Long Wheat+: No Confusion, Great Combination.

[swamyonline]

Hi,

I am writing this after a long time. After having read the following post on this forum, I have tried a few combinations with Long Wheat.

healthunlocked.com/diabetes...

After reading the research material, dosas have been prepared as mentioned below:

1. Two Cups of Long Wheat, One Cup of Chana Dal (with skin on) and One Tbsp of Methi Seeds, sometimes add half cup of Urad Dal. I term this combination as Long Wheat+.

2. Soak the three items separately overnight/ overday.

3. Grind them together as a coarse or fine batter (you can mix ingradients such as Ginger, Mirchi etc as per your taste and requirement).

4. Prepare dosas with the batter with very little oil.

Break fast:

Early morning Cup of Green Tea on empty stomach, 1 hour before break fast.

3 Long Wheat+ medium sized dosas with a little bit of 'Amul fat spread' butter (weekly 2-3 tiems). 2 Eggs tomoato Omelete or 2 boiled eggs or a vegetable curry (mushroom, capsicum, paneer, tofu, palak-baigan, bottle gaurd etc). 1 Glass of butter milk (when I don't take butter). Half a tablet of Metasens-500mg. After 2 hours of break fast, I take Green Tea.

Lunch:

Normal meal, reasonably stomach full. Rice prepared in an open vessel covered with lid (The way people used to cook rice and pulses in olden days. Rice boilded in water, seeving out excess of water). No pressure cooked rice. Preferable use a bit of lengthy rice. I add 1-2 tsp of cold pressed coconut oil (or desi cow ghee) to a fist-full of rice and eat it first. Diabetic friendly curries or a non-veg curry. Curd or butter milk. Again half a tablet of Metasens-500mg.

Evening Snacks:

Sometimes 4-5 Almonds or 1 Acrot. Cup of Green Tea.

Dinner:

Dinner will be very similar to break fast without any medicine. Before going to bed 30mins before, I sometimes take around 1tpsp of Thriphala Powder mixed with a glass of water.

Many thanks to Mr. George, Mr. Medfree and many others. Because of your valuable posts on this forum, I am able to control my sugar levels upto some good levels. Unfortunately I was not able to eat Long Wheat for around 30-35 days in total in between, before I started the above mentioned regime. I had to eat normal meal when I was out of station.

And for the last 3 months there is no work-outs. I am back on track again. Hopefully, this time, I may reach the target of HbA1c <= 5.6.

My Sugar Profile:

As reported earlier my HbA1c was 6.4 (8 April 2014). Now it is 6 (14 Jun 2014). Ofcourse it was 12+ when first detected. And now almost, and many times, my FBS is under 100. But my PLBS has always been around or above 140 since I spent few months out of station. But still my HbA1c is showing 6.

My Lipid profile:

Triglycerides-152, Total Cholesterol-247, LDL Cholesterol-173, HDL Cholesterol-44, VLDL-30.

My weight got reduced from 68-69kgs to 62-63kgs during these 6-7 months. I want to maintain at 65-66kgs, but not able to gain.

So friends, at the I would like to tell you that, this combination of Long Wheat and LCHF (not so high fat, but moderate in my case) is working good for me so far. Initially I started with Long Wheat Mash Diet, Long Wheat Rotis and now Long Wheat+ dosas. In some or other form, I have been eating Long Wheat since I came to know about it. I think, now I have one more variation Long Wheat+ dosas, depending on mood :).

And one important observation: Eat cooked food (perticularly carbo-rich items) as on when prepared, VERY FRESH. Constipation and eating stored cooked food have lot of impact on sugar values (increased).

I felt to share this information here as it would be helpful to others. What ever is written/ suggested in this post is purely my personal experience/ observations.

swamy.

[swamyonline]

Tryglocerides used to be above 230. It is gradually coming down. It once touched 110 when I was strictly following the diet plan, but increasing when I am on normal meal as on when I am out of station.

[shrisamarth Volunteer]

Your TG/HDL ratio is high though not very bad.(3.45). Recommended value is less that 2. If possible test for Apo -B which indicates the how much small dense LDL particles are present which is the main cause of CHD.

cbn.com/health/naturalhealt...

[swamyonline in reply to shrisamarth]

Informative article. Sure, I will be doing that. Thanks.

[swamyonline]

What exactly should I ask for "Apo-B" test or some other name?

[shrisamarth Volunteer in reply to swamyonline]

You need to ask them for cardiac risk markers.

thyrocare.com/Test_Menu.asp

[swamyonline]

Got it.

[satu]

I AM NOT GETTING THIS AT KOLKATA PL ADVISE HOW I CAN GET THIS (LONG WHEAT)

[swamyonline]

May be other members from Kolkata reply to you. Better post a new thread for asking help to buy Long Wheat in Kolkata.