lucylocket61
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How old are you? What are you doing about your proteins?
How old are you? What are you doing about your proteins?Seems to be going well. I fell off the wagon for a while, and veered towards a pretty bad mix of high-carb and high-fat. But that seems behind me. Don't get a heavy feeling of doom anymore, after eating a meal. But i've pretty much cut out all the junkier, pre-packaged vegan foods (No more vegan cheese, and only the occasional vegan burgers etc.). Went from having multiple weekly takeaways to one, in the last six weeks. Reduced salt from way over the recommended dose to about 1g (400g Sodium), and now have saturated fat at only a few grams a day.
Sleep quality is a lot better, though stress about certain things is keeping me awake more than i should be. Last remnants of arthritis-like symptoms is starting to clear (Freed up much of that going vegan, but a junk-food vegan diet kept some of it around). Still need to work on hydration, although with much lower salt I feel that's already improving.
Next stage is to start adding in more fruit and dialling back grains. At that point, will start ramping up exercise to a much greater level, and go all-out for weight-loss. Have gone back to incorporating some intermittent fasting. Not back to OMAD, but I pop a few 16-8's each week, and walk to force mini-hypo episodes.
All part of the fun
The significance of a reading depends on when it is taken. A reading before food, after food, what food was eaten, and how much time has elapsed since the meal.
Basically you are making dietary decisions based on very little information, and with no meaningful testing to see it's effect.
I wish you the best.
What does this mean, and how do you improve your insulin sensitivity? This is a new concept to me.I could seek to improve my insulin-sensitivity so that it's not problem
So how on Earth are you going to assess what this program is achieving? No hb1ac before starting, few fbg , no after meal tests? Purely on weight?
Are you content getting readings consistently in the teens when you do test? it would terrify me.
How old are you? What are you doing about your proteins?
If your diet, as you previously mentioned, is 80% carbs, how much protein are you having?I'm 49. Apart from the amounts of protein generally found in plant-foods, i eat tofu, textured vegetable protein, beans and legumes.
What does this mean, and how do you improve your insulin sensitivity? This is a new concept to me.
If your diet, as you previously mentioned, is 80% carbs, how much protein are you having?
And we all know how successful that is.Kinda like how the NHS would recommend
Not only is this meaningless, it includes a homemade ogtt.This is a day that I repeated (Not the OGTT) quite often. I no longer really eat like this (Much much lower sodium, and less saturated fat). I don't show b12 or VitD as I supplement for them. I also take a multivitamin, just in case. Should give an idea:
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And we all know how successful that is.
So the idea is that the more weight you lose, the less carbs will affect you? Only you are eating far more percentage of carbs than the NHS recommends, especially for type 2 diabetes.
Why are you eating 80% carbs? You mentioned 400-500g a day on another thread.
Not only is this meaningless, it includes a homemade ogtt.
Virtually no protein either.
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How are you calculating you protein total?how would you know whether 93 grams of protein was sufficient for my needs? As
How are you calculating you protein total?
I see total weight of foods containing protein, but not the amount of protein in those foods. Perhaps my phone is not seeing all the information.By weighing and measuring all my daily foods, and logging them. It's all in the pictures I posted.
I see total weight of foods containing protein, but not the amount of protein in those foods. Perhaps my phone is not seeing all the information.
Eg an egg weighs around 50g but has only 7g or so of protein? So my protein is not the same as the weight of the egg.
I don't dispute that you are having a lot of carbs. However, without the blood sugar tracking, the effect on your blood sugar levels is not quantifiable.The tracking site i use has a large database of common foods that have been assessed and logged for their various macronutrient profiles. There is obviously going to be variance between examples, in the same as not every egg will have exactly the same macro amounts. But it is accurate enough, for tracking of trends.
As for the total weight of food, i just did a rough calculation and came up with 2.8 kilos.
By the way: Speaking to your earlier questioning of using a day with an OGTT. That test only accounts for 273 calories of the 2940 and only 69 carbs of the 569 carbs for the day. So it didn't really change the fact that that day, and many following it, hovered around the 3000 calorie mark with very high carb amounts.
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