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Suzuka said:
Hi new day new challenge. Fasting blood 13 too high. Had Greek yoghurt and berries for breakfast - went up after to 14.3 then had some almonds and went down to 13.5 . Just had lunch of salad, tomatoes, cucumber and sliced ham and avocado with a little chilli dressing, and just waiting till 2.00pm to test it again, feeling really disheartened, am really trying and whatever I'm doing doesn't seem to be working. Haven't had tabs yet today, it was suggested changing from taking them in the morning to taking after eating evening meal, which I am starting tonight, so hopefully that might make a difference to the fasting morning reading. Hey oh got to keep smiling eh?
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Keep your chin up. It's early days :) If by tabs you mean metformin, a tip I learned on here was to take it in the middle of a meal. Some people say it gives you less bother that way. I've never had any negative symptom, but am just superstitious about it now. It can take a couple of weeks for metformin to take affect so try not not to stress.
 
Forgot to say, QUORN SAUSAGES are half price in Iceland this week if anyone is interested. £1 for a bag of 10. The burgers are also a quid a bag, but I don't know how many are in a bag.
 
B1: eggs Benedict (using bought Hollandaise, which was very disappointing. Will make my own, next time!)
B2: 9bar, stewed rhubarb and double cream.
L: a tiddly bag of popcorn with a tsp double cream stirred in
D: pulled pork and chorizo Jumbalaya with peppers, aubergine and courgettes

May need a LC hot choc later... :rolleyes:
 
AndBreathe said:
As long as he really, really believe it. ;)

Could you do a little training over t'internet please? Just to validate your methodology, obviously. :cool::cool::cool:
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:D:D
 
Not a dairy free Monday. Will be lucky if I get through the day without punching someone lol, so dairy free is a challenge too far :rolleyes:

B: plain omelette
L: veg soup, Meyer lemon
D: two Quorn sausages, lots of mushrooms fried in garlic butter. Got a chia pud for later.
Snack: creamy decaf
 
B - pumpkin 9 bar
L - home made ham and mushroom crustless quiche with a Mediterranean salad
D - peppered steak burger with crunchy coleslaw, cumcumber and letter, with fried onions, mushrooms and a little cheese... Yummy

Sugar free jelly and cream for later if I need it.
 
Avocado Sevenfold said:
Not a dairy free Monday. Will be lucky if I get through the day without punching someone lol, so dairy free is a challenge too far :rolleyes:

B: plain omelette
L: veg soup, Meyer lemon
D: two Quorn sausages, lots of mushrooms fried in garlic butter. Got a chia pud for later.
Snack: creamy decaf
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Run away! Run way!!!!!!!!!!!! :bigtears::sorry::sorry:
 
B: Usual groats, cinnamon, chia, yoghurt, cream, berries, seeds, nuts. 4.8 fasting, 4.8 two hours after, retest other hand, 5.0
L: Cold roast pork, cabbage, raw carrot, gherkin, tomato, avocado, cheese, mayo, home-made olive bread. Before 5.7, after 5.8
D: Salmon poached in amontillado & soy sauce w/stir-fry anise, onion, sugar snap peas, mushrooms, yellow pepper & packet mixed veg inc carrot. Before 5.6, after ... ooh, what will it be? Please let it be a nice quiet end to the day :nailbiting:
*edit* Erm, 6.8 :sour:
 
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Avocado Sevenfold said:
Not a dairy free Monday. Will be lucky if I get through the day without punching someone lol, so dairy free is a challenge too far :rolleyes:
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Tell me about it!

Having walked away from sugar, honey, most sweeteners, milk choc, all grains, almost all root veg, whey (in milk), most processed, veg oils, soy in any form and most fruit, I'm hanging on to what's left! No way am I giving up butter and cream!
 
Brunneria said:
Tell me about it!

Having walked away from sugar, honey, most sweeteners, milk choc, all grains, almost all root veg, whey (in milk), most processed, veg oils, soy in any form and most fruit, I'm hanging on to what's left! No way am I giving up butter and cream!
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Erm,............ who says dairy is verbotten? I'll hold 'em. You hit 'em.
 
Susikav said:
Are you planning on low-carbing? If so, you need full-fat everything... :)
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Oh....didn't know that! Why's that? The full fat yoghurt showed double the carbs......
Now I'm really confused....

Plus I want to take good care with my cholesterol too
 
Tooconfused said:
Oh....didn't know that! Why's that? The full fat yoghurt showed double the carbs......
Now I'm really confused....

Plus I want to take good care with my cholesterol too
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If we're talking plain yoghurt, full fat is usually lower carb than low fat/semi-skimmed versions, because when the fat is removed, the volume goes down, so proportionally there are more carbs per 100ml/gr.

It is now becoming understood that carbs, not fats impact on cholesterol. The presentation below is immensely informative. It's 27 minutes well spent, in my view.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9BFRi-nH1v8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 
AndBreathe said:
If we're talking plain yoghurt, full fat is usually lower carb than low fat/semi-skimmed versions, because when the fat is removed, the volume goes down, so proportionally there are more carbs per 100ml/gr.

It is now becoming understood that carbs, not fats impact on cholesterol. The presentation below is immensely informative. It's 27 minutes well spent, in my view.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9BFRi-nH1v8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Thanks I'll have a look!
 
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