Type 2s: What have you eaten today?

Starfish18

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Im confused people. Looking at what you are all eating
Need advice on food
Im type 2 with high cholesterol 7.5
Dont fancy low carb diet. Any ideas as im only 1 week newly diagnosed and dont see diabetic nutse for 2 weeks
I'm fairly new too so I can't advise but your better writing your own post so more people will see it
 

heh

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Tea
B: 2 sausages & 2 fried eggs, tea.
Tea,
Nakd bar.
Off out for Sunday lunch soon at a local eaterie :hungry:
 
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Motherhen2014

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Today
Breakfast one boiled cold and one slice of thin beef
Coffee with no sugar now all drinks very pleased with myself for battling it.

Lunch. Nothing just coffee no sugar


Evening meal roasted broccoli,cauliflower, beans ,carrot and peas with natural butter and one small drum stick with home made curry sauce


My weight now is 95.3 kilos a real brilliant result for me.
 
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Traceymac23

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Breakfast of champions

Bran flakes with two bio yoghurt (yakult) and sprinkling of Canderel.........plus 4 strawberries
 
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Olufisayo

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Going out. After closing from work, I relax at home.
Cooked beans in spices with oil
 

Olufisayo

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Im confused people. Looking at what you are all eating
Need advice on food
Im type 2 with high cholesterol 7.5
Dont fancy low carb diet. Any ideas as im only 1 week newly diagnosed and dont see diabetic nutse for 2 weeks

You’ll soon get used to it
 

Traceymac23

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Breakfast of champions

Bran flakes with two bio yoghurt (yakult) and sprinkling of Canderel.........plus 4 strawberries

Led to 5.7 pre lunch reading down from 6.9 wake up test.....onto something here.
 

ianpspurs

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Had brunch today 2 open DD breakfast sandwiches ( 1.5 Emmental slices base. ham and egg X 2) - without the 5 pints of tea that would be like eating air but worth a try. Skipped lunch - was hungry but if I can't control bg I can "put my foot on the ball" so to speak . Evening meal was Milky's halum fries, mushrooms, streaky bacon and 3 Cumberland sausages ( I don't like them but Julie does. No idea what the unpleasant/overdone spice in them is). Cronometer made today around 15 gms carbs. 4 days in a row VLC as per Cronometer - astonished by how awful the bg has been. Utterly confused.
Edit: Is protein the problem? Today was 147 gms for body weigh of 74.4 kgs i.e. nearly 2 gms per kg (195 gms fat)
 
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Traceymac23

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Had brunch today 2 open DD breakfast sandwiches ( 1.5 Emmental slices base. ham and egg X 2) - without the 5 pints of tea that would be like eating air but worth a try. Skipped lunch - was hungry but if I can't control bg I can "put my foot on the ball" so to speak . Evening meal was Milky's halum fries, mushrooms, streaky bacon and 3 Cumberland sausages ( I don't like them but Julie does. No idea what the unpleasant/overdone spice in them is). Cronometer made today around 15 gms carbs. 4 days in a row VLC as per Cronometer - astonished by how awful the bg has been. Utterly confused.
Edit: Is protein the problem? Today was 147 gms for body weigh of 74.4 kgs i.e. nearly 2 gms per kg (195 gms fat)

I think it's sage used in Cumberland Sausages......although some taste more like lavender :***:
 

Traceymac23

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Got to take my hat off to the Whittington Hospital

planned meals today for a type 2 diabetic on day 21 of sepsis treatment are:

Breakfast bran flakes with 2 actimels ,sliced kiwi fruit sprinkled with Canderel

Lunch tomato omelette and pea and mint soup with 2 slices of rye bread and butter

Salmon fillet with watercress sauce and 2 buttered corn cobs

Snacks carrot, celery sticks and cherry tomatoes


The nutritionist here is highly regarded
 
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Traceymac23

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Got to take my hat off to the Whittington Hospital

planned meals today for a type 2 diabetic on day 21 of sepsis treatment are:

Breakfast bran flakes with 2 actimels ,sliced kiwi fruit sprinkled with Canderel

Lunch tomato omelette and pea and mint soup with 2 slices of rye bread and butter

Salmon fillet with watercress sauce and 2 buttered corn cobs

Snacks carrot, celery sticks and cherry tomatoes


The nutritionist here is highly regarded


And today's lunch of ackee, saltfish ,callaloo, with roast carrots and plantain was at least as good as when I had the same on a Virgin Airlines flight to Montego Bay........not too sure about carbs in plantain though......similar to banana probably?
 
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heh

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Tea
B: Mushrooms, 2 bacon & 2 eggs, milky coffee.
Tea
Tea
L: Ham, cherry toms & cucumber, strawberries & Activia NAS yogurt.
Coffee
T: Pork & mushroom balti curry, cucumber basmati rice.
Red bush tea.
 
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KathyFrance

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Morning: Coffee black (never take milk in coffee)
Midday: (French lunch time) 2 Organic wholemeal crackers with seeds, butter, Rillettes de canard (very fatty pate), Fig and Walnut cream cheese, a BabyBel lambs lettuce, grated carrots, beetroot, tomatoes.
 
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ianpspurs

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Morning: Coffee black (never take milk in coffee)
Midday: (French lunch time) 2 Organic wholemeal crackers with seeds, butter, Rillettes de canard (very fatty pate), Fig and Walnut cream cheese, a BabyBel lambs lettuce, grated carrots, beetroot, tomatoes.
Welcome Kathy? and I gave you a winner the moment I saw Rilletes - after that nothing else really matters
 

Traceymac23

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Bran flakes, milk, yoghurt, raspberries

Crab Salad

Fish Stew, Waldorf Salad

No snacks........plenty of tea/coffee/water

All hospital prepared
 
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Adm_Mad

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Explainer: it’s only my second day since being diagnosed type 2 and I won’t be having a proper sit down with my GP til after the Easter long weekend. She said in the meantime to cut all sugar and salt, and reduce carbs as much as I could. I made an executive decision not to totally cut salt as that would be setting myself up for failure. After reading a LOT on this forum I decided just this two weeks to go low carb but also very low calorie, both to lose as much weight as possible before my appointment and to see how I feel at different glucose levels now I’m aware of my disease.

Yesterday: fasted all day and then ate a piece of sharp cheddar cheese about half an hour before going to bed. Felt fine.

Today: nothing for breakfast, a 375ml can of Coke Zero Sugar at lunch. Did my first ever finger prick test after work, was 6.8 mmol/L after all that fasting, no hypo. Dinner: a 220g bunch of steamed broccolini with some toasted sesame oil and soy sauce drizzled over and lots of black pepper, and a tin of John West sardines. After an hour of exercise and pottering about for a while, I did another finger prick and am at 6.5. Pleasantly surprised it wasn’t super high given it’s only day two. :)

Like I say I don’t plan to keep eating this little, it’s just for the next two weeks.
 
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VMK

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Porridge with fresh raspberries, small glass orange juice, cup of tea with milk

Tomato soup with small chunk of whole meal bread

Small scone with jam/cream

Home made fish and chips (6 chips) and frozen peas

2 pieces dark chocolate

Drank water all day and had one can Diet Coke

Reading just before bed = 8.5 ( and it’s been 12 at this time on previous nights).

Conclusion : Beats me. Readings higher when I’ve eaten more healthily
 
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poemagraphic

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Hi Guys

This looks like a good place to post and read what others are eating.
I will add to another thread what I have made and amounts of carbs etc. I guess we have a receipt thread somewhere... Not had time yet to read all the different forums and see where the bast place to post stuff is yet.

So Good Friday
I had 1 toasted hot cross bun of breakfast and a cup of coffee with double cream.

Quick question: Do we add to this what we have eaten as the day goes on?

Po
 
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poemagraphic

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Breakfast: Homemade porridge mix with soya milk and a good dollop of cashew butter (added coconut flour to this batch and it helps thicken it using less oats)
Dinner: Celery sticks and smoked cheddar; grapes with Lancashire
Tea: Large lightly battered cod, mushy peas and a half portion of chips

Snacks: sugar free caramels, thin cripsy cinnamon biscuit .... don't remember eating anything else today.....

Edit: just had sugar free jelly and squirty cream and another biscuit

I have just found out how great sugaar free jelly is as a desert... I top mine with a dollop of extra thick double cream Mmmm