Ila
My BGfasting is usually around the 5mmol [90mg] , a few points up or down. that's even when I reat myself to a tiny portion of something. Yesyerday, I had a SMALL portio of home made frozen yogurt ice-cream. with real strawberries in it. I do put a little sugar in when I make it, to "Stetch" the Xylitol, which is very pricey here in England. My excuse yesterday was that i had a fall. I toppled over my grandson's push chair, in the supermarket car park when Iwas folding it. I've split my bottom lip. Luckily I'd put my grandson into the car before it happened, so he was safe. I'm hoping this slight injury will heel normally as I usually do on the rare occasions I hurt myself.
Hana
Ouch! Hope you're ok.
Xylitol effects my BG quite a bit.
Thanks Gerri
i use Xylitol only when the taste is critical. Otherwise if I sweeten something it's with stevia. i eat very little sweet stuff, but I've never lost my taste for it. My gym gang has a ritual. If ever a member has something to celebrate, such as a birthday, a cake is provided for coffee break at the gym. I do have a bit about a cubic inch, just to participate in the gang and for my own birthday, I've made meringues with artificial sweetener. For the births of my grandchildren, I coloured the meringues appropriately
To Ila
Here is a LINK to a story that explains 2 doctors, brothers who did extensive research on Vitamin E. Notice these words "and to decrease the diabetic’s need for insulin." in their 1945 research listed in the article. VitE has numerous benefits, but don't take synthetic forms and don't also take blood thinners as VitE is a good blood thinner on it's own. So make sure doctors know what supplements you take. As you may know, I much prefer supplements to any conventional approach, but I spend a great deal of time reading about it. VitE has successful removed scars on me if I apply it long term.
I use this phrase to remember which is the synthetic “dl is not a good deal”. D-alpha is the one we want, not dl-alpha.
I had the opportunity to meet Gary Scheiner at AADE while he was talking with Hope Warshaw. I told him that I found his book very useful and that I enjoyed his video chat on TuD and all the conversation it started. He turned to Hope and said "Oh yeah, there was all this discussion about that guy you always have disagreements with." "What was his name?" "Come on you can remember." Finally, I stopped his berating hope and said "Bernstein." Conversation over. A classic.
Gary is the Educator of the Year for AADE, a well deserved award.
Chuckles, Brian! Yes, Hope is pretty firm in her convictions, but so is Bernstein, so I guess they were made for each other. You know the line about if there are 2 Jews in a room, there are 3 opinions (OK, so I made up the numbers). Well, they fit the bill! :-)
It's pretty shocking that Gary Scheiner didn't even know Dr. B's name, but I'm not surprised. It does bring his his comments on the video chat into better perspective. Educator of the Year indeed.
Here's a study titled "A medical nutrition therapy program improves perinatal outcomes in Mexican pregnant women with gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus." It finds carb restriction to be helpful for the studied population
here is a question for the Bernstein group.Ive been lowering my carbs for the last year or so. For the last couple of weeks I'm down to 50-60 a day. I have blood ketones between 0.5-0.6. I feel like I have the flu and I have terrible headaches that even wake me up. If I understood the low carb dietician correctly I ll have to put up with this for 4-6 weeks. Did this happen to you too? I'm truly wondering if its worth it. Yes but my blood sugars are much better!
Hi Mari
It sounds like you are experiencing the Atkins Flu. Westman, Phinney, and Volek recommend a little added salt in their book, The New Atkins For You; 2 cups of broth, 1/2 teaspoon salt, or 2 tablespoons soy sauce.
I second the salt recommendation. The reason is that the kidneys excrete more sodium when the body starts utilizing fat as it's primary fuel instead of glucose. Adding a little extra salt has made me feel much better. My primary symptom was severe dizziness, which is one of the symptoms of low sodium.
OK Thank you. Shall try some added salt. When you say broth is it meat or vegetable? Maybe it doesn't matter? 2 cups a day and for how long?
I think they are referring to a meat broth made with bullion cubes which is very salty. Don't know if you have that in France. For me, I have continued to use more salt than I used to.
Hi Mari,
Beef, chicken, or vegetable. You can make your own or use bouillon, canned or cubed, regular, not low-sodium. For as long as it helps!
thank you both! I do feel a little better this evening after the broth and salt.
Amanda and Bad Moon. How many carbs do you do? Have you been doing low carb for long?
Mari, 4 years 30 to 50 g/day. At one point before I read about this I decided to cut my salt way back, I got so sick one day I had to leave work early. I suddenly developed a craving for bacon and it pulled me out of it:) Weeks later I read about this and went A hah! For me I kept feeling a little better everyday for quite some time, I feel great now. Hope this does the trick for you.
Mari, here's a video by Steve Phinney, one of the authors Amanda mentioned, about how your metabolism changes when you low carb.
I try to follow Dr. Bernstein's recommendation 30 carbs per day. I doubt if I could do that in France though!