So when I'm at work it will be cereal,sandwiches I can't do salad because if I'm working all night it's no good in morning and as I said before milk because it makes me feel full.What I need to replace it with is energy food but what I don't want is for me being to rushing to the toilet every 5 minutes which is usually what's happening the more I drink
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Windy
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Could you make a load of soup and take a plastic bowl of that into work with you? I bulk cook soup and freeze it in individual portions. If you took it in frozen, you could thaw it out and heat it in a microwave if you have access to one.
My current favourite is stilton and broccoli soup. Also made mushroom, vegetable etc. As long as you don't put bread or carbohydrate rich vegetables like potatoes and parsnips in, it's a lower calorie, lower carb meal.
My current favourite is stilton and broccoli soup. Also made mushroom, vegetable etc. As long as you don't put bread or carbohydrate rich vegetables like potatoes and parsnips in, it's a lower calorie, lower carb meal.
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So you need things which are easy to eat and you can snack on as and when you have time. Things like cooked high meat content sausages (cheap sausages contain rusk which is carbohydrate) chicken drumsticks, boiled eggs with a spoonful of mayonnaise, veggie sticks with a sour cream and chive dip.... ideally the fresh kind from the chilled counter, not the Doritos stuff in a jar. You need to quit the milk as that is excessive and causing you more problems than you think it is solving and you will need the loo just as much from drinking all that milk as water, possibly more with your levels being so dangerously high as the sugar in the milk (lactose) will be pushing your BG levels higher and making your kidney's work harder to remove it via your urine. This is why thirst and weeing a lot are symptoms of diabetes.
As someone who was a comfort eater, sugar addict and shift worker and suffer with mental health, I can relate to your situation and tell you that you will feel far better when you get your diet and BG levels in better control and the cravings should stop but you have to put some effort into it initially. After a while of eating low carb, I just don't get tempted by the carb rich foods anymore, so it doesn't take any willpower to continue, but it is difficult at first to break those bad habits.
I am an all or nothing person, so I had to pretty well go cold turkey and find low carb foods which I could eat when I was hungry or craving which I enjoyed and would fill me up but without impacting my BG levels too much. Some of those foods would seem pretty unhealthy but they tided me over the difficult patch until the cravings stopped and I was more in control. Boiled eggs with full fat mayonnaise was probably the healthiest option, but salami sticks, cooked ham with creamy or cheese coleslaw rolled into a tube and just eaten like that and pork scratchings and nuts and lots of cheese. The veggie sticks with dip and salad are quite refreshing once you have eaten a lot of high protein and fat foods. The thing is that those high protein and fat foods are filling and will provide you with slow release energy but it takes a while to start releasing, so make sure to eat some before you head off to work with only a very small amount of carbs and that when the glucose from the carbs has run out the protein and fat will help to give you energy through the rest of the night, but top up with them when you can to keep feeling full.
Many people find that if they cut the carbs right down and eat mostly fat and protein, firstly they realise that they don't need so much food and are not hungry anymore but also that they lose weight. We have been sold a lie, that fat makes you fat. All the sugars and other highly processed carbs in our food makes us fat and worse still they are addictive, so the more we eat, the more we want and portions get bigger or we eat 2 of something instead of just one. I would easily polish off a whole multipack of Snickers bars in an afternoon and still be looking for more food later, so I know what it is like.
If salad doesn't keep at work, eat salad before you go to work or for breakfast when you get home. I sometimes have a mushroom, cheese and onion 2 egg omelette for breakfast or lunch with a side salad and a big dollop of cheese coleslaw. This is a very low carb meal and very quick to prepare and very filling.
Hopefully some of those suggestions will help you.
As someone who was a comfort eater, sugar addict and shift worker and suffer with mental health, I can relate to your situation and tell you that you will feel far better when you get your diet and BG levels in better control and the cravings should stop but you have to put some effort into it initially. After a while of eating low carb, I just don't get tempted by the carb rich foods anymore, so it doesn't take any willpower to continue, but it is difficult at first to break those bad habits.
I am an all or nothing person, so I had to pretty well go cold turkey and find low carb foods which I could eat when I was hungry or craving which I enjoyed and would fill me up but without impacting my BG levels too much. Some of those foods would seem pretty unhealthy but they tided me over the difficult patch until the cravings stopped and I was more in control. Boiled eggs with full fat mayonnaise was probably the healthiest option, but salami sticks, cooked ham with creamy or cheese coleslaw rolled into a tube and just eaten like that and pork scratchings and nuts and lots of cheese. The veggie sticks with dip and salad are quite refreshing once you have eaten a lot of high protein and fat foods. The thing is that those high protein and fat foods are filling and will provide you with slow release energy but it takes a while to start releasing, so make sure to eat some before you head off to work with only a very small amount of carbs and that when the glucose from the carbs has run out the protein and fat will help to give you energy through the rest of the night, but top up with them when you can to keep feeling full.
Many people find that if they cut the carbs right down and eat mostly fat and protein, firstly they realise that they don't need so much food and are not hungry anymore but also that they lose weight. We have been sold a lie, that fat makes you fat. All the sugars and other highly processed carbs in our food makes us fat and worse still they are addictive, so the more we eat, the more we want and portions get bigger or we eat 2 of something instead of just one. I would easily polish off a whole multipack of Snickers bars in an afternoon and still be looking for more food later, so I know what it is like.
If salad doesn't keep at work, eat salad before you go to work or for breakfast when you get home. I sometimes have a mushroom, cheese and onion 2 egg omelette for breakfast or lunch with a side salad and a big dollop of cheese coleslaw. This is a very low carb meal and very quick to prepare and very filling.
Hopefully some of those suggestions will help you.
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