Oliver1992
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wanna go shopping need right list low carb food and snacks
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trophywench
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Oliver no-one can give you a shopping list! Nobody except you knows what you like to eat or how you like it cooked LOL
BUT we can suggest a couple of things that should help you. One is a book called 'Carbs & Cals' which is also available as an App for a 'smart' phone, if you have one. That shows you pictures of food with the carbs shown alongside it, and because it's always the same size plate and there's a knife and fork by the side of it you should be able to judge by the pictures what is on your plate - it shows various sized meals so you can judge eg your fish and chips from those.
Also if you buy anything in a packet or a tin, including forozen and a fair bit of 'chilled' food, the carb value will be on the packet. Sometimes you still have to work it out though because the carbs will be shown 'per 100g' - so you need to know the weight. Let me go and look at a pizza that we would have between 2 of us.
Right - it says 'Per 100g ... 28g carbohydrate'. On the front of the packet it says the whole thing weighs 290g. I will have half, so I will have 145g of pizza. So I get my calculator. 28g carbs, divide by 100, multiply by 145 = 40.6g of carbs for my half. So I would count that as 40g of carb. I will have oven chips with that, and I see from carbs and cals that my sort of portion would amount to somewhere in between two of the pictures. One says 30g, the next says 50g. So mine is approx in the middle of those - 40g carbs. Add that to the pizza and I know I have approx 80g of carbs in that meal. So I'll be able to calculate my insulin dose for it accordingly.
You don't HAVE to go lower carb if you aren't putting on weight by eating whatever you eat now. Just as long as you match the insulin to the carbs ! If you are putting on weight then cut it down a bit. Buy smaller loaves! Have a bit less rice, pasta or spuds. Eat a piece of fruit instead of cake or biscuits (but DO count the carbs in fruit!) Eat loads more veg - practically anything that isn't a root veg (eg carrots, parsnips, swede, turnips) or a bean, has very few carbs. In fact take baked beans - most of the carbs in them are from the sauce, not the beans! And all the carb values are on the tins or packets of frozen ones - just like the pizza. Practically anything that's green = NIL. LOL There are carbs in them, but you'd probably have to eat about a ton to need to inject any insulin! (eg frozen peas are apparently 2.6g of carb per 100g. So I would have to eat nearly half a kilo of them to warrant injecting 1 unit of Novorapid. Nobody eats half a kilo! LOL
And of course meat, fish, cheese, eggs - all protein (+ some fat), but NIL carbs.
By the way have just caught up on your other threads and see you've been off the rails for a bit, never mind you are sorting yourself out now.
Northerner mentioned carbs can be 'addictive' - it's true unfortunately and just the same as trying to give up anything else be it hard drugs, smoking or alcohol - if you cut it ALL out at once you will feel horrid. So if you want to reduce it, do it a bit at a time. Cut out one snack at a time. Say this morning, I will not eat between breakfast and lunch except if I'm desperate, these nuts or half a pepperami.
BUT we can suggest a couple of things that should help you. One is a book called 'Carbs & Cals' which is also available as an App for a 'smart' phone, if you have one. That shows you pictures of food with the carbs shown alongside it, and because it's always the same size plate and there's a knife and fork by the side of it you should be able to judge by the pictures what is on your plate - it shows various sized meals so you can judge eg your fish and chips from those.
Also if you buy anything in a packet or a tin, including forozen and a fair bit of 'chilled' food, the carb value will be on the packet. Sometimes you still have to work it out though because the carbs will be shown 'per 100g' - so you need to know the weight. Let me go and look at a pizza that we would have between 2 of us.
Right - it says 'Per 100g ... 28g carbohydrate'. On the front of the packet it says the whole thing weighs 290g. I will have half, so I will have 145g of pizza. So I get my calculator. 28g carbs, divide by 100, multiply by 145 = 40.6g of carbs for my half. So I would count that as 40g of carb. I will have oven chips with that, and I see from carbs and cals that my sort of portion would amount to somewhere in between two of the pictures. One says 30g, the next says 50g. So mine is approx in the middle of those - 40g carbs. Add that to the pizza and I know I have approx 80g of carbs in that meal. So I'll be able to calculate my insulin dose for it accordingly.
You don't HAVE to go lower carb if you aren't putting on weight by eating whatever you eat now. Just as long as you match the insulin to the carbs ! If you are putting on weight then cut it down a bit. Buy smaller loaves! Have a bit less rice, pasta or spuds. Eat a piece of fruit instead of cake or biscuits (but DO count the carbs in fruit!) Eat loads more veg - practically anything that isn't a root veg (eg carrots, parsnips, swede, turnips) or a bean, has very few carbs. In fact take baked beans - most of the carbs in them are from the sauce, not the beans! And all the carb values are on the tins or packets of frozen ones - just like the pizza. Practically anything that's green = NIL. LOL There are carbs in them, but you'd probably have to eat about a ton to need to inject any insulin! (eg frozen peas are apparently 2.6g of carb per 100g. So I would have to eat nearly half a kilo of them to warrant injecting 1 unit of Novorapid. Nobody eats half a kilo! LOL
And of course meat, fish, cheese, eggs - all protein (+ some fat), but NIL carbs.
By the way have just caught up on your other threads and see you've been off the rails for a bit, never mind you are sorting yourself out now.
Northerner mentioned carbs can be 'addictive' - it's true unfortunately and just the same as trying to give up anything else be it hard drugs, smoking or alcohol - if you cut it ALL out at once you will feel horrid. So if you want to reduce it, do it a bit at a time. Cut out one snack at a time. Say this morning, I will not eat between breakfast and lunch except if I'm desperate, these nuts or half a pepperami.
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