Well done Muggle
I was 18stone when I started on 19 feb. First weigh in at boots on 24 feb was 17stone. BMI 42. Next weigh in was 28 feb, 16 stone 10lb BMI 41.6
Still an enormous journey ahead of me but off to a cracking start. I joined slimming world last year and lost only half a pound in a week , no wonder really when I see now that I was eating the exact opposite to what I should!!
I was 18stone when I started on 19 feb. First weigh in at boots on 24 feb was 17stone. BMI 42. Next weigh in was 28 feb, 16 stone 10lb BMI 41.6
Still an enormous journey ahead of me but off to a cracking start. I joined slimming world last year and lost only half a pound in a week , no wonder really when I see now that I was eating the exact opposite to what I should!!
Is there any correlation between T1s and T2s and the rate at which BS comes down? Are T1s generally used to carb counting before they embark on a low-carb diet, and therefore know the ropes from the start?
As a T2 I sometimes feel I'm missing something that everyone else takes for granted. In fact I obviously am, since I can't remember when I last had bread, rice, pasta or a spud and I long ago gave up sweets, puddings, cakes and biscuits, but my HbA1c is drifting downwards rather than plunging. It's fine by me but should I be calculating those carbs properly?
Er, I'm having a lot of home-made curry later guys, so an rnsr would be appreciated
I was 18stone when I started on 19 feb. First weigh in at boots on 24 feb was 17stone. BMI 42. Next weigh in was 28 feb, 16 stone 10lb BMI 41.6
Still an enormous journey ahead of me but off to a cracking start. I joined slimming world last year and lost only half a pound in a week , no wonder really when I see now that I was eating the exact opposite to what I should!!
Sorry, first BMI should have read 42.3
Thank you daffodils. Ive tried every diet going in the past and ive failed each one because of 2 things. Hunger and sweet cravings. Ive no idea what it is about this eating plan but im not constantly hungry and my cravings have all but died off, and if I do have one, a sickly sweet coffee with cream knocks it clean out. Ive never stuck at anything like this before. I must have either had a blow to the head or im actually taking control of food instead of food controlling me...Hi@muggle71
Congratulations, I think you should take a bow and receive from us a big virtual bouquet!
(Please don't worry if the weight loss slows down a bit, I think I read somewhere that is normal)
D
Hi DejayR,
My point that I have wanted answering is if someone follows the Low Carb diet with the High Fat i.e 'Carb Counting' and saying they are, yet their figures appear to move only slowly downwards is there a scientific/medical reason or are some thinking they are doing Low Carb High Fat, but really just tinkering around the edges.
I think you answer for yourself, where you say the drifting downwards is fine for you.
I have never as such Carb Counted, but I have restricted the carbs in each meal by reading the labels, I suspect to about 15 to 20 to exception when I drink beer. The highest 1 food item is a slice of bread for me at 13carbs & funnily enough 'Home Made Currys' do raise my sugars.
Thank you.
Neil
Could you teach me to make a curry? Im quite hopeless when it comes to exotic dishes like curry. Never know where to start!Me too, I am making so many veg curry you would not believe.
I have cut out all bread, spuds, root veg and crisps.
That must be a step in the right direction. If it wasn't winter I would be out waliking more.
As long as I'm going in the right direction thats got to be good.
We haven't all got the time or wish to weigh every morals we eat. Also not everyone can afford to test 8 to 10 times per day.
Yes I need to work on mt portion size. But I am not fooling myself.
Thanks Neil, never in my life have I been so candid about my weight. Ive always been too ashamed. Im determined it will continue, the consequences if it doesn't terrify me!You have done so well, from all these post if we all follow the instructions and don't kid ourselves then it works and very quickly.
Cheers and may it continue for you, it get easier and you feel a whole lot better.
Neil
Hi DejayR,
My point that I have wanted answering is if someone follows the Low Carb diet with the High Fat i.e 'Carb Counting' and saying they are, yet their figures appear to move only slowly downwards is there a scientific/medical reason or are some thinking they are doing Low Carb High Fat, but really just tinkering around the edges.
Well, no-one has yet come forward with any scientific evidence, and it seems we are so far all in agreement. In the absence of other medical conditions, do low carb properly and it will work. Sugar levels will come right down and quickly. Play about with it and fool yourself, and they won't.
It's like a car. If you put the right fuel & oil in it runs fine but put the wrong stuff in & things to wrong.Well, no-one has yet come forward with any scientific evidence, and it seems we are so far all in agreement. In the absence of other medical conditions, do low carb properly and it will work. Sugar levels will come right down and quickly. Play about with it and fool yourself, and they won't.
Hi Muggle,Could you teach me to make a curry? Im quite hopeless when it comes to exotic dishes like curry. Never know where to start!
Thanks Neil, never in my life have I been so candid about my weight. Ive always been too ashamed. Im determined it will continue, the consequences if it doesn't terrify me!
Hi Ali,I am low carbing too, mostly around 30 to 40 a day and haven't lost an ounce and I still have every endo, GP and dietician I have ever seen scratching their heads!!!! The only plus point is that most of my readings are now 5s and 6s. No, neither have I gone silly with fat, my cal count is between 1200 and 1600 a day and I am of similar proportions to Muggle. Go figure!!
Ali
My take on it is that often when folks arrive here, they've just been diagnosed and when they start "low carbing", they are lower carbing for them, but not really low carbing. How many people say they couldn't give up x, y or z, then spend time testing every permutation before eventually giving in.
Secondly, for those who don't keep accurate records, they could be unlikely to pick up on some of the sneaky carbs we all encounter from time to time, and also some foods, like leafy veg, do have carbs, and if eaten in enough quantity (to fill up, for example), it'll all add up.
And finally, some people's systems will hang on very hard to the higher levels by liver dumps, false hypos (people sometimes treat), and even the odd meandering off the wagon.
This thing is hard. There's a lot to get our heads around, and some people's personal circumstances make it hard to make a hard switch immediately and stick with it. Those who have resistant partners or families have a particularly hard time, in my view.
There are many ways to skin this cat. What matters is folks get there in the end.
Hi Rowan, and thank you very much for contributing.I've been disappointed in the slowness of my BG going down. But I have several other chronic inflammatory and auto-immune illnesses and am on lots of meds, all of which raise BG levels, there are scientific reasons for all that but I'm no scientist
I have been strict with my diet, under 50g carbs a day barring one or two unexpectedly high carb meals (my mistake, not cheating) and in the first week or two trying porridge, bread, pasta etc before I knew how badly I reacted to them. But I've never eaten anything again that had shown high BG levels.
I've lost a few pounds since starting low carbing towards the end of january, but I had been losing weight slowly over the previous year so wasn't really execting the big weight loss. Don't know why I was losing then though, I wasn't dieting at all!
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