What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Annb]

Omelette ingredients, bacon a optional extra.
Cage eggs. (3)
Mushrooms. (2 or 3)
Tomatoes. (n/a)
Shredded cheddar cheese. (80 g)
Pepper mix with extra chilli flakes, cloves. (Couple of good pepper grinds)
Salt to sprinkle over it when cooked. (( Good sprinkle)

Edit: Just did a quick mental costing of the daily ingredients, it comes to a bit over $4.00 for the meal, the tomatoes were wild from the block.

Low carb high fat food is just as affordable as the other stuff.

Comes in at about £5 here in the Hebrides. That's OK if it's the only meal of the day. I would usually allow myself about £5 or £6 per day for food - here it would have been a lot cheaper eating higher carb and only vegetables, so low protein and fat. But less of something that is better for you is better than more of something that is making you ill.

 

[annabell1]

Didnt get a chance to post yesterday but if I can remember it went like this-
B: fried eggs on marmite toast ( Dr Almond flaxseed bread)
L:Ham salad, a very uninspiring choice that left me feeling cold and fed up having just spent all morning in muddy wet moorland, dog walking for an hour then waiting for AA to tow my car out of the mud. Felt like some comfort food so ham salad was a stupid decision. 30g Montezuma’s absolute black helped.
D: https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-swedish-meatballs-in-gravy and a glass of red.
Played Articulate all evening with family. Mr C and I are undefeated.
@annabell1 sounds like you are juggling a lot of balls at the moment with meds, hope things improve. How was your baba ganoush ? I love it.

My baba ganish was good I hadn't made it for ages and found some cooked pureed eggplant that I had in my freezer so made a small batch. Do you make it?

 

[annabell1]

Another sleep in its becoming a habit! .
Brunch was DD coconut porridge I used half butter and coconut oil this time I didn't have enough coconut cream so also used unhomganesed high fat milk with cream on top to make up for it. Topped it with blueberries and yogurt washed down iwith black coffee.

Then Went shopping to buy a gift for one of my sisters birthday but brought nothing its getting hard to buy gifts especially when they have everything. but brought some broccoli and strawberries to have with meals for the week instead. Hopefully i buy something during the week for her. I got home late but had to rest for an hour before making dinner. Dinner I baked whole flathead fish with lemons served with baked sweet potatoes and rocket tomato and parmesan cheese salad dressed with olive oil cherry and pomegranate dressing. And glass of lemon drink that's made with stevia.

 

[annabell1]

If you can tolerate celeriac, it might be worth trying. It is similar to white turnip, but I don't think it has quite as much carb in it. You can boil and mash it, bake with something quite damp (eg cream and butter), or, shredded, it can go into a salad. It's just something a bit different, not spectacular, but maybe worth a try, if you can take it.

I found some at the fruit shop but it was $7 and quite small size so didn't buy it for that price as didn't want to buy it in case I didn't like it. I'll keep an eye out if price drops I think

 

[Annb]

I found some at the fruit shop but it was $7 and quite small size so didn't buy it for that price as didn't want to buy it in case I didn't like it. I'll keep an eye out if price drops I think

At $7 for a small one, it probably wouldn't be worth it. A largish one here costs about £2 and does at least 4 meals.

 

[Annb]

Tea, tea, tea, tea. Today was going to be a treat. I'd bought a pack of 3 pork supremes in the supermarket - not very big, but enough for 3 meals. I also had some bacon which had been languishing in the bottom of the fridge and needed something done with it so I decided to do a "take" on the American "Collard greens" using the outer leaves of a green cabbage and much less water than in the American recipe. This was for my one meal of the day. Just as I was cooking the greens my friend arrived with a Syrian lady she is teaching to drive (somewhere to drive to out of Stornoway) and while I was welcoming them, my greens burned. I managed to save some of them once they had gone but the gravy had dried up completely and the whole was very salty. I did cook my piece of pork and picked a little bit of the greens out of the pan but couldn't eat the salty product. Pork was good though.

More tea.

I'm not sure if one piece of pork is going to suffice for the day but I'll try. Rather than waste the greens, I thought I would add some chicken stock from the fridge, but it didn't smell right, so it went out and I poured cream over the greens instead. Not sure how I'll use it, but the cream should take the saltiness away.

Must be well down on both carbs and calories if I can last out until tomorrow without having something else. (Other than tea, of course.)

 

[ianpspurs]

Haven't eaten final meal yet but I know what it will be and have been on here from soon after 4.10 am so time to sign off. B= tea, posting and reading. Around 12.30 LC hot chocolate then some pork scratchings (no justification for that aberration except they were there); Around 15.00 mackerel and avocado salad with chia seeds; Evening will be poached egg on skinny bread toast with LC tommy k followed by .5 CCB. Appears to hit LC, 36 gms fibre and plenty of targets hit for nutes and vits so job done afaic.

 

[PenguinMum]

Thank you. Well if it is 7 fasting. Is more likely to be 9.4 after breakfast. If it is 5 is often a 7/8 on the greek yoghurt. Always high regardless on porridge and all bran, which is a shame as feel better for the fibre and substance with these on 2000mg of metformin. Will look for the bread you mention. Where do I buy it?

I prefer to keep all readings below 8 even 2 hours after food. FBGis notoriously stubborn to come down due to Dawn Phenominum, I am almost two years in and still find it tricky but there are things you can try like eating earlier in the evening or eating a smaller LC meal. The plain yogurt and raspberry breakfast may be two big most likely too many raspberries so you could play around with that too. You could look at LC breakfast ideas on Diet Doctor. The ideal differential between eating and 2 hours later is no more than 2. The LivLife bread is from Waitrose and some branches of Sainsburys do a HiLo bread (5g /slice but better toast imo). I would just repeat we all react differently so try different ways until you find what works for you. Good luck with it all.

 

[PenguinMum]

Today’s intake:
Breakfast: slice LivLife toast, 2 rashers, 2 fried eggs.
Lunch not necessary.
Supper will be spatchcock chicken and tenderstem brocolli.

Have discovered new (to me) things in M&S. one is goats cheese called Raven Ridge which is soft and not too goaty. Nice change in a salad. Second is finally tracked down the Serrano ham crisps and Milano Salami crisps which are less than 0.1g carbs. They are pricey at £1.50 for a 25g bag but that means I wont buy them too often! They do make a nice treat with a drink and allow portion control at the same time.

@Annb sorry about your burnt cabbage...the best laid plans etc. @ianpspurs you must be very tired now hope tonight brings a decent sleep.

 

[Millie74]

I prefer to keep all readings below 8 even 2 hours after food. FBGis notoriously stubborn to come down due to Dawn Phenominum, I am almost two years in and still find it tricky but there are things you can try like eating earlier in the evening or eating a smaller LC meal. The plain yogurt and raspberry breakfast may be two big most likely too many raspberries so you could play around with that too. You could look at LC breakfast ideas on Diet Doctor. The ideal differential between eating and 2 hours later is no more than 2. The LivLife bread is from Waitrose and some branches of Sainsburys do a HiLo bread (5g /slice but better toast imo). I would just repeat we all react differently so try different ways until you find what works for you. Good luck with it all.

Thank you. Some fasting sugars are really good from 4.5-5.9. Then get random 7 or 8 ones. Quite stressful as worried not going to achieve the hba1c target. Then I’ll have to try another drug. Can’t see point in Jardiance as testing proves not a wonder drug for me. Guess it would be Sitagliptin out the two she mentioned as Gliclazide makes you gain weight and have just lost 2 stone since January and don’t want to gain it back. My BMI is 25 now. Conscious have wasted time experimenting with SGLT2s as I had them. Thanks. Will look at the bread in Waitrose. I can’t tolerate any carbs at all. Have tried wholemeal pitta with tuna. They come out at 9-12 in day and if have glass of wine with one for dinner in evening. 7. Wine seems to lower result. Only have one or feel rough. It’s hard to get your hear round. I miss the bran/ porridge as if don’t have it feel constipated. The bran/ porridge was only thing Jardiance worked on. Got 8.4-8.7 rather than 10s-13s. But then if I had pitta for lunch ( some carbs as needed on Jardiance) was 9.7. If I added potatoes or rice to dinner 10 plus. Stressful. So ditched that as felt more in control with low carb. Sorry for long response. Stressing. I am wondering if worth going private for LADA test as tried so hard since Jan diagnosis (96hba1c) and not got there. It went down 96, 72, 52, then 56. Grrrrr. So will have more drugs thrown at me if fail in Dec until 48

 

[DJC3]

My baba ganish was good I hadn't made it for ages and found some cooked pureed eggplant that I had in my freezer so made a small batch. Do you make it?

Yes I do make it, although I haven’t made it since the summer. I use this recipe
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetable-recipes/baba-ganoush/

Hope you find some inspiration for your sister’s present soon. I hate it when I’m rushing around at the last minute, racking my brains trying to think of something

 

[DJC3]

@Millie74 I agree with @PenguinMum that Morning rising bg is hard to conquer. Can’t say I’ve sussed it yet properly but if you don’t fancy having eggs for breakfast as well as lunch ( I often do and I’ve stopped worrying about it) have you considered a cold ‘’Continental’ style breakfast of cheese and meat, or smoked salmon and avocado, or even leftovers from your evening meal the day before? No rule says breakfast has to be a particular food.

Today we had the most joyful morning at Schnauzerfest! @Goonergal Dennis behaved himself ( sort of) and made 100 chums. I laughed solidly for 2 hours at the sight of all these funny characters.
Back to food- no time for breakfast. Had black coffee from a beach hut.
Put a breast of lamb in a low oven before setting off but arrangements changed and we didn’t eat until 3:30 so OMAD in effect served with cauli cheese and garlicky cabbage. A few Brazil nuts to nibble on while waiting.
Red wine also, which I’m still drinking. Dennis is being castrated tomorrow so we are all being extra nice to him this evening.

 

[SlimLizzy]

13-10-19
7am many tractors roaring past the house, woke me up. BG 5.9
Made tea, but sat down at laptop and didn't drink it until about 7.30
Weather forecast last night was rain today. Is this why the hurry to get the maize in? Anyway went out and did a bit of digging. Around 9am came in to do breakfast for MrSlim, he is having croissant and I de used to have one myself. BG 5.6 before
Croissant knob of butter and tea. Spent approx an hour pottering about, BG 6.4.then outside. Picking up apples, possibly less strenuous than digging. MrSlim made me coffee. 30 mins too late for two hour check. Then was 6.8. No idea if going up or down.

BG 5.3 Lunch: being aware of carb creep, weighed my usual chunk of baguette. To my surprise was about half expected weight.( 20g) Is this a variation between makers, or have I had it wrong all along?
Didn't double the portion though. Three slices smoked salmon with sour cream and chives. Few bits of salad from the garden.
Greek yoghurt and raspberry crumbs. Splash of cream over it. Tea.
Wet afternoon, good time to batch cook.
BG at 2 hours 6.9
Coffee.
Glass of wine- much needed for stress relief when the potatoes boiled dry.
Dinner sort of cottage pie. With a carrot and turnip topping and a thin layer of potato slices. Frozen French beans for the green element. Won't be doing that again. Turnips far too watery. Another glass of wine and one of water.
Made use of my new food processor to make nut granola.
Had thought about trying to invent LC cake, but had enough of cooking now. One square ( so far ) 85% chocolate.
Probably another glass of wine later

 

[Brunneria]

Evenin’ All,

11am LC hot choc made with HC batons.
6pm Dragonsbreath with halloumi fries. Odd combo, but tasty

Foul weather, all day. So i spent as much time in hot tub as possible, and then toyed with some cleaning.
The Pack have bled off their extra energy by destroying some lovely butcher’s bones. Exhausting to watch. Though now it looks like we are living in a charnel house.

 

[PenguinMum]

@Millie74 I cant help and dont have any knowledge of medication for T2 as I have never had any so be careful if lowering carbs whilst taking D meds. Maybe ask questions about that in a new thread. Regarding going low carb you need to ditch potatoes, rice, pasta, grains esp bread (other than PERHAPS small quantity of specialist low carb/highprotein bread). I have successfully replaced rice with curry (homemade) with cauliflower rice available freh in many supermarkets in the salad section or you can gratecauli yourself. As I am the only one in my house eating it I buy packs of frozen 4 single portions from Iceland. They also do a green version which is riced broccoli kale and other green veg and I find it very convenient and enjoy it. I am not telling you that is what you should do but just offering suggestions. I think you are new to all this ? So please dont stress. It takes awhile to find your way but the good thing is you care enough to get it better. Again best wishes.

 

[PenguinMum]

@Millie74 just to add its REALLY important if you are on meds other than Metformin and you decide to reduce your carbs significantly you do need to speak to your Diabetic nurse in case you are in danger of hypos. There is a very knowledgable member who I am going to tag @Rachox to give you the benefit off far more knowledge than I have.
Best wishes.

 

[Rachox]

Thank you. Some fasting sugars are really good from 4.5-5.9. Then get random 7 or 8 ones. Quite stressful as worried not going to achieve the hba1c target. Then I’ll have to try another drug. Can’t see point in Jardiance as testing proves not a wonder drug for me. Guess it would be Sitagliptin out the two she mentioned as Gliclazide makes you gain weight and have just lost 2 stone since January and don’t want to gain it back. My BMI is 25 now. Conscious have wasted time experimenting with SGLT2s as I had them. Thanks. Will look at the bread in Waitrose. I can’t tolerate any carbs at all. Have tried wholemeal pitta with tuna. They come out at 9-12 in day and if have glass of wine with one for dinner in evening. 7. Wine seems to lower result. Only have one or feel rough. It’s hard to get your hear round. I miss the bran/ porridge as if don’t have it feel constipated. The bran/ porridge was only thing Jardiance worked on. Got 8.4-8.7 rather than 10s-13s. But then if I had pitta for lunch ( some carbs as needed on Jardiance) was 9.7. If I added potatoes or rice to dinner 10 plus. Stressful. So ditched that as felt more in control with low carb. Sorry for long response. Stressing. I am wondering if worth going private for LADA test as tried so hard since Jan diagnosis (96hba1c) and not got there. It went down 96, 72, 52, then 56. Grrrrr. So will have more drugs thrown at me if fail in Dec until 48

@Millie74 just to add its REALLY important if you are on meds other than Metformin and you decide to reduce your carbs significantly you do need to speak to your Diabetic nurse in case you are in danger of hypos. There is a very knowledgable member who I am going to tag @Rachox to give you the benefit off far more knowledge than I have.
Best wishes.

Hi @Millie74 , thanks for the tag @PenguinMum. Unfortunately I only have knowledge of low carb with Metformin, no other meds. So as not to derail this thread further, I think it best if @Millie74 posts her own thread in an appropriate sub form. Can I suggest the Type 2 one?

 

[ianpspurs]

@Millie74 Dennis is being castrated tomorrow so we are all being extra nice to him this evening.

Hug is for poor Dennis. Bit severe for a bit of chewing. I do hope Mr C never upsets you

 

[DJC3]

Hug is for poor Dennis. Bit severe for a bit of chewing. I do hope Mr C never upsets you

He’s already been sorted out!

 

[PenguinMum]

@DJC3 somehow it got past me that Dennis was being “sorted” not sure when it actually happened but hope Little Den is ok.