The Desmond view was that eggs and olive oil were worse for me than bread. I don't buy that really. They seemed very worried about cholesterol levels almost at the expense of glucose.
What do they mean by free carbs, I'm not sure any carbs are quite free.
Ah what I mean is carbs on their own... rice quinoa wheat ie a plate of rice or a slice of bread. I'm hoping I'm getting carbs in my vegetables
I can't stand goats cheese, it just tastes how goats smell to me but some people tolerate it better than cow's milk cheese.
😡 Too few carbs? Utter tosh echoing the eatwell plate which is why so many type 2 progressively get worse.
omg. The eggs and cholesterol myth was disproven a decade ago.
I mean I've been carb free now for as long as I remember ie no bread no rice etc. I don't miss it but the Desmond folks were not really happy. There were a few of us who were trying that approach.
Yes I think I do. Do I have to be very concerned with cholesterol.my results were not very high.ibthought olive oil etc was good for me
I see, I thought what you meant was some carbs didn't count. There are some veg which are higher carb than others, like peas, broad beans, parsnips and of course potatoes, I tended to adopt not having more than 1 carby veg at a time and that counted as my carbs for that meal.
I think I would say low carb rather than carb free as that is well nigh impossible, even a lettuce leaf has some carb.
How on earth could it be harmful? Sounds like they want you to eat more carbs now than at diagnosis.
OK so I'm getting carbs as am eating loads of varied veg. Fennel lettuce aubergine broccoli whatever I cam find. So no real need to eat bread or rice !
That's helpful thank you so much. When you do diet controlled are you using cgm? And do you have a limited diet??
I despair about some of these courses. Others allegedly providing the “same“ course have a much more enlightened and up to date view.
I can’t afford cgm all the time and don’t find them especially accurate on numerical terms but did find the trends enlightening when I started out. I use a meter and very low carb/keto diets. It’s definitely different to look at on the plate but I don’t go hungry. I never much liked rice pasta potatoes etc anyway. I lost excess weight, achieved remission, vastly improved trig and HDL with little change to ldl but the important ratios improved a lot so all the most predictive numbers were better.
Well my husbands old friend is a gp abroad and he suggested it to me. Seemed sensible. No need to despair as some folks are starting from a different point. I'm just concerned about my cholesterol now so maybe that's something to watch.
It sounds like my metabolism is very similar. I also am a lifelong active person. One question re meals. When you eat 2 meals is it like 11am amd 5pm?? I have a morning rise in my blood sugar after I get up. I wonder what is best way to level this out? PM activity or eating breakfast? Thx
The rise when you get up is very common and there is not a lot people can do unless they take insulin and it is just your liver being super helpful in releasing glucose to give you energy for the day and for your organs to function.
