Good morning from Cyprus...We had mushrooms, tomatoes and bacon fried for breakfast, and coffee with cream... We were working til two yesterday, then lunch got held up yet again, so I quickly had a bullet proof coffee and peanut butter on almond/flax flour bread... once the crisis was over I boiled eggs and made egg mayonnaise with lush anchovies stuffed with capers on top of almond bread and lots of water.... we didn't need food again until 8.30 last evening, when we ate out on herb salad, seared scallops, filleted Dover sole, creamed spinach and asparagus - we also had two glasses of a wonderful local dry white wine... we drank black herbal tea and water in-between... my reading was 5.2...
I was so happy... my lovely husband eats low-carb with me so I don't have to cook two meals... he is happy as his tummy has gone flat and he's lost 3 kilos...
I made poached salmon and a rainbow salad for lunch today, and put a teaspoon of honey in the dressing...
I've been reading here that people sort of 'fight off' the diabetes sometimes for years before succumbing to it.... do we know what changes - is it the food we eat? My brother and mother have diabetes, which makes it fairly certain that I have inherited duff genes... I am 66, 164cm and 62.5 kilos - I lost 3 k's very quickly which was an alert for me really - and I have lost another 2.5 since starting the low-carb diet... When I'm at home I use a treadmill every day....I did hours and days of research before I decided what to eat and this forum helped the most to start me off - carbs hurt us I think, and they are even hidden in things like potatoes and onions sadly... I am amazed sometimes at the things with high carbs in them... sweet potatoes are obviously going to be high sadly...
If my levels go up past 7 or 8 I check the carbs in every single thing that has gone in my mouth for 12 hours and I usually find a good reason for the spike... sadly, so far, it's always been carbs and it seems there's no way round it... I am, like Brunneria, eating to my meter and it seems to work well....
I wonder why we cannot use red wine as a natural reducer of blood glucose? If I eat a little baked potato and I have a glass of good red my levels are perfect.... and it's very civilised...
I don't often eat something I know is bad for my BG though... I have tried to discover if wine used as to lower BG is a bad thing but cannot... It seems the established thinking is that they advise diabetics to eat mostly carbs then give them drugs to bring sugar levels down... it makes no sense... I have never been attracted to carbs really - I love anything with cholesterol in it but have denied myself the fat for many years... I used to try to be good by eating porridge every morning, but found the first time I used my meter that it spikes my levels alarmingly... so now I happily avoid it like the plague...
Sorry, this is a long ramble, but I cannot manage to catch up every day and although I've read a huge amount of your entertaining posts on here I know I've missed such a lot... SamJB seems to be very knowledgeable, and he's really patient with new people... it's all new to me so I am on a steep learning curve... Good job you people have a delete button, I've run on a bit....
But thank you all for your continuing support....