I am these days after I was told by my doc I may have to inject Insulin into my body for the remainder of my days unless I drastically reduced my blood sugar levels. These days I mix my regular diet with previous unknowns like Stevia, sweet potato. wholemeal bread, pastas and brown rice. I believe my diabetes diagnosis was a blessing in disguise as it made me wake up to what I was feeding myself and change for the better...specially now I have hit 60.
I do, at least most of the time, @Craig Swanson . Both @Bobby Cole and I are health conscious, and we mostly eat low carb and very occasional treats. We go to the fitness center almost every day, Bobby lifts weights and I swim.
Craig please. Me too on the occasional treats. Cant give up on Arnotts Mint Slice, Cherry Ripe or Darrell Lea soft eating licorice. yumm. They make a sugar free licorice but it is exported to the States.. Can not find it here anywhere. I walk as my pool is struggling at the moment. May have to replace the filter and the chlorinator.
Craig-- FYI, when people use the "@Craig Swanson", you get a notification that someone responded to you in your Alerts. That's why Yvonne is using your entire username with the @.
I see. Well we can put the alert @ name at top of post and the real name in the text perhaps. I like informality is all.
@Beth Gallagher. I can see why you have remained here for as long as you have Beth. This is a friendly forum. You have made me feel welcome even tho I am not American and in a different time zone to most of you. Are you interested in anything about my country? We are currently showcasing our annual Vivid Sydney. Wanna clip of it. If not you can find it on YT. We are kinda proud of this.
I would love to travel to Australia, Craig. It seems like a fascinating place. I dated a transplanted Aussie many moons ago. I like to watch clips of the Australian 60 Minutes program on Youtube, so I'll look for Vivid Sydney. Thanks for the recommendation.
@Beth Gallagher. You are welcome Beth. "transplanted" You mean a person with a transplanted body organ.. or a ex pat Aussie?
@Craig All those high-carb foods you called out: are they OK'd for pre-diabetes? My wife was borderline at 115, quit nearly all carbs, no bread in the house for a year now....... (love my rye bread!), but her blood glucose was 94 last time checked. Frank
@Craig Swanson Those are to my wife forbidden items. Her "diet" allows 20g carbs, 60g protein, 20g fat per day, wrapped up to give 1200 cal. max. I personally think she consumes too much fat. She creams her coffee with heavy whipping cream. Frank
No. I start eating whatever is the quickest and easiest in the house to prepare, and work up from there, until it gets to be too time-consuming. Then I go shopping and start over. This week it's been sandwiches, frozen pizza, and popcorn with butter.