This is very much like food combining?

[zolabud]

Having been on a low carb diet for a few days now my mind has been going beck about 20 odd years when I was an avid food combiner.

You never mixed proteins and carbs and some fruits were off limits.

A friend has lost 3 stone by following Slimming Worlds diet and when I looked at the diet sheets again I thought back to the food combining diet.

I have forgotten most of the food combining rules as I seem to remember that you could eat carbs and protein,just not in the same meal.

I am just about to eat a very late brekkie which was also be my lunch and I am going to make an omelette thingy with plenty of veg and 2 eggs and no bread or baked beans and see how that goes.

My breakfast yesterday had Burgen bread, 2 eggs,slice of lean ham and sugar free baked beans. And I had a high reading.

This morning my fasting rate was 7.0. Lower than yesterday and last night when I went to bed it was 8.0 which surprised me as I had a really nice seafood salad,2 small glasses of Rose wine and a slice of toast and marmite with minimal butter. I fully expected my readings to be off the scale....

And I am fast running out of strips and lancets....

 

[charon]

When I first started trying to control things I had very variable readings for the first few days. Any bread or beans sent it way up. Was very worried. I had a couple of salmon sandwiches on burgen bread and went to 15.1. Going to try that again at some point.
I cut out carbs and exercised and things quickly came down. I was trying to get a baseline of what was possible.
Had small meals - bacon and eggs, meat and greens, tea and water.
Now I am introducing carbs again slowly and it seems to be coming down even more.

Don't worry. It's more a matter of finding out what affect different foods have on you and will take time - and there will always be some unexplained effects.

 

[CathyN]

hi

No two days are the same - even if you did exactly the same things and ate exactly the same food!

I would say that the bread AND beans is a sure fire problem for the BG readings as you have two sources of carbs there. Although many people can tolerate the Burgen bread, I too find that it raises my readings disappointingly!

After a year of diet and exercise control, I find my results sometimes puzzling. Often when I think they may be off the scale, they're fine - and when I think I've been good, they are too high.......

You just have to keep going and try not to lose enthusiasm.

good luck

CathyN

 

[zolabud]

I won't lose enthusiasm... It's right up my street is this. Controlling my health.

I an hoping to have a good 1st meeting with my diabetic nurse on Wednesday.

I would have been diagnosed over 2 weeks and I think it's rather a long wait to be honest. Good job I am on here then !!

All I can think of is being Type 2 it may not be so much of a problem as being Type 1?

Maybe that's why I have had to wait for 2 weeks? Surely if I needed insulin etc I would have seen the DN much sooner?

I hope she understands that although I am Type 2 I still want to monitor my food and require a prescription... Although I very much doubt it judging by all the cutbacks down here at the moment....

I am very happy that there is this fine site with so much knowledge.

I thank you all......