Dieting, going Low Carb

[CHecker]

8 hours ago, bagwell1987 said:

Dinner tonight

http://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/bacon-cheeseburger-cauliflower-casserole/#_a5y_p=3455432

Update:  

I made this tonight and here's how I modified it:

I sliced the bacon before hand and cooked till crisp, spooned out and added sausage in the oil, cooked till done, saving the oil. - Set aside on paper towel

Took some of the oil and cooked the chopped onions. Set aside on wax paper

Pan fried cabbage/carrot in butter then added fresh garlic right before done. Set aside on wax paper

Took the cooked, cooled cauliflower and mashed with potato masher. Set aside

Took 2 cups powdered cream soup, added 3 3/4 cup water and stirred in, (made with corn starch so no gluten). Add bacon and sausage and stir. Set aside

3 cups of shredded cheddar.

 

Assembled in 2 9x9 glass dishes. 

Spray with oil

1. Put in cauliflower

2. Put in cabbage/carrot/peas (and 1/2 pint of left-over corn)

3. Add cheese

4. Add  cream soup with meat

5. Add more cheese

Bake at 350 degrees until browned on top and bubbly.

 

I can say it's amazing. Lew loved it and is satisfied. Oh wow good. Worth the time to make it.

[kejedo]

I get my lipids tested again in three weeks. I am working on trying to lower that dreaded LDL. All ratios are normal, but LDL is high. I have been prescribed statins, but am doing diet, exercise, and vitamins instead, I haven't eaten any thing yet today. I plan to have a 25 calorie sugar free protein shake with Kale for my brunch. If I can lose a couple of pounds in the next three weeks, that may influence the total count.  Y S 

[bobby]

a low carb would no work for some one how is on  a dialysis diet  

[CHecker]

This is no gluten, and low carb because these are red potatoes and german butterballs. I will slice these and soak in water to release most of the starch then making, OMGoodness, cheesburger scalloped potatoes using a cream soup (corn starch base). I made this with chopped ham steak last weekend and it's amazing. These beautiful garden potatoes will become dinner for the weekend.

[kejedo]

Just got back from my Physical therapist appt.  I have been working out in a number of women's gyms since I was a teenager, and am the next thing to dystrophic when it comes to building muscle (and/or increasing strength.) I truly feel a bit stronger and was able to demonstrate an increase in biceps and triceps.  P. T.  says my progress is noticeable but suggests I should be on a weight GAINING program to accelerate strength and muscle increase.  He feels my caloric intake is too low and (potential) increase of musculature would require availability of additional nutrition ingredients.  I have followed other plans (worked as a nutritional specialist,) and feel that wheat and sugar are saboteurs to me.  I asked my primary about adding more fruit, and she feels it would increase my ACL-1. I am now in the normal range, but a year ago was pre-diabetic.  I occasionally eat a rice cake once a day. Should I make this a regular staple in my quest to add a reasonable amount of carbs, but not extra body weight? Has any one done this?

Edited July 29, 2016 by kejedo

[retroHelen]

As a diabetic, for extra calories but no extra weight, I increase my grass fed meat intake, but only to the equivalent size of 2 packs of cards a day. I drink a weak decaf coffee with (grass-fed dairy)cream and coconut oil -Medium Chain fatty acids for extra calories. Grass fed livestock get their Omega 3 Long chain fatty acids from grass. These are essential fatty acids and Coconut doesn't need much digesting to create ketones useful as fuel like other fats do, especially for the brain. I eat oily cold water wild caught ( not farmed) fish 2 or 3 times a week for Long chain fatty acids and extra calories.

 

If you use ketones from good none-hydrogenated fats as fuel, it burns faster and more efficiently so remember you need more water to digest them, so keep hydrated, especially if you are exerting yourself by keeping fit. Fat burning by ketones is more efficient, so you rarely store eaten fat as fat cells unless you over do it.

 

I have been just listeneing to 3 Doctors on a webinar about Alzheimers and Dementia recommending the low carbohydrate diet for less inflammation response that gets to the brain from the gut. They told about lady Doctor Porter, from Florida, whose husband was for 5 years with Alzheimers and getting worse. he was refused drug trials as the pharmaceutical companies said that he was too far gone. She looked up studies on Alzheimers/Dementia on the medical sites like Pubmed, going back years and found studies on the efficacy of Medium Chain Fatty acids and Long chain fatty acids of fish and coconut oil along with steamed vegetables and berry fruit as anti inflammatories and precursors (building blocks) for tissue for regenerating the neurons of the brain.

 

After 12 weeks he got up and dressed himself. After 4 months he could write and spell 3 letter words again. After 6 months his speech improved with therapy and he was back typing on his laptop. he had done none of these things for years. Inflammation of his brain because of the higher flour + sugar+ carbohydrate diet and resultant high blood sugars was not doing him any good. Dr Porter gave him some coconut oil in his organic oat porridge and a little in every coffee he drank, to the amount of 1 1/2 tablespoons a day, along with the diet and he was so much better and knew her and focussed and concentrated on everyday tasks and reading so much better.

 

On another subject - I used to eat rice cake and it played havoc with my blood sugars, as it is very high carbohydrate and my blood sugar measurements shot up, so I gave them up. Lower carbs definitely has given me more stamina and concentration. I have been the same good weight - apart from a spell of infection - for 3 years now.

 

[hatcheckgirl]

Good info Helen.  I am diabetic too.  Low carbs work for me, but eating smaller meals throughout the day including some healthy carbs keeps the sugar even.  I will look into the coconut oil too.

[CHecker]

Weighing in on the whole inflammation thing, a few years ago I began having issues with arthritis and asthma/lung mucus, both symptomatic of inflammation . A LOT of trouble. So I reviewed the inflammation diet as well as a tonic I could make to help me out. I'd heard juicing turnips was exceptional for chronic bronchitis because it was one of the 'hot' vegetables. Have you ever slurped down turnip juice? It's like a mouth full of over-cooked okra. I couldn't get past the slime. But yet I'd also heard of ginger tonic. It's also a 'hot' veg, extremely effective in eliminating inflammation. So last weekend I made a batch of the tonic.  Monday morning I had my first 1/4 cup, withing 20 minutes I wasn't struggling with phlegm. Wasn't coughing and hacking. Wasn't red in the face because I was struggling to breathe around all the phlegm clogging my lungs. Additionally I started on allergy pills. Wow what a difference. The allergy pill wears off after 12 hours (supposed to be a 24 hour one, ya right) so I just have another glass of ginger tonic and it's manageable. 

I have to say breathing is so much better it's hard for me to believe this is simple solution could be so effective. 

 

I'm not touting a cure or even recommending you do this for your health, but this is what is working for me, after years of debilitating asthma and arthritis that keeps getting worse each year. Simple, cheap solution. Glad I planted ginger now, I guess I'm going to have to start a ginger garden in the back room! 

[kejedo]

Going into my 8th week of back injury. For most of this time I was totally incapacitated, in bed (or hospital), in pain, could barely eat or drink.  Was losing weight rapidly with out trying and had to eat more calorie dense foods because of how painful it was to eat, even a little.   Became underweight but have only been able to exercise a bit. Now it looks like my skin is hanging from my bones.  I have been on a high calorie diet for the past couple of weeks. I am anxious to get back on my low-carb routine b/c I felt better.  I can't wait to get back to a reasonable exercise plan, either.  Three med appointments coming up this week.

                                                                                                                                                                   Y (thin isn't always in) S

[CHecker]

Still keeping to a low carb/keto way of eating. Makes me feel better and if I don't...oh dear me I suffer for a couple days.  So here's something I'm going to add later. I'm doing the chicken bacon cob salad so for now I'm ok, but the Costco Chicken Bakes....Oh dear, makes me sigh with pleasure. This looks great

http://joyfilledeats.com/?s=chicken+bakes

 

 

Edited January 3, 2017 by bagwell1987

[well]

Who's still doing this? 

[Miss Mouse]

1 hour ago, ivy said:

Who's still doing this? 

I should be ...... time to get back at it . 

[kejedo]

On 11/6/2016 at 11:10 PM, kejedo said:

Going into my 8th week of back injury. For most of this time I was totally incapacitated, in bed (or hospital), in pain, could barely eat or drink.  Was losing weight rapidly with out trying and had to eat more calorie dense foods because of how painful it was to eat, even a little.   Became underweight but have only been able to exercise a bit. Now it looks like my skin is hanging from my bones.  I have been on a high calorie diet for the past couple of weeks. I am anxious to get back on my low-carb routine b/c I felt better.  I can't wait to get back to a reasonable exercise plan, either.  Three med appointments coming up this week.

                                                                                                                                                                   Y (thin isn't always in) S

That 2016 episode proved to be a broken (fractured) spine; I was supposed to gain ten pounds and overshot that goal. Suffered another serious fall in 12/12/2017. Can finally move enough to be back in physical therapy.  Now I would like to lose again. I am counting carbs, but have some adjustments to my previous approach. 

[well]

20 minutes ago, kejedo said:

That 2016 episode proved to be a broken (fractured) spine; I was supposed to gain ten pounds and overshot that goal. Suffered another serious fall in 12/12/2017. Can finally move enough to be back in physical therapy.  Now I would like to lose again. I am counting carbs, but have some adjustments to my previous approach. 

So, what adjustments have you made if you mind to share?

[kejedo]

More fruit, less fat than my original plan which was primarily Atkins  (easiest for me). 

[retroHelen]

4 years on  low carbohydrate diet now. Follow recipes and ideas from Ditch the Carbs website. Follow Dr Joshua Axe; Dr Mark Hyman; Dr Brian Mowll; and the British Diabetic Association's - Diabetes UK Low Carb website forum. Keeping my blood sugars as low as is sensible as I want to stay off diabetic medications for as long as possible. I have so far and the retinal bleeding resolved and after initially losing 40 lb, now keeping my weight stable and fasciitis of the feet has resolved. Don't eat anything with gluten if I can help it and little dairy - unless I know the source is grass-fed rather than grain-fed ( creates poor oxidizing fats in the meat and butter and milk rather than omega 3 fatty acids from grass).

 

Diabetics only need to eat more carbohydrates through the day if they are on medication as the meds are so strong to get the carbs out of the blood that they could hypo if they don't carefully match drugs to carbs.Snag with this way of blood sugar management is that it does not stop the progressive damage that sugar does to eyes and nerves and weight and it stresses the kidneys more. I personally am  convinced by the evidence of my glucose/blood testing, that I am carb intolerant and want to save my liver and kidneys from the stress of medications forcing any carbs I have ingested either into cells that are resisting it or stressing liver and kidneys that don't like it either.

 

Latest science for type 2 diabetics like me, is that the pancreas has become as fatty as the liver, this caused it to shut down.  Aiming for weight loss with a low carbohydrate diet to rest the pancreas, liver and kidneys for a few months - the patient might discover that having emptied these organs of fat, that the pancreas still has some function revived - not as damaged as once thought. I can tolerate a little more carbohydrate now than 4 years ago when I was first diagnosed. Testing with glucose blood strips/meter shows I am still pretty low tolerance though, so I am not going backwards into old bad habits.

 

Another fact is that 80% of fat that clogs organs is not from the fat you eat, but triglycerides made in the liver from carbohydrate you ingest.

 

Most of my dairy consumption is by probiotics - kefir and yoghurt. Other probiotics I like to eat, just a couple of forkfuls a day on a meal,is saurkraut. Never been brave enough to make any myself, but we have Polish people here who do it and sell it. Probiotics feed gut bacteria or add to the flora of the microbiome ( variety of gut bacteria in the large intestine/stomach but not the small intestine). All this has helped to resolve the nasty IBS I once had for years along with ulcers that have healed.

 

https://www.ditchthecarbs.com/ 

[kejedo]

My med team is actually sending me 10 prepared meals a week, most items from which I have to throw out. They are a bit flummoxed by my inability to absorb/retain vitamins, despite injections, supplements and infusions. Oncologists are in disagreement re: diagnosis and treatment; pulmonologist is debating about lung surgery; cardiologist believes my heart is stable for now.  I have 40 items on my diagnoses list that are either unstable, stabilized, monitoring, and/ or treating. I was pre-diabetic a few years ago and eliminated all grains and am now normal as for that diagnosis. Only ate protein and got my carbs exclusively from vegs. Had a  bit of fruit this morning, salad for lunch, and protein for dinner. Have been having 3 to 5 weekly doc appointments up til now, but am trying to space them out, with a goal toward aux pio for March. 

 

Edited February 19, 2018 by kejedo

[Vinnie]

I recently watched a documentary on  the problem with wheat, wheat belly and grain brain. I am so disappointed...no rather disgusted that wheat is no longer the safe haven I thought it was.  I didn't think I had a problem with wheat. But after learning more about what's happened to wheat, I realized that I need to reduce my carb intake as well and increase my fat intake.

 

I'm guessing that nothing is truly safe anymore. This gives Jesus words, " look I'm making all things new" , more appeal. 

 

 

[NW2020]

8 hours ago, Vinnie said:

I recently watched a documentary on  the problem with wheat, wheat belly and grain brain.

 

Interesting!!  Do you recall the title?

[Vinnie]

5 hours ago, NW2018 said:

 

Interesting!!  Do you recall the title?

 

It was on Netflix, called What's with Wheat.

[retroHelen]

Borrowed these books about how hybrid wheat is excacerbating inflammation in many chronic conditions from our public library:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501121685?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1501121685&linkCode=xm2&tag=towncentwell-20&inf_contact_key=e0cc981ecd74adb6bace8e42906bceb38c4622505b13b5b7093c0203da1c675e

 

https://www.drperlmutter.com/learn/books/

Both doctors also treat people with low carb diets if they are type 2 diabetic like me.

 

[Sandyds61]

We are still eating low carb/keto along with IF. I follow dr. Berg, Dave Asprey, Jason Fung, and Mark Sisson, and others. I also incorporate some from William Hoff method, with ice cold shower for 10 minutes or more. Sounds crazy but I feel awesome.

I have been able to reduce by half my blood pressure meds and am ready to reduce again. And I am down 16 lbs so far.

Dr Berg is my recommendation for newbies along with Mark Sisson his new book is the keto reset. Dr. Berg has many videos online but if your interested in learning about IF = intermittent fasting than Jason Fung has some great info on that. We have done his method for 7 days and felt great.

 

 

[dove]

I could also recommend Dr. John Bergman...YouTube..

[Tbs77]

Crockpot pressure cooked pork shoulder over cauliflower rice... I usually put on my "smoker" but this is "quick and easy" for Mrs to make for me.

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[Greg Dent]

On 2/1/2016 at 11:43 PM, bagwell1987 said:

Here's one you have to try, it's amazing. It's no gluten not necessarily all low carb. 

I modified it to fit what I had and how we eat. Tamari is a no gluten soy but all I had was soy sauce. But it's only a couple TBS for 6 dinners so that's not bad. Oh so good.

Spicy Chicken Noodle.pdf

 

 

its not the gluten that is the problem its the carbs that turn into sugar in our body. If it gluten free yet full of carbs please dont muddy the thread.