lucylocket61]

So someone here has advised I up my carb intake a bit to avoid cheat days that I've often succumb to. How many carbs should I aim for? I have been going 20g a day with the cheat days I've mentioned. If I aim for 50g a day what kind of food should I be eating? I presume a couple of slices of bread would be ok. What other food would fit a 50g limit?

are you testing you reaction to foods? Using a meter will help you make the right choices for your body.

 

[Hotpepper20000]

Do you have a BG meter?
That will tell you what your carb limit should be.
For me, and I am speaking from doing extensive testing I can not have grains.
I eat moderate carbs 50-60g a day. With no grains.
For some people no mater how little the carb content grains spike BG. You will only know if this is true if you test.

 

[Rachox]

I eat 50 - 70g of carbs per day, but I find I can tolerate carbs better as the day goes by according to my meter. With that in mind I’ll eat 10g for breakfast, 10g at lunch, 10g for snacks if needed, that leaves 20 - 30g for dinner.

 

[Jo123]

I'm only pre diabetic now normal, I eat aground 80 gms carbs a day and normally eat no obvious carbs. Occasionally I have a lidl roll at 9 gms (I think), or two slices of livlife bread at less than 8 gms for both slices. My carbs mainly come from vegetables, I might have a small carrot in my roasted veg, I have large salads, never with sweetcorn or similar.
It is surprising how many carbs are in green veg and salad.

 

[Bluetit1802]

In my opinion, the way to go is to eat to your meter. Do you know how to do this? It isn't difficult but does require organisation. Your meter will show you what your personal carb tolerance is, and which of the carb types suit you and those that don't suit you. We all have different tolerance levels, so it is a question of finding out what yours are.

Test before you eat
Test again 2 hours after first bite
Look at the rise from before to after
Try to keep this under 2mmol/l and preferably less
More than 2mmol/l and there are too many carbs in that meal
Keep a food diary that includes all ingredients and portion sizes of the carbs
Record your levels alongside the food
Over a period of time patterns will emerge allowing you to eliminate certain carbs or reduce the portion size.

If you try this and have any problems or queries, you can ask on here.

 

[hankjam]

As others have mentioned your meter will tell you. A slice of bread, sounds okay, could be okay but I would suggest it would be best to find out what it does to your BG and if it is a short sharp peak in BG, for you to decide if that is okay.

 

[Resurgam]

rather than a sandwich why not have a roast dinner with carrot and parsnip cooked with the meat, cauliflower, or courgette, sweet pepper, or mushrooms - you might even get away with a couple of Yorkshire puddings if made with bread flour lots of eggs and cream.
I find that carbs with a meal which includes low carb foods have less effect than a high carb item where it is the most part of the food eaten.

 

[Mr_Pot]

So someone here has advised I up my carb intake a bit to avoid cheat days that I've often succumb to. How many carbs should I aim for? I have been going 20g a day with the cheat days I've mentioned. If I aim for 50g a day what kind of food should I be eating? I presume a couple of slices of bread would be ok. What other food would fit a 50g limit?

As others have said testing is the only way to find out how various foods affect you. If you don't have them already, then you might want to experiment with some of the vegetables which affect some people and not others, peas, beans of various types, lentils, butternut squash, sweet potato etc. bearing in mind that portion size is important.