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My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

Discussion in 'Culture and Food' started by Anon220806, Dec 14, 2020.

  1. oss
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    I use the folding style way to cook them as opposed to the traditional stirring scramble in the UK, I like it a lot at that way.
  2. Anon220806
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    I appreciate the cauliflower rice isn’t the same. In my case I have grown used to not eating rice. Mrs Ash too. She hasn’t eaten any rice since the end of October and that is after a lifetime eating it morning, noon and night. That curry looks pretty good too.

    The ironic thing is that if you are T2 at all and your blood sugars are under control with what you are eating then it won’t show in a diagnostic test at your GPs (unless something like stress is a big factor in your case).

    If you can stretch to it an Abbot Freestyle Libre is a great piece of technology. It measures the interstitial fluid under your skin and you wear it like a cigarette patch. It takes a reading continuously day and night. If you match any peaks up to foods that you eat you learn a lot about yourself. If you cannot get one on prescription which is likely then self funding is the other option to the tune of about £40 or so and it lasts for 2 weeks. You might only need it for two weeks as that is long enough to establish what impacts you personally and thus indicates what to avoid. We aren’t all exactly the same even though there is commonality between us all. The Freestyle Libre is available at most chemists unless they are out of stock. They are however prescribed to T1s. You might like playing with the Freestyle Libre. If you have a Smartphone with NFR then you can use it to download data with just a swipe across it.
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    BTW have you tried Psyllium husk?
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    Fybogel, I was prescribed some many years ago to help with my fistula but I never took it, I have been considering it as an option you have to be careful to be fully hydrated as it can block you up if you get it wrong.
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    That's a simple Chinese style curry, I make them to almost the exact Mayflower recipe (it's Mayflower Curry Sauce just like from a Chinese or a chippy) I add fresh chillies, the onion is almost raw should only be added close to the end, 460grams of made up sauce gets me 7 portions from my calculations based on their box details and instructions (sadly they don't specify carbs in the dry mix) that is my one portion size has about 9grams the onion and peas will add a little more.

    It's one pound a box from Home Bargains or the likes of Iceland and is dead easy, my fully home made Indian curries are better but I like this for a change sometimes as always I make them into curry cubes and store in very thin plastic bags once decanted from the moulds, two cubes (2" x 2" x 2") make a meal.

    I realise that the diet could fix it or rather mask diagnostics, I'll see how I get on with this device before I think about a continuous sensor.
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    Actual main meal tonight slightly larger portion than the other picture.
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    Arla Skyr, and about 50gram raspberries yes I know it has no fat so I added double cream, it's very nice like that.
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    edit: will check blood at 20:45.
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    I just had a bowl comprising mixed berries (strawberries / raspberries/ blackberries, double cream and 10% Greek yoghourt. One of the main reasons for including the healthy fat from the cream and yoghourt is that it is filling / doesn’t leave you hungry. Also we do need that fat and it won’t clog up ones arteries.

    I really enjoy double cream.
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    This is my result at 8:50pm probably 2 hours and 15 minutes from first mouthful.

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    It’s a good reading. And confirms your blood sugars are good. It would have been interesting to see what the result was if you ate something carby.
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    I'm not planning on having rice for a few days but I will obviously check when I do, that meal tonight probably had about 14-15 grams of carbs (total including the desert).

    When I was drinking, the amount of beer and wine I drank would have had huge amounts of carbohydrates, and I would also have a ready made desert like trifle or chocolate trifle, regularly eating rice but similar main dishes to what I am having now but just less fat, the drink would sometimes incline me to snacks of one kind or another and would also make me more likely to cook easy foods like a frozen pie with chips and peas.

    But in the last nine months I have only been drinking for three of them and that was Oct-Dec.

    Tomorrow I will have a similar breakfast to today but with just one sausage not two and maybe a bit earlier in the day, dinner I am planning to use up a Morrisons Beef & Gravy ready meal I bought about 6 weeks ago, I will have it with broccoli and cauliflower but I might have some mashed potatoes as well, Smash a normal made up portion has about 25 to 30g carbs, if I do I will post the results.

    P.S. just read the reviews of this if it is as bad as the reviews I will be making something else :D

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    Bought a big jar of pickled gherkins the other day from a German store. Looked at the label to see it was keto friendly but everything was in German. Got back home and had another look and noticed it had 8.6 sugar, I love pickled gherkins and missed them. Been eating them, oh well.
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    Isn't that for about a 100g portion?

    if you just have the odd one it should be ok for you.
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    As Oss said if 8.6g per 100grams then just a few will make little difference.
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    It helped to stop the leg cramps at night time, that and Himalayan pink salt.
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    Great.

    I have not yet tried the pink salt, I might just get some.
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    Day 2 of the Daily Mail Low Carb Week. Dr David Unwin Tweets on breakfasts, reducing blood pressure and looks at the question of fibre in a low carbohydrate diet.

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    This is phenomenal. But completely in keeping with results achieved by many others. Seeing is believing eh?

    I have seen so many people achieve these results, sometimes more slowly but sometimes just as fast. Just a few days ago a GP in Essex announced to the local press that one of his patients : “In 12 months I’ve lost 28kg – over four stones – and I’m as slim as I was 25 years ago.
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    I do have a problem based on yesterday's results I will post those later.

    In a few weeks I will ask the doc to do an HbA1c once the vaccine has had a bit more time to settle in, don't really want to be near doctors just now.

    But first today.

    This is today's fasting value at 10am .
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    One hour later, no food but had drank carbonated drink sweetened with Aspartme.
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    Lunch was at 12:45, one rasher of bacon and two eggs scrambled and 1 vine Tomato.
    This reading was about 2.5 hours later.
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    This reading is before my evening meal started eating at 5:50pm.
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    This is the meal at 5:50pm, 100g of steamed new potato, mince and mushroom, lots of Broccoli and Cauliflower, jelly and cream as desert.
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    Two hours later which looks ok but my readings can keep going up to three hours or more.
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    And at 3 hours a little higher again.
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    When I had mash yesterday I got quite a high peak of 9.6 at 3 hours, so I think I am insulin resistant, as I said earlier I will see the doc in a few weeks.
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    You are really getting into this.

    Word of caution. If you are insulin resistant then you are masking that by going low carb in the run up to the HbA1c test. What you really need is an insulin resistance test such as:

    https://thriva.co/hub/diabetes/insulin-and-insulin-resistance

    Or your HbA1c test before reducing your carbs. If you see what I mean.

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