Type 2s: What have you eaten today?

[Deleted member 208503]

Well that chicken bothered me. I didn't get the pb and banana in so that's today's food.
Beginning to wonder what I can eat anymore geesh.

 

[LivingLightly]

Sorry. It means Family Day.
It was fd in Ontario maybe in all of Canada I'm not sure. I think you can say it's an abbreviation. I can't remember all those terms.

Ah right. What a nice custom! Celebrating on a Monday creates a long weekend.

 

[LivingLightly]

Well that chicken bothered me. I didn't get the pb and banana in so that's today's food.
Beginning to wonder what I can eat anymore geesh.

I suppose trying to eat roast chicken wasn't great for your gums.
You're juggling with so many constraints at the mo. It must be very hard to plan balanced meals.

Have you tried canned oily fish, like salmon or tuna, mackerel or sardines? All are diabetic friendly and inexpensive to buy here.

 

[mouseee]

I have just eaten a burger!!
Burger just meat, cheddar, a big mushroom, onion and a small squirt of burger sauce. The bun was from Heylo and is really good. Very low carb. Actually, only ate half of it as Trulicity has definitely reduced my appetite.

Apart from that, lunch was a Heylo bagel with cream cheese.

Dipped some Brazil nuts in 80% chocolate and a couple of those seems to do the trick if I get peckish. Can't eat more than 3 of them in one go either.

I have eaten a satsuma today as a treat and drunk much tea and coffee with splash of milk as working at home.

Had mysugr give me a prediction of hba1c of 49 this morning so that's a helpful boost. Finding a rhythm to low carb and also working out how to make it last this time. Well aware that it's not an accurate prediction but much better than the 64 I had last month for my actual hba1c!

 

[LivingLightly]

I have just eaten a burger!!
Burger just meat, cheddar, a big mushroom, onion and a small squirt of burger sauce. The bun was from Heylo and is really good. Very low carb. Actually, only ate half of it as Trulicity has definitely reduced my appetite.

Apart from that, lunch was a Heylo bagel with cream cheese.

Dipped some Brazil nuts in 80% chocolate and a couple of those seems to do the trick if I get peckish. Can't eat more than 3 of them in one go either.

I have eaten a satsuma today as a treat and drunk much tea and coffee with splash of milk as working at home.

Had mysugr give me a prediction of hba1c of 49 this morning so that's a helpful boost. Finding a rhythm to low carb and also working out how to make it last this time. Well aware that it's not an accurate prediction but much better than the 64 I had last month for my actual hba1c!

Evening @mouseee and welcome to this type 2 thread for foodies. It's good to see you here.

 

[mouseee]

Thanks! I'll try and keep it up this time! So need to be accountable to my food choices.

 

[LivingLightly]

Evening all

Yesterday:

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, avocado and four tiger prawns, seasoned with a good grinding of black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Courgetti con sugo di melanzana made with aubergines, celery, carrot and onion, passata, garlic, rosemary, butter, olive oil and spiralised courgettes, finished with grated Parmesan.
Steamed French beans and mangetout smothered with butter.
Skipped pud
Water to drink.

D: Seafood salad made with brown shrimps, mussels, finely shredded red cabbage, apple peel, celery, baby plum tomatoes and mustard cress with a dollop of aioli for dipping, topped with parsley and toasted pistachios.
Water to wash down tablets.

 

[ravensmitten]

Cooked a breakfast: 2 Egg, 2 sausage, 2 bacon, 1 Black Pudding, 2 plum tomatoes.

Dinner (just now): 2 quartered mushrooms, quartered small red onion, quarter of red pepper sautéed in herby butter, 3 fresh cucumber sticks, little bit more fresh pepper, spoon of hummus, scattering of mixed olives.

 

[mouseee]

Lunch was soup from the freezer that needed using up with a Heylo seeded roll and butter. I like them but weirdly, if you take too big a mouthful it becomes spongy to eat. Slows my eating down though!

Dinner was stirfry of onion, mushrooms and pepper with Japanese seasoning and soy sauce. I was planning on waiting until the tortilla/quiche i was making was cooked but the veggies called to me and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I haven't eaten enough of them this week.

I did cook the quiche type thing and it looks amazing. Thats tomorrow's lunch sorted.

Snacks were a bit of a bar of mint dark chocolate from Aldi. Its so rich you only need a tiny bit to have a chocolate hit and a satsuma.

 

[ravensmitten]

Oh @mouseee that mint one is nice, liked the almond and orange one too.

I just snacked on some cucumber an hummus today with a chunk of 24 month specially selected ALDI vintage mature cheddar, rolled up couple of chorizo slices in some Emmental slices.

Cant remember if I took my tablet or not but probably* managing my own bs enough for it not to matter that I missed one.

*Really need to put in an order for some more strips, cause even though I know a lot what I can eat, with time things change so I don't want to get too carefree and fail to notice any changes.

 

[LivingLightly]

Cooked a breakfast: 2 Egg, 2 sausage, 2 bacon, 1 Black Pudding, 2 plum tomatoes.

Dinner (just now): 2 quartered mushrooms, quartered small red onion, quarter of red pepper sautéed in herby butter, 3 fresh cucumber sticks, little bit more fresh pepper, spoon of hummus, scattering of mixed olives.

Evening @ravensmitten. That sounds like a serious breakfast!

 

[LivingLightly]

Lunch was soup from the freezer that needed using up with a Heylo seeded roll and butter. I like them but weirdly, if you take too big a mouthful it becomes spongy to eat. Slows my eating down though!

Hi @mouseee

My digestive system does not handle bread well, so I take the easy route and avoid it completely. If you're inclined to eat too quickly though, I suppose any food that slows you down has to be a good thing.

 

[LivingLightly]

Snacks were a bit of a bar of mint dark chocolate from Aldi. Its so rich you only need a tiny bit to have a chocolate hit and a satsuma.

Hello @mouseee and @ravensmitten.

Have you tried Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% cocoa chocolate bars, with no added sugar, no gluten, soya free and made without dairy ingredients.
Perfect if you follow a keto or low carb lifestyle, also ideal for those with food intolerances, I imagine.

It's made in Sussex and available from Sainsbury's and Waitrose supermarkets.
Perhaps it's an acquired taste, but quickly grew on me. Once I'd tried it, nothing else would do. It's rich and intense, so a little goes a long way.

 

[ravensmitten]

Evening @ravensmitten. That sounds like a serious breakfast!

It was! I am built like a large rugby prop that hasn't been training for a while! and eating one bigger meal like that a day the weight is just falling off and my blood sugar has been (at least my last test was 2 weeks ago, in the process of ordering new set of strips) in the 4's to 5's all day.

Was losing weight a bit too quickly since eating moderately low carb (about 2 stone/12.7kg in 6 weeks)

While happy with the weight loss as feel loads better I'm getting some muscular/skeletal issues which might be from a changing body shape too quickly, so decided I needed to eat a bit more, but keep it sensible.

Yes, tried that 100% chocolate, I'd have to hunt to find it locally I think, did see it somewhere but the location escapes me.

Very dark chocolate is definitely and acquired one, at one point of my life I wouldn't even touch usual dark chocolate that was full of sugar but now I enjoy even the 85% and above.

 

[LivingLightly]

Cant remember if I took my tablet or not but probably* managing my own bs enough for it not to matter that I missed one.

@ravensmitten. Indeed. If memory serves, you were prescribed metformin recently.

I'm a metformin user. Unlike some diabetic medication, it's therapeutic effects are cumulative. Whilst some diabetics have reported lower BG levels during the first week of treatment, it takes 2 to 3 months to reach maximum effectiveness. Likewise, if you've taken metformin for a couple of months or so, forgetting a dose is unlikely to affect your BG levels much. The medication you've already swallowed will continue circulating for at least 4 days.

 

[LivingLightly]

Yes, tried that 100% chocolate, I'd have to hunt to find it locally I think, did see it somewhere but the location escapes me.

Very dark chocolate is definitely and acquired one, at one point of my life I wouldn't even touch usual dark chocolate that was full of sugar but now I enjoy even the 85% and above.

Yes, we're all different, but although I'd thought my taste for Montezuma's might change, I was unprepared for just how quickly that happened! Pity it's not widely available in your neck of the woods.

 

[ravensmitten]

@ravensmitten. Indeed. If memory serves, you were prescribed metformin recently.

I'm a metformin user. Unlike some diabetic medication, it's therapeutic effects are cumulative. Whilst some diabetics have reported lower BG levels during the first week of treatment, it takes 2 to 3 months to reach maximum effectiveness. Likewise, if you've taken metformin for a couple of months or so, forgetting a dose is unlikely to affect your BG levels much. The medication you've already swallowed will continue circulating for at least 4 days.

Yes, you are correct, and it's now the extended release one for a good few months now. Thank you for the information. I found it didn't really respond to what I was eating as I did a few experiments early on but I think I had a misconception on how it worked.

I didn't want to double up just in case of an accidental overdose, but I have just found the blister packaging (not a chemist blister pack) under my office table which shows me indeed I have taken it this morning (I must have been distracted), I do it in an order which I can tell easily enough, in fact because I started my first dose in an evening I had to set one tablet aside because it was more confusing starting the day with an uneven package.

Maybe I could get one of those box strip with the MTWTF and little doors, pill box of some kind maybe.

 

[LivingLightly]

Evening all

Yesterday:

B: Two poached eggs smothered with butter and avocado, seasoned with a good grinding of black pepper plus remaining Gorwydd Caerphilly.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Salmon fillets baked with cauliflower, mushrooms, double cream and lemon verbena.
Steamed asparagus spears and French beans topped with a knob of butter
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D Seafood salad using tiger prawns, brown shrimps, lettuce, baby plum tomatoes, celery, Romano peppers, cucumber, Halkidiki olives, salad onions and mustard cress, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to wash down tablets.

 

[ravensmitten]

Yes, we're all different, but although I'd thought my taste for Montezuma's might change, I was unprepared for just how quickly that happened! Pity it's not widely available in your neck of the woods.

Yes, I was surprised after not eating anything sweet for a long time (the first time I attempted low carb, back in Jan 2023) that I'd came on here and saw people say dark chocolate was on the menu if you could manage it. Tried it and prefer it now.

If I'm out and about I may grab some, just the places that might sell it are a bit of a faff to get to, but now my backs better, if passing I'll pick some up, remember it being very nice.

Seeing as brunch was a bit picky, dinner today was 3 small kebabs of home made beef kofta, served with a quarter grilled mushroom, tomato and pepper.

 

[IanBish]

If I'm out and about I may grab some (chocolate), just the places that might sell it are a bit of a faff to get to, but now my backs better, if passing I'll pick some up, remember it being very nice.

I like the Aldi 85% dark chocolate. It comes in packs of two squares, and I normally have one individual pack after dinner. It's very nice, and I doubt I'll ever go back to their Titan (fake Mars) bars.