COTTAGE CHEESE

[AngelSprings]

I think I've spent half my life on some diet or other trying to lose weight and during this journey I've come across cottage cheese quite a few times, and, of course, it was always advised that it be low fat. And I always thought it the most tasteless, boring food under the sun. However, the other day I purchased some from Sainsburys, their Natural Cottage Cheese, 3.8 grams of carbohydrates per 100 grams, and found it delicious. I can't tell how I my body is dealing with it blood glucose wise because I've run out of test strips for my Accu-chek Meter (test strips have gone up to £20 for 50 test strips) so waiting for a new Tee2 monitor to arrive. How do other low carbers get on with cottage cheese? Does it raise their blood glucose levels? I hope not, because it could be my next best food for the next few days (until I get fed up with it)!!

Best wishes.

 

[Leadinglights]

If you like it then absolutely no reason to suppose it would affect your blood glucose more or less than the same amount of carbs from anything else.

 

[Drummer]

As it is under 4 percent carbs - why would you think that it could be a problem?

I don't eat anything over 10 percent carb except the 95 percent cocoa chocolate which I have a square of once in a while, and I am in normal numbers all the time.

 

[AngelSprings]

Hi
Thanks for the replies. Why I query it is because on the Atkins Diet, which is low carb, they don't appear to recommend it in Phase 1.
Hopefully my new meter will arrive shortly so I shall be able to check how I respond to it.

 

[Leadinglights]

Hi
Thanks for the replies. Why I query it is because on the Atkins Diet, which is low carb, they don't appear to recommend it in Phase 1.
Hopefully my new meter will arrive shortly so I shall be able to check how I respond to it.

I suppose it is that with low carb diet you have to get energy from somewhere and that is fat or protein. So as cottage cheese is low fat then you are not getting that energy.
Atkins diet is what is says A DIET rather than a way of eating for life which is what your diet has to be to manage diabetes.

 

[Drummer]

Hi
Thanks for the replies. Why I query it is because on the Atkins Diet, which is low carb, they don't appear to recommend it in Phase 1.
Hopefully my new meter will arrive shortly so I shall be able to check how I respond to it.

Probably because the hard cheeses recommended for Induction are almost zero carbs, whilst cottage cheeses are by comparison rather higher.
For controlling blood glucose rather than kick starting weightloss, low but not zero carbs are fine - the full fat cottage cheese is a useful ingredient for baking, by the way. Mixed with eggs and a few other bits and pieces you can make waffles and wraps to use in place of bread or pancakes etc..

 

[Drummer]

I suppose it is that with low carb diet you have to get energy from somewhere and that is fat or protein. So as cottage cheese is low fat then you are not getting that energy.
Atkins diet is what is says A DIET rather than a way of eating for life which is what your diet has to be to manage diabetes.

Actually, that is not true - Atkins is often described as a way of eating, as it is intended to be a lifelong method rather than a brief interval of correcting problems and then a return to what caused the problems in the first place.

 

[Leadinglights]

Actually, that is not true - Atkins is often described as a way of eating, as it is intended to be a lifelong method rather than a brief interval of correcting problems and then a return to what caused the problems in the first place.

Apologies, I stand corrected.

 

[Drummer]

Apologies, I stand corrected.

Atkins is often misrepresented - the media love to get it wrong, so it isn't really surprising - to find 'New Diet Revolution' backed up everything I had been trying to tell my GPs gave me a reason to study it well and quote it often. I should do it with better grace, and after coffee.....