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Breakfast: Avocado smashed onto 4 Jacobs' crackers. Coffee.

2nd meal will be some oxtail stew which I found in the freezer, with a few bits of boiled potato which I also found in the freezer. (Resistant starch, supposedly, but I am doubtful that it works that way for me. However, worth a try ...)

I've just put corned beef on the shopping list for next Thursday.

EDIT: 5.50 pm Oxtail stew and boiled potatoes in the oven, heating up but since a cup of coffee, about 3 pm, I've been feeling nauseous and bloated so may not have it after all. At least BG has come down into the 6's in the last hour.
 
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Eventually felt better after a couple of hours, so I did have the stew and potato. Disaster for my BG. Took about 4 hours but BG went up from 6s to 10s by 11 pm and stayed there. Now in the 12s and I have just taken a correction dose to try to get it down to something a bit more reasonable.

I took some pork sausage meat out of the freezer along with the stew so will have to use that today. There is some starch in that, but it is a high meat product, so it shouldn't be too bad.

This is the aftermath of me being so unwell in the last few weeks when I had trouble keeping my BG up into the 4s and 5s despite stopping Metformin and taking a smaller basal dose of insulin and no bolus doses. On the rebound, I suppose.

I thought I was doing so well too.
 
Breakfast: 2 pork sausage patties with 2 fried eggs and one tomato sliced and fried with the patties. Coffee.

More coffee throughout the day, plus water and pills.

2nd meal: pork sausage meatballs in tomato and onion sauce.

BG has come more or less back under control being around 6 since I took that correction dose earlier.
 
Annb said:
Is there anyone out there? Or am I talking to myself? Trouble is, my own advice to me isn't much use and no support whatsoever. It's OK. I know you all have lives to lead, I'm used to doing my own thing.
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I'm listening!

Life currently is so busy that I don't have much time for talking on here. :bag:
 
I've just logged in too but nothing much to report. Today is a rest and recovery day, as much of it in bed as possible.

Just ate a lovely meal of meatballs, sundried tomatoes, spinach and pine kernels. Hubby apologised for forgetting the linguine - I certainly don't mind!
 
Annb said:
Is there anyone out there? Or am I talking to myself? Trouble is, my own advice to me isn't much use and no support whatsoever. It's OK. I know you all have lives to lead, I'm used to doing my own thing.
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I'm still here! I need to stick around too. Hope the corned beef turns out to be a winner for you!

I made two of those quiches which are not as small as the picture looked, so I've been eating that with a medium potato and heaps of beans for dinner. Breakfast was a mcdonalds today, I had the double sausage and egg and double bacon and egg muffins minus the muffins (special offer on those).

I've had some carby snacks as well but rather than eating as much as I can fit in my stomach I'm just having one at a time - not ideal but better than when I'm in complete denial.

I have managed to keep off the weight I lost when I had the fluey cold, and hope to lose some more.
 
@Annb I hope you will be ok in Storm Floris, batten down the hatches and stay safe x

Edit: And all in the path of the storm x
 
jpscloud said:
@Annb I hope you will be ok in Storm Floris, batten down the hatches and stay safe x

Edit: And all in the path of the storm x
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Yeah atrocious weather here in Scotland since i wakened at 6am. Rain coming down in sheets and wind moaning it's head off but not yet gusting and wheely bins moving. It's started.
 
DougDyl said:
Yeah atrocious weather here in Scotland since i wakened at 6am. Rain coming down in sheets and wind moaning it's head off but not yet gusting and wheely bins moving. It's started.
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There isn't really a suitable emoji for the storm, but optimistic for no damage and everyone staying safe x
 
jpscloud said:
@Annb I hope you will be ok in Storm Floris, batten down the hatches and stay safe x

Edit: And all in the path of the storm x
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Heavy rain and wind beginning to build up here. We can usually ride out storms - the most vulnerable part of the house, the roof, is usually OK (our roof tiles are heavy) and much of stuff outside is sheltered. A bit concerned about my new pot plants on the ramp at the front of the house, but it is fairly sheltered by all the bushes along side, so should be alright. Alistair's roof is a bit more at risk than ours - the tiles are not so heavy. It all depends on the direction of the wind. At present it is from the SE - not too damaging usually - but it is forecast to go round to the WNW. That's a bit more dangerous. As many people as possible should stay off the roads today. Part of the Island (a peninsula called Point) will most likely be cut off for a few hours once the wind meet up with high tide. Further south on the island chain, there are more dangerous areas because they are lower lying. Since a disaster a few years back, people there are more careful in this kind of weather.
 
Breakfast: the last of the sausage meatballs and tomato sauce. Yesterday, I had to add some yoghurt because the Italian herb mixture was more spicy than I had thought. That used the last of my pot of yoghurt so this morning I added double cream and made it cream of tomato sauce.

2nd meal: will be smoked mackerel with some salady kind of things.
 
Brunch is a salad with corned beef, cottage cheese, grated carrot, iceberg lettuce and a medium potato (made into potato salad).

Greek yogurt with blueberries and blackberries from the garden

Dinner will be the last of the quiche with fried courgettes. I've eaten all the garden beans for now!

In East Cheshire we seem to be escaping the worst of the storm, we just have some 20mph gusts which is pretty gentle considering the strength to the north.
 
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