Hope you’re gettig enough protein. What you listed is very low protein.
I eat about 160 net carbs a day including a piece of fruit at almost every meal; lots of nuts, olive oil and other good fats. I rarely eat meat but I’ll have fish 2 or 3 times per week. I eat almost the same meal every breakfast (egg beaters, low fat milk, apple, two pieces of toast with 60 g peanut butter, teas) and most lunches are based on a large salad with chickpeas and there isn’t all that much variety in my dinners either. I weigh everything - even in a restaurant - and it seems to work.
Maurie
If you don’t get the response you need for your kids’ diets, you could repost this question in one of the parents groups.
I was very successful in counting carbs and limiting carbs for every meal. My personal limits (a 5’2" female) were 45 for lunch and dinner, and 20 for breakfast. I never ate chinese food or pizza after 4 pm (6 hours before my bedtime). That gave me time to correct and not have to stay up late when the bg was still rising. This allowed me to eat it for lunch, or early on the weekends. I also ate at least 2 veggie servings at lunch and dinner and one piece of fruit a day. Your blog asks “pro carb or low carb?” this diet was pro carb, but limited and regular amounts. I personally stayed below 45g because the
I fairly easily maintained an A1c of between 6.8 and 7.2 with the above self imposed policies.
I have recently switched to low carb (less than 45 carbs per day) and have lowered my average CGM reading from 129mg/dl to around 110 mg/dl. I am doing a test to see if the blood sugar fluctuations I was having are actually what was raising my cholesterol, as implied or stated or something by dr bernstein. It at first seems really restrictive, but the longer you do it an find links to atkins food sites, you realize it isn’t so bad. I am doing this 6 month test on my self. If it fails, I am going to have at least one really high carb meal.
I eat about 160-210 carbs a day. I tried low carb for a while but it didn’t work for me. I still needed the same amount of insulin as on a normal-carb diet, so I didn’t see any point of it in my case…
Mostly - veggies, fruit, yogurt (3.5% fat), milk and dairy, fish, wholegrain stuff like muffins and homemade bread, legumes, nuts… although I eat quite a lot of carbs, I try to stay low-to-medium GI. (chocolate does not count :-))
when I look at it now and compare with others, I realize I eat quite a lot actually 
i have actually just switched to eating a low carb diet after years of just eating standard ‘normal’ food with a high carb content (even though it has always been wholegrains and pretty healthy)
and the difference is amazing! my sugar levels are way more even, and i’ve already experienced a difference in my insulin sensitivity, so i need less, which is awesome!
a really good resource for me has been the primal or paleo diet, more info here:
http://notjustapples.blogspot.com/2011/03/primal-diet-at-glance.html
because it’s very low carb and the online community is full of recipes and helpful nutrition and lifestyle advice. it’s been really helpful for me, so totally worth having a look at.
i hope your flip-flopping can settle on something you love and makes you feel energetic, happy and healthy!
I am still trying to work thru my ice box so the salads have chicken, ham, smoked sausage(mainly the evening meal) less than 4 oz and any one time. I eat eggs on the weekend with bacon of sausage.
I eat lots of nuts, pecans, peanuts. This is still a work in progress i only have one kidney(born that way) to I watch my protein anyway.
I tried no carb and almost killed someone…lol…I eat good carbs (whole wheat or none at all) and stay away from all that is starch. Baked sweet potatoes and sweet potato fries have replaced my white potato fix…Love salad, eat it all the time. No red meat, my stomach made that choice, lol…Chicken, Fish, seafood and turkey. Nothing fried or canned (lots of sodium). I try to eat organic if I can afford it. Eat a banana a day and low sugar yogurt. I love to snack on tortilla chips, popcorn (mini bags), raisins, almonds, sliced cucumbers and celery with ranch. I only drink water, tea and coffee on regular when i drink alcohol I drink dry wines they have less sugar and no mix drinks…So I guess I am on the low carb/ low cal/no red meat/ low sodium/organic/ fresh diet…LOL
When I stick to this diet I my levels are controlled but when I slipped and eat something like cheetos (they are the work of the devil!!!) I am out of control…lol
Didn’t want to think of you starving eating only salad.
I’ve worked hard to limit my carbs for the last 6 months, usually around 60g per day. But every once in a while, I allow myself a high-carb meal – for me, it puts the cravings to rest, and then I am able to resume limiting carbs the next day. For me, this has worked very well – got the best lipid numbers I’ve ever gotten in my life, and far fewer lows and highs. Plus I lost 22 lb. But of course, YMMV.
Are the results of this survey skewed? It seems like there are only a few people who eat anything but low carb and, w/ only a few exceptions, they eat vegan or whole grain/ lean meat, etc. I prefer eating conservatively during the day and then damning the torpedos after I go running when I get home from work.
Low carb has a very broad definition, it seems.
I noticed that, Gerri. It seems that since I first came on here, the definition of low carb has gotten pretty blurry. Without any intention to judge how someone eats, I wish we had a standard way of referring to amount of carbs eaten, because if that is a part of the information someone is giving us we need to know what they mean by the term “Low Carb” “Moderate Carb” or “High carb”. It seems now if people don’t eat high carb they describe it as low carb, and there is a lot in between (where probably most people reside would be my rough guess, acidrock ).
For me, I eat between 75 and 100 carbs a day. I have been referring to that as “Moderate/low” as I heard a few people define it that way when I first came on here and it made sense to me, Sometimes I just say “moderate”. To me true “low carb” is Bernstein which is 30 a day. In this thread I’ve heard people refer to everything between 30 and 180 " as low carb and though it may feel that way to the person, it really is confusing.
Zoe -
Even moderate carb is pretty blurry. I ;think of my 160 net carbs - maybe a third of my total calories - as moderate. Before diabetes, carbs probably made up 60% of my total.
Maurie
Self selection always skews a survey
Maurie
Yeah, that sounds very different from the original description!
I don’t want to start a war about what constitutes low, moderate, high carb:) It’s like the ever changing women’s clothing sizes. The labels state a smaller size, but the actual dimensions are the same.
Aside what I said below about the definitions of low carb, Acidrock, I also do think that the people on TuD are not necessarily representative of the general diabetic population. I think they’re a lot more aware of the influence of things like exercise and diet on our overall health and take action accordingly.
Being from the old school ( how can one not be at age 70 plus ?) I am eating slightly less , than way back when …and it is due to being a bit less active. …still similar choices with variety …a min of 3 out of the 4 meal groups ,incl fiber , if this is the so called CDA way ? ( Simple ) meals at home are prepared from scratch …hardly any prepared foods ; I have been using less sodium in cooking . We try to choose vegies/fruits etc. grown within the 100 km radius ; during the summer months Hubby grows some items in our garden plot .We do eat out and try to adhere on same focus : variety of food .
I don’t use the word " diet " and prefer " meal plan " instead .My weight has been stable , move a couple of pounds down and up ( and the up part I blame on my FAT right arm, which likes to get fatter : lymphodema due to lymph node removal a long time ago …other story .
And I like to think of my 60g a day as moderate, but there IS just a little difference between you and me! Maybe I’m low-moderate and you’re high-moderate? And then there would be moderate-moderate in between? We could really twist ourselves in circles here!
Points well taken, guys. I also think people who have been diabetic a long time since before the low carb craze, even before people knew to count carbs, might see their carbs as very reduced compared to what they once were.
It’s not just you, Gerri. I guess I can see there being a wide range of what is considered moderate (and I can also see people being reluctant to call their carb intake high), but to me “low carb” does have a definite meaning.