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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

shelley262 said:
Well done. It's a tough call for you having to include a certain number of carbs because of your meds but not triggering carb bingeing.
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It's a balancing act, I really wish I could arrest/reverse my diabetes and go medication free as some people manage to do, but it just isn't happening for me with my food issues. I'll carry on doing the best I can whenever I can!

Edit: BG numbers are great, between 5 and 7 (6 two hours after the dessert) so meds are doing a good job when I don't overwhelm them with too many carbs.
 
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jpscloud said:
tea was salmon and cauliflower with a white sauce mix with a bit thai red curry paste added, it was really good.
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This sounds really good, Thai curry paste added to a sauce to go with cauliflower, curry paste on my shopping list now!

I had my usual quick morning swim, still keeping this up on most days despite the water temperature now being 4 or 5 °C, followedby my cleaner.
She brought her puppy so lots of fun has been had! It's a chihuahua like dog, 4 months old, so it makes my 3.5 kg Wolf look like a real dog, very funny! We even got some cleaning done too.

After that I gave myself the day off, still needing some time after that funeral yesterday, and besides, I was too busy planning two dates that aren't really dates this weekend.
So no groceries done, will go to the supermarket tomorrow, and evening meal was three quarters of a ready made 'fish fillet a la bordelaise' from Aldi's freezer section, last quarter was for the dogs.

Tomorrow will be a cold dip first, then the swimming pool, then getting groceries.
Saturday, weather permitting I will have a not-date with someone I found on the dating site. We'll go sailing on a small open sailing boat. I don't think he's looking for a date (don't ask me what he's doing on that website, no idea), but I like sailing with someone new so why not.

On sunday Tom and his dog Shief will come over and spend the night. Last time I went to his place, he provided food and drinks, so up to me now.
He prefers vegetarian (but not religiously so), I prefer low carb, so I'll make us a hearty slow cooked onion soup with lots of grated cheese, and I'll get some nuts and cheeses to nibble on as well. And some Belgian specialty beers and a bottle of whisky too. And dog treats of course. (Although the dogs will likely join us with the nuts and cheeses, so maybe I'll skip the dog treats.)
 
shelley262 said:
I had to look up Tartex - I'd never heard of it! Pleased Neil managed to stock you up on his trip to the mainland.
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We used to buy Tartex years ago (in my late teens and twenties) but haven't managed to buy any for quite a few years now. It is very tasty and I'll have to be careful not to eat too much of it. I can get the mushroom version in Stornoway. It's also very nice. I'll have to watch my step with it though.
 
Thank you. Went on 'ask my GP' and I got my anti-biotics. They know at my surgery that I get this frequently so I only have to ask, I don't have to have an appt. I also wear a Lifeline that I can press if necessary. Gives my son in USA peace of mind. x
 
I guess the combination of Tartex and a couple of bits of Cadbury's misshapes which I decided to buy in was not a good idea. BG this morning was 15.1!

Took a fairly hefty dose of Humalog to get that under control and it is now down to 5.8.

My own fault. I should know better.
 
I'm really winging it at the moment! I'm going to get back to some intermittent fasting (I never went back to having three meals a day, but breakfast was creeping in earlier and earlier and was basically a humungous carb binge).

One of the most difficult things for me is not eating an evening meal, and it gets even harder when my body realises it's not getting it's carb load for the day. For intermittent fasting though it's apparently more effective to eat earlier and fast later. It's definitely a comfort thing as well, so I will be trying the tricks of the trade to exchange food comfort for whatever else.

For breakfast today (12.30pm) I had leftover cauliflower covered in melted cheese and German salami bits and a small slice of my home made rye and spelt bread made without sugar. It's very dense but cures the carb craving. I ate that after the cauliflower and cheese because I believe it's better to eat carbs at the end of a meal rather than with it.

Bg is currently 5.3 after the cauliflower and cheese, will test a couple of times over the next couple of hours to see what the slice of bread might have done!
 
When I came home from swimming and groceries I found a huge and very pretty chocolate letter in my mailbox!
Chocolate letters are traditionally gifted for Sinterklaas, this one seems to have been stuck in the mail for a bit.

It's a sugar free chocolate letter too, and to my surprise it tastes very good, I'd never tried sugar free chocolate before.

So my late breakfast today was a piece of the left leg, and now I'll wait to see what my bg will do.



I had a relatively small piece now to find out if and how much insulin this chocolate needs, no nutritional info on the package. But once I have an idea on this I'll need to know something else.
I have hardly any experience with sweeteners. So I have a question for the more knowledgable: The sweetener used is maltitol. Can I splurge and eat as much as I want for once, or will this lead to a long evening in the bathroom?
Antje77 said:
Saturday, weather permitting I will have a not-date with someone I found on the dating site. We'll go sailing on a small open sailing boat.
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The weather clearly is against us, I don't fancy sailing in the rain in december so this date is postponed until the weather gets better.
 
I'll be interested to hear how that maltlitol experiment goes @Antje77 - hope it doesn't raise your BG too much and you get to enjoy it.

My slice of bread raised my BG to 8 and then down to 6.4.

I'm trying to shift to eating my main meal in the morning/lunchtime, and not eat after 4pm. It was 4.30 today but that's not too bad.

I had the other piece of salmon, broccoli florets and stem, some mashed parsnip (mashed because I overcooked it a bit) and some of the sauce with thai red curry paste again. It was lovely but I'm so full on comparitively very little amounts of food today. I may find I'm ravenously hungry late evening, so I'll have to be really firm with myself if that happens. Midnight binges are not unheard of!

I might have some lemon and ginger green tea (home made not a packet) and possibly a montezuma button or two if I get really stressed about being foodless later.
 
jpscloud said:
I'll be interested to hear how that maltlitol experiment goes @Antje77 - hope it doesn't raise your BG too much and you get to enjoy it.
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So far so good, bur results are a bit muddled by also having had a correction dose of insulin shortly before eating some of the chocolate, and a prebolus for a beer about an hour afterwards. Then a hypo, possibly the combination of both doses was too much, or I waited too long to drink my beer, not sure. But my first impression is that the chocolate is pretty safe to eat from a bg point of view.

I only ate part of the left leg so more experiments and larger portions are to come later in the week!
 
I would go easy on the sugar free chocolate. It’s a thoughtful treat but overindulging would cause me to be quite uncomfortable many hours later, better to eat it in small portions is my experience.
 
Had the last of the fish pie for breakfast. I don't think pre-frozen potato is much good to me - I get very hungry after eating it, although quite full at the time and I've put back on all the weight I lost last week! Pity, I do like potatoes.

2nd meal is some strips of pork with some aubergine slices, some onion slices (about 1/3 of a small onion) and some tomatillos - just to try them. It's in the oven just now so I'll have that fairly soon.

Renal consultant has recommended a new medication for me and our Health Centre phoned today and said they'd send out a prescription for it. Never heard of it before. It's called Dapagliflozin but the pharmacist who called said there are a few potential side effects that don't sound very pleasant. Still, they might not happen. They also want me to try coming off of Bumetanide, which is a diuretic, because it can damage kidneys. At present I appear to have CKD stage 4. I could do without that.
 
Dapagliflozin is a well known diabetes medication of a class of drugs called SGLT2 inhibitors, or all medication ending in -flozin. It's apparently helpful as well for people with cardiac or kidney issues.
The most common side effects are thrush and UTI's, because they make you pee out excess glucose, and funghi and bacteria love a sweet, warm and moist environment.
In your case, being on a low carb diet with as a rule very healthy BG for a medicated T2, you might find there isn't too much glucose too pee out, and you may never experience those side effects. And if you do, you can always reconsider the medication.

For myself, I wouldn't be interested in a flozin at all, but if I were in your shoes with the kidney troubles and your legs, I'd likely give it a shot.

It might be worth using the search bar on the top right on the forum and do some searches on dapagliflozin, SGLT2 inhibitors, or flozins to see what people have written about them in the past.
Or start a thread on flozins of course.

Good luck, I hope this new medication will be beneficial for you without side effects!
 
@jpscloud
In a previous post you mentioned being on a "flozin". I think you have to be careful when going low carb on those, so only reduce carbs slowly and consult your doctor who may want to adjust dose as you lower carbs. There is a risk of dka if you suddenly drastically reduce carbs
(Note I've been rapped across knuckles for saying this before as I can't provide sources and links but I've been around here long enough now to say I'm not a doctor so please double check with your gp, read the flozin packet for side effects and take care xx)
 
@Antje77 stop typing faster and more accurately then me!
 
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