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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

B: Yoghurt with strawberries nuts and raisins
L: Mackerel salad
D: Little beef stew - wasn't really feeling it - so left it and had some strawberries sugar free jelly and cream instead
 
Prem51 said:
Black tea with ginger, liquorice and cinnamon infusion.
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I'm soooo envious of people who can drink herbal teas. I have tried so many of them and they always smell so delicious and enticing. Then I take a sip and want to cut my own tongue out
 
LOL same here! Although, i do like the Tetley Redbush with vanilla. (And I'm a Yorkshire Tea girl.)
LinsT said:
I'm soooo envious of people who can drink herbal teas. I have tried so many of them and they always smell so delicious and enticing. Then I take a sip and want to cut my own tongue out
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LinsT said:
I'm soooo envious of people who can drink herbal teas. I have tried so many of them and they always smell so delicious and enticing. Then I take a sip and want to cut my own tongue out
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I used to be strictly a 'builders tea with milk and two sugars' type of guy, and thought that herbal teas were just slightly perfumed hot water, but since becoming diabetic, perhaps helped on the way by 5-6 cups a day with 2 spoons of sugar in each, and the accompanying kitkats, biscuits or cake, I have started experimenting with different teas and got to quite like them.
Now when I have an 'ordinary' tea it tastes bitter.
 
We have a whole tea menu in our house now - two types of milk, and about twelve teas. I think it helps to get rid of sugar or sweeteners in tea before attempting them.

Dinner tonight was wild Pacific sockeye salmon fillets with steamed lime zucchini and leeks sprinkled with coconut aminos garlic sauce.

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Ginger reduces BG, Grapefruit and apples reduce cholesterol. German rye bread from Lidl has low GI. Black currant jelly is made from fresh frozen berries and diluted by water.
I am on insulin and have to eat carbohydrates to avoid hypo. I reduced carbohydrates intake significantly, but not stupidly
Eating just proteins, fat is not healthy.
I am not on stupid diet, I am on healthy eating and healthy life style.
I don't admit any diets . It is business. Usually people are taking more weight when they finish their diet.
 
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Breakfast: Nowt - just not hungry.
Lunch: Chocolate orange cream cheese pancakes
Tea (provided by work!): Ribeye steak with stilton (my suggestion) and I'm having a large salad with mine which I'm taking wth me.
Supper: 20g Brazil nuts.

Myfitnesspal calculates this as 16g carbs. Hoping this will put me back in to ketosis after my recent All Day Breakfast mistake.
 
First day today! I think I did good! Any comments much appreciated!

Breakfast - cream cheese pancakes - 2g carbs, 38g fat, 17g protein, 420 cal

Snack - Cheese Strings - 0g carbs , 17g fat, 21g protein, 244 cal

Lunch - mozzarella, tomato and spinach salad - 6.2g carba, 24g fat, 26,5g protein , 349 cal

Snack - 15 almonds - 1.6g carbs, 8.4g fat, 3.6g protein 101 cal

Dinner - chicken breast, spinach, tomato, feta cheese, cucumber, green pesto, radish - 14.2g carbs , 29g fat, 70g protein 683 cal

Total - 23g Carbs, 116g Fat, 139g Protein 1798 cals. according to My fitness Pal....


too much protein perhaps ?
 
B Boiled egg with toasted almond flour bun, buttered & with yeast extract spread. The bun was fluffier than a flax seed one and both are much better toasted, I feel.
L Lidl high-protein roll sandwich of cold pork, babyleaf spinach & mayo, followed by a walk on the beach. BS up by 1.6 after 2 hours, so all ok.
D Salmon poached in wine with sauce of butter, ginger, garlic & soy sauce and dollop of warm babyleaf spinach and cream cheese on top plus steamed green beans, leeks and leftover slices of butternut squash.
 
B. 1 slice Burgen toast & cheese
L. Out shopping with hubby who are a Big Mac & fries while I ate cold chicken pieces brought from home
D. Cod in cheese & broccoli sauce, 1/4 frittata, raspberries & double cream
S 1 rough oatcake with applewood smoked cheese 5 walnut halves, 7 almonds
 
B -Two soft-boiled eggs with freshly ground black pepper mmm
L - The last chewy leek, stir-fried in a mix of palm and coconut oils and the dregs of a jar of ghee, with a green and a yellow pepper diced, a slosh of coconut amino garlic sauce and two easy over fried eggs.
Snack -organic very low salt stock cube with nutritional yeast flakes
D - will be Daylesford organic chicken legs with ginger and lime and I don't know which veg as MrCeleriac is beavering away in the kitchen, drinking gluten-free beer !

Evian 500ml x 3, English Breakfast tea w/soya x6, Throat Coat tea x1, Moroccan mint green tea x1

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pam_x_pam said:
too much protein perhaps ?
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I personally wouldn't worry too much about the protein yet. Let yourself get used to the low carbing first. But obviously its your choice .
B: bacon, egg and mushrooms with half a Lidl protein roll.
L: none
Dinner: spoonful of stir fried prawns and veg with half a tortilla.
 
LinsT said:
I personally wouldn't worry too much about the protein yet. Let yourself get used to the low carbing first. But obviously its your choice .
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I think I need to go to sleep....I'm absolutely starving!!!!
 
Managed to eat fish twice today by accident, smoked mackerel with cream cheese and creme fraiche for lunch, also some mash potato. Dinner was a salmon fillet and pasta. Porridge for breakfast. But I've only just decided tonight to try low carb. So I'm researching. I guess I would need to replace the pasta and the potato with something else. Not sure about the porridge. Will look it up.
 

I appreciate that English is not your first language, but you seem to understand it just fine. You are posting on a low carbohydrate thread, for people that follow low carb eating - simple. Also, if you are going to make statements about "stupid diets", and fat not being healthy, you should provide evidence of this.
I note that you have been type 2 since 2011 and have gone onto insulin this year. Many people do find that this is a step they need to take, maybe even prefer to take, but I would say that the majority of us are trying to avoid having to take that step. For many of us, the "stupid diet" as you like to call it, controls our blood glucose levels so we are able to take minimal medication and many don't have to take medication at all. I would say that makes it anything but stupid. Can I also politely suggest that if you disagree with this, that you are posting in the wrong place and should look at one of the other sections related to food?
 

Mazz, the mash and pasta are high carb foods so probably won't help your sugar levels. Unfortunately porridge is another one that often seems to have this effect, even though it is often recommended as a good food. I read your other posts, and can see how all this must look like a minefield for you at the moment.
Can I make a suggestion? If you're not doing it already, get yourself a meter and self test your blood glucose levels - a cheap meter and test strips can be bought from Amazon, it's called the SD Codefree. As type 2's, we are often told there is no need to test but there really is no other way of finding out what foods affect you. There are lots of good ideas for lower carb foods here
 
Breakfast: Hot chia pudding - strange how something so nice when it's cold is horrible when it's hot.
Lunch (work): 4 bacon grilled and 2 fried eggs
Dinner: Chicken thighs and drumsticks, lettuce, red onion, last of the beefsteak tomatoes and sour cream as a dip
Treat: G&T
 
4ratbags said:
@pam_x_pam if you are feeling hungry you might need to try adding a bit more fat into your diet as you should never feel hungry on LCHF.
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I know that but I need to watch my calorie intake as wel. it makes it that bit harder for me but I will get used to it. I am not even 100% sure if it was real hunger or just my body was of saying -give me carbs- as I managed to stay quiet comfortable till midnight on just black tea (no milk no sugar/sweeter of any kind). I went straight from quiet high carb to 25g a day so I expected something like this. And the headache at the end of the day...oh my
 
Good morning Chook...would you be so kind to tell me where you found the recipe for the chia seed pud? Just the link would be fine.....I've never had this pud & it sounds interesting. I'll report back once I've tried & tested!! Thanks again.
 
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