Low-carb diets support thread

tod123

Nori/Sushi rolls for lunch.

Prawn mayo and cucumber
Spicy cajun chicken with avocado/sour cream

SHEILA54

bossymoo and tod123 - sounds nice!!

Breakfast - scrambled egg with smoked salmon. Thanks Edwardia for the shopping tip
Lunch - prawns, chicken, watercress, spinach and rocket salad, cucumber and half avocado, mayo
Dinner - sausage, cauliflower, red pepper, courgettes, probiotic yoghurt with flax and sesame seeds
1 sq 70% chocolate
2oz cream
Small piece cheddar
7oz lactofree milk + cocoa, 2 cups tea, 2 cups coffee

Think that I now have the bowel problem under control with the veg, salad,seeds, cocoa and flax

daska

Doh! Got to the 14 and a half stone and immediately bounced straight back up (probably because I succumbed to a couple of oat cakes and loads of pastrami) Back on the straight and narrow now. Have cut out the praxilene for a few days so that I can eat how my body wants me to - and to see how the feet do with just the aspirin.

confused76

Edwardia i really hope you change your mind and stay....xx

SHEILA54

daska - sorry that you have put on but it will come off quickly. Have been up and down a bit recently myself but this I know. Don't be despondent

Edwardia

Sheila54 has been relentlessly on my case ((( Sheila54))) I've had 11 PMs and just seen messages on thread from confused76, daska, mazzers, bossymoo, marrbett, urchin, pigsmayfly, minihauk, angelfeathers and skymist as well and gosh now you all make me feel guilty like I'd be letting you down.

So I've decided since I don't want to let you down, I'll just post here and hope they don't find me and see how that goes so sshh secret squirrel.

daska..I looked up Nairn's oatcakes and they are 5.7g carbs each so exactly how bad were you ??? I'm on aspirin too. I was stuck on it same week I was diagnosed with diabetes though all newly diagnosed Type "s are supposed to get 6 months to make lifestyle changes (this is the new euphemism for go on a diet). I would love to come off it as it makes my blood really thin. However a Swiss study showed that it had a rebound affect on many people who came off it, making their blood platelets stickier and causing them to have a stroke. I decided to stick on it, then I read that it can have a protective effect for some cancers and since some oncologists take it I decided to stick with it. Excuse me being nosy but what does it do for your feet ? I've got fascitis in the balls of my feet but I found that getting my blood sugars to normal and quitting alcohol have almost eradicated it

Sheila54 that diet is looking good, a much better mix now..and you're welcome, wish we'd bought more of it to stash in the now tidied up freezer.

tod123 that sounds yummy as well, I haven't had nori in years.

bossymoo er don't think I'll go there..

urchin - I'm not sure whether it's a new test or not but I read that a GTT test (part of Liver Function Test LFT) has been found to be a reliable marker for insulin resistance. My GP seems determined to turn me into a pincushion so I have to go have one myself Friday.

Thank you to all of you for being so kind and supportive !!

Edwardia

I have had a mixed old day. I managed to underboil my eggs while yacking with my mother on the phone and they came out too runny I then walked for half an hour to see health trainer

I arrived in tshirt and trackpants and health trainer was concerned I wasn't wearing enough but having lived in Canada I don't seem to feel the cold so much now and I felt weather was a bit humid. She was very welcoming but I think she was all geared up for promoting the low fat diet. So I stuck to my low carb guns, told her my latest test results and then she stopped frowning.

I'm supposed to be doing 30 mins extra walking a day and she's going to call me in 2 weeks time and nag me so you're allowed to nag me about walking too if you want

Then I went to Sainsbury's and as my BG felt low I bought myself a veggie samosa from the deli plus Scotch egg for OH, two slices each of ox tongue and Brunswick ham for me plus a couple of bars of Lindt 90% as it's the only supermarket in our town (with five supermarkets) which sells it.I went to Icelabd bought lard started feeling unwell so I had to stuff samosa and grab a cab.

Then went to PPG two hrs later at local surgery for 1.5 hours, came home and crashed.

Dinner was mixed salad - diced Edam & Gouda plus a slice each of ox tongue and Brunswick ham and one Lidl rollmop with salad leaves, teeny plum tomatoes and HM dressing.

I'm about ready to zzzz already !

PS the Brunswick ham is only 99p per (qtr ?) and the slices are huge, It's ready sliced, tastes salty and has a rind on like bacon so ewww but the ox tongue was yummy.

Skymist

Edwardia wrote: »

So I've decided since I don't want to let you down, I'll just post here and hope they don't find me and see how that goes so sshh secret squirrel.

:T:T:T

Edwardia wrote: »

I arrived in tshirt and trackpants and health trainer was concerned I wasn't wearing enough but having lived in Canada I don't seem to feel the cold so much now and I felt weather was a bit humid.

There's been quite a lot of stuff on the net lately about Cold Thermogenisis, especially from Jack Kruse...him of the Leptin Reset.....who believes that if we "cold adapt", we lose weight naturally because we make more elusive brown fat, heal better, faster and enjoy all round better health! He's written LOADS of stuff on it, starting here:-

http://jackkruse.com/cold-thermogenesis-1-theory-to-practice-begins/

and tested his theory on himself as well as his family and patients, who all also lost loads of weight!

Also, do you remember this story?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128032/Analia-Bouter-finds-stillborn-baby-ALIVE-morgue-12-hours-pronounced-dead.html

Could this be because of the lower temperature, as babies are born with more brown fat, which generates heat, and brown fat is stimulated by cold?

Edwardia wrote: »

She was very welcoming but I think she was all geared up for promoting the low fat diet. So I stuck to my low carb guns, told her my latest test results and then she stopped frowning.

So Edwardia, you might already be cold adapted, seeing your good test results...as well as doing thelow carb thing?

S

Edwardia

Until 15 May Tesco has a buy 2 for £7 or 3 for £10 on a load of fresh meat, poultry and fish which is normally £4 per pack.

Checking it carefully, I found:
Tesco Finest Gravadlax with modified maize starch, sugar and potassium sorbate
Tesco Finest wild Alaskan smoked salmon with added sugar
Tesco Finest smoked salmon with added sugar
Tesco pork loin steaks only 89% pork, with dried glucose syrup and sodium acetate
Tesco peppered beef steak 90% beef with sugar, glucose syrup, cornflour, maltodextrin, sodium acetate, sodium ascorbate, sodium lactate and sodium citrate

I expect premium smoked salmon not to be adulterated with sugar - since when does smoked salmon need sugar ?? As for pork loin steaks which are only 89% pork and have dried glucose syrip on them, again the question is why ??

Fortunately I don't shop in Tesco for meat anymore but I'm really outraged. If I was trying to eat healthily in Tesco I'd still be ingesting chemicals and hidden sugar !

I'll be searching pack labels, store websites and asking questions in future that's for sure !! Night all xxx

PS: OH said yes I have eaten these he bought some ewww

Edwardia

I'm off to bed skymist but I'd say the ability to walk around in sweatshirt and jeans no coat in -8C and feel hot could possibly mean I'm cold adapted