Gotta get back on track!!!!!!!!

Brunneria said:

We got given a HUGE 1 kg bar of the purple choc yesterday.

I mean, a middle aged couple, both a tad (cough) curvaceous, with no kids, really NEED a present like that, don't they?

I'm going to have to take it to work and throw it to the gannets to get rid of it.

If it lasts til then.

I don't even enjoy that Cadbury's any more. It's sickly and they stuff it with milk. I have just spent 5 years training myself to enjoy the taste of dark choc. I'm aiming for one of those snobbish mindsets where milk chocolate is a contemptible food for people with un-cultured palettes...

But that sickly little purple voice is there, in my head, saying

'Eat me'

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Oh Brunneria, you are exactly right. What did you do with it? My son, I mean my actual SON gave me a huge box of Roses chocs for my birthday. My daughter in law said, what on earth were you thinking, giving your diabetic mother chocolates? Maybe he's trying to kill me off! AAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhh.... Anyway, I did have a couple, enjoyed them and gave the rest to Johnny who doesn't need them either! Oh well....

skal said:

I agree, genetics play a part as mum, dad, several uncles and cousins and other family members are all types 2 as was my Nan. But the amount of junk I've stuffed down my throat over the years is clearly the biggest reason I'm in the state I am in....

Once I get myself sorted with a meter, I will play with different things to see if I can go back to enjoying some of the Scandinavian delicacies like rye bread and Finn crisp crisp breads. At the moment I need to try for tee total as I have no will power...

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Hi skal. Firstly, I am not sure that will power is really the key. I know that sounds ridiculous but here's the thing, at least for me. Will power has for years been touted as the be all and end all of weight loss but for most of us I think it's a dead end way of thinking. With will power, when we don't get it right how do we feel? Right, like an absolute and complete failure but that's not true. We aren't failures, we are humans who get it slightly wrong once in a while but that doesn't make us failures. We have the wonderful gift of being able to have another go where we get the chance to get it right.

For me, I have found it much more useful to think of this whole diabetes fiasco as a chance to change how I live. Each day is a new opportunity, a new beginning and I do my damndest to get it right and not just because of the weight loss, but I try to focus on my new way of "being" each day. Does that make sense? If I focus totally on the weight loss it just highlights one small part of this whole thing when in actual fact it's really a total change. A change of lifestyle, a change of exercise routine and total change in the way I think. So, yes, get rid of all that junk, you don't need it. Replace it with low carb stuff you can enjoy and do your best to re-train your brain. Habits take a long time to change, ages to get replaced with the kind of thinking that we would rather was in our heads but the more you do it the easier it becomes. I don't pretend to get it right all the time, but I am still not a failure, I am someone who gets it a bit wrong sometimes

Having diabetes is rotten but it is a chance for change. It is a chance to become what you have always wanted to be and honestly skal love, you can do this, you really can. Any change is hard and it will take a lot of walking away...from the fridge, from the pantry and from all the places you used to go and towards a new you, towards a walk each day or a swim or whatever exercise floats your boat. It will be hard work no denying it but get your brain on your side and you will be half way there

Good Luck and take care
xxx

Note to self: Take your own advice pops......

Will power wont ever beat carb cravings. Not in the long run.

I think that believers in will power tend to be eternal optimists, or people with normal blood sugar.

The only way I know of overcoming carb cravings is to stop eating carbs and get through the withdrawal period by gorging on protein/fat.

And then I feel great.

Brunneria said:

Will power wont ever beat carb cravings. Not in the long run.

I think that believers in will power tend to be eternal optimists, or people with normal blood sugar.

The only way I know of overcoming carb cravings is to stop eating carbs and get through the withdrawal period by gorging on protein/fat.

And then I feel great.

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Me too!

skal said:

Well, regardless of my choccie binge, things are looking up! I'm feeling good, just had 2 fried eggs for breakfast and am off food shopping in a mo. A friend is coming over for dinner and I will be roasting chicken legs, making a creamy curry sauce with broccoli, leeks and cauliflower rice. She can have some proper rice...
I will be having a almond mug cake , berries and whipped cream for pud.
Also, I haven't been dreaming of crisps anymore and yesterday didn't have one single craving. Probably because I didn't actually spend any time thinking about food, I just had a piece or two of turkey when I was hungry.

One day at a time, eh...

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Please can I have the almond mug cake recipe? I can't remember the thread! Also, I have put some of my recipes up under Scandis recipes.

I've read about the cauliflower rice., but never tried it. What's it like?

RosieLKH said:

I've read about the cauliflower rice., but never tried it. What's it like?

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Boring, unless you add cheese, or cream cheese, or lashings of butter, or ...
In which case, it is FAB!

my husband made 'proper' cauliflower mash last night - well it was broccoli as that is what we had - and it was so good. He usually just mashes the cauliflower/broccoli and adds butter, this time he did it in the blender and added cream, cheese and bacon.

aqualung said:

my husband made 'proper' cauliflower mash last night - well it was broccoli as that is what we had - and it was so good. He usually just mashes the cauliflower/broccoli and adds butter, this time he did it in the blender and added cream, cheese and bacon.

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Errrrrrrrr......... I bet that would be nice, formed into a patty, then fried in the bacon fat.

My breakfast bacon is cooking right now, and I'm now salivating.

AndBreathe said:

Errrrrrrrr......... I bet that would be nice, formed into a patty, then fried in the bacon fat.

My breakfast bacon is cooking right now, and I'm now salivating.

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there is a bit left so that would be a fab idea, thank you.

I am planning bacon, fried egg, mushroom and 1 slice of burgen bread toast for my lunch...yum!

aqualung said:

there is a bit left so that would be a fab idea, thank you.

I am planning bacon, fried egg, mushroom and 1 slice of burgen bread toast for my lunch...yum!

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My mother used to fry mashed potato patties like that, back in the 70s, before fat was labelled The Devil's Food.

Yum.

We used to call them Plonkers, cos they were plonked into the pan... Happy days.

I shall resurrect the Plonker in our house, brought into the Modern Age by substituting cauli for potato.

skal said:

2 tbsp butter, melted in the nuker
3tbsp ground almonds
1 tsp coconut flour , optional
1 1/5 tbsp splenda etc
1/4 tsp vanilla
Pinch of salt
1 egg
1 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 baking powder
1 square 90% chocolate, chopped
2 tbsp pecans, optional

Melt the butter in a bowl, add remaining ingredients and divide into 2 mugs and nuke for 1-1/5 minutes. I just used almonds as have no coconut, and used chopped hazelnuts instead of pecans. It was much nicer than any other mug cake I had had before!

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Am going to make this tonight! Our microwave is 900w so 1 minute?

skal said:

Yeah, ours us 800 and it was just right at 80 seconds or so.

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I think you should be sainted! Didn't have nuts so used 2 squares of 70% dark flavoured with orange! Totally and utterly divine! I salute you!