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Health issue,too many books on the subject are so anal about weigh this weigh that you lose sight of what were here for which is living a normal life and by tempering and adjusting our eating patterns you can live with Diabetes (type 2).
Hope you are still going strong a year on. Best wishes
Me too. You may find these pages helpful with regards to low GI foods. http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search/guides-techniques?query=low%20GI I would also suggest getting a spiralizer. There's a good one available for about £30 on Amazon. You can then make "noodles" out of any suitable vegetable such as carrots, beetroot, daikon, courgettes...... Courgettes are good for replacing pasta and noodles and they make coleslaw with raw beetroot and carrots and so on very easy and fun.
Thanks Galina and well done to you too. Impressive results over a sustained period.My nickname is based on my love of obelisks, not my shape. No asterisks in the garden except when the nettles are stinging badly and my language needs a bleep.
I don't know about the cartoon characters but I do live in Belgium where the ancient Belgae had fun with Julius Caesar and many other Roman invaders. There was one in particular called Ambiorix at what is now Tongeren and that's why I have an X instead of an sk.I hope you have a bleep free day. I'm busy making an orange drizzle cake for the coffee break at a dance class this pm and hoping the weather will improve enough for me to finish my other spring hanging basket and sow some toms and chilies in propagators.
Well done. Since Possum is now living in student digs during the week I have switched OH and me to wholemeal pasta whose flavour I prefer. Have you tried that? Basmati rice is supposed to have a lower GI index than any other so that may be worth trying too once you've lost your stone again.I'm not diabetic myself but am a bit overweight and, having had two new feet in 2013, now find my knees creak as my walk has changed so I have gone to a low GI, low carb diet to lose weight. 6 kilos since January 6th and am feeling much better - and I can get into all sorts of dresses I haven't ben able to wear since being stuck on a sofa for 6 months while the new feet healed. It's also worked on OH whose blood pressure was a tad high. Now he's fine and all without meds.Keep up the good work.
That is such very good news Pauline, especially because you are a little challenged to exercise as you might wish. All your own work. I'm coming up to 4 years now, still the same regime of low carb like you and in the low 40s for 3 years now, 39 the most recent, no medication. Yes it is amazing what you can have on a low carb regime. Icecream in small portions is no worse than a couple of slices of bread! And Greek yoghurt (or my recent discovery of Turkish yoghurt) mixed with cocoa powder, a drop of vanilla, sweetener and a handful of chopped nuts is good enough (like choc mousse) for a dinner party - especially decorated with strawberries or cherries - the others get a few After Eights for decoration too. Another guilt-free yummie is Atkin's cheesecake (recipe on www).Reading the labels for carbohydrate content is a must and an eye opener. So pleased for you
Pauline - get another opinion for your feet.