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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1916536" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I had a social lunch out yesterday - and it went way easier than I thought it would. This is to do with: eggs, and chicken salad <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I had three eggs scrambled with a wee bit of parmesan for taste to load up nutrition-wise in the morning. This has worked very well for me during this low-cal/too little food for usual decent energy thing. I walked there and back. All good. I did get a bit grumpy in the afternoon, post social-lunch, reminding me of pre-LCHF days, when my BG was going up the wonk. I kept the grumpiness in check. (Herr Svea is very good but even he has his limits!)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">And I have become a fan of chicken salads, no dressing. It must be noted that I had never 'dieted' before the diabetes - I know - extraordinary! But as I got T2D I cannot say it with the enormous pride I used to, more is the pity <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. But, that is why I had not discovered what every wo/man who has ever 'gone on a diet' must have known - chicken salads, no dressing, are a gift! Especially for eating out. (you can even get them at McDonalds! Goodness gracious! 170 cals apparently.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Just in case anyone, but anyone, on the diabetes-planet is at all interested in going low-cal on a LCHF/Keto diet. I am basically throughout the day, peeing out some low levels of extra ketones. (Which is what the ketostix measures?) I don't have a meter to monitor ketones in the blood, which is why I don't identify as a fullblown Keto-eater. Ketostix are a poor cousin to a blood ketones meter, but I am a poor LCHF cousin! But I have gotten up to a '4' one evening. I am never at '0', but in the morning it can be 0.5, up to 1.5, as the measuring goes on the ketostix. It goes up during the day. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I see ketosis as something you go in and out of, and I do not aim for permanent ketosis, hence me, again, not identifying as a keto eater wholeheartedly. (I like the way Brunneria has talked about ketosis, as a spectrum.) My carb tolerance is very low, so I eat as little carbs as possible, but often have blueberries, or strawberries in season. On a low-cal, very very few. As in - 2 blueberries in a day. Or one strawberry (it is early summer now where I am.) I have a sweet tooth (I know - and me with diabetes - what a surprise!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite37" alt=":happy:" title="Happy :happy:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":happy:" />.) And the berries are a little piece of divinity I like to partake in still.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Anyway, my lunch date (she is great - we have looooonnnnnng discussions about malfunctioning body parts and alternative treatments and such), asked me how I did it - this only eating 800 cals a day thing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I answered - "<em>Much</em> easier than when I did it 3 years ago!" Which is absolutely true. And, that, dear readers (if I have any?) is due to re-training my body and eating with frequent IFing and no-food fasting, and LCHF/Keto. Compared to no-food fasting - getting by with eating 800 cals is a piece of p***.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A little whipped cream goes a very long way? Yes. I have found. (With my dairy tolerant body.) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">As does as much protein as my teeny-tiny servings allow. And I eat good quality meat, poultry, and tuna, and sardines. Looking forward to being able to eat more of it again. (I do very well with decent amounts of it. I lost my initial diabetic-weight by going paleo/moderate carb after all).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">As I say - if you are doing a ND with real food, or on the lovely-Hicks/Mosley Blood Sugar Diet plan - just see it as three very very very small meals, that don't really fill you up, if you normally have a hearty appetite (as I do).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I have also been leaning rather heavily on konjac root 'noodles' with white wine vinegar to taste, as a very low cal filler. (When I ate 'too many' cals at breakfast and lunch usually.) Vinegar is of course, a bit of a wonder food for good gut health and lowering blood glucose levels, due to that effect probably. So the vinegar is good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">And eggs. I am such a big egg fan. Did I mention that? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite37" alt=":happy:" title="Happy :happy:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":happy:" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1916536, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]I had a social lunch out yesterday - and it went way easier than I thought it would. This is to do with: eggs, and chicken salad :). I had three eggs scrambled with a wee bit of parmesan for taste to load up nutrition-wise in the morning. This has worked very well for me during this low-cal/too little food for usual decent energy thing. I walked there and back. All good. I did get a bit grumpy in the afternoon, post social-lunch, reminding me of pre-LCHF days, when my BG was going up the wonk. I kept the grumpiness in check. (Herr Svea is very good but even he has his limits!) And I have become a fan of chicken salads, no dressing. It must be noted that I had never 'dieted' before the diabetes - I know - extraordinary! But as I got T2D I cannot say it with the enormous pride I used to, more is the pity :). But, that is why I had not discovered what every wo/man who has ever 'gone on a diet' must have known - chicken salads, no dressing, are a gift! Especially for eating out. (you can even get them at McDonalds! Goodness gracious! 170 cals apparently.) Just in case anyone, but anyone, on the diabetes-planet is at all interested in going low-cal on a LCHF/Keto diet. I am basically throughout the day, peeing out some low levels of extra ketones. (Which is what the ketostix measures?) I don't have a meter to monitor ketones in the blood, which is why I don't identify as a fullblown Keto-eater. Ketostix are a poor cousin to a blood ketones meter, but I am a poor LCHF cousin! But I have gotten up to a '4' one evening. I am never at '0', but in the morning it can be 0.5, up to 1.5, as the measuring goes on the ketostix. It goes up during the day. I see ketosis as something you go in and out of, and I do not aim for permanent ketosis, hence me, again, not identifying as a keto eater wholeheartedly. (I like the way Brunneria has talked about ketosis, as a spectrum.) My carb tolerance is very low, so I eat as little carbs as possible, but often have blueberries, or strawberries in season. On a low-cal, very very few. As in - 2 blueberries in a day. Or one strawberry (it is early summer now where I am.) I have a sweet tooth (I know - and me with diabetes - what a surprise!:happy:.) And the berries are a little piece of divinity I like to partake in still. Anyway, my lunch date (she is great - we have looooonnnnnng discussions about malfunctioning body parts and alternative treatments and such), asked me how I did it - this only eating 800 cals a day thing. I answered - "[I]Much[/I] easier than when I did it 3 years ago!" Which is absolutely true. And, that, dear readers (if I have any?) is due to re-training my body and eating with frequent IFing and no-food fasting, and LCHF/Keto. Compared to no-food fasting - getting by with eating 800 cals is a piece of p***. A little whipped cream goes a very long way? Yes. I have found. (With my dairy tolerant body.) As does as much protein as my teeny-tiny servings allow. And I eat good quality meat, poultry, and tuna, and sardines. Looking forward to being able to eat more of it again. (I do very well with decent amounts of it. I lost my initial diabetic-weight by going paleo/moderate carb after all). As I say - if you are doing a ND with real food, or on the lovely-Hicks/Mosley Blood Sugar Diet plan - just see it as three very very very small meals, that don't really fill you up, if you normally have a hearty appetite (as I do). I have also been leaning rather heavily on konjac root 'noodles' with white wine vinegar to taste, as a very low cal filler. (When I ate 'too many' cals at breakfast and lunch usually.) Vinegar is of course, a bit of a wonder food for good gut health and lowering blood glucose levels, due to that effect probably. So the vinegar is good. And eggs. I am such a big egg fan. Did I mention that? :happy: [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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