Partner

[Chrissie Wa]

Sadly fallen at first fence as My Fitness Pal is not compatible with his old phone, is there another way you can count carbs easily does anyone know? Thanks C

 

[Drummer]

I found that the best way was to just not use them - I can't advise using cornflour instead of wheat - both are starch - bread that is not deliberately made low carb, such as the Livlife loaves, are not low carb - there is a strong belief in good and bad carbs, brown and white ones for instance, but for me at least, it makes no difference in the long term, like the low and high GI foods - my insides obviously did not get the memo.
Back in the day I did have a couple of shopping lists which I used alternately for variety for a long time.
As your partner seems to have been eating a high carb diet for some time to get that high Hba1c - if that is the true reason for it, you will have a lot of things you can swap or reduce, so picking out the easy targets first should enable you to get visible results if the tester gets used.
These days I eat things with less than 10 percent carbs - except for the chocolate, which is slightly higher, but I just have one square, not a whole bar. I look for the lowest carb options - Coop sausages are 1.35gm of carb per sausage for instance rather than 6gm - which just by itself could add up to a considerable difference over the course of the 3 month interval typical of Hba1c testing.

 

[Felinia]

Sadly fallen at first fence as My Fitness Pal is not compatible with his old phone, is there another way you can count carbs easily does anyone know? Thanks C

I do my carb counting online using NutraCheck. It does also have a downloadable app which you might wish to see if it s compatible with the phone.

 

[Felinia]

Be careful with cornflour. It's 88% carbohydrate. My BG is almost always under 7 two hours after eating but after a meal that used two tablespoons of cornflour to thicken the sauce I was at 8.8 two hours later. Haven't had that dish since.

Martin

I top my Moussaka with a mixture of Greek yogurt, some mustard powder, and then top with some grated cheese. So no thickening agent.