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Low carb help needed

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Hi let me explain my situation first.

I am type 2 and take tablets. I am also trying to lose a little bit of weight and so have been trying to start a low carb style of life.

I start work early so get up at 4.15 am. I have breakfast at 4.30 am which normally consists of scrambled eggs or poached eggs with some bacon and drink water. I eat early because firstly I need to eat before I take my morning tablets and my next chance to eat will be around 10.30 - 11 am - I would not be able to last till then from the time I get up!! I then have a break at work which over the past few months has included a cup a soup and a handful of nuts (usually unsalted mixed nuts or unsalted pistachios). My next feed will be a salad with some sliced chicken or tuna/salmon at about 3-4 pm. As a family we get in at different times and still like to eat our evening meal together so normally eat our main meal between 7 and 8 pm. While the family have rice, potatoes or pasta I will substitute for cauliflower rice, oven cooked veg or some cauliflower cheese. My downfall later on in the evening is crisps - I love them!!!

My question is twofold.

1. Any comments about my type of eating - is it low carb, what can I do better.
2. For my mid morning break I have been having a cup a soup and a handful of nuts (usually unsalted mixed nuts or unsalted pistachios). Originally I had this because I do not need to eat anything large and I thought a cup a soup would be good calorie wise to help lose weight. However I now think they have too many carbs for a snack. Can you think of any alternatives I can have for a snack at work?

Any help will be much appreciated
David
 
Hi David.
1) You seem to be on the right track, low carb wise. Calorie wise, the crisps probably aren't doing you much good. Is there a lower carb/ calorie alternative you could munch on? Vegetable crisps or something? ( though that does remind me of last years The Apprentice, where the candidates produced a vile concoction of dried veg!)

2) Could you try a teaspoon of vegetable Bouillion, like Marigold, (which I use in cooking and it tastes yummy, made up with hot water into a mug ? It's 1.9 carbs and 10 calories per serving, though it is quite high in salt, if that's one of your other concerns. Nuts are Ok provided you stick to lower carb ones, ( somewhere on here, someone did a list of which ones are lower, but I can't find it) but if you have a larger handful than you ought, that's quite a lot of extra calories.
 
Carpet Crawler said:
Hi let me explain my situation first.

I am type 2 and take tablets. I am also trying to lose a little bit of weight and so have been trying to start a low carb style of life.

I start work early so get up at 4.15 am. I have breakfast at 4.30 am which normally consists of scrambled eggs or poached eggs with some bacon and drink water. I eat early because firstly I need to eat before I take my morning tablets and my next chance to eat will be around 10.30 - 11 am - I would not be able to last till then from the time I get up!! I then have a break at work which over the past few months has included a cup a soup and a handful of nuts (usually unsalted mixed nuts or unsalted pistachios). My next feed will be a salad with some sliced chicken or tuna/salmon at about 3-4 pm. As a family we get in at different times and still like to eat our evening meal together so normally eat our main meal between 7 and 8 pm. While the family have rice, potatoes or pasta I will substitute for cauliflower rice, oven cooked veg or some cauliflower cheese. My downfall later on in the evening is crisps - I love them!!!

My question is twofold.

1. Any comments about my type of eating - is it low carb, what can I do better.
2. For my mid morning break I have been having a cup a soup and a handful of nuts (usually unsalted mixed nuts or unsalted pistachios). Originally I had this because I do not need to eat anything large and I thought a cup a soup would be good calorie wise to help lose weight. However I now think they have too many carbs for a snack. Can you think of any alternatives I can have for a snack at work?

Any help will be much appreciated
David
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David - It's your way of eating, so you can call it Doris, for all it really, really matters to anyone else. 😉

Personally, I might call the way you go about things to be reduced carb, but that could be influenced by how regularly give in to the crisps.

How could you do better? Erm,...... Did someone mention crisps? 😉

If you don't test yourself, using finger prick tests at home, I strongly suggest you buy yourself a meter and crack on with that now. That's the absolutely best way to know how you're doing. If your score is higher than you would like after a test, you can guess you need to either cut back a bit on the food you have eaten, or even give it a miss for a while at least, but without knowing what the scores are nobody can really indicate anything that needs to be done.

If on the other hand you want (as opposed to necessarily need) to trim a few more carbs where you can, then you could try some cheese as a snack. Babybels are ideal for work packed meals, as they come in handy wrapped little portions. If the cup a soup is just for some flavour or variety, some people have a stock cube, dissolved, obviously.
 
An alternative to cup a soup is miso soup - you can buy it (from Tescos and Morrisons certainly) in boxes of 3 little packets - each contains enough squidge to make up to a full cup of soup, and has (the yellow miso certainly, the other colours may be slightly different) 3.9 g carbs, so quite a bit lower than a standard cup a soup.
 
Celery takes more effort to eat it than what it gives you ( carb wise ) Good luck 🙂
 
HOBIE said:
Celery takes more effort to eat it than what it gives you ( carb wise ) Good luck 🙂
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Should that be celery on it's own or I have seen some recipes for celery stuffed with cream cheese
 
When the serious munchies take over I have been known to pack some cream cheese into a stick of celery for a decadent snack. 😳:D
 
Hello carpet crawler
 
I cannot have 'naked' celery. If I just had salt the stick would be white with salt! 🙄
 
I struggle with celery 'naked'. To me it tastes like solid stale water.
 
Not keen on raw celery at all - but love it cooked (they sell tinned celery hearts in France and we buy shedloads of tins to bring home and last us all winter) - nice braised too, parboiled then in the meat tin - and we also both love celery soup.
 
trophywench said:
Not keen on raw celery at all - but love it cooked (they sell tinned celery hearts in France and we buy shedloads of tins to bring home and last us all winter) - nice braised too, parboiled then in the meat tin - and we also both love celery soup.
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Celery soup is good TW 🙂
 
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