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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

9am 1/4 of a lidl high protein roll with peanut butter and sorbitol (diabetic) jam
11am a few pistachios
1pm Scotch egg
3pm a 40 gram bar of Cavalier stevia/erythritol chocolate (6 grams carbs)
4pm strawberries and blueberries with cream +++ and sweeteners
6pm lots of nuts and another bar of Cavalier chocolate
8pm 3 egg omelette with cheese, mushrooms and ham
10pm diet jelly with cream

Just going to bed, BG on libre and fingerprick = 5.5..................very happy with that, as did very badly on holiday last week (a Cornish pasty and chips sent me up to to 18), average on libre 9.2.
 
Hi Newbie here, recently diagnosed as type 2. The low carb approach seems like a very logical and sustainable method to controlling my BS. Not sure of the numbers yet - waiting for my BS meter to arrive.

Anyway, thought I would post today's meals as a way of keeping myself motivated.

B: 5 egg omelette shared with my wife, with cheese, onion and toms.
L: Strawberry smoothie with soya milk.
D: (Planning) Tuna with moroccan salad.

Today, we did our first shop with me carb counting (or at least making an effort to seriously reduce carbs). It is really the first time I have paid attention to carb content as compared to fat. It really is quite shocking to see how many "low-fat" products have higher carbs (particularly sugar) compared to the full-fat product.

Thank you for reading....
 
jonbvn said:
Hi Newbie here, recently diagnosed as type 2. The low carb approach seems like a very logical and sustainable method to controlling my BS. Not sure of the numbers yet - waiting for my BS meter to arrive.

Anyway, thought I would post today's meals as a way of keeping myself motivated.

B: 5 egg omelette shared with my wife, with cheese, onion and toms.
L: Strawberry smoothie with soya milk.
D: (Planning) Tuna with moroccan salad.

Today, we did our first shop with me carb counting (or at least making an effort to seriously reduce carbs). It is really the first time I have paid attention to carb content as compared to fat. It really is quite shocking to see how many "low-fat" products have higher carbs (particularly sugar) compared to the full-fat product.

Thank you for reading....
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Excellent start Jonbvn, keep it up. I find this thread quite inspiring................if you look back at over 300 pages, it will give you loads of ideas for good LCHF food choices. But test test test is the general idea - everyone is spiked by different things.
 
Jasperville said:
Excellent start Jonbvn, keep it up. I find this thread quite inspiring................if you look back at over 300 pages, it will give you loads of ideas for good LCHF food choices. But test test test is the general idea - everyone is spiked by different things.
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Waiting for my meter to arrive is killing me.

I feel that when I know my numbers better, it will give me additional motivation to eat better and exercise more. Nothing beats a good S-curve!
 
B - coffee
L- half a Lidl roll and butter
D- greek salad; berries and yog
S - small piece dark choc and couple slices of chorizo
 
Breakfast
Espresso coffee with drop of cream
Homemade(by me) Italian Venoto style Pork Sausage (no preservatives)
1 x free range egg
2 x button mushrooms fried.

Lunch
1 Can Tuna in Olive Oil
2 x Button Mushrooms
1/3 Avocado
3 x cherry tomatoes
 
B: coffee-substitute and cream, with the last cinnamon almond biscuit
L: mozarella, beef tomato and olives
S: chocologic, milk
D: roast chicken, the skin, cauli cheese and green beans. no room for pud.
 
My second day of posting:

B: Smoked Salmon with 2 scrambled eggs.
L: Chicken Caesar salad.
D: Smoked Salmon salad and some strawberries with Greek natural yoghurt (full fat) for dessert.

Still impatiently waiting for my BG meter.......
 
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Last night I had fat head pizza. It was really good! I used a pizza stone so it cooked evenly and apart from being slightly chewy, it was pretty good!

I'll have that once a month as a treat.
 
Brunneria said:
Flavour wise, my favourite is Teeccino. But it is ludicrously expensive.
The best all-rounder (for me) is Prewitts. Available Amazon or H&B. It will never be coffee, but it is pleasantly ok.

Re the crisps. The parsnip/beetroot ones are too sweet for me, unfortunately. :( I do love 'em. The saltier the better.

I wish I could find a lc cracker recipe that really cracks. Anyone got one?
I tried the fathead pizza base, but it was never crunchy. Big disappointment!
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Yeah!! I do and it's dead easy!!

http://easylocarb.com/recipe/flaxseed-crackers/

I also made them sweet by adding stevia and cinnamon and having with whipped cream. Almost like a brandy snap.
 
breakfast - blueberries, yoghurt, almond flakes
2 hrs. intensive exercise at the gym
lunch - chicken fajitas (incl. peppers, onions, coriander, sour cream, cheese, guacamole)
5 mile walk at brisk pace
dinner - nothing
evening - a bag of crisps with diet coke
 
B: Two slices of Burgen bread toast.
L: Cheese & Tuna Salad
D: Baked Salmon with boiled okra, cabbage & broccoli.

Good news is BG meter arrived at last! Just started testing to see how my BG reacts to different foods.
 
Yesterday:

B: Lidl protein roll with ham and tomato smoothie with dash of Worcester sauce (Virgin Mary).
L: Beef dinner from carvery - no potatoes or yorkshire pud + bottle of red wine
D: Corned beef & cheese salad.
 
Weird couple of days..................trying hard to fast for longer periods................

yesterday, nothing for breakfast/lunch, tried to go until dinner, but had a total pigout on biscuits at work at 4pm............had about 12 shortbread fingers, probably 150g of carbs. BS on libre went up to 13. Then just strawbs and cream at 10pm.

Today fasting again, to make room for a Chinese takeaway with family later - will try to be fairly controlled.

Plan to eat nothing then until breakfast on Monday - hoping to achieve my first 36 hour fast!
 
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