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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

maglil55 said:
but another 2 jumpers headed my way before I got out of M&S @DJC3 & @Goonergal. I have rather a lot of jumpers now!
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:hilarious: I was in there earlier this week looking for jeans. Managed to find a pair of those, but didn’t manage to avoid buying a sleeveless jumper!

Do you write your food down? I‘d struggle to remember what I ate a couple of days ago, let alone 10!
DJC3 said:
Up most of the night with d&v and still felt horrible this morning so stuck to soda water, tea and paracetamol for the joint pains which were a new symptom.
Mid aft - couple of spoons h/m yoghurt to try and redress the equilibrium in my innards.
This evening I’ve had a couple of scrambled eggs and I’m starting to feel a lot better.
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Hope you continue to improve. Sounds nasty.
Annb said:
I've been looking at the M&S website to see if I could find those sausages that Maglil had
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I’ve looked in two separate branches in Birmingham and not found them. I thought that their extra large pork sausages looked great at 0.6g/100g carbs, but on inspecting the ingredients they include mushroom, to which I’m allergic. Stuck to my trusty Waitrose ones instead.

Oh, and I haven’t eaten anything yet today, or even drunk very much. Just some water I brought up last night. Routines gone to pot staying in an enormous house when I normally live in a box! I’ll be investing in several small fridges should I ever move into a place with stairs!
 
Behind again. Sunday was usual brekkie of slice LC toast, lots of tea.
Lunch was scrambled eggs with butter, small ramekin of strawberries.
Supper was Bolognese on bed of green beans with generous grated parmesan.
Yesterday had same brekkie and lunch minus the strawberries.
Supper was a hastily made Green Thai chicken & prawn curry with cauli rice.
Finished off the Marmite peanuts, my new obsession so no ,ore till weekly shop on Friday! My FBG today was high so I suspect the jar of curry sauce was the culprit but as I was watching the Queen’s funeral I took a shortcut.
Brekkie today same as always.
Lunch will be cold meat with side salad.
Supper will be 2 Green Cuisine plant burgers topped with 2 Portobello mushrooms all baked in the oven.
@DJC3 sorry to hear about the d&v over the weekend, the most miserable affliction. Hope you’re better now. All this talk of gathering jumpers has made me even more resolute to try not to invest and my old ones can be covered up with chunky cardis. its nippy here early morning now but am going to hold out till at least Oct to put heating on.
 
I have my first diabetic clinic this year this afternoon. There's lots to do around the house so I told myself that I would get to it early so that I'm ready for my appointment in good time. More best laid plans gone by the wayside. Neil had loaned me a copy of a Japanes animated video about wartime Japan and I sat and watched it for just over an hour - charming video and a sad story and I'm glad to have seen it, but now all my plans have gone to pot!

So just had my "breakfast" which consisted of a slice of wholemeal bread and some cheese (Davidstowe cheddar - very nice). BG was already a bit on the high side so I'm hoping it won't be much worse.

Just re-read my appointment letter and it says I should have had a diabetic blood test a week ago - no idea how to get that done these days. I did have one a few weeks ago - no idea who asked for that or why; the appointment just arrived in the post. Gave me a figure of 58 and they told me it was down from 78 the last time. I think the last time I had a full on blood test that came back at 78 was about 4 or 5 years ago.

It's shopping day too, so I'll ask Neil to get some salmon for my 2nd meal and use the packet of Brussels sprouts from the fridge to do a quick stir fry.

Edit: BG has dropped from 12.4 to 9.8!
 
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Annb said:
Just re-read my appointment letter and it says I should have had a diabetic blood test a week ago - no idea how to get that done these days. I did have one a few weeks ago - no idea who asked for that or why; the appointment just arrived in the post. Gave me a figure of 58
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That must have been the one to have before your appointment, a few weeks ago or a week ago doesn't make much difference.
Let us know how the clinic went!
 
Coffee and cream
Celery sticks and Peanut butter
Wagyu Beefburger Tomato and cucumber.
Feta 1oz
 
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Antje77 said:
That must have been the one to have before your appointment, a few weeks ago or a week ago doesn't make much difference.
Let us know how the clinic went!
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The nurse was quite happy although my HBa1C had gone up again to 63 from 58 a few weeks ago (she didn't know anything about that test and had to go and find it on the computer to see what it was then).

BG when there was 10.4 but it has now dropped to 6.3. I felt very hungry around lunchtime so thought I'd better not go out feeling so. Had another slice of wholemeal bread and butter so it's no surprise that BG was still in the 10's. I did take insulin before I had the bread. But now it's dropping - hope it stops soon or I'll have to eat something else. Not fit to stand and do my salmon fry just yet.

BP was 165:90 but because I was going out, I couldn't take my diuretic pills, so that might have pushed it up a bit and she did check it immediately after I got into the clinic - too soon perhaps.

She may be pleased, but I'm not.
 
3 small scoops of cheerios with semi skimmed milk.
1 chicken and mayo on malt bread sandwich with bottled water.
planning to have heinz chicken soup for tea; with slice of peanut butter on wholemeal later on. Then that's the last I eat!
 
Good to see you in the ‘excessive quantity of jumpers club’ @maglil55 welcome! Sorry to hear about your leg giving you gyp again.
@PenguinMum I try ( and often fail) not to buy new ones, but I’m with you on keeping the heating off until Oct. We’ve used the woodburner a bit already, our neighbours kindly donated their old wooden bed frame when they got a new bed.
@Goonergal I very often forget what I had for breakfast let alone 2 days ago. No chance with 10 days.
@Annb hugs for the trials of the clinic appointment

Still feeling rough and not able to go out so no breakfast ( that was easy to remember)
Hungry by lunch so SLC roll with cheese and chilli sauerkraut. Wished I hadn’t eaten afterwards.
Dinner was 90 sec mug bread with a poached egg. Not sure that was a great idea either.
I’m missing my granddaughter’s birthday because of this bug, but I don’t want to risk spreading it. The rest of the family are round there having a t/a curry ☹️
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a food dr bar.
Dinner: meatballs in tomato and mascarpone sauce with brussels and runner beans followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.

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Skipped breakfast
L: should have known better, travelling through a ginormous international airport, could not find a sensible lc option and I was cold and tired. Ended up with a luxury hot choclate with cream and some cocktail meatballs. Either or both wasn't as billed at up to 13!
It's easier travelling from home as can stock up with cheese and nuts but returning not so easy to prepare and carry my own food.
Mid afternoon, so nice to nibble cold meats and nuts at Home!
D: 2 eggs with mashed swede and cabbage. Looked fairly insipid but tasted so good after a few days of continuously eating out.

Always found something off a menu but got fed up asking for things to be removed - buns, fries, sauces etc. Always felt I was being deprived. Nice to make my own where I can add rather than take away!

Away again next week.. for nearly a month eek!
 
Keesha said:
Riva, after such a huge meal, did you check your blood sugar reading after two hours?
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Huge, three bbq sausages ,two eggs, couple of mushrooms and six slices of low carb bread, a small shephards pie is 350 grams, and the sand crab meat was 150 grams, is not huge.

Of course I check my bgl before and after, and they are within my limits, except when I feeling crook in my gut and eat a fair bit of carby stuff to settle it down. Diabetes is the least of my worries, with what I have growing in my gut is going to be my downfall.
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
Huge, three bbq sausages ,two eggs, couple of mushrooms and six slices of low carb bread, a small shephards pie is 350 grams, and the sand crab meat was 150 grams, is not huge.

Of course I check my bgl before and after, and they are within my limits, except when I feeling crook in my gut and eat a fair bit of carby stuff to settle it down. Diabetes is the least of my worries, with what I have growing in my gut is going to be my downfall.
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As with all of us, you do what is best for you at any given time. If it has to be high carb, so be it. If it is more than someone else would eat, so what? You are dealing with you as you need it, not to a formula. I hope you're not having too much trouble just now and that the drugs are managing to control the pain. You seem to have some pretty reasonable health care workers there to help you to look after yourself. Looking after yourself means you make the decisions and choices for yourself.
 
Two (2) slices of bacon, two (2) well cooked eggs, three (3) cherry tomatoes cut in half , two slices of toasted lc bread and vegimite for breakfast.
No lunch as I was feeling nauseous again.
A four hundred (400) ml container of pea and ham soup, two (2) slices of lc toast for supper at six.

A couple of small single malts before going to bed.
 
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