Yes, I've tried several times to promote low carb, but get the answers "but I couldn't give up bread" or "but you're too skinny on it" (I'm not!) or " my doctor says eat healthy".Evening @MrsA2.
What prompts this behaviour I wonder? A close relative (no longer with us) was forever plying me with cakes and jam tarts, then feigned surprise when I declined. As a type 2 herself, she really ought to have known better.
I can't relate to it myself. If we knew that particular foods made a friend ill, offering them that food is the very last thing we'd do. It's tantamount to handing a woolly jumper to somebody who's allergic to wool!
Well done @Antje77 for tackling a delicate situation with care. You obviously handled the matter in exemplary fashion and, as a result, you and your neighbour are that much closer.My adventures with my neighbour-in-the-garden (https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today-low-carb-forum.75781/post-2682287) were a week ago yesterday. All week I've been contemplating. I wanted him to now what a special experience it was for me, and how I've never felt as safe sharing a bed and cuddling with anyone as I did with him that night, despite us not being sexually or amourously attracted to eachother.
Not an easy talk, giving compliments isn't a straight forward thing, especially not if it touches on such intimate subjects, and I wanted to talk without alcohol, which would have been the easy way out.
He also got back in touch with a mutual friend he's been completely in love with for years (mutual), and who is now in the middle of a slow separation with her husband, which adds to the complicated situation.
So I picked up my courage and went. And it went well!
I think our relationship has changed from being neighbours who much appreciate each other (technically I'm his landlord, if somewhat illegally) to true friends.
We also discussed his meal plans, and mine, and decided neither of us wanted to cook. So we ordered food. There is only one place delivering where we live, so I went with a Turkish pizza, extra döner to reduce the carbs to meat ratio, and ate half of it with a wild guess at insulin dose. Looks like it was my lucky day! Still, my carbs over the day stayed well below 150, so still on topic in this thread.
We parted with a very good long hug.
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Dear me @MrsA2, does s/he regard a large slice of Victoria sponge between meals healthy?Yes, I've tried several times to promote low carb, but get the answers "but I couldn't give up bread" or "but you're too skinny on it" (I'm not!) or " my doctor says eat healthy".
This person is in need of hip replacement surgery but they won't do the op because sugars too high, so they just keep upping or changing insulin.
I find it sad and frustrating.
Just glad I found what works for me, and this support tribe to go with it.
Wow @IanBish! That sounds delish!For tea tonight I had baked salmon with home made dill sauce, plus mushrooms and sugar snap peas. First attempt at the dill sauce didn't go too badly, apart from the mustard. I used English rather than Dijon. But I enjoyed it.
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I agree completely - this little corner of the internet is a life saver, literally! So heart warming in the face of all the chaos and negativity on most social media. It was lovely to hear about your neighbourly adventures!Runner beans, this time with butter and salt, and the rest of yesterdays Turkish pizza.
Let's hope my wild guess at dosing works out as well as it did yesterday!
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I also wanted to say that I'm feeling more welcome and accepted than ever in this odd little corner on the internet.
Everyone who has given me an emoji rating or a reaction to my posts about the happenings between my neighbour and myself, thank you so much!
Those reactions have brought me to tears with their warmth and understanding.
Sharing with you (a bunch of people I like a lot but don't know, many of you being a generation or more above me, and from a country with a slightly different culture than mine of which I don't have a complete grasp) how I drunkenly ended up in my neighbour's bed was a risk.
It's become very clear my neighbour's bed isn't the only safe place I found, right here is another one!
Will try to reduce the derailing though, there's still the parallel thread and I should use it more.
I wanted this very heartfelt thank you for your apparently unconditional support and wanting me to be happy to be on the main thread though.
Thank you!
Mine was farmed, I think. The texture wasn't all that great. I think I'd have to go to the fishmongers in town for wild salmon. I might get distracted as they have all sorts of weird and wonderful fish there.Speaking of salmon, the Orkney salmon fillets I regularly buy were not available recently, so decided to try Alaskan wild salmon.
ISTR TV cook Nigella Lawson talking enthusiastically about its striking red colour, but it was the flavour and texture that made an instant impression with me. I could definitely get used to Alaskan wild salmon!
Vertigo meds causing dizzyness, you couldn't make it up!It dawned on me tonight that the last day or two vertigo symptoms weren’t vertigo at all, but side effects of the vertigo meds which can cause dizziness! I didn’t take any this evening and already feeling a bit more like me, with any luck I’ll be able to go outside tomorrow, don’t care if it rains.
I've been stuck in the high 7's and 8ths for hours.Runner beans, this time with butter and salt, and the rest of yesterdays Turkish pizza.
Let's hope my wild guess at dosing works out as well as it did yesterday!