Im starving again! I've eaten so much today. Yet I'm feeling weak & my hands are shaking. If I eat a raw carrot it solves the problem momentarily. Surely I don't have to keep eating every half hour or so.
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If your body works at all like mine, you can stabilise blood glucose to a great extent by using protein and fat. Protein digests more slowly than carbs, usually over a couple of hours at least. While fat digests even more slowly.
Try snacking on cheese or nuts or cold meat instead of carby veg.
Nosher likes to eat lots of little meals and snacks. I hate that. can't be doing with the hassle of the washing up apart from anything else. So I eat very low carb (virtually no fruit, only green veg, cauliflower, onions, etc.) with a fair dose of protein (meat, fish, cheese, eggs, nuts and seeds), and I often only eat twice a day, but when I eat, they are good sized meals, with additional butter, mayo or cheese to make them digest slowly.
For instance, on a typical day I will have coffeencream instead of breakfast, a large salad, with cheese, olives, tomato, greenery, coleslaw, etc for lunch, then a meat or fish evening meal with veg. I replace potato and rice with cauliflower most of the time, which gives me another excuse for cheese on that.
Pudding is rare, but if I have it, it will probably be after evening meal, and be berries and cream.
You need to find out what works for YOU.
Nosher's way of eating would drive me mad, and I am sure he would hate the way I eat, but we have each discovered how to go low carb and make it fit into our lifestyle.
One thing I will add - for the first few days, don't worry about calories. At all. Eat ENOUGH. if you find you are putting on weight after a few days, you can start cutting back, but it is more important to stabilise your bgs than your waistline - for the first few days.
So snack on nuts, seeds, cheese, pepperami, olives, etc. and don't stint. you REALLY don't want to be hungry.
Hope that helps.
