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!
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
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
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