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I think I absolutely realised on New Years Eve, that this is now my lifestyle choice and no longer a diet. We were out dancing the night away and there was a buffet. I had no desire at all to eat the sandwiches, sausage rolls, cheese straws etc. There was very little low carb choice..( next year I'll take my own.) but I nabbed the salad garnish off the sandwich plates, a couple of chicken drumsticks and some peanuts and skipped the dessert... I did go and have a look but nothing tempted me... Before LCHF I'd have never had the willpower to do this, but it just felt right for me.
I will also add that I eat a much better variety and quality of food now. My cooking skills are improving and I find it a fun challenge to look at low carb ingredients and think what to create next. I'll be trying a lamb tagine this week
I think I absolutely realised on New Years Eve, that this is now my lifestyle choice and no longer a diet. We were out dancing the night away and there was a buffet. I had no desire at all to eat the sandwiches, sausage rolls, cheese straws etc. There was very little low carb choice..( next year I'll take my own.) but I nabbed the salad garnish off the sandwich plates, a couple of chicken drumsticks and some peanuts and skipped the dessert... I did go and have a look but nothing tempted me... Before LCHF I'd have never had the willpower to do this, but it just felt right for me.
I will also add that I eat a much better variety and quality of food now. My cooking skills are improving and I find it a fun challenge to look at low carb ingredients and think what to create next. I'll be trying a lamb tagine this week
I'm investigating it. It will depend on what veg I have in the fridge and I need to find out what spices I'll need. I'm planning on adding a couple of chopped dried apricots , not low carb I know but it will be a big casserole ( freezing portions for later) so will be balanced out with the rest of the dish. I'll let you know how it works outDon't forget to post your lamb tagine recipe. Hubby loves a bit of lamb and I wouldn't say no ...
I'm investigating it. It will depend on what veg I have in the fridge and I need to find out what spices I'll need. I'm planning on adding a couple of chopped dried apricots , not low carb I know but it will be a big casserole ( freezing portions for later) so will be balanced out with the rest of the dish. I'll let you know how it works out
I've found a couple of recipes, but I will tailor them to what I have.
I left out the raisins and Honey but this is a great tagine.
I used lamb instead of beef.
http://www.bordbia.ie/consumer/recipes/beef/pages/beeftagine.aspx
That's so great! Well done! I hope to follow in your footstepsI call my 'diet' as my eating regime. I has taken me a while to see myself as slim, I still looked in the mirror and saw a fat person but over the last few weeks it has now entered my brain. Went to Asda this morning and got a swimsuit for up-coming holidays in a size 10. I got a proper hula-hoop for Christmas and have now mastered it's use, haven't used one for over 50 years.
I've had to correct a few people.Now living with T2D and medically controlled, I have had to wake up and start living in the real world. I have now changed to a low carb way of eating and I do admit that it has not been easy. I'm not the greatest eater of vegetables - or at least I wasn't - and like the majority of everyone else, I loved my larger portions, of bread and rice and curries etc. However, what I will NOT say is that I am now on a diet. I am now on a life changing exercise. To me, the word diet implies a temporary change in lifestyle to lose some pounds and feel a bit better. There are multi million pound diet companies that exist because of one simple fact - diets don't last! Yes, there will always will be a percentage of people on a diet who will lose weight and keep it off but let's be honest here, it's not many. For example, my last 'diet' treated baked beans as a 'free food' and advocated eating as much of them as I wanted between meals. There are 55g of carbs in a single tin of beans! (or 51g if you go for the low sugar version.)
The only person responsible for my diabetes is staring back at me in the mirror. I have spent 50+ years shovelling the wrong kinds of food down my throat and ignoring the threats of T2D that I read about. It was always 'Someone Else's Problem', not mine.
But not any more.
Like many with T2D, I now have a chance to change myself and hopefully come off the medication, but that's a long term outlook and not a quick fix. Will I miss the old ways? Being honest, I initially thought I would, but not now. My doctor summed it up perfectly to me. He said I could either "sort this out or face the possibility of dying young, but do not believe that being given medication will allow you to carry on as before."
For me, then, there are four phases of T2D:
1. Getting my blood sugars under control
2. Sorting out my food intake to keep no.1 ok
3. Dropping my weight to where it should be
4. Just keep looking in that mirror.
It was amazing. I made 6 portions and froze 4 of them . Worked out at about 10 carbs a portion but you could do less as I did add 4 apricots and some chick peas. Mine was rather veg heavy as I just used up what I had.. Celery, yellow pepper, courgette, carrot, butternut squash, onion. Fried the lamb chunks a little in olive oil. added about 1tsp each of cumin, cinamon. nutmeg. tumeric. smoked paprika, celery salt and garlic granules.. I also put in 2 cloves of fresh garlic. As I was frying I threw in some sesame seeds. Put it all in my big Le Creuset casserole with a tin of chopped tomatoes, 4 chopped apricots and topped it with boiling water. Into a low oven for 2 hours. I then added some flaked almonds and a tin of drained chickpeas, Put it back in the hot oven and turned it off and left it there. We ate it the next day and the flavours had really developed .. yumm I'll def do this again.Yep, a dried apricot or two is essential for flavour but spread out over a meal for at least four or six, shouldn't rock anyone's meter. Cayenne, garlic, paprika, ginger, turmeric and cinnamon seem to be in most recipes and some are often cited as lowering blood sugar, another plus. Not sure I believe it, but can't hurt.
Diet is fine. The problem, particularly at this time of year, is folks declaring, "I'm going on a diet"
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