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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

shelley262 said:
Successfully fasted for 25 hours so far so no food. Planning same for tomorrow back sometime Thursday.
Had some coffee and cream, lots of green tea no milk or cream and lots of water.
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Well done! I'm just a little bit behind you, after eating late after yoga last night. I'm probably going to have to eat at breakfast though, as I have a long drive up to Durham first thing tomorrow morning for work. I don't want to risk feeling 'off' when driving for nearly 3 hours. So, I'm hoping for 34-36 hours. I've been existing on coffee with cream first thing, green tea, Rose hip and hibiscus tea and plenty water.
 
Breakfast - started the day with a low carb 'English muffin' which was very much like soft brown bread. Really good - especially with a big dollop of butter and some marmite. Mmmm. Bucket of tea.

Lunch - rollitos, pecans, prawns, sun dried tomatoes, celery. Sugar free jelly and a low carb chocolate wafer

Dinner - steak, mushrooms, olives and cheese.

Such a gorgeous day too! I'm not a winter lover AT ALL so this is heaven
 
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Well done you and agree you need to think about things like driving hope you see the results and Durham goes well
 
Excellent work on the fasting @shelley262 and @BibaBee plus all those who have not reported in yet(@Goonergal and @Emma_369 ?) @Chook sounds like a great day beside the seaside, beside the sea - chips and all.
None of my cabinets were revolting and as Julie was poorly there was no need for a meaningful vote - my deal or crash out without any. Tea and cocoa before and after swimming. Lunch was a taking back control salad of epic proportions - mackerel and avocado are compulsory. Evening meal was a sausage sandwich to use up livlife bread and taste test Aldi sausages which claim to have 0.9% carbs. Precautionary naproxen since joints are playing nice and I want to keep it that way.
Highlights today - lawn mowing again and I did a passable version of a backstroke.
 
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I'm going to have to look away. I have serious marmite cravings!
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: Babybel cheese with cauliflower and broccoli salad followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
Mid afternoon: peanut phd bar and black coffee.
Dinner: lemongrass and coconut chicken stir fry followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
 


Now bingeing on here as I have missed so much. Gosh!
Been a bit under the weather. Seriiusly! Just when the sun is coming out to play. Sigh.

Fasting folks -hope all is going well.
Posting hubby’s latest numbers from his check up with DN. Said he can now come off Metformin. Oh yeah? He stopped almost 2 years now. Doh!
Big love to all you amazing people
 

That’s a great summary list, wish my surgery printed something like that.
Great results too.
 
Woke up with horrible sore throat still. Wasn’t due to meet the others till mid morning so went for a walk first thing and ended up at Tesco as you do. Bought a few supplies such as cream for my coffee and a box of those 1 cup coffee filters ( only instant in hotel room, and it costs £3 a cup from the hotel bar) best of all some sugar free jellies - had 2 for breakfast which were bliss for my throat.

Lunch out in York, neices’ favourite place Las Iguanas a S American type of place. Had a flame grilled 1/2 chicken with coleslaw and salad and a lot of iced water - again, bliss for the throat.

This evening at their place had nibbles of cold meat, cheese olives and shared my 85% HC batons around. Too dark for SIL and 18yo but surprisingly the 16yo loved them.

Coming home tomorrow after meeting them for breakfast in Tesco cafe which looks really good.

Well done fasters, very impressive first day. @BibaBee agree it’s probably best not to undertake a long drive in the middle of a long fast.
 
Lunch yesterday: Cheese and tomato sandwiches with the rest of the kimchi, which livened the taste buds up.
Dinner: Marinated chicken drumsticks, greek yoghurt and some diced up mango of my partners.
Breakfast today: A four cheese and mushroom egg omelette, no bacon as I forgot to get a packet out of the freezer yesterday
 
maglil55 said:
I'm very fond of Woolies when I'm visiting family in Australia but there again I like Coles too!
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I got my first job with Woolies when I first cae to Australia, I worked in a subsidiary called Meatex boning out legs of pork for tinned ham. I got my transfer into a store after about six months.

I suppose we shop there at Woolies out of loyalty, we do not go to Coles very often though.
 
I miss Woolworths, especially the pick'n'mix.

A bit of a wander down memory lane..... I had a Thursday evening and Saturday job with Woolworths, Oxford Street (London) when i was at secretarial college in the 70s when they still had the open cheese and deli counter and a counter where you could buy cake by weight and the assistant would cut your required amount off a 10 or 20lb slab.
 
Chook said:
I miss Woolworths, especially the pick'n'mix.
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The Woolworth's here is a totally different company to what was in the UK. If FW Woolworths had came to Australia and NZ, the Australian company would have had to change names.

A South African company have owned Woolies for the last few years.
 
Evening all. Late checking in. Not long back from the excellent APPG meeting. About 30 or so hours into the fast. BG dropping nicely and ketones up. Had 4 cups of tea with cream and probably not quite enough water as none available at the meeting. Trying to make up for that now - suspect it’s why I’m feeling pretty hungry. Hopefully will pass during the night.
 
Tottaly agree, a hit in time saves nine. Remember well teaching my 7-year old to say to a local 4-year old bully "If you hit me again, I am going to hit you back" and also saying but dont hit him too hard.

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26/02
feeling distinctly "off" this morning, no exercises
Tea for breakfast, after last nights blow out didnt need anything else.
lunch, came home and woofed down the contents of the cheesebox, about 50g wenslydale, and some emmental, plus two hovis crackers. Maybe best just to throw the rest away?
midafternoon, handful of nuts
dinner a takeway indian, I had some Sag aloo,( trusting that the potatese are reheated, thus resistant starch) about 50g rice, didnt weigh it, gauged by eye. Chicken jalafezi with some extermely hot chillies in it, a poppadom, tablespoon of the green yoghurt.
passed on the vegetable curry. (Apparently bought esp for me) but potatoes, chick peas, peas, onions and peppers, a carb too far. However shared a glass or two of red wine. Was sooo nice not to have to cook

 
Evening all. Sorry for the late check in - work, in-laws, coursework and then 56 lengths in the pool so only just had time to play catch up

Breakfast - last 2 of my chocolate cakes with coffee - the astute of you may think what happened to the other one remaining cake. Well my darling husbands afraid of missing out on anything, decided to eat it whilst I was in the shower. Only to then spend the next 20 minutes moaning that how do I eat that, why would I make a cake with no sugar and I should have warned him they weren’t normal cakes
Lunch - payday office treat of chippy so had a small tray of kebab meat with salad and mayo

My fast then officially started at 2pm so I’m a little behind the others but feeling good after my swim. Just water and black coffee until Thursday evening so won’t have any food to post tomorrow
 
@Chook we had a day like that only a flooded river and no dogs and sat in the car with coffee, mom&me. Glorious out.
Go @shelley262 go! And you @BibaBee ! @Goonergal !
Way to go on backstroke @ianpspurs !
@Rachox how are you doing? Out of bed rest yet I hope?
@set-in-stone I hope he just nodded agreeably re metformin! Congrats to him. I hope you recover quickly
We still have (a possibly different) Woolworth’s here. When I was a kid it was one of the “five and dime” stores, so known for the number of items that sold for five or ten cents. I don’t remember a food area. We also still have Rose’s, another old name. Precursor to Walmart but much much smaller.
 
Today was a stress day but no bad foods were among those overeaten. Memo to self: don’t take Mom to lunch unless you really have to.
So I hope I can have just an egg for bfast tomorrow, and nothing til supper.
Made Mr ZF a pasta casserole but won’t take pic. That english muffin with marmite is too beautiful to put pasta photos on top of.
So, it was shells, sausage, spaghetti sauce, farmer cheese, parmeggiano. I sautéed the sausage, deglazed with a little marsala cooking wine, then cooked the pasta, all in the IP. There is no time advantage to pasta a la IP bc it takes a while to get up to pressure even though once there it’s only a minute. The only advantage is that the pot liner is easier to wash than a big pasta cooking pot plus a sauté pan. I think I’d do it again. I’m thinking a baked pasta dish would work with lo dough spätzle/gnocchi/matzoh balls instead of pasta, but this was special for him. Anybody done it?
 
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