Meal Replacement Powders etc

[Deleted member 21371]

Hi Maca2020
Thank you for your comprehensive reply to my query on how to shift weight yet still stick to a low carb diet. I've taken on board the helpful comments about checking the carb content of sauces and alcohol and will do this.

If weight loss was my only priority I could be tempted to go back to Weightwatchers, but keeping blood glucose levels within the normal range must come first. And though I lost weight with WW I was always hungry on the diet. At least with a low carb diet one can fill up on protein and fats and it does seem to satisfy more than restricting calories.

I'd like to have the energy to walk every day but I don't. To walk three or four miles every other day is my limit. However, it's amazing how many steps one can clock up even when food shopping.

I hope you have a lot of success with the Exante diet, and please keep us informed on your progress. Before Covid I had a few treatments with a local beautician, and she and her husband were on the Lighter Life diet. Apparently, he was a long distance lorry driver and his diet was pretty dire, but on Lighter Life he lost stones and reversed his diabetes. However, they seemed reluctant to return to normal eating , and lived on shakes, bars, and soups, which seems a bit unnatural.

Right that's brought me to lunchtime and I can eat! I'm having a Seriously Low Carb roll filled with salad and a portion of sea bass. If I discover a magic bullet to lose weight I shall contact you immediately!

Best wishes to you and everyone.

I reversed my diabetes by losing weight.
BG is important, but it's a symptom of diabetes, not the cause, and to be honest after a couple of days on the shakes, my BG was well into the normal range

 

[AngelSprings]

Drummer, Travellor -Thank you for your helpful suggestions, I do in fact include quite a bit of fat in my diet in the form of belly pork, ribeye steak, lamb chops, chicken, cream in my coffee, and I love goat's cheese. Chicken skin is the best bit, plus it's a good source of collagen. So I don't really think I'm short of fats in my diet.

Quite a few years ago I did try the Atkins Diet and was on the recommended 20 grams of carbs but yet again did not lose weight. So I still have the dilemma of why am I not losing weight, but I shall persevere with the low carb diet because I don't have much of an alternative. At least it's lowering my blood glucose numbers.

I agree with you Travellor that losing weight is the way to reversing diabetes, but I have a friend who is tall and slim, perhaps 9.1/2 stone and she was diagnosed as Type 2 Diabetic a while ago. So why does she have diabetes? There must be other factors at work.

My best wishes to you both.

 

[Bloden]

What an exciting diet. Kill me now.

I do luv SlimFasts. A chocolate shake goes lovely with fish and chips.

Hahahahahahahahaha, you’re hilarious @Ditto. You had me larfing out loud. I’m glad I wasn’t drinking a banana Exante at the time, I’d’ve choked on it.

How are you getting on @zuludog?

 

[zuludog]

Hahahahahahahahaha, you’re hilarious @Ditto. You had me larfing out loud. I’m glad I wasn’t drinking a banana Exante at the time, I’d’ve choked on it.

How are you getting on @zuludog?

How am I getting on ?.................I wonder that myself sometimes, but thanks for asking

To remind you, in August 2020 I was over 89kg , but never quite went to 90kg
Thanks to recommendations from a friend and Colin UK on this forum I started on a diet plan, based on Exante products and Roy Taylor's book Life without Diabetes
On the morning of Christmas Eve I was 83,2kg, which I thought was reasonable progress
My initial target was <85kg, and if possible to get to 80kg, so that seemed feasible

Then a few things happened together -

I had planned on a couple of treats and some relaxation from the regime over Christmas, which I thought was fair enough
It was winter, and cold
I had a cold in January
Like everyone else I was getting fed up with The Lockdown - not exactly depressed, but the novelty had definitely worn off

All these combined to make me drift away from my diet
I didn't exactly pig myself on pie & chips & cream cakes, but I did eat a bit more

Something I have stuck to though is that I only weigh myself once a week, first thing on Monday mornings
Last Monday, 22/02/21 I was 86,7kg
So yes, my weight has gone up, but not, I think, impossibly; so now I'm back on the straight and narrow

Spring is just about here, and I'm feeling more optimistic
I seem to have spent a year indoors.........probably because I have, apart from shopping
So this year I'm determined to get out more, and have started to do longer and more circuitous routes to the shops, doctors, bank, etc, and I'll build up from there

My freezer is full
I've been making veg stews, but they tend to expand, so I've been storing some in bags & tubs in the freezer; also it's well stocked with frozen veg & fish
One useful thing I did over winter was to tidy out my cupboards, and I have several cans of sardines, and chick peas
The Section One meals in Roy Taylor's book are a bit severe, so I'll probably have something slightly more substantial about once a week, like fish & veg, or a sardine or chick pea salad - my Saturday night treat!
Yes, I know there are some carbs in chick peas, but I'm not talking about having can after can, day after day

I'm not usually very hungry first thing in the morning - breakfast is coffee & coffee with a cup of coffee - but if I do feel hungry I have a single oatcake with a scrape of Marmite
Just recently though I've discovered rice cakes, so I've been having one of those with Marmite sometimes.
Then only a couple of days ago I discovered that you can get rice cakes that are already Marmited - Oh, what joy!

And I think that's enough for now
I'll let you know when I get below 85kg again, which will hopefully be around mid March

 

[pat7762]

just tried the exante double chocolate,it's "vile"does not taste like chocolate tastes like chemicals,threw the whole lot away,i also got the coffee and walnut and thats ok,wondering whether to try banana but it's expensive if i have to throw that away.