Desmond Course

[ChaRitch]

Hi,
I have been offered to go on the Desmond one day course to help which sounds great, but can't get on it until May so until then I am muddling through, thank goodness this site is here. I just got myself in a happy place with my job and now this happened, I know I must not let it control me, but all I'm thinking about is what am I going to eat, and so don't want to get ill, and my first couple of visits with the nurse just scared me! Baring in mind I have never eaten veg or salad apart from tomatoes chopped up in meals mushrooms and onions, obviously potatoes, but it's just been meat and potoates. I need help with nutorious meals. Type 2 hi cholesterol need to be careful with carbs.

 

[eggyg]

Have a look at the food/ carb/ recipe thread for some fab ideas. Is there any reason you don’t veg? I see you are a similar age to me and maybe it is too late to teach a dog new tricks but maybe you could try something new each day. Some vegetables are abhorrent to some ( like sprouts, cabbage) but try the blander type, broccoli, asparagus both have a nice flavour as long as not over cooked. Roast veg, such as courgettes, basically just water, sweet peppers with olive oil and seasoning, they are delicious, add a tin of tomatoes and you have a veg stew with is good with chicken, steak, pork. What about mashed carrot and swede, that has quite a sweet taste add some good quality butter and pepper. Again ideal with meat or poultry. You don’t have to cut out potatoes but try and avoid mash, that will send your blood sugars sky high. Small new potatoes, just washed, not peeled are the best. Or a small jacket potato, plenty of fibre in the skin. Have you tried sweet potatoes? These take longer to get through your system than white potatoes, try them roasted too. A nice way to have salad is to chop everything small, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, add some tinned chick peas ( for protein) and tear some mozzarella over it. Pour over your usual dressing, oil etc and you have a chopped salad. Easy to eat and tasty. Good luck. 🙂

 

[ChaRitch]

Have a look at the food/ carb/ recipe thread for some fab ideas. Is there any reason you don’t veg? I see you are a similar age to me and maybe it is too late to teach a dog new tricks but maybe you could try something new each day. Some vegetables are abhorrent to some ( like sprouts, cabbage) but try the blander type, broccoli, asparagus both have a nice flavour as long as not over cooked. Roast veg, such as courgettes, basically just water, sweet peppers with olive oil and seasoning, they are delicious, add a tin of tomatoes and you have a veg stew with is good with chicken, steak, pork. What about mashed carrot and swede, that has quite a sweet taste add some good quality butter and pepper. Again ideal with meat or poultry. You don’t have to cut out potatoes but try and avoid mash, that will send your blood sugars sky high. Small new potatoes, just washed, not peeled are the best. Or a small jacket potato, plenty of fibre in the skin. Have you tried sweet potatoes? These take longer to get through your system than white potatoes, try them roasted too. A nice way to have salad is to chop everything small, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, add some tinned chick peas ( for protein) and tear some mozzarella over it. Pour over your usual dressing, oil etc and you have a chopped salad. Easy to eat and tasty. Good luck. 🙂

Oh thank you! Forced to eat veg when young especially runner beans and hate them, but will try some, having sweet potatoes roasted today with lemon and herb chicken, but all my life not eaten veg or salad. I want to be healthy, usually fit go dancing and walk my dog, never worried what I ate or looked at what was in it! Thanks again!

 

[Docb]

Do you have any chance of growing some veg? Maybe in pots? OK you won't be able to feed yourself forever but eating something you have grown and have on the table 10 minutes after you have harvested it can be a revelation, especially if you don't boil it to oblivion.

 

[Drummer]

I find that potatoes, being starchy send my blood glucose higher than normal levels - and sweet potatoes are worse than the ordinary ones.
My cholesterol went down eating a low carb diet, after going up eating carbs on a 'cholesterol lowering' high carb printed out 'eat sheet' from the doctor, which I burnt the day after diagnosis. There are so many things to eat on a low carb diet that there must be something you will like - or at least you can eat enough of to be nourished.

 

[Pine Marten]

Just a warning about the Desmond course, @ChaRitch - it depends upon the area where you live, but some of us have found the course to be fairly useless, as they tend to promote the dreaded 'eat well' plate, and promote carbs rather than a low-carb diet. Of course, your one may be more enlightened, but be prepared just in case! 😱