[Cassini]

I have been taking Acidophilus with Bifidus and FOS for a couple of years now and they keep my tummy issues to a minimum. They contain 6 billion non dairy active cells with FOS from above used as a base.
These are either the same or similar additives to these "health yogurts" with none of the extras you have to add if you have the yogurt.
The ones I buy are about $6 for 180caps, I take 3 a day, really cheap and make sure you keep them in the fridge for maximum active cell life.
Cass

Edit, I buy them in vitamin section of the grocery store

[lisa821]

Low carb doesn't necessarily mean NO carb. I agree with some of the other comments about fruits and veggies--eat 'em! Not just salads; steamed broccoli and cauliflower are good sources of fiber (don't cook them to death. Learn how to steam them so they have a little bite to them). There are also low carb breads that have lots of fiber. Google 'high fiber veggies and fruits' and see what comes up. Try to get your fiber sources as naturally as you can; you'll be poopin' in no time!

[notme]

If I ate fat, I would feel nauseated. I am much better off eating leafy greens or some other fiber. Meat and fat as a staple food would gross me out.

[lottadata]

GG bran crackers are 3 gms of carb and lots of bran fiber. They satisfy the need for bready foods without raising blood sugar and the fiber helps a lot. They are at Whole Foods and you can mail order them from some of the online low carb sites.

Beyond that, a spoonful of the metamucil that does not have sugar or aspartame will get the job done.

[Eviltwinkristy]

If you are eating a lot of cheese/dairy products that can be your cause of constipation. Drinking lots of water will help you lose weight and keep your bowels moving.

[jillrapp]

All of the advice I've read it great, however, like the big D, doesn't work for everyone. I eat plenty of veggies, a little fruit, a good amount of fat, still have trouble. The Activia Light Yogurt (10 carbs) eaten once a day, usually before bed as my night time snack works well for me. Nothing else, even gentle laxatives, nothing works.

[ShottleBop]

I find that olive oil helps (30-some years ago, when I was in an intensive language course in Santander, Spain, almost every meal was drenched in olive oil--I was more than regular). Also, I take a couple of heaping teaspoons of inulin (fiber from chicory root) in a cup of coffee every morning.

[BrianSCohen]

Originally Posted by notme

If I ate fat, I would feel nauseated. I am much better off eating leafy greens or some other fiber. Meat and fat as a staple food would gross me out.

Nancy,

You don't have to get your fats all from meat sources. Generous use of olive oil and other oils can help. The avocado is also a great source of fat. I use lots of olive oil in my cooking. I think it makes many veggies taste better. Do you also find that gross?

[trowter]

That is sooo weird...Low carbing does the exact opposite to me. I spend days on the toilet. It's awful.

[notme]

No Brian, Not at all. I love olive oil.

What I don't like is high protein meals all the time. In one of the other threads, I talked about my trip to Africa where we were fed almost every meal just protein. We had meat for breakfast lunch and dinner. We were given lots of meat, cheese and more meat. By the third day I was so disgusted with the protein meals that I got nauseated. I didn't eat meat again after I got home for weeks.

A diet that is high in protein and fats like bacon, sausage and eggs would not work for me. I can eat that for awhile and then it revolts me.

I really need lots of fruits and veggies and salads. I am much happier.

[GretchO]

Originally Posted by fgummett

fibre , like low-fat and low-salt is not the universal panacea it has been made out to be and not being scared to eat fat will prevent any constipation issue you may have when eating low-carb.

I've done a lot of reading on fiber preventing colo-rectal cancer, my Mom just had a cancerous polyp removed (thankfully it hadn't spread to the lymp nodes so she's A-OK), as she's always had a really high fiber diet and thought she'd be safe. I did read a lot of studies saying there is no evidence that higher fiber diets necessarily prevent colo-rectal cancer, but this article from Harvard, I thought, was interesting.

HMI World | Around Harvard

I'm not necessarily scared to eat fat, I eat lots of olive oil and I love bacon and sausage. I'm probably eating more fat now that I'm "lower" carbing than I ever have in my life. But it does seem that fiber, nevertheless, is also quite beneficial and shouldn't necessarily be swept under the rug along with the bad carbs?

[Noni1974]

I used to have to opposite problem. I had such bad problems with going number 2 the doctors thought I had IBS. I started lower carb eating and the problem seems to have melted away. I still don't go everyday but when I do go it's not basically water like it was before. It's way more solid than before.

I used to go ever few days to a week. Then on the days I would go I'd be in the bathroom all day it seemed. Now I seem to go every other day at least and most days I go at least once. All solid, no more diarrhea.

I don't know if this was because of the diabetes or not but it sure seems fishy that it would suddenly clear up after 2 years all on it's own.

[Tiger Lily]

i eat 'lower or managed' carbs, for me that's about 60 grams a day

i count the 'net carbs' after fibre content

here is a partial list of the 'free veggies' that have a high water content and high fibre content

* asparagus
* bean sprouts
* beet greens
* broccoli
* Brussels sprouts
* cabbage
* cauliflower
* celery
* cucumber
* green peppers
* lettuce
* marrow



* mushrooms
* onions (1/2 cup)
* orange peppers
* parsley
* radishes
* red peppers
* rhubarb
* spinach
* Swiss chard
* tomato (only 1)
* yellow or green beans
* zucchini

[soso]

Hi Kate
So, if you eat any of those veggies, you don't have to include them in your carb count and bolus for them?
I have had many high pp numbers on account of brussel sprouts, which i have very little self control around, they seem to work out at about 1 g carb each, I would need to check, but think that might be net of fibre, I can easy eat 10-15 (and sometimes more if I don't stop and breathe) at a sitting.

Also if you had multiples of those things in one meal, at what point would you start counting?
cheers

[Tiger Lily]

Soso

i eat the free veggies when i want something, but don't want the calories and don't want to shoot for them

i use a luncheonette plate rather than a dinner plate (psychology of 'my plate is full') and 3/5 of my plate is typically 'free veggies'

so, no, i don't shoot insulin for the free veggies

sorry to hear brussel sprouts give you troubles..... i LOVE them and typically have, oh, 15 or more at one time