RB wrote:
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Steve, you mention two bottles of Ensure. Check the nutrition label
on one. About 50 carbs per bottle. For a Type II diabetic that's a
pretty heavy carb load for one meal. Many people consume less per
day. Do what you think is right but I suggest that you log how many
carbs you consume on a daily basis and see where you stand. May find
some room for change.RB
A few random thoughts...
Obviously, they throw ungodly amounts of (essentially) sugar in
products like Ensure and the endless varieties of "energy bars" they
have out there. I certainly wouldn't be eating stuff like that. The
chicken pockets the OP mentioned sounded good though.
I ate high-carb "nutrition products" like Ensure for years myself and
I ended up with 40-50 pounds of extra fat on my body to show for it,
despite my regular excercise (which I continue to this day... I run
about 4-5 times per week, about 30 miles a week average).
I think of products like Ensure and high-carb energy bars as
basically vitamin-fortified confections. If you throw a couple of eggs,
a vitamin supplement, and some wheat bran into a chocolate milkshake or
a candy bar, does that make the chocolate milkshake or candy bar any
better for your blood sugar (and therefore your diabetes and your food
cravings)?
I'm no diabetic and never have been but it seems to me that not only
is restricting/controlling one's carbohydrates extremely useful for
sustained weight loss for many, it's a *winner* of an approach for
diabetes management. The whole point of diets like Atkins is to
*control* *your* *blood* *sugar* (and insulin response).
Also, I've found that the higher-protein content of a lot of the food
in my diet now tends to work wonders in controlling hunger... I'm
simply less hungry than I used to be and can go far longer without
eating than I used to, and I attribute it all to changing my diet.
Good luck.
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4.27.05
Anyways, just my meandering two cents.