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Defren

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Hello all, good to see you all, I hope everyone is well.

I've just come back from holiday, and I have realised a couple of things. Firstly I really have become a bore... Now behave, I mean a food bore :lol:

I found when I was away that while I had the choice of so many delicious foods I craved my staples, things I suppose I feel 'safe' with. Fish was one craving, but in California that was easily satisfied, another was leeks - STOP laughing!! :lol: It's so easy to live on your safe foods, and make a huge variety of meals with them, when they are not so easily available, or your eating at a friends house or hotel/motel I found I began to panic. I did manage to eat very well (as you can imagine) but I have become a food bore - does anyone relate?

Secondly, I realised I missed you guys, even the rows :lol: Not that that will stop me going away in the future. :lol:
 
yes - must confess to the same worries of being out of my food comfort zone. just about to go away for the first time since I began to take control. very worried that I'll lose it!!!

Cath N
 
CathyN said:
yes - must confess to the same worries of being out of my food comfort zone. just about to go away for the first time since I began to take control. very worried that I'll lose it!!!

Cath N
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Hi Cath, I think we have to accept we will lose it to a lesser or greater amount. I tried very hard to only eat low carb foods as much as possible, but will confess to a 9.4 BG reading one day, which is the highest reading I have ever had. It was made worse for me, as my readings are never ever above a 6 and I am a real control freak about my figures. I had to stop and calm down and accept this is not a normal situation and if I didn't calm down I was going to spoil the holiday.

Just try your best to eat sensibly, but don't let food become the spoiler for your holiday. (I never in a million years thought I would hear myself say that!!).
 
Defren said:
I missed you guys, even the rows
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what rows :silent: :lol:

good to have you back and pleased you had a good holiday, thanks for the pm

will you be starting your fasting days now ? I've done about two weeks now and managing to get lower fasting bg's (but not completely there yet)
and I've really found it pretty easy ...

Gilly x
 
Nice to have you back after a good holiday? Wondered why it was quite round here.
 
TUI said:
What's fasting days? relatively new to this forum only a few weeks.
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Fast means to abstain from food.
 
angua said:
Defren said:
I missed you guys, even the rows
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what rows :silent: :lol:

good to have you back and pleased you had a good holiday, thanks for the pm

will you be starting your fasting days now ? I've done about two weeks now and managing to get lower fasting bg's (but not completely there yet)
and I've really found it pretty easy ...

Gilly x
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Hi Gilly, you're welcome, sorry it came a bit late. :lol:

I don't know if that's a compliment or insult Dawn :crazy: :lol:

Tui, Some of us saw a program about ways to fast to help your health, the winner seemed to be a 5:2 fast, eat normally for 5 days a week, then on the other two you fast, but you are allowed a small amount of calories that you can use in a single meal. I did the Newcastle Diet and had amazing results, so plan to do the 5:2 fast starting this week. I did a day before I went away to see what it's like and it's fine. I will be doing Tuesday's and Thursday's starting tomorrow.
 
Just had to share, I tested with ketostix tonight and I'm still in/back in ketosis - yeah!! I am thrilled to bits. Amazing what a splodge of purple can do for a girl :lol:
 
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