im waiting for my low gi book to come from ebay aka my lovely son....but i am trying to be good and even tho i had been out all day i came back and had a salad....reduced from coop so it felt even betta cos i got a barg...and i do love a barg....but i did microwave 4 new potatoes to go with salad even with warning signs going off in my head about carbs....anyway i ate it like really quick.....was starving...but if i was that hungry normally i would have bread as well...but i didnt even tho i had bought submarine rolls...multiseeded home with me.. they are still in the pack...cannot tell you how hard that was...i was like pacman eating that salad...with a bit of chicken....omg i have never eaten food so quick in my life.....sooooo good...tho its gone a bit downhill since then.......😱 but im getting there slowly and sort of surely...but im diggin my heels in...so watch this space!!!!!
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did you succumb in the end?
I know we need some carbs in our diets to help keep things balanced, but the sub rolls would have been part of the meal which would help slow down things a bit. We all also need treats and if your treat is a sub roll, go for it, enjoy and see what happens.
I know we need some carbs in our diets to help keep things balanced, but the sub rolls would have been part of the meal which would help slow down things a bit. We all also need treats and if your treat is a sub roll, go for it, enjoy and see what happens.
itsallgood
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"i was like pacman eating that salad"
Haha, brilliant.. you must be a child of the 70's 😛
Haha, brilliant.. you must be a child of the 70's 😛
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Do you have a BG meter Moonymama?
The thing is... unless you do you are just guessing which foods are the no no's/treats only and which are absolutely fine.
You could make some guesses (grainy subs instead of white subs is a good guess) but you'll never *know* for sure what your own individual body can handle and at what time of day without a meter. You might currently being avoiding things that you'd enjoy just because they affect other people badly - you may have no problem. And you might be choosing some things because they are fine for other people, whereas your metabolism really struggles with them.
Test before a food, then test again an hour or two after eating it and see what the difference is. Test each food/meal a few times to rule out freaky readings. Then choose the ones that give you the most even numbers (the least rise). To begin with it matters less what the actual numbers are... it's the difference that each food/meal gives you that's more important. After a while you will get a feel for when your 'spike time' most likely is and then you'll test at that time whenever you try anything new, but in the meantime you'll be basing your diet on what *actually happens* in your body when you eat different types of (and different amounts of) carby things/fruits/breads/spuds/riice etc.
The thing is... unless you do you are just guessing which foods are the no no's/treats only and which are absolutely fine.
You could make some guesses (grainy subs instead of white subs is a good guess) but you'll never *know* for sure what your own individual body can handle and at what time of day without a meter. You might currently being avoiding things that you'd enjoy just because they affect other people badly - you may have no problem. And you might be choosing some things because they are fine for other people, whereas your metabolism really struggles with them.
Test before a food, then test again an hour or two after eating it and see what the difference is. Test each food/meal a few times to rule out freaky readings. Then choose the ones that give you the most even numbers (the least rise). To begin with it matters less what the actual numbers are... it's the difference that each food/meal gives you that's more important. After a while you will get a feel for when your 'spike time' most likely is and then you'll test at that time whenever you try anything new, but in the meantime you'll be basing your diet on what *actually happens* in your body when you eat different types of (and different amounts of) carby things/fruits/breads/spuds/riice etc.
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