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<blockquote data-quote="Norfnife" data-source="post: 1176662" data-attributes="member: 283154"><p>A typical day's food for me is two slices of toast and butter (very occasionally Marmite and/or peanut butter too!) for breakfast, a small amount of roast chicken or a single celery stick with salad cream mid-afternoon as I am feeling completely starving by this point, and then a salad with either a small bread roll or crackers in the evening. The salad is dressing-free, but at the moment my favourite is to eat iceberg lettuce, watermelon, tomatoes and feta cheese with a sprinkling of crispy onions. Yum!</p><p></p><p>In the winter months, the evening meal is more likely to be a home-cooked curry or a stew with a few potatoes or a couple of dumplings, but I was a trained chef so know all about nutrition and low/high GI. As a result, I eat full grain, high fibre where possible and I eat vegetarian a lot too - except for the chicken which came as a shock when I heard about the effect it can have on blood sugars!</p><p></p><p>The end result is that I spend 99% of my day fasting, do a lot of blood tests even with a CGM attached and my sugars are still all over the place. I definitely get the dawn phenomenon and this then seems to set the tone for the day, in as much as my sugars go up to unacceptable levels even if I have not eaten anything and I then spend the rest of the day chasing my tail trying to get them to where they should be whilst eating as little as possible to survive!</p><p></p><p>I have never been a fan of 'fat' so my diet is probably best described as LCLF, although I do understand about healthy fats. I just don't want to eat them all the time! I was always led to believe that the Basal Bolus regime allowed you to eat a 'normal' diet but this appears to be far from the truth, for me on my current insulins anyway!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Norfnife, post: 1176662, member: 283154"] A typical day's food for me is two slices of toast and butter (very occasionally Marmite and/or peanut butter too!) for breakfast, a small amount of roast chicken or a single celery stick with salad cream mid-afternoon as I am feeling completely starving by this point, and then a salad with either a small bread roll or crackers in the evening. The salad is dressing-free, but at the moment my favourite is to eat iceberg lettuce, watermelon, tomatoes and feta cheese with a sprinkling of crispy onions. Yum! In the winter months, the evening meal is more likely to be a home-cooked curry or a stew with a few potatoes or a couple of dumplings, but I was a trained chef so know all about nutrition and low/high GI. As a result, I eat full grain, high fibre where possible and I eat vegetarian a lot too - except for the chicken which came as a shock when I heard about the effect it can have on blood sugars! The end result is that I spend 99% of my day fasting, do a lot of blood tests even with a CGM attached and my sugars are still all over the place. I definitely get the dawn phenomenon and this then seems to set the tone for the day, in as much as my sugars go up to unacceptable levels even if I have not eaten anything and I then spend the rest of the day chasing my tail trying to get them to where they should be whilst eating as little as possible to survive! I have never been a fan of 'fat' so my diet is probably best described as LCLF, although I do understand about healthy fats. I just don't want to eat them all the time! I was always led to believe that the Basal Bolus regime allowed you to eat a 'normal' diet but this appears to be far from the truth, for me on my current insulins anyway! [/QUOTE]
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