My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

Suggestions please for a healthy filling breakfast--with minimum carbs. Are bananas and greek low fat yoghurt the way to go. Cut out the cereal ?

This is a great breakfast. The black pudding can be a bit carby so if you wanted to cut down then remove the black pudding. I am like you and include a slice now and again.

@bigmac . Oss is right about the fat. But I do get a bit apprehensive about advising increasing healthy fat to anyone with a heart condition.

The way I see it and many GPs now see it, increasing healthy fat displaces the need for statins aswell as keeping hunger at bay.

@bigmac Imagine, Oss has lost weight on this food. Same as me and Mrs Ash. But it doesn’t just apply to the three of us. It applies to thousands and thousands. If someone has said to me in 2018 that I would lose weight eating this for breakfast I would have thought them crazy. I cut this stuff out to lose weight. It didn’t work and made me put on weight.

My GP doesn’t badger me to take statins anymore as my cholesterol is bob on. Eating food like that. Just don’t use vegetable oil or margarine to cook it in.

my full english today ( once a week treat)--2 poached eggs. 2 pork sausages -air fried--. 3 smoked streaky. mushrooms and tomato fried in the bacon fat. 2 hash browns--also air fried. Also--real orange juice and strong coffee with full fat milk and 1/2 a spoon of sugar. then no food for 8 hours.

i eat far less than my wife, but weigh twice as much.

I did similar. A good non stick pan. I have to stop Mrs Ash from using a metal utensil on it though.

Yeah because as Mrs Ash says, you don’t feel hungry after that.

I enjoy a cooked breakfast like that. It’s just not as quick as a bowl of cereal.

is peanut butter on wholegrain toast ok ?

It depends on how strict you want to be with yourself. The peanut butter is great. Just need to make sure there is only peanut oil in it and not any other oil. Some peanut butters have other nasty oils added. Me and Mrs Ash have a slice of the lowest carb bread we can find with our cooked breakfast. She is a bit stricter with bread than I am. The thing about brown bread is that it is as high in potential glucose content than white bread. Most patients I have come across find that bread is the toughest of the lot to give up. It’s cheap, convenient and very tasty and we have all been weaned on it. Some clinicians recommend stopping it altogether and others simply say to take it easy. I really like toast for breakfast but keep it to a small slice and get tucked into the bacon and eggs.

I find peanut butter very filling. Occasionally I just eat it by the teaspoon. Occasionally on a fried egg.

@bigmac

Oss seems to have picked it all up pretty well, judging by his weight loss and what he posts on what he eats. We all have to decide how strict we want to be or need to be. It’s not a one size fits all solution. You seem like you are making an effort to push the carb levels down and that is the right direction of travel. A lot of clinicians are realising that it’s a sliding scale of weapons in the dietary intervention arsenal that’s needed, one that needs to be tailored to the individual as we are all at different stages of metabolic demise.

@bigmac

I am in touch with this guy.

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/p...m-health-wreck-to-nhs-mentor-big-read-3289408

Horndean. Probably almost as close as you can get to the Isle of Wight without setting foot in the water. Well, pretty close. He is a health and well-being coach for the NHS down there involved in 7 GP surgeries. If he were advising someone on the IoW he would be saying the same as me. I suspect he doesn’t deal with the IoW. I have messaged him to ask him. There is every chance that the IoW differs in stance as that happens Nationwide. You can read his story and the story behind his appointment. Such is the effectiveness of the solution, 7 GP surgeries in that region employ his expertise.

Problem is..i need to eat something ! Cant just eat meat and a few veg all the while. I have massively reduced rice..noodles..pasta..bread..sugar spuds in all forms. I eat a lot less nowadays. Rarely eat puddings..cakes..biscuits. i rarely feel hungry..except right now thinking food as i type this. Yet im not losing the wright i tjought i would. I cant accept the amount i drink makes the weight.

I know you said you had changed what you drink but I've forgotten whether you said how much?

about 18 cans of lager a week: each is 440 ml...and 1.7 units
so--18 x 1.7 =31 units.
plus a scotch before i go to bed.

or--to put it more simply--less than my doctor.

i'm sure youre right. My late wife was alcoholic--she drank herself to death. She ate very little--and drank heavily every day--latterly all day long. The booze kept her going for years.

yep--24 years of it. But i knew nothing different till it was all over. Hindsight etc.

@bigmac

I checked with Mark Hancock, the Horndean based NHS Health Coach. He doesn’t cover the Isle of Wight. But he knows who does or will be doing so. I get the impression she has only just arrived on board. It’s Caroline Lucy.

Mark said:

“Hi John, Caroline Lucy looks after the Isle of Wight. I’m not sure what progress she been able to make since she came on board but I plan to meet up with her soon”

Both he and she are NHS employees, employed as Health Coaches. Both advise on Keto where needed / wanted or any colour of the low carb spectrum, essential to reverse patients chronic health conditions and to de- prescribe medication (get them off drugs). All 3 of us are completely in tune with one another on all of this but as I don’t work directly for the NHS you might feel more comfortable with the advice Caroline Lucy gives. This is her personal Twitter account.

Yes, but look at a lot of doctors and nurses. Most are overweight dining on “fine dining” restaurant food.