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I am hearing you … type 1 and type 2 eat so differently due to having insulin replace your bodies own with type 1 whereas in type 2 we don’t usually get insulin as it’s there either not working properly or just not effective enough . I am however not going to be popular but on the forum it seems we need to divide and split out more . I’m so confused with low carb low cholesterol the few things I do eat only to find yikes you should not eat that. My bad mentality says grr and beats myself up with even worse stuff. It’s sorta diet mode your losing your exercising all good boxes ticked then you gain so you have a packet of crisps chocs cakes wine all the baddies just because perhaps you’ve gained more fluid that week . My pendulum for diabetes swings I eat porridge and no effect I have berries erythritol a Greek yoghurt n it swings up 5 Bmmols . But then it could be exercise trips to the loo it could be medication not sleeping and up half the night too. For type 2 I need to lose weight . I want to stop sweating going cold . Stop mod swings and the awful headaches but nowt works . I’ve tried metformin and did not get o it if bed except yo go to little room . I hate this. Has anyone else type 2 felt like forgetting about it and just not caring ? Then feel guilty.I guess because if type 1 we’d not have that choice. Many go into remission but are they the skinny ones ? I wish we had type 2 separate as I think type 1 may feel I think they are different and they are but that’s not to say I think less of you just I can’t get my head around what’s what☺️
You may be one of those people who get bad effects with erythritol so may be give that a miss and just stick with the berries and Yoghurt.
You may find this link helpful
Freshwell Low Carb Project – Real Food, Low Carb, Good ...https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk
B: Berries, Greek Yoghurt Peanut butter
L: Subway Chicken Tikka Salad
D: Mushroom, Peppers, Onion and Garlic pizza (Passata used as the base with Mozzarella, 60g) plus a 'protein pot' from ALDI - pizza made with 'lo dough' as the base. Loads of black pepper and herbs added. Delicious. First Pizza since diagnosis and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Snack: Satsuma and 20g of Pork Scratchings plus almonds.
Went to bed with BG measuring 5.0, which was good.
Well, the thing is that the more weight you are carrying the more it increases your insulin resistance... so in an oblique way I suppose it does. The more weight you can lose the less insulin resistance you will have.
Today I had
Breakfast - 2xweetabix walnuts semi skimmed milk and coffee
Lunch -egg sandwich on seed sensation and a coffee
Tea -lamb shank 1 roast potato roasted parsnips and sprouts carrots green beans and gravy and a cup of coffee
Monday - a "whoopsie" day from not reading the info on the package....
Lunch - Topside of beef and coleslaw sandwich and a packet of Quavers
Dinner - Basa fillet lightly dusted (14 blinking carbs!!! ouch), a few baby potatoes and fine green beans. A few small red grapes, strawberry jelly pot.
Supper - WW popcorn bar, 2 sugar-free Marie biscuits, 2 Hovis crackers
Drinks - tea, coffee, normal and decaf, water
Today's menu is:
B: Poached egg on one 35gm slice wholemeal toast
L: 500ml red pepper and tomato soup
D: Baked chicken with 3/4 plate of veggies (broccoli, spinach, carrots, petit pois, broad beans, baby corn) and cranberry gravy
Plus 175ml semi skimmed milk, cholesterol lowering drink, cod liver oil
So far 950 cals and 78gm carbs the lot
Today's menu
Breakfast 2 x cheese cup of coffee
Lunch 3 Jacobs crackers with cheese filling cup of coffee
Tea diced beef with onion mash cabbage sprouts and gravy cup of coffee
Drank water through the day
Today.
Brunch: Avocado mixed with mayonnaise and hot sauce and a tiny preserved lemon served in half a scooped out tomato and two sticks of celery. Steamed sponge pudding made with oat fibre and psyllium husk and butter and vanilla and caramel flavour. Mango and pineapple vitamin tea to drink.
Evening meal: Rose flavoured ice cream made with double cream and almond milk and allulose and rose water and vanilla. A small chunk of parmesan cheese and a large drink of mineral water and a bedtime vitamin tea with magnesium.
Carbs for the entire day - fewer than ten
Blood sugar all day around 5.6mmol/L
I am not particularly hungry at the moment as recovering from a mild bout of omicron which has reduced my appetite and made me too tired to cook properly so relying on high fat high calorie easy food rather than cooking properly although I did make the sponge pudding - I don't count that as cooking because it is just mixing an egg and stuff and then bunging it in the microwave for 3 minutes and then eating it. The ice cream was super fast as well as I have a machine and it only takes 30 minutes.
I am fairly obese and I seem to have beaten the insulin resistance issue. I think it is because I eat a LOT of fibre and that keeps the blood sugars more easily regulated.
I use konjac instead of rice and pasta these days instead of cauliflower - I find cauli in big portions spikes me but not in moderate portions. I make my own bread and cakes and use a lot of psyllium husk, oat fibre ( the brand I use is a pure white powder and has zero carbs in it) and flax seed and chia seeds and that makes a big difference.
I also drink a lot of water. My blood sugar can go high just because I haven't been drinking enough water during the day and sometimes when it is around 7 I can drink a big glass of water and the next reading is between 5.5 and 6.0
I've also found peppermint tea works to reduce my levels.
B: yoghurt, raspberries, peanut butter, cinnamon.
L: Two BeFree salad and Feta wraps (Feta, Peppers, Lettuce, tomato, cucumber + pepper and olive oil)
D: Celeriac chips with paprika, cod in a crust of pistachios, garlic and basil.
Tuesday
Lunch - Boiled egg and toasted, buttered "soldiers", a few red grapes, Graze lemon blueberry oat boost square, packet of Quavers
Dinner - 2 small lamb chops baked, a few baby potatoes, broccoli and a taste of mint jelly. Strawberries, single cream and chia seeds.
Supper - Hovis crackers, a mini cheese stick, skinny popcorn
Drinks - caramel coffee, normal and decaf, water, a little Pepsi max cherry
B: boiled eggs and slice toast
L: home soup, cheese, pate, 2 crackers, tomato, pickled gerkins, half apple
D: rack barbeque ribs, broccoli and mangetout, apple crumble and cream
Lunch - Nimble toasted fried egg sandwich, one kiwi and some single cream
Dinner - 2 chicken breast skewers (plain) with homemade fried cauliflower rice with onion, garlic, orange and green peppers, baby spinach (lots), tomato puree, herbs and seasonings. Low-cal raspberry jelly pot.
Supper/Snacks - Hovis crackers, mini cheese stick, WW peanut butter and peanut bar, packet of quavers
Drinks - Tea, coffee, water, a little Pepsi max cherry
B: Peanut butter, berries + Yoghurt
L: Leftover chicken Bhuna (Home made) with Cauliflower rice
D: Mushroom, Pepper and onion pizza made from a Lo Dough base.
B. Yoghurt, chia seeds, raspberries coffee
L. 1 slice of toasted livlife topped with Tuna and a teaspoon of garlic mayo
D Pork Chop fried onions cauliflower cheese. jelly with 3 manderine oranges
half a merangue nest and squirty cream. coffee
B. Boiled egg & 1 slice of wholemeal toast.
L. 1 wholemeal tortilla wrap. Half with ham & tomato and half with houmous, lettuce, cucumber & tomatoes. Blueberries.
D. Fillet of salmon with avocado & red onion salsa, 1 small sweet potato, asparagus, peas & carrots.
