My pleasure! I love food so much, and am determined to still love what I eat, even though it’s so different these days. Lidl do jars of chargrilled veggies in oil, which are fab to warm slightly and chuck in a salad, maybe with some olives and feta.
Either it should be this satisfying, or I must be crazy, as your full house made me (quite idiotically) happy!I don't know if it should be as satisfying as it is, but it just is
My favourite thing to to with a bowl or leaves is slather it in mayonnaise
Good nutrients is OK but not fat.
dear judgemental persons, don't run to a security guard when you find me with my strides half down in a bog having an injection and if you see me sliding down a fence & collapsing on the junior school playground floor while waiting to pick my kids up looking rough in rigger boots and cut off shorts and a t don't assume I've been in the pub when I've spent 6 hours laying half battered kerbs.
tho I've not done that for 20 years, don't tut when I blood test when eating out, dont require me to leave your cafe as I injected at your table, don't imply my illness is self afflicted, don't compare me to the anecdotal perfect diabetic who never hypos, don't tell me I shouldn't swim if I risk hypos afterwards, don't tell me I failed at full time employment and I'm a lazy bar steward just working part time when I'm as fit as I am.
Oh and you don't need to tell me that I don't look ill either, nor assume I'm drunk or drugged up when sat sweating outside your shop with my shopping and I don't know if I paid for that Mars bar at the till, what Mars bar even.
In fact, just get lost afore you get here as I could go on
I think most of my unhappy face was for the alcohol bit!
There’s so, so much cultural, emotional, societal and psychological stuff attached to food...Thanks for the hug @Mel dCP
Mars bars I could always take or leave, but I always packed them in my rucksack while hiking. I feel strangely naked while in the hills without a Mars bar in my rucksack. I suppose I should continue to pack them, because if I get into trouble in the middle of nowhere, managing T2 will very quickly seem like the least of my worries, and it may become more important to have a source of quick-acting energy!
I'm beginning to realise just how psychological a lot of the whole food thing is. After months of abstinence, I'd got used to no alcohol at the weekends and stopped craving it. But when I started doing lots of big walks in the mountains a couple of months ago, at the end of the long days of walking, I find myself craving alcohol again. Probably because I have lots of memories of drinking at the end of a day's walking, like a lot of people do. I know I can't go down that road again unfortunately, as it always leads to me inhaling food the next day.
Current evidence is pointing towards carb consumption playing a far larger part in atherosclerosis than fat ( it is in fact showing that fat is neutral to beneficial). Cardiac events are prevalent in uncontrolled Type 2 diabetics with higher than usual blood sugars so hence a lot of us use the LCHF diet to keep blood sugars low, reduce insulin stimulation thus allowing our bodies to burn fat which in turn leads to weight loss. I would go for LCHF (using fats to maintain satiety) over Slimming World, Weight Watchers or any other commercially based dietary regime. For me, to put it simply, it has worked.
Maybe check out the fat emperor (Ivor Cummins) on youtube. Aseem Malhotra (cardiac surgeon) and Dr Jason Fung (also you tube) Quite a few videos on www.dietdoctor.com too.
