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Diet Doctor Low Carb Challenge

Speedbird said:
Chook, have you tried Tom Kerridge's coffee and walnut cake? It's delightful and light. I just added some cream cheese topping with walnuts but you could use extra thick double cream. Lasted over a week. X
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I've got his book and I hadn't seen there are CAKE recipes in there. Must experiment. Thanks for the heads-up :)
 
Okayyyyyy - my FBGs entirely depend on what I've eaten the day before (now that I am over that bug).

If I fast then the next morning my FBG is in the 5s, if I don't fast then my FBG is in the 6s or even low 7s.

Ladies.... does this mean I've got to fast every day for the rest of my life to have good numbers?

PS - in Chook World fasting means skipping breakfast and lunch and then not snacking after a normal low carb dinner (but it does include the odd glass of wine with dinner). ;)

Mr C was very late home last evening - he should get home at 5.30 but didn't get home until 7 - it was amazing how hunger really kicked in because of the delay. Sometimes when we eat at 6 I feel that I'm not particularly hungry but last night it was 7.30 before we ate and I was ravenous - so hungry that I was looking at the New Dog and wondering what he would be like roasted! LOL
 
The diet doctor has some fabulous recipes- we use a number of them mentioned here. (I personally loved the pesto chicken with feta & olives but my partner wasn't too keen - he found it too oily so i think next time i make it i might reduce the cream and relook at the pesto we used as i think it had extra oil or something in it.) anyway - in terms of weight loss- sometimes things just move a little slowly. And as you already mentioned, it might mean that your initial weight loss is slowing a little. I also suspect that sometimes the weight loss is internal, not external. Our organs can have fat around them so it stands to reason that maybe as we reduce carbs etc the weight loss might not be visible by scale or even measurements but the healing is happening on a way that we can't see. Just a thought...
 
Well that was an improvement - bed on 5.8 (I'd been 5.3 most of the day) up to 7 FBG and 6.3 pre breakfast. Nothing different unless it is the bug finally leaving (touching wood)
 
I've been looking at the recipes on the DD site - lots seem to use cups. I work best with oz or grams - is there an easy conversion?
 
Ultramum said:
I've been looking at the recipes on the DD site - lots seem to use cups. I work best with oz or grams - is there an easy conversion?
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Yup - at the top of the recipe beside the number of people press metric and it will convert to grams. You'll only get oz with the US measure which also uses the cups. Must admit I prefer the cups as I have a set and they are such an easy measure.
 
maglil55 said:
Yup - at the top of the recipe beside the number of people press metric and it will convert to grams. You'll only get oz with the US measure which also uses the cups. Must admit I prefer the cups as I have a set and they are such an easy measure.
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Added a set of cups to my Amazon wish list - I have some English ones but they are not the same as American ones
 
Today is a good day. Was tired last night so last reading I had was 6.1 pre dinner but pre breakfast I wasn't too bad at 7.6 - I've been a heck of a lot worse. Weigh in day and I've lost another 1lb. Seems to have fallen into a pattern of 0 then 1lb which is great as it keeps going down. Since the beginning of November 2016 I'm down 25lbs and ideally I'd like to lose another 75lbs so I'm 25% of the way there now
Now if this sore throat and cough would just go away....Hubby tells me it will eventually !
 
That is good news @maglil55

I've got on the scales a couple of times this week, and it has fluctuated annoyingly.
Doesn't look like I have lost anything at all, after a month of DD, but I did eat potato (a small portion on 2 days this week) and an onion ring, so some of that will be the usual absurdly OTT water retention.

Don't mind though, if I stay this weight and keep these blood glucose levels, I will be ecstatic.
Am just loving the food, and Mr B is in full favour, so long as I try and minimise the washing up, and his carb stash stays available to him...
 
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@maglil55. Your BG seems to be coming down hopefully it's a sign that the plague bug is going to fade away from you soon. Mr C has got that cough now - he says it's a throat tickling cough but it sounds really hacking.

@Brunneria. Have you gone back down to your lovely low BG? I'd say give it a month or two to stabilize before even beginning to think about tackling any weight issues. No point in putting your body under stress at such an early stage.

My weigh in day is tomorrow but I can feel from my jeans that I haven't lost any and may possibly have put on a little. I'm moving on to my planned intermittent fasting week. Fasting Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday - just eating a low carb dinner on those days and low carb the rest of the time. I haven't mentioned this to Mr. C and he hasn't noticed there's nothing for me for breakfast and lunch on the menu stuck on the fridge for those days.
 
My bg is nice and low, but not as low as that lovely week when i was bouncing with joy.

I'm thinking that the gluten (onion ring) may be the culprit, since this has happened before. Seems ridiculously out of proportion that one tiddly little ring should keep things raised for about 5 days, eh?
 
Brunneria said:
My bg is nice and low, but not as low as that lovely week when i was bouncing with joy.

I'm thinking that the gluten (onion ring) may be the culprit, since this has happened before. Seems ridiculously out of proportion that one tiddly little ring should keep things raised for about 5 days, eh?
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I've got a similar problem with mushrooms. I had three medium size chestnut ones with bacon, eggs, one grilled tomato and low carb sausages for brunch. FBG was 6.3 which rose to 7.1 just before brunch then two hours after it was at 8.7 - and that's because of the mushrooms. I have had that same meal lots of times with and without mushrooms, without mushrooms it stops any DP and starts to come down usually to about 1.0 below what it was before eating. With mushrooms I get this rise which stays with me all day. It has to be an intolerance because they don't contain many carbs.

The obvious thing to do is not eat mushrooms - but I love them. :( At least it's not five days like your onion ring.

Can you inherit allergies or intolerance? I've just this minute remembered that the reason we never had them when I was a child is because my Mum had a history of vomiting if she ate them.
 
BTW how did you two @maglil55 and @Brunneria manage to get your men trained to do all the clearing up and washing up????? Mr C will 'help' but usually gets side tracked half way through - although I can't complain, he does always cook on Saturdays.
 
Chook said:
BTW how did you two @maglil55 and @Brunneria manage to get your men trained to do all the clearing up and washing up????? Mr C will 'help' but usually gets side tracked half way through - although I can't complain, he does always cook on Saturdays.
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Years of hard work. I often say that's why we are 42 years married this year - just too much effort to train a 2nd one
Seriously, his Mum used to do absolutely everything for him but I calmly pointed out to him he could learn as we were both working full time. Even pre dishwasher he tended to do the dishes. As far as cooking was concerned he just showed an interest in it so he would watch and learn and clean up behind me - after that he just continued to do so. Don't ask him ro clean a toilet though !
I made a point with our son to teach him from an early age as I did not want to inflict another useless man on the world so he's a step up even from hubby as he will wash, iron, do housework , dishes and is quite an accomplished cook but he won't clean toilets either! Must be a man thing.
 
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I cook. He clears. That and the fact that I can't load the dishwasher.

Odd really, since I had a dishwasher for 5 years before we met, while he didn't have one.
But apparently I load it wrongly.
And who am I to disagree? ;)
 
Brunneria said:
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I cook. He clears. That and the fact that I can't load the dishwasher.

Odd really, since I had a dishwasher for 5 years before we met, while he didn't have one.
But apparently I load it wrongly.
And who am I to disagree? ;)
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Yes, I get similar criticism. Not that I do it wrong on purpose. Well, not often.

maglil55 said:
Years of hard work. I often say that's why we are 42 years married this year - just too much effort to train a 2nd one
Seriously, his Mum used to do absolutely everything for him but I calmly pointed out to him he could learn as we were both working full time. Even pre dishwasher he tended to do the dishes. As far as cooking was concerned he just showed an interest in it so he would watch and learn and clean up behind me - after that he just continued to do so. Don't ask him ro clean a toilet though !
I made a point with our son to teach him from an early age as I did not want to inflict another useless man on the world so he's a step up even from hubby as he will wash, iron, do housework , dishes and is quite an accomplished cook but he won't clean toilets either! Must be a man thing.
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Don't get me wrong, Mr C will help out with chores if I'm having a painful day but he will tell me in detail what he's done and the unspoken subtext is that ihe's doing something that would normally be my responsibility plus I have to ask him to do it. But.... he always does it thoroughly - even cleaning the bathroom.
 
The one thing I am reluctant to do, is to empty the bin and take the black bag out to the dustbin.
Mr B does that.
We've abbrieviated it to 'but I'm a girl. Girls don't empty bins. Its in the rules, you know.'

Don't get me wrong, I can and will do it. If the bin starts getting too full, or starts to smell, or the bin men are due and Mr B is on a late shift... but I avoid it if I can.

Think it stems from way back when my back was particularly painful, and I didn't want to bend, pull and carry the bag.
 
Chook said:
Yes, I get similar criticism. Not that I do it wrong on purpose. Well, not often.



Don't get me wrong, Mr C will help out with chores if I'm having a painful day but he will tell me in detail what he's done and the unspoken subtext is that ihe's doing something that would normally be my responsibility plus I have to ask him to do it. But.... he always does it thoroughly - even cleaning the bathroom.
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A man who cleans bathrooms ? Wow! Have to admit the things I normally do he doesn't do as I would. After the surgery on my spine I was largely immobile- had to relearn everything so hubby had to do everything while I tried to work out ways to do things again. The one that used to drive me nuts was sweeping the floor as he used to sweep around things whereas I always moved things. I could see where he had missed and would grind my teeth to avoid appearing ungrateful as he was doing his best. I practiced sweeping with the Physio who came to my house although she couldn't understand why I was so hell bent on sweeping the floor. Took about a year but I got there.
 
I am really not a happy bunny with this cycling bug. Will I feel better if I call it something - the Wiggins bug??
Was quite hot last night and the sinuses get clogged which starts the coughing again. After a few good days went to bed on 6.9 and got to FBG 9.2. At least it only went to 9.5 pre breakfast. Coming down now but it is irritating.
Brother has had it was weeks and is experiencing the same as me. It actually dawned on me that may be why his paraprotein rose since if he gets an infection his impaired immune system gets distracted by the infection rather than fighting the cancer cells.
 
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