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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

PenguinMum said:
@ianpspurs hope the virus doesnt get too bad and doesnt last long. Distant hugs.
@Annb hope your hospital appointment went well and you enjoy supper. @DJC3 that doesnt look like much food today. Just seen the weather map and hope you are battening down the hatches. This crazy weather.
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I saw a nurse at the hospital who was puzzled by my latest foot problems - "it's odd", she reckons. Well - I could have told her that. It's me after all. Everything about me is odd. I have to try and watch for a pattern before my next appointment in 3 months.

Slightly changed plan - I just decided to cook all the wings in the pack along with some butternut squash, so I used the oven instead. Tasted great and lots left over to crisp up in the AF tomorrow.

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ianpspurs said:
B= tea at 5.20 (woke @ 4.20 today) later Boursin type cheese roule on skinny bread toast - just because - lots more tea; L = tuna and salmon sashimi and 40 gms kaltbach; Eve = scrambled eggs on skinny bread toast with 20 gms? grated cheddar, 20 gms Dr Almond milk chocolate. Food ok but readings up all day due to cold/virus/man flu. Today could have gone very wrong so pleased with where I ended up. Not at all happy with how this is working atm but like the Bear Hunt story it seems I'll just have to go through it.

Quelle surprise. (Is the skinny bread any good with yeast?):angelic:
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Hope you get over your virus soon, Ian.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: tuna melts followed by Greek yoghurt, raspberries and macadamia and coconut keto granola.
Mid afternoon: coffee chia pudding and black coffee.
Dinner: coconut and lemongrass chicken stir fry followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
 
Chook said:
This will be my last post for a few days - my nearly 90 y/o Mother in Law passed away yesterday evening and we are going over to Wigan to sort out her house, etc, so no broadband. She went very peacefully between bites of her dinner which she was enjoying. Unfortunately because of the recent move from hospital to nursing home the Police were called (!) and she now has to have a PM. (I really don't understand why this is and it is the need for the PM that is upsetting everyone - we are just so glad it was a peaceful end for her.)

Anyway.... yesterday was

Tuesday bed: 6.1

Wednesday FBG: 8.0 - it seems the lower my BG is when I go to bed, the higher it is the next morning!
Breakfast: Savoury chaffle, 100g beans, 2 fried eggs
2 hours later: 9.2

Lunch: 5.5
Lunch was advent calendar cheese
2 hours later: 5.5

Dinner: 5.5
Dinner was roast butternut square, roast aubergine and roast garlic with feta crumbled over
2 hours later: 6.6

Interim reading (an hour after receiving news about MIL) 15.8

Bed time: 7.0
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Just spotted this on quick read @Chook please accept my condolences sounds sudden but at the same time peaceful a real shame about the PM. It’s also amazing isn’t it how the bgs react to stressful and emotive situations. All my highs these days are down to stress rather than food as eat LC.
Do take care of yourself we’re thinking of you - big hugs from me x
 
Hi all just quickly wanted to wish all on this thread a happy Christmas - let’s hope it’s a peaceful one for us all.
I’m needing to take a break from regular food recording but hoping to be back to it after Christmas.
I’m still in recovery from the dental stuff (but getting back to normal) but just too much to do. I made plans a while back for various good stuff including a party for mums 89th this coming weekend - so Im hectic with all the other stuff!
Have a fun Christmas and hope everyone manages some treats - low carb of course! My plans include a birthday cake for mum made from rounds of cheese and a star shaped cheese for the top........
 
shelley262 said:
Hi all just quickly wanted to wish all on this thread a happy Christmas - let’s hope it’s a peaceful one for us all.
I’m needing to take a break from regular food recording but hoping to be back to it after Christmas.
I’m still in recovery from the dental stuff (but getting back to normal) but just too much to do. I made plans a while back for various good stuff including a party for mums 89th this coming weekend - so Im hectic with all the other stuff!
Have a fun Christmas and hope everyone manages some treats - low carb of course! My plans include a birthday cake for mum made from rounds of cheese and a star shaped cheese for the top........
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Lovely to hear from you and completely understandable about the break. Have a great Christmas and enjoy the party. Tough lot that generation. We have a 90th for MIL on Jan 5th. When Julie called in yesterday she was reupholstering chairs and she still drives. 2 replacement hip replacements and a new knee in the last 5 years.
 
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So I've tappered weekly from 100mls x 4 daily hydrocortisone infusions and down to tablets prednisone steroids to 40mg to 30mg and now 20mg. And yesterday started 120MG MR diamicron as advised by the diabetic educator this morning my BSL was 5.2 mmol/L before breakfast 6 hours later it was 11.2mmol/l. All I had for breakfast was scrambled eggs with some cream cooked in ghee with a few slices of red capscium and black coffee. I then went shopping at around 2pm and around 4pm tested my BSL was 11.2 mmol/L but hadn't eaten since this morning mmmmm. I was told that it takes a few days before I may notice any difference in medication so fingers crosed. When I came home about 5ish i had some plunger coffee that I had partially frozen in the freezer so blitzed it with some cream oh and a sneaky scoop of icecream for lunch Was so refreshing. Dinner I made steak with babaganish grilled broccoli with sour cream basil pesto sauce and fruit with cream. I also drank some coconut water as feeling dehydrated so needed to replenish my body.

I forgot to test my BSL before dinner but just tested now its 8.7 mmol/L and will retest before bed tonight. Although I'm still hungry because of prednisone my today's meals especially dinner has filled me up so hopefully no more more cravings.
Photos cooking my eggplant

And mt breakfast today

And the red sun yesterday afternoon the sky was very smokey from the fires here in NSW and extremely hot weather. The photo doesn't really shoe how red the sun was though. We are on toral fire bans for the rest of the week.

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Up before 4am today, having gone to bed before 7pm! Had brunch around 10am and now suitably stuffed. Carnivore pizza with wafer thin pepperoni and Polish sausage followed by a dessert made of leftover frosting from some cakes I made for work (cream, whipped creamy cheese, lemon zest and juice, xylitol) and some Hotel Chocolat 70% ‘tiddly’ chocolate drops. Parcel due today, wondering whether to gamble and go out!

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Rachox said:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: tuna melts followed by Greek yoghurt, raspberries and macadamia and coconut keto granola.
Mid afternoon: coffee chia pudding and black coffee.
Dinner: coconut and lemongrass chicken stir fry followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
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Coconut and lemongrass chicken sounds good
 
Chook said:
This will be my last post for a few days - my nearly 90 y/o Mother in Law passed away yesterday evening and we are going over to Wigan to sort out her house, etc, so no broadband. She went very peacefully between bites of her dinner which she was enjoying. Unfortunately because of the recent move from hospital to nursing home the Police were called (!) and she now has to have a PM. (I really don't understand why this is and it is the need for the PM that is upsetting everyone - we are just so glad it was a peaceful end for her.)

Anyway.... yesterday was

Tuesday bed: 6.1

Wednesday FBG: 8.0 - it seems the lower my BG is when I go to bed, the higher it is the next morning!
Breakfast: Savoury chaffle, 100g beans, 2 fried eggs
2 hours later: 9.2

Lunch: 5.5
Lunch was advent calendar cheese
2 hours later: 5.5

Dinner: 5.5
Dinner was roast butternut square, roast aubergine and roast garlic with feta crumbled over
2 hours later: 6.6

Interim reading (an hour after receiving news about MIL) 15.8

Bed time: 7.0
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Sorry to hear about your mother in law. Its hard especially at this time of year. Do take care.

My sister passed 19 November this years so its been a sad time for all of my family.
 
Love the reindeer @Goonergal

forgot to post yesterday on account of being deeply embroiled in a new SF space opera which I am (surprisingly) deeply enjoying.
First of a series, too *rubs hands together in anticipation*

day before:
B: bone broth
L: prawns and oomi noodles in cream and garlic
D: chicken kebabs marinaded in pesto and parmesan. With more garlic.

yesterday:
B: bone broth and LC Hot Choc
L: a small bag Kettles crisps (Bad B) and some Wensleydale
D: homemade beef burglars, with cheese and chilli. Then more Wensleydale. Then more. Then a protein shake at bedtime.

definitely an eating day. I blame the weather.

today:
B: a three egg scramble with chorizo, onion and smoked garlic
L: will not be needed
D: plans afoot for a takeaway delivery, which will inevitably be a low carb curry option for me.
 
Vam chakra reacted well to DGF chocolate orange brownie at least taste wise - very surprised but happy. However, what do I count as the carbs the 8.8 in the table or the quoted 1.8 impact carbs? If I blink I'll miss 'em but taste is what I strongly associate with Christmas. Christmas is all about hope so who knows, this woe may have some more mileage.
 
Goonergal said:
What does the meter say - that’s the more important number IMHO
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It lies and is third cousin distantly related to lab numbers so kinda waste of money and blood IMHO but I take your point however academic in my case, I think I eat to my meter but the lab doesn't.
 
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@shelley262 it’s great to hear from you again and know you are still ok and battling on. It’s not surprising and completely understandable you are taking a bit of a break from the forum. Hope all goes well with the party, have a lovely Christmas.
@annabell1 we’ve been listening to the worrying news from your neck of the woods, it’s terrible. Your photo of the red sun looks like something from a Sci fi movie. Your food sounds lovely, well done for sticking with it in spite of your recent medical problems and current meds. Thanks for posting about the frozen coffee and cream blitzed together. Coffee ice cream was always my favourite and this sounds like it might do very nicely!
 
@annabell1 - the news from Australia is terrible, especially about those volunteer firefighters, but awful for everyone there. Love the sound of your food, especially the coffee cream. Keep hoping that things will improve with your health - right enough, it does take time for some medication to have a real effect. Don't lose heart and keep up the good work.

@shelley262 have a very happy Christmas and enjoy your time away. I hope your tooth problems resolve themselves soon. I still haven't made an appointment to get something done about my broken tooth. Coward that I am.

Had the remaining reroasted wings at about 2 pm with the also reroasted butternut squash. I think it was all even better second time around. Feeling a bit peckish but don't know what to have this evening. Could be sausages - perhaps pigs in blankets or maybe just some cheese would do. I have a request for some roasted butternut squash soup (with coconut milk) for my friend's lunch party on Sunday, which I am in the process of making just now - maybe just steal a bit out of that. But maybe too much butternut squash in one 24 hour period. Can't decide.
 
Tea for breakfast ; 2 x 5 gms crackling + 20 gms mexicana cheese; DGF chocolate orange brownie with CWC - better than millionaires shortbread but oh, so insubstantial; Egg sandwich (skinny bread) with 4 cherry toms - lunch; Evening: celeriac chips (even air fryer can't make those work) mushroom and stuffed chicken thigh casserole. Like sports teams which should perform better - the whole never matches the sum of the parts either for pleasure or performance. Whatever the food equivalent of a "water carrier" is it is missing atm.
ETA: Chunk of cheddar after evening meal to attempt to fill the hole and lots of tea during the day.
 
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