Review Left Me Feeling Depressed!

[Docb]

Agree with @Inka, there look to be opportunities to cut carbs in your diet without making wholesale changes.

One of my hacks is to use frozen french fries to make chips. If you use size of a portion as your gauge, the there is a lot less potato (i.e. the carby bit) in the portion of French fries than there is in the portion of chips. I've got my chip shop to add a very small portion of chips on their system, just for me. Lightly battered fish with a small portion of chips with some of my coleslaw waiting at home to go with it is my Friday night standdby!

What takeaways do you go for? If it is pizza, then you have a fundamental problem- the pizza base used by the chains. Other takeaways - Indian, Chinese, burgers etc - they all have opportunities to create a lower carb option.

 

[Martin.A]

I do think BMI can be a bit mis-leading BECAUSE you can be a healthy but muscley person but have a BMI that is over what you should be. If I got down to what the NHS thinks is a healthy weight for me, I would look positively ill.

The other measure that's often used is waist-to-height ratio. Waist should be no more than half height, and preferably less. There's a calculator on the NHS website:-

Calculate your waist to height ratio - NHS

Check your waist to height ratio to find out if you’re carrying too much fat around your tummy.

www.nhs.uk

 

[salsa81]

Agree with @Inka, there look to be opportunities to cut carbs in your diet without making wholesale changes.

One of my hacks is to use frozen french fries to make chips. If you use size of a portion as your gauge, the there is a lot less potato (i.e. the carby bit) in the portion of French fries than there is in the portion of chips. I've got my chip shop to add a very small portion of chips on their system, just for me. Lightly battered fish with a small portion of chips with some of my coleslaw waiting at home to go with it is my Friday night standdby!

What takeaways do you go for? If it is pizza, then you have a fundamental problem- the pizza base used by the chains. Other takeaways - Indian, Chinese, burgers etc - they all have opportunities to create a lower carb option.

I go for asda skin on fries, which are the ones we've both found we like.

If it's fish and chips, we have a fish each and share what is known over here as a Yorkshire Fishcake - essentially a slice of fish sandwiched between 2 slices of potatoes, plus a curry sauce. I find if I eat any white carbs - fried chips included - I can feel empty about half an hour after eating.

Takeaways can be anything, kebab sharing box with mainly meat, half a pitta and salad, pizza - very occaisionally as hubby not a fan - Indian but maybe 2 or 3 times a year, Chinese, again only a few times a year. We've found in the last year that the quality of takeaways has decreased while the price has increased so we try and cook some at home if we have time.

Although we don't have a takeaway every Saturday, we do have cooked things at home as well.

 

[salsa81]

You must be around 5ft 7? Perhaps your best weight is near the top of the given range. I doubt you’d look ill 🙂

Yes 5ft 7, and I'm quite broad shouldered and have wide hips so even at about 11 and a half stone, I don't think I'd look right.
My aim at the moment is to get down to 13stone. As I have previously mentioned it's taking me about a month to lose a pound at the moment, which can be very disheartening but I'm trying to at least be consistent with my eating, even if my work and my horse put my exercise plans off balance!

 

[Drummer]

Thanks for the advice.
I have a soup maker and make homemade soups for winter but I don't like having something hot in summer - yes it may sound strange but if I'm warm, I don't want something that will be hot!
The other 'bits' sound ok but I would have to alter as beetroot is on my list of "don't like" foods I'm not picky but there are somethings I just can't stand!
My current dinner is a sandwich with protein - usually wholemeal or seeded bread - cherry tomatoes, cucumber, a bit of pepper and half a carrot and then a bit of watermelon and kiwi. Plus usually a small pack of crips, something like squares or hula hoops puft.
In winter, homemade soup + 1 slice of bread made using our breadmaker.

There are several changes you could make to go low carb - the sandwich, the fruit - even swapping the cherry tomatoes for salad ones, the crisps and other snacks, perhaps even the soup if you are using starch to thicken it, or high carb veges.

I don' t buy things with coatings, never fish fingers, always solid fish. As a true Yorkshire tyke I resent paying the same for breadcrumbs as the fish.

 

[Inka]

Carbs are healthy @Drummer chosen well and eaten in the appropriate portion size for the individual. There’s absolutely no need to demonise carbs as a food group.

Thread 'A broad church - low carb is not the only way'

Feb 12, 2021

Just a gentle reminder to members that our forum is supposed to be a friendly and supportive place, which encourages members to find their own way through the available options to find a diabetes management approach that meets their ambitions, and is appealing and sustainable for them.

While there may be some common ground between approaches, there is no one way that works for everyone, and is appropriate for every situation. Specifically carbohydrates are not inherently ‘bad’, and should not be unfairly demonised any more than any other macronutrient. Some people will have a very...

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[helli]

Yes 5ft 7, and I'm quite broad shouldered and have wide hips so even at about 11 and a half stone, I don't think I'd look right.

Sorry you feel your weight loss has plateaued. You have done amazingly well so far.
Like you, I am broad shouldered (people have "prodded" what they thought was a shoulder pad, only to discover it was bone) and hipped. However, my BMI puts me in the middle of the healthy weight without looking ill.
I believe we have become used to seeing larger people and larger versions of ourselves so think smaller is not right.
Only you know what your target weight should be and what you can/want to maintain. But don't judge future salsa by past salsa 😎

 

[EMcKT]

Very interesting thread . As has been suggested there are various changes that you can made to achieve the goal, but it's sometimes the goal that has wider posts!!!!!! .,My nurse is quite happy with my last reading, 61, down from,,91. Weight could be better, is about + / - 14 stone, but I was not hugely overweight to start, and managed 13 stone + BUT I looked and felt awful. Old, lined, wrinkled and haggard!!!!!! I'm 77 years old and really feel that unless unwell, one just needs to keep a watchful eye and not get overdriven by graphs, charts, NHS suggestions from well minded people but who are not living with Diabetes. I'm T2, so I realise T1s might look at this differently.