So sick of this eating

[Lilies]

Went to make dinner tonight, what to have.... Am sick of chicken beef steak don't want salmon would like a pasta bake or a jacket potato but I can't bxxxxx have it cos of this stupid stupid disease

 

[HOBIE]

Hi Lillies. Tomorow go for a long walk & some fresh air and then you will feel better eating your tea. I know there isnt a perfect low carb food but i adore seafood. I know the feeling that you cant do or eat what you want ! Good luck ! 🙂

 

[Northerner]

Hi Lilies, don't despair! The key to having a varied diet, including the things you mention, is making sure you don't overload your system and one of the best ways I have found is the GL Diet. Each type of carbohdrate food has a GI, or Glycaemic Index, which indicates how quickly it will convert to glucose in the blood. As you might imagine, sugar is high on this list, as is white bread. But you may be surprised at how many things are 'medium' or even low. GI is a good first step when examining a food, but even better is GL - Glycaemic Load. This takes account of portion size as well as GI, and by combining different foods you can actually include foods that are high GI (like jacket potato) with foods that are low - the combination lowers the overall effect so the meal as a whole has less impact on your blood sugars 🙂

I'd suggest looking at one or both of the following books:

http://www.diabetessupport.co.uk/boards/showthread.php?t=7719
http://www.diabetessupport.co.uk/boards/showthread.php?t=7337

Don't give up on the foods you love - you can still enjoy most things once you get the hang of it! 🙂

 

[glitteryredshoes]

Hi Lilies, I know the diet advice can come across pretty annoying, but I completed the DAFNE course earlier this year and it has really changed my eating. I still eat very healthily but when I want a large jacket potato I have one. I think the key is just portion control, eating in moderation and knowing how far you can push yourself. I hope you feel better and try not to let it get you down 🙂

 

[Vicsetter]

I think the key is finding food that doesn't have too big an effect on your BG but is very tasty, thus satisfying you.
I love my pasta bake with chicken, if you include Chorizo sausage pieces it ups the flavour and you can eat smaller portions. Tonight it was steak and kidney with suet pastry and leeks (no potatoes) and corn on the cob to start.

 

[AnnW]

I eat jacket potatoes a lot, they don't seem to bother me too much. I had an omelette and salad one day and had very low reading... No carbs, so my dietician said I would have actually been better having chips !! Can't win !!

 

[lizabetic]

You should try sweet potato! Yummy and you can make it like a jacket, pretty much do anything you would with potatos, my fav are wedges!

My dietician told me to add pulses/beans to pasta to slow down the spike.

I also agree that Jacket Pot doesn't seem to be a problem, depends what you have it with? I usually have cheese - so that would slow a spike with the fat perhaps? and beans which again are low gi I think 🙂

 

[Lilies]

Thanks everyone... Think I may try a small cheesy jacket spud and see what happens... As a type 2 am trying so hard to limit carbs but find it so difficult

 

[vince13]

Thanks everyone... Think I may try a small cheesy jacket spud and see what happens... As a type 2 am trying so hard to limit carbs but find it so difficult

I may be wrong but I understood you can have a jacket potato with baked beans on as the beans slow down the digestion of the jacket potato and in effect make it low GI.