"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.

 

[Annb]

BG in the 4's this morning. I've found articles online which say that walnuts, and other nuts, can improve BG levels in T2 diabetics. No idea why I hadn't heard of this before. So it seems my accidental find was a good one. It's something to do with the kind of fat in the nuts. Just have to control the amount I eat, or I will put even more weight on.

Avocado on lentil crispbread will be breakfast today. No noticeable effects yesterday so - once more into the breech, dear friends.....

 

[shelley262]

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.

Gosh you triggered a memory for me of eating stovies in Dundee when I was at Uni and during our early married years as a couple in Scotland.

Nuts don't put my sugars down but that may be because I am unable to stick to small portions of nuts - especially if they are mixed ones and have salt added! Walnuts on their own are quite bitter I find so harder to overeat so these are the only variety I store in my cupboard as I can ration them and I also use them for cooking.

 

[Annb]

Gosh you triggered a memory for me of eating stovies in Dundee when I was at Uni and during our early married years as a couple in Scotland.

Nuts don't put my sugars down but that may be because I am unable to stick to small portions of nuts - especially if they are mixed ones and have salt added! Walnuts on their own are quite bitter I find so harder to overeat so these are the only variety I store in my cupboard as I can ration them and I also use them for cooking.

It looks as though walnut oil - 15 ml a day - is equally recommended. I'm going to ask Neil if he can get me some in town. I don't find it hard to overeat walnuts, unfortunately. In fact, I've eaten far too many over the last couple of days and need to ration myself.

No immediate effect from the lentil crackers, so we'll see how that goes.

No insulin with breakfast and BG remained in the low 4's but just had a cup of coffee (and moved around a bit, which does tend to raise BG) and it has shot up to 6.8. I daresay it will fall again though. What am I complaining about - last week I would have been overjoyed to have BG in the 6's.

2nd meal today will be the ragout which has now defrosted thoroughly, so must prep the butternut squash early so that I don't give up on it. Not that it takes much prepping - just chuck it in the oven and bake it, then take it apart and mash the flesh (with some butter, of course).

 

[Annb]

Well. Two things I've learned over the last couple of days:
1 nuts, walnuts in particular, are great at getting BG down
2 the lentil crackers don't agree with me

Swings and roundabouts....

Tum is starting to complain about what I've eaten and the only difference to usual is the crackers. I wonder if the birds will like them. That's the swings part of the story.

The roundabouts part is that my BG is staying in the 4's and 5's with no bolus doses of insulin.

 

[jpscloud]

@Annb that's great news about the walnuts, and at least you know now about the lentil crackers. I'm going to try some walnuts when my home grown supply of cobnuts runs out (which won't be long!)

I've been off the rails a bit with eating, so I'm planning to have a lamb burger (no bread) and cottage cheese with salad tonight. I'll have baby leaf lettuce, tiny baby carrots, tiny baby beets and leaves, toasted cobnuts, spring onion and sweet pepper, all from the garden and maybe a half corn on the cob.

I haven't finished freezing things from the garden, so will get to that tomorrow. I did pick one pod of peas, a bit small but absolutely delicious eaten on the spot, so now I can't say the peas didn't give me anything! There are plenty of pods coming too.

 

[shelley262]

@Annb that's great news about the walnuts, and at least you know now about the lentil crackers. I'm going to try some walnuts when my home grown supply of cobnuts runs out (which won't be long!)

I've been off the rails a bit with eating, so I'm planning to have a lamb burger (no bread) and cottage cheese with salad tonight. I'll have baby leaf lettuce, tiny baby carrots, tiny baby beets and leaves, toasted cobnuts, spring onion and sweet pepper, all from the garden and maybe a half corn on the cob.

I haven't finished freezing things from the garden, so will get to that tomorrow. I did pick one pod of peas, a bit small but absolutely delicious eaten on the spot, so now I can't say the peas didn't give me anything! There are plenty of pods coming too.

Well done on your veggies they sound amazing. I'm down to just tomatoes now as my garden berries are about finished. I still have a bit of a glut of tomatoes though so will offer some to my youngest son who is visiting tomorrow and then in a few days need to start roasting and making sauces although I did see a mention by Monty Don about how he successfully freezes them whole to roast from frozen later so may try a few this way too. I love garden tomatoes fried slowly in olive oil and served on low carb toast.

 

[Annb]

Breakfast will be a few walnuts followed by the rest of the ragout from yesterday.

Already had 3 cups of coffee this morning but I daresay there'll be another one after breakfast.

2nd meal will be some chicken tagine which is already cooked and ready to reheat. Our local shops are being a bit naughty and not labelling things that are short dated. Neil bought me some chicken thighs on Thursday which were out of date on Friday, so I had to cook them right away. Same with some sausages and some turkey steaks - they weren't out of date, but very close. I'll have to cook them today, although I won't be eating them today.

 

[jpscloud]

I had eggs instead of the lamb burger with my salad, because the home grown cress on my windowsill needed using. It was lovely and I need to work out which of the things I'm eating in my salads is a very effective appetite satisfier. I wonder if it's the leafy greens, which I have very rarely eaten before.

I've done my morning watering with plant food, covered up the Christmas potatoes and pointlessly shooed a million white butterflies off my brassicas - they're having such a good year. I'm now having cheese and marmite on home made low(er) carb toast, it's my version of Welsh rarebit (with apologies to the Welsh, although I am a quarter Welsh so maybe I can get away with adulterating a national dish!)

I still have a bit of a glut of tomatoes

I have tomato envy! I just have one plant grown from spring and it looks like a few tomatoes will be ripe in the next week or so. I despaired of growing any more from seed so bought two plants of Sungold which may give me some tomatoes before the end of the year. One is outside and one is in the polytunnel.

I love garden tomatoes fried slowly in olive oil and served on low carb toast.

I love that too, it's delicious! Supermarket tomatoes just don't have the same flavour but I missed the boat this year with garden tomatoes - I bet we won't have such amazing weather again next year but I'll make an effort to grow some anyway.

 

[Annb]

I did it again! I forgot to refill my little box with needles in, which following Antje's suggestion, is the way I keep track of whether or not I actually took my Tresiba basal dose. And I don't think I did take it today, but I'm not sure, so can't take another dose. Must organise myself a bit better.

However, my BG before breakfast was 5.1. I forgot to take the walnuts (see this memory of mine - it keeps taking breaks) and just had the ragout. BG actually rose, for the first time in days, to 6.1. Then I had a few walnut pieces.. BG shortly afterward was 5.1. I'm happy enough with that.

Chucked the package of sausages into a pan and into the oven - just to get them cooked. I'll make a casserole of them for later in the week. Stir fried the turkey (very thin strips) with some chopped up vegetables, also to have later in the week. 2 meals at least in each.