My work is only serving cold sandwiches at present so another tip is to asset strip a baguette. You do not have to eat the carb vehicle that the good stuff comes in!The surprising thing about this is how hungry you don't get. 2 rashers of bacon for breakfast, and that took me right through to lunch. 6 thin slices of sandwich chicken at lunch (without the sandwich) and that'll probably do me through until 6pm. I suspect I've spent years trying to fill a void with carbs, when what my body actually wanted was protein and fat.
I'll probably do a Food Warehouse shop tonight, and be buying very differently to how I've done in the past. I love their pakora chicken strips, but the coating is fairly carb heavy. I may still have them as a treat if and when I gradually start to reintroduce some carbs. I'd like to have lost a stone from my starting weight before I even go there, though.
The McDonalds tip is a brilliant one, while travelling. Nando's butterfly chicken is practically carb free if you're eating out, too. And thanks @bulkbiker for the scratchings tip. I'll be ordering some of those. I'll hold you responsible if I break any teeth, though
Have you had your thyroid checked? Also, there seems to be little fat in your diet, which may be contributing to your weight difficulties. You do need fats.My food bill has gone through the roof since starting on low carb. I am a naturally slim person and find I need to eat way more than before and am still inclined to lose weight.
My diet was carb heavy before:
Something like this.
Tea with milk and toast for breakfast. Or yoghurt and berries.
Coffee with milk and biscuit or cake
Lunchtime, sandwich. Cheese or ham with some salad content.
More tea or coffee with milk and possibly more cake in the afternoon.
Dinner. Often rice. Noodles or pasta, if not potatoes, vegetables and meat or fish.
Rice and noodle meals would have chopped veg and handful of prawn or chicken thrown in. Often a sugary/creamy dessert. Wine.
Tea with milk at bedtime.
Weight at diagnosis 58.1kg
On starting low carb I lost weight so rapidly and consistently that my doctors insisted on investigating for cancer. Despite me saying I needed a dietitian.
My current weight is 49.7kg well underweight for my height. BMI 17.
Although I have got used to and like my new figure, other people still remark on how skinny I am.
Now I drink coffee with cream at least three times a day.
Breakfast homemade nut granola and often eggs as well.
Lunch huge plate of salad with a protein element. Sometimes LC bread or greek yoghurt and berries. Or a small piece of fruit. Tea with milk and often more tea with milk in the afternoon.
Dinner, meat, fish or chicken, plenty of veg. Use celariace to replace roast potatoes. Which is considerably more costly. Sometimes have cauliflower rice. Homemade. ( about 50p a portion v 55p a kilo for white rice probably 10-12 portions) Occasionally very small portion of oven chips.
Snacks are chunks of cheese, dark chocolate, or peanut butter.
Still drink wine.
Bedtime tea if I have it, is lemon and ginger.
Overall I eat more, and more expensively.
I try not to take my husband shopping, he is always shocked at the price of nuts and seeds.
@lucylocket61 Thank you for your concern.Have you had your thyroid checked? Also, there seems to be little fat in your diet, which may be contributing to your weight difficulties. You do need fats.
thanks for the reassurance. Some of us (including me) have a few health concerns to juggle, and pick a path through them. I have more carbs than many, as lowering further affects my bowel issues. I take the slightly higher HbA1c as simply the price I have to pay for overall health. I still dont need meds. Maybe that is a possibility for you to keep a healthy weight? Its easy, when the focus is on one health concern, to miss balancing treatments up with other health concerns.@lucylocket61 Thank you for your concern.
Did have a thyroid check, that was one of the huge battery of tests the doctor ordered.
Nuts for breakfast every day, cream in coffee, full fat greek yoghurt, cheese. Shoulder pork chops, chicken thighs, sardines, mayonnaise or oil with salad, peanut butter spooned straight from the jar, do make an effort to get sufficient fat.
I have been underweight for most of my life. Nothing to do with dieting. Just normal for me. I believe the gradual increase in my weight, after decades of stability, was probably the first sign of prediabetes.thanks for the reassurance. Some of us (including me) have a few health concerns to juggle, and pick a path through them. I have more carbs than many, as lowering further affects my bowel issues. I take the slightly higher HbA1c as simply the price I have to pay for overall health. I still dont need meds. Maybe that is a possibility for you to keep a healthy weight? Its easy, when the focus is on one health concern, to miss balancing treatments up with other health concerns.
best wishes to you.
Frozen food usually seems to be the cheapest option, especially with meat and fish. It kind of makes sense, because there's less store waste of food that's gone past its use by date, which has to be factored into the cost of the food that actually sells.
Check out the frozen fish in Iceland / Food Warehouse. They often do 3 packs for £10. Lots of different things to choose from, and you get at least 4 decent sized fillets (or the entire fish, bar head, tail and guts, in the case of mackerel) in each bag. So it works out at less than £1 per serving if you just have the one piece, and still less than £2 if you have a couple.
Snacks and accompaniments seem to be a killer, though. 12 bags of low carb pork puffs for £10, when a 12 pack of Quavers would typically be £5 at most, and often on sale for £3. 200 grams of Konjac rice costs the same as a 2 kilo bag of Basmati.
Several reasons. We went organic after buying plain pork chops from Tesco and finding out that they contained 11% added water, two additives and glucose syrup,o only when we took the wrapper off. There was nothing on the outside, about any of it. I had bad retinopathy, I did stricter low carb and ate only wild and organic. Six months later, it had almost gone. Consultant was amazed and showed me on his computer. Told me he had never seen it before. He told me to keep doing what I was doing as it was working for me. Also, I want to consume the least possible amount of pesticides and additives. There's very little research on potential harm over many years. I have completely eradicated added sugars and sweeteners from my diet now.Organic seems very important to you. Is there a reason for that?
Honestly my opinion is the low carb (ie lowering blood glucose levels) would be what reversed the retinopathy. It’s not uncommon on here and apparently can spontaneously reverse anyway according to the nurse I spoke to after my very mild positive test this year despite 18months of low carb, good levels and a previous negative test the year before.Several reasons. We went organic after buying plain pork chops from Tesco and finding out that they contained 11% added water, two additives and glucose syrup,o only when we took the wrapper off. There was nothing on the outside, about any of it. I had bad retinopathy, I did stricter low carb and ate only wild and organic. Six months later, it had almost gone. Consultant was amazed and showed me on his computer. Told me he had never seen it before. He told me to keep doing what I was doing as it was working for me. Also, I want to consume the least possible amount of pesticides and additives. There's very little research on potential harm over many years. I have completely eradicated added sugars and sweeteners from my diet now.
I’m confused about your statements about ingredients for the pork only being identified after you took the wrapper off. Where were they listed if not on the wrapper? And are things such as glucose and water excluded from organic products? I didn’t think so. Additives would depend very much on what they were.
Can’t argue at all with wanting to reduce or eliminate pesticides and artificial additives though.
Whilst frustrating, is this a problem inherent with non organic foods or a labelling/production line issue that potentially could happen anywhere?The label was stuck into the shrink-wrapped plastic. The ingredients were printed on the back of this. It wasn't possible to see them at all from the front and there was nothing in or underneath the tray with ingredients on.
Don't know about glucose, but it would have to be labelled. Water isn't allowed in chicken or bacon, probably not others either. In any case, I buy my meat from organic farms mostly. Also, conventional food can contain secondhand GM eg animals can be fed on GM feed and organic animals can't be. There are stricter rules on antibiotic usage too. No glyphosate on crops to dry them out, either.
Why? What do they base that on?One of the biggest influencers in the NHS believes that a low carb diet is outside of the reach of those on the lowest incomes.
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