Low-carb diets support thread

Jerryjerryjerry

Just had roast gammon. Mange tout, carrots, parsnips (only a few).. and cauliflour cheese... I made the colly cheese with spring onions, some Boirsan cheese and lots of fresh parsley which I got reduced to 50p. Everybody was raving about it. The Step son and DH had roast spuds with theirs.. We are suitably stuffed!

I hope all are well here. x

absolutebounder

Jerryjerryjerry wrote: »

I'm going to try again on 31st december, if not before..

Great idea but dont try just go for it. When anyone says they tried something it means they failed. You will succeed if you give up trying and just do it.

nuttybabe

Gray_Malkin wrote: »

Snap! I had mine after sausages though

If you leave them frozen and mash them into the cream a bit, it makes like an ice-cream. Might not be everyone's cup of tea for breakfast though :rotfl:

had it this morning after forgetting yet again to get berries out of freezer. It was gert lush , thank you, but my teeth did not like the cold so looks like i wont be having it again. berries now in fridge for breakfast tomorrow.

marrbett

Morning all, had a nice family Sunday, so didn't go on computer all day!!
Murphy, yes, I do feel abit better after confessing to a choccy bar or two, but wish I didn't do it in the first place, the pleasure is so temporary, isn't it!!!

A question please-if you were at your ideal weight, and you had no medical conditions, what would the problem be with spikes in blood sugars?
I now want to eat all vegetables and fruit(though I don't eat alot of fruit apart from berries and the odd banana) and lentils and things. I still want to stay away from grains and sugar-but will have some on the odd occasion, but wonder what happens to your body when you have them?

I understand about the bloating/cramps that I get due to grains, its the spikes in the blood I'm wondering about.

sistercas

evening all

just going for a bath but thought i would see how everyone was.

had a busy day, work in the morning and cleaning all afternoon , better with my meals today though

B: 3 eggs scrambled fried cherry tomatoes
L: ham cheese and tomatoes
HM chilli strawberries and cream


hope everyone is ok its been very quiet today :cool:

marbett sorry i dont know the science behind it all

Jerryjerryjerry

Hello all. Got my lunches sorted. Today, I had a prawn cocktail lights got reduced in tescos at 7.00pm last night.. 40 pence! and some salad for lunch.. also took an apple and some blueberries.

Tomorrow, I've got coronation chicken filler from tescos reduced to 30p with a side salad i've made. and i'm taking an apple and blueberries.

New job going really wel. I've got some very very lovely ladys workng with me.. they are so helpful! This job could go on for 9 months.. so very happy! VERY!

SHEILA54

Hi

Rushing in and out with hospital visits etc. I hope that things are settling down and that we are all being good

Having a better day today and have decided to eat low carb but not count for a couple of weeks. By then things should be easier and I will go lower for a week and see what happens.

Keep smiling

murphydog999

Marrbett, can't answer your question I'm afraid, no science degree, but I am in the same situation as you. I have no medical reason to eat LC, don't get on very well with grains, but that's not really a reason - I just enjoy eating this way.

However........(confession time!) we had a bit of a treat day yesterday (got to do something to take our minds off the house that is going nowhere situation!!) spa, massage, nice lunch, dinner out. I made some bad choices. Had a 'chocolate pot' dessert, not too bad as dark choc, but obviously with sugar.

Then dinner.........I thought a twice baked cheese souffle would be a good idea - forgot about the flour until I started tucking in! Then my skate came with mash potato and onion rings and I really liked the look of a sort-of peach melba, with meringue. It was excruciatingly sweet, and within 10 minutes my head was starting to hurt. By the time we got home I had to dive for the tablet drawer as my head was banging! It was horrible.

I was still :dance: this morning (no headache though) and got up and did a circuit 3x I usually find hard 2x, and felt :j after. It's not something I would do again though - the sugar that is!

I would imagine on a regular basis it would upset a few chemical/hormone balances. I would go up very slowly on the fruit and try and mix carbs with a protein source i.e. fruit with yogurt, apple and cheese, etc to slow down any sugar spikes.

marrbett

Thanks murphy-its interesting isn't it. I'm gonna try and do abit of research about it.

Hope everyone is ok, horrible rain in Dorset, bleughhhhh.

absolutebounder

marrbett wrote: »

Morning all, had a nice family Sunday, so didn't go on computer all day!!
Murphy, yes, I do feel abit better after confessing to a choccy bar or two, but wish I didn't do it in the first place, the pleasure is so temporary, isn't it!!!

A question please-if you were at your ideal weight, and you had no medical conditions, what would the problem be with spikes in blood sugars?
I now want to eat all vegetables and fruit(though I don't eat alot of fruit apart from berries and the odd banana) and lentils and things. I still want to stay away from grains and sugar-but will have some on the odd occasion, but wonder what happens to your body when you have them?

I understand about the bloating/cramps that I get due to grains, its the spikes in the blood I'm wondering about.

Blood sugar Spikes are quite normal and harmless if you are active and If you watch what you are putting in to your body. The big fear over time would be type 2 diabetes so its important to watch exercise and how many calories you take in. the body is designed to deal with spikes but you dont want to make it too much of a habit

From the guardian of all places:o

Naveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow, is one of the UK's leading diabetes researchers. (He's also very lean, and alarmingly fit. Of South Asian descent, both his parents have type 2 diabetes: "My lifetime risk," he says, sitting in the lobby of the British Heart Foundation's headquarters in London, "is around 95%. I am very careful.")

Sattar is unequivocal about the reasons for the epidemic. "There's genetic potential, plainly," he says. "Family history, and ethnicity. But what I tell my patients is basically this: weight gain, excessive weight gain, will eventually lead to type 2 diabetes. This is an obesity-driven epidemic. Make no mistake."

Not just obesity either; overweight can be enough. But how does that excess weight lead to type 2? Scientific understanding of how this works is relatively new, Sattar says, but the thinking is roughly as follows: if we consume more calories than we burn, we store the excess as fat. Among the places we store it are the pancreas and the liver, thus interfering with the former's capacity to produce insulin, and the latter's capacity to react to it.