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Easy low carbs snacks

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I'm currently 31 and 5'7" and I used to sit around 8 3/4st. Never really been 9st. Now I am sitting at 8st. I'd like to be 10st one day. BMI is 17.4
 
Clarkey said:
I'm currently 31 and 5'7" and I used to sit around 8 3/4st. Never really been 9st. Now I am sitting at 8st. I'd like to be 10st one day. BMI is 17.4
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I would suspect it will happen in the fullness of time. You're slightly shorter than me, hence the slightly higher BMI than mine at around your age. By the time I was 40 my weight had risen to 10st without any real effort or intention. But I didn't have diabetes then and now I can understand how it can be difficult to gain weight if you wanted to - I used to just eat whenever I liked and my pancreas would happily oblige!
 
I agree that the ideal weight thing is a load of old tosh, largely, and it's what you feel comfortable with.

However, if you were eating 2000+ cals per day and not gaining several lbs per month, especially not exercising (bear in mind Northerner ran marathons) then I would be looking to other causes and the favourite for any T1 is less than perfect control.

Stress will play a part with weight as well as the higher BGs you spoke about in your earlier thread, but generally calories in minus calories out will equate to weight loss or gain. To burn 2500 to 3000 calories a day, you have to spend the day running round or peeing out the excess glucose due to high BGs. Or something else, such as a thyroid problem.

But testing several times a day before meals, 1-2 hours after meals and bedtime & morning, for a few days, should highlight if you have any problems with highs. It would get you a sub-7 HbA1c and your overall health would be far better for it. 🙂

Rob
 
How about peanut butter on cookies (I've used shortbread and others with ~21 g bag cookies w/16 carb & 6 sugars). Maybe try yogurt (I like greek) or cottage cheese with nuts mixed-in....one small spoon of jelly in cottage cheese also does the trick....they have ones here (in the States) w/jelly as part of package.
 
I've decided to see a diabetes dietician in the first instance. I'm going to try and do more cooking at home and have more things like omlettes with cheese and bacon etc. I don't eat as much egg as I should.

Then once i've seen the dietician i'll use the information and recommendations they give me and monitor my weight for a while.

There's not much I can't eat, it's really mainly nuts that I seem to have a reaction to which is disappointing.

If after seeing the dietician my weight continues to drop then i'll be looking at seeing a Doctor for other possible causes.

In the summer I was 115bls which I believe is borderline of being underweight. I've gradually dropped since the summer and this morning my weight was at it's lowest ever of 109.8lbs. And it doesn't help when people at work keep commenting on it.
 
I know that they are not healthy but pork scratchings are almost carb free....obviously full of fat though!.........but I do like them! :D
 
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Clarkey, I would try eating different types of nuts one type at a time rather than mixing them. I am allergic to hazelnuts (as lots of people are, see pollen food syndrome) but am fine with all the other types. I bet you are not allergic to all nuts, just some.
 
In answer to someone wanting low carb high calorie snacks, here's another vote for pork scratchings and cheese - Babybel are particularly suitable for carrying around, leaving at work etc, as they survive for days out of fridge, unless you leave them on a radiator or in direct sun, of course. And definitely agree that checking individual nuts is worthwhile - those allergic to peanuts (which grow under ground and are related to beans & other pulses) are often not allergic to nuts that grow on trees.

Or, have higher carb snacks with insulin bolus(es), but taking care not to "stack" insulin ie recognise that insulin is still in your system before having another bolus.
 
when I go out walking I take a pack of those Go Ahead Yogurt Breaks (some supermarkets do their own brands too)... they are a crunchy biscuit sandwiching a sultana and berry filing, topped with a yogurt flavour topping.... I find that they don't cause a spike and are quite delicious. they have 72 calories, 12 g of carbs including 7g of sugar, 1.8g fat, per slice. 2 biscuits are wrapped together and then in a box of 6 packs.

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Ok I will try individual types of nuts. The ones I was having at work were brazil nut, hazel nuts and almonds. maybe it was the hazels nuts for me too. Anyway i get a slight reaction pretty quick so it shouldn't take long to find out which ones affect me. I'm hoping that brazil nuts don't affect me.

oh and i've started making omlettes now with bacon and cheese in. i don't cook much so this is the start of something new for me!
 
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Ok I will try individual types of nuts. The ones I was having at work were brazil nut, hazel nuts and almonds. maybe it was the hazels nuts for me too. Anyway i get a slight reaction pretty quick so it shouldn't take long to find out which ones affect me. I'm hoping that brazil nuts don't affect me.

oh and i've started making omlettes now with bacon and cheese in. i don't cook much so this is the start of something new for me!
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I've started making omelettes to lately - cheese and onion are my faves so far 🙂
 
great to hear that you both have discovered omeletes

how about broccoli and stilton? 😉 or baby spinach and cheese (loads of magnesium in both of these variations)

whatever quiches you might see in the shop will work well as an omelete... after all it is just a crustless quiche isn't it?
 
I don't seem to get any reaction from pecans. 🙂
 
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http://www.graze.com/ give these ago I have been having them for a couple of years with no trouble you can start and stop whenever you want with no problems .
 
Have you tried Mars Trackers bars - roasted nut ones - 19.3 carbs per bar, 147 kcal, 1.9g protein and 7g fat. If you are needing a snack to avoid running too low I find these keep me stable without raising sugar levels too much.

I agree nuts are great but find I get thirsty so am constantly drinking cups of tea and then needing the loo!😱
 
This is an interesting post, gutted only just spotted it. I can feel your pain about people commenting on your weight because I have had the same since diagnosis (lost around 2 stone very rapidly) but my weight has now stabilised and I hover around the 11st mark, ideally would like to be a stone heavier but I am a healthy weight. Cashew Nuts are my biggest turn to when it comes to snacks (raw ones not the yucky salted ones) only down side is they are v expensive but soooo delicious, could eat them all day. Will sometimes sprinkle some walnuts on top of my porridge in the morning. Have also had babybels and peperamis occasionally without any adverse affect on my bs
 
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Have you tried Mars Trackers bars - roasted nut ones - 19.3 carbs per bar, 147 kcal, 1.9g protein and 7g fat. If you are needing a snack to avoid running too low I find these keep me stable without raising sugar levels too much.

I agree nuts are great but find I get thirsty so am constantly drinking cups of tea and then needing the loo!😱
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That sounds incredibly high for a snack. Are you sure your basal isn't too high, if you can manage one of those without going through the roof ? 😱

Normally anything up to about 10g can be accomodated, if you're fairly stable and it's low GI.

Rob
 
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