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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a PE protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a food dr bar.
Dinner: salmon and cream cheese on a low carb roll with a couple of baby tomatoes and coleslaw followed by DGF lemon drizzle cake and cream.

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B-ham and eggs
L-SLC roll filled with beef, cheese and supergreens sauerkraut.
DGF order arrived. I’ve been trying to wean myself off but hit a weak spot this week so ordered more. Had a forest fruits crumble.
D- meat feast: 4 lamb chops, lambs liver, green beans for colour and mushrooms because I love them. Red wine. IMG_1214.jpg
Looks a bit anaemic in the photo. Was better in real life!
 
6.30am - 2 eggs mashed up in a cup with melted butter. Mug of earl grey tea

elevensies - half of a cookies & cream phd bar. Mug of earl grey tea

Dinner - Beef stroganoff with cauliflower rice. 1 dgf choc chip cookie. 1 large glass of lime pepsi max
 
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Antje77 said:
Tomorrow I'll be eating out to celebrate the 70th birthday of a very good friend so wish me luck. It will be at a pizza/grillroom type place, so it should be quite easy to make sensible choices. The potential issue is making those sensible choices though... :bag:
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(Picture made after I started eating.)
Made a very sensible and tasty choice of a mixed grill, extra bowl of salad instead of bread and potato wedges! :joyful:
Too bad it didn't help, something on my plate must have had lots of hidden carbs.

Still, very good to finally see all the friends and family members of my friend again. And very proud of my friends niece, who is now a head nurse in a home for people with brain damage, and who is doing all the right things for one of her clients with type 3C diabetes despite the large amount of ignorance on diabetes among staff. Diabetes isn't even her specialisation, but if the care of this client would have been left in the hands of the doctor he would have been so much worse off.

Years ago she was in nursing school and they were just learning about subcutaneous injections. So I let her practice on me during a weekend of sailing, and lend her my spare meter to test anyone she could get to agree. Next monday she was the coolest kid in class, being the only one who had actually given someone an injection!
Seems like yesterday, I must be getting old.
 
A re-heated lamb chop, two hard boiled eggs, two slices of toast with ginger marmalade for breakfast.
Tin corned beef savoury hash, veggies, for lunch.
Whiting fillets and salad for supper at six.

Small glass of single malt before bed, and listen to the rain drumming on the tin shed outside, 160 mm of rain has fallen since 9:00am yesterday. Another wet **** weekend coming up.
 
Antje77 said:
Too bad it didn't help, something on my plate must have had lots of hidden carbs.
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Or maybe I have something brewing and it wasn't the food. I've been adding insulin every hour since 7:45 PM and BG is staying stubbornly in the 6's. Not bad but I should have dropped hours ago, regardless of what was in the food. Stupid disease.
 
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Coffee first thing.
10 am meal: 3 rashers of Bacon, 2 hardboiled eggs, sauerkraut w caraway seeds, few toasted chickpeas, handful of macadamia nuts.
4 pm meal: Green olives, Harvati cheese, beef and onions. Matcha tea.
 
Morning all. Beautiful day here, hope it is where you are. I've got a Mary Berry's recipe for beef and mushroom casserole so that's on the menu for today and more than likely tomorrow too. I have some blueberries and cream for afters or for tea. I'm trying to cut down on meals because I am still not losing welght. I know it has a lot to do with the fact that I can't exercise much but it's so frustrating as well that my levels are high too. Any ideas ladies?
 
In answer to the lumpy soup query - it's home-made soup with a bone broth base, lumps being veggies such as leeks, courgettes, peppers, anything else keto-friendly that needs using up, including salad leaves or stir-fry veg, garlic, cayenne, turmeric, herbs, any meat shreds from the bones, maybe tiny bits of chopped ginger, butter, olive oil. Tastes different every time, costs next to nothing. Not stew as liquid to solids ratio is higher, though leftover stew makes a good lumpy soup base.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Morning all. Beautiful day here, hope it is where you are. I've got a Mary Berry's recipe for beef and mushroom casserole so that's on the menu for today and more than likely tomorrow too. I have some blueberries and cream for afters or for tea. I'm trying to cut down on meals because I am still not losing welght. I know it has a lot to do with the fact that I can't exercise much but it's so frustrating as well that my levels are high too. Any ideas ladies?
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Rosemary, I'm down to one or two meals a day - never a huge amount either and all that happens is that the weight gain is slower than it has been in the past. A lot of it, I suppose, is because of the amount of insulin I am taking but it's also because I can't move very much and rigorous exercise just isn't on. The most I can do is hobble around the house - usually not far from the kitchen and the little exercises the physio has given me to do - just to try to build some strength in my leg muscles which have almost atrophied due to lack of movement.

Can't remember what treatment you are on so insulin might or might not be part of the picture, but I do think that moving as much as possible and using your muscles if you can, is a large part of the answer.
 
First slow cooked meal in a while. Lamb breast. Delicious - didn’t manage to finish it all, but that was probably due to the ‘starter’ of mixed salted nuts and a small ‘protein’ dessert from Lidl, both eaten a couple of hours or so earlier. Just finished off with 2 squares of Lidl 85% chocolate.

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RosemaryJackson said:
I am still not losing welght. I know it has a lot to do with the fact that I can't exercise much but it's so frustrating as well that my levels are high too. Any ideas ladies?
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To be honest, exercise plays a supporting rather than a leading role in this. As a general point I’d say don’t assume that you need to eat less and less - the body often tries to hold on to what it has weight/fat wise, especially if it thinks it is in danger of being starved. It might be worth you looking into different approaches which may help. I can think of a couple offhand.

Firstly the PE Diet (Ted Naiman) which looks at eating foods where the calories from protein outweigh those from fat and carbs combined. Sounds complicated but it’s not. I didn’t get on with it, but a few on here have. See this thread: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/p-e-dieting.180913/

The other sees people prioritising fat, particularly fats attached to animal products. Amber O’Hearn is a proponent of this. Her principals suit me better and I’ve seen some decent results taking this broad approach.

This podcast is a discussion between the 2 of them and is excellent - well worth investing the time:

You might also consider a thread on the topic so that you get more input.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a PE protein bar.
Dinner: identical to yesterday’s dinner just changed positions of food on the plate (!) followed by a DGF chocolate brownie and cream.

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