Diet Doctor Low Carb Challenge

[maglil55]

@Brunneria
Well done, well done, WELL DONE!!!!!

Well, this cold has developed fully - including a temperature, headache, sore throat, earache, runny nose and dizzy spells. I nearly freaked out this morning when my FBG was 8.7. Mr C was luckily there to remind me my BG always gets unpredictable if I'm under the weather. Still not happy though, especially after having got down to 3.7 yesterday evening. Probably all part of the reaction to this cold.

Sorry you've gone full blown @Chook. I do feel your pain. At least hubby understands why I keep the house well stocked with paracetamol and First Defence. Get Mr C to make you Chicken Soup the cure all for all colds. Sent you a little cartoon to cheer you up. Hugs xx

 

[maglil55]

So
DD Week 1 - 1 lb
DD Week 2 - 3 lbs
DD Week 3 - Nothing
DD Week 4 - 1 lb Yesssss!

So 5 lbs total so far on DD but I have to allow for the fact I had also lost 18 lbs before starting DD so this slow downward trend makes sense.

Jury is still out on the coffee. Bed on 6.3 up to 7.2 but it got to 7.5 pre breakfast. I think I won't get the complete picture until next week when the schools go back on Tuesday and I get my normal gap between coffee and breakfast. Still not extactic about my readings but I have to remember I have had 2 bugs that upset the apple cart and I had weeks with wrong readings. They are getting closer to the 5's and looking at them overall the readings are mostly green with is pleasing.
So my plan of action is
1) Solve the coffee conundrum next week
2) Try IF to see if I can get the readings back in the 5's
3) Go on @Brunneria 's cake & DD Method!

Any other suggestions?

 

[Chook]

I choked down some bacon and eggs then went back to bed - just tested again and I'm at 6.5. I really don't feel hungry and Mr C is waffling on about 'feed a cold to starve a fever'

Oh no, Mr C has just told me the new dog has dug up all my spring flowering bulbs that have just started to show a bit of green - AND EATEN THEM. Blummin dog.

 

[Chook]

So
DD Week 1 - 1 lb
DD Week 2 - 3 lbs
DD Week 3 - Nothing
DD Week 4 - 1 lb Yesssss!

So 5 lbs total so far on DD but I have to allow for the fact I had also lost 18 lbs before starting DD so this slow downward trend makes sense.

Jury is still out on the coffee. Bed on 6.3 up to 7.2 but it got to 7.5 pre breakfast. I think I won't get the complete picture until next week when the schools go back on Tuesday and I get my normal gap between coffee and breakfast. Still not extactic about my readings but I have to remember I have had 2 bugs that upset the apple cart and I had weeks with wrong readings. They are getting closer to the 5's and looking at them overall the readings are mostly green with is pleasing.
So my plan of action is
1) Solve the coffee conundrum next week
2) Try IF to see if I can get the readings back in the 5's
3) Go on @Brunneria 's cake & DD Method!

Any other suggestions?

That's BRILLIANT - congratulations!!!

I hope you enjoy your meal out this evening. I'd never have thought about taking my own cauliflower rice. Good tip.

 

[Chook]

How is everyone today? I am feeling like I might actually live today I had a massive lie in this morning - didn't get up til 8.30 which, for me, is really late, and I feel much better for it. My FBG was high again - 7.8 - but I'm hoping it'll come down again like it did yesterday. Yesterday I was 4.7 just before dinner and only 5.6 2 hours after.

@maglil55 - did you enjoy your Thai meal? Did they cook the cauli rice okay for you? I've never had Thai food - what did you have and did it affect your BG much?

@Brunneria - are you enjoying yourself at your carb eating relatives? Did you take some of your cake with you? I just baked Mr C a cake and hoped that you took some with you. I made a double size cake so I might follow your lead and have a slice for lunch on some days. I love avocado but it a bit much having one for breakfast and another at lunchtime.

It was such a lovely morning that Mr C thought it would do me good to get out of the house for a bit so we took the dogs swimming in the canal (again) and the new dog did very well - he's a bit wary about actually getting in because there isn't a slope so he has to jump but once he's in the water he's a good, strong swimmer. We had an audience of people on canal boats who stopped to watch and were clapping and cheering the dogs on.

 

[maglil55]

How is everyone today? I am feeling like I might actually live today I had a massive lie in this morning - didn't get up til 8.30 which, for me, is really late, and I feel much better for it. My FBG was high again - 7.8 - but I'm hoping it'll come down again like it did yesterday. Yesterday I was 4.7 just before dinner and only 5.6 2 hours after.

@maglil55 - did you enjoy your Thai meal? Did they cook the cauli rice okay for you? I've never had Thai food - what did you have and did it affect your BG much?

@Brunneria - are you enjoying yourself at your carb eating relatives? Did you take some of your cake with you? I just baked Mr C a cake and hoped that you took some with you. I made a double size cake so I might follow your lead and have a slice for lunch on some days. I love avocado but it a bit much having one for breakfast and another at lunchtime.

It was such a lovely morning that Mr C thought it would do me good to get out of the house for a bit so we took the dogs swimming in the canal (again) and the new dog did very well - he's a bit wary about actually getting in because there isn't a slope so he has to jump but once he's in the water he's a good, strong swimmer. We had an audience of people on canal boats who stopped to watch and were clapping and cheering the dogs on.

Yes had a lovely meal and more than a few glasses of white wine so feeling a little fragile! Cauliflower rice was great. I know the people there as we have been going for years. Just explained that I'm fine with most Thai food but not the rice or noodles. She stir fried it with tiny chopped veg , garlic , ginger and coriander. From the platters I had squid and vegetables and the mains we shared were crispy spicy sea bass, mixed seafood , weeping tiger (sliced sirloin with a Thai rum sauce), choo chee prawns - red curry done with peppers and coconut milk. BG got to 9.6 because I was naughty and had a small piece of birthday cake but it came down overnight and back to 7.6. Liver must be working overtime on the wine!
Glad to hear you are improving. The boys swimming teacher was teaching her dog to swim in the sea and he was so timid she got him a doggy life jacket. Doesn't need it now he has the confidence.

 

[Brunneria]

Glad you are both feeling better - and that Thai meal sounds divine!

Had a fortifying breakfast of sausage and egg, 2 coffee substitutes with cream on the motorway, and there is roast lamb in the oven. Am v curious to see what veg will be with it.

Yes, made the cake . Left 2 slices for Mr B, and brought 6 with me. And 1200 ml double cream. Haha! Overkill, I know. My thinking was that 600ml might not cover me and hosts eating cake and cream, plus me drinking 2 coffee substitutes with cream at least twice a day. Oh, and maybe a swig of cream in an emergency if peckish.

Only now I have arrived to find that my lovely hosts had got their own 600ml. The fridge is awash with the stuff!
Haha! A double cream lake!

 

[Chook]

Yes had a lovely meal and more than a few glasses of white wine so feeling a little fragile! Cauliflower rice was great. I know the people there as we have been going for years. Just explained that I'm fine with most Thai food but not the rice or noodles. She stir fried it with tiny chopped veg , garlic , ginger and coriander. From the platters I had squid and vegetables and the mains we shared were crispy spicy sea bass, mixed seafood , weeping tiger (sliced sirloin with a Thai rum sauce), choo chee prawns - red curry done with peppers and coconut milk. BG got to 9.6 because I was naughty and had a small piece of birthday cake but it came down overnight and back to 7.6. Liver must be working overtime on the wine!
Glad to hear you are improving. The boys swimming teacher was teaching her dog to swim in the sea and he was so timid she got him a doggy life jacket. Doesn't need it now he has the confidence.

Okay - that just has to be the best ever sounding low carb meal out I've heard of. I've never had Thai food but it sounds gorgeous - and that's just after I've eaten my dinner.

Hmm three large glasses of Prosecco and a really lazy afternoon and I'm feeling so much better ..... mellow. Hic!

We attempted to have the first glass in the garden (because it was sunny) but it was too cold. Then spent the afternoon planning what veg we are going to grow this year and what we are going to do with the rest of the garden now the new dog has ruined it...

 

[Chook]

@Brunneria - sorry didn't see your post. So, basically, you are spending the week eating cake and cream. Sounds like an excellent plan. Imagine trying to explain to a low carbing newbie that that is (reasonably) okay....

 

[Chook]

I choked down some bacon and eggs then went back to bed - just tested again and I'm at 6.5. I really don't feel hungry and Mr C is waffling on about 'feed a cold to starve a fever'

Oh no, Mr C has just told me the new dog has dug up all my spring flowering bulbs that have just started to show a bit of green - AND EATEN THEM. Blummin dog.

What happens to a dog that eats a load of daffodil and tulip bulbs? You REALLY don't want to know - but it's not nice.

 

[Brunneria]

What happens to a dog that eats a load of daffodil and tulip bulbs? You REALLY don't want to know - but it's not nice.

Thought of you today. Met an INCREDIBLY silly, bouncy, over enthusiastic choc Lab pup of 5 months. Very sweet, but my goodness, the owner had my admiration! I would struggle with all that sheer energy.

Hope Jack feels better soon!

 

[Chook]

Thought of you today. Met an INCREDIBLY silly, bouncy, over enthusiastic choc Lab pup of 5 months. Very sweet, but my goodness, the owner had my admiration! I would struggle with all that sheer energy.

Hope Jack feels better soon!

Silly, bouncy and over enthusiastic are very good words to describe young Labs. All of our Labs have been the same (and we've had a lot over the years). Then one day you realise that the puppy giddiness has been replaced by a steady, thoughtful, intelligent and often empathetic dog. I think Jack, because he was kept in a crate all the time before he came to live with us, is just now getting rid of his pent up puppyhood. He is learning though. And yes, he is right as rain now after the bulb incident.

 

[Chook]

I am back to a more normal FBG of 6.6 today. I still am full of cold but the temperature I was running has gone which, I suspect, is what caused the higher FBGs over the last couple of days. The two fasting days worked and I have lost the 2lbs I put on last week, thank goodness.

I think I'll continue on the same eating plan as last week - fasting two days a week and eating VLC the rest of the time. It doesn't do much to reduce my weight but I do feel more comfortable in myself with eating this way and hopefully it will eventually get rid of this DP problem and my BG will be as good as @Brunneria has been.

 

[Angelofthemarches]

My dog died a year ago and I have been SO wanting another one... Dh not keen...

 

[Chook]

My dog died a year ago and I have been SO wanting another one... Dh not keen...

It was the other way around here. We already had two that adore each other - it was Mr C that wanted another one, specially when we found out he'd been living in a crate for 22 hours a day.

Have you asked your husband why he's not keen? Some people, after the death of a well loved dog, feel they can't go through the heartache of losing another one which is sad because its such a small sad bit after a lot of years of love and devotion.

 

[Angelofthemarches]

It was the other way around here. We already had two that adore each other - it was Mr C that wanted another one, specially when we found out he'd been living in a crate for 22 hours a day.

Have you asked your husband why he's not keen? Some people, after the death of a well loved dog, feel they can't go through the heartache of losing another one which is sad because its such a small sad bit after a lot of years of love and devotion.

@Chook, I think you're spot on - dh took our beloved rough collie to the vets for the last time...

 

[Chook]

@Chook, I think you're spot on - dh took our beloved rough collie to the vets for the last time...

Then I really do understand - I've always gone with Mr C on that last trip to the Vet and it really knocks you for six.

Mr C has got a sneaky way of getting a new dog even when I'm happy with the ones we've got (he'd have a house full if I'd let him). Over the space of a couple of weeks or so he starts going through the 'for sale' ads on https://www.pets4homes.co.uk/sale/dogs/ every evening.... and then slowly narrows it down to dogs within an hours drive.... then finds the ones he knows I have a soft spot for... next thing I know we're off to 'just have a look' which, in real terms, means we are coming home with a new dog. Maybe its something you could try?

 

[Brunneria]

I think it is very hard, knowing when the time is right.

We had 2 cats. The elder died, and it was over a year before i could even face the thought of a new anything.
- and then we went for a puppy, because younger cat wouldnt have put up with a kitten.

Yest now we have 2 dogs, if one died, we would replace them immediately. To help the remaining dog, even though we wouldn't be ready ourselves. I suppose it is the difference between pack animals and solitary ones, with we humans sitting adaptably in the middle.

 

[Chook]

I think it is very hard, knowing when the time is right.

We had 2 cats. The elder died, and it was over a year before i could even face the thought of a new anything.
- and then we went for a puppy, because younger cat wouldnt have put up with a kitten.

Yest now we have 2 dogs, if one died, we would replace them immediately. To help the remaining dog, even though we wouldn't be ready ourselves. I suppose it is the difference between pack animals and solitary ones, with we humans sitting adaptably in the middle.

I agree, I wouldn't have chosen to have Archie, the Labradoodle, so soon after our lovely old boy George died but Millie was so depressed and we felt we were being cruel by denying her companionship.

Animals can die of a broken heart. A neighbour of mine had seven cats all from one litter and they had all reached 16 years old and were doing fine in their old age. Then one cat got run over and within two months all the others just pined away and died one after another. The vet couldn't find anything wrong with any of them.

 

[Chook]

@maglil55 - Are you feeling okay today? Still suffering with the excesses of Saturday evening?