"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[shelley262]

Happy birthday to Em! Sounds like a tricky day there with your BGs - hope it all settles down for you.



Thanks @shelley262 the review did go well, I was offered statins again but declined and wasn't told off. I've also been offered to switch to Mounjaro, which I have accepted because I really need some help to shift my weight and the higher doses available with it should help. I still have 5 weeks of Ozempic to use up - the surgery ordered a double prescription for me when it was hard to get hold of and I've had extra in store since then. I'll start Mounjaro after that.

I've just had my tea - chicken etc that I mentioned earlier, and I'm feeling quite sleepy so might go for an early night soon. Lots of rain today, it feels weird not to be watering the garden this evening!

Sounds promising 're your meds.
Agree it's very odd not watering today although I was starting to get fed up with the massive daily watering job.

 

[shelley262]

Thanks for the good wishes for Em. I'll pass that on. She liked her cake - she doesn't like icing so it was just a lemon drizzle with a slight sugary crust. It's her favourite kind of cake.

She asked about 6 weeks ago if instead of a present she could have money to take with her to Alton Towers at the beginning of August, so that was what she had. Easy for me not having to worry about getting the right thing. Still gave her a little something with the cake though. Felt mean not to.

Sounds delicious it's my fave cake too but a low carb version these days. In fact I'm baking one tomorrow as freezer stocks just about eaten. I still really need a small low carb sweet treat most days.

 

[Annb]

Happy birthday to Em! Sounds like a tricky day there with your BGs - hope it all settles down for you.



Thanks @shelley262 the review did go well, I was offered statins again but declined and wasn't told off. I've also been offered to switch to Mounjaro, which I have accepted because I really need some help to shift my weight and the higher doses available with it should help. I still have 5 weeks of Ozempic to use up - the surgery ordered a double prescription for me when it was hard to get hold of and I've had extra in store since then. I'll start Mounjaro after that.

I've just had my tea - chicken etc that I mentioned earlier, and I'm feeling quite sleepy so might go for an early night soon. Lots of rain today, it feels weird not to be watering the garden this evening!

Thanks for the birthday wishes for Em. I'll pass that on to her.

 

[Annb]

Today is the day!

Three or four weeks ago I had an awful bout of diarrhoea and I blamed it on the fairly new lentil crackers I had been eating. They may or may not have been the cause, but I don't know. However, having given my system a rest from them, and having a week ahead with no appointments until my Thursday leg slot, I am going to give it a try.

I have a nicely ripe avocado for breakfast and I'll team it with 2 lentil crackers. If nothing happens, I'll do the same tomorrow. If I have developed an intolerance for lentil crackers, the reaction should be fairly swift. If nothing untoward happens, lentils will be back in the diet and I'll blame the unfortunate event on a bug of some sort.

2 lentil crackers = <10g carbs so I shan't be taking insulin to cover it. I'll wait and see what happens to BG and maybe correct it later.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch - the walnuts still seem to be working their "magic", BG this morning was, and is, 5.8.

2nd meal today will be some ragout out of the freezer with a little butternut squash mash.

EDIT: Just after I posted the above, Libre told me my BG was 8.1! I carried on regardless - had my breakfast and pills, then coffee and checked again. BG 6.8 and falling.

 

[jpscloud]

@Annb I will be interested to hear how the lentil cracker experiment goes - hope it goes well! Very interesting about the walnuts, I might have to give that a go too.

Breakfast was 3 scrambled eggs and a crumpet with butter.

Today I'm freezing some sweet peppers, runner beans (which might be winding down a bit now) and some corn on the cob I got cheap in the supermarket, and of course I couldn't resist eating a corn cob! Don't they smell amazing?

I don't have a solid plan for tea yet.

 

[Annb]

Was 5.6 but another cup of coffee and some fairly vigorous moving around (for me) has put it up to 6.2.

EDIT: Last time tonight. I decided against the ragout in favour of a Scottish dish called Stovies - again out of the freezer. It defrosted faster. Should have potato in it, but my version didn't; just vegetables and Lorne (beef sliced sausage). BGF was 5.6, so I didn't take insulin, although I normally would. BG up to 6.3. I don't know what is in the walnuts, but something is having an effect.

Lentil crackers: so far so good.