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Meals Questionnaire

I start the day with 2 coffees. Black no sweetner. After those I normally drink only water, black tea, no sweetner and maybe a small port glass of Aldi Baron st Jean but no more than one bottle over the week.

Brekkie is 2 egg omelette. Only add black pepper
Dinner on the lottie so 2 egg omelette with cheese and ham and salad from whatever is around. Salad leaves, young greens, allium, tree spinach, peas and a couple of asparagus flash fried in butter. Raspberry and strawberry to follow. Principle of whats good in the box whats done (overripe) in the mouth.
Did the same with the first picking of gooseberry so not many over ripe f those
5:00 an eggy muffin. Today broccoli and feta. A silicon cake case filled with whatever. Some mozzrella and ham fell in too. Custard 6 eggs, tsp pesto, double cream and black pepper did 12 muffins. - see the diet doctor recipe. I start to feel ill if I do not eat at 5. No idea why.

Evening cold chicken leg with cabbage and pea thing.
Cabbage is chopped fried in butter until ready when I stir a third of a tub of soft cheese through. The Aldi, full fat one. No need for gravy when done like this
Pea thing. Good splash of olive oil with a good squirt of lemon juice to saucepan. To this add 1 carrot chopped very small, spring green style leaves chopped very fine, mild onion like a leek if in season, any veg about (that means the stalk to the broccoli in this house), peas and a handful of mint chopped very fine. Cook in the saucepan on bottom heat until just cooked through. Put into a casserole cover with thin sliced cheddar. I am too lazy to grate. Pour over a custard of 2 eggs and a good dollop of yoghurt. About an equal liquid quantity as the eggs. I am also too lazy to measure/weigh but I have been cooking since I was 7. Pop into oven for half hour until cooked. I judge cooked by the look and texture of the food not by any instructions (they are only in my head anyway).

I am moderately active. Only sit for 3 hours in the evening and sleep for 7 (if cat lets me). I am losing weight very, very slowly.
If I feel peckish I have half of one of the little bars of 85% Moser Roth Aldi chocolate bars or some nuts
 
Busy day

Breakfast, the usual 2 rye ryvita, with a thin slice of Maasdam and ham. (Not much changed this, unless I'm on holiday, or diet shakes, aka the Newcastle diet to lose weight)
Lunch, grabbed a bowl of mung bean noodles, with a chinese spicy sauce.
Dinner, (been at the gym all afternoon, so again, fast food), I made a red Thai curry, with the dog ends of a bag of mixed veg, sugar snap peas, french beans, ivy gourd, an onion, a dry paste Thai curry spice, garlic, and a couple of mackerel fillets that needed eating.
(I tend to shop at an indian/chinese wholesale caterer supplier, and stock the freezer)
Intermixed with white coffee and spearmint tea, and a couple of zero alcohol Bavaria beers with the curry.

I've gained a couple of pounds after a holiday recently, so no snacks, and really watching how much I eat. But not enough to be over drastic.
 
I don't have breakfast in the week - just a couple of cups of tea and a lot of water.
I have some almonds (I eat more than I should but I love them) whenever I feel hungry which is pretty much never now (6 weeks LCHF).
Lunch - I typically have some form of salad and meat or fish.
Dinner - though really low carb - a hunk of meat or fish, lots of veg or salad with butter on the veg or oil/balsamic dressing.
Then a bowl of berries (about 100Gs of berries) with a good dash of cream.
Sometimes if I fancy them I will have a few peanuts and some really strong cheese as a mid-evening snack. Not often.

Weekends - much the same but perhaps a good fry up for breakfast (really low carb version, no bread a small amount of tomato)
 

My diet is very similar to yours.
 

Wow 32inch waist I think I was 18 when my waist was that small, good on ya but mine is going down now. thanks for reply.
 
Thanks so much guys for the replies, its intersting what people are having.
Its still early days for me so have not quite got it down yet but I normaly have:
Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs or Alpan (No Sugar kind)
Lunch: Cheese and Salad sandwich or Chicken/Salad Sandwich and a Kitkat.
Dinner: Does vary bewteen a homemade curry with Wholewheat Rice or a Salad or Chicken Burger and salad or Meat and two veg.
Snack: Packet of Low fat Crisps, Fruit and nuts.

Got my Hba1c back today was 57 now 45 so doing well so far but I know I need to adjust the diet a bit more.
 
Ciongratulations on the lower hba1c. I do not know what Alpan is but bacon and egg is good for a low carb diet. Are you aiming to retain or increase weight ? Are you keeping carbs in your diet? I believe @douglas99 is strongly in favour of retaining the bodies ability to recognise and process carbs. I had already reduced them in my diet by the time I read his posts. I keep my carbs below 50g a day and think my body thinks that is too much.
For sandwiches in place of bread I would use lettuce leaves. Certainly no kit kat but maybe the portion you eat is alright for your diet. I do not eat rice but know a lot of people replace it with cauliflower rice. I might have half a lidl protein roll to soak up the gravy/sauce. Certainly no crisps and low fat is calorie dieting not carb. You could cut a thin slice of cheese instead. I have fried it or shown it the microwave and eaten it as a cracker with more cheese.
Most fruit has a lot of sugar. An apple could have 20 carbs. I only get a slice out of one my hubby is eating nowadays. Berries and currants tend to be approved at but I am sure I would get my knuckles rapped if anyone saw how many I am consuming.
 

I would say I'm strongly in favour of my body recognising and processing carbs, as I do like to keep all options open if I'm grabbing food when I'm out.
Having said that, I do like to eat low GI when I can, if I make a sandwich my preference is still soya and linseed bread, or even Livlife, or a decent wholemeal seeded roll.
Mainly as I changed my eating habits when I was first diagnosed, and rather than junk food I used to eat, I switched to healthy versions, and it stuck.
But I can stop in a lay-by and get a bacon butty on thick white bread.

I lost my sweet tooth, so I don't actually eat a lot of chocolate normally.
But I will pinch sweets off the kids.

Classic 'healthy' food otherwise.

But, I'm just back from Italy for the week, and to be honest, ice cream, pasta and pizza seems to be the only food, which I did eat, but I now have a few pounds to lose, so back to calorie counting.

But, and it's a big but, this is only after reversing my type 2, before that I ate to my meter, and that would exclude a lot of the things I'll eat now.
 

I have lost weight not sure how much but my Wife had to make another notch on my belt as jeans kept falling down
I have a spinal issue too so certain excercise is beyond me but I do walk a little more generaly being a bit more active so that and the change in diet seems to have helped.
 
My dad has a spinal issue and is blind as in 99.9%. He was told to exercise my standing still. Like playing statues. It is harder than it sounds. Is Tai chi possible?
 
I adored Italy and their food is amazing. I have always preferred savoury and would certainly opt for meat in wine sauce with veg anyday. We found several fish restaurants too. I do agree about the ice cream. It is out of this world and I still fantasise about the hot chocolate at a certain place in Florence.

So far (less than a year) the only catering problems I have had are when other people organise the food. I can cater for myself easily enough but other people find it confusing. I am getting a bit fed up of restaurant staff who confuse carbohydrates with calories. That said my last trip abroad was a ryanair so I never renewed my passport when it expired.

I think I recall you saying the secret to reversing type 2 is to diet and lose the weight fast . My dn suggested the newcastle diet but I recall the girls at work when the slimfast diet was in vogue and cannot see me resisting temptations if I drop from a whatever it is I am consuming to that. Besides if I ate carbs and carried on not using a meter I could end up in real trouble. I do not handle needles well. Bad experiences with a blood nurse during a 6 week hospital stay.
 
Ok today and tomorrow. Today was a slog on the lottie for the big open day tomorrow. Tomorrow we go to shelsey Walsh

breakfast 2 egg omelette.
Lunch two eggy muffins and a cuppa
5:00 raspberries and a pack of Aldi fruit and nuts. I ate the nuts, hubby the fruit:- I wanted to be home by 4 and thought we would soon be home. Got home at 8 in the end.

dinner pork which I cooked in the slow cooker with a sauce made from mushrooms and double cream. roast onion, french beans and cabbage thing which is messed about diet doctor recipe. Saute chopped cabbage leaves in butter with one finely chopped carrot and garlic. When cooked through put in casserole top with sliced cheddar and pour over double cream mixed with 1/3 container soft cheese. In oven 30 minutes.

Also cooked a pack of sausages, a pack of bacon, some gooseberries, ham and cheese eggy muffins and almond crackers. 1 beaten egg, dash of olive oil stir in almond flour until firm enough to roll. Roll between 2 pieces of greaseproof until thin. remove top layer of greaseproof and cook on lower layer for about 10 mins. With scissors cut into small bite sized pieces and these are crackers to be served with cheese.

There is a good restaurant there so we expect to get full english breakfasts but it will be a long day and I shall take enough for us to survive just in case we have a disaster. I shall pack a selection from the stuff I have just cooked plus in the box so far is ham, cheddar , olives and a lidl protein roll for me. He has his seeded bread. Undecided about taking some pate and/or stilton

Bacon and lentil soup is currently in the slow cooker. It will be reheated when we get home. It has lentils so not proper low carb. The gooseberries will be mixed with extra thick double cream. I might take some with us.

I expect there to be enough for us to eat the same on Sunday.
 
I can tolerate them with bacon. But I've stopped worrying about not eating them and chard. I grow all kinds of other greens. I love all other vegtables.
 
covknit said:
My dad has a spinal issue and is blind as in 99.9%. He was told to exercise my standing still. Like playing statues. It is harder than it sounds. Is Tai chi possible?
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I walk a lot more now and that does seem to be helping, my Wife and I have a walk around the village which takes half and hour one part of the walk goes up a slight hill, in the beginning I was huffing and puffing once we got to the top but today not so bad, so muct be working.
 
Breakfast, Alpro yogurt with raspberries.
Walnut snack.
Lunch ,one slice of seeded with thick ham or cheese packed with jalapeno peppers. One bag of crisps.
Dinner, peanut butter coated chicken with stir fry veg or Sausages with sweet potato chips (6 or 7).Meat and veg of some sort.
 
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