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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
Posted here because of wide ranging subjects.
Noting that I'm not asking for solutions, but would welcome comments about similar experiences.
I have had a complicated week or so.
The main changes I have encountered have been excessive tiredness and often nausea after eating.
Although I did manage a 26 mile bicycle ride last Thursday followed by a roughly 3 mile walk later in the day because it was such a beautiful day. So I don't think that I am undernourished, especially with the spare fat stores I have.
Tiredness and wanting to curl up in a corner is how my body normally reacts to a low grade infection, so that could tie in to my body fighting the vaccines (especially the live shingles one).
The nausea is less typical.
It is all very confusing because the first bout of nausea coincided with eating a meal with a lot of fat - 2 * burgers, bacon (which also added a lot of fat), eggs (I think) and fried tomatoes. Then again I had eaten much the same the day before (without the bacon) and had no adverse effect.
Coincidentally my order of four Seriously Low Carb Rolls had turned up.
They needed eating in the next 3-4 days.
However I had read a post which suggested there could be an adverse reaction to these in some people.
So when I ate these (which were not bad, will report in another thread) I wondered if their difference from bread was enough to make me feel queasy.
I will say that eating something then feeling queasy can prejudice you against a food.
Which is a shame because it may be totally unrelated to these rolls.
I have also cut out any comfort/padding foods which contained carbohydrates.
I have indulged myself a bit over spring/summer but now I am tightening up on my diet.
Things like baked beans which are a comfort food and which previously haven't seemed to spike my BG.
So proteins and fats, and one meal a day (discounting morning coffee/butter/cream). Mainly because this was all I wanted to eat. My appetite (and possibly my stomach) had shrunk.
So I cannot really tie down cause and effect.
I do know that my BG control has improved (although inexplicably erratically) and that I have lost a few pounds in weight.
Any way, rant over.
I intend to get some more low carbohydrate bread related substances because I am starting to feel hungry again now I have eaten my first batch up.
Although that may be due to the lack of a bulk filler or due to a recovery from the effects of the vaccinations.
Difficult, isn't it?
Noting that I'm not asking for solutions, but would welcome comments about similar experiences.
I have had a complicated week or so.
- Experimented with Seriously Low Carb Rolls
- Became far more stringent about very low carb eating
- Due to this I've started eating a lot less, and OMAD
- Gave up beer
- Had flu and shingles vaccinations on the same day
The main changes I have encountered have been excessive tiredness and often nausea after eating.
Although I did manage a 26 mile bicycle ride last Thursday followed by a roughly 3 mile walk later in the day because it was such a beautiful day. So I don't think that I am undernourished, especially with the spare fat stores I have.
Tiredness and wanting to curl up in a corner is how my body normally reacts to a low grade infection, so that could tie in to my body fighting the vaccines (especially the live shingles one).
The nausea is less typical.
It is all very confusing because the first bout of nausea coincided with eating a meal with a lot of fat - 2 * burgers, bacon (which also added a lot of fat), eggs (I think) and fried tomatoes. Then again I had eaten much the same the day before (without the bacon) and had no adverse effect.
Coincidentally my order of four Seriously Low Carb Rolls had turned up.
They needed eating in the next 3-4 days.
However I had read a post which suggested there could be an adverse reaction to these in some people.
So when I ate these (which were not bad, will report in another thread) I wondered if their difference from bread was enough to make me feel queasy.
I will say that eating something then feeling queasy can prejudice you against a food.
Which is a shame because it may be totally unrelated to these rolls.
I have also cut out any comfort/padding foods which contained carbohydrates.
I have indulged myself a bit over spring/summer but now I am tightening up on my diet.
Things like baked beans which are a comfort food and which previously haven't seemed to spike my BG.
So proteins and fats, and one meal a day (discounting morning coffee/butter/cream). Mainly because this was all I wanted to eat. My appetite (and possibly my stomach) had shrunk.
So I cannot really tie down cause and effect.
I do know that my BG control has improved (although inexplicably erratically) and that I have lost a few pounds in weight.
Any way, rant over.
I intend to get some more low carbohydrate bread related substances because I am starting to feel hungry again now I have eaten my first batch up.
Although that may be due to the lack of a bulk filler or due to a recovery from the effects of the vaccinations.
Difficult, isn't it?