Diabetes Talking

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Skip the meal?  I don’t think I have purposefully skipped a meal due to preperation.  I have actually left meetings or lunches for work to go to the grocery store for foods I can eat (ie – pizza being served, pasta, etc . . .)  No one ever questioned me but I am sure I got some looks.  Thanks for your response.

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Learn how to quote. — Most people are dumb as bricks; some people are dumber than that.  – MFW

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I agree with picking my own sides.  I don’t think I have ever ordered anything off of the low carb menu because I am so picky at restaurants I tell them exactly what I want changed and what I want added or on the side.  Thanks for the response!

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Thanks for the info!

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Your response was exactly what I was hoping someone else would say! Thank you so much for your insight!

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Do you think that those who do’t read the book and fully understand the way to LC "bash" those more quickly who have had success because of understanding?  I have heard too often "LC doen’t work" from people who tried it for a week by simply replacing one or two items with LC and I just want to laugh.  Thanks!

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My newest treat is this Low Carb Licorice I found that satiates my love of red vines, but I have a few bites of one strip and then I lock them away at my office.  Munching on them is a bad thing for me, haha.  I have always liked to shop three or four times a week for my fresh food, and LC’ing has meant that I have needed to buy the freshest possible in my mind.  Thanks for your response!

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Ha ha.  I don’t buy the ice cream either!  Vanilla, though very plain, is the death of me!  Thanks for your response!

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That is exactly my point.  Had there been LC Brownies readily available when I first started LC’ing I don’t think I would have been successful! Thanks!

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I agree with picking my own sides.  I don’t think I have ever ordered anything off of the low carb menu because I am so picky at restaurants I tell them exactly what I want changed and what I want added or on the side.  Thanks for the response!

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You don’t need breakfast bars or snacks.  If you don’t have time to prepare something, then just skip that meal.  It’ll be good for you. — Most of us probably aren’t in danger of eating too little.  – Becky P.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I lost over 35 pounds by eating fresh low carb foods since 2002.  Now that there are literally thousands of prepared products to choose from, I still find my best success at weight management comes when I limit myself to those low carb foods I prepare myself.  I am writing a research paper on this – has the mass introduction of low carb products on the market negatively effected your low carb diet goals?  What are your thoughts?  Successes?  Failures?  Thank you so much for any information! I like the occasional breakfast bar or snack when I don’t have a chance to cook for myself or haven’t been prepared enough to get my self something done the night before. I am now doing a daily shop, rather than a big weekly one, so I can get everything fresh from the butchers, fishmongers or greengrocers and it has made a huge difference to the way my food tastes as well. I always fall off the wagon when I start munching the low carb sweeties so I don’t buy them now – LOL Elise 180/175.6/140

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I lost over 35 pounds by eating fresh low carb foods since 2002.  Now that there are literally thousands of prepared products to choose from, I still find my best success at weight management comes when I limit myself to those low carb foods I prepare myself.  I am writing a research paper on this – has the mass introduction of low carb products on the market negatively effected your low carb diet goals?  What are your thoughts?  Successes?  Failures?  Thank you so much for any information!

I like the occasional breakfast bar or snack when I don’t have a chance to cook for myself or haven’t been prepared enough to get my self something done the night before. I am now doing a daily shop, rather than a big weekly one, so I can get everything fresh from the butchers, fishmongers or greengrocers and it has made a huge difference to the way my food tastes as well. I always fall off the wagon when I start munching the low carb sweeties so I don’t buy them now – LOL Elise 180/175.6/140

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It’s wrong to lump all low carb "convenience" foods together.  There’s quite a difference between foods like LC candy and a jar of LC bread and butter pickles, or ketchup, for example.   Even the people that constantly make negative comments about them are often users of products like LC flavoring syrups, or sucralose, which somehow in their logic is OK for them, but if someone else likes sweet relish in a jar, that’s bad. I find the wide variety of LC products available to big a tremendous help and to make LC livable.  The products I use most are ketchup,  pickles, sweet relish, muffin mix, and flavored syrups.  And I don’t buy the idea that they somehow will make people fail.  Sure, you have to read the labels and excercise some judgement, but you have to do that anyway with LC.   I think the ones that fail would fail anyway because they are too lazy to read a book and do it right.

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|| I lost over 35 pounds by eating fresh low carb foods since 2002.  Now || that there are literally thousands of prepared products to choose || from, I still find my best success at weight management comes when I || limit myself to those low carb foods I prepare myself.  I am writing || a research paper on this – has the mass introduction of low carb || products on the market negatively effected your low carb diet goals? || What are your thoughts?  Successes?  Failures?  Thank you so much || for any information! Those of us who have been low-carbing for a while and have tried many of the fast food products eventually learn exactly what you said — our weight loss is most consistent when we eat freshly prepared foods (meat and vegetables) each meal.  The convenience foods may be ok occassionally, but not on a daily basis.  But if anyone rants about those foods or stops losing weight because of them; shame on them — nobody forces us to eat anything we don’t want to.   It’s no different than the "low-fat" frankenfoods that have been out there on the market  for several years; I know several people who have continued to gain weight eating low-fat ice cream and low-fat candybars, etc.  It’s no different with low-cab frankenfoods. Unfortunately a lot of people are still looking for a quick fix and are unwilling to take personal responsibility for their overeating.  Now they have a new scapegoat:  the manufactures of commercial low-carb food products.   The reality is that a low-carb way of eating takes a little minimal effort in grocery shopping, planning and preparing each meal. Maybe it’s not so bad after all though; it reminds me of when I was a kid and my mother cooked every meal and the whole family actually sat down together around a table and ate, then we all helped to clean up the kitchen and do the dishes.  many people these days are spoled rotten by convenience foods (I was one of them) and have forgotten that prepared meals — while extra work — can be an enjoyable part of the daily routine  And for low-carb success, setting aside the time each day for these meals is necessary. — Peter 270/219/180 website:  http://users.thelink.net/marengo

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I lost over 35 pounds by eating fresh low carb foods since 2002.  Now that there are literally thousands of prepared products to choose from, I still find my best success at weight management comes when I limit myself to those low carb foods I prepare myself.  I am writing a research paper on this – has the mass introduction of low carb products on the market negatively effected your low carb diet goals?  What are your thoughts?  Successes?  Failures?  Thank you so much for any information!

There’s odd trickles of research on low-carb diets on diabetics, which might be helpful – the consensus seems to be that it’s as good a diet as any, and some people are saying the obvious, that it’s a lot easier on the pancreas. I can’t remember any research on absorption of sugar alcohols, but that’d be worth looking for – some diabetics (who of course are the only group likely to be measuring) say that sugar alcohols have as great an effect as full-carb sugar on their blood glucose. There are tables around that suggest the different absorption rates for the different -ols. Nicky. — A1c 10.5/5.7/<6  Weight 95/79/72Kg 1g Metformin, 75ug Thyroxine T2 DX 05/2004

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I lost over 35 pounds by eating fresh low carb foods since 2002.  Now that there are literally thousands of prepared products to choose from, I still find my best success at weight management comes when I limit myself to those low carb foods I prepare myself.  I am writing a research paper on this – has the mass introduction of low carb products on the market negatively effected your low carb diet goals?  What are your thoughts?  Successes?  Failures?  Thank you so much for any information!

  I was going to bash the LC products at first blush, but I changed my mind. I think that alot of the candies and treats have caused many newbies to fail right off the bat. They have also created a new market by which the media and the nay sayers can say that a LC lifestyle doesn’t work. That said….. I use lots of them, and they make my life easier, and more enjoyable for the most part. Now I don’t have to find or make my own ketchup, ice cream, milk, etc. My meals still consist of 99% whole foods, so a treat now and then is welcome. — *Atkins guy, 50 lbs permanently off over 6 years! — JK Sinrod Sinrod Stained Glass Studios www.sinrodstudios.com Coney Island Memories www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories

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I lost over 35 pounds by eating fresh low carb foods since 2002.  Now that there are literally thousands of prepared products to choose from, I still find my best success at weight management comes when I limit myself to those low carb foods I prepare myself.  I am writing a research paper on this – has the mass introduction of low carb products on the market negatively effected your low carb diet goals?  What are your thoughts?  Successes?  Failures?  Thank you so much for any information!

Many of the "manufactured" low carb foods don’t taste very good, and I don’t buy them after the first trial and taste. Some of the "sugar free" candies taste pretty good. Some taste terrible. I no longer buy the good tasting sugar free ones because of the tendency to eat a lot of them…. and calories ultimately do count. So, in the end, the low cal foods that I eat, and that keep me on the path to lower weight are those that I cook from scratch. For the most part, the manufactured low carb foods are personal failures for me…. either poor taste or continuing a poor habit such as candy eating. Some of the low carb ice creams taste good enough that a half a gallon lasts two days before I eat it all, and therefore, I no longer buy those   ice cream low carb products.

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There are only a few low carb items that  I buy- the rest I ignore. I must have carb countdown milk, low carb ketchup, sugar free pancake syrup, Atkins cereal and shakes, low carb baking mix. Low carb menus in restaurants are nice, but not necessary- just give me freedom to pick my side dishes and how I have my entree prepared I use more whole foods, and actually use less processed foods, not trusting what ingredients are in it.  A Lintz 85% cocoa bar is real chocolate, low sugar and 4 net carbs a square-and no stomach ache. — Diane

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I lost over 35 pounds by eating fresh low carb foods since 2002.  Now that there are literally thousands of prepared products to choose from, I still find my best success at weight management comes when I limit myself to those low carb foods I prepare myself.  I am writing a research paper on this – has the mass introduction of low carb products on the market negatively effected your low carb diet goals?  What are your thoughts?  Successes?  Failures?  Thank you so much for any information!

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I lost over 35 pounds by eating fresh low carb foods since 2002.  Now that there are literally thousands of prepared products to choose from, I still find my best success at weight management comes when I limit myself to those low carb foods I prepare myself.  I am writing a research paper on this – has the mass introduction of low carb products on the market negatively effected your low carb diet goals?  What are your thoughts?  Successes?  Failures?  Thank you so much for any information!

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