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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

05.07.2020
CWC
late breakfast, @Goonergal style
Half a pack of cream cheese with lemon curd and more cream mixed in.
( the lemon curd needs eating)
Lunch:
2 slices of toast with duck mousse.
Greek yoghurt with lemon curd and half a teaspoon of honey.
Dinner. Spicy mince, and brocolli rice, bith from the freezer. Runner beans and mangetout from the garden.
Chocolate icecream with cream.
BG before dinner 5.2,, after an hour 8.2. Two hours 5.7.
Picked over a kilo of beans today, fair amount of mangetout as well, but thankfully, only two courgettes.
Managed to blanch and freeze the mangetout. Made new brine for the pickled walnuts that are in process.
The cauliflower cheese bread was delicious. Only downside pan was difficult to clean so be lavish with the butter, when greasing the tin.
 
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Did I forget to say line it, if not fully at least the bottom! Sorry!
 
HSSS said:
Mine. Yeah, I’m always torn between fasting and bacon and eggs. Hope tomorrow feels better.
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Nieuwe haring is the best with a hangover! Fatty, salty, soft, slippery and satisfying. And no carbs either.
I feel so sorry for all you foreigners for not having haring in your country.

But according to this video by a teacher teaching Dutch to expats foreigners seem to like to tackle the day after with anything but haring

edit: I shouldn't have watched the video. I crave a haring so badly now!

 
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Is the "haring" something like the British pickled herring? No 2 son is very fond of that (and it seems to help his IBS), although his wife won't have any fish in the house, it makes her so ill. Neil eats brined, tinned oily fish to help when his Crohn's is bad. So there is something in preserved fish that helps the innards when they are out of sorts.
 
Earlier than usual today - Mr C is working 10am-6pm all this week instead of his normal 2pm-10pm which, for some reason, involved us both getting up a few hours earlier than usual. Getting up early has completely confused the dogs and my digest system and I feel exhausted already.

I haven't managed to bring myself to eat yet but my cunning plan (if I ever feel like eating again) is

Brunch or lunch: scrambled eggs and kimchi on the side (although I might skip this meal completely)

Dinner: some Linda McCartney pulled spicy fake chicken in romaine leaves wraps with a tomato feta and olive side Greek salad and some garlic mayo in the fake chicken lettuce wrap.
 
Had some cold chicken for breakfast. Didn't enjoy it but it filled a gap. Actually didn't enjoy it yesterday either. I did enjoy the mushrooms and could taste them, although the chicken seemed quite tasteless.

Later will be some kind of salad with egg mayo - not sure what, I don't have any lettuce or cucumber, or olives; just cabbage and tomatoes, oh and red onions. Could make it just a tomato salad, but don't even have any basil. Poor me!

Called for my blood test results - everything, apart from HBa1c is good. Dr doubts that the clinic will be starting up any time soon for my bowel issues, although he would refer me if he thought my problems merited it. He doesn't - just avoid the foods that seem to cause problems. He thinks it is more an intolerance problem than a cancer problem. (Odd that, in the past, the idea of food intolerances was pooh-poohed, but now it seems to be an answer to nuisance patients.) The only concern is HBa1c, which is higher than before but he doesn't deal with that so he is referring it to the diabetic clinic and they, apparently, will be in touch. I'll give it a few days to see, and then get in touch with them myself.
 
Yesterday Sunday bed 8.4 (no idea why. Another sudden rise pre bed) FBG 7.5. @SlimLizzy nice to see you back again.
B. TAG and a slice of GF black pudding, 3 rashers of crispy streaky bacon (all air fried) and a fried egg.
L. Nothing
D. Usual campari and soda. Air fried chicken thigh and 2 drumsticks dipped in egg and parmesan. Broad beans and a little grilled halloumi. DGF lemon & Blueberry.

@Chook - it was very gusty here yesterday. I'm beginning to curse Hubby over the new garden furniture. It's rained constantly since it arrived. @DJC3 - I've had another competition win. Nick Jnr this time. £80 worth of Ricky Zoom toys. Still waiting on No 1's lego prize arriving but Ricky Zoom is a No 2 gift. Hubby has asked can I please stop winning toys and win something other than Spam stuff for us!

Edit - I didn't have chicken thighs on Sunday. That was Saturday! It was chicken though. I made chicken cordon bleu. Everything else was correct. Senior moment
 
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Ann - Do you have the results, or your GP's feedback as "good"?

Frankly, in your shoes, as a person who has had an historic cancer diagnosis, and then subsequent changes in bowel movements/activity, I would not be at all happy to be declined a referral.

That would simply not be good enough for me.

When I had breast surgery for a breast tumour (benign, but rare and unusual - Obviously, it was me! I couldn't be typical anything!!), I had further puckering a couple of months later. When I went to see my GP about it, she didn't even want to examine me, she just referred me whilst I was sitting in front of her, for a 2-week appointment.

Whilst I do subscribe with not inflicting problems by eating known irritants, I would want my bowel checked, pronto.

All I will say is I am unaware of any form of cancer that waits..........

Of course, I have a big fat zero idea if your issues are sinister or utterly benign, so please don't think I am trying to panic you.

Right now, today, I'd be organising a second opinion.
 

Well.... the 'feeling exhausted ' was explained by my usual dawn phenomenon just rising and rising because I hadn't eaten any breakfast to put a stop to it. By the time I did manage to force some food down it was 17.3. Fingers crossed it gies down as quickly as it went up.

@maglil55 its perfect drying weather here today - sunny with a breeze.

@Annb I completely agree with @DCUKMod - your health is much too important to worry about upsetting someone from your medical team. From the way I read your post it feels like you are being given a guess instead of a proper diagnosis and that is never good. *hug*
 

That sounds like a fantastic day Goonergal!!!! Perfect. x
 

Just GP feedback - they don't believe in giving patients their actual results. It's obviously me being pathetic, Neil gets all the information he asks for (partly because he actually knows what he is talking about and manages to source lots of information, partly because he is stubborn - one of the advantages of Asperger's). My brother, in Swindon, can get all of his results on the GP's website, now that he is living in Swindon but not when he lived in Canterbury. He's another stubborn (assertive) character, which didn't stop him losing the use of a kidney due to (unprovable) negligence when in Canterbury.

I'll have another go and see if I can get a more helpful GP on the phone. I think they regard me as a bit of a pest and (as I've said before) a bit of a hypochondriac and it's often quite difficult getting beyond the receptionist. It's odd, there must be something about me, as doctors have rarely taken me seriously. When my husband was sick, they couldn't do enough to help, but that was before they started depending on nurse practioners to do the work of doctors.
 
Does anyone know what effect dhal has on BG? I've been looking it up and it seems only about 6 or 8 g carbs per 100 g. But I have a feeling that the effect is greater than that would indicate. I would really like to try adding more pulses to my diet, but am quite unsure.
 
Annb said:
Is the "haring" something like the British pickled herring? No 2 son is very fond of that
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Not at all the same. Yes, it's the same fish, a haring is a herring but the preparation is completely different. I guess you'll have to make a trip to the Netherlands with your grandson to try it, it's usually eaten on the street, while standing
 

Mr C makes lentil dhal as a protein element for me when the rest of my curry meal is low carb and i really enjoy it. I only have a about four level tablespoons of it or my BG goes up too much.

Its this one....

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/3631821/recipe/red-lentil-dhal
 

If you don't get someone more "helpful" on the phone, then make an official complaint.

My brother, who lives in Ayrshire, has sight of all his results, for everything, as well as My Diabetes My Way (I think it's called.). He doesn't necessarily understand them all, but he can see them..MDMW looks like a fabulous system.

I thought everyone in Scotland had access to that, but of course that doesn't cover your other issues.

Ann, Unless Scotland's GDPR arrangements are different (GDPR is EU, not UK legislation), then you have a right to see your record. I believe the only reasons they can justifiably decline is if they believe it would impact your mental health to do so.

That said, it's been a while since I deep dived GDPR, in anger.
 
Hi All
Breakfast today was the usual slice HiLo toast, butter, tea.
Lunch was two slices ham, half avocado, mixed salad. I try every now and again to like avo but I just cant bear the texture, same with smoked salmon, too slimy. Oh well!
Supper will be Bolognese and courgetti.
 
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That sounds like a fantastic day Goonergal!!!! Perfect. x
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Thanks, yes it was great. Could quite easily spend every day that way. Just the small issue of work.....

A hungry day today, no doubt partly stress induced.

Breakfast was my mince, fried eggs, onion and cheese concoction. @Mrs T 123 I took a picture while it was still in the frying pan as it still looks half way presentable then.
Dinner was beef short rib.

Inbetween was extra thick double cream, almond butter and Lindt 90%, so yesterday’s chocolate discussions got me eventually!

 
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Changed my mind about the salad and made ****'a'leekie soup with the remaining chicken and stock from the freezer. Had a bowl at lunchtime and will probably have more later. I'd added some butter and soy sauce at the end to make it a bit more tasty, since I couldn't taste the chicken earlier, @maglil55 - can I call it ****'a'leekie if there's no rice or barley in it, do you think?

Edited to add - sorry, I didn't realise that a male chicken was a bad word, but I see it must be since it has been asterisked out.
 
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