Blood sugar diet thread 10

[thenewaveragebear1983]

New thread for the Blood Sugar dieters

Link to our old thread;

Blood sugar diet thread 9 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/fasting_diet/3143559-blood-sugar-diet-thread-9

I would probably have a milky coffee snow - I def use coffee to replace meals, hmmm any cooked chicken in your fridge? Or a baby bell, or some chopped veg and houmous, more nuts, An egg wouldnt be that far off 50? Any sachets of dried soup lurking at the back of your cupboard?

some of these aren't suitable but anyway : www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/dieting/52-diet-50-foods-50-1724756 not sure 1 celebration or a chicken nugget is going to hit the spot though!

Thanks everyone! Ended up going way over with a chicken & lentil dish (leftover) that I was saving for today’s lunch. Dreading what the cals will be on that! But at least it means I can skip b’fast today.

The lentils might be 'useful' though. I was starting to feel a bit bunged up and they certainly have been for me

B: boiled eggs and a tiny knob of butter
L: tuna salad of some description - not sure I actually have salad.
D: pork shoulder steak with veg
S: sf jelly

Haven't put the cals in yet though so might be too much.

I'll be out from 4ish until 7 so should hopefully avoid the munchies.

Roll on payday and a Tesco delivery tomorrow. I've been on a clear the freezer mission.

snowglobes my default 50 cal 'I'm starving' snack is 7 roasted almonds. My other go to snack for those long mid-afternoons at work is cheese. These mini cheeses are 20 grams and about 80 cals each.

I also got a lot of little snack size containers and disposable ziplocs, and try to fill several at the beginning of the week with 7 almonds and a mini cheese, so I can grab and go every morning along with my lunch.

phylliswig I have learned from sad, sad experience that on days when I'm having lunch 'provided' I should pack 15 almonds, a mini cheese, and a hardboiled egg (adds up to about 270 cals, plenty of protein and good fat), in case the lunch provided is a big starchy mess. One of the catering default packages at my work is a combo platter of (terrible, terrible) sandwiches, mini-quiches, and samosas, with a side bowl of crisps, maybe with a pasta salad as well, mostly pasta and mayo and only a tiny bit of veg. If I'm really lucky there'll be a bowl of hard, unripe, utterly unappetising fruit, usually grapes and bananas, so relatively high carb fruit. Ugh, just ugh.

Pas for those who want something on the go. Pret have a new protein box - 160 cals and low carbs. Egg, chicken and other stuff. Looked good as an out and about option (non chicken eater here to not much use to me).

That sounds good.

Oblomov I also drink loads of tea, particularly when I'm trying to fend off hunger. I measured once how much milk (skim) I have in one cup, and now I just allocate 100 cals so I can have 5-6 cups without counting. I would gradually like to bring this down though of course.

I'm also trying to get off the Candarel - just think it makes my sweet tooth worse.

Am really struggling with bread, it's always been my problem. With 3 boys in the house, there's always bread. I can ignore the square hovis stuff, but my husband and son prefer this poncey sourdough from a bakery down the road which is lovely and I've been eating a lot!
ANyway, I've decided to buy 2 loaves of it today, cut it all up tonight, portion it out into bags and get it all into the freezer straight away. It's lovely fresh but this is the only way I can manage it! I hate being a slave to my over-eating but as they say I'm on a bit of a journey, so baby steps and all that!

Snow, I keep a jar of peanut butter and a spoon in my desk at work, and I have a 100 cal teaspoon if I'm really struggling.

londonista I only eat gf bread, and it's not great so that helps, but keeping it in the freezer definitely stops me standing at the worktop and scoffing loads of it.

Primal yes - I'm hoping I wont try to eat frozen bread but with my carbs addiction, I can't rule any bad behaviour out!

I am the same with bread, trying to stick with wholemeal for kids as it holds less attraction for me. I also usually have gf multiseed in the freezer and a slice of that with mushrooms, eggs, salad or whatever fills me up and doesn't send me into the spiral of doom that is white warburtons! The best bit about freezing it is less gets thrown away eaten by me as in-case it goes mouldy

Waitrose had a new brand of protein ice cream on offer for £3 www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/breyers-cookies-cream/773262-657019-657020 also a healthy ice cream for a bit more. Decided to get one of the healthy ones www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/oppo-ice-cream-salted-caramel-flavour-with-lucuma/807013-382284-382285 for the freezer as trying to a avoid the extremes of trying to be perfect then totally going bananas on junk.

Well Tuesday night and yesterday went to pot - had friends round and had a couple of glasses of wine and some cake (quite a lot of cake). Had a migraine yesterday and ate more cake and it all went a bit haywire.

Anyway, I'm treating that as a blip rather than a reason to give up and am back on it today. I did the BMI calculator on the BBC website and it was worse than I thought so I definitely want to continue.

Iceland have stopped stocking frozen cauliflower rice sachets!!

I've adjusted my tea to 25 calories, which is probably still too high.

The chef Tom Kerridge has lost 12 stone by doing low carb and has a new low carb recipe book out. I might take s look.

Laughing about the bread. I have bought cheap plastic bread as I call it this week. My 2 boys are in the 7th heaven as that’s what they like. However DH will be back on Friday night and his tastes run to the more artisanal seedy concoctions which I love.

Well there will be no repeat of my amazing week 1 performance on week 2. I have been a very picky nibbley grazing monster so far this week. Well over 800 cals every day. As well as a ban on nut butters, I won’t be buying hummus or Greek yog for a while either. Those big tubs are more economical but they are dangerous when you have no self control like me.

50 cals isn’t very much is it. 7 almonds or a tiny bit of cheese. When I was doing low carb I would freely eat low carb food like nuts, cheese, pork scratching etc. No wonder I never really lost much weight. I must have been consuming 1000,s of extra cals a day.

A small egg is probably the most filling thing for 50 cals

Make your own cauliflower rice - it's easy and much cheaper. Microwave it to cook, portion it up and freeze then microwave it from frozen to defrost and heat through.

Forget about the Tom Kerridge book. Sounds rubbish. He has a very very long list of hard to get ingredients, in every recipe. Impossible to make, once you get home from work:
Watkins mushroom ketchup .. Sriracha sauce... Pastis...kohlrabi...manzanillo olives....stinking bishop cheese...or époisses (?!) ...mirin...daikon radishes...ras el hanout ...organic duck...merguez sausages...

I think not.

I thought exactly the same when I looked at it Oblomov , I quite liked the tv show, it was more appetising sounding food, but that was low fat so not 100% great for us.

sorry my post doesn't make sense - Kerridge has 2 books -

1. high fat low carb - how he lost weight
2. low cal low fat - based on tv show 'more mainstream food'

Yeah that sounds complicated oblomov, and the one thing I love about this diet is discovering how good really simple, proper food can be.

Belinda totally agree about the yogurt, hummus- for me I add Stilton (any variety of blue stinky cheese actually) and nuts (Tesco finest do a nut mixture that is absolutely amazing) - all banned in my house except in very small portions. In my extensive research on the subject I can tell you that Lidl do full fat Greek in 125g pots (these are the nicest) but Tesco’s ones are 100g pots. I pretty much only buy them as individual pots because I will eat the whole tub. And total yoghurt, or any of the real Greek (not Greek style) are banned in all forms because they are waaaaay to addictive.

Just out of interest Belinda, did you lose much weight doing the free ‘low carb’? I asked a question on the boot camp thread about exercise and got told that BSD is too restrictive and you don’t need to count calories which wasn’t what I asked but I was interested as to what the Weight losses were like if you ‘trust your appetite’. I cannot trust mine!! I know I’d eat too many calories, because I can’t stick to 800 calories ever so imagine what would happen if I went freewheeling!!???

I like the Asda frozen cauli rice. There's just something about it that makes it more rice-like than doing it myself. Plus no mess. It sells out quickly though.

I have lost weight on job at low carb no calorie counting. But last time I put it on rather than lost.

Just low carb...

Stupid phone

Low carb used to work really well for me. I went into ketosis, my appetite reduced and I lost weight. Then it stopped working. FOR ME. I felt hungry, I eat more and my weight loss stopped.

I take full responsibility for not always doing it properly. Carbs started to creep up. I was having more protein than fat as I tried to kick start the weight loss by monitoring calories.

I love the food. I believe in the science. I feel good on it. I just can't lose weight. If I only had 20lbs to lose I would do low carb and be happy eating lovely food and losing barely a 1lb a week. However I want quicker results.

This past week or so has been a real eye opener for me in terms of the calories I must have been eating before. I have been weighing and measuring most food this week and have been surprised just how little cheese, nuts, oil, cream you get for 100cals. Its a perfectly adequate amount of food so I must have been consuming a vast amount of excess calories before. Of course I was. I am 5 stone overweigh!

By saying I am doing low carb, I had given myself permission to over eat.

Now apparently on low carb the cals should not matter as long as the carbs are under 20g a day. But I think for some people the calories do matter. Or at least once you start eating over a certain level they start to matter.

I remember years ago doing slimming world with the red and green days. I never lost weight as I could eat vast quantities of 'free' food on either plan. Its like I have no off switch when it comes to food. I just never feel full enough to naturally stop eating. Thats why I decided to do this plan along with 16\8. Hopefully imposing strict calorie and time restrictions will get me the results I want.