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I want to know if pumpkin, sweet potatoes and cornmeal can be eaten on a low carb diet?
 
Not a great deal of any of them - the only way to see how much of anything containing a lot of carbs your body can tolerate is to test your own blood glucose before and after eating them and see how much it increases by.
 
I keep this - https://www.diabetes.org.uk/resources-s3/2017-11/carb-reference-list-0511.pdf - to give me an idea of carb content of various common things whilst I am learning. It helps to get a bit of a feel for what is what. Sweet potato is there but pumpkin and cornmeal are not but you can print it out and add them when you find out.

I also keep some kitchen scales handy so that I can weigh stuff - it is sometimes surprising just how small a portion is needed to get the carb content of something into what you might consider a low carb range. Oven chips are a good thing to experiment with. Decide on the carb level you are aiming for with a meal. See what your main items give you and then make it up to your target with ovenchips, using the carbohydrate in 100g of chips figure given on the packaging to work out the weight of chips needed. Weigh that amount out, and you will probably find that it is not worth turning the oven on to cook them! Don't suggest you get obsessive about it but if, like me, you are in the early days of sorting a low carb diet then it helps to get a perspective on things. It also helps when experimenting as suggested by trophywench.
 
Docb said:
I keep this - https://www.diabetes.org.uk/resources-s3/2017-11/carb-reference-list-0511.pdf - to give me an idea of carb content of various common things whilst I am learning. It helps to get a bit of a feel for what is what. Sweet potato is there but pumpkin and cornmeal are not but you can print it out and add them when you find out.

I also keep some kitchen scales handy so that I can weigh stuff - it is sometimes surprising just how small a portion is needed to get the carb content of something into what you might consider a low carb range. Oven chips are a good thing to experiment with. Decide on the carb level you are aiming for with a meal. See what your main items give you and then make it up to your target with ovenchips, using the carbohydrate in 100g of chips figure given on the packaging to work out the weight of chips needed. Weigh that amount out, and you will probably find that it is not worth turning the oven on to cook them! Don't suggest you get obsessive about it but if, like me, you are in the early days of sorting a low carb diet then it helps to get a perspective on things. It also helps when experimenting as suggested by trophywench.
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Docb said:
I keep this - https://www.diabetes.org.uk/resources-s3/2017-11/carb-reference-list-0511.pdf - to give me an idea of carb content of various common things whilst I am learning. It helps to get a bit of a feel for what is what. Sweet potato is there but pumpkin and cornmeal are not but you can print it out and add them when you find out.

I also keep some kitchen scales handy so that I can weigh stuff - it is sometimes surprising just how small a portion is needed to get the carb content of something into what you might consider a low carb range. Oven chips are a good thing to experiment with. Decide on the carb level you are aiming for with a meal. See what your main items give you and then make it up to your target with ovenchips, using the carbohydrate in 100g of chips figure given on the packaging to work out the weight of chips needed. Weigh that amount out, and you will probably find that it is not worth turning the oven on to cook them! Don't suggest you get obsessive about it but if, like me, you are in the early days of sorting a low carb diet then it helps to get a perspective on things. It also helps when experimenting as suggested by trophywench.
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Thank you !
 
Pumpkin is a low carb food, though I recommend buying small ones or finding dishes you can freeze.
Sweet potato is higher carb than ordinary white ones, so they don't feature on my menu, and cornmeal is the same as other grain foods, very high carb.
 
About pumpkin: I think had the same bad reputation of carrots, due the high GI, but it has aclually a low calorie and carbs content.
 
MikeTurin said:
About pumpkin: I think had the same bad reputation of carrots, due the high GI, but it has aclually a low calorie and carbs content.
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Just shows how poor an indicator GI is.
 
True, I found sweet potato didn't spike me at all in the early days, unlike normal potato.

All carbs aren't equal.
 
Carbs do the Damage not unless you are running a Marathon, that's different 🙂
 
Hello black queen. All of them push my sugar into the stratosphere! I only eat a little bit occasionally. If I have rice (basmati) I mix in okra, aubergine, tomato and callaloo and it doesn't push it up too high. I can also tolerate eddoe. But you'll have to use your meter to check. What works for me might not work for you.
 
You could make a cake or better pudding with pumpkin and apples, in the video there is the sugar version, it works also using sweeteners and almond flour instead of maize flour.
Like this last slice of the cake my mother made, isn't posh like the chef one but it's lower on calories.

And by the way a 100 g slice at the end of the meal especially if the meal is without bread and pasta isn't a big problem.
 

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Carbs do the Damage not unless you are running a Marathon, that's different 🙂
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Nah, way different for type 2s
It depends on the digestion, and response for the insulin, and how resistant we are.
I think we are all completely unique.
 
ALL my life I have been surrounded by T2s with different points of view. If they work at it They can get off it like YOU ? :confused:
 
Drummer said:
Just shows how poor an indicator GI is.
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oops i though carrots were good. I have to go back to the drawing table and come again. Only yesterday i purchased some carrots and broccoli.

I also read that watermelons have a high GI index even higher than bananas and mangoes that was quite a surprise.
 
travellor said:
Not understanding the shouting?
But look up the Newcastle diet.
It'll help you understand us, and our difference to you?
If you need help to understand us, message me.
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Thanks. Please explain what you mean by "understand us and our difference to you"
 
I am still giggling at the 'a 100gm slice at the end of a meal' - oh my - oh deary deary me.
My daily limit for carbs of all kinds is 40 gm.
I am aiming for totally normal without medication with a grim determination not to go the same way as my grandmother who also had type two - I will not be eating sweet potato, apples will be few and far between in the weeks when there is fruit on the trees in the garden, other foods are those I found to be OK by testing my blood after meals.
 
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