Type 2 successfully controlled with diet at first but often hungry. Now have abandoned strict diet and fear result of annual blood test will reveal all! Recipes mostly for those controlling calories whereas I am at the bottom end of the BMI scale and just need to replace carbs with something else. Also insomniac so looking for help with what I can eat out of the fridge at 2am, 4am etc Unfortunately I don't like bananas.
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Type 2 and hungry
- Thread starter Quizzy
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Inka
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It’s fine not to like bananas @Quizzy In fact, they’re quite high in carbs so you might be better avoiding them anyway. Replace your carbs with protein, healthy fats (oily fish, avocado, nuts, nut butters, etc) and green veg. You shouldn’t be hungry - that’s miserable.
If you give us an idea of what you eating an average day, you might get more tailored suggestions of swaps and how to add calories without adding too many carbs.
You could keep some hard boiled eggs in the fridge for snacks, along with some crudities like carrot batons and celery to dip in hummus or cottage cheese or nut butter.
If you give us an idea of what you eating an average day, you might get more tailored suggestions of swaps and how to add calories without adding too many carbs.
You could keep some hard boiled eggs in the fridge for snacks, along with some crudities like carrot batons and celery to dip in hummus or cottage cheese or nut butter.
Leadinglights
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There is absolutely no need to be hungry, by looking at calories rather than carbohydrates you may be excluding foods which would be good because they are low carb but higher fat which adding those would help you not to feel hungry.
Full fat Greek yoghurt, nuts, cheese, eggs, cooked meats, tinned fish, olives, peanut butter, sugarfree jelly with cream as a desert. High protein yoghurt, or mousse or Kvarg deserts.
If you eat early then maybe a low carb snack before bed so you don't wake up hungry in the night
Full fat Greek yoghurt, nuts, cheese, eggs, cooked meats, tinned fish, olives, peanut butter, sugarfree jelly with cream as a desert. High protein yoghurt, or mousse or Kvarg deserts.
If you eat early then maybe a low carb snack before bed so you don't wake up hungry in the night
Lucyr
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Has someone told you that you need to eat bananas? Just wondering what other diet advice you’re trying to follow?