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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pleinster" data-source="post: 1436926" data-attributes="member: 221545"><p>Have you definitely set the meter to a reasonably high "jab factor". I use mine at 6 and seldom "misfire". Good advice above. Think of it this way...most high carb foods are less than nutritious and too many are clearly bad for most people one way or another. If you want to be sure you are eating enough to stay healthy while eating  as few carbs as possible, try listing what you eat in a day...thinking about portion size, using the labels (or Google), work out the amount of calories, carbohydrates, protein, calcium, fibre, fat (saturated) and sugar you are eating in a day. Most foods break these down in terms of per 100g. It may sound extreme but I did this for a week once I was fully on a low carb diet, listing the time I ate, the food I ate and the breakdown of it so I could both reassure myself and discuss with my doctors so that everyone shut up about it and let me get on with it. I was eating maybe 1500 calories average a day...and never ate anything above 10g of carbohydrate per 100g. Doctors were content, I got my blood sugars down to normal levels...and got way less rigid as time went on. the more you know...the easier it gets..bottom line.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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