Carbophile's Low? GI Diet, Good for Diabetics! You Decide.

From carbo's blog the highlighting is mine:

“A simple carb loving person with type 2 diabetes, struggling with managing the condition and living a normal life.”


Notes

^“1I don’t normally end the day this high, but Friday was just one of those days when the ‘phone wouldn’t stop ringing with yet another customer making impossible demands and expecting delivery “first thing Monday”;


²On call today, so got up at 7am today. It's a Saturday, so breakfast with the family is a ritual we insist on sticking to, the fasting reading was taken at 7:14 and the pre breakfast taken at 9:26. Two large, strong(ish) coffees in between;


³Alright, alright. Breakfast was slightly different than planned and included two slices of toast with the fishcake and half a tin of tomatoes;


⁴I know I said there would be very little exercise this weekend, however having already made plans for this evening's dinner, there were no spring onions in the house which meant traipsing to and from Tesco, a measly 3,000 steps or, according to my pedometer, just under 2km, or 236 calories later;


⁵Lunch was an open corned beef sandwich with some more of that home made coleslaw. I also had a coffee with a couple of plain chocolate digestives;


⁶Dinner was a stir fry with noodles, I prepared two marinades, one with oyster sauce, and t'other with five spice. Both with a splash of walnut oil, some soy sauce, spring onions, and some garlic. Left the meat marinating for a couple of hours before frying in a little olive oil. Resounding success, everyone came back for seconds;


⁷Fasting reading was taken at the slightly later than usual time of 8:35 on Sunday;


⁸Breakfast was a very agreeably late one, 10:30, on account none of us could be bothered to put the fish in the oven! Our own fault really. Threw in some mushrooms as well and rather an heroic amount of toast (and boy, did I pay for the toast), on the whole, a very lovely brunch type meal. Brunch on the patio would have been fabulous, with the garden looking so lovely, just unfortunate that it was raining at the time;


⁹Lunch plans changed! Sunday Lunch at the local hostelry, mainly because we decided to celebrate some good news on the daughter front and the wife is feeling a bit more chirpy than normal. 2,215 steps on the pedometer, or 1.5km or 170 calories;


¹⁰Lunch at the Barn Owl in Worcester was a share of one of those combo platters (potato wedges, breaded mushrooms, breaded mushrooms, and garlic bread) with the family, followed by a Cajun Salmon salad. I'm not a food critic, but I doubt it was one of their best! but it did. Regrettably, dinner was cut short by a call from work (darn it, double time!) and a hasty retreat home so that I could be of assistance;


¹¹Sunday turned into one of those late running days, so I skipped dinner and had a late(ish) supper which was cheese and a few crackers;


¹²Blimey, I'm impressed! I was burning the midnight oil yesterday (and today) and didn't get to bed until 3am. I have noticed, in the past, that late nights have adversely affected my fasting blood glucose levels, obviously not today. Back to the mundane, breakfast was two slices of wholegrain toast;


¹³Lunch was one round of ham and sweetcorn salad sandwiches;


¹⁴Dinner was taglietelle pasta with a home made Bolognese sauce and some more of that home made coleslaw;


¹⁵Early riser today, up at 4am in order to catch the red eye to the City. Breakfast? A very crunchy two slices of wholegrain toast again;


¹⁶As expected today was quite difficult, not too many opportunities to test without causing embarassment. Lunch was a quite execrable beef stew with dumplings, seasonal(?) veg and dauphinoise potatoes with a healthy chunk of bread. I was hungry, so I ate the lot!


¹⁷Late train home. Supper was a tomato and basil chicken pasta salad from Sainsbury's.”

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Edited to add futher low GI examples of Carbo's diet!


"You see, I’m one of those patients that is following the advice received from their health care professionals. I eat a low fat/low GI diet – when I can, it’s not always possible – there are occasions when I’ve been faced with, gulp, starvation, or eat a sandwich made with white bread (though, on those occasions I have eschewed the optional potato crisps – not the use of the word optional). I have found it difficult though to ignore the absolutely compulsory four finger dark chocolate kit-kat. I have also, it has to be said, enjoyed dunking the odd jammy dodger in the odd cup of tea – but, it has to be said, only now and again.

So, I hear you exclaim, you must be really highly medicated to have such a good HbA1c and to be able to eat such a diet. Nay, nay, and thrice nay I say. I don’t consider myself to be highly medicated at all. I will admit to taking Statins on a regular basis, I will also admit to taking two (count ‘em 1…2) 500mg Metformin a day, one in the morning when I wake up with my breakfast (normally two slices of wholegrain toast with a little jam) and the second when I get home in the evening immediately before I have my evening meal, frequently soup with a wholegrain bread roll, occasionally a pizza, sometimes potato wedges with some chicken…and I will make an additional confession to enjoying…yep, you’ve guessed it, that ultimate sin fish*…,and oh gosh, please forgive me,…chips."

* Don't know if the fish is battered or not!

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Graham