Posted on 07/15/2018 2:20:17 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
My wife makes a zero carb fat bomb which is delicious.
If there’s an Aldi nearby, get yourself a package of their Ground Top Sirloin at $3.99 a pound. Make yourself a delicious 8 ounce chopped steak. Shake a little Mrs. Dash steak seasoning on top and broil it, fry it or throw it on the grill and enjoy! Very little masticating involved, and oh, so delicious!
I guess I had Atkins in mind; the cheeseburger for breakfast deal. Dump in lots of H2O with that one.
“Do Low-Carb Diets Help Diabetes?”
Does the Pope sh!t in the woods? Since we know he’s not Catholic...maybe we’ve had our sayings wrong all along.
Yep. Diabetes occurs when the body can no longer create enough insulin to control the blood sugar. Low carbs means no blood sugar spike and no need for the body to pump out large amounts of insulin.
“Wish I could stick with no carb but steak has begun to taste like liver and $15.00 a pound for ribeye disgusts me anyway. “
Salads. Olive oil.
Eggs. And Bacon & Ham & Sausage.
Cheese. And butter. Sour Cream and Yogurt.
Frozen vegetables. An occasional WHOLE potato with skin.
Ezekiel Sprouted Grain Bread.
Chicken breast...or any parts of the chicken.
A little red meat, can even be freshly ground burger.
A piece of frozen, wild-caught salmon once a week.
Fruit. Lemons. Peaches. Apples. In moderation.
There’s nothing missing from that list except the stuff that will kill you. Certain.
Except the wine and beer, if you have that propensity.
They would rather people shell out beaucoup bucks for diabetes meds.
There’s too much money to be made in diabetes medicines for them to seriously push the low carb diet.
Worked for me. When diagnosed a1c was 10.6. Six months later after zero carbs for 6 months it was 5.2. Hasn’t gone over 5.3 for 5 years now. Also lost 30 lbs.
On a standard diet, I couldn’t eat sweets as a diabetic. But on a keto diet I can! I make strawberry cheesecake fatbombs, peanut butter fatboms drizzled with chocolate, and if you make almond flou4 keto nreas, and add a little bit of lemon extract, you have a lemon pound cake that you can frost with cream cheese whipped and lightened up with a little whipping cream and your favorite keto sweetner.
I have a recipe for keto pancakes that are to die for! I do add some ground flax seed to it and I use a sugar free maple syrup.
I made a delicious mock potato salad using cauliflower. Course I add the dill(fermented kind) pickles, onions, bell peppers, bouled eggs, mustard and mayo.
I don’t at all feel deprived on this diet. I can even have pizza!
When I think of what I CAN have, I don’t feel deprived at all, especially since I can eat as much as it take for fill my tummy and feel satiated.
I might have been able to have a sliver of pizza on the standard diet, and feel guilty if I ate what it took to fill me. I don’t have a huge appetite, but a 2 inch piece of pizza that leaves me hungry isnty idea of not feeling deprived.
Now I can have chocolate cake that isn’t going to kill me.
The ADA can take it’s recommendation and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
I thought that all maple syrup WAS sugar free.
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I thought that all maple syrup WAS sugar free.
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I thought so, too....the pure maple syrup.
Do you have a fave site/book for these recipes, PL2?
A while back, I got a shock when the Dr. informed me that my A1c was 10.4% (average blood glucose 252). I felt like crap.
Diabetic specialist informed me that just pushing pills isn’t going to solve the problems. I had to radically change my diet and exercise. He gave me a slight uptick of Metformin but told me to go low carb/high fat (limited protein). He also gave me some suggestions for supplements such as K2/D3, krill oil, pro-biotics garlic and a general multi.
Carbs are 20%, protein 20%, and fat 60%
Results were astounding. In the first week alone, my blood sugar dropped from 335 to 108 and is steady this day. I have more energy, I sleep better and can just do more. Doc says the drugs helped but it was the lifestyle changes that did the trick. The specialist said that if I meet my target weight, the blood profiles look good and I continue to keep up this new lifestyle I will be off my meds.
No more junk food, no more bread and no more rice. Now it’s spinach, kale, nuts, cheese, seaweed, lean chicken and fish.
FYI, I’m down 30 pounds and I don’t get the post insulin blues after a meal either.
I like this lady...she inspired me.
Dr. Sarah Hallberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldzaLP8oAHw
Imo, a good diet would have less sugar, but whole grains and fruits have good nutrition even with carbs...
perhaps moderation is the key..plus no outright sugar...
trying to cut down on carbs but it is tough.
My wife will object but, will you marry me?
My son has had Type 1 Diabetes since he was 17. He is now 35. His endocrinologist always told him to watch his carbs and have 90 carbs per meal and 45 carbs per snack. He does not always adhere to that because Italian blood courses through his veins causing a major love of pasta!
I have a low carb diet. I find that I don’t get the cravings anymore. I can be hungry but can ignore it.
My doctor once had me on NO “starchy carbs” (bread, rice, potato, pasta) - that is very tough. I only had to do it for a month and then returned to have *some*, but not much. I never knew just how they affected me. I notice that it’s when I start to have too much that the cravings pick up.
I also gave up sugar. I have honey in my tea. Only cream in coffee.
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