What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Rachox]

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 carb killa bar.
Dinner at a friend’s who is type 2 and eats low carb, so I didn’t have to worry what she would serve up. She cooked Brie and chorizo stuffed chicken breast with air fried courgettes, followed by low carb carrot cake which I provided.

 

[Paul_]

I'm at home recovering from surgery and think the fact that I'm eating lunch every day might be more about filling time than hunger. I rarely eat lunch on work days. I do want/enjoy it though so maybe my body needs the fuel. I don't suppose it matters if it doesn't change the numbers.

Yesterdays food-
Breakfast- Two slices Heylo bread with two sliced cherry tomatoes and melted cheese.
Lunch- 50g fried pakchoi with a chicken thigh and an egg
Dinner- spinach and smoked salmon omelette follow by ketorama chocolate cake and a splash of cream.

One of the things I've confronted and accepted is that it's perfectly ok to think of some meals as "fuel". Nothing more, nothing less. Not every meal needs to be for enjoyment or total satisfaction, in fact for weight loss then it's possibly beneficial that some meals don't fulfil that criteria. For those meals, I know I need to eat (can't explain it, it's just a feeling), but I don't necessarily have a drive to do so. On those occasions, I keep it as low carb as possible, sometimes close to zero, and quite often I'll just reduce portion size to a snack rather than what would be considered a meal size serving.

 

[ravensmitten]

Morning food: 3 sausages, some mushrooms and quarter of an onion, all on same tray baked for quickness, should have left the onion together as it went a bit papery, ate it with some hummus.

Coffee with splash of milk.

afternoon/early evening: Some cucumber fingers with a couple more spoons of hummus, slice of cold beef on the plate.

2 spoons of yoghurt, 4 raspberries

Coffee with splash of milk.

Piece of cheese from the fridge a min ago while mooching in the kitchen.

Eaten more today than have been recently, feel appetite a bit more as in feel hungry like I should eat, but still not fancying much when thinking about what to eat.

 

[PenguinMum]

Hi All
I was interested in what @Paul_ said as I think the biggest loss of LC is the spontaneity especially when eating out at friends or a restaurant. I don’t like to influence what friends cook and try and swerve as best I can but tbh it rarely happens these days. Looking at a menu trying to figure out if I can find something suitable and if they will do tweaks does for me suck the pleasure out,, eg sometimes the only safe bet is steak and salad which is NOT what I want to eat. Then you look at some of carbier options which look interesting but I cannot have. Frequently the protein can’t be separated from the sauce. We only eat out on holiday now and have two safe takeaways instead near home. Its one of the reasons I like the simplicity of Nandos.
Yesterday brekkie was usual slice LC toast and copious tea, strong with miniscule amount of milk.
Lunch was small selection of cheese from Farm Shop inc Shropshire Blue, Cheshire and Red Storm 4 small rable water crackers (10g). Tea
Supper was large portion of Moules Marinere without any sides.
Today same brekkie.
Lunch will be more cheese from the Farm Shop. I managed to spend more than £20 on cheese there for two people but it will stretch two weeks, maybe. I now buy my meat there now which is organic but competitively priced. We decided that we would only buy good food during the pandemic years and have never gone back. Though I do still buy fruit & veg at the supermarket.
Supper will be Chicken Shaslik with cauli rice. A gin & soda or two beforehand.

 

[Thornliebank]

Interesting Penguin mum,
Do you or anyone know if there is too cheese you can eat, I usually eat with celery ?

 

[shelley262]

Interesting Penguin mum,
Do you or anyone know if there is too cheese you can eat, I usually eat with celery ?

Carb wise provided you don't go for the processed cheeses and stick to regular fermented ones no you can't eat too much cheese. However if you are following a being careful with your fats low carb way of eating because you are working on your body to burn it's own fat stores you may need to be more conservative. It helps too to go for stronger mature good quality cheeses to hit the spot. Can't beat cheese with celery! A wide range of cheese is always in our cheese box love it with kimchi too.

 

[Paul_]

Hi All
I was interested in what @Paul_ said as I think the biggest loss of LC is the spontaneity especially when eating out at friends or a restaurant. I don’t like to influence what friends cook and try and swerve as best I can but tbh it rarely happens these days. Looking at a menu trying to figure out if I can find something suitable and if they will do tweaks does for me suck the pleasure out,, eg sometimes the only safe bet is steak and salad which is NOT what I want to eat. Then you look at some of carbier options which look interesting but I cannot have. Frequently the protein can’t be separated from the sauce. We only eat out on holiday now and have two safe takeaways instead near home. Its one of the reasons I like the simplicity of Nandos.

Agree with you here. The most significant impacts on normal life when you're a diet managed type 2 are the reduced level of convenience and the fact eating out becomes a bit of a chore in many establishments. Most restaurants are poor value for money these days, but that goes treble when you're low carb.

I share your approach, where low carb is my personal choice and one I don't expect others to cater for, or run their lives around. Friends and family are mostly happy to be flexible though, so often opt for places where I can get steak/chicken/pork etc, a mixed grill, a decent burger, or there are good low carb salad options. I've found speaking to restaurant staff to be an effective approach too, where a quick and friendly conversation to explain my situation means many have gone out of their way to substitute out the highest carb offenders for more suitable options so I still get decent meal portion and better value for money. I hated doing it at first, but my experience has been overwhelmingly positive. I increase the tip accordingly too, in the hope it further encourages their determination to help.

Work related functions are more difficult. There's no attempt at even considering that not everyone can just pile down cheap, mass catered carby options, or whatever slop is being served in a restaurant priced within acceptable ranges for expenses claims. Vegetarians might be considered, but any other dietary restriction is a distant and forgotten concern. I'm not alone in this, one of my colleagues is coeliac, so we keep each other in good company and spirits when we're judged as difficult or problematic because we decline those all day meetings with the so-called "working lunch" catering, or the meeting followed by dinner at a restaurant with no suitable options. I'm just not desperate enough to spend unpaid time with work people, or to sit in boring all day meetings that are a scourge on actual productivity, so I unashamedly play the T2D card rather than go hungry while enduring those occasions.

There are times though when necessity means I just pick what I can from a menu, look at it as fuel, get it over and done with, and chalk it down to experience.

(Apologies if I've dragged the thread off topic here - I've had an omelette for breakfast, if that helps )

 

[Annb]

Breakfast: RyVita with cheddar melted on top, in the microwave. Not a great breakfast, but the thought of standing to make bacon and egg meant I'd just have gone without anything otherwise. BG hovering in the mid 7's.

2nd meal will be more of the moussaka from a couple of days ago. Also not much fun, but edible and will keep me going.

Most things passing my lips today will be pain killers and antibiotics. Neil collected the new antibiotics from the pharmacy this morning so will have to make a start on taking them. There are plenty of other pills to take as well, but they're only once a day. Hoping that the paracetamol in the pain killers will reduce the symptoms of the cold that seems to be developing just now.

 

[mojo37]

Wow a lot of carbs, that's so much higher than the old ones?

These must be different because the old ones were about 8 carbs each .

 

[Thornliebank]

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 carb killa bar.
Dinner at a friend’s who is type 2 and eats low carb, so I didn’t have to worry what she would serve up. She cooked Brie and chorizo stuffed chicken breast with air fried courgettes, followed by low carb carrot cake which I provided.

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hi ,
wondering what a killer carb bar is , I’m looking for a few smacks ( apart from nuts) suggestions please

 

[Rachox]

hi ,
wondering what a killer carb bar is , I’m looking for a few smacks ( apart from nuts) suggestions please

Carb killa bars are made by Grenade, available in Tesco. They are sweetened with polyols (artificial sweeteners) which suit some diabetics, but not all

 

[Thornliebank]

Carb killa bars are made by Grenade, available in Tesco. They are sweetened with polyols (artificial sweeteners) which suit some diabetics, but not all

Thank you Rochox , will give them a try

 

[Margarettt]

Catch up post- Feeling sorry for myself.Lower back pain that my hypochondria says is my kidneys failing but is much more likely to be a result of the physio working me hard to correct the limp my new knee has developed. Sore knee, sore back, gastro stuff probably because of the amount of time I spend flat and ending up taking big painkillers without food just generally blah with my numbers up slightly as a result. Rant over, sorry.

Thursday's food.-
Breakfast- Ketoroma panda porridge
Lunch- 4 rollitos, an egg followed by a small apricot
Dinner- spinach, 2 cherry tomatoes and smoked salmon.

Friday's food-
Breakfast- 1 slice of fried heylo bread, a rasher of streaky bacon and a fried egg.
Lunch- 4 rollitos an egg followed by an atkins peanut butter cup
Dinner-ketoroma seeded roll, streaky bacon and cheddar followed by jelly and a splash of cream

 

[David_A_Hughes]

Breakfast today was my usual 'Staffie' oatcake, but with 5 fish-fingers. A cup of tea and a cup of coffee - well, mugs really. The coffee with cream, the tea as nature intended. Since then I've had a bowl of veggie chilli with extra mushrooms, another cup of coffee and then another. I'm currently drinking a glass of Kombucha. Later this evening I'm at the mercy of my wife's culinary expertise (she's good). It's likely to be more veggie - or possibly fish.

 

[ravensmitten]

Just a square of cheese very early this morning a while before swimming and then shopping,

Edit: Oh an a small bit of cucumber and hummus as there was a scraping left, forgot that.

Just came in and had some corned beef salad, two spoons of yoghurt, few berries and half a 'slab?' - small individually wrapped Moser Roth 85% chocolate from ALDI.

Probably a good thing I just came in and ate something.

Just after I was starting to get the beginning of that really particular odd 'shakey' feeling I used to get when my blood sugars would be high and I assume had dropped but back to baseline, I tended to be when I was out and about after walking or doing something but had it indoors a few times.

Now and again, I'd come over all woozy, clammy, sweaty, drained of all energy and like was in a dream. I used to get an urgent need to sit, a feeling of sort of impending doom, like if you take certain things like zinc on an empty stomach, sort of shakey feeling, and I'd get a bit irritated like feeling some sense of panic had come over like a dark cloud. Funnily my mouth and face almost tingly, and I'd get a strong urge to eat something sugary, which seemed to work as soon as I did, it almost felt like a blind panic to get at something sugary really quickly and throw into my face as quick as I could to stop the awful event. I was a right mess one minute and then after a minute or two I felt as right as rain.

I only managed to test it once when it was happening and it didn't seem like a real hypo at all as my bs was about 4.8 when I did, but had all the feeling of what I assume is described about one.

Seems to be wearing off before it became anything like that today, but because I ran out of strips I couldn't test it this time to see what was happening now that my blood sugars are in a much lower range now day to day.

Being frugal at the moment, really do need to put in an order for some more strips anyway, also in case that happens again to see what's going on there, been a long time since it has happened and it happened few and far between anyway but when it did it was awful.

 

[ravensmitten]

Catch up post- Feeling sorry for myself.Lower back pain that my hypochondria says is my kidneys failing but is much more likely to be a result of the physio working me hard to correct the limp my new knee has developed. Sore knee, sore back, gastro stuff probably because of the amount of time I spend flat and ending up taking big painkillers without food just generally blah with my numbers up slightly as a result. Rant over, sorry.

Hopefully it's the re-alignment. I've been thrown off before by things which have more likely causes, but try and tell that to the brain when its in the throws of some health anxiety! I thought my recent lower back thing where I couldn't walk 500 yards without it seizing up was something like kidneys/spinal stenosis/god know what else, suffered for months with it and it turned out to be my mattress putting me out of alignment!!!. the realignment has been a bit painful but I can walk distances again now.

Saying that I've always been cautious and got myself checked out because I was concerned.

 

[filly]

Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Cheese and Porchetta
Sausages and cucumber for the rest of the day.
Cheese again.

 

[Thornliebank]

Coffee with little milk
porridge very small portion ( mainly to check reading , now off the menu), berries and youurt
air fryer cooked streaky bacon , poached egg x 1 4 small tomates.
cheese and thin bread stick, lamb stew with veg and cauliflower rice,berries yogurt
med glass of red
finished by 6 pm

 

[shelley262]

A 2 meal day today
Brunch kefir then one slice of bacon, egg, mushrooms (cooked in olive oil) and low carb toast. Thought I'd do a breakfast photo today

Also had a spoon of my cooked rhubarb and yoghurt
Dinner hm chicken curry with LC roti. Also had two long gin drinks each made with a shot of gin mixed with a dash of my 'cordial' from cooking rhubarb a few days ago with lemons and ginger.( I'd left ginger and lemon in leftover cooking liquid and popped in fridge). Because of pink rhubarb it's a lovely pink colour and with addition of soda water made a wonderful long gin fizz. For pudding had some 100% chocolate with decaffeinated coffee.

 

[Paul_]

Carb killa bars are made by Grenade, available in Tesco. They are sweetened with polyols (artificial sweeteners) which suit some diabetics, but not all

Have you had these, @Rachox? If so, how did your BG react to them?

I saw them in Tesco when I was in there, but saw they had sucralose and maltitol in the ingredients. Ended up avoiding them as maltitol has had mixed results for me BG wise previously so I'm a little cautious around it.