Taking a couple of days off from Type 2 life

[AloeSvea]

I increased high carb feast days in my usually 'strict' (for want of a better word) keto/lchf eating regime, over a six month period, and it went bad for me (HBA1c from 44 went to 49). I was seeing if fasting days post the feast days was compensatory. It wasn't. I am not medicated, so it's just me and my diabetic body there, doing its thing. But as I often say in here - its hugely dependent on how carb-tolerant/how BG dysregulated you are, and there is a lot of variation in this, even amongst type twos who come into this forum. . But you started your 'diabetes journey' with an HBA1c of 55, I started mine with a 93. Do these things count or matter? I would say they do for sure.

Was the increase in high-carb feast days with friends and family wonderful? Yes.

One of the problems which others have talked about in here is I found it hard to keep the feast day to just one day. I started extending them. Even with just one or two high-carb treats. Whereas before I had a day off low carb on my birthday, and it was just one day. (And no longterm effect. For some years.) When I did this feast-experiment my birthday treat days became three or four, as was the other treat days. Easter was fabulous! Eating with my family hasn't been so easy and 'natural' and high-carb since diagnosis . The dessert at winter-solstice dinner (I live in the southern hemisphere) - yum-me.

So that's my experience with that. But all you can do is try something out, and track your health markers. And learn from that.

I am sorry the high-carb substitutes don't do it for you. That's a hard one. I would be lost without stevia to sweeten the odd thing. And also - the herbs and spices once sugar and msg as taste enhancers have all but disappeared in the healthier diet.

Re the baked goods - almond flour is actually lower carb than coconut flour - so just go for almond flour baked goods. And the psyllium husk - in low carb baking you only need a very small amount, and it makes a BIG difference to the fluffiness. (I love baked goods.)

Cooking and baking could become one of your hobbies? I already liked to bake, but going lower carb successfully for me meant re-learning to cook. And cooking a lot more than I ever did, or ever liked to do. If you don't have a cook (ha! how many of us do?), then I don't know how to avoid this.

 

[SkinnyAussie2]

@Ojustaboo

I have ME too and I am significantly disabled. It makes managing diabetes very difficult.

I am envious of your BGLs after eating carbs. Are you still on meds? If so, do you mind sharing what meds? I am struggling to find something I can tolerate.

Best Wishes

 

[HSSS]

Re the baked goods - almond flour is actually lower carb than coconut flour - so just go for almond flour baked goods.

But you use a lot less coconut flour in comparison so that sort of equals them out.
Also worth bearing in mind nut flours have higher inflammatory omega 6 than coconut

 

[nomoredonuts]

Great idea on getting an ice-cream maker. You should find a few recipes somewhere in the forum. (Easy as double cream, blueberries and a sweetener!)
I was diagnosed with ME in 1994 and nowadays don't give it a thought. Maybe it's my excess sugar that is giving me energy like I haven't had in years. Diabetes is something I need to put in its place and find a lifestyle that works for me. I'm sure you can too.

 

[briped]

Seriously considering seeing if I can get a ice cream maker for xmas

If you do, please don't get the kind where you have to leave the bowl in the freezer for 24 hours before making your ice cream. They're not worth it for several reasons.
Anyway, I do understand your need to take time of every now and then, and wish I could do the same, but I seem to be an all or nothing kind of person. My last day of lasted 2 years , but I think I might consider doing like you if I thought I could.