What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Rachox]

1976, the year before O levels for me, I lived on the coast then and spent the whole summer on the beach! I have to say I’m tolerating this heat so well compared with the last few summers and they weren’t so hot. I’m sure it’s because I’ve lost a shed load of ‘personal insulation’!

 

[shelley262]

1976, the year before O levels for me, I lived on the coast then and spent the whole summer on the beach! I have to say I’m tolerating this heat so well compared with the last few summers and they weren’t so hot. I’m sure it’s because I’ve lost a shed load of ‘personal insulation’!

I agree I used to really panic when I got hot when was well insulated.
Mind you it feels like Spain out there in the heat and with cars beeping horns, guys singing we’re coming home and general high jinx have we won a football match !!

 

[DJC3]

1976, the year before O levels for me, I lived on the coast then and spent the whole summer on the beach! I have to say I’m tolerating this heat so well compared with the last few summers and they weren’t so hot. I’m sure it’s because I’ve lost a shed load of ‘personal insulation’!

Yes I completely agree with the weight thing - the heat makes you so uncomfortable when you are carrying the extra insulation. It’s lovely to wear a T shirt now because its cool, not have to wear baggy layers because they cover you up, and make you even hotter!

 

[jayney27]

1976, the year before O levels for me, I lived on the coast then and spent the whole summer on the beach! I have to say I’m tolerating this heat so well compared with the last few summers and they weren’t so hot. I’m sure it’s because I’ve lost a shed load of ‘personal insulation’!

I agree with this, it’s much easier to regulate your temperature when you haven’t got an internal fur coat to contend with, we are all now sporting gossamer gowns hehe

 

[jayney27]

I agree I used to really panic when I got hot when was well insulated.
Mind you it feels like Spain out there in the heat and with cars beeping horns, guys singing we’re coming home and general high jinx have we won a football match !!

We have just qualified to the next round, after a very intense period of extra time and penalties

 

[shelley262]

We have just qualified to the next round, after a very intense period of extra time and penalties

It was a tounge in the cheek comment Janey - who could have missed it! My chaps have all been glued to TV it’s just so funny - there was nothing going on out there while match on and then an outbreak of midsummer madness outside....

 

[DJC3]

It was a tounge in the cheek comment Janey - who could have missed it! My chaps have all been glued it’s just so funny - there was nothing going on out there while match on and then an outbreak of midsummer madness outside....

I had to watch the last 15 mins just to see what mood Mr C would be in when he got in - like you say though, I needn’t have bothered the whole country seems to have erupted!

 

[jayney27]

It was a tounge in the cheek comment Janey - who could have missed it! My chaps have all been glued it’s just so funny - there was nothing going on out there while match on and then an outbreak of midsummer madness outside....

I thought it might be, just couldn’t resist the opportunity to prove I’d been glued to the goggle box too, don’t think I had better test my levels just yet, might need to walk the doggy and cool down first

 

[ianpspurs]

I agree I used to really panic when I got hot when was well insulated.
Mind you it feels like Spain out there in the heat and with cars beeping horns, guys singing we’re coming home and general high jinx have we won a football match !!

Wait till Saturday if we win. 3.00 kick off then the drinking will begin in earnest. Serious test of C02 supplies then

 

[gil2625]

Reached last chance saloon went from pre-diabetes to diabetes back to pre-diabetes. Have put loads of weight on due to lack of control and limited mobility with a bad knee for 2 months. Now have 6 months to prove to Diabetic Nurse that I can cope without medication, can anyone tell me how to do it, willpower, willpower, I am so weak!! Would be grateful for some good tips to keep with a good low carb level please. Can I enjoy chicken with skin on now?

 

[ianpspurs]

Reached last chance saloon went from pre-diabetes to diabetes back to pre-diabetes. Have put loads of weight on due to lack of control and limited mobility with a bad knee for 2 months. Now have 6 months to prove to Diabetic Nurse that I can cope without medication, can anyone tell me how to do it, willpower, willpower, I am so weak!! Would be grateful for some good tips to keep with a good low carb level please. Can I enjoy chicken with skin on now?

@gil2625 Your 6 months should be fine with the help of the ninjas on here. Chicken with skin on is fine - the what you have with it is a different matter. You may need to become familiar with celeriac and cauliflower

 

[shelley262]

Reached last chance saloon went from pre-diabetes to diabetes back to pre-diabetes. Have put loads of weight on due to lack of control and limited mobility with a bad knee for 2 months. Now have 6 months to prove to Diabetic Nurse that I can cope without medication, can anyone tell me how to do it, willpower, willpower, I am so weak!! Would be grateful for some good tips to keep with a good low carb level please. Can I enjoy chicken with skin on now?

Hi @gil2625 welcome to this thread - it looks like you’ve been a member for a while but not active on the forum. First thing is you don’t have to worry about the exercise to lose the weight if you focus on what you eat and your blood glucose control. Most of us have struggled with willpower in the past but this way of eating can help by leaving you feeling fuller provided you keep those carbs low. Good starting point would be taking the two week challenge on www.dietdoctor.com
You could also record what you eat every day on this thread and we can help you.
What you do need is motivation, which you do sound like you have - a keenness to turn your health around and it can be done in six months. Read the success stories thread on here too so many of us have changed our health and consequentially our whole lives. Work on finding out which foods have most carbs and cutting them down.

 

[Brunneria]

1976
I was 9
We spent large chunks of school summer holidays lying in the shade in the garden with my wonderful mother reading the Lord of the Rings to us. Every so often she would go quiet as she skim read over the bits that would have been boring to me at 9 and my sister at 11.
Two? three? years later I read the whole thing myself, including all the 'boring bits', but I will always associate the books with sun, and heat and my mother.

And yes, you CAN eat the chicken skin. I do. Just don't eat much (or any) potatoes and sugary starchy carbs.

 

[DJC3]

1976
I was 9
We spent large chunks of school summer holidays lying in the shade in the garden with my wonderful mother reading the Lord of the Rings to us. Every so often she would go quiet as she skim read over the bits that would have been boring to me at 9 and my sister at 11.
Two? three? years later I read the whole thing myself, including all the 'boring bits', but I will always associate the books with sun, and heat and my mother.

And yes, you CAN eat the chicken skin. I do. Just don't eat much (or any) potatoes and sugary starchy carbs.

A lovely memory @Brunneria

 

[ianpspurs]

Good evening menu sharers all. A less hot, hot day today here but turning humid. No special plan today other than aiming to keep carbs lowish and fibre high. My analysis suggest I did ok so all good - 30 gms carb and 42 gms fibre. Menu below:
7.15 - 2 pints Lemon Green tea
10.30 mug black French vanilla filter coffee with sweetner; h/m high fibre choc bar
14,235: 125 gms mackerel in olive oil; Wonky Avocado; Mixed salad (20 gms pea shoots; 30 gms watercress; 150 gms lettuce; 4 radishes; 28 gms spring onions; 150 gms cucumber; 8 cherry tomatoes) ACV, olive oil dijon and 1 tsp psyllium husk powder dressing; 30 gms Chia seeds; 2 Pints Water
18.45 : 250 gms chicken; salad ; 280 gms Market Street cauli fried rice; water probably 3-4 pints during evening

 

[jayney27]

Hello and good luck evening,
Rubbish weather here today, rain, grey skies, mist yuk
B hard boiled egg, slice of mozzarella and 1 goat in a blanket
L 2slices of livlife bread filled with tuna, spring onion, egg and mayo, 3 cherry tomatoes
Bullet proof coffee and 2 squares of 90% Lindt, needed a pick me up, weather awful and busy training sessions today
D chicken meatballs and mushrooms cooked in a Lloyd grossman curry sauce, will see the impact in a little while, served with cauliflower mash

Update re the curry sauce, 2hr reading increase of just 0.5

 

[DCUKMod]

We'vejust had the most magnificent Beef Rendang - the first in an age. I had forgotten just how fab it is!

https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/beefrendang_78767

Obviouly, the rice option could easily by cauli rice, or konjac noodles/rice, or even just served in a bowl, with a fork and spoon. The remains (there wasn't much!) is safely in the freezer.

Whilst there are a lot of ingrerdients, if you can't be bothered with quite all of that to make the spice paste, Tom Yum paste works well, with a little extra tamarind paste thrown in.

(@Brunneria - This was made in the cauldron, to save hungry time.)

 

[shelley262]

Hi all wonderful day weather wise again here in Worcestershire I’ve just been gardening and watering now heat of day gone. Still sat out in garden writing this! You seem to be stuck with all the UKs rain @jayney27 sending you a hug - hope it improves tomorrow.
Breakfast one slice of LC bread and boiled egg
Lunch tin of mackerel in olive oil mixed with an advocado served with celery sticks and three LC seeded crispbreads followed by LC lemon cake with fage yoghurt
Dinner pork ribs with broccoli and cauliflower florets on a bed of mushrooms fried in coconut oil followed by the last proper crop of strawberries with fage yoghurt.
Interesting how now stress def has biggest impact on my bg - my bg before dinner after a stressful caring related incident mid afternoon was my first 6.0 in ages but 2 hours after my dinner had gone down 1.5 ! Shows how complex this diabetes can be..... a bit more mindfulness for me before bed and tomorrow.

 

[Dr Snoddy]

Still sunny and warm. Have had one brief shower in the last 29 days. Too hot to spend much time cooking.
B. Cheese omelette, black tea, black coffee.
L. M and S nutty whole food salad, cheese scone, black coffee.
Snack. Mixed nuts
D. Cod, yellow courgette fried with onion, garlic and capers, stir fried cauliflower, broccoli, leek, sugar snaps and spinach. Apricot sliced into Greek yoghurt.

 

[DJC3]

@DCUKMod the beef rendang looks wonderful I’ll definitely be trying it. I really like the BBC Good Food recipes - they are always reliable.

B: smoked salmon, scrambled egg and avocado with coffee and 2 teasp cream

L: tin of mackerel in olive oil ( snap @ianpspurs) with salad of mixed leaves, green beans walnuts and flaxseeds. Olive oil and acv dressing and 2 seedy crackers topped with cream cheese.
1 square Lindt 90% and coffee with 2 teasp cream

Lots of iced tea this afternoon - took a while to get the proportions of sweetness, lemon and tea strength right but Ive cracked it now so keep a big jug of it in the fridge, its so refreshing.

Coffee at Pret with friends this aft, had a splash of cream in it.

D: cheeseburger - M&S Aberdeen Angus burger, cheddar cheese in a DD keto roll with a dollop of mayo.
Choc chia pud with a handful of garden raspberries for pud.