New start

[Nayshiftin]

How about investing in a Sodastream or something similar? There are re-usable bottles that come with the machine.
As for freshwell, maybe don't take the guidelines too literally - adjust them to your lifestyle and your needs - as long as you're still getting the excellent results you seem to be getting lately. Well done, btw, on all your hard work so far!

I will look into a soda stream.
Thanks a million for your compliments and Everyone for their support.

 

[Dragonheart]

I agree , however for me its a goal to far. I understand thin folk with no compulsive eating disorder and not struggling with satiety achieving this. I just need to aim to get there.
It also says to change things to get there.
Its just a big climb and its tough.
Having coffee makes it doable at the moment.

It might be a step too far right now. But once you have reduced carbs for a while you might very well find that the satiety from more densely nutritious food and the lessening of the digestive hormone rollercoaster that carbs keep you on mean that it isn’t always going to be the same. Many many others that felt the same a you at the beginning are highly surprised how much it changed for them. We have the advantage of having been where you are and gone through the steps you face. It is tough - sometimes - but it gets easier on the whole. The support in these forums helps a lot too.

For now just take steps in the right direction. If you wobble or fall off the plan forgive yourself and write it off as one small lapse rather than give up entirely and continue falling off and make it a huge one. Sometime very soon you’ll start seeing much improved numbers in the meter and feel quite different and realise how letting food be your medicine not your poison can help so much.

 

[Leadinglights]

Yes, I feel guilty if I can't do a plan 100% which hubby is reigning me in on. If it's causing trouble change it. I don’t snack because that would go off plan and I would beat myself up over it. If I'm really hungry at the meal I have extra. When I was very hungry own swaps I did relent to a piece of cheese.
I really need to get this low-carb easy for me. I am still doing fine but yes perhaps do my best and not beat myself over a two-meal day and do another three instead.
Milk is my nemesis on the perfoma machine I go up 4 to 5 two hours after and it takes the next morning to really come back down. A pot is 125g so I have 62g which is two spoons with berries which is a sad breakfast for me.
I just need to get a regular set of menus to eat and know what I can buy out on holiday.

Have you tried lactose free Greek yoghurt as that is only 4.6g carb per 100g and with say 80g raspberries or strawberries that would be less than 10g carb for breakfast. If that is increasing your blood glucose by as much as 4 or 5 something odd is going on.

 

[Dragonheart]

If I'm really hungry at the meal I have extra. When I was very hungry own swaps I did relent to a piece of cheese.
I really need to get this low-carb easy for me. I am still doing fine but yes perhaps do my best and not beat myself over a two-meal day and do another three instead.

Having extra is ok if you need it. On low carb you shouldn’t be hungry at all. You are not restricting anything other than carbs right now. (Maybe you will later IF you find you need to, many don’t). Cheese isn’t relenting. It’s fine on low carb (well most hard cheeses are and some softer ones). I’m wondering if you are trying to avoid fats as well as carbs.

For now have the three meals. Once settled into that and no snacks you’ll likely find you accidentally forget a meal sometimes. Or the thought of just 2 feels more achievable. Don’t push too hard too fast if it will put you off.

One (or a few) step(s) at a time Not the whole mountain in one go.

 

[Dragonheart]

Yoghurt what Greek Yoghurt is the best. Its natural a most are the same. I have tried Sainsbury’s, Tescos , Brooklea, Waitrose and alsorts . All the same . The milkmans Longley Farm is what i have half a pot off as a pot sets me off. small pot incase you think its Fage sized

Plain or flavoured?

 

[AndBreathe]

Yes, I feel guilty if I can't do a plan 100% which hubby is reigning me in on. If it's causing trouble change it. I don’t snack because that would go off plan and I would beat myself up over it. If I'm really hungry at the meal I have extra. When I was very hungry own swaps I did relent to a piece of cheese.
I really need to get this low-carb easy for me. I am still doing fine but yes perhaps do my best and not beat myself over a two-meal day and do another three instead.
Milk is my nemesis on the perfoma machine I go up 4 to 5 two hours after and it takes the next morning to really come back down. A pot is 125g so I have 62g which is two spoons with berries which is a sad breakfast for me.
I just need to get a regular set of menus to eat and know what I can buy out on holiday.

Your protracted high with milk is a bit as I was with pasta. Thankfully, pasta was never really a big hit in this household, so it wasn't too hard to let it go.

Some years later, my Endo (I see him for my errant thyroid) strongly recommended I go gluten-free, based on the swathe of auto-immune conditions in my close family history. I didn't consider I had any (non-blood glucose) challenges with gluten, until I started feeling better.

On that long-winded basis, I'm wondering if you would do better on lacto-free dairy produce? Many lacto intolerant folks do OK on cheese, because of the impacts of the processing.

Could be worth trying for a week or so, and track your blood sugars accordingly?

 

[Nayshiftin]

It might be a step too far right now. But once you have reduced carbs for a while you might very well find that the satiety from more densely nutritious food and the lessening of the digestive hormone rollercoaster that carbs keep you on mean that it isn’t always going to be the same. Many many others that felt the same a you at the beginning are highly surprised how much it changed for them. We have the advantage of having been where you are and gone through the steps you face. It is tough - sometimes - but it gets easier on the whole. The support in these forums helps a lot too.

For now just take steps in the right direction. If you wobble or fall off the plan forgive yourself and write it off as one small lapse rather than give up entirely and continue falling off and make it a huge one. Sometime very soon you’ll start seeing much improved numbers in the meter and feel quite different and realise how letting food be your medicine not your poison can help so much.

I agree 100% the forum has been my rock , my lifeline . I am surprised i don't get kicked out folks are so patient with me.
I’d be a fool if I did not say my numbers are hugely improved.
I also can walk through biscuits , snacks aisles without feeling I must have that.
Hubby read Jelly babies for hypos to have in cupboard . He'd eat them no doubt but I said no , not because I felt id be tempted but they looked sugary as if in icing sugar in Tescos and I did not fancy them. I had my cooked breakfast before i left home.
It is getting easier there is just those times when nothing seems logic to me and I go wrong . However i do eat low carb or fruit which yes is wrong but better than some things.
Hubby is a great fruit fan so i do keep stock in. Normally I'm good but yes tomatoes fresh from the garden vine can be tempting.
I am getting there. i have to wait the 6 months for HbA1c bloods so in a couple of months that wait will be over which should let me really know how good this diet is.
Ive been doing the Diabetes Uk online diet but Freshwell was there when i joined this forum.
if i achieve the Freshwell it I’ll feel I have done so well. I can do something I felt I could not do. Yes I put huge walks up , cant get over them , whilst another just walks around the corner and sails on . Thats my analysis of me.
Each day I can try until i succeed.

 

[Nayshiftin]

Your protracted high with milk is a bit as I was with pasta. Thankfully, pasta was never really a big hit in this household, so it wasn't too hard to let it go.

Some years later, my Endo (I see him for my errant thyroid) strongly recommended I go gluten-free, based on the swathe of auto-immune conditions in my close family history. I didn't consider I had any (non-blood glucose) challenges with gluten, until I started feeling better.

On that long-winded basis, I'm wondering if you would do better on lacto-free dairy produce? Many lacto intolerant folks do OK on cheese, because of the impacts of the processing.

Could be worth trying for a week or so, and track your blood sugars accordingly?

Funny enough we got lacto free cream cheese and yoghurt on offer and i did prefer it. There might be something in it. i was not checking sugars then. Its worth a try anyways.

 

[Nayshiftin]

Plain or flavoured?

Natural is plain of course.

 

[Nayshiftin]

 

[Nayshiftin]

Have you tried lactose free Greek yoghurt as that is only 4.6g carb per 100g and with say 80g raspberries or strawberries that would be less than 10g carb for breakfast. If that is increasing your blood glucose by as much as 4 or 5 something odd is going on.

Yes, I feel the same. I also notice my tummy is better the days I don't have it but nothing drastic.
Don’t think milkman will do lactose free. However there is a test and it might be worth just testing .
I will let you know . As i love yoghurt and want more but know sugar goes up.

 

[Nayshiftin]

Having extra is ok if you need it. On low carb you shouldn’t be hungry at all. You are not restricting anything other than carbs right now. (Maybe you will later IF you find you need to, many don’t). Cheese isn’t relenting. It’s fine on low carb (well most hard cheeses are and some softer ones). I’m wondering if you are trying to avoid fats as well as carbs.

For now have the three meals. Once settled into that and no snacks you’ll likely find you accidentally forget a meal sometimes. Or the thought of just 2 feels more achievable. Don’t push too hard too fast if it will put you off.

One (or a few) step(s) at a time Not the whole mountain in one go.

Thank you.

 

[AndBreathe]

Yes, I feel the same. I also notice my tummy is better the days I don't have it but nothing drastic.
Don’t think milkman will do lactose free. However there is a test and it might be worth just testing .
I will let you know . As i love yoghurt and want more but know sugar goes up.

All the supermarkets, including Lidl are doing lacto-free milk. I happened to notice in Lidl today, they are doing semi and skimmed milk variants in the chilled fridges (as opposed to long life).

 

[Nayshiftin]

All the supermarkets, including Lidl are doing lacto-free milk. I happened to notice in Lidl today, they are doing semi and skimmed milk variants in the chilled fridges (as opposed to long life).

I rarely use milk on low carb , but certainly worth noting too. I think ill try the yoghurts first as they are first thing in the morning . So i have a good baseline then see two hours if it comes down .

 

[Leadinglights]

Yes, I feel the same. I also notice my tummy is better the days I don't have it but nothing drastic.
Don’t think milkman will do lactose free. However there is a test and it might be worth just testing .
I will let you know . As i love yoghurt and want more but know sugar goes up.

Do you have to get it from your milkman, most supermarkets have lactose free yoghurt.

 

[Nayshiftin]

Do you have to get it from your milkman, most supermarkets have lactose free yoghurt.

off course i can change that.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

However all miss the point . Can I only have one coffee a day ? And to clarify yes i will be drinking other drinks but coffee is easy warming and readily available .
Hubby will go plastic crazy if I have so many bottled tonic and fizzy water bottles. i hate tap water even boiled and cooled and filtered is even worse.

I find coffee shop coffee rises my BG (not just the milky ones, but the caffeine in strong coffee).

Cafetière coffee at home, and instant coffee has no effect for me, but I notice a ‘bump’ with 2 coffee shop coffees when I meet with a friend which is reliable enough and consistent enough to me to bolus for it.

No idea why coffee shop coffees are so much more pokey than coffee at home!