Glad you found it helpful! It's really hard to be careful with yummy yummy carbs, but at least Jesse's hacks make me feel like I'm doing myself less damage with them. A couple of notes if you decide to buy the book: her thinking has evolved a bit since then. In the book she talks about just eating the veges then the proteins then the carbs, now she recommends having a salad before the meal. This sounded like a great idea to me but I found that it was just too much work producing an extra dish, so I just stick to eating things in the right order. She also doesn't mention having a savoury breakfast in the book - that obviously came from research released later.
The other thing to bear in mind is that she bases her recommendations of what foods to be careful with on her own experience. It's now known that there's a huge amount of individual variation in how blood sugar responds to various foods. I was puzzled when she said oats massively raise your blood sugar, because the customary wisdom is that they do the opposite. Then I realised that that must be true for her, but obviously not for everybody. If you want to know more about this, you can find out what your own particular problem foods are with a specific test (like with these people https://joinzoe.com/) or do what Jesse does and use a continuous glucose monitor to check your own reactions. Personally, I'm too scared they'll tell me something I love is a major problem. I now eat a lot less bread than I used to (sob!), but I still have it sparingly at weekends and I do not want to hear I shouldn't be doing even that. Life without any of my sourdough at all isn't really worth it.
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The other thing to bear in mind is that she bases her recommendations of what foods to be careful with on her own experience. It's now known that there's a huge amount of individual variation in how blood sugar responds to various foods. I was puzzled when she said oats massively raise your blood sugar, because the customary wisdom is that they do the opposite. Then I realised that that must be true for her, but obviously not for everybody. If you want to know more about this, you can find out what your own particular problem foods are with a specific test (like with these people https://joinzoe.com/) or do what Jesse does and use a continuous glucose monitor to check your own reactions. Personally, I'm too scared they'll tell me something I love is a major problem. I now eat a lot less bread than I used to (sob!), but I still have it sparingly at weekends and I do not want to hear I shouldn't be doing even that. Life without any of my sourdough at all isn't really worth it.