Do you think you could do this intermittently so that you'd be getting some weight loss periods that should theoretically be helping with any insulin resistance? So maybe like the 5:2 diet you do so many weeks on and so many off? That way you might see some of the benefits without all the not so great things about the plan? I'm not familiar with it so can't say if that would work but I can fully appreciate that 20g a day isn't sustainable if you want variety in food intake.
Today has not gone to plan. Have spent best part of it searching for some very sentimentally valuable items that Mr E put in a safe place on return from them being valued last December. So safe that he can no longer remember where they are and we are going to have to empty the attic ( which is where I think he muttered he'd put them) to find them. The attic has been a no go area for months as stuff has just been put there out of way while house being renovated so they could be anywhere in there, or in one of the hundreds of boxes that have stuff from sitting room still in them as plasterers started in Feb and still not done. So I am cross, sad( my wedding ring and some rings that previous special people had given me were amongst stuff) and in need of cheering up.
Breakfast bacon, mushrooms, poached egg
lunch ham broth
dinner 97 % cumberland whirl, mushrooms, fried egg and few redskin wedges- I so want some of the Heinz beans Mr E is having but will resist.
How do you make the ham broth. I tried homemade chicken soup and that was a fail just tasted of fat no chicken but it was the left over chicken from the bones and yucky bits we don't eat. While I still have a working right hand
Oh well tomorrow is another day. I'm living and learning.
A month ago on diagnosis my hbca1 was 13.9. I'm trying my best and I'm normally in the 7s now with occasional 6s. Does that seem ok progress?
Week 5 phase 1 diabetes miracle eating:
My weight loss has increased. I have now lost 5.5 pounds in 5 weeks.
As prev. mentioned, this is a delightful and unexpected triumph, considering my history of difficulty losing weight.
I'm still going strong, and sticking to the eat-every-5-hours and no-more-than-5g-complex-carbs-per-meal
I am eating more fat than Diane Cress suggests, but that is because I think she is ill informed about fats (thinks low fat is good for heart health), probably because the book was written before low-fat was discredited.
Emotionally I have had a few wobbles. One day I am delighted by the whole experience - normal BG, feeling great, never hungry, deeply satisfied (due to the higher fat), and generally on top of the world.
Then I will have another day (today) where I wonder if my daily dawn phenomenon liver dumps have doomed this from the start. Because if the purpose of 8 weeks ultra low carb (basically Bernstein eating) is intended to rest the pancreas, while my DP is unintentionally giving my pancreas a workout every morning... Then it isn't getting a rest, is it? In which case, what is the point?
No matter how good my BG, I don't think I can maintain this in the long term. I want more. More food variety, more taste sensations - and those will be accompanied by higher carbs. I reckon 40-60g a day is fully sustainable for me. 20g is not.
But at 40-60g a day I get occasional carb cravings, I don't lose weight, and my BG levels are 6-8 mmol/l, not the 5-7mmol/l that 20g carbs gives.
So it all depends on whether phase 1 has rested and 'reset' my pancreas enough to allow me to tolerate more carbs. Just a few more. 40-60g, without the negatives. That's the point of the exercise, but only time will tell... In a few more weeks.
Will just have to wait and see.
I just boil a bit of gammon from Aldi or wherever in water for about 1hr- remove it and pop it in oven to finish cooking then add leeks, a parsnip, few carrots, lots of swede and a big cup of red lentils to the stock. Cook till mushy then use hand blender. Makes a lot but is still quite carby. About 25 g a big bowl but it does fil me up and doesn't seem to spike me.
Not your fault sweetie its those bloomin liver dump faries that I recently evicted after fastings in the 10 and 12 area....pesky little blighters