I am Christel from Diabetes Strong in this video I’ll be showing you what I eat in a day
or rather what I’m eating today because the thing is I don't follow a specific diet um I don't
adhere to a set amount of carbs I just I eat a varied diet however a lot of you guys have
reached out to me have asked please share what I eat so let's do that although I don't follow
a specific diet now I have in the past I have tried the keto diet which is very low carb
high fat and I’ve also tried diets where I ate very set amounts of carbs for each meal
so the keto diet did not work out for me and neither did this at carb but for two different
reasons the keto did not work for me because the high amount of fat actually made me really insulin
resistant and that made it really hard for me to manage my blood sugars so those of you who
don't know me I live with type 1 diabetes I manage with insulin and that means that I need to dose my
insulin right for the food I eat and when you're insulin resistant that can become a little more
complicated given that the insulin is not as effective so ultimately I stopped that I as
I said also tried a very set amount of carbs which might be really good for my blood sugars
but it was not good for my mental health and I ended up having a problematic relationship with
food let's put it like that so stop that and I am now in a place where I just eat what I feel like
and what makes me successful when it comes to my diabetes management is that I count my carbs
that means that for every meal I will count up my carbs for that meal and I do that
fairly down to the gram of the grams uh one or two grams off is fine um I also count my
proteins and my fats and if I do eat very high protein I’ll also dose for that because it will
raise my blood sugars so let me take you through a day and this is a Sunday uh so that means I’ll
do be doing a little bit of work but you'll see that it's a day where I eat and I work out and
I relax a little bit so let's start with breakfast my go-to breakfast the last three months have been
this product it is a low-carb cereal called Catalina crunch and this is cinnamon toast
and I would have that with um unsweetened almond milk and that has I’ll show you the label here
14 grams of carbs with the almond milk that's about 15-16 grams and I’ve enjoyed that but I
was just on a trip I was gone for a few days and I had some really nice omelets so thinking
that might be a yummy thing to make this morning so that's what I’m doing so let me just show you
so this is my breakfast well I’m sure I’m finished as well I’m gonna do an egg white omelette with
some spinach a little bit of canadian bacon and some feta cheese um and I’m gonna have
a thomas I don't even know what they're called multi-grain english muffin and this one has
26 grams of carbohydrates so I did calculate it all I’ll show you and my breakfast is going to be
around 30 grams of carbs I record my meals in my fitness pal you see that here to the left because
that can help me calculate my carbs so if you flip the phone horizontally like this see it actually
shows the carb count 28 grams and it's just a super easy way of doing carb counting and now
I’m heading to the gym so that meal also served as my pre-workout meal I am going to do some
resistance training maybe some cardio if you feel like it but that is a goal drink plenty of water
I know it's not food but water is important and I do go through a few of these bottles a day
there's 16 ounces in one I just worked out um and I drank one and a half so that's what 24 ounces
and I’ll be drinking more water throughout the day again it's not food but it kind of I guess also
what do I eat in a day category I am back from the gym and this is kind of little I don't know wind
down ritual of mine I have a cup of coffee like instant coffee with a scoop of collagen protein
and it's just protein there's nothing else in there since technically no carbs
however protein can impact blood sugars a little bit so
especially combined with coffee sometimes I will take a little bit of insulin with it
and my view is why not time for lunch um I’m gonna do lunch is often one of my largest meals
the largest meal rather I’m gonna do this this is like a salad kit
I know I could drop off the salad but I’m lazy I don't want to the good thing about this is that it
has a complete carb count so I’m probably going to eat the whole bag again this is my largest
meal so that is 27 grams of carbs because you can see up here there are three servings
and there's nine grams of carbs per serving it's 27. However, there's also some fibers in
here so there is two grams of fiber per serving so that is six that's 21 grams
of carbs and that carbs for this whole bad boy and then I’m gonna have a pork chop with it so that is
gonna be my protein it's a fairly lean piece of meat and I’ve been drawing that lady I’m gonna
cook that a little bit of paprika salt and pepper I’m gonna eat that with my salad yeah that's lunch
okay so here's the salad mix and you can hear the pork chop sizzling so you can see
some cabbage there's some different salad there's a bit of cheese and there's also a dressing that
you can't really see and then there's these tortilla chips so again if you just pile
all of that on a plate might be hard to tell what the carb pound is but because it's on the
nutrition label on the package I know that total card count of this plate
and that's today's lunch 27 grams of carbs but 21 net carbs so that's how I’m gonna dose my insulin
for the nut carbs so I got a little hungry time for an afternoon snack because I have my
cup of coffee it doesn't really count as a snack but then I grabbed a kind bar thin
this one is like peanut butter chocolate and it's 10 grams of carbs
and it's tasty and now it's time for dinner I’m not super hungry um so I’m not going to
eat a big meal which is fairly normal for me sometimes I’ll have half a salad like the one
I have for lunch um tonight I’m gonna do something a little different I had some
low carb bread in the freezer I took that out this is like 18 grams of carbs for two slices
I think it's 15 or 16 net carb I’ll show you in a second and then I had a can of tuna
tuna water yes that's usually what I get and I’m gonna make myself a tuna melt
with a little side salad so let's see what that looks like and here you see I’ve locked this meal
in my fitness pal so you can see what's in it if you flip the phone and now you're able to see your
macros or your proteins your fat and your carbs for the individual meals but now let's focus on
the bread for example let's flip it back click on that bread and here you can see all the details
if you scroll down you can see all the nutrient fats so here you can see that the total carbs is
18 grams of carbs however the net carbs is actually 15 because there's three grams
of fiber so that's helpful if you take insulin based on your neck carbs rather than just your
complete carbs and there we have dinner super exciting but I’m kind of excited about it so
it's a can of tuna I need cheese that I meld it and I put some mayo on here boop I’m gonna eat
like that it's iceberg salad and cucumbers I really like cucumbers and I’m gonna have
diet soda sparkling ice kiwi strawberry this is really good and this has like
nothing in it it's not a health drink it's just a low carb drink that I like and this
is dinner ta-da and now it's almost time for bed I am gonna eat an evening snack I often do that
um I get a little hungry and I enjoy having a little bit of protein before nighttime so
what I’m gonna have is I’m gonna have this let me just show you here we go Chobani it's a Zero
sugar blueberry yogurt I really enjoy this this is relatively a relatively new product I think
it's only been on the market for about a year and it's surprisingly good for being like zero sugar
and all that good stuff and it has five grams of carbs so hardly any carbs I don't want
to do super carb heavy at night before bedtime sometimes I’ll do fruit um but
this is good stuff I’ll have this and then I’ll have a small handful of almonds
and that is it for today so that was a full day of eating you can see nutrients up here
so I hit around 100 grams of carbs today not every day looks like that um
some days will be less some days it'll be more actually really rarely is it less than 100 but
yeah and also just don't worry about the goals here they're very old I think they were set by
MyFitnessPal it's not something I try to aim for um so again 100 grams of carbs today you can see
I got a fair amount of protein in as well um but again as I said not every day will look the same
for me for the most part breakfast will stay the same so I’ll probably be eating omelettes
for a while same thing with lunch lunch is often some sort of green base so like
a salad today and the protein so dinner varies quite a bit today I wasn't really that hungry
I wasn't dining with anyone so it was just fast I think that was a cue for today but if I sit down
for dinner with my husband for example it'll look a little different also my snacking will
vary quite a bit from day to day I do have some other kind bars that I like which is just again
not bars with a little bit of chocolate I like to eat fruit I also found
some trader joe's chocolate covered strawberries that are really really good
um I do sometimes eat a few pieces of chocolate throughout the day if I want something sweet
like cheese drink cheese is also good um so this is these little round cheeses called baby bell
I think that's what they're called at least or different types of yogurts
so if I snack a lot in a day my carb count often gets quite a bit higher which is okay um another
thing that I like is I actually also really like popcorn which of course is a straight-up carb
but I find that they're fairly easy to dose for because if you do air pop popcorn the
the fat content is fairly low and it's just it's just carbs but again that is what I ate today
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