"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[MrsA2]

Went to bed hungry last night, but told myself that's good.
Woke hungry ( the 2 states don't necessarily follow in me)
Cwc
Exercise class, the coffee with girls (ginger tea for me)
L: 2 eggs omelette with cream cheese and olives. A cc chocolate pot with cream on.
Lidl shop
A mini ice cream.
D: at pub with friends. Tasty salad with beef. Cheese plate ( let friends eat the grapes and crackers) drank mint tea.

When home, 2 sqs 70% chocolate

 

[Annb]

Breakfast: Cullen skink.

2nd meal will be okra and other veg stew.

Everything ready made, so no hassle today.

I was going to put that 2nd chocolate cake in the freezer for future use, but Alistair turned up with some sewing that DIL had done for me (that's her third job - seamstress) and I feel I should pay her for doing it for me. However, she had given Alistair strict instructions not to accept payment, so I gave him the cake instead.

 

[debs248]

Went to bed hungry last night, but told myself that's good.

Me too. As long as I don't go hypo, I don't need to eat just because I'm getting hunger signals. If I get teary or shaky then it's time to find food.

Today breakfast is leftover frittata, and salt and chilli chicken if I can face it (I'm not a natural morning eater but meds need to be taken with food)

Probably no lunch unless I can't manage the chicken now.

Dinner will probably be roast pork, no idea yet which veg as hubby is popping to the shops today. Likely to include roasted mushrooms and some other veg that just can be chucked in the pan with the meat. I've requested courgettes but last time sainsburys only had two sorry-looking ones in stock. Asparagus would be wonderful!

 

[MrsA2]

B: 1 egg. Only one because I forgot to buy any when shopping yesterday, horror!
L: out while shopping with a friend. A large slice very well filled spinach and feta pie. Made with filo pasty I tried to leave most of the pastry but kept nibbling. Accompanied by a rather splendid cauliflower salad with olives and dried tomatoes. Drank tea.
D: 2 lamb chops with hm lc cauliflower cheese. A mini ice cream.

Very tired, I fell asleep in the chair.

 

[Annb]

Decided to try this chilling of starch idea this morning so made porridge last night and left it in the fridge to have for breakfast this morning. I do like porridge, but it doesn't like me usually. At least my BG doesn't do well on it. We shall see.

I still have a lot of Cullen skink left so that will be my 2nd meal today.

EDIT: 11.00 - BG is OK but I'm hungry. Of course, now, I remember that starchy foods don't satisfy hunger for very long. So I may have to have lunch of Cullen skink and think of something else for 3rd meal.

 

[debs248]

Hubby is very keen on making resistant starch at the moment, mostly so he can still cook the rice and pasta dishes we like. I'd rather he did the carbs separately so I could just have sauce but he prefers things like risotto where it's all mixed together.

Not eaten yet, I don't like eating in the mornings and planning now to take meds with normal meals rather than eat to the ridiculous schedule dictated by rubbish GP.

Meals today will be a mixture of leftovers and whatever we can scrape together as waiting on a big shop. It's salad weather and I think we still have some tomatoes and a wrinkly half cucumber. Add a tin each of tuna, mackerel and olives and that's one meal sorted...

 

[MrsA2]

Hubby is very keen on making resistant starch at the moment, mostly so he can still cook the rice and pasta dishes we like. I'd rather he did the carbs separately so I could just have sauce but he prefers things like risotto where it's all mixed together

My family took longer to adjust to the changes than I did, probably a year or even 2 longer! I think it's more relatable when it's you affected, and they just want things to be "normal".
Over time though they are now much lower carb than they used to be. What helped was them seeing the massive positive changes in me. I lost 2 stone and an happier, peeing far less often.

 

[MrsA2]

B: full fat greek yoghurt with seeds and raspberries.
Cwc
Then off to session 1 of my preventing diabetes course, 5 years after diagnosis. Not expecting to learn much, just mildly interested to meet other local people. Presenter was better in person than she was in the phone. A very mixed group of about 30, most over 60 I'd guess. Wide range of body shapes and ethnicities. Very much an introduction using national slides. Verbally she said type 1 is only in children, or up to 21! Generally promoting small changes and improvements in sleep, stress and activity. No mention yet of what the food changes will be.

My biggest gripe is 11:30 to 12:30 which impacts right in the middle of the day. 13 sessions over 9 months! I know I can't do at least 4...

Home for lunch of corned beef slices and several olives.

Mid afternoon a small ice cream. Boy its hot weather! And I have gardening that needs doing, but not in this heat. Not good for the plants.

D: a chicken breast with half an avocado , mayo and a spoonful coleslaw

 

[Antje77]

Verbally she said type 1 is only in children, or up to 21!

Please show her this. (And tell her that this doesn't even include all the misdiagnosed 'T2's on insulin' who were diagnosed between their 40's and 90's.
Finding out you don't have T2 is often initiated by the patient, not their hcp, and if people are told very early on that T1 is impossible, chances are they'll never do the research on it if things don't add up with their treatment.

I haven't posted on here in ages, I'll try to do better!

I've been working on the bridge for a good 3 weeks now, and it's still going well!
I enjoy my days on the bridge, and so far I've actualy eaten better on the bridge than at home.
I guess this has to do with absolutely having to plan my meals beforehand and taking them with me, where at home I can decide I'll just improvise with whatever I can find and go for groceries tomorrow. Which often means I end up eating a LC sandwich or one of those fish things from Aldi and nothing else.

I've worked on monday and tuesday, still struggling to get enough sleep before working days so today was a very lazy day where I didn't do the planned shopping and had two slices of LC toast for dinner. One with ham and eggs, another half slice with butter and marmite, and the last half with blue cheese.

Yesterday I had friends with their daughter visiting my bridge. Nine years old is the perfect age to be delighted to press all the buttons to operate the bridge, so she did 3 times! The only buttons I kept for myself were those to let the barriers for cars and bikes down, those are the ones where things can go wrong.

Cleaning tomorrow, first time in almost 3 weeks my help is coming, so things have gotten rather out of hand between the new job and household chores. We'll have to do a lot, including the bed just in case, I'll have a date on friday!
We'll go sailing so I don't expect to need a clean house, but you never know...
No I really shouldn't, I work on saturday and sunday but still. So far we've only communicated through sms and he hasn't even seen a picture of me, but the conversation has been very enjoyable. And this one's looking for a serious relationship so I'm rather nervous.

So instead of preparing meals for the weekend on the bridge on friday afternoon I'll bring a brown block from the freezer to work for the weekend. Found one labeled 'stew-very good'. No idea what it is but I suppose it's very good and it should get me through the weekend.

 

[MrsA2]

Please show her this

I hear you, and I knew she was wrong. Turns out she's an ex teacher employed to deliver the course. She'd not a health professional so can't refer or change meds or anything.
I'm not going to bother correcting her on this one, picking my battles as I'm sure there'll be more as the course goes on. It's only for those prediabetic, hba1c between 42 and 47 so doubt we've any misdiagnosed t1s, or even anyone on insulin. Will keep it in mind though.

 

[Antje77]

It's only for those prediabetic, hba1c between 42 and 47 so doubt we've any misdiagnosed t1s

We T1's start out as prediabetics too. Which can last for quite a while with the sometimes slow progress of LADA.

 

[MrsA2]

We T1's start out as prediabetics too. Which can last for quite a while with the sometimes slow progress of LADA.

I thought it was more sudden acceleration. I learn everyday

 

[Annb]

"We T1's start out as prediabetics too. Which can last for quite a while with the sometimes slow progress of LADA."

Antje. How can you tell if the medics have got it wrong and you are T1 and not T2 after all? As you know by now, I'm on insulin for T2 but have never had any information on using the insulin - just, there it is, take this one once a day in the morning, this one before meals and not any other time. No advice on correction dose if BG goes high - actually no mention of it being a possibility, no mention of diet to control BG, rather advice to eat a low calorie, low protein, fairly high carb diet.

I did ask a GP to check that I am producing some insulin (he had never heard of the test and had to find out about it first). He came back with the result that I am producing insulin but not using it. Still, injected insulin does seem to have an effect which my own doesn't. This may all have something to do with an apparent mitochondrial disease, which nobody seems to know much about either. So, I wonder, is this some other type of diabetes, as yet not mentioned to me (LADA has never been mentioned, nor anything else other than Types 1 and 2, although I gather there are more types being discovered now).

I have an appointment with the diabetes nurse tomorrow, so will ask her about this and see if she has any clue what I'm asking about.

So glad the job is going well and you are enjoying it, after all the nervousness before you started. Also glad to hear you have a date on Friday - have fun.

 

[debs248]

My family took longer to adjust to the changes than I did, probably a year or even 2 longer! I think it's more relatable when it's you affected, and they just want things to be "normal".
Over time though they are now much lower carb than they used to be. What helped was them seeing the massive positive changes in me. I lost 2 stone and an happier, peeing far less often.

I first started low carbing in 2016 so some of it has rubbed off on the rest of the family - meals do not automatically contain a starchy carb any more. In fact now my daughter's gone back to uni, my husband is more amenable to preparing low carb meals, as long as he can make himself a sandwich for breakfast (doesn't bother me, I rarely eat in the mornings anyway) Trouble is, their treats/ comfort foods are still based on refined carbs.

To get back on topic, today I have eaten

Meat salad - frikadellen (german meatballs), sauerkraut, gherkins, capers, mayonnaise, wholegrain mustard

Garlic butter prawns with spinach mornay, cup of curried chicken soup

Need to eat in about an hour with meds so will have a yogurt and either some mexican bean salad or "supergreen" salad (lettuce, broccoli, white cabbage, cucumber and edamame beans with sour cream and herb dressing) Both need using up, so I'll have the other one tomorrow.

 

[Antje77]

So, I wonder, is this some other type of diabetes, as yet not mentioned to me (LADA has never been mentioned, nor anything else other than Types 1 and 2, although I gather there are more types being discovered now).

I've been wondering about your type of diabetes ever since I've met you on the forum, years ago.
More so after you started to grow bold with your insulin and decided to follow a typical T1 approach, combined with low carbing.

Your diabetes seems to behave remarkably similar to my own, and neither of us fit the typical T1 or T2 patterns.

However, from what I read, you are keeping very decent numbers most of the time, and I think that's the most important part.

Maybe more tomorrow, I'm on my phone in bed and about to turn off the light.

 

[Annb]

Numbers haven't been so good recently. Not sure why. Could be a deterioration due to this mitchondrial thingy, could be something to do with change in diuretic medication which has led to me putting on a lot of weight. Might be because I'm still trying to reduce the amount of bolus insulin that I take. Maybe I need to review my diet and make sure I'm staying within the carb boundary that I have set myself.

I'll see what the nurse says this afternoon. I really only want information from her about HBa1c and other diabetes types , perhaps see if she has any guidance on correction dosing, but don't intend to take notice of the dietary suggestions, which she is bound to make.

Breakfast currently heating up - more of the Cullen skink. The resistant starch porridge actually worked yesterday, but it left me hungry so I had 3 meals instead of 2. That won't help my weight. BG did a bit of yo-yoing as well after the porridge. Topped out at 16 after dropping to 3.7. I did bolus for what I thought the porridge would require, and probably got that wrong, hence 3.7. BG currently 8.5, dropping from 9.7 (caused by decaf coffee because I couldn't be bothered to get out the new jar of full-blown coffee). So what to dose for the soup, I wonder.

Shopping day today so we'll see what Neil comes home with from my list for my 2nd meal.

 

[Annb]

Just back from seeing the diabetes nurse. I can hardly believe it. My HBa1c is 41! "You are in remission" says the nurse. But I'm not. I am dependent on insulin so I can't be. Actually she agreed that.

She also said she will look into other types of diabetes and see if there are any hints as to my very silly T2, She says there is another test that can be done, but they don't offer it, so she won't be pursuing that idea. She's also going to ask the GP about the connection between diabetes and this mitochondrial thingy.

About dosing, she reckons my basal dose is a bit high but I seem to have got the idea of bolus dosing all by myself although it's not based on any system that I know of (one unit of Humalog for every point over 10 plus 10 if I am eating a low carb meal and 15 or more if there's nothing but high carb available - doesn't happen often). She also wants me to reduce Metform to one tablet a day.

All in all, it went better than I expected.

 

[MrsA2]

Up early to get some gardening done before it hot too hot. Had a breakfast yoghurt seeds and 6 blackberries. Cwc
Ended up working in the garden from 07:30 until 13:30! Tiring
. Had a snack of almonds and 2 sqs 85% chocolate about 11.

L: lettuce "boats filled with cream cheese, avocado and coleslaw. Very messy to eat but very tasty. A mini ice cream.
A snooze in the chair

A snack of cream with a sq chocolate chopped in.

D: 2 90% sausages with mixed veg "riced". A mini icecream. A small chunk cheese
A 15 minutes stroll

 

[RosemaryJackson]

My granddaughter is coming from London for the weekend and I'm so looking forward to it. Going shopping after my hairdressers been. She is very careful with her diet so I'll get lots of healthy food in. @IanBish, got the goose eggs out of the pantry, tripped over and all 6 broke! What a mess! If they had been in an egg box it wouldn't have happened but they were in a bowl and just shot out as I tripped. Will try to get some more and I will be more careful. Have a great weekend all. May Fair is in Boston. It always used to rain when I was younger but not now! I love the smell of the hot dogs and onions and used to love the sounds and chaos but I'm too old for that now (unfortunately).

 

[Annb]

My granddaughter is coming from London for the weekend and I'm so looking forward to it. Going shopping after my hairdressers been. She is very careful with her diet so I'll get lots of healthy food in. @IanBish, got the goose eggs out of the pantry, tripped over and all 6 broke! What a mess! If they had been in an egg box it wouldn't have happened but they were in a bowl and just shot out as I tripped. Will try to get some more and I will be more careful. Have a great weekend all. May Fair is in Boston. It always used to rain when I was younger but not now! I love the smell of the hot dogs and onions and used to love the sounds and chaos but I'm too old for that now (unfortunately).

Reminds me of when Alistair decided he wanted to see the 2 dozen hens' eggs I had just bought from a neighbour. They were in an antique tureen on a shelf in the kitchen. He was abut 5 at the time. So he climbed on a chair to reach them. Oops! Whole lot smashed on the kitchen floor, including the tureen. I think he had more of a shock than I did. Eggs were replaced with shop bought ones but the tureen was irreplaceable. It had belonged to an elderly aunt of Tom's and I never had a lid with it. I was given it after she died because her daughter knew that I loved old, blue and white china. Ah well, easy come, easy go. I made sure eggs were never stored in the same way again.