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<blockquote data-quote="WaveyDavey123" data-source="post: 2617283" data-attributes="member: 574289"><p>Thanks Jo, excellent points and thanks for reading. Yes I'm checking labels, but it hadn't occurred to me to do it in advance. Nice. We had a buffet lunch for some guests at work yesterday and to my irritation I couldn't eat any of it. Despite our Uni being seemingly all vegan these days* it was all sandwiches, orange juice and bhaji type things which I hadn't expected. There might at least have been some chicken skewers (even fake ones) or something... After disappearing to eat my salad, I came back and noticed... perhaps... that gluten free might be a thing to look out for?</p><p>All the non-sandwich things had a label saying they had gluten... to me that means wheat. However there were some vegan chorizo sausages that were gluten free, so I did pop a couple of those down.</p><p></p><p>*(the vice-chancellor is, so everyone else has to be too apparently)</p><p></p><p>Oooh, low carb ice-cream. My wife, to my chagrin, bought a packet of Cornettos on Saturday and seems a little miffed that I am refusing them (she's not all there yet lmao). Will check it out. I don't do ice cream very often at all anyway, but it *is* nice during a hot summer like this.</p><p></p><p>Interesting comment regarding the walking. That's not -as I've said - why I'm doing it .... but I am for this too now :-D</p><p>Walking is always better exercise than cycling (except for impact damage on your legs and spine of course) anyway. You have to cycle at least 200 miles really to be 'equivalent' to a marathon really - though there is no real equivalence there as they're so different.</p><p></p><p>One of the first things I did was buy some skimmed milk (and it was depressing). I did then spot that actually it's worse than full fat indeed. What a nice relief. Though I'm not doing much other than splash it in tea and coffee.</p><p></p><p>I have this afternoon now seen my bg drop back down to 5-ish mM readings. A day to get back there after eating some peas and potatoes. That really is quite illuminating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WaveyDavey123, post: 2617283, member: 574289"] Thanks Jo, excellent points and thanks for reading. Yes I'm checking labels, but it hadn't occurred to me to do it in advance. Nice. We had a buffet lunch for some guests at work yesterday and to my irritation I couldn't eat any of it. Despite our Uni being seemingly all vegan these days* it was all sandwiches, orange juice and bhaji type things which I hadn't expected. There might at least have been some chicken skewers (even fake ones) or something... After disappearing to eat my salad, I came back and noticed... perhaps... that gluten free might be a thing to look out for? All the non-sandwich things had a label saying they had gluten... to me that means wheat. However there were some vegan chorizo sausages that were gluten free, so I did pop a couple of those down. *(the vice-chancellor is, so everyone else has to be too apparently) Oooh, low carb ice-cream. My wife, to my chagrin, bought a packet of Cornettos on Saturday and seems a little miffed that I am refusing them (she's not all there yet lmao). Will check it out. I don't do ice cream very often at all anyway, but it *is* nice during a hot summer like this. Interesting comment regarding the walking. That's not -as I've said - why I'm doing it .... but I am for this too now :-D Walking is always better exercise than cycling (except for impact damage on your legs and spine of course) anyway. You have to cycle at least 200 miles really to be 'equivalent' to a marathon really - though there is no real equivalence there as they're so different. One of the first things I did was buy some skimmed milk (and it was depressing). I did then spot that actually it's worse than full fat indeed. What a nice relief. Though I'm not doing much other than splash it in tea and coffee. I have this afternoon now seen my bg drop back down to 5-ish mM readings. A day to get back there after eating some peas and potatoes. That really is quite illuminating. [/QUOTE]
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