@A DiabetesTeam Member yes, that's exactly it.

I personally eat a Low Carb/High Fat diet (LCHF).

It is not the most healthy diet (estimated to reduce life expectancy by 4 years) because even though I am careful to try and keep my saturated fat intake low, when 60% of your calories come from fat it's easy to cross the line a few too many times which can lead to heart disease.

My choice was not simply picked out of the air. Thought and consultation did go into it.

Nobody in my family going back 4 generations that I know of ever had a heart attack or stroke (but we are all diabetics). So in discussions with my Diabetes Doc and my Dietitian the consensus was that I'm probably not genetically predisposed to heart issues (many are) so my system could probably tolerate more "fat", even saturated, then Joe/Jane average.

The problem with most diets that really restrict carbs, save the Mediterranean diet (which is just way to bland for me to stick with if you actually follow it's rules) leave us "lacking", sometimes severely in key vitamins, mineral and nutrients or getting too much saturated fat (although some, such as sat-fat in Dairy products is not dangerous and in fact needed or you can develop issues) - because most of vitamins, minerals, trace elements that we have evolved to need for proper function are in "stuff that contains carbs".

With the LCHF diet you need to protect against heart disease, cholesterol (I'm medicated for that), blood pressure (medicated for that as well) and stroke.

Vegan more so and Vegetarian diets while really heart healthy leave the (person) deficient in a number of vitamins and trace elements. We can make a conscious decision to not eat animals for whatever reason but we can't erase a million years of evolution where our bodies came to "need" a diet that encompasses all food groups.

So any diet we undertake needs "professional advice" to identify deficiencies that we can address with either "other foods" or supplements.

About 3 years back I sat with my dietitian for almost 3 hours and she did an in depth analysis of "what I eat" to try and identify "what's missing". Turned out it wasn't enough that I needed to supplement, but I did add a couple of other items into my (routine) to prevent a deficiency.

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@A DiabetesTeam Member....Slim Fast has several ingredients that I personally would never put in my body..Maltodextrin,Dextrose,sucrolose and artificial flavors being the main ones. Each to their own though. There's also a fair amount of carbs in it. Your lunch sounds good! Have you ever tried heavy cream in your coffee? Very low carbs. Whipping cream is the same. Easy to make yourself. My wife puts a little cinnamon and turmeric in her's. I drink my coffere black whenever I have a cup.
I also try very hard to never let my bg go over 7.8 (140.4). Over that on a consistent basis is opening the door for possible heart,organ and vascular damage. This has been proven by modern science.

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I find everone's bio metabolism is totally differemy. We have to find out ourselves the point of balance, which is understanding our metabolism and tweaking it. Knowledge helps, that is limited!🙂

113 (6.2)... Fantastic!! Keep up the good work.😃

Good for you. I love it when someone knows what they are talking about and passes it on.