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I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas, I had a lovely time at mums. DS was happy with his new mobile and piles of DVDs and is determined to find some bargains at the Boxing Day sales. Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful New Year
 
Morning, happy belated Christmas and happy Boxing Day. I had a fab day too yesterday and Santa was good to me as I am a good boy lol. 8.4 mmol/l at 6am so maybe overindulge a bit. Just about to do insulin and breakfast. Very high winds here and weather warnings issued and bridge closures. Might do the sales tomorrow. :)
 
PenfoldAPD said:
Glad I'm not the only one misbehaving @KevinPotts - enjoy your Christmas!
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Another one here - didn't have any mince pies or chocolate but had Christmas pudding, cake, crisps and some home made Pavlova hence being 5.7 this morning!! However I found the pavlova too sweet so will not be indulging again - have to make one for NY day as will have more visitors to feed!!
 
eddie1968 said:
Morning, happy belated Christmas and happy Boxing Day. I had a fab day too yesterday and Santa was good to me as I am a good boy lol. 8.4 mmol/l at 6am so maybe overindulge a bit. Just about to do insulin and breakfast. Very high winds here and weather warnings issued and bridge closures. Might do the sales tomorrow. :)
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Merry Christmas @eddie1968 . Its great to hear from you.
 
I've been so naughty today - even just had some Turkish Delight :)

As @ickihun says the saving grace is knowing how to recover from the 2 days of bad eating. I had a 30 minute swim earlier at the Olympic Pool in Stratford which inspired me to be well - back to LCHF tomorrow, I can still enjoy the Christmas Ham and al that cheese ;)
 
Well I'm afraid I didn't just eat the leftover trifle, I also polished off the remaining mint chocolate matchmakers AND I had far too much leftover steak and pigs in blankets too. I'm joining @PenfoldAPD on the strict lchf trail tomorrow, I'll pass up on the swim though. Hope everyone had a great Boxing Day
 
I've got a job on my hands. I need to do lchf but low salt. I always thought I low salted anyway but nope. All my food has to be 0.1g salt or less per 100g. Not an easy job. Watching packets again like being new to lchf. Its never ending the hoops I have to jump through.
In a few months it will be 600cals.
Thank god I have these forums to lean on.
What have you eaten today is going to be my new home thread, maybe. Well ok. Type 2 life will still be my home thread but what have you eaten today will be my second. ;)
 
13lizanne said:
Well I'm afraid I didn't just eat the leftover trifle, I also polished off the remaining mint chocolate matchmakers AND I had far too much leftover steak and pigs in blankets too. I'm joining @PenfoldAPD on the strict lchf trail tomorrow, I'll pass up on the swim though. Hope everyone had a great Boxing Day
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You made me feel better @13lizanne i don't feel like a bad diabetic anymore. It was only 2 days, we will recover
 
PenfoldAPD said:
You made me feel better @13lizanne i don't feel like a bad diabetic anymore. It was only 2 days, we will recover
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@PenfoldAPD everyone is different so it may take a day more or a week more but I've learned from here lchf will help you get back on track. Swimming in a relaxed fashion, not aggressive will help more too. Have fun low carbing. It shouldnt be a punishment or good eating. Just a tool to keep our diabetic body to stay healthy. It all helps. Some use meds more to support their diabetic body as unable to exercise regularly.
Your no meds tools work. Let them do their job with no stress or impatience. ;)
 
Afternoon from a calmer Scotland and the storm passed last night. 6.3 mmol/l on waking. Adapting well to new insulin and have lost nearly a stone too! :)
 
Misbehaving was restricted to a slice of toast for brunch, Dauphinoise potato and a slice of sacher torte Xmas eve not even crackers with cheese
Then a small bit of left over sacher Torte Xmas day - that was enough to send my BS higher than I would like
So boxing day onward has been food as per the 'new normal'
 
walnut_face said:
Misbehaving was restricted to a slice of toast for brunch, Dauphinoise potato and a slice of sacher torte Xmas eve not even crackers with cheese
Then a small bit of left over sacher Torte Xmas day - that was enough to send my BS higher than I would like
So boxing day onward has been food as per the 'new normal'
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Well done. I've tried hard today - 30 minute swim, hour walk on Hampstead Heath. But ... mulled wine (bad?) and a few mint thins. Otherwise ham and cheese and eggs - up at 9.2 after the wine.

Rolling on getting back to normal - just going to let the OH eat the naughty stuff now, I can feel I need to be better.

Interestingly the tiredness I know feel is how I was this time last year just before diagnosis.

But a super Christmas and at least I now how to fix myself, and get back to the 'new' normal you mention.
 
We went out Boxing Day and I ate some more 'carby' foods but I had a nice big turkey salad for supper which I really enjoyed!,
 
A 'normal' day today. I'd best call my chemist who delivers as I didn't get my insulin I ordered. Wish I didn't have to call them thou.
In for milk and bread/margarine (butter) shop run.
Just waiting for codeine to kick in.
Hope everyone is happy. Merry Christmas.
 
Good Morning, my friends,

I had a very miserable Christmas - the worst one in my life. I have financial incapacity with my Asperger Syndrome and gave a lot of my weekly money to a friend, not a very good one, who called himself a bornagain Christian as something called a "tithe", that is when a person gives 1 tenth of their income to God, presumably for His mission on Planet Earth.

The whole of Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day was utterly miserable with no human company, nothing to eat, dire living environment and to cap it all I nearly had a full blown hypo on the day after Boxing Day only to find some stale bread in the fridge and save myself from going into a coma. Plus I had no computer and the library (where I am now) was closed so I couldn't log on.

My blood sugar today was 5.3 mmol but I don't know what it's going to be when I take my metformin.

Hope the New Year's better. I can but hope.
 
@PenfoldAPD I have found substitution to be one of my most effective strategies, for example I used to enjoy a Chocolate Orange at this time of year

This year I found this.................................


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Hello Johnny @autisticwonder1970 I was really sad to read your post today. What happened to your friend Lee and the others? Did they go home for Christmas? Did you not visit your father on one of these days? What a shame that you were left on your own, I hope that you left your flat to take a walk at least? Today, is new and I hope that you can buy some food today, if you have no money at all go to your local social services office and ask to see the Duty Social worker, just tell her/him what has happened. Please do this Johnny. Take care
 
Morning, grey and overcast here and chilly brrrr. 5.1 mmol/l at 7am. Eating very few carbs now and making time and effort to make meals and limiting take aways etc. Went bargain hunting yesterday and it was quiet and ended up £100 lighter. :)
 
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