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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

We have just done our online shopping, we got everything we needed except my Spudlites as they are out of stock. The reason is most probably the bushfires interrupting supplies from the Zarella Farms in South Australia.

I have a couple bags still in the fridge so they will be rationed out, I will just have to eat more real meat to fill up on.

We got a few tins of spuds that are lowish in carbs, just in case...

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/373818/woolworths-potato-whole
 
Evening...
Had a pear for breakfast. Tested and no rise in BG. Thoughts? Is that likely? I'll try another tomorrow. I really miss fruit it turns out!

Lunch
Oompf with mixed veg and a bit of cheese.

Dinner
Ribs with roasted veg

Caved and had a slice of Christmas cake.

Husband has maintained a fairly low carb diet this week but with masses of fruit. As this is a huge improvement on his diet of dominoes and icecream I'll wean him off later if needs be!
Hes also lost 8 lbs!
 
Pears are pretty low GI at 38, and have a bit of fibre. I would have paired it with some nut butter to be safe, but if you can cope with just a plain pear then yay for you.
 
Hello all,

@DJC3 -- hope you are feeling a bit better. Best wishes for tomorrow.
@Chook -- Chocolate mousse is quite easy. Separate the yolks of 6 eggs from the egg whites. Beat yolks with half a cup of sweetener (I use erythritol), whip the egg whites with a pinch of salt. Melt 125g of butter on low temperature, add 100g of high cocoa content chocolate (you can also replace the chocolate with cocoa powder instead), let it cool a bit and then carefully mix with egg yolks, once blended, fold the mixture into whipped egg whites while trying to preserve as much volume as possible.
@Winnie-the-Pooh -- Thanks for the yum, yum, yum.
@maglil55 -- the buffalo chicken looks delicious, same goes for the carrot cake, @Rachox.
 
Kind of hungry most of the day, so kept grazing.

Today's food ...

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol. Half a pide with spinach, onion and feta. A chicken wiener.

Snack: A smallish piece of Sacher torte.

Lunch: Half a DD keto roll with butter and bresaola. American style red cabbage slaw.

Dinner: Chicken liver pate (120g), two packages of chicken cracklings, about 20 macadamias.
 
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08-01-2020
FBG 6.1 but came down after an hour so had small breakfast.
CWC x2 nut granola.
Lunch one slice toast ham, salad. Added mayonnaise and c heese to make it more filling. Sadly had bought the wrong mayo. Strong mustard flavour surprise. Tea.
Dinner. MrSlim worked late so meal pushed back as well.
Chicken leg. Cauliflower and brocolli, carrots and leeks. Gravy. Then a piece of French cheesecake. Much lighter and less sweet than British version, with no biscuit base, means it just squeaks into allowable foods at 28g per slice.
2 glasses of San blanc
Bedtime tea. Managed only one round of remedial exercises but after a week can now hold the two most uncomfortable for five times a count of five. Improvement from 3 @ 3 seconds.
Have also noticed slight increase in range of movement.
Building work is moving on really well now. The upstairs spaces are insulated and have ceilings. The replacement windows are in. Rooms have been marked out and construction of walls has started. It's all very exciting.
My daughter phoned. She plans to visit in the summer. We will need three bedrooms for her family. Crack on guys.
 
maglil55 said:
If the egg/veggie thing wasn't made by you it's possible there could be something carby in it. Also mash and banana are two things that would send my BGs shooting up. I find berries are a better choice. Do you test to see the effect of various foods?
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That makes sense . Yes my GCM tells me how i react to food but I need to eat each item I’m suspecting about alone . Today I was better .
 
Today :

Breakfast: Half an egg with one spoon of beans and pieces of cheese for breakfast - and black coffee

Lunch : 2 small pieces of steak , some veggies

Snack : a string cheese

Dinner plan : will have sausage and green leaves .
Dessert: raspberry

Alternative plan: Might bbq my teddy bear and eat him (joking but he is too cute so I’m tempted )

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Heres my confessional of my abject failure of low carb diet,

breakfast: half tin peaches(no juice), bacon(no nitrates), wholemeal bread and jam(not of to s good star)

lunch: pork loin and carrots. yeah no potatoes

bored at work: bottle coke and big packet of crisps ( all downhill from here)

still bored: 2 apple and a pear.

dinner: 2 bacon steaks & salad

snacks: peppermint tea instead of milk&tea (small victory)

just before bed: half a packet of bourbon biscuits, brought on by depression from watching youtube diabetes vids

Tomorrow will succeed.....
 

We all have those days . Even my Endocrinologist told me : “let yourself to enjoy every once in a while ( like a bday or festival or when u feel u emotionally need it . It’s ok as long as it does not happen too often)” .
So when I have those days that I crave something bad, I don’t regret it . Instead I enjoy it and try to be good the next days or weeks .

What I find annoying most is when I accidentally eat something that is meant to be healthy and low carb / low sugar but it’s not . Then I feel I’m cheated out of my potential cream puffs - because I could have otherwise eaten a cream puff, which is my ultimate life goal

If I get bored at work or tired or overwhelmed or just need a break , I often have a lemon tea or nuts or cheese or keto snacks ( ***** bears with no sugar and no carb ). Or I just go and talk to a colleague about some random idea or go for a walk around campus . Worst case , I txt my bf a really scary vampire picture and he pretends that he is so scared so I feel good and go back to work .
 

DJC3 - bearing in mind it seems you have a big appointment (today?), you've likely also been seeing some stress impact on both your bloods, and maybe a little on the tum too?

Stress is vile, and not always possible to control, in an acute phase.

Huge best wishes for your appointment.

On a lighter side, when I moved into one house, I had been camping out with friends for a while, pending "big work" being completed. Typically it took longer than anticipated, and I ended up moving in with a deckchair, and bed, with a few boxes out of storage, and the companionship of a cement mixer in the living room.

That cement mixer was a decent listener and knew all y frustrations - only one of which was it.

(All before the days of MrB.)
 
Today 09/01/2020
Breakfast: 45g rolled oats, 4 blackberries (38g), 50g full fat greek yoghurt, 22g protein peanut butter
Lunch: 91g sprouted bread (1 and a half slices, I need to slice it myself), 40g hummus, 158g raw tomato, 48g 50% reduced fat cheese, 80g pepperberry sauerkraut
Dinner: Stir fry that I divided into three, water sauteed vegetables with a bit of lemon pepper seasoning salt consisted of mushrooms, carrot, snowpeas, green capsicum and onion. With two boiled eggs and an egg white. Lets see how my stomach goes, it's improving and eggs are a nice protein source, I still can't stomach meat.
 
I've heard about sprouted bread but agree at $12 a loaf never brought it.I'll be interested in how you find it.
 
Chook said:
Not much makes me laugh out loud but that did!
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I was just amazed what I could learn to live with for a while. The other "special feature" was a wall mounted gas fire that looked too similar for comfort, like a dalek .

I could not decide what I wanted to do (aside be rid of it), so ended up accepting I'd not rush the job.

Several months, yes, months, visitors would end up transfixed by it if the called. I had just learned to ignore it. They were undoubtedly questioning what on earth I saw as attractiveness with the thing.

It is now very, very long gone.
 
After a night with torrential rain we've had a beautiful sunny morning and now at 2pm the sky has gone such a dark grey that it seems almost dark. Very strange.

I'm just getting over having a teary moment after watching an item on the BBC news at lunchtime - someone decided the best way to get rid of their dog was by tying it to a rock by the side of a river where (I think) they thought it would drown. Thank goodness a couple of dog walkers noticed and saved her. Absolutely horrible.

My BGs are getting better - last night's bedtime test was 7.2 and this morning's FBG was 7.3 - better than yesterday's 9.1! Getting there... VERY slowly... but getting there. I've got my annual blood test for HbA1c and other stuff early next week but I doubt I'll have a low result this time like I have before. No doubt the DN will try to talk me in using insulin (again) and taking statins (which happens every time and every time I refuse). That is, of course, if it is a DN or not just the cleaner like it was last time. (I call her the cleaner because she didn't know anything about diabetes and just kept clicking things off on her computer screen - every time I asked her a question she told me to make an appointment with the doctor )

Today's food was/will be:

B: Mozzarella chaffle with a heaped teaspoon of almond butter
L: The last of the Christmas dolce gorgonzola with a few cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices
D: Not 100% sure yet but most likely to be something light like a 2 x egg mayonnaise salad with cress and a few salad veggies. I'm finding that I'm just not feeling hungry in the evenings.

Drinks: 2 huge mugs of black decaff coffee, diet caffeine free Pepsi with meds, plenty of water and maybe a glass or two of carb free lime tonic.

@maglil55 - so how many eggs did you order for your first week of DD? Not 4 dozen like last time, I hope? I must try to find that old thread - every time I think about it I don't understand why I ordered so much cabbage for just one week - I can't believe I ever thought I would be able to eat it all. In fact its pretty much put me off (green) cabbage - we only have it if Mr C requests it now (which is rare). @Brunneria - do you remember this??
 

I've had to live in building sites three times - twice without working kitchens for six months or more. I think back and wonder why on earth I was thinkinig to do something so daft when my daughter was just two years old the first time and 7 years old the second time! The first one I moved in to in a November and none of the windows fitted and no loft insulation so it was absolutely freezing. I had those dalek like calor gas heaters everywhere and the windows ran with condensation. Its amazing how quickly I forgot about the hardships and did it all over again - and then again many years later. The second time I managed to get the cooker fitted on Christmas Eve which was a relief as I had been having nightmares about having to BBQ the turkey.
 
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