CookingPossum
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[Mod.Edit: Details of diet requested by Herbie]
I could write all day!
He's not to worry, it's not a Yorkshire disease! (maybe Lancashire but not Yorkshire
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First a web site: Low Carb Program they persuade you to pay but it's not necessary.
The thing I found difficult initially, was the missing comforts of bread, pasta and rice. Avoid these as much as you can.
I used the attached sheets to calculate my carb intake daily. The numbers are in %, i.e. shrooms at 4% means 4g per 100g.
Buy a good set of kitchen scales unless you have already to measure 1g in say 5Kg and make a note of everything you eat.
e.g. 100g shrooms = 4g; 100g carrot = 7; 50g beetroot = 3.5 so total so far = 14.5g carbs.
Don't worry about the sugar vs fibre content to begin just note the totals.
It took me about six months before I could stop taking notes every day and be confident I was keeping within safe limits.
I would suggest that he doesn't go the keto route to begin with, body can react unpleasantly.
I made an initial maximum of 80g/day which took my HbA1c from 6.5% to 5.9% in six months, now two+ years later it sits around 5.5%, well out of the Dracula zone
I could write all day!
He's not to worry, it's not a Yorkshire disease! (maybe Lancashire but not Yorkshire

First a web site: Low Carb Program they persuade you to pay but it's not necessary.
The thing I found difficult initially, was the missing comforts of bread, pasta and rice. Avoid these as much as you can.
I used the attached sheets to calculate my carb intake daily. The numbers are in %, i.e. shrooms at 4% means 4g per 100g.
Buy a good set of kitchen scales unless you have already to measure 1g in say 5Kg and make a note of everything you eat.
e.g. 100g shrooms = 4g; 100g carrot = 7; 50g beetroot = 3.5 so total so far = 14.5g carbs.
Don't worry about the sugar vs fibre content to begin just note the totals.
It took me about six months before I could stop taking notes every day and be confident I was keeping within safe limits.
I would suggest that he doesn't go the keto route to begin with, body can react unpleasantly.
I made an initial maximum of 80g/day which took my HbA1c from 6.5% to 5.9% in six months, now two+ years later it sits around 5.5%, well out of the Dracula zone

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