Would you want to go back to eating the way you used to?

I did enjoy eating carbs (still do in fact), but you are all right about The Hunger.

If I could eat what I liked with no Hunger, weight gain and carb misery, then yes.

But if they came back with the carbs then a definite No! Much happier as I am.

I wouldn't want t go back to eating junk every day but I would love to able to enjoy a treat now and again without worrying.

I would love TO BE ABLE to go to the pre-D WoE , but wouldn't. It would be nice to not HAVE to worry about the WoE!

After the day i've had today, (new junior doctors starting ) , I could murder a cake but instead am making do with left overs from tea last night and 2 handfuls honey roasted cashew nuts. I even bought some M&S wholegrain crisp things, 16g carbs for half a bag (not bad) and may be able to resist the wholegrain things till tomorrow.

I wouldn't go back to what i was doing / eating before but maybe on holiday i might have a bit of tortilla wrap with my chicken kebab or some mash but will still look for protein and veg and not have the rice, chips and mash that usually accompanies turkish holiday foods.

However, sometimes things as a treat are ok. 85% chocolate helps me (i had a very sweet tooth) and am really fancying a vanilla slice but cant be bothered walking to M&S to get one so thats a good reason, greggs on the main road is even further to walk lol.

I haven't even took my lunch time bloods because i know stress makes it go higher.

Hmmm. Well, it would be lovely not to have to think so carefully about what I can eat and how to replace the carb portion, but even before diagnosis I was constantly trying to work out a diet to suit my weight problems and IBS. It's a crying shame not to be able to alleviate a sucky day with a bit of chocolate though ... sob.

I know I'm incredibly fortunate to be able to tolerate small portions of almost anything I have re-tried, since trimming down. That said, some things I haven't bothered re-trying, because they either haven't come up as choices along the way, or I'm no longer fussed.

But. I do still miss my fruit fixes. I have had fruit, and tropical fruit at that, with little impact on my bloods, but I don't want to push my luck. Pre-diagnosis, I would certainly have had several portions of fruit a day, and almost always a banana with breakfast, or a fast fix when I needed to eat, but time was running away from me. But, overall, I'd look at that as tuning, rather than big changes back.

And, whilst I think about it, I miss baking, but am not missing eating the baked produce. I am still willing to bake for my OH, but he doesn't want me too, as he thinks it would be cruel. Frankly, that's his problem not mine, and we have discussed that. His brother isn't quite so sensitive and will do almost anything for one of my lemon drizzle cakes or a few cheese scones.

ahhh lemon drizzle cake . wonder if it works with ground almonds instead, but we couldn't have the icing though which is the best bit.

I've been able to read all this thread without salivating or feeling any desire for the lovely things listed but I am thinking I will find it extremely difficult at Christmas. The family always come home for Christmas and expect all the traditional homemade fayre. I loved baking it all - THE cake, big enough for them to take some home after Christmas, mincemeat for mincepies, making batches of mulled wine starting in early November and lots of interesting and creative dishes, since doing the Prue Leith Christmas Cookery course a few years ago.

I think I will need a lot of hand-holding from about October onwards....

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I've been able to read all this thread without salivating or feeling any desire for the lovely things listed but I am thinking I will find it extremely difficult at Christmas. The family always come home for Christmas and expect all the traditional homemade fayre. I loved baking it all - THE cake, big enough for them to take some home after Christmas, mincemeat for mincepies, making batches of mulled wine starting in early November and lots of interesting and creative dishes, since doing the Prue Leith Christmas Cookery course a few years ago.

I think I will need a lot of hand-holding from about October onwards....

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We'll be there for you! You can make it and as good friends we'll take it off your hands for you!

Well there are some things I miss but not at the expense of my health! Crusty bread and hot buttered toast. Cheesecake definitely. Thorntons diplomat choccies. Crumble and custard. Cornetto sand almond magnums. Most of all, a glass of wine with my evening meal most nights and fajitas and nachos.
However, I have the occasional ice-cream or half a piece of cake from costa. I save my wine for the weekend and have a couple of glasses and if I want Thorntons I can go and buy a small bag and have a couple over a few days. I dare say I could have a piece of cheesecake if I so desired. Most of the time I say no. Because if I don't, nobody else will. Most of the time it doesn't bother me because I love the food I eat now. I know that if I have these things, I have to accept that my bs goes up if I do which is not worth it. Yesterday, my entire family were drinking lovely wine and eating crisps so I had half a glass of wine and a small handful of crisps. I thoroughly enjoyed them and feel no guilt whatsoever as I know that 97% of the time I'm good. I think people try to be good 100% of the time feel like they've failed because they've had a piece of cake then give up. This is a life long marathon and it's only over when we shuffle off this mortal coil.
I love my new size and wardrobe. As I have said before, if I can't drink and eat what I like without making myself ill then I'm **** well going to look as hot as possible!

good thread as I was experiencing a difficult time last 3 weeks. I was happy and satisfied with my very low carb diets. But a couple of relations came from Brussels for few days with few chocolates. Since we had to entertain and dining out my diet went pair shape. How easy it is to go back to bad habits and greediness and cravings. I could not stop myself having one biscuits or two, went for 5. For few days I said every morning ok today I will diet and get back to my usual. It was hard. Mornings were fine by evening I was stuffing myself. Then I feel lethargic to do anything. No energy. Only today I feel I am not looking for food because I am having just shakes only so no hunger or cravings. I put on 2 kgs within 2 weeks. I did not go back to old habits but my portions got bigger and bigger slowly and surely. Even though not lot of carbs but because of portion sizes my fasting BS was rising. I was away from this site too which did not help. Sadly Morrisons has stopped Livlife bread. Ended up buying Burgens which got 12.5 carb per slice.
Saw last week on another thread someone posted photos of gruesome wounds, amputations etc arising from high BS complications, that made me wonder was that biscuit worth it? Yes at that time you justify it is one off.
Glad shook me out of that spiral of eating...that can happen...yuk

I miss simple things slimming.good world chps and egg with crusty bread..rice and fish.. Mashed potatoes on cold day with gravy. Sweet wise I miss cheesecake.. But I wouldn't be ill again

Never!

8 years of the NHS/DUK diet caused crippling complications.

6 years of LCHF & I am fit & well.

If you asked me last week when I struggling to find inspiration and fed up of eating weird meals, then I'd have undoubtedly said yes. But fast forward a week and suddenly I feel fitter, I feel more inspired (found some lovely recipes and enjoyed trying them out) and I can feel the fat melting away....and better yet, all of my food cravings have gone...I'd say no. Why? Because once my life was ruled my food and I'd feel really anxious if I couldn't get any, or even worse if it was there but I couldn't eat it. Would I want to go back to that? No way!

Just got back from a doctor's appointment to get results of latest HbA1c. Down to 5.6 from 6.5, so I would have to say that LCHF is helping and I will stick with it. Still not losing weight though.

Helsin said:

Just got back from a doctor's appointment to get results of latest HbA1c. Down to 5.6 from 6.5, so I would have to say that LCHF is helping and I will stick with it. Still not losing weight though.

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Great news about the A1c
Wonder why your weight isn't shifting though, mine's dropping off. How long have you been doing LCHF? How much carb do you have?

I miss not having to worry about numbers and not putting a limit.


Or when I'm out on a social occasion, they're all having alcohol, or cake you feel a bit left out. They offer, "why don't you have some of the pasta" or "help yourself to some cake".Social peer pressure and you don't want to constantly explain why you can't have this and can't have that.

When I look at food I see numbers, like pasta, bread and cake would be a 10 while broccoli is a constant 4 or 5. And there's always the mental carb count.

But most of the days, I'm okay with the food I'm eating I'm used to it

I have gone back, but to a very limited degree.

I made a definite switch from sweet to spicy food, and ate to my meter. This has got me to where I want to be.

But I don't want to keep losing weight.

I don't want high BS.

I don't want to be a slave to diet though, that's as restrictive to me as the diabetes is.

So I do eat Gregg’s steak bakes, just occasionally though, not as a snack before a box of doughnuts from the same shop. (They've gone entirely, I'm completely lost my taste for sugary treats).

Salads are still on my menu, rather than pasta.

I like green veg, not roast spuds.

I'll have a fried breakfast, very occasionally, not daily. (And I'll still have a slice of toast with it, not buttered though)

So, I have in some ways gone back in a token way to my previous diet, vastly reduced amounts though, and a different mix.


I also know if I decide to let it go a bit more, I can make it back later. (Post-holiday diet now, to lose a few pounds, and get the cholesterol down again) So, I think my diet now reflects my lifestyle, and it's both of them that are better.