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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

RosemaryJackson said:
Hello everyone. I've just spent 2 hours catching up on the postings since last Thursday! I've been AWOL since then. Ive had a lot of trouble with my eyes which are a lot better but still swell up and itch. I've been quite good with my lc eating, have had nothing sweet, no bread or potatoes but I can't get my bg down past the 7's. Anyway, today I'm having 2 sausages with above ground veg and for tea a tin of salmon with mayo. Thank you all for your good wishes, you know who you are. Have a good day all.
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Evening @RosemaryJackson.

It's good to know you're making progress. Afraid I fell behind this weekend (and there's nothing wrong with my vision). Have only just caught up with the many interesting posts on this busy thread.

If you can hang in there and keep to a low carb lifestyle, once your peri-orbital inflammation subsides, your BG levels should gradually improve.
 
IanBish said:
Listening to your body is generally a good thing. Not that I'd advocate it, but there was this bloke who fasted for over a year and lived (and lost a lot of weight). Plus think of the money you'd save! :cool:
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Evening @IanBish and @ravensmitten. You'd save money certainly, as well as time I imagine. That said, I really enjoy my food, have a healthy appetite and seldom feel the need to deviate from my LCHF, three-meals-a-day lifestyle.
 
maglil55 said:
I break up eggshells, dry them, store them in a jar, then scatter them around the plants the slugs/snails go after. As my grandsons say,'it hurts their feet". It doesn't stop them totally, but they definitely don't like it!
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Evening @maglil55. We're on acid clay and it doesn't work here unfortunately. Egg shells added to the compost heap does add lime though and prevents the heap from becoming too acid.

Perhaps we just have too many slugs and snails. I live in hope the song thrushes will return. They were once so common and, between them, they used to knock off a fair number of snails!
 
MommaE said:
Thank you @LivingLightly .... Once through security I went straight to the nearest food kiosk and found “ protein box” consisting of two hard boiled eggs, a pile of cubed mixed cheeses, a large pile of plain almonds and about six grapes. I was thrilled. And it’s just a small local airport too, I didn’t expect that.
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Well I never @MommaE. Things are looking up!
 
Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs with a knob of butter and avocado seasoned with black pepper plus a wedge of Teifi (unpasteurised cow's milk cheese from Wales).
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Wild Alaskan salmon fillets baked with broccoli, chestnut mushrooms, double cream and lemon verbena.
Steamed asparagus spears and French beans smothered with butter
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D Seafood salad using tiger prawns, brown shrimps, rocket, baby plum tomatoes, celery, Romano peppers, cucumber, Halkidiki olives and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, with roasted macadamias.
Water to wash down tablets.
 
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maglil55 said:
My late sister couldn't look at pictures of snakes. Put them on a nature program, and it would be turned off in record time! She was petrified.
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My dad is the same, couldn’t even look at a picture. funnily it’s all my brother wanted as a pet when younger, big no no.

Equally as funny daughter is obsessed with them and wants one, and does research on them and wants to be a herpetologist, I’m not opposed to the idea, but I think they are “nope ropes” for her mother. Shame.

Speaking of daughter, she is well proud of making her own food recently, so let her do it herself again tonight. It was a pretty low carb affair itself, scrambled egg salad with corned beef with sautéed spring/normal onions (she never really liked onions on a salad until she started preparing her own ones) she hasn’t been back to pop into the cupboards like she does after a starchier meal either, but did also eat a little something later.

Knocked up a Corned beef and watercress salad for myself around 6pm
Few raspberries from the fridge

With the 2 sausages for breakfast I think I’m done for the day.

According to basal metabolic rate calculations, for whatever it is worth and however accurate that is, in calories for someone of my stature I should eat 3000 calories a day to maintain my weight!!!

Now I haven’t been thinking of calories much since eating lower carb, I’ve just been eating food, I’m sure some days I far exceeded that and some I haven’t even met a quarter of that (today I tallied up 470 cals in total and I’m done for the day) it’s not the calories I’m worried about as I sure have a lot of calories packed in storage around my tummy and other places as well. I do wonder about not getting all the right nutrients with eating so little (for me)

As I say I might start taking a multivitamin.

Will discuss with doc on next appt as have one soon and possibly another HbA1c as would rather get off Metformin tablets if I can. They only give me a certain amount on the repeat prescription and then reassess me - rightly so and no doubt saves a bit of money for them too.

Won’t hold out much hope speaking about food with doc as probably get a telling off for eating low carb and “not enough” or “balanced diet”, have more carbs chat. even if numbers have improved.

Hopefully they *are* down from Decembers as they jumped up so much in 6 months (20 points) it was a bit of a kick up the backside for me.
 
ravensmitten said:
My dad is the same, couldn’t even look at a picture. funnily it’s all my brother wanted as a pet when younger, big no no.

Equally as funny daughter is obsessed with them and wants one, and does research on them and wants to be a herpetologist, I’m not opposed to the idea, but I think they are “nope ropes” for her mother. Shame.

Speaking of daughter, she is well proud of making her own food recently, so let her do it herself again tonight. It was a pretty low carb affair itself, scrambled egg salad with corned beef with sautéed spring/normal onions (she never really liked onions on a salad until she started preparing her own ones) she hasn’t been back to pop into the cupboards like she does after a starchier meal either, but did also eat a little something later.

Knocked up a Corned beef and watercress salad for myself around 6pm
Few raspberries from the fridge

With the 2 sausages for breakfast I think I’m done for the day.

According to basal metabolic rate calculations, for whatever it is worth and however accurate that is, in calories for someone of my stature I should eat 3000 calories a day to maintain my weight!!!

Now I haven’t been thinking of calories much since eating lower carb, I’ve just been eating food, I’m sure some days I far exceeded that and some I haven’t even met a quarter of that (today I tallied up 470 cals in total and I’m done for the day) it’s not the calories I’m worried about as I sure have a lot of calories packed in storage around my tummy and other places as well. I do wonder about not getting all the right nutrients with eating so little (for me)

As I say I might start taking a multivitamin.

Will discuss with doc on next appt as have one soon and possibly another HbA1c as would rather get off Metformin tablets if I can. They only give me a certain amount on the repeat prescription and then reassess me - rightly so and no doubt saves a bit of money for them too.

Won’t hold out much hope speaking about food with doc as probably get a telling off for eating low carb and “not enough” or “balanced diet”, have more carbs chat. even if numbers have improved.

Hopefully they *are* down from Decembers as they jumped up so much in 6 months (20 points) it was a bit of a kick up the backside for me.
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Based on other peoples suggestions for the diet discussion with your doctor…just tell them what you do eat, rather than focus what you don’t.
 
ravensmitten said:
Yes, I think you are right there.

I normally tend to say I eat meat and vegetables and no one has a problem lol.
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When I am talking diet with anyone, other than on here, I never, ever use the phrases low carb or keto . I prefer to refer to it as a reduced carb diet.

If I am asked what that means, I tell them I trimmed well back on the sugary stuff (was never a big player for me), potatoes, rice and am also gluten-free, so prefer to simply not eat pasta or baked goods. That seems an altogether more palatable message to HCPs and others, because to don't fast forward thinking low carb = no carb.

I'm not lying to them, and frankly, I'd rather save my energies for stuff that might be negotiable.
 
Breakfast - chicken and vegetable bake, made a couple of days ago. Turned out that I wasn't as hungry as I thought and left half of it.

2nd meal will be some more of my "bigos". It was absolutely fabulous last night even though I modified the cooking method a bit. Never mind that the meat was succulent or that the vegetables had disappeared into the sauce, the sauce was fantastic and I could have just had that for my meal.
 
Hello everyone. Bit late today. Have been back to the doctor because my eyes were swollen again itchy, hot and sore this morning. He tells me I now have Seborrheic Dermatitis! I have steroid cream which I have to be careful with and some other cream which is for the rest of my face.He said the skin was very rough. Lunch today was chicken leg plus some sourkraut (that spelling doesnt look right). I have some smoked salmon and 2 Ryvitas for my tea. Hope you are having a nice day.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Hello everyone. Bit late today. Have been back to the doctor because my eyes were swollen again itchy, hot and sore this morning. He tells me I now have Seborrheic Dermatitis! I have steroid cream which I have to be careful with and some other cream which is for the rest of my face.He said the skin was very rough. Lunch today was chicken leg plus some sourkraut (that spelling doesnt look right). I have some smoked salmon and 2 Ryvitas for my tea. Hope you are having a nice day.
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Sorry you’re having so much trouble with that rash, it sounds very uncomfortable. I hope the steroid cream deals with it quickly for you.
 
I'm so sorry that your eyes are still painful & swollen, @RosemaryJackson, good that you managed to get in & see your Dr. Here's hoping the change of diagnosis means you have the right creams to help you now.

Dinner tonight is a blast from the past. Anyone remember "What's the recipe today Jim?"? Well it's a recipe that our family loved & it was a regular, along with others from Jimmy Young's cookbooks. It'll be kidney special, as I actually managed to get some kidneys today.
 
Hello all, missed a day yesterday! Very busy, very distracted - most of the day was on track and then it got late, I got exhausted, a takeaway happened... :oops:

Today one of the big jobs got sorted in the house so I'm having a more relaxed day. I had harissa pork mince mixed with the remainder of the greek salad... feta cheese, tomatoes, cucumber, onion and olive oil goes really well with harissa pork mince! Or I'm just weird, happy to accept that!

Found some puffed pork rinds that don't list additives or seed oils... hmm. Giving them a go.

Tonight's tea will be lamb leg steak with mashed swede (thank you to whoever posted mashed swede the other day!) and some crown prince squash - it was the one and only squash that ripened on my vine last summer, and it's been sitting in the spare room since it was picked. It is amazing! Might grow another vine this year.

I also got some montezuma's 100% buttons and the orange oil with cocoa nibs bar, again thanks to seeing it posted here (I used to have it years ago and love it so that was a welcome reminder!) I might have some of that after tea.

Also had a glass of kefir, and might have some greek yogurt with blackberries and nuts later depending on how hungry I am.
 
Hi All just to join in the insect debate I can’t bear anything wriggly like snakes, worms, etc. luckily we have sandy soil so no worms. I actually love spiders and admire their speed on their beautiful dainty legs. I rescue them when they come in the house (ow the cats eat them) and cup them gently between both palms and release them in the flower bed.
Yesterday usual brekkie of slice LC toast and copious tea.
Lunch was cheese plate with three small Carrs water biscuits and four pickled onions.
Supper was baked spiced chicken breast with cauli cheese.
Today same brekkie.
Lunch two egg mayo piled on Little Gem leaves on slice LC toast (hungry!)
Supper will be small portion h/m chilli beef with cauli rice.
@maglil I love the look and sound of chicken cacciatore..off to look up recipe!
@RosemaryJackson sorry your eye pain and discomfort continues..hope the ointment helps. I have appt with Consultant Ophthalmologist next Monday for scan and to discuss future injections after the horrible Corneal Abrasion following the last one in December.
 
jpscloud said:
I had harissa pork mince mixed with the remainder of the greek salad... feta cheese, tomatoes, cucumber, onion and olive oil goes really well with harissa pork mince! Or I'm just weird, happy to accept that!
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Sounds very good to me, but people do tend to find me slightly weird.

I have a choice to make. I have prepared a very nice low carb raw endive and cauliflower mash 'stamppot' with cubed cheese and rashers of bacon.
Good food, I like it, and it's friendly on the diabetes.
But it isn't very birthdayish and I'm 47 today.
My neighbour down the road has offered to get Chinese takeaway. I love Chinese takeaway, and it's definitely a lot more birthdayish than 'stamppot andijvie'.

I know most of you aren't on insulin, which makes this a different choice. I can, at least in theory, dose for it.
In real life, this means at least 5 hours of spending a lot of energy and time on diabetes, more than likely with some frustration built in because it won't go to plan.
I did have a rather long cold swim at 5, and it looks like this has improved my insulin sensitivity for the evening, o a higher chance of more or less successfully dosing, or at least not waiting for 3 hours to see anything happening after corrections.

Very hard choice, and I'm not sure yet.
 
@RosemaryJackson crossing fingers new cream works quickly
@jpscloud Montezuma s 100% chocolate with orange oil is my go to chocolate love it and it's what I'm currently eating. I can restrict to four small squares unlike 90% Lindt that never stays in cupboard for long! So I'm best not buying the lindt.
@Antje77 happy 47th birthday - looks like difficult choice but it's your birthday what do you fancy the most? The stamppot I'm sure would taste good tomorrow and would be two no real cooking days a birthday pressie to yourself.
Today had longer eating window starting at 10am and finishing at 5.30.
Breakfast small kefir then two boiled eggs and LC roll
Lunchtime spoon of cooked rhubarb with my hm yogurts then a few squares of Montezuma 100% with orange oil
Dinner hm Bolognese and glass of red wine then one of my LC hm lemon and rhubarb buns and decaffeinated coffee
 
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