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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

I was lucky with my teachers, almost all were affable even if some were a bit disinterested. Our music teacher had a thermos full of whisky but never appeared to be drunk :hilarious: We just had one crazy science teacher, who held the terrifying reputation of having once dangled a first year student out of a window by his tie - he almost certainly didn't do that, but he did hit the boys around the head sometimes if he got sufficiently annoyed.
 
I mentioned my eating times are erratic, which suits me well.
Today was a bit too much of unplanned intermittent fasting (except for coffee with a splash of milk).

I forgot to bring my insulin to work (theres a first for everything), no insulin, no food. Even protein needs insulin if it's my first meal of the day.
I usually have breakfast on the bridge as well, so the last thing I had eaten was a handful of peanuts yesterday evening at 8:30 until I finally came home today at 4:30, which is a very long fast for someone not interested in fasting!

Very lucky that my colleague had already offered to take my evening shift today, manning two neighbouring bridges in exchange for me taking his yesterday.
Normally we work 9-4 and then another hour from 6-7, and I live too far away to make it worth driving home for the break.

Even luckier with a random facebook post in a Dutch diabetes group, where I mentioned how trendy IF is so I felt all hip now I'd forgotten my insulin. :happy:
Someone offered to come to my bridge with her insulin pen!
Too late for proper food on the bridge, but it did mean I could inject my usual 45 minutes before eating and having a beer at home. So no waiting when I got home, which made me very happy.

Very interesting to see that her insulin lispro works almost as fast as my Fiasp for me. I love getting the opportunity to do some experimenting with different stuff.

Picture of all the foods I had so far today. I think dinner will be Welsh rarebit on lc toast shortly, my planned meal is still in the fridge on the bridge. Can't really bring a very full and not completely tight container of onion soup home when not frozen anymore.

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I'm so glad someone came to your rescue and took your evening shift! A pity about the onion soup, but I expect it will still be edible next time. Will that be tomorrow, or do you get weekends off?

Meanwhile, we didn't have any hot cross buns left, so I ended up eating another wrap (they are very small) with a banana and a little sugar. Delicious! Then we went down to Church to put up a picture we'd bought for the new community room, and people were there doing flowers and fruit trays for the welcome service tomorrow - how do you resist when offered slices of melon and watermelon? Answer, you don't!!! Or at least, I don't!

Came back and put on some shallots, courgette, mushroom and pepper topped with sliced halloumi to roast (slightly oversalted them, which is a pity), and then looked at the leftover cauliflower cheese. I realised it was mostly potato/butternut mix, with some of the sauce (which contains sweetcorn), and almost no cauliflower, so shoved it in the oven to hot up and served it on the side. Very good. Finished with an Activia prune yoghurt.

Was very pleased as my pharmacy emailed me to say my prescriptions were ready - never known them do that before, and I would not normally have picked them up before next week, but decided to walk down and see whether they meant it; it wouldn't have been the end of the world if they hadn't, and I was able to recycle several weeks' worth of used blister packs in Superdrug while I was at it. Anyway, they were not only ready, but packed up and ready for the staff to hand to me with no waiting! I do like that pharmacy!
 
Annb said:
Yes. Hebrides (Outer) is my territory, @MrsA2. Glad to see you back. Enjoy the rain - not that you wouldn't have had plenty of it while in these parts.

Our senior partner in the GP Practice had a look at my hands and he thinks it may be gout! Gout! In my fingers! I didn't know that was possible.
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We escaped all rain, even the odd showers on top of the hills out on Hirta (St Kilda). Absolutely loved the Outers. The wildflowers were stunning, though I imagine the winters are harsh. Got used to peace and quiet, and hated the day we came across 4 coach loads of Asian tourists from a cruise ship! How dare they spoil the quiet and beauty!

Gout can be any joint I believe. Hope they manage to relieve it for you
 
Antje77 said:
Thank you!
Maybe the tales will come back, maybe they won't.

I went back to being a mod again about a year ago after two mandatory years of not being a moderator, and I found out it didn't fit into my new, non depressed life anymore at all.
So I've recently returned to being a retired mod and finding my way again enjoying the forum without obligations.

I've read somewhere that happy people are more selfish, and I think this is true for me: Not being depressed is wonderful but I find I choose to spend my time on what makes me happy more often than I choose to spend my time on what may help others now.

What makes me happy at the moment (and very frustrated) is finally trying to learn maths after completely failing in school decades ago, I'm definitely not a natural.
As for the tales, what makes me very happy at the moment is my new car!
It was only 300 euros and it has a bed in the back, so I went on a two night holiday with the dogs on the day I bought it, camping illegally two weeks ago.

Perfect car, no matter that the second gear doesn't work and that the exhaust dropped on the road today (5 minute fix with no knowledge about cars whatsoever).

Next adventure is planned next week when I finally have a couple of days off!
Pictures of the outside and interesting dashboard of my new car to compensate for my absence.

I've also eaten today.
A lc cracker with copious butter, marmite, cheese and an egg around noon, tomatoes with mozzarella, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper just before my break at 4.
I had a planned meal in the fridge to have after my break but suddenly had to fill in for my colleague on the next bridge, which meant going back and forth between two bridges.
I dindn't want to do that with insulin on board for my meal if I didn't know I'd have time to eat it so I had another egg and salami instead, all good.
Added some peanuts to my beer at home, very happy I could fix the exhaust myself in minutes because I'd already dosed for the beer at home before leaving the bridge.

Here's my new car, and new adventures!
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A 300 euro car? You're going up in the world @Antje77

Sorry, still seem to be having emoji trouble on my trusty, old tablet!
 
Changed plans. When it came to eating, I couldn't be bothered - feeling pretty grotty again. I think it's the effect these pills are meant to have - it's how they help you to lose weight. Later I had avocado smashed onto Jacob's crackers. Immediately felt sick again and am only just getting over it. My friend tells me I'll get past this stage, so I'm hopeful of improvement. I'm also exceedingly tired and can't stay up any longer. Nearly 11 pm is very early for me and I'll be up early as a result, but needs must.
 
@Annb, if the nausea doesn't pass by the middle of next week, it may mean you are one of those who can't tolerate it. But it should pass - these side-effects are usually pretty temporary while your system adjusts!

Going to get up and get breakfast in a minute - poached egg on a mini-wrap, I think, and a Saturday treat of a croissant with jam or honey. Tai chi later this morning, if it doesn't rain, and lunch will be the usual Saturday bacon and avocado roll followed by ice cream. Supper, for once, is less predictable - it is the Welcome Service for our new minister this afternoon, and there will be refreshments, so I don't expect we'll want much, if anything, later. Sausage and mash is postponed until tomorrow!
 
Service was very good - wish I could preach like our District Chair! Refreshments also good - a variety of sandwiches (I ended up having a whole round!) and the fruit I watched being lovingly prepared yesterday. Don't expect to want much more to eat today, but may well want something before bed. Drinking tea at the moment.
 
Anybody else watching the Last Night of the Proms? It's one of the Great Unmissables in our family, as is the New Year's Day concert from Vienna, and (if we find out it's on) the Summer Concert, also from Vienna. And we also rather love André Rieux! One year, a Belgian friend of ours skated in the Maastricht Christmas Concert, which was seriously fun to watch!

And, while watching the LNOP, I had a slice of lovely fresh seeded sourdough bread with butter and ham, washed down with home-made lemon/mint cordial.
 
Annb said:
Breakfast: Roasted mushrooms. Nothing with them. I like them that way - just a little seasoning on them. Tea. No nausea.

2nd meal: Smoked mackerel with griddled cucumber and tomato.
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I found I only had one tomato and it was well past its best, so I griddled the cucumber and some aubergine slices instead. Only had half. The rest will do for breakfast tomorrow. No insulin needed.
 
Mrs Redboots said:
Anybody else watching the Last Night of the Proms? It's one of the Great Unmissables in our family, as is the New Year's Day concert from Vienna, and (if we find out it's on) the Summer Concert, also from Vienna. And we also rather love André Rieux! One year, a Belgian friend of ours skated in the Maastricht Christmas Concert, which was seriously fun to watch!

And, while watching the LNOP, I had a slice of lovely fresh seeded sourdough bread with butter and ham, washed down with home-made lemon/mint cordial.
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I am. We've not long got back from a day out and loving it - we also always watch as well as the New Year's Day concert. I cooked a chicken yesterday as knew we'd be late back today so chicken salad it was. Just about to make a mint tea.
 
Good morning everyone on a bit of a grey start but it's hopefully drying out here later. After a lovely long day out yesterday I need to get on with the garden today. I've just picked more tomatoes for roasting for breakfast and planning salads for lunch and dinner as have some roast chicken left over. Need to make some low carb bread and rolls today too as running low.
 
I haven't watched LNOP for years! I used to watch it every year for a while.

Porridge for breakfast, then for lunch I'm going to use up a few mini cucumbers to make a cucumber and cannelini bean salad with cream cheese and greek yoghurt. Tea will be vegetable soup with some chicken stirred in.
 
Breakfast, shortly, will be the rest of the cucumber, courgette, mackerel thingy from yesterday - that's the alarm on tghe little oven just gone off to say it's reheated for me.

2nd meal will have to be roasted cauliflower/brocolli with some chickpea pasta. Simple to do, which is what I need right now.

Just bought myself a little trolley to help me to get things around the kitchen without spilling them (I look a bit like a ship in a rough sea if I have to try to walk with one stick and leave one hand free for carrying things; notoriously, rough seas lead to spillages). I hadn't gone for one of those advertised as disability aids because I don't have any space to store it in when not in use so I bought a folding one from Amazon. Rubbish quality, but it will do the job, as long as I avoid leaning on it.
 
Lunch was skipped, I am currently frantically cutting the grass which has grown ridiculously high with the rain. It might be the last day without rain for a while and even though the grass is wet, if I don't do it now it won't get done. I'm about half way through and if I stop for lunch I won't start again, so it's a quick coffee then back out there!
 
Annb said:
Breakfast, shortly, will be the rest of the cucumber, courgette, mackerel thingy from yesterday - that's the alarm on tghe little oven just gone off to say it's reheated for me.

2nd meal will have to be roasted cauliflower/brocolli with some chickpea pasta. Simple to do, which is what I need right now.

Just bought myself a little trolley to help me to get things around the kitchen without spilling them (I look a bit like a ship in a rough sea if I have to try to walk with one stick and leave one hand free for carrying things; notoriously, rough seas lead to spillages). I hadn't gone for one of those advertised as disability aids because I don't have any space to store it in when not in use so I bought a folding one from Amazon. Rubbish quality, but it will do the job, as long as I avoid leaning on it.
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My mother (who is 98) has one of those disability trolleys, and finds it incredibly useful, both in the kitchen and around the ground floor generally. She has others for upstairs and out-of-doors (although that's usually only from the house to the car, as she uses a wheelchair or mobility scooter most of the time when out).

As for me, I had overnight oats for breakfast and am about to have a mini-wrap with lettuce and sweet chilli chicken. I slept very badly last night for some reason, so will probably need a nap after lunch, but I want to go out this afternoon, so not for too long, I hope! And hope the weather will clear; it was very dreary earlier, but then was lovely when I walked home from where my husband had dropped me off earlier.
 
Supper was sausage, mash, cauliflower and baked beans, followed by yoghurt with fresh raspberries, and a small lager. Now trying to persuade myself I'm not really hungry, and anyway I've cleaned my teeth, both real and fake! And I did sleep after lunch, so didn't go out!
 
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