LCHF diet
I think the closest thing to this diet is the atkins diet. You basically only eat things that are below 5g of carbs per 100 gram.
I was really sick and tired of counting carbs and still having both highs and lows, it stressed me out soooo much and after reading about this diet i thought i should give it a try for a couple of days just to see what happens. I noticed that i didnt need as much insulin so i continued, and not i dont need any insulin at all and my bloodsugar stays at around 4-5. (I AM A LADA AND STILL PRODUCE QUITE A LOT OF INSULIN) so it must be that my own insulin production still covers the small amounts of carbs in the vegetables that i eat.
I started on some low carb diet before which was also low in fat, and that made me extremely hungry so i gave up straight away. But with this diet you have to add fat and that makes you feel full a lot faster and longer. So ive lost 12 kgs. Ive gone from being overweight to really slim, and feeling a lot healthier than before. What keeps me going is the fact that pasta, bread and rice contain almost no vitamins and minerals, most of what it contains is carbs that turn into sugar in our blood, and i dont need that!!!
i feel a lot more energetic and my body uses fat as energy rather than sugar. And yes, the brain needs sugar,, but the body produces sugar by itself from the small amounts of carbs in the vegetables and also from the protein I eat.
Our ancestors didnt eat the same amounts of carbs that we eat.
the diet is called LCHF - low carb high fat...
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Permalink Reply by Dolores on -
forgot to say that this diet is probably a bit like bernsteins diet as well??
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Permalink Reply by marie on -
On this diet I assume you would be aloud to have a hamburger but without the bun, but there has to be a limit because one hamburger w/ cheese has like 600 calories and I could eat two if I let my self . What about pizza can you just eat the cheese off of it ? Guess you can go through the drive through and order burgers and chicken sandwiches and just throw the bread to the birds . To good to be true ! I'm gonna try this diet today so far I've had 3 boiled eggs w/ coffee and cream and 1 Splenda
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Permalink Reply by Sam Iam on -
I will eat a hamburger on occasion, but with mustard or mayonnaise, no ketchup. I bolus for about 14g carb to cover the 4 oz of protein.
Don't eat powdered splenda. It is about 30% glucose. Pizza is a no go. the tomato sauce has a ton of sugar and will send your bg way up.
You will be hungry the first few days. Drink plenty of water. If you mess up once or twice, no biggie.
I'd recommend reading dr. Bernstein's diet book. Good luck.
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Permalink Reply by Gerri on -
Hi Dolores,
Congratulations on your success! Very much like Bernstein's recommendation. Protein, fat, vegetables. Do you eat nuts?
Never heard before about eating only plants that grow above ground. I eat turn turnips & radishes. They're both very low carb veggies.
No one can eat low carb/low fat without starving:)
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Permalink Reply by Dolores on
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yes i do eat nuts occasionally, usually almonds, they are lowest in carbs :) but i havent had nuts for a while now, thanks for reminding me :)
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Permalink Reply by Gerri on
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I eat lots of almonds & also walnuts & pecans. Not a nut, but I also eat peanut butter--just not in quantity.
Almond flour is a great substitute for making pancakes, cookies, almond bread (which tastes more like cornbread than wheat bread), pie crusts, cakes & muffins. Healthy, high fiber, protein, good fats & low carb.
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Permalink Reply by mimistime on -
I tried this for a little over a week with much success. I lost 5 lbs, my belly shrank, I didn't feel hungry and my blood sugars stabilized in the 180's. Only problem was I ended up spilling high ketontes. My doctor said to stop immediately. It seems likes such a good thing. Any ideas?
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Permalink Reply by Dolores on
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have you read about why you go into ketosis on a low carb diet? and why low carb is good for a diabetic? if your bloodsugars are normal and you still have high levels of ketones in your urine, that just means that your body is using fat as fuel instead of carbohydrates, and that is a good thing. carbs are unneccessary, the only thing they do is make your bloodsugar rise.
someone compared eating carbs and taking insulin to being allergic to nuts and still eating nuts but taking medicine to stop the allergic reaction.. nobody would give someone allergic to seafood or milk or flour those foods to eat, so why does every doctor recommend diabetics diets high in carbs??
i feel a lot better on this diet and im never stopping it because i know i am more likely to drop dead with complications from a high carb diet than on this diet.
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Permalink Reply by Gerri on
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Agree with you. Dolores!
Spilling ketones--your doctor may not have understood what you were telling him about this. Ketosis is a completely normal body process. Most everyone has some ketones in the morning from overnight fasting. Yours shouldn't have been high from low carb, unless you were dehydrated.
Protein also makes BG rise, though certainly not like carbs.
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Permalink Reply by Super_sally on -
The spilling keytones that happens with a low carb diet is quite different from the spilling keytones that happens during ketoacidosis.
If you can get Bernstein's book "Diabetes Solutions" (2011 edition) he talks about this at length.
Keytones being present at the same time as perfectly normal blood sugar is not a health risk from all I have read. It is actually a very healthy and normal adaptation to eating a low carb high fat diet.
Keytones being present with abnormally high blood sugar is also accompanied by dehydration and other metabolic imbalance and is very dangerous.
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