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RFSMarch said:
Bit of a leap to assume I have never even tried salad to dislike it? The reason I don't like salad IS because I have tried eating it. Many times. I just. Don't. LIKE it.

I didn't like it when I was a kid, but what kid likes being told to eat their greens. I have tried salad pots in work canteens. I have tried salad pots at Grand Slam media restaurants. I still don't like it.

But if it means some other thing to prove I don't belong in this or any other diabetes/LC carb group then so be it. I am in the normal range with meds, exercise and staying roughly round 80-125g of carbs WITHOUT salad, and at the end of the day what matters to me is MY BG range.

So yeah... no salad.
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Diabetes is tough enough without giving yourself a life sentence of food you don't enjoy. To me that way of eating, no matter how good the resulting BG, is certain to be abandoned at some time. We all have to find our own best compromise between healthy and delicious. Some of us actually manage to do both at once.
 
SlimLizzy said:
Diabetes is tough enough without giving yourself a life sentence of food you don't enjoy. To me that way of eating, no matter how good the resulting BG, is certain to be abandoned at some time. We all have to find our own best compromise between healthy and delicious. Some of us actually manage to do both at once.
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I agree. I finished my duck supper with creme fraîche ice-cream as a matter of fact and sipping a night cap before beddy-byes. It's a question of balance as you say.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
The skill of hole filling, too much filler and you have a the Alps, too little and you have a Meteorite Crater. :)

Good misty start to the art today. Like the colour and streaks in the sky, also the Chinese version of Lowry fishermen creeping into the picture. :)
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Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - Chinese Lowry - I went to school with him
 
It's almost midnight, so I shall occupy myself with the instruction manual for this gizzmo tomorrow - this is the panel for the various toilet functions.

If I work it out, I'll be flushed with success and apologies for the dead pan humour toilet.jpg
 
Good morning at just after Sunday midnight!

Have a good Saturday eve and night upcoming Europe...and Happy Mother's Day to everyone celebrating tomorrow too.

Before I throw myself into the bed, I fancied trying a cup of tea. I might go for the Beipu Exquisite Oriental Beauty and see if it can repair the worn face staring back at me in the bathroom mirror!

Will report my FBG ritual stabbing number after being a naughty chap in the food and drink department all this evening.

Oh, just got a text to tell me my Covid test - 3rd Covid test is negative...(Once before flying, at the airport here and now today)...

Night all! teatime2.jpg
 
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ianpspurs said:
@RFSMarch I feel for you not liking salad. The only way I am clinging to LC for now is by eating fish and avo salad about 6 days a week and forgetting what I'm doing on the seventh - still vlc. Peanut or any other nut butter would be on my food hell list. Just goes to show how we are all different and suggesting how to eat LC from your own experience is fraught with issues. Hope you find your way through this.
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No need to feel for me. Just one of those things. I have managed to live nigh on 51 years without it, soon to be 52 in a week and a day and can perfectly go on for years more without a lettuce leaf in my future. All good. Except when it comes to finding options on the Twickenham High St, it would seem.
 
jjraak said:
Now anyone can take in a cat and get my kudos.

but when it's a poor unfortunate like Errant
(and god help those that scared him so much)
that's almost Damehood material.

A wonderful uplifting story.
:happy:

Ps hope Mr Slim is doing ok :)
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Yes thank you @jjraak MrSlim seems to be stable at the moment.
Errants problems were not all immediately evident, to start with he just appeared to be thin.
We didn't discover all his health issues at once.
 
Tree root gone, it took son and I 4 hours, blunted two axes and a chainsaw, sons got an inverter in his workvan and so managed to keep sharpening the axe.

Finished my Tarn Gorge painting but over worked so not what I wanted but can't win em all, I blame the aches...

A4 watercolour
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Also finished the recording of the jolly little English Dance tune Buttered Peas and it arrived back assembled today. I'm on there playing Bass, Tabor, Mandolin and Tenor Banjo, Mrs MC Soprano and Treble Recorder with other musicians throwing in their two penny worth. Listen for the wonderful Bass Concertina.

Buttered Peas

Not everyone's taste and certainly not brilliant but we are trying and not getting to rehearse together is beginning to show I'm afraid.
 
jjraak said:
indeed, maybe there is a market in 'Lowry matchstick fishermen, cats & dogs'..:D



btw gave a funny for the roots post

the idea of you all captain Ahab in the sou'wester, in a ditch bailing furiously
V
you all homer Simpson, buff naked in a hole.....

Not enough eye bleach to erase those thoughts...:hilarious:

But have a hug for tomorrows aches.:)
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Not completely in the buff I did wear a fig leaf needed some dignity.

No aches yet so fingers crossed I will get away with non Sunday. :)
 
RFSMarch said:
I have tried salad pots in work canteens. I have tried salad pots at Grand Slam media restaurants. I still don't like it.
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That's exactly how I feel about mussels. I ate one mussel once when I was young and that was it. Never ate one again. I feel the same about oysters, even though I have never eaten one, because they look like mussels.

We are all so different. I love Montezuma 100% chocolate which @ianpspurs views in the same way as I view mussels - absolutely100% yuk.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Tree root gone, it took son and I 4 hours, blunted two axes and a chainsaw, sons got an inverter in his workvan and so managed to keep sharpening the axe.

Finished my Tarn Gorge painting but over worked so not what I wanted but can't win em all, I blame the aches...

A4 watercolour
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Also finished the recording of the jolly little English Dance tune Buttered Peas and it arrived back assembled today. I'm on there playing Bass, Tabor, Mandolin and Tenor Banjo, Mrs MC Soprano and Treble Recorder with other musicians throwing in their two penny worth. Listen for the wonderful Bass Concertina.

Buttered Peas

Not everyone's taste and certainly not brilliant but we are trying and not getting to rehearse together is beginning to show I'm afraid.
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Congratulations on passing your Herculean trial - time for a soak.
Tarn gorge - I’m liking the blue’s in those rock faces and the water looks as inviting as reality. Buttered Peas - to say that you are all in different locations these recordings are going very well.
 
RFSMarch said:
Except when it comes to finding options on the Twickenham High St, it would seem.
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Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I'm not sorry because you don't like salad, many don't. It is just unfortunate that the most easily available LC option in the area may be salad. As said frequently we all have different tastes and needs.
 
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Krystyna23040 said:
That's exactly how I feel about mussels. I ate one mussel once when I was young and that was it. Never ate one again. I feel the same about oysters, even though I have never eaten one, because they look like mussels.

We are all so different. I love Montezuma 100% chocolate which @ianpspurs views in the same way as I view mussels - absolutely100% yuk.
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I can eat Montezumas but I would absolutely refuse to eat a Diet Doctor recipe ever again.I don't think I ever finished a portion of those.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Tree root gone, it took son and I 4 hours, blunted two axes and a chainsaw, sons got an inverter in his workvan and so managed to keep sharpening the axe.

Finished my Tarn Gorge painting but over worked so not what I wanted but can't win em all, I blame the aches...

A4 watercolour
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Also finished the recording of the jolly little English Dance tune Buttered Peas and it arrived back assembled today. I'm on there playing Bass, Tabor, Mandolin and Tenor Banjo, Mrs MC Soprano and Treble Recorder with other musicians throwing in their two penny worth. Listen for the wonderful Bass Concertina.

Buttered Peas

Not everyone's taste and certainly not brilliant but we are trying and not getting to rehearse together is beginning to show I'm afraid.
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Good work with tree root @Muddy Cyclist

You call yourTarn Gorge painting overworked. I like this very much. So, I don't see it as overworked. But you were using your hands a lot with that tree root earlier. And so they were not delicate of sensitive as you may have liked with the brush. A bit like me and a certain sharp knife after I had been using my hands for something earlier, a few weeks ago.

I do like this very much....
 
SlimLizzy said:
Yes thank you @jjraak MrSlim seems to be stable at the moment.
Errants problems were not all immediately evident, to start with he just appeared to be thin.
We didn't discover all his health issues at once.
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Good news on Mr slim.:)

(Still nominating the Damehood, ;))
 
alf_Josiah said:
@ianpspurs , @jjraak and last but by no means least
@RFSMarch .
LCHF does not work for me and me's, low to medium carb seems to work, high fat unless it's cheese is a real no no.
My medications screw things up, big time, but carbs are a big requirement in the morning for me.

As for eating things we detest just for the sake of lowering blood sugars a marginal amount does not equate, there are better ways to do that, we just have to find what works with our own bodies chemistry set.
I have to remind myself that life is for living, not fretting about things that I have marginal control of. My transplanted liver seems to able to regulate my bodies requirements, unless I get very active and burn up more energy than I estimated in the morning. Just recently a common occurrence.
Good luck all.
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I hear that @alf_Josiah .

While we can't eat all that others recommend, we do still have to eat, and for many that's picking through the options that offer the greatest good, and marrying it up with some form of exercise, if possible

( Reminded however that for many I've met on here, lots of exercise isn't a realistic option.)

So we all have to weave our own way, and try to fine tune our diets, as best we can
As it's so clearly not a "one size fits all".

As said earlier, fish comes up so many times, it feels like vendetta against those for who fish is like kryptonite.;):D


Good luck to those who like it, though
one more option for dinner.


Individuals.
Each & every one of us.
 
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