We have a little round machine where you can cook meat (bacon and stuff) on top and melt cheese in little pans underneath (on the coffee table in front of the telly). A few bits of melted cheese and I'm fullThe accompanying bread and potatoes are probably off limits for many of us, but there's always things like salad, pickled gerkins, etc.
Raw sprouts are nice finely shredded in a coleslaw type salad and I almost always put them in (finely shredded) for the last minute of a veg stir fry.Naughty Day - giggles
B - Nothing til 12.00
L - Small fish and chips (26)
D- Spinach and sprouts with cream cheese - turned out I really like sprouts covered in cream cheese cooked in the microwave for 3.5 minutes. Considering I dont like sprouts this was a revelation. Lightly cooked is the way for me wonder what raw sprout is like.
If you do a search for 'raclette grill' you should find plenty of models. Ours is a round purple one by Tefal called "simply invent" (if I'm allowed to cite brand names). It's well worth comparing prices on the French version of the big shopping site that starts with A as the one we have is 42 eur on the French site and 59 quid on the UK one! But there are also of course other brands that might be cheaper in the UK.I'm going to have to try that!!! What is the little machine called? Can we get them over here?
Thank you very much! I will go to the A...... jungle and investigate...If you do a search for 'raclette grill' you should find plenty of models. Ours is a round purple one by Tefal called "simply invent" (if I'm allowed to cite brand names). It's well worth comparing prices on the French version of the big shopping site that starts with A as the one we have is 42 eur on the French site and 59 quid on the UK one! But there are also of course other brands that might be cheaper in the UK.
All seems fine to me, apart from the bread. You probably have more carbs in those two slices of bread than you have in the rest of your menu combined. Personally I would lay off the hummus too, but that's just me.Yesterday was brunch of ham salad with edamame beans, one slice of wholemeal rye bread with hummus and an apple, and dinner was roast chicken, cabbage, mushrooms, peas, cauliflower and gravy, kiwis and strawberries.
Breakfast today was 2 eggs fried in a teasp of butter, mushrooms & courgettes tossed and fried in a dessert spoonful of olive oil, tomato, spinach and 1 slice of wholemeal toast (no butter), 3 big strawberries.
I'm a newbie - only diagnosed T2 last week - aged 62, obese, and I can't get to see the practice nurse or dietician until the 11 April! I've declined meds at this stage, chosen an LC diet, and need to lose a significant amount of weight to have any chance of getting this under control, but does it sound as if I'm on the right track, please? Any direction/affirmation would be be very welcome...
Thanks for this, GeoffersTaylor. I'll take your advice about the bread and hummus, although I thought I was supposed to be working to between 40-50g of carbs per meal. (In fact, I seem to be averaging around 30g.) Have I got that wrong? I'm also trying to stick to a maximum of 1,500 calories per day for the weight-loss.All seems fine to me, apart from the bread. You probably have more carbs in those two slices of bread than you have in the rest of your menu combined. Personally I would lay off the hummus too, but that's just me.
Quite a few of us here are not only low-carb - we're high fat as well! So to us, butter is fine, frying in olive oil is fine, cream in our coffee, avocados etc... So if I did have toast, buttering it would be the least of my problem!
Low Carb High Fat - LCHF. It's something you should have a good read about and see if it could work for you. LCHF a little counter-intuitive at first because it goes against most of the standard dietary advice for the last few decades, but I'm here to say it can work wonders. Just be clear that, with LCHF, the High Fat part is just as important as the Low Carb part - they work together.
Thanks for this, GeoffersTaylor. I'll take your advice about the bread and hummus, although I thought I was supposed to be working to between 40-50g of carbs per meal. (In fact, I seem to be averaging around 30g.) Have I got that wrong? I'm also trying to stick to a maximum of 1,500 calories per day for the weight-loss.
Thanks, GeoffersTaylor. Wow - it's going to take me a while to get my head around this! But I really, really want to succeed so I appreciate your input. I can DO this.........Don't quit hummus on my account - it's not an evil food! I'm just super-strict.
Personally I try to limit to 30g of carb per DAY, although I'm a bit more relaxed about it these days. That's very low, though, and I don't suggest you should go that extreme
For overall calories I wouldn't presume to suggest a figure but I would outline a method...
Carbs & protein are 4 calories per gramme. Fat is 9 calories per gramme. I used an online calculator to calculate my calorie requirements (Google "Mifflin Equation" or "Harris Benedict"). Let's say my base calories were 1800. I might then decide to eat less for weight loss and restrict my intake to just 1300 calories (a 500 calorie deficit).
If I decide to eat 50g of carbs per day that would be 50 x 4 = 200 calories
I might also decide to eat 100g of protein per day - another 400 calories (protein intake is recommend at about, roughly, 1.5g per kilo of lean bodyweight).
So if protein and carbs are giving me 600 calories and I want a total of 1300, the rest has to come from fats. So 700 calories of fat at 9 calories per gramme would equal nearly 80g of fat.
So as a rule of thumb, I heavily restrict my carbs and eat roughly the same proportions of protein and fat. Crucially, when I decide to increase my intake so that I stop trying to lose weight, I will increase my fats.
It's the name of a particularly yummy French cheese, too, which melts beautifully!Had to check the word raclette - its basically a hotplate of food some times served with a fondue pot
Okay guys - I'm going down! (Maybe not as far as you just yet, but I'm hearing your advice.) Thanks x@debrasue I'm keeping to the same carb level as @GeoffersTaylor. I lost 4st that way last year so it really does work and it is very possible to eat an interesting healthy diet with very few carbs. As the others have said the struggle is learning that at all the foods I previously thought were healthy aren't actually very good for people with diabetes. I feel so much better physically and mentally since I cut my carbs to less than 30g a day. I used to eat a 'healthy' diet which was supposed to help me lose weight - loads of fruit, wholemeal pasta, brown rice, jacket spuds, wholemeal bread and bananas - not realising that those are the foods making me fat and so very ill by increasing my blood glucose.
Then, which for me was the bigger weirdness, finding out that all the previously limited stuff isn't limited any more - butter, double cream, cheese, animal fats, etc. I found that (while yummy) I couldn't cope with a lot of fat in my diet so nowadays I don't actually eat things specifically to increase my fat intake - I just don't restrict it like I used to. Having said that... I have now got a mini addiction going on to having double cream in my coffee.
I'm sure there are other people on this forum with different ideas about how to cope with the big D but I preferred to take as few meds as I can as long as this more natural solution works for me. We are all different and this is my personal view based on my own experience.
I'm going to have to try that!!! What is the little machine called? Can we get them over here?
All seems fine to me, apart from the bread. You probably have more carbs in those two slices of bread than you have in the rest of your menu combined. Personally I would lay off the hummus too, but that's just me.
Quite a few of us here are not only low-carb - we're high fat as well! So to us, butter is fine, frying in olive oil is fine, cream in our coffee, avocados etc... So if I did have toast, buttering it would be the least of my problem!
Low Carb High Fat - LCHF. It's something you should have a good read about and see if it could work for you. LCHF a little counter-intuitive at first because it goes against most of the standard dietary advice for the last few decades, but I'm here to say it can work wonders. Just be clear that, with LCHF, the High Fat part is just as important as the Low Carb part - they work together.
I had a little tub of hummus last night at 8pm and two hours later I tested at 7.2. I am never that high. Ho hum...no more hummus for me.
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