Annb
Expert
So sorry to hear about the explosion in Beirut and that you have family nearby. Hope and pray they are safe. The pictures on the news were awful. Poor souls there.
so i am so shocked with what has happened in Lebanon Beruit. I have family there and I do know one of my relatives have lost their apartment but luckily they were away on the day so were not home. and my family on my mother side have heard that no one has been hurt but not sure about my fathers side but must of my family are in the villages so pray that they are all okay. the country has been through so much it is very sad. can 2020 please start showing some healing to the world now I think it is time for the world to heal please Lord.
my meals last few days Wednesday breakfast/brunch wasn't feeling like I could eat so made an almond milk and a frozen banana chocolate shake
dinner for some reason had a craving for baked beans I haven't eaten them for years so went up the road and brought a few tins and had baked beans on cheese sourdough toast I just needed comfort food I think after hearing what happened in Lebanon.
Thursday breakfast slice of sour dough bread and scrambled eggs black coffee
dinner made butter chicken with basmati rice
not low carb meals of late and have noticed my psoriasis is flaring up again so I am thinking that I am overdoing the bread surprisingly my BSL have been okay and I've even lowered my diamacron to 30 mr
tonight watched the 2020 fat fiction movie on your tube it was interesting but a lot of fact checking needs to be made on some of the facts such as the low fat diet as it is my understanding is that the low fat diet actually in 1961 when fist introduced to USA was for people who had health issues such as heart health overweight and diabetes etc., it was not initially pushed as the diet for everyone and to seek medical advise when changing their diet. but somewhere along the way this was then changed when the American dietary guidance, initially intended for a clinical population, became part of public health nutrition policy that is when dietary changes for everyone started to become pushed onto everyone that the craze of low fat diet become the dietary guidelines and everyone started following this way of eating. another interesting fact is Ancel Keys study was fatally flawed upon multiple levels but he lived to 100 and died 2 months before he would of turned 101 years of age and followed a Mediterranean Diet.
lets help that as the years go on more studies and proof that lchf DIET are good for health and more doctors dietitians and guidelines start moving back to what we use to eat before HCLF diet took over the world.
Thanks very much and, no, I don't carb count and dose accordingly. I just try to reduce carbs to a minimum and find I still need to take a fairly large dose of insulin.
Today, BG was better than usual and I've been working hard (for me) shifting furniture and dismantling an old IKEA chest of drawers. Then Neil decided he could fix it so I had to clean it instead of breaking it up. So, I've been on my feet for a long time and my legs and back are in agony. Started to feel really bad and decided to check BG. It had dropped to 4.2. 2 digestive biscuits and cup of tea made me feel better, so it should be up again. I'll check it in a little while.
I had sardines in oil at 2 pm with a couple of Atkins crackerbread slices, rather than Neil's salted fish. I just didn't fancy it, but the sardines seemed to work as well. Not hungry yet but I'll make my salad and have it some time this evening.
Evening all.
Three meals today as woke up very hungry.
Breakfast was salami and chorizo followed by whipped creamy cheese.
Lunch at my boss’s house as we needed to work on a load of stuff. Had intended to order Nando’s but they weren’t delivering so had some scrambled eggs with bacon and cheese. Narrowly avoided some Elmlea going into the mix....
Dinner was mince fried with onions, 2 eggs and some grated cheese.
My cancelled New York trip (should have been in a couple of weeks time) has me thinking about all things stateside and my mind wandered onto @zauberflote . Wonder how she’s doing?
I do hope everything is OK. I've not caught up on the posts yet so hopefully there is good news.Good morning all
Just waiting to hear if the co-worker that Mr C often shares work space with has got Covid. His wife tested positive (got the result late yesterday afternoon) and her husband now has to isolate for two weeks but not before he and Mr C were in the same office for eight hours on both Monday and Tuesday - ironically the meetings were about planning their strategy should any staff be tested positive.
Breakfast: boiled eggs and buttered Burgen soldiers
Lunch: Laughing Cow on ryvita
Dinner: aubergine, tomato and mozzarella bake and green salad
The day before my order was delivered we had another delivery from somewhere else and I asked the delivery guy if he also had my chocolate. "Chocolate" he said, looking very interested and rather too keen "no". I was then suspicious it would go missing as I have suspected him of taking shoes in the past, twice. Luckily Montezumas doesn't use Hermes and my chocolate arrived safely. I hope you don't have a chocoholic in your sorting office @shelley262 . These delivery guys are paid so poorly that things must be very tempting for them. IHi guys
Rang montezumas to find out where my order was but they couldn’t understand why it hasn’t arrived so have given me refund - quite sad I was looking forward to my bargain mini eggs! As they said that both two orders ie original and replacement orders have left montezumas to post office but never showed up in tracking system or get to me - where did they go?? But at least it will get resolved.
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Ann, have you considered trying carb counting? That way you might have a better idea of what amounts you need for any given meal, to keep thing in a bit of a zone?
I didn't mean that I don't count carbs. I do. That's to make sure that I stay well below the 20 I try to allow myself as a maximum each day. It doesn't always work, of course. It's at its worst when I get so fed up with trying to get BG down and failing and then I think I'm on the wrong track and the diabetes nurse could be right when she says I should be eating more carbs. Then I eat something that puts my carbs up, despite insulin - like a digestive biscuit or a slice of bread and even, a few weeks ago, a breakfast roll (crazy- I didn't even enjoy it!). That brings me to my senses because my BG goes right up to the top of the meter.
The issue seems to be that whatever I eat, be it zero or very low carbs, I still need a lot of insulin to keep BG around the 10 mark. But I can't tell for sure, because on the odd day, like today, BG is lower than usual and then drops too far, so then I have to have some carbohydrate, without insulin, to bring it up to a reasonable level. Then, of course, it bounces back up and goes too high. Which is what has happened this evening. Breakfast today contained 3.6 g carbs and lunch contained the same. I didn't need an evening meal. So total to that point was 7.2 g carbs. Then BG dropped too far and I had 2 digestive biscuits, without insulin. One doesn't seem to do the trick and 2 seems to be too many. BG right now is 14.1. Other days, I'll eat approximately the same amount of carbs and BG won't drop below 10 or 11.
I did have a c-peptide test, which indicated that I am making insulin, so it's not that. And it's not that I don't respond to insulin at all, just that it takes a lot of it to have any effect and I am unwilling to take more and more ad infinitum. So, I guess, I am the problem.
I do hope everything is OK. I've not caught up on the posts yet so hopefully there is good news.
What do you feel is a lot of insulin? I need 82 units of my basal everyday, regardless of if I'm having a very low carb day or a highish carb day. On top of that comes the mealtime insulin of course.The issue seems to be that whatever I eat, be it zero or very low carbs, I still need a lot of insulin to keep BG around the 10 mark.
If you go high from what you ate to treat a low, you've eaten more than you needed to treat the low. If this happens to me I try treating the next low with less carbs. Of course it doesn't always work out as planned.then drops too far, so then I have to have some carbohydrate, without insulin, to bring it up to a reasonable level. Then, of course, it bounces back up and goes too high.
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