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So, yes, I’ve had to find out what the Glycemic Index is
By ella | February 6, 2008
I’m feeling better than I have been in ages. The crazed, sugar withdrawal days are over and I am feeling better for eating healthily. Who knew?
The nausea has also gone, probably because the massive high blood sugar/low blood sugar swings have gone, cast out with the refined carbs. Who knew? Clearly not me.
In fact the whole family is eating better. We are converts to the GI diet which is good for weight loss but also for diabetics who want to control their blood sugar levels. The children have always eaten healthily, or at least what I considered to be healthily - home cooked, mostly organic, lots of fruit and veg - but looking carefully at what they were eating I can see that their blood sugar would have been swinging fairly wildly throughout the day. Combine that with the natural activity of a four year old boy and a six year boy and there is really no house big enough to contain them. Although I can’t convince the older boys to switch from white bread to granary, I have been able to replace simple carbs with complex carbs, in most cases without them even noticing.
Still, lest I sound too evangelical about our new eating habits I still cannot get a lentil past my lips.
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So glad you’re feeling better (and you do sound much better). There are good ways of cooking lentils - when you’re ready.
Ok, here’s my turn to be evangelical - if you can’t eat lentils, you’re not cooking them right! If you can eat mince (like in a pie, spaghetti bolognese etc.), you should be able to substitute the meat with lentils and hardly notice the difference. If you’re not sure, try going half-half with the meat until you get used to the taste.
I actually find them nutty and delicious and think they are highly underrated as a food source due to the “hippy stigma” associated with them.
Anyway, good on you for getting healthy and well! Woohoo!
Yeah for healthy! Yippee for feeling so much better!
Glad you are feeling better. As a sugar addict married to a diabetic I can heartily recommend the GI diet as a healthier way to live. I am yet to persuade my husband that lentils or brown rice and pasta are actual foods but he happily eats brown bread and new potatoes with the skin on.
Good luck with the rest of your pregnancy, I’ve been lurking for a while so have been following your (blood sugar) ups and downs. Hope you continue to feel better from here on in.
You sound great! Glad to hear you are feeling so much better…food really makes a difference…Well, you’re not alone in giving up the sweets as I’ve yet again given them up for Lent. Of course last year for Lent I was pregnant, so it was especially difficult! I’ve added in some running at the gym three times a week and I’m feeling much better as well…probably just because I’m getting out of the house more than usual! Keep up the good work! how many weeks to go is it now??
About five or six weeks, Kristen, if they let me go to term (which they should, as I’m being a good girl and keeping my blood sugars down).
Hurrah for feeling better and coping with the new diet. I’m really impressed… refined sugar and white flour are EVERYWHERE.
Isalute you for that. There’s no harm when you go diet as long you are eating the right food. Keep it on and stay healthy.