Who are you and what have you done with @Rachox? Sunday and no jaffa cake - call Poirot asap.Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch at my parents house: cold meat, cheese and salmon with salad followed by Greek yoghurt, coffee chia pudding and LC chocolate granola which I took with me.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a raspberry phd bar at a cliff top cafe, looking out at a very misty rainy seascape.
Dinner back home: cheesy scrambled eggs followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
No idea what "rating" to give that. Full of optimism but also hug worthy for another problem of which you weren't aware. I am delighted for you by your success in controlling bg - hope for even me. I especially envy the food choices your hard work allows you to make. I would be so comfortable with that hot pot. Take care, recover well. Your post made a very cynical old man a little more hopeful - so have a winner rating.Hi All still here still recovering, but have been doing consistent food tests. Found out a lentil hot pot with both butternut squash, sweet potato and red lentils and tomato dosen't spike me at all, With a total of about 30 carbs per serving, but with a good 9 grams of fiber. My lovely mum made a big batch and brought it down because I am sick, so happy I can eat it.
Also Before lunch today 3.9
Lunch: Two white corn tortilla, 60g hummus, mustard, 100g sauerkraut, 100g cucumber, 100g tomato. But look 188g raw ripe pear. With a while coffee with 30ml milk, and normal herbal tea. After 1 hour: 5.2, after 2 hour 4.8. The pear is trying to deal with the "gut issue", the fiber, pectin and sorbitol in a pear might help. I will have to end up seeing a gastroenterologist probably at this point. No spike I can eat pears, also no spike from 1.5 halves of fresh apricots from my parents garden either. So pears are a go to eat. wow, just wow. Also there is a lovely blue dinosaur protein bar I can eat that dosen't spike me, aussie made, nothing artificial.https://www.bluedinosaur.com.au/store/products/BDPROCDX12/cookie-dough-protein-bar-x-12
Recovery is slow, and another issue with a possible hernia I never knew about saw me back in emergency today, if it doesn't rain it pours, but at least I know what I can eat.
Glad I could make you more hopeful, always nice to be able to do something. And yes the lentil hotpot is amazing, it also has green beans in it as well. Easy to make and freeze. Fruit won't be a regular occurrence for except for berries in my porridge, but at the moment pears and prunes and having to make an appearance and glad to know they don't spike me.No idea what "rating" to give that. Full of optimism but also hug worthy for another problem of which you weren't aware. I am delighted for you by your success in controlling bg - hope for even me. I especially envy the food choices your hard work allows you to make. I would be so comfortable with that hot pot. Take care, recover well. Your post made a very cynical old man a little more hopeful - so have a winner rating.
Ah, you don't know my baseline level of hope and how little it would take to raise that. No cream cheese, chaffle or Montizuma in there so passed the first test with flying coloursGlad I could make you more hopeful, always nice to be able to do something. .
Oh Ann it would be a lonelier place without you. I never felt you were moaning if anything your fortitude with all your health challenges and all you did for others inspired me and often made me pick myself up. I hope you stay around. Best wishes.Wonder of wonders - I got an appointment with a GP tomorrow - a cancellation freed up a 10 minute slot. I hadn't realised I was being such a pain and I apologise to everyone on the forum who've waded through my comments, stories and moans. Shan't do it again. Actually, I don't think I'm either adding or gaining anything from posting so I shall stop. Best wishes to you all and hopefully good health in the future.
Who are you and what have you done with @Rachox? Sunday and no jaffa cake - call Poirot asap.
Oh Ann it would be a lonelier place without you. I never felt you were moaning if anything your fortitude with all your health challenges and all you did for others inspired me and often made me pick myself up. I hope you stay around. Best wishes.
Some good news, promising ideas and absolute drivel about us not missing you. Sort it out.You are all very kind and supportive. I'm not really angry about having diabetes - just at myself for letting it happen - ignorance, of course. Good news from today's appointment is 1) my kidney function is returning to something like normal for my age 2) my liver is no worse than it was last time 3) haemoglobin level has returned to where it ought to be. So that shows I have been doing something right. Iron is still low, but I think that has been the case for most of my life and hasn't harmed me yet.
As expected Dr didn't want to part with printed evidence ("we don't do that - too much information isn't a good thing when you don't understand it"), she also doesn't approve of lchf but recommends calorie counting. She also recommends that I take in more fluids in the morning and reduce it later in the day so that I don't have to get up in the night and find myself on the floor and to change my days for going out so that I don't have to abstain from diuretics 2 days in a row. I wonder if my friend will be able to change the days of children's classes - there was some thought of a different day for the troublesome boys in the group. That might work.
Some ideas I will follow up from the GP then - others I'll ignore. I shall at least linger around this forum - I've realised today that I would miss you all - even if you don't miss me.
Sorry to hear about the hernia you are certainly being challenged so you deserve all those meals not causing a spike. Right now you need nourishment to repair everything and I hope and pray for a good recovery all round. Take care, best wishes to you.Hi All still here still recovering, but have been doing consistent food tests. Found out a lentil hot pot with both butternut squash, sweet potato and red lentils and tomato dosen't spike me at all, With a total of about 30 carbs per serving, but with a good 9 grams of fiber. My lovely mum made a big batch and brought it down because I am sick, so happy I can eat it.
Also Before lunch today 3.9
Lunch: Two white corn tortilla, 60g hummus, mustard, 100g sauerkraut, 100g cucumber, 100g tomato. But look 188g raw ripe pear. With a while coffee with 30ml milk, and normal herbal tea. After 1 hour: 5.2, after 2 hour 4.8. The pear is trying to deal with the "gut issue", the fiber, pectin and sorbitol in a pear might help. I will have to end up seeing a gastroenterologist probably at this point. No spike I can eat pears, also no spike from 1.5 halves of fresh apricots from my parents garden either. So pears are a go to eat. wow, just wow. Also there is a lovely blue dinosaur protein bar I can eat that dosen't spike me, aussie made, nothing artificial.https://www.bluedinosaur.com.au/store/products/BDPROCDX12/cookie-dough-protein-bar-x-12
Recovery is slow, and another issue with a possible hernia I never knew about saw me back in emergency today, if it doesn't rain it pours, but at least I know what I can eat.
@Annb pleased you managed to see Dr and had some good news but sounds like an old fashioned GP re you not having your results written down to look at!You are all very kind and supportive. I'm not really angry about having diabetes - just at myself for letting it happen - ignorance, of course. Good news from today's appointment is 1) my kidney function is returning to something like normal for my age 2) my liver is no worse than it was last time 3) haemoglobin level has returned to where it ought to be. So that shows I have been doing something right. Iron is still low, but I think that has been the case for most of my life and hasn't harmed me yet.
As expected Dr didn't want to part with printed evidence ("we don't do that - too much information isn't a good thing when you don't understand it"), she also doesn't approve of lchf but recommends calorie counting. She also recommends that I take in more fluids in the morning and reduce it later in the day so that I don't have to get up in the night and find myself on the floor and to change my days for going out so that I don't have to abstain from diuretics 2 days in a row. I wonder if my friend will be able to change the days of children's classes - there was some thought of a different day for the troublesome boys in the group. That might work.
Some ideas I will follow up from the GP then - others I'll ignore. I shall at least linger around this forum - I've realised today that I would miss you all - even if you don't miss me.
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