A day in the life of eating as a Hypoglycaemic.

[Lamont D]

I'd just thought I'd ask what you dietary intake is like in a normal day.
I know we all like different things and have different tastes, but it could help others on how we cope to be in control.

Breakfast.
Yogurt with berries or one piece of Bergen bread toasted with a sliver of raspberry jam.
Black tea.
Mid morning.
Small Apple, tea.
Lunch.
Ham salad or ham salad sandwich, if I haven't had toast. Tea. If at home I have a cooked breakfast, eggs, gammon, black pudding, few beans, Tom's, mushrooms etc.or an omelette.
Mid afternoon.
Soup or curry, homemade. Tea
Tea.
Meat and veg, tea. Varies
Supper.
Yogurt, berries, chocolate 85% cocoa solids!

I snack occasionally on nuts, or a small piece of fruit, or occasionally just a piece of meat.
I work nearly full time and travel around with my local footie team. Small meals just to keep me going.
I fast at least once a week, when not working!

 

[DeejayR]

Sounds good to me. Pop round any time and I reckon I could feed you from the larder, no probs.

 

[Linagirl]

Hiya my day is similar to your Nosher

Yoghurt and berries around 8.00am

11.00 am omelettes or bacon and eggs with mushrooms and tomatoes

1.00 chicken or fish salad

3.00pm soup home made or some
Pumpkin seeds and cheese

6.00 dinner usually a curry or meat and veg

9.30 snack yoghurt or chicken leg or something small like half avocado

 

[Brunneria]

Mine is quite different.
My body does best when it is in ketosis (running on fat), and my insulin resistance tends to decrease during the day, so i avoid any carbs at breakfast but can tolerate some in the evenings.

I also find that the longer i eat very low carb, the less i need to snack.
And for the last few months, i have been doing a variation of intermittent fasting, where i eat 2 meals a day, lunch and evening meal. The rest of the time (including breakfast) i try to eat little, and make it mainly fat based. So no carbs and minimal protein.
So a typical day looks like this:

Breakfast: one of the following
Coffee and cream
Bulletproof coffee
Low carb hot choc
Coconut yogurt
Weekends i sometimes have a Full English (minus carbs) or scram egg, or kippers

Lunch: one of the following
Mozarella and beef tomato
Crustless quiche
Salad with cold meat or cheese
Hummus (by the spoon)
Lidl protein roll with cheese or marmite, and butter

Evening: very varied, but typically
Low carb moussaka
Curry, cauli rice, assorted veg (usually using curry pastes like Pataks, never a bought sauce)
Stir fried beef or pork, with assorted veg
Home made burger, with veg
LC cauli cheese and LC sausage
Steak and salad
Baked fish, and veg or salad

If i snack, it would be
2 squares 70% solid choc
Anglesey pork scratchings (no additives)
sliced cheese
or a 9bar.

Drinks tend to be
Water
Herb tea
Coffeencream
Teancream
Sambucol effervescent tablet in water
LC lemonade (water with lemon juice and a teasp of erythritol)
LC hot choc

 

[Linagirl]

Hey Brun can you remind me how to make the low carb hot choc again pls?

Many thanks

Emma

 

[Brunneria]

Low Carb Hot Choc

Boil kettle.
Add a heaped teasp of good quality cocoa powder to a big mug
Add 1.5 ish heaped teasp of sugar substitute to mug
Make the powders into a paste with a dribble of water (get rid of the lumps)
Add boiling water and stir until smooth
Top up with double cream.
Add caramel, lemon, orange or mint essences, if desired
Enjoy

All quantities adjustable

 

[Linagirl]

Thanks Brun.