Experimentation is the key to successful LCHF regime. Have a test kit, kitchen scale and your note book ready. Keep counting carb and watch how your body responds to your diffetent diet regimes you try.
Here, I am sharing with you a soup I make. Take an assortment of vegetables avoiding potato and other starchy veg. Boil them in pressure cooker and then blend them on a mixer using the wet grinder blades. Do not filter. Then sout (thadka) the blended soup as usual using a small amount of coconut oil or ghee, mustard and onion. Add little ginger and garlic if you like. You can choose okra, beans, cucumber, gourds, mushroom or you name it. If you want to sin and cheat, put a very small piece of beet root. It will give color and taste. Keep changing the ingredients till you get the right combination in terms of your taste and BS level. Try you will love it.
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Florets of cauliflower + half tomatoe ( tomatoe increases BG and hence limited) + spinach ( you can add murugi keerai or cilantro or whatever available for flavor) .Pressure cook until one whistle, Coarse blend in a mixie , Heat , add, salt , pepper, ghee or butter ..Cooking time 15 mts .Real yummy low carb soup is ready ,Enjoy !
Dear patliputra, I bet cooking is fun. This is an additional advantage of going LCHF. If you are still averse to cooking, let that 'someone else' be some one @ your home- not the restaurants. You are sure what U R eating
when you cook on your own,sharing part of it with others including your pets,and have just the amount necessary for you, with no waste left over, chances are that your blood glucose remains better controlled
As a matter of fact ,i was a good at cooking,once upon a time.Still can do many things in kitchen which generally can not be done by gents, eg.making roti.
'You already had your quota of food ' is applicable to high carb dieters .Try LCHF ..A meal consisting of a bowl of low carb soup + 11/2 cups of green salad seasoned with olive oil and fresh cream + one cup of whole milk yogurt.This will be very filling and will keep your BG in control..You won't have hunger pangs..I enjoy good health ,improved blood glucose, improved lipid profile and high energy level only after I switched over to LCHF 10 months ago. I enjoy Diabetes with its regimen of exercise , diet ,discipline and weight control .Please have a positive frame of mind..You can make your 'setback' into 'come back 'I am a diabetic for 26 years living on oral drugs and I am 65 yrs old . I have reduced my pills by 50% in the last 10 months...If it is possible for me ,it should be certainly possible form many like you .This has been made possible by this Forum .You can make the difference by slightly changing the defeatist attitude of yours please.
There is something called realistic view ,rather than defeatistic view
.I am elder to you by 10yrs,and senior in diabetic status also by 15 yrs and both of us have landed at this stage after a state of exhaustion of our insulin secreting pancreas
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unlike others in this forum,this member does not have his own axe to grind here so no conflict of interest in what I suggest.
Having actually witnessed the fact of the arteries in the heart and brain getting clogged up by saturated fat,fatty acid crystals, and cholesterol, not in one but every diabetic who died of complications,
why would I chose to take Fat loaded Items like full cream and whole milk,neither of them meant as a natural food for any adult,worse still for a diabetic proved to be prone for disordered fat handling.
I have my own doubts about your claims of normal lipid profile after your high fat diet.
get the lab reports cross checked from an NABL accredited Lab
I fully agree and follow your common sense suggestion of low carb diet, but
replaced your high fat suggestion with natural normal unsatured fat as an integral part of full nuts,and cereals like badam and ground nuts,not exceeding 3teaspoonful of sunflower oil in cooking for the whole day. even then my lipid profile is high normal due to my metabolic disorder
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If you maintain that your lipids are normal after such an extravaganza,enjoy and may god bless you for continued health, but even then I would not suggest it to a co diabetic as his well wisher.
Recently The American medical association has extended their advice to diabetics even with normal lipid profile to adopt low fat and cholesterol lowering drugs, taking into view their 10 yrs risk of developing complications, compared to normals in very large population based scientific studies
I would like to reiterate that my lipid profile is better than what it was before LCHF. I trust you keep yourself abreast of recent developments wrt bio-markers for heart health.I have posted a couple of articles on this Forum earlier which you may kindly go through if you are interested.If you are going to quote ADA guidelines (which is out dated in my opinion ) , I am not in the race .The standard lipid profile test ( HDL,LDL,TC.TG) does not indicate much on the heart health . AHA and AICC articles substantiating this..
are avialble .One has to search for it
I am not claiming any thing as you put it but sharing my experience with LCHF
In conclusion I would like to quote the following::
"Everybody I know in the field — everybody — recognized that a simple low-fat message was a mistake," says Dr. Krauss.
"Theories, however pertinent they are, cannot eradicate the existence of facts "- Jean Martin Charcot
What is this hidden message stuff ? I have evolved my menu over a period of time through trial and error. Now I have normal BS levels and hba1c 5.1 for the last one year without taking any chemical drugs. What else does a diabetic aspire to get? Diet is the key to it. Thanks to medfree.
patliputra and medfree, I agree that utensil shape and material and energy source make a lot of difference. Old is Gold. Nothing beats it for traditional recipes.
People think that all the fat they eat goes to the artery through the blood stream and clog People seem to be unaware of the fact that most of the cholesterol in the blood stream is produced and released by the liver and are not coming from dietary fat.People also seem to be unaware of the fact that Triglycerides and atherogenic cholesterol particles are mainly coming from dietary carbohydrates and not from dietary fat..
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