I'm sure this has been asked before but I'm not sure where to find the answer? I might have to go back to the drawing board with lo carb eating after having a blow out last night but I am wondering what do you enjoy eating with this lifestyle.
It's still hard getting my head around all the things I can't eat as a diabetic and I will miss them if I give them up but I know I have to for the sake of my health.
I think I mentioned elsewhere that I find it isolating when heading out to dinner and see people eating all sorts that would spike my sugar if I eat it.
Off to have some pistachios which are among the things I like!
You can wake me up for a good steak, bunless burger, piece of salmon or strawberries with cream. Extra dark chocolate, bacon & eggs, various salads (Ceasar, Nicoise, Surf & Turf etc)... If i know I'm going for a brisk walk immediately after, I can have a latte macchiato with coconut milk, if not, I'll settle for a cappuccino. Nuts are lovely, especially pecans.
I'm usually pretty good with foods and restaurants, but that's because I have input in where we go, I guess. It hasn't happened often where I was left out of the deciding process and ended up just having cups of tea to tide me over. I also, more often than not, am with people I am comfortable with and with whom I have an arrangement: all my cookies are theirs to "steal", making me a very welcome lunch partner. (In one establishment, the coffee is served with no biscuit for me, and two on the saucer for my companion: they know me well!). I'll be honest with you though, I'm not to be trusted around a high/afternoon tea. Those can make me rather emotional. Had one at our wedding reception, in the didn't-know-I-was-diabetic-years, and it hurts that I'll never get to do that again. So it isn't all swings and roundabouts, sometimes even after 9 years of this nonsense, it can ache, not being able to partake in some things. But the wretched truth is, if it wasn't for all this, I wouldn't've made it these nine years, either. Would have been pushing up daisies long before this time, because various issues were pretty bad when I was diagnosed. It does put things into perspective some.
Three weeks ago I stayed at a B&B, whose owners also ran a bakery on the ground floor. I had a whole, ginormous freshly baked croissant that morning. I walked 14 kilometers that day, so I did walk it off, and I had left my blood glucose meter in the Netherlands, in our flat 260 kilometers north of where we were. I didn't want to know, for once. I gave myself a free pass, and my goodness, that thing was amazing. Sometimes, you just have to cut yourself a break. Not often, but it still has to be doable. An afternoon tea isn't in the cards for me anymore, i would feel unwell, but that one amazing croissant... Yeah. It can't rain all the time.
Hang in there. It gets easier, for the most part.
Jo
