I ought to!
And I bet they wouldn't have such a bad effect.
But no, we just went into Tescos and looked for carby things that would provide approx 10g carbs per (small) portion.
My research continues...
Today, no wheat.
Fasting was 6.8 - pleased with that after last few days!
Morning choc snack and afternoon 9bar barely registered.
BG hit 7.6 one hour after potato salad, cold chicken and a coyo at lunch (rise of 1.3), so delighted.
But I've felt dreadful.
It's been building all week.
A bit less restful sleep, a bit more achy (which I recognise from my high insulin resistance in the past), less mental clarity. That hint of a hangover feeling in the mornings, with slightly red rimmed eyes. Slightly stiff knees. The depression is starting to loom too, like a black cloud on the horizon. Like tears are always there, behind my eyes.
A bit worse each day, and ending the wheat yesterday has not stopped the decline.
Going to have a think about the way forward.
I've always had monumental insulin resistance - overweight, with PCOS, and on medication that increases it even more, but I had forgotten how horrible this is. And how debilitating.
And I don't want to lose my lovely three day weekend to feeling this cr*p.
Contemplating a few days back on stage 1 until I bounce back to wellness.
(That actually makes me feel a strong sense of relief!)
Then a much more systematic phase 2 re-entry.
No wheat. One carb at a time, in 10 g portions, until I can identify their effect, and my tolerance.
Ah well, a useful lesson.
And a very effective reminder of how dreadful I used to feel, all the time. Except in those days I thought it was normal!
@Brunneria I am really sorry your feeling unwell. Having seen how well you have done so far I am sure you will find a way through this next stageI ought to!
And I bet they wouldn't have such a bad effect.
But no, we just went into Tescos and looked for carby things that would provide approx 10g carbs per (small) portion.
My research continues...
Today, no wheat.
Fasting was 6.8 - pleased with that after last few days!
Morning choc snack and afternoon 9bar barely registered.
BG hit 7.6 one hour after potato salad, cold chicken and a coyo at lunch (rise of 1.3), so delighted.
But I've felt dreadful.
It's been building all week.
A bit less restful sleep, a bit more achy (which I recognise from my high insulin resistance in the past), less mental clarity. That hint of a hangover feeling in the mornings, with slightly red rimmed eyes. Slightly stiff knees. The depression is starting to loom too, like a black cloud on the horizon. Like tears are always there, behind my eyes.
A bit worse each day, and ending the wheat yesterday has not stopped the decline.
Going to have a think about the way forward.
I've always had monumental insulin resistance - overweight, with PCOS, and on medication that increases it even more, but I had forgotten how horrible this is. And how debilitating.
And I don't want to lose my lovely three day weekend to feeling this cr*p.
Contemplating a few days back on stage 1 until I bounce back to wellness.
(That actually makes me feel a strong sense of relief!)
Then a much more systematic phase 2 re-entry.
No wheat. One carb at a time, in 10 g portions, until I can identify their effect, and my tolerance.
Ah well, a useful lesson.
And a very effective reminder of how dreadful I used to feel, all the time. Except in those days I thought it was normal!
You love your salmon lol.B - scrambled egg and bacon
L - poached salmon and salad with a table spoon of potatoe salad
S - 9bar
D - grilled salmon and broccoli
@bookmite i do like salmon but not as much as I have been eating. Unfortunately my freeze broke and it was either cook em or loose em.... And salmon is too expensive to throw away... I may never eat salmon again after this week lol worst still I have the last of the salmon to eat tomorrow for my lunch grrrr
Sorry to hear about this @Brunneria,I ought to!
And I bet they wouldn't have such a bad effect.
But no, we just went into Tescos and looked for carby things that would provide approx 10g carbs per (small) portion.
My research continues...
Today, no wheat.
Fasting was 6.8 - pleased with that after last few days!
Morning choc snack and afternoon 9bar barely registered.
BG hit 7.6 one hour after potato salad, cold chicken and a coyo at lunch (rise of 1.3), so delighted.
But I've felt dreadful.
It's been building all week.
A bit less restful sleep, a bit more achy (which I recognise from my high insulin resistance in the past), less mental clarity. That hint of a hangover feeling in the mornings, with slightly red rimmed eyes. Slightly stiff knees. The depression is starting to loom too, like a black cloud on the horizon. Like tears are always there, behind my eyes.
A bit worse each day, and ending the wheat yesterday has not stopped the decline.
Going to have a think about the way forward.
I've always had monumental insulin resistance - overweight, with PCOS, and on medication that increases it even more, but I had forgotten how horrible this is. And how debilitating.
And I don't want to lose my lovely three day weekend to feeling this cr*p.
Contemplating a few days back on stage 1 until I bounce back to wellness.
(That actually makes me feel a strong sense of relief!)
Then a much more systematic phase 2 re-entry.
No wheat. One carb at a time, in 10 g portions, until I can identify their effect, and my tolerance.
Ah well, a useful lesson.
And a very effective reminder of how dreadful I used to feel, all the time. Except in those days I thought it was normal!
Send it here never enough lol@bookmite i do like salmon but not as much as I have been eating. Unfortunately my freeze broke and it was either cook em or loose em.... And salmon is too expensive to throw away... I may never eat salmon again after this week lol worst still I have the last of the salmon to eat tomorrow for my lunch grrrr
@BrunneriaTake care m'dear x
Sorry to hear about this @Brunneria,hope you can fight it and continue your way forward xx I was talking to a friend the other day, who happens to be a doctor and says pcos is considered a prediabetic state by itself with the insulin resistance and I've had it for ages which is frustrating. I'm now down to size 0-2 and now my menstrual periods have come back observing such a careful diet (with the occasional pasta/bread mixed in during the week) But I must admit that the discipline it takes to achieve it is frustrating at times. then I get into that mind frame that it's all for health and it becomes more tolerable again.
Seconded. Wheat really can be a catalyst for all sorts of ailments so maybe just stick to other extra carbs. You could try a proper spelt bread to see if it has similar effect. I remember when I was trying to conceive that candida was all the rage as the intolerance illness to have, and I pop pooed it, but I've had a lot of the same symptoms as you list over the years whenever I eat wheat based goods and am beginning to think there was something in it. Sadly mushrooms were also a banned food on the diet so not sure I could give them up as well as carbs!
I remember my mother, in her 40s suddenly became obsessed with food intolerances, avoiding wheat, and sugar and nitrates and... the list was endless. but now I am in my 40s too, I think the body just reaches a point where it cannot cope any more. All those tiny little toxic invasions, one after the other, day by day, year by year, and things just start to fail.
And someone looking at me, with my weird LCHF, my blood testing routine, my strange packed lunches, and my refusal of cakes and biccies in the office probably things 'obsessed!'
Do you think I'm turning into my mother!
Sorry to hear about this @Brunneria,hope you can fight it and continue your way forward xx I was talking to a friend the other day, who happens to be a doctor and says pcos is considered a prediabetic state by itself with the insulin resistance and I've had it for ages which is frustrating. I'm now down to size 0-2 and now my menstrual periods have come back observing such a careful diet (with the occasional pasta/bread mixed in during the week) But I must admit that the discipline it takes to achieve it is frustrating at times. then I get into that mind frame that it's all for health and it becomes more tolerable again.
Blimey @Adelle0607 – Is the 0-2 using Australian sizing (which I believe to be pretty much the same as the UK measures)?
I am running at 6-8, and there’s nothing of me, at 49kg (and annoyingly dropping again, but not really out about that yet, as Mr B will blow a gasket!). What on earth do you weigh and measure? Are you a shorty?
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