Hehe its no prob bls
I dont want to sound so negative all the time about Atkins because in reality I still know so very little about it. Any dislike I have is based on the simple concept of minimal carbs and high protein. I'm not sure if my problem with it comes from a near lifetime of hearing doctors and dieticians drill into me the 3 carb/portion per meal diet or what, or the overall idea that a little bit of everything is what makes a good balanced diet. I would guess you guys in America know the healthy diet pyramid? Atkins seems to fly in the face of it.
A few years ago Diabetes Australia did a bit of revision of it's guidelines and instead of focusing on sugar, focused more on saturated and animal fats. I still think this applies more to Type II diabetics who face more immediate health complications as added weight increases everything a diabetic is at risk of, heart disease/failure, kidney failure, blindness (or glaucoma), risk of amputations etc. It is drummed into every diabetic that weight is bad. I think we'd have more occurance of annorexia if it weren't so difficult to develop an eating disorder while trying to manually control our insulin levels
As for my diet, again I'm not sure which has come about naturally or what resulted because of the diabetes. I was diagnosed aged 8 so I really know no different. I'm not sure how much my diet has affected my low cholesterol, at times it has been dangerously low. 2.4 I think was the lowest it was found at and is now currently only at 2.7. I'm not healthy by any means, I have excess weight I would love to shed and Atkins, despite my reservations, has me incredibly curious. With food, I grill everything. Any meat I want is always grilled. I couldn't eat something that is shallow fried. I've found meat has enough of it's own fats to cook in to prevent it drying and being inedible. I eat very little margarine and similar spreads, which ever I do use on the occasional piece of toast is either cholesterol free or salt reduced. I used to never add extra salt, and do now but figure it probably isn't going to do much harm. Many people say ceasing sprinkling salt on food is also helpful though. If I'm feeling lazy I will grill some chips instead of steaming the vegies. They're oven chips (about 1cm or 1/2 inch thick) and always cholesterol free. I dont like fried chips or fies as you guys call them
And I can never wait 40 mins for the oven to cook them so it's still relatively fat free. If I want to cook a roast or similar, obviously some kind of oil is needed. I use those blocks of solidified cooking oil. The vegetable oil kind.
If I'm really good about it, my diet probably wouldn't differ much from Atkins as I also have Coeliacs. Thus meaning I should also cut out all gluten - flour, barley, oats, rye. All high carb coincidently. But there is only so much rice and vegetables a person can eat lol. I'm not slim at all, so I'm doing something wrong somewhere. I eat junkfood irregularly. Chocolate and take away. That is probably the answer right there lol. + I eat a lot of potato, high in starch.
I've rambled on now hehe and must be quite dull to anyone who's read all this
Did any of that answer your questions?
Sorry if it didn't as its just wasted 5 minutes of your day otherwise!
She was on Lipitor, and that really helped.
When I get my thing checked out at the doctors I guess I should have them check for other stuff since I'm way beyond how I should weigh.
How well have you been following Atkins?
about the only thing i've done is try to eat a little more fruit and veggies, which i know is probably not enough.
helps increase it, so I dont think wine is a good idea.
