Low-carb diets support thread

Edwardia

andrewsmum I don't recommend the Parachute brand of coconut oil it tasted burnt to me

I looked at it and have to say I am not going to rush out and buy one but on the other hand I was interested by the poachets poached egg pockets on the Lakeland channel

andrewsmum

Edwardia wrote: »

andrewsmum I don't recommend the Parachute brand of coconut oil it tasted burnt to me

Thanks Edwardie, where was it from please ?

Edwardia

I bought the Parachute coconut oil from www.spicesofindia.co.uk and they do other brands as well. I really love the Khanum pure butter ghee without ethyl butyrate which I bought from them and the Brooke Bond Taj Mahal tea and their service is great too. I just think the Parachute stuff isn't so good so I've been using it as body moisturiser (great for that!)

I've been fiddling with my blog and the new design is much better. It spreads the posts laterally so that there isn't that long long side bar of posts - more of a newspaper lay out with snippets to investigate. Every page gets a photo or video highlighted for that page if there is one, it doesn't disappear off the screen as soon as the page is turned. I watch every video to make sure it's low carb or can be adapted and it makes me hungry !

Just watched Marco Pierre White doing griddled sardines Sicilian style so I'm off to get strawberries and clotted cream before Waitrose turns up.

Catch y'all laters xx

marrbett

Sheila, I just wanted to tell you about a book my mum has read regarding thyroid/adrenal glands problems.

Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Survive it -Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_14/280-1702867-6795624?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=barry+durrant-peatfield&sprefix=barry+durrant-%2Cstripbooks%2C699

She's taking her basal(?) temperature 1st thing in the morning and in a few weeks is going to see him for a consultation.I think he's in Crawley.
Don't know if this is of any use to you?

Edwardia

Two of my nieces (teens and twenties) have thyroid probs so will pass the details on to them thank you marbett

SHEILA54

Thanks for all of the info. I am staying with my brother up north so have limited access to internet. Will post later XX

Mercy

Edwardia wrote: »

I have found that there is a substance called coumarin in ground cinnamon which can be toxic to the liver if you eat 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon on a regular basis. So I will knock that on the head and see what happens.

Hi hunni

Here's a quick link to cinnamon types.

http://www.spice-racks.com/cinnamon-the-truth-about-this-spice/

Coumarin occurs in a cinnamons but 10x more in cassia than in ceylon cinnamon. I checked this out with Asda about their ground cinnamon and they insist it's ceylon cinnamon they use, not cassia.

Cassia is much cheaper and often sold in USA as just 'cinnamon'.

Mx

Edwardia

Got my Gressingham duck, veal mince, butterflied NZ lamb leg joints, the Duchy Originals organic dry cured oven roasted ham for His Nibs (HN), lots of stir fry things for tonight, and kitchen smells of basil and thyme mmm..

Is the Gok Wan Chinese cooking show on tonight or was it yesterday ?? Anyone watching it ?? If so anything low carb ??

Hi Mercy xx thanks for that. I got some cinnamon sticks from the Rye Bay Spice Company in a discount shop, there were more than 10 sticks for 4.49 so I was thinking of stirring them in milk instead of using ground cinnamon. I will contact them now and find out which kind of cinnamon they use. Thanks Mercy xx

devildog

Evening all. Haven't 'officially' weighed in this evening, gonna start a new week from yesterday with the scales that are/appear to be more accurate.
Breakfast and lunch sort of merged today so have had 4 (yes four) eggs, guess that isn't brilliant to eat so many, plus salad and this evening had rice cauli and veg curry. Cauli like this is pretty ok:) Have ditched tea(to drink) today too as I am going to try and drink more water(really bad at that) Isn't getting up going to be fun tomorrow. Have been really busy today(it is the weather that does it ) so hopefully a few more calories burnt there too. Oh, also had a tablespoon of peanut butter but as I am not too good with mixing the oil in (and getting to bottom of jar now) I swallowed it and it sort of clung on to the insides of my throat and took forever to wash away-that will teach me.

sweaty_betty

Edwardia wrote: »

sweatybetty sorry you put on 3kg.. that's a lot...

For the benefit of any lurkers who don't know about the role of insulin, it's like a key in the cell door to let the glucose in to provide the cell with energy. So insulin shoves glucose into the cell and if we don't use it all, it gets stored as fat.

The other thing insulin does is control fat as part of the survival mechanism ie it doesn't want to let it get burned. The higher the insulin level the less able we are to lose weight.

So, sweatybetty I'm thinking that if you are taking the same amount of insulin as you were and are eating fewer carbs there's excess insulin sloshing about preventing weight loss. If you've upped your protein too, don't forget that the body can make glucose from protein IIRC a consultant told me 58% of protein ends up as glucose and the insulin could be vacuuming it into your cells as well.

Low carbing with insulin seems a bit trickier. I've got The Diabetes Revolution by Dr Charles V Clark and Maureen Clark. The early part of the book deals with low carbing when using insulin step by step so may be useful. His website is www.charlesvclark.com

Dr Richard Bernstein is the go to guy for low carbing with insulin www.diabetes-book.com and his older website www.diabetes-solution.net plus there's another newer membership one called www.thebernsteinconnection.com It seems that there's a web seminar on May 30 which you may be interested in.

Those books and websites are the best info I can come up with, hope they help xx

Thanks Edwardia that's really helpful - I have the Bernstein books, but it's been a while since I read them properly so I'll have a good look through - I'll also see if I can get hold of the Clark book. I'll take any help I can get!

It's just so frustrating as I've lost between 2.5 -3 stone between August and Christmas, but nothing since - whatever was working, isn't now!

Thanks again