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First day of proper carnivore diet for me today. I Was going to start on 1st Sept but it’s our anniversary next week so I wanted a ‘day in lieu’
No breakfast, just black coffee alternating with water.
L- flash fried minute steak and a fried egg.
D- 1/2 a roast, free range chicken. Lovely crispy skin.
Good to see you back @shelley262 , climbing a mountain is such a fantastic way to celebrate a 70th birthday. Well done him! I can’t believe you did it all on 2 boiled eggs though.
@maglil55 hugs for the gout. Before I retired I worked in a diagnostic laboratory, one of the tests we did was looking for Uric acid crystals under a polarising microscope. They are like needles and could be seen spearing the white blood cells which had tried to phagocytose them. I could only imagine the pain they caused, they looked evil.
@Helen40 hope your health issues improve soon.
 
Thursday 31 August - bed 6.1 FBG 6.7 Where has the year gone? I got myself back to Aqua today. I had to make some changes to avoid putting pressure on the right, but I enjoyed it. I obviously lost more weight than I thought as everyone in the class commented on it. I guess it's more noticeable in a swimsuit.

B. TAG and LC granola with sugar-free coconut milk and raspberries. Benecol dairy free.

L. Very late, slice of SRSLY toast with a cheese triangle.

D. Repeat yesterday's salmon salad, but no egg, and add a cheese triangle. CC little chocolate pot with 3 strawberries.

I'm still drinking much more water than usual. I'd love a Zero Moretti, but common sense tells me to wait until my foot returns to "normal."
 
DJC3 said:
First day of proper carnivore diet for me today. I Was going to start on 1st Sept but it’s our anniversary next week so I wanted a ‘day in lieu’
No breakfast, just black coffee alternating with water.
L- flash fried minute steak and a fried egg.
D- 1/2 a roast, free range chicken. Lovely crispy skin.
Good to see you back @shelley262 , climbing a mountain is such a fantastic way to celebrate a 70th birthday. Well done him! I can’t believe you did it all on 2 boiled eggs though.
@maglil55 hugs for the gout. Before I retired I worked in a diagnostic laboratory, one of the tests we did was looking for Uric acid crystals under a polarising microscope. They are like needles and could be seen spearing the white blood cells which had tried to phagocytose them. I could only imagine the pain they caused, they looked evil.
@Helen40 hope your health issues improve soon.
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They are evil! I couldn't believe how easy, and suddenly, I was crippled.
 
DJC3 said:
First day of proper carnivore diet for me today. I Was going to start on 1st Sept but it’s our anniversary next week so I wanted a ‘day in lieu’
No breakfast, just black coffee alternating with water.
L- flash fried minute steak and a fried egg.
D- 1/2 a roast, free range chicken. Lovely crispy skin.
Good to see you back @shelley262 , climbing a mountain is such a fantastic way to celebrate a 70th birthday. Well done him! I can’t believe you did it all on 2 boiled eggs though.
@maglil55 hugs for the gout. Before I retired I worked in a diagnostic laboratory, one of the tests we did was looking for Uric acid crystals under a polarising microscope. They are like needles and could be seen spearing the white blood cells which had tried to phagocytose them. I could only imagine the pain they caused, they looked evil.
@Helen40 hope your health issues improve soon.
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Appreciate that! Thank you x
 
Morning all. Slowly getting back into the swing of things. @maglil55 , my husband had gout a few times and always said the pain was excruciating so I can guess what you are going thro! The diet for that isn't easy either. Yesterday I made a sort of crustless quiche in the frying pan and it was delicious. Today it's fish and boiled eggs with mayo for tea. I'm cutting out bread altogether (and cakes, biscuits and chocolate that I slowly got back into eating :banghead:). I haven't had bread for 3 days now and it's getting easier. Have a good weekend everyone
 
Breakfast mid morning was the liver from yesterdays chicken flash fried in butter.
Lunch was a couple of cold streaky bacon rashers used to scoop up cream cheese.
Dinner, supposed to be ribeye steak but I think I must have been hungry when I went to the butcher, I said I wanted very thick ones, they are nearly 1lb each! I didn’t feel I could do mine justice tonight so we had slices of the ham hock I’d cooked earlier in the IP and fried eggs. Lots of soda water to drink
 
@DJC3 admire you trying carnivore to help improve your bgs. I m not sure if I would be able to do it I've never managed to cut out veggies I love the different textures too much.
10ish one slice of bacon, egg and mushroom with slice of LC toast
1ish garden berries with yogurt and one square of 100% chocolate
3ish LC lemon cake with my weak black tea
5ish salmon in lemon butter, cauliflower cheese and garden beans with glass of dry white wine followed by LC chocolate brownie and decaffeinated coffee
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Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Tuna salad with cheese, tomato and pepper.
Beef and butter x 2
Oh and somewhere in between..... Peanut Butter
 
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Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs with a knob of butter and avocado slices seasoned with black pepper, plus a wedge of Gorwydd Caerphilly.
Water to swallow tablets
Double espresso.

L: Packed lunch made with leftover spinach and mushroom frittata.
Lettuce, Romano peppers, celery sticks and cherry toms with a dollop of home-made mayonnaise for dipping.
Almonds and hazelnuts.
Water to drink.
Wild blackberries to round off lunch.

D: Smoked salmon and cream cheese salad made with sweet cicely, vine tomatoes, lemon verbena, Kalamata olives and mustard cress, dressed with olive oil and a touch of lemon juice, topped with toasted pine nuts.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar
Dinner at a type 2 friends house. Creamy garlic prawns with spinach, cherry tomatoes and courgette.

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I only managed to eat 374 calories with 20g carbs. The carbs were a packet of plain crisps after my 2nd meal just to try to boost calories a bit. How on earth can I eat 1300 calories a day without taking in lots of carbs? I don't think I can - I'd be bursting if it was all protein and my innards would play up badly if I increase the veg too much.
 
shelley262 said:
@DJC3 admire you trying carnivore to help improve your bgs. I m not sure if I would be able to do it I've never managed to cut out veggies I love the different textures too much.
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It’ll be a bonus if it helps my BGs which are still unaccountably high, but tbh it’s mostly to support and encourage my daughter who developed terrible psoriasis this time last year after a stressful event. Carnivore woe has a good track record at helping this sort of disease. We’re keeping everything crossed, as you say, it’s quite extreme and I’m already missing veg!
 
Such a festive day!

First I went swimming with a friend. We're both a tad depressed so getting out and doing something counts as a real achievement. We also had lots of fun behaving like unruly teenagers and annoying the pool guards by throwing in a gigantic (like 10 meters long) floating tube in the pool. It had been sitting at the side against the wall, clearly not to be used because half the pool was reserved for lap swimmers. Sorry lap swimmers, it was great fun!

Afterwards, we had a beer at my place when pizza was delivered for my neighbours-in-the-garden, so I got my much loved one bite of pizza in taxes for accepting the delivery for starters. :hungry:

Main meal was a low carb wrap with shawarma meat, onion, bell pepper and mushrooms, with endive for lettuce and a strong garlic sauce. Also :hungry:.

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And then came dessert, which I never have usually.
It was the most thoughtful present sent to me by @JoKalsbeek after our talk about pepernoten on the christmas thread. :joyful: (https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...echanisms-swaps-recipes-anything-goes.198916/)

Pepernoten and chocolate covered pepernoten can only be bought in large bags, which don't work for me, they're morish of the bag must be finished kind.
But after I mentioned that dosing for just 3 chocolate covered ones and a regular wouldn't be a problem, she sent them to me!
And she packed them in such a lovely way that having just 4 seemed very decadent, like having 4 expensive pralines. :happy:
She even did the whole weighing and counting pepernoten thing to do the calculations: 7.3 gr of carbs for 3 chocolate and one regular pepernoot. :hilarious:

(Lighter for pepernoten scale. One pepernoot had already been eaten by this time.)
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Antje77 said:
Such a festive day!

First I went swimming with a friend. We're both a tad depressed so getting out and doing something counts as a real achievement.


And then came dessert, which I never have usually.
It was the most thoughtful present sent to me by @JoKalsbeek after our talk about pepernoten on the christmas thread.
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What a great day! And what a super thoughtful present. I hope it’s helped to lift your low mood.
 
Managed to last till 1.30pm to break my fast with 3 slices of back bacon, a large sliced mushroom and half a large tomato, all fried in butter.

For dinner we had baked salmon cooked in parchment, marie rose sauce on the side, lettuce, 5 cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumber, and a tablespoon of coleslaw.

Followed by 4 smallish strawberries topped with double cream.
 
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