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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I feel the belongs in health as it is driven my my need to control carbs to control blood sugar. If the mods feel need to move it to another forum go right ahead. What is the forum for 'marital counseling'?
We have an interesting house. For those who feel there is ‘one best way to eat’ for everybody they should visit us. My wife is a hard vegan, even avoids honey and countless other items, could be a Jain. Currently would fit the plant based profile of Pritikin, Tanner, Kriss Carr and other plant based (IMHO) crazies She also doesn’t eat gluten and nightshades (potato, tomato, eggplant, chilies/capsicum of all kinds). I watch my carbs. My wife is not overweight but struggles to lose the last 5/10 lbs to get in the shape she wants. She eats very little, very disciplined and cannot hit her target weight. Sugar/carb wise she can eat anything. She has no blood sugar issues, can eat a carby meal with a big slice of (non gluten, of course) cake or pie and her blood sugar will go from 80 to 105 peak and @ 2 hr down to 85. I have trouble keeping my weight up period. I eat lots of food but keep carbs around 100 a day, I do not intend to do keto. I usually have 1,600 to 2,000 cal a day per My Fitness Pal and because of the low carbs do not put on weight. My Dr was concerned and I met with a nutritionist who advised upping carbs by one slice of wheat bread. Sure enough, weight went up so did blood sugar. No thank you. So there we are she has these tiny plates of plants, struggles with her weight and can eat any amount of carbs; I have a plate piled up with food, carb free deserts and I have to remember to eat or I will lose weight but I have the blood sugar issues.
We pretty much cook for ourselves, very little crossover. There are some vegetarian dishes she makes that taste great and are OK as long as I eat small amounts of them; I would have BG issues if I ate enough of them for my nutritional needs.
Anyone else with a vegetarian-carniviour house? How do you handle it?
We have an interesting house. For those who feel there is ‘one best way to eat’ for everybody they should visit us. My wife is a hard vegan, even avoids honey and countless other items, could be a Jain. Currently would fit the plant based profile of Pritikin, Tanner, Kriss Carr and other plant based (IMHO) crazies She also doesn’t eat gluten and nightshades (potato, tomato, eggplant, chilies/capsicum of all kinds). I watch my carbs. My wife is not overweight but struggles to lose the last 5/10 lbs to get in the shape she wants. She eats very little, very disciplined and cannot hit her target weight. Sugar/carb wise she can eat anything. She has no blood sugar issues, can eat a carby meal with a big slice of (non gluten, of course) cake or pie and her blood sugar will go from 80 to 105 peak and @ 2 hr down to 85. I have trouble keeping my weight up period. I eat lots of food but keep carbs around 100 a day, I do not intend to do keto. I usually have 1,600 to 2,000 cal a day per My Fitness Pal and because of the low carbs do not put on weight. My Dr was concerned and I met with a nutritionist who advised upping carbs by one slice of wheat bread. Sure enough, weight went up so did blood sugar. No thank you. So there we are she has these tiny plates of plants, struggles with her weight and can eat any amount of carbs; I have a plate piled up with food, carb free deserts and I have to remember to eat or I will lose weight but I have the blood sugar issues.
We pretty much cook for ourselves, very little crossover. There are some vegetarian dishes she makes that taste great and are OK as long as I eat small amounts of them; I would have BG issues if I ate enough of them for my nutritional needs.
Anyone else with a vegetarian-carniviour house? How do you handle it?