Eating Low Carb?

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<p>Even Starbucks has healthier food than their coffee cake!</p>

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<p>Here is a great source for low carb recipes: On facebook or pinterest like or follow “Just Eat Real Food”. You will be inspired by all the great food ideas and unique recipes.</p>

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<p>I would echo a lot of things hear. Stopped eating most carbs a year ago. Lost 40 lbs without exercising. Started exercising. I’ve put about ten back on - because I cheat some with alcohol and sugar.</p>

<p>A couple more things I’ve learned. Don’t eat corn. All sugar and starch. When picking veggies, pick carrots last - has more sugar.</p>

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<p>MiamiDAP, if I listened to my own body, I’d be eating 24-7 haha.</p>

<p>I also work out 1-2 hours every day. Intense stuff like running/walking 6-9 miles a day, p90x, Bob Harper…</p>

<p>But food is my weakness.</p>

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<p>Adjunct changes in my diet since D developed gluten-intolerance: I freeze fresh baked, high quality loaves of bread, saw off a slice as needed and either microwave it enough to thaw, or toast it. Consequently I don’t feel obliged to finish the loaf before it starts to go stale, and I always get a fresh-tasting slice. Eliminated pasta as a mainstay side at dinner, substituted roasted vegetables (all kinds) drizzled with olive oil and maybe a bit of honey for a change of pace, or brown rice, and no more cookies or cakes lying around the house just calling to be eaten. I snack on a few dates and almonds with tea in the afternoon and have some kind of fruit (berries, apples, asian pears, oranges) in the evening if I still feel the need to eat something. Interestingly, I found I can’t have artificial sweeteners in my hot drinks or yogurt because the sweeteners somehow make me hungry the rest of the day, so I use regular sugar. </p>

<p>Although this can’t by any stretch of the imagination be considered “low carb” I’m sure it could be called “lesser” or “better” carb than my former diet. Surprisingly I do not have cravings for baked goods like I used to, I do not feel deprived, and a side benefit is that I have lost 8 lbs during the course of two years. Go figure.</p>

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<p>ucbalumnus</p>

<p>Compared to what I eat now a salad or a soft taco would be low carb right?
I am not try to cut out all carbs -just trying to get off this roller coaster of sweets ,crackers, bread 24/7</p>

<p>I know the coffee cake isn’t healthy-I’m not stupid. I just can’t seem to break the cycle.</p>

<p>I thought going low carb might help with the cravings. </p>

<p>When I am hungry often the only thing that sounds good is some kind of “white food”</p>

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<p>Vot123</p>

<p>That is what I want to go for -lesser carbs.</p>

<p>Thanks all for your suggestions and thoughts.</p>

<p>I did well yesterday. No coffee cake! or cookies, bread etc…
That was a big deal for me,</p>

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<p>nrscollege,
" I go to starbucks and get a latte and a coffee cake. It never seems to satisfy me."
-So, drop your starbucks trip, if it does not satisfy you. Why to change your whole idea of eating instead? We should be able to enjoy what we love, not somebody else. there are meat crazies out there, they are promoting the low carb diet. I am not the one, I am a fruit crazy and I will stick to it, it works for me.
In regard to sugar and diabetes. First, any eating is raising sugar level in your blood. That is why you have to wait for certain time between eating and taking your blood sugar test. So, conception that sugar increases your blood sugar is not correct. Sugar, however, is empty calories and so many other foods, like pasta, most breads (including so called whole grain that if you start reading ingredients, you will see it for yourself that there is not that much of whole grain there), most rice…etc. Most in my family on mothers side (if not all) died of diabetes, including my mother. My H. has a desease, so I measure my sugar often and advise everybody to do the same. more so the people who have a concern. Over many years, one thing became evident. Sugar in blood depend on weight and not the consumption of sugar or any other food. This has been true for both my H. (diebetic) and me (non-diebetic). More so, my blood sugar has been normal many times when measured right after meal. In addition, I just had a huge blood test at my doc. office. All of my measurements are normal, except for HDL being too high, but they say they higher HDL is better. There is no indication for me to change my diet or lifestyle in general. However, it is a personal decision. You might be inspired to change. As a warning though, your body is used to certain food, be sensitive to the effects of drastic changes in your foods on your body. I definitely absolutely need to consume vey high amount of fruit and certain vagatables, my body does not like it when I do not.</p>

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<p>Blood sugar tests are usually done while in a fasting state. People who have insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, and diabetes will have a high blood sugar even in their fasting state. If these people eat foods high in sugar, their fasting blood sugar will be even higher.</p>

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<p>Miami, many of your posts convince me that you really do not understand medical issues very well.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty convinced that the only reason Miami appears to be healthy is because she exercises two or three hours a day. Most of us don’t have that kind of time.</p>

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<p>Because of low carb eating and exercising, I have gone from pre-diabetic to normal. However if I went back to my normal carb eating, I would be right back there so I am not cured…just keeping it at bay. I still check my blood sugar every time I eat a new carb…where MiamiDAP may be right is if your pancreas is working properly and your are not insulin resistant, sugar may not increase your blood sugar…however eating a lot of sugar and carbs over a period of many years may damage the efficiency of your pancreas and make you insulin resistant…and on your way to Diabetes! The OP wants to avoid diabetes so low carb would be the way to go imho!</p>

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<p>I think there is some wiggle room with the term “low carb” </p>

<p>My goal was to decrease the sugar and empty carbs white, rice, white bread etc…
and to eat more veggies and fruit and maybe a bit more lean protein.</p>

<p>So Miami DAP and ucbalumus -we may be closer to the same page that what you thing we are. We are just getting caught up in the words.</p>

<p>I was hoping that if I toughed it out for a week or so that the cravings for the starbucks etc… would decrease.</p>

<p>I like hearing about what other people eat. Miami DAP when you say High carb it sounds like it is still healthy types of carbs yes? You probably need a good bit to fuel the two hours a day of exercise. What kind of exercise do you do? I am impressed!</p>

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<p>veruca, in general when people talk about low carb or high carb (possibly excepting MiamiDAP), they are referring to whether or not the carbs are simple or complex. Someone who eats a lot of vegetables or low glycemic fruits is generally not considered to be eating a “high carb” diet. Usually a high carb diet would refer to a diet high in white flour products, grains which are stripped of their fiber (for example white rice), foods high in refined sugars such as candy, cookies, pastries, and chips, crackers, and such. </p>

<p>There are carbohydrates in all vegetables and fruits, but because of the fiber contained in them, they are more slowly absorbed than say, a candy bar and are referred to as the “complex carbs.” The fiber slows down the release of insulin, allowing blood sugar to remain more stable. You don’t get the flood of insulin which then results in a very sudden blood sugar drop-which then causes hunger-often for more simple carbohydrates. That’s why people who eat a lot of simple carbs call it a cycle of sudden hunger urges, or a “crash.”</p>

<p>Yes, being overweight is a big risk factor for diabetes, but diet is most certainly important for controlling diabetes and/or heading it off in susceptible individuals. Type 1 diabetes has absolutely nothing to do with weight and diet is critical for those people.</p>

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Probably not, I don’t know anyone who can eat as many donuts as MiamiDAP with no ill effects. Wish I could - I love donuts!</p>

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<p>It would be lower carb than a 100% sugar-and-refined-grain diet, but it would not necessarily be “low carb” the way some other posters here use the term (actively avoiding any carb foods other than low calorie vegetables), although a salad can be.</p>

<p>If you choose carbs with fiber (vegetables, whole fruit, beans) while avoiding the low fiber carbs, then you will be making a huge improvement in your diet.</p>

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<p>veruca:</p>

<p>I was a junk carb junkie. Candy, Pringles, Doritos, Snapple sweet tea, stoned wheat thins, pizza, Dunkin Donuts coffee rolls. So my first step was obvious. I would say that it took me about a month or so to break the craving for junk carbs. My “deal with the devil” tradeoff was that I would give up the junk carbs in exchange for continuing to eat large, satisfying meals, twice a day, without feeling guilty about it. I think it would have been much more difficult for me to “diet” every meal, every day, 24/7. So I attacked it like triaging war wounded. What is the most critical risks? How can I cut those? To have worried about the grilled pork chop for dinner while I was still washing down a bag of Doritos with a sweet tea would have been silly.</p>

<p>I just had to stop buying the junk food. I don’t even walk down those aisles in the grocery store, now.</p>

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<p>As for “low carb”, I think Mark Sisson does a good job simplifying carb intake in this chart:</p>

<p>[Mark</a> Sisson’s Carb chart](<a href=“http://i247.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/Carb_Curve_color.jpg]Mark”>http://i247.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/Carb_Curve_color.jpg)</p>

<p>Between 50 and 100 grams of carbs a day, most of us will lose weight effortlessly. Between 100 and 150 grams of carbs a day, most of us will maintain weight effortlessly. Between 150 and 300 grams of carbs a day, most of us are likely to have that little imperceptible creep that ends up needing to go up a pants size every so often. Above 300 grams a day is just dangerous territory, both for obesity and all kinds of medical problems.</p>

<p>As rough averages, I think this chart is a pretty good guideline. He’s not saying that most of us need to go to ultra low carb “ketosis” diets to either lose or maintain weight. In reality, he’s outlining a weight loss range were most people who “try the Atkins diet” actually end up. It takes a pretty hard core effort to get below 50 grams a day.</p>

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<p>veruca,
When you go to Starbucks, why not get a Kind bar instead of coffee cake? They are a very healthy snack food that may satisfy you. I don’t know if every Starbucks has them, but it’s worth checking out if you go often.</p>

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<p>I dunno. The first KIND bar I looked at was 35% sugar by weight.</p>

<p>[Dark</a> Chocolate Cherry Cashew + Antioxidants Snack Bar from KIND Healthy Snacks](<a href=“http://www.kindsnacks.com/darkchocolate-cherry-cashew-antioxidants-208.html#inline1]Dark”>http://www.kindsnacks.com/darkchocolate-cherry-cashew-antioxidants-208.html#inline1)</p>

<p>A candy bar by any other name is still a candy bar! It’s insidious how much sugar there is in products that claim to be healthy. It’s like sitting and eating out of the sugar bowl by the spoonful. That Kind bar is 3.5 teaspoons of sugar.</p>

<p>I think the best bet at Starbucks is to stick with the coffee. Cream if you you like it. If it has to be sweet, use artificial sweetener.</p>

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<p>They have sandwiches, you could even skip the bread or one of the slices of bread. They have salads. I think they even have nuts that aren’t wrapped in candy, but I wouldn’t want to bet on it. This would be a good choice: [|</a> Starbucks Coffee Company](<a href=“Starbucks®”>Starbucks®)</p>