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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

B: choc chip brioche roll. Had it in the cupboard for weekend visitors who didn't eat it. It was truly horrible. Ate it anyway:oops:
L: chicken, gammon and leek pie with cauli mash and garlic mushrooms; dark chocolate mousse cake, blueberries, clotted cream. Family were over for Easter lunch. Didn't test BS levels!
 
B: flaxseed, yogurt, few blueberries
L/D: Easter party buffet (ignored all the high carb and sugary stuff) had crustless spinach quiche, courgette bread, large pickled onion :)

Have a hotel chocolat dark chocolate little chick to have later :happy:
 
Mongolia said:
Was watching MasterChef on Friday and a contestant made blue cheese butter. Wonder if I can find a recipe for that...:hungry:
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Creme de St Agur cheese mixed with butter - makes an easy, delicious and quick blue cheese butter and only 1g of carbs per 30g.
 
B: Nothing
L: Leftover lamb and roast veggies
D: Chicken curry with cabbage and cauliflower
Back from our family Birthday Week holiday - managed to ignore various birthday cakes and other gooey stuff and stick to under 40g carbs all week, but sadly calories suffered a little as I was over-compensating for being so noble and courageous!! No weight loss this week, therefore, but no BG spikes either. :-)
Grandson has given me a little extra birthday present this week though - a rotten head cold. My BG levels are running in the 6s rather than the 4s and 5s, although my food hasn't changed. I'm guessing it's due to the virus...?
 
I'm finally back. I'm NOT doing that again (a sort of semi-camping holiday with my work - and I work with adults with autism). I don't know what was worse the sleeping arrangements (and conditions), the lack of internet access/phone signal or the absolutely diabolical food. The service users were absolute stars, they coped way better than I did.

Anyway, I've lost the plot with where I am on the BSD but I'll calculate it again tomorrow. Today I just want to get warm right through and have some..... vegetables. I did manage to PUT ON 3lbs.

Food over the last four days has been mainly processed, poor quality, short on nutrients and not very well cooked. Ewww! As it was supplied and cooked by a central 'kitchen' (I use that word loosley) it was impossible to stick with the 800 calories (far from it) but I did manage to stay relatively low carb - well low enough that my BG didn't go above 6.8. A sample day was:

Breakfast: Sausage and beans and chunks of bread and butter. I only ate the sausages (not great quality) but rather too many of them.

Snack: Crisps, biscuits and other easily portable snacks. I had Babybel and Pepperami.

Lunch: Sandwiches, fruit, more crisps. I had packet of sliced beef and a tomato.

Snack: Cake, biscuits, ice creams - I had Babybel and Pepperami

Evening meal: Chilli and Rice / Sausages and Mash / BBQ - I had the bits I could have and left the bits I couldn't. The woman described to us as a 'nutritionist' who designed the menus and supervised the cooking of most of the meals asked me (regarding eating a low carb diet) if as I couldn't eat rice with my chilli, whether I could have a jacket potato - because, of course, thats low carb, right? Even my manager burst out laughing.

I have no idea where this 3lbs has come from - I think it must be the wine.
 
hansolo said:
Hey folks

Help me out. I tried LCHF for about 5 days (with a 3 day ease in beforehand) and BGLs were soooo markedly stable. Got cold feet between regular healthcare advice and also cravings for bread that I stopped.

Only now I am back to uncontrolled highs by 'eating what I want and injecting for it' (standard NHS advice) whereby, if I put in insulin that returns my BGL to pre-meal levels at the 4 he point, it still spends at least 2 hrs in an uncomfortable range (11-13+).

My other issue with LCHF was not knowing if I had the energy reserves to mow the lawn, walk the dogs, climb Everest etc.

Also, I travel a fair bit. Not so easy getting a v low carb meal in eg an Italian restaurant or even a motorway service station or airport.

Any ideas/advice gratefully accepted.

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Hi. I will start by saying that I am fairly new to the forum and have not been diagnosed as diabetic. However, I came so mightily close (1st HBaC1 reading of 51 and the second at 47) that I am acting as though I was diagnosed. I have used info from this forum and learnt to read very carefully what is in my food (quite an enlightenment I will tell you).

To answer one question. My experience of LCHF is that you have more energy not less. I feel better not worse. I have also gone from 15st 3lbs in January to approx. 14st 3lbs now. I have never felt hungry (other than my fasting days - because I also operate the 5:2 diet).

I can appreciate what you say about having to eat other than at home because it becomes a little tiresome asking what is in things and not really getting a satisfactory answer. My advice to get to know some stable things you can eat. Remember that meat, cheese and many dairy products will generally be LC (although always check). When out I have found myself doing strange things such as scoffing a packet of corned beef plus salad on the way to Weston Super Mare v Maidstone United. You get used to it. A great breakfast for instance is cream cheese (preferably full fat) plus cucumber and tomatoes. You will find you eat less on the LCHF diet because you don't feel as hungry. I am regularly eating 1700-1800 calories on my non-fasting diet because it satiates me.

The scarier parts I found (and maybe this is why you stopped after 5 days) is that I got cold like symptoms after a week. This lasted a couple of days and then disappeared (it is known as Atkins flu). I also felt like I was having heart palpitations for a few days. Again this settled down and now I am in a nice groove. Giving up carbs is not easy (especially eating out) because they are accepted as absolutely necessary by the majority and you get quizzical looks for saying you don't want rice/pasta/bread etc with your meal. You will get used to it and after a couple of weeks it will be relatively easy. Cutting out carbs is a fairly well known thing I find.

One last hint I would give (this is personal) is lentil dishes (such as Channa Dahl) and raspberries. They are a great way to get your fibre content up.

I don't know your situation but I am trying to go from 15st 3lbs to 13st and then see what my blood readings are. This idea is based on the Newcastle Study about losing weight to get your body operating again. I am doing this by slightly underrating on calorie levels each day (1600-1800 as I said earlier) and having 2 days at just 600 calories. The first half of that is easy on LCHF. The second half is harder as I am finding typing this out with my bottle of fizzy water and still 5 hours until I eat while my little ones scoff sandwiches, cheese and chocolate cake!

You have already shown that LCHF can work for you. Make it a way of life to hopefully improve your life for good.
 
For breakfast a carob 9 bar. For lunch - 2 xSausages, 2x bacon, egg, mushrooms and tomatoes.
 
Yesterday I had:

B: 75g Tesco soft cheese plus 50g cucumber and 50g tomatoes
L: 75g Tesco soft cheese plus 50g cucumber and 50g tomatoes plus 250g chicken fried in spices
Afternoon cinema snack: 2 Clemtines
D: 125g chicken baked in spices plus salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers and mozzarella plus approx. 60g cheddar cheese.
S: 125g Raspberries with 500g Alpro simply plain soya-based yogurt (wasn't overly keen on this)
Drinks were 3 cups of tea plus lots of lovely water.

This all totted up to around 1760 calories and around 75g carbs (I think - trying to remember from yesterday)

I was not hungry in the slightest and the children at my work went from calling me fatty for my 'huge' lunch to asking if I would do it for them when I pointed out that it was a) tastier than their sandwiches and b) probably lower calorie or equivalent to their sandwiches. :)
 
Today I am on:

B: Fizzy water - 20 cals less than 0.5g carbs
L: Fizzy water - 20 cals plus less than 0.5g carbs
D: Channa Dahl - 450 cals I think and 50ish carbs
S: Not yet decided but will have to be 150 cals tops

YES TODAY IS 600 CALS DAY AND YES I AM GRUMPY!:mad:
 
debrasue said:
B: Nothing
L: Leftover lamb and roast veggies
D: Chicken curry with cabbage and cauliflower
Back from our family Birthday Week holiday - managed to ignore various birthday cakes and other gooey stuff and stick to under 40g carbs all week, but sadly calories suffered a little as I was over-compensating for being so noble and courageous!! No weight loss this week, therefore, but no BG spikes either. :)
Grandson has given me a little extra birthday present this week though - a rotten head cold. My BG levels are running in the 6s rather than the 4s and 5s, although my food hasn't changed. I'm guessing it's due to the virus...?
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Hi Debrasue

Reading no low calories days again means that my littluns coming to your house and destroying your food cupboard draws closer :D.

Have you tried lunches such as fajita chicken with a decent salad (put olive oil and black pepper on). I find this quite satisfying and it is not high cal. Also what about changing eating habits to eat five or six meals at approx. 300 cals. I find this is a good way to feel satiated and, quite often can skip the last 'meal'. Drinking fizzy water is something I use on my 600 cal days and it seems to work well. Tesco sparkling flavoured water Apple and Raspberry etc is 20 cals for the whole 1l bottle and 3g carb/2g sugar for the whole bottle.
 
@hansolo I travel a lot for work and always keep an Emergency stash of Parma ham and some baby Bell in the car in case I can only stop at a service station
 
adriangoatseye said:
Hi Debrasue

Reading no low calories days again means that my littluns coming to your house and destroying your food cupboard draws closer :D.

Have you tried lunches such as fajita chicken with a decent salad (put olive oil and black pepper on). I find this quite satisfying and it is not high cal. Also what about changing eating habits to eat five or six meals at approx. 300 cals. I find this is a good way to feel satiated and, quite often can skip the last 'meal'. Drinking fizzy water is something I use on my 600 cal days and it seems to work well. Tesco sparkling flavoured water Apple and Raspberry etc is 20 cals for the whole 1l bottle and 3g carb/2g sugar for the whole bottle.
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Hold on! Don't send in the toddler terrorists just yet - the higher-calorie days were last week whilst on holiday with the family (we have our own TTs, aged 1, 2 and 3 :-) ). In an effort to stay away from the 10-foot-high chocolate birthday cake and mountains of nibbly bits that eveyone else was eating, I OD'd on almonds, bacon, cheese, raspberries and cream!
I'm back on track again this week, but I love the sound of the fajita salad, and I'm going to try the smaller snack meals for a week, too, to see how that goes. Thanks for the post! :-)
 
adriangoatseye said:
Yesterday I had:

B: 75g Tesco soft cheese plus 50g cucumber and 50g tomatoes
L: 75g Tesco soft cheese plus 50g cucumber and 50g tomatoes plus 250g chicken fried in spices
Afternoon cinema snack: 2 Clemtines
D: 125g chicken baked in spices plus salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers and mozzarella plus approx. 60g cheddar cheese.
S: 125g Raspberries with 500g Alpro simply plain soya-based yogurt (wasn't overly keen on this)
Drinks were 3 cups of tea plus lots of lovely water.

This all totted up to around 1760 calories and around 75g carbs (I think - trying to remember from yesterday)

I was not hungry in the slightest and the children at my work went from calling me fatty for my 'huge' lunch to asking if I would do it for them when I pointed out that it was a) tastier than their sandwiches and b) probably lower calorie or equivalent to their sandwiches. :)
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... and more nutritious, too!
 
debrasue said:
Hold on! Don't send in the toddler terrorists just yet - the higher-calorie days were last week whilst on holiday with the family (we have our own TTs, aged 1, 2 and 3 :) ). In an effort to stay away from the 10-foot-high chocolate birthday cake and mountains of nibbly bits that eveyone else was eating, I OD'd on almonds, bacon, cheese, raspberries and cream!
I'm back on track again this week, but I love the sound of the fajita salad, and I'm going to try the smaller snack meals for a week, too, to see how that goes. Thanks for the post! :)
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I'm glad you are going to give it a go on the small meals front. You end up thinking 'OMG! Is it time to eat again already!' I don't know what cals you are aiming at daily but with 2k being your average for a female then 1500 would be a good daily limit. that is five 300 meals a day. My 50g cucumber, 50g tomatoes and 75g Tesco soft cheese breakfast was great and, if memory serves right, I was only 102 cals. That gives you 200 to play with straight away. I'm just so pleased that maths is a strong subject for me with all this counting and working out various packets.

Tomatoes and cucumber are great for low cal and pepper is good for upping your fibre. If you are trying to do just 40g carbs (tough ask) then watch pepper. 50g is 32g carbs although it is 13g fibre. In my regime that is fab. In yours it is high on carbs. Really embrace salad veg as a little addition to meals because they make it seem bigger without adding masses of cals.
 
adriangoatseye said:
I'm glad you are going to give it a go on the small meals front. You end up thinking 'OMG! Is it time to eat again already!' I don't know what cals you are aiming at daily but with 2k being your average for a female then 1500 would be a good daily limit. that is five 300 meals a day. My 50g cucumber, 50g tomatoes and 75g Tesco soft cheese breakfast was great and, if memory serves right, I was only 102 cals. That gives you 200 to play with straight away. I'm just so pleased that maths is a strong subject for me with all this counting and working out various packets.

Tomatoes and cucumber are great for low cal and pepper is good for upping your fibre. If you are trying to do just 40g carbs (tough ask) then watch pepper. 50g is 32g carbs although it is 13g fibre. In my regime that is fab. In yours it is high on carbs. Really embrace salad veg as a little addition to meals because they make it seem bigger without adding masses of cals.
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Yes, I agree with you about adding salads and, much as I adore peppers, esp. red peppers, I know they're a bit carb-heavy, so I do restrict them. I'm embracing spinach, broccoli, courgettes, mushrooms, cauliflower and cabbage too, along with strawberries or raspberries if I need a sweet hit. As a rough guide I'm aiming for 40g of carbs and 1430 kcals per day. The carbs are easiest to manage, and that's certainly being reflected in my BG levels, which - apart from two minor aberrations - have been between 4 and 7 ever since I started on the LCHF plan.
 
Raspberries are becoming my king of fruits. In fact I could be going to The Priory for an addiction to the little red menaces soon. Don't do broccoli/mushrroms/courgettes in salad stick 'em in the pan with the fajita chicken. Lush! In fact remove the chicken, do loads of veg and melt cheese over them. Very lush! I'm sure you know all this though. No great revelations from this simple lad but you never know I might say something you don't know at some point and surprise you.

BTW Those three little ones you mentioned will make five when my two turn up. You have no hope!
 
adriangoatseye said:
Today I am on:

B: Fizzy water - 20 cals less than 0.5g carbs
L: Fizzy water - 20 cals plus less than 0.5g carbs
D: Channa Dahl - 450 cals I think and 50ish carbs
S: Not yet decided but will have to be 150 cals tops

YES TODAY IS 600 CALS DAY AND YES I AM GRUMPY!:mad:
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All changed now

B & L stay the same.

D: 200g roast beef + 50g Carrots + 50g broccoli + 50g sweetcorn
S: 1 banana + 100g Greek style yogurt

All tots up to 700ish on the cals front. 100 above target but I can live with that.
 
I don't have a lot of hope as it is - my three are like locusts when it comes to chocolate, biscuits, cake, etc. Anything healthy, of course, is perfectly safe!
 
Hello everybody
B. Raspberries and cream

L. Leftover celeriac with roasts with 2 eggs

D. Sirloin steak with Mediterranean vegetables
 
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