libre 5.3. had appt with diabetic dietician yesterday whining about my carb intake too little heavily trying to push upping carbs especially requesting to eat more pasta/rice/potatoes. completey wasted appt, most of time was spent disagreeing. My carb intake usually somewhere between 95-120g per day. They think i should be eating around 200g carbs min per day ideally 220-230g. i had followed advice based on 'eat well plate' for a few years prior to diagnosis and indeed when initially diagnosed sugars were consistantly pretty high. made changes lowered some food intakes over the last 10 months. taking zero insulin for several months now. Why would i want to try fix something which doesn't to me, appear broken?
It's painful, how slow health service professionals are, in acknowledging the effectiveness of ditching the diet that has made hundreds of millions of us, fat and unwell.
I avoid all carbs now. I get
some, usually in the form of vegetables, but I steer resolutely away from all potato products, as well as pasta, rice, and bread (which I always adored) in fact flour and cereals in any form.
My blood glucose was largely out of control for
decades. It is sorted now by what I think of as 'micro-dosing' - absolute minimum insulin, made vastly more effective by vigorous exercise, and sticking rigidly to a veg-heavy diet (plus meat and fish) but always purposely avoiding carbs.
Processed carbohydrates really are cheap nasty garbage, but the world is addicted to them, and perhaps it's just as well for us who
must avoid them...is there space on the surface of the planet to grow healthy food for everyone, rather than the non-fresh concentrated carbs which most bodies cannot use, but only store as fat? Okay that may be a separate thread in itself...
I spent more than half my life enjoying bread and cereal products and potatoes in quantity, and now I can see they were only ever good for the industries that grow, store, process, market and sell them.
Stand firm! You know better than an indoctrinated doctor, what's good for you.