Tesco do 90%meat sausages which don't cause me to spike. If you look at the packet, look for the 90% printed on top right cornerI read that sausages are good. So I had some Tesco cocktail sausages. Then read the label. 61% meat, then water, then rusk. So maybe not all sausages are equal? What do people mean by sausages, bearing in mind i have to use supermarket ones.
So I'm a newbie here, please forgive my ignorance if this post hits a nerve. Before going on I should say this forum is awesome!
changed my diet, stopped eating pizza pies and sticky toffee pudding, learned to love green vegetables (spicing them up helps), I'm up at 6am going to the pool to fit it into my diary, haven't eaten a cake since diagnosis - I've adapted. And you know what, life is better now - yep, even though I have diabetes!
So why do people complain they can't get to grips with LCHF and their diet. They are still eating bread - and say they only had one slice of pizza! They hate vegetables - really? All vegetables?? I just don't get it - why don't folks take their own health seriously?
This is the 'soapbox' section so I guess I'm jumping on mine. I love love love this forum and it has helped me enormously, I just don't understand why some people don't get it?
Thank you for your support @ladybird64 - I was rather upset at the post, but hey I'm a big boy and willing to accept that just 11 weeks after diagnosis my diabetes knowledge is still very limited.
LCHF and exercise works for me - so I'm going to stick with it!
Glad to see I'm not the only one. I've never bothered with any of the substitutes or "re-enactment" types of food. Plain and simple ingredients never bore me. I tried a couple of low carb cake recipes in the early days, but even though they tasted pretty good, I didn't see the point in getting into regular baking. One of the best things about low carb is being free of food obsessions/compulsions. I find the idea of most carbs, especially the grain based ones, infinitely boring and bland nowadays. Don't miss them at all.Personally I disagree that low carb is boring. Yes it is harder work but I'm really enjoying everything I eat. I haven't gone for 'substitute' foods though - don't see any point, a bit like Vegan who has a 'bacon substitute'. I'm a huge foodie (even if I hate that term!), and love my food - and continue to do so even if I now make educated choices. Honestly, I feel better and more alive than when danish pasties were a regular 'treat'.
My father has been a T2 for 34 years. He has been on insulin for most of that time, plus lots of other drugs. He now has numerous health problem, had two heart attacks and has a stent put in.
My brother is a T2, he became one 4 years ago. He is going on insulin in a week. Neither of them will listen to what I have learned this week. They say "The doctor knows best. We needs 150g carbs minimum a day to allow our brains to work properly," that sort of thinking. My friend, who is T1 and has two of her adult children who became T1 in the late teens, also disagrees with LCHF and says she and her boys need carbs to absorb the insulin. They are on pumps, dont know if that makes a difference.
I dont know if they are right, or you lot are right. But judging by the results I see you posting, I am giving LCHF a go. It cant do any harm, can it. And if it works, I can show them my results and they will maybe be prepared to try it.
I am not sure how I will know if my brain isnt working properly though
Me too - though I do eat a bit more carbs than some in new pots and burgen bread. I tried lower and to get totally off my glic but it didn't work my numbers rose even on 20g carb - I worked hard to get a balance between minimum meds and minimum carbs. I don't do substitute foods very often - I make a dessert at Christmas and Easter - I do spiralize veg and make cauli rice but I never think of it as a replacement - it's just a different way of prepping my veg - sometimes rice cauli goes better with what I'm eating than florets - I am different that I do miss my pasta and my fruit terribly - but hey ho there you go - there's worse things to miss in lifeGlad to see I'm not the only one. I've never bothered with any of the substitutes or "re-enactment" types of food. Plain and simple ingredients never bore me. I tried a couple of low carb cake recipes in the early days, but even though they tasted pretty good, I didn't see the point in getting into regular baking. One of the best things about low carb is being free of food obsessions/compulsions. I find the idea of most carbs, especially the grain based ones, infinitely boring and bland nowadays. Don't miss them at all.
They are very unlucky, if they both have doctors that both quote 150g of carbs. I don't think mine ever mentioned any numbers, yet alone minimum numbers in that depth.
The NHS did help with diet originally, years ago, and I don't count carbs now, I don't need to, as I know what keeps my numbers non diabetic.
I mean their doctors, and the nurse i saw this week, all said we need a minimum of 150g of carb a day just for our brains, to allow our brains to get the glucose it need. and then used the eatwell plate for us to get an idea of how much of our diet should be carbs, about 30%, some with each meal, to get the extra for energy and bowel health. So they are eating unspecified amount of carbs
I mean their doctors, and the nurse i saw this week, all said we need a minimum of 150g of carb a day just for our brains, to allow our brains to get the glucose it need. and then used the eatwell plate for us to get an idea of how much of our diet should be carbs, about 30%, some with each meal, to get the extra for energy and bowel health. So they are eating unspecified amount of carbs
@lovinglife have you tried cooling your pasta and then reheating it - I find that I can eat small portions of pasta done this way with little affect on my BS.Me too - though I do eat a bit more carbs than some in new pots and burgen bread. I tried lower and to get totally off my glic but it didn't work my numbers rose even on 20g carb - I worked hard to get a balance between minimum meds and minimum carbs. I don't do substitute foods very often - I make a dessert at Christmas and Easter - I do spiralize veg and make cauli rice but I never think of it as a replacement - it's just a different way of prepping my veg - sometimes rice cauli goes better with what I'm eating than florets - I am different that I do miss my pasta and my fruit terribly - but hey ho there you go - there's worse things to miss in life
Did try it a while back but didn't work - I do it with mashed pot and it works but not for pasta - I even tried freezing it hoping I could bully it into submitting but no joy@lovinglife have you tried cooling your pasta and then reheating it - I find that I can eat small portions of pasta done this way with little affect on my BS.
Oh come on, you've been around here long enough to be able to tell the difference between enthusiasm and attack - and this post, from someone who has done tremendously well, is certainly not the latter. Yours however, does have a condescending air, which really is unwarranted.
It is fairly obvious that the post is addressing type 2's. There are indeed quite a few who continue to eat foods that push their bg's up, then complain that the doc is increasing their meds.
It was a genuine question, he really doesn't understand why people don't change to low carbs foods. For those that dont, I'm sure tbery can answer him. But please bear in mind you have reacted in a harsh way to someone who did say he was sorry if his post hit a nerve - he knows nothing of your disagreements with others so why raise them?
There is also the matter of insulin - you can bolus for what you eat. We can't.
Wow that's a bit scathing isn't it... funny enough the original poster didn't feel attack or that I'd been condescending until your post....
Penfold is newly diagnosed, and yes seems to be doing well, and did the sensible thing, got the diagnoses then did the research, but it would be interesting to see if in a years time, will he still be saying the same...
As you said, I've been a member of the forum for a long time, so seen members come looking for help, and yes they've started to low carb diet, and been enthusiastic but given a couple of months or more, they've found it increasingly more difficult to stick too... and others who from the start you can see that they aren't going to be able to make such a large lifestyle change in one leap at all
Why do people moan about their doctor giving them more medication, well that's pretty easy to answer, it's guilt and not being able to take the responsibility for your own actions.. So shift the blame elsewhere... Sound pretty unkind, and really for this type of person forcing them into a full low carb diet isn't going to them any good... Sometimes using a tactical method getting the person to make little changes at a time, will over time turn things around for them. push too hard then they go into shut down, or in the case of a forum, the person leaves the forum receiving no help what's so ever...
Why do people moan about their doctor giving them more medication, well that's pretty easy to answer, it's guilt and not being able to take the responsibility for your own actions.. So shift the blame elsewhere... Sound pretty unkind,
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