What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Oh...forgot to post my food.

B- fat bomb
S- iced Coffee with heavy cream
L- sautéed chicken sausage, spinach, avocado, and a few cherry tomatoes. Sprinkle of parmesan.
D ( will be) ribeye, sautéed mushrooms, grilled zucchini

vintageutopia said:

Brunneria, thanks for your thoughts. I have recently dropped my carbs to <20 and decreased my protein. I am hungry all the time.

My FB this morning was high...Real high. 154

I don't know what I am doing wrong. During the day I run 90-118.

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Have you heard of Dawn Phenomenon? It gets me every morning.
Have a read of this, and the thread I link to in it, should explain a lot...
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/dawn-phenomenon-numbers.76878/#post-849953
Re the protein and hunger.

Today has been pretty unpleasant. Ended up eating some chips half way through a dog walk, which were delicious, but that is beside the point. I was teetering on the edge of hypo.

This has kind of floored me. For the past year, I have been virtually hypo free. Very low carbing merrily, happy with my diet, my BG. For the first 6 months, I was very slowly losing weight (20 lbs) then the weight loss stopped. I think that was when I introduced protein creep - because I discovered how fab steak was, and started eating it every time we went out, and felt FAB on it, so ate a bit more meat at home, and felt fab on that too...

Now, suddenly, I am cutting back and getting hypos. Maybe it is a touch of carb flu, but if you had asked me, I would have said I was pretty steadily in ketosis, for the last year, with only a day or two, here and there when I wasn't. Will have to give it a couple of weeks and see if things settle.

Today:
B: coffee with lots of cream
L: leftover curry, sugarsnaps, with cream on top. yeah, I know.
S: 9 chips
D: pulled brisket with green beans, strawbs and cream

B: sweet potato pancake with blackberries, Alpro coconut yoghurt & flaxseed
L: 1/2 avocado, tuna mayo, rocket & toasted pine nuts
D: BBQ! Sausage, burger, watercress salad, coleslaw
S: almond butter "millionaire slice"

All very tasty!

B: Bowl of Greek yoghurt, 1 boiled egg
snack: Brazil nuts
Late L: a few olives, tuna, green bean and chick pea salad with cornichons, tomatoes and caperberries
D: bits and bobs - 2 oatcakes with cream cheese and home-made guacamole, walnuts, satsuma, pile of shell-on sunflower seeds (crick crack)

Brunneria said:

@Heathenlass may be able to help with oven temps and times.
She does a lot of DIY baking, being coeliac and a domestic shield maiden.

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From the kitchen of the " Domestic Shield Maiden":

( Named. " Mufpit " because of the oval shape of the shallow dishes I use, it makes them pitta shaped "


Mufpit in a short time . makes 1


15g Butter, melted
1 Beaten egg
1 Tbsp coconut flour
1Tbsp ground flaxseed
1/2 tsp baking powder
Lge pinch salt.
Sweetner to taste ( optional )

melt at the butter, then add the dry ingredients, mixing well.
Add the egg and give it a good mix.
Pour the mix in to a suitable oven safe container, I use a small individual oval shaped dish about 7" long, because it comes out a sandwich sized pitta shape :

Bake for 20 mins or so at 200c until well risen and golden
the microwave version of this didn't turn out too well for me, pale and not rising too well. You can add other things to this mix, but it affects the end result when I try it .
2.5g carb per Mufpit


Lotsa Muffins , Cheese .


55g Full Fat ( of course!) Greek yoghurt
55g melted butter
2 beaten eggs
85g ground almonds
1.5 tsp baking powder
50g grated cheddar
Ground black pepper.


Mix the dry ingredients well
add the yoghurt and the beaten egg, mix thoroughly .
Pour into muffin cases ( I use paper ones inside a metal tray)
Bake for around 20 minutes at 180c.


Makes six. 2.9g carb fer cheesy muffin. They freeze really well , so often I double the quantities .
Gorgeous buttered !


Signy

Susikav said:

Ahhhh, of course... you need sugar to make the yeast work... I've only been making bread for about 45 years... I never gave the sugar a thought... and I always am in a hurry for it - you're right...

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My findings are that you can indeed make low carb bread using yeast, the sugar used in the recipe is metabolised by the yeast, so it doesn't really have an impact on the carb count . There are some very good yeast using recipes for low carb bread using vital wheat gluten, which unfortunately is a no no for me, for others who have no problems with gluten say taste very bread like.

When using milled linseed, nut and coconut flours, I also add half a teaspoon or so ( depending on the quantity of the ingredients ) of Xanthan gum, which helps it hold its rise during the baking process. Xanthan gum can be found on the " free from" section in most supermarkets these days.

Signy

kateincornwall said:

A slice of toast, by mistake

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I like ''mistakes'' like that

Breakfast One ryvita and a piece of cheese
Lunch tin of tuna with tomato
Tea will be lamb steak with spring greens , broccoli , few carrots and onion gravy
and with a bit of luck, nothing else

two cups of black coffee
two small packs of peanuts
one tablespoon of butter
one large bar of milk chocolate (with stevia)

B: boiled egg, 2 oatcakes with hummus
L: 1 leg chicken, loads of cauliflower with some cheese, half a sweet potato
snack: some more of that cauli
D: asparagus and mayo

msmi1970 said:

two cups of black coffee
two small packs of peanuts
one tablespoon of butter
one large bar of milk chocolate (with stevia)

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Do you like the stevia choc? I find there is a bitter aftertaste with stevia, and I never know whether it is me, or the stevia.

Just started carb counting and sugar levels have dropped
Porridge and a slice of toast
Cottage cheese, celery stick, 3 baby toms, and a handful of cold bacon strips
Lamb cauliflower with cheese, sm amount potato and small Yorkshire pud.

Hope sugar levels keep going down b 4 lunch 12.5. B 4 tea 6.5

Breakfast ...Coffee
Lunch One slice of Burgen Soya and Linseed bread with 2 poached eggs ....(only 11 g of carb so don't yell at me lol )...coffee
Dinner 2 egg ham and cheese omelette cooked in butter with sliced tomato and radishes as a side...coffee
50g of Fromage Frais (2g carb) with cinnamon

Ummm not sure but I think thats an ok day ....aiming for LCHF way of eating

B: scram egg n bacon, small latte made with milk

S: LC chai latte, made with cinnamon, pumpkin puree, double cream and erythritol. Not bad at all, but used bought chai tea bags. Will have to brew my own. Used an online recipe, but the method seemed a ridiculous phaff. So I just brewed the tea in a teapot and whisked the other ingredients into the hot tea. Mr B approved. May become a regular treat.

D: stirfried chicken livers, green beans, mini corn and mini carrots and broccoli, in rosemary and cream. Strawberries and more cream.

May have to have another chai latte later.

5 days of less protein and I've lost the 1.5lbs I had gained, although I realise that is hardly an accurate measurement!

b; L/O spicy chicken liver, sour daikon

L: salad with avocado, radishes, chicory with mayo; meat from the stock bones (made bone broth)

D: cottage pie topped with cauli mash; it contained little carrot and peas, and loads of mushrooms, beef mince obv., and 2 hours later BG=6.0. I was expecting a lower value, as my whole portion (including a green salad with a few drops of balsamic vinegar) came to 25 g carbs... I might have to keep to just protein plus salad; 2 hours after lunch BG=5.1

Brunneria said:

Do you like the stevia choc? I find there is a bitter aftertaste with stevia, and I never know whether it is me, or the stevia.

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Hi Brunneria,

It's actually a mix of stevia & erythritol. the dark chocolate actually has a little aftertaste but it's fine with me..the milk chocolate does not. However, i am going to swear off this for as long as i can. not so much a cravings issue as a habit/binging issue which raises absolute havoc with my blood sugar.

finished the last few cubes with my coffee...*imaginary line drawn*...

msmi1970 said:

Hi Brunneria,

It's actually a mix of stevia & erythritol. the dark chocolate actually has a little aftertaste but it's fine with me..the milk chocolate does not. However, i am going to swear off this for as long as i can. not so much a cravings issue as a habit/binging issue which raises absolute havoc with my blood sugar.

finished the last few cubes with my coffee...*imaginary line drawn*...

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*. Nods understandingly. *

Plan for today:
B- 1 oz sharp cheddar & walnuts, coffee with cream
L- avocado, salsa, sour cream, 2 slices crumbled bacon and red pepper slices to dip in it
S- 1/2 c. cottage cheese
D- grilled ribeye and grilled zucchini with a sprinkle of parmesan

If anyone would care to make comments or suggestions, I am all ears!

Breakfast yoghurt with berries
Lunch two hardboiled eggs with mayo and salad
Tea will be bacon, sausage, toms and mushrooms .

B: Whole Earth crunchy peanut butter on 1 slice of Hovis wholemeal seed sensation toast, half a grapefruit.
S: 2 squares of 85% chocolate.
L: Salad of rocket, watercress, spinach, Parma ham, parmesan shavings, walnuts and runner beans dressed with olive oil and lemon juice.
D: Pan fried hake with ratatouille and 2 small Jersey royal spuds.