• Please Remember: Members are only permitted to share their own experiences. Members are not qualified to give medical advice. Additionally, everyone manages their health differently. Please be respectful of other people's opinions about their own diabetes management.
  • We seem to be having technical difficulties with new user accounts. If you are trying to register please check your Spam or Junk folder for your confirmation email. If you still haven't received a confirmation email, please reach out to our support inbox: support.forum@diabetes.org.uk

Any Vegans low carbing!

Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
Grogg1

Grogg1

Well-Known Member
Relationship to Diabetes
Type 2
Pronouns
She/Her
My daughter is home from her travels and as she has a bio medical degree has been researching and questioning me about my decision to low carb. As usual she found research supporting carbs but then looked more when I explained why I'm low carbing! Anyway she is Vegan and she said that going plant based would benefit me as she thinks diary is one of the worst things we can eat!!

I'm game for going Vegan but I don't know what to eat. Tonight she made me curried chickpea soup which was delicious and a bowl of it only raised my blood sugar from 5.4 to 6.7 (2 hour testing) but I felt peckish after an hour and had some cheese and nuts! I love cheese!

So any vegans low carbing and what do you eat that fills you up. My daughter wants to know if I can eat legumes and if so in what quantities. I've said they are okay in moderation, are some better than others?
 
One of the things I have heard vegans go for is HCLF plant based diets (check out knives over forks or some such)..... They tend to go for virtually zero fat.

We have at least one member on this diet
 
Martin Canty said:
One of the things I have heard vegans go for is HCLF plant based diets (check out knives over forks or some such)..... They tend to go for virtually zero fat.

We have at least one member on this diet
Click to expand...
My daughter mentioned that saturated fats can increase insulin resistance. My husband, not vegan, has always been pro fat! When we first became parents he was insistent that we fed out baby/toddler no low fat food as fat was essential for brain development so milk/yoghurts etc had to be full fat until the age of 5 as a minimum!
 
Grogg1 said:
My daughter mentioned that saturated fats can increase insulin resistance
Click to expand...
I can't comment on this claim except that a quick search found quite a few sites, often the term vegan was also included in the articles found. IMHO, as with everything moderation is the key.... I don't fear saturated fats but I do go for quality fats of animal & plant based sources.
 
Well current and longstanding advice is to feed babies and children full fat for the exact reason your husband used. We DO need fat - ALWAYS! - to maintain the myelin sheaths on nerves.

However - that does not mean anybody (generally) needs particularly massively HIGH fat.

It isn't 'low carb high fat' - it's lowER carb, MODERATE fat - for everybody!

Vegetarians and vegans tend to fill up with, as your daughter says - legumes. However even though they may well be slower release carbs - they are still carbs - and each person will need to test, review and adjust. Nobody can possibly guess whether your particular body can sustain such a diet, without trying it.

Try it if you want to - but be prepared for spending more on test strips and testing intensively for quite a while - and if you don't see reasonable results 'fairly soon' - it may be as well to just dump it.

It's just one of those typical QI 'Nobody Knows' things!
 
Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
Back
Top