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Slayer Mum

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I have been doing LCHF since diagnosis. I even went to turkey and never had a potato or pudding or rice or pasta in that whole time. What’s the worst that could happen if i had an Indian take away tonight?
 
For me it would depend on what I ate. I can eat several of the cream-based (if no added sugar, some kormas are full of it) or tomato-based curries but without rice or nan bread. I like the saag chicken curries.
A salad on the side or plain yogurt cuts the burn when having curry without rice.
 
My sugar 2 hours after cream and berries is 7.8 which is the lowest since i started checking them ( and I haven’t checked them since before my holidays ) so i am quite pleased with that. Will check again after and see what’s what. I’m up to 1500mg metformin now and i seem to be losing weight and gaining wrinkles so am hoping the weight loss will continue but the wrinkles wont. Maybe i went all in too soon.
 
I gained wrinkles around the jaw line and have a turkey neck now but I rather like the fact I can tie my shoelaces without getting out of breath so I will put up with a few more wrinkles
 
It depends - I usually go for a dry tandoori either chicken, lamb or mixed grill, no rice naan bread etc maybe a saag paneer but check they don’t add sugar. I share a fried onion bhaji with my hubby and I’m fine with that. My local does mushroom bhaji and cauliflower bhaji which are both basically sautéed veggies
 
So I ended up going pretty much all in. Ceylon chicken with half a tub of rice and half a tandoori roti and my blood sugar jumped to 11.8. And it didn’t taste as good somehow so if I do it again I will use cauliflower rice instead. I kept the extra sauce to add my own chicken to . Every day’s a school day
 

I didn’t mean to put all that champagne at the end. The most I could afford at school was a merrydown cider….
 
Slayer Mum said:
I have been doing LCHF since diagnosis. I even went to turkey and never had a potato or pudding or rice or pasta in that whole time. What’s the worst that could happen if i had an Indian take away tonight?
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We often have Indian t/a and if I choose Tandoori chicken or King Prawns (the dry spiced grilled ones) with cauuli bhajee I am usually fine. Btw I am very reactive to carbs and stay almost always below 30g per day.
 
If you go all-out on the carbs,the rice, the breads, the poppadoms, the booze .. or any of them, you will probably see a large spike in your bg which should then come down over the next few hours. You may not notice any side effects at the time, you may be thirsty, you may pee more. You may think you got away with it..

However there's another current thread from someone who had carb blow out, sugars seemed OK but had various nasty gastric and illness symptoms in the night and into the next day.

I find if I overdo the carbs I feel nauseous and sluggish the next couple of days..

1 trip off the wagon is unlikely to cause or add to diabetes complications, but 1 trip can easily lead to 2 the 3 then 4 and it can be a downward slippery slope.

Thees no rules. You have control of your own body.
Whatever you do please report back
 

Hi ,
I had chicken Ceylon. Half a pilau rice and a bit of tandoori roti. No sauces, no booze. Blood sugar went from 7.9 to 11.2. It didn’t taste as good as i remembered especially the rice.
 
Slayer Mum said:
Hi ,
I had chicken Ceylon. Half a pilau rice and a bit of tandoori roti. No sauces, no booze. Blood sugar went from 7.9 to 11.2. It didn’t taste as good as i remembered especially the rice.
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You might find that with a lot of foods you used to eat, your taste will change over time, I actually find most lettuce too sweet now - I use baby spinach and fresh herbs as some salad bases most of the time now
 
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