What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Hello all probably good morning, I guess!
Hugs where needed, kudos where deserved, and cats have to have the lap that doesn't want them....
Sunday:
Bfast avocado, pecans, boiled egg, flax crisps/dilute soymilk
Lunch en famille last week's Green chicken with tomatoes, and DIL made sourdough bread and biscuits with dipping oils. I was pretty good with the restraint, but I believe it's fermenting in my gut still. It was hot out of the oven, which I know doesn't agree with me for regular yeast bread.
Supper spinach/hm dressing, boiled egg, flax crisps/etc, and a few tiny nibbles of yesterday's gingerbread cookie.

And here are the little darlings:

And here's how you make frozen almond meal usable!

Sorry I can't get rid of the duplicate! Grrr!

Breakfast- smoked salmon.
This for lunch, post workout

probably nothing for dinner, maybe a protein shake,
BTW, I don’t eat the fake butter thing, it goes off to the side

Mauriac said:

It looks nice, but 487 calories per portion

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It’s hard to let go of the calories aspect I know, but trying to keep track of, and limit both might be over complicating things. I just look at carb values now and because low carb high fat food is usually quite nutritionally dense, it keeps you full for longer and you automatically eat less and find it easier not to snack between meals. I was using the Carbs and Cals app for quite a while to begin with, and still do when I remember. When I look back on it I usually find the calories have taken care of themselves, and the daily totals are not enormous.

Morning everyone.

My BG readings just now, 13 hours after eating, were 7.3 on the first test and 7.6 on the second. Why are second and subsequent tests nearly always higher than the first? I really want to get that figure below 7 and I hope that if I stick to my LC diet I will do in time.

Yesterday I had:

B: 2 mugs of coffee for a total of 300ml of almond milk and 22ml of double cream and 2 tsp of Splenda
L: almonds and macadamias, pâté with a few beans and some lentils, 40g of St Augur and a small peach
Afternoon snack: 65g of ham
S: some walnuts and almonds, 3 small (125ml) glasses of wine. A chicken breast with 25g of avocado, 100g of edamame bean salad and a spoon of kimchi. A large stewed plum with 2% Greek yoghurt, 20g of 90% dark chocolate.

About 2000 calories and 60g of carbs.

DJC3 said:

It’s hard to let go of the calories aspect I know, but trying to keep track of, and limit both might be over complicating things. I just look at carb values now and because low carb high fat food is usually quite nutritionally dense, it keeps you full for longer and you automatically eat less and find it easier not to snack between meals. I was using the Carbs and Cals app for quite a while to begin with, and still do when I remember. When I look back on it I usually find the calories have taken care of themselves, and the daily totals are not enormous.

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You may well be right but I feel that I need to know how many calories I'm having as for years I have eaten lots of high fat foods but have still overeaten. I'm used to keeping track of what I eat when on any sort of food regime and I have to weigh things and calculate and record the carbs anyway, so also doing the calories isn't difficult.

DCUKMod said:

Mauriac - You could try giving yourself a week or a couple of weeks where you ignore calories, and see what happens.

Clearly weigh before you atart and at the end of your trial period, and see what happens.

When I started off on my journey, getting my blood numbers down (that was my only goal), I was astonished to find my clothes becoming loose, then too big, whilst eating heartily.

Going low carb, plus low calorie is a hard mix to feel satisfied on, over the loner term. Fine if you need a quick rein back on eating over exuberance, but if you have more than a few pounds to lose, you could be in danger of hunger and temptation to break your new, hopefully better, habits.

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Thank you for the suggestion and it's a good idea and I will do that but I don't feel quite ready yet to let go of the 'comfort blanket' of keeping an eye on my calories too.

Good morning all!

@zauberflote - you are so right about cats wanting to sit on the lap that doesn't want them. I have a slight allergy to cats and they always make straight for me, without fail. All of our extended families and most of our friends are cat people and I have to remember to take anti histamine before visiting or I end up with streaming eyes and nose - not a good look.

Has anyone else tried the Schweppes Elderflower tonic? I bought it a few weeks ago and forgot about it until yesterday - its really lovely - Zero calories and zero carbs.

Breakfast: Mackerel fillet fried in butter with a squeeze of lime juice - eaten in the garden with an a group of dogs gazing adoringly at me. They didn't get any. Cupboard love.

Dinner: cauliflower rice 'risotto' with asparagus, spring onions, Naked Glory (tastes like roast chicken), parmesan, a splash of white wine, a touch of garlic and the grated zest and juice of a lemon - cooked in butter. I also have double cream on standby to add if it doesn't turn out creamy/gloopy enough.

- one fillet of mackerel cooked in butter with a squeeze of lime juice has put my BGs up by 2.4 at 2 hr pp! So annoyed - and I've got mackerel for breakfast every day this week!

Chook said:

- one fillet of mackerel cooked in butter with a squeeze of lime juice has put my BGs up by 2.4 at 2 hr pp! So annoyed - and I've got mackerel for breakfast every day this week!

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Was it a large piece of mackerel? Perhaps a slightly smaller amount would work for you.

SlimLizzy said:

Was it a large piece of mackerel? Perhaps a slightly smaller amount would work for you.

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No, not large. Frozen weight was 100g (4 of them in a 400g bag) and then fluid lost on defrosting and cooking. I'm actually wondering if it wasn't enough fat/protein to stop my pesky Dawn Phenomenon. It doesn't seem to matter if I fast, eat a carb free breakfast or enjoy a breakfast with some carbs in, it all seems to follow the same pattern.

Hi All
Today had my usual HiLo toast cooled with thick butter and lots of tea. Lunch was sliver of farm shop bread as a vehicle for soft spread Camembert and a little tomato & cucumber on the side.
Supper will be panfried lamb chop and leftover cooked broccoli warmed in the pan juices.
@Chook hug for the frustration of the morning levels after the haddock. Would a rich emulsion of butter and lemon added help I wonder. I have to eat my toast and thick butter regardless of FBG or my BG continues rising up to lunchtime. We are all different.

@Chook Sorry I just realised you cooked your haddock in butter and lime!

FBG 9.5. Not too bad, I suppose.

Breakfast was some of the bouillabaise. A bit of a disappointment - the fish was pretty tasteless, but the rest was fine.

Done a bit of baking to get ready for the children's "tea party" - plenty more to do.

Currently have a duck breast finishing in the oven and a few mushrooms frying in duck fat to go with it.

Been trying to find out how I need to organise myself for the Thursday hospital appointment but nobody can tell me much. Apparently, it all depends on what the surgeon wants but the surgeons are all locums and next Thursday's one won't be flying in until Wednesday pm so I will be told then what to do.

Diabetes nurse told me that I should stay off the Metformin afterwards until I can get the results of a blood test (which I have to organise with the GP practice), hopefully next Monday.

BG has stayed in the 9s all day so far.

Managed my early morning swim before work - bit of a dash to get presentable for my early meeting but worth it. Busier in pool this morning but still got my 50 lengths in and a few of them doing backstroke.
Youngest son who lives in brum should have been with partners family for a 70th birthday celebration today and week long holiday together - planned and booked ages ago and longingly looked forward to but they had to cancel at last minute - both because of rule of 6 (there would have been 7 of them ) and the Birmingham lockdown, they are disappointed it’s very tough at the moment as although they can still go to work, the pub, shops and any places with a till they cant meet up with another household even one other person socially distanced in their garden!they will just have to meet in a park or pub! Hope it dosent go on for ages very difficult to understand the logic...... very difficult times.
Meanwhile back to topic:
Lunch two chicken legs, small piece of Stilton and celery
Mid afternoon half a DGF millionaires shortbread
Dinner Frittata with salads ( some left over so planning to take out for picnic tomorrow as day out planned) pudding SF jelly with a few garden berries and cream just had decaff coffee with 2 squares of 100% montezumas choc with orange oil
@Rachox enjoy your well earnt break.

Evening all. Didn’t get time for breakfast so just coffee and water until around 1:30
Lunch was a cheese, ham and spinach omelette then a DGF raspberry bakewell with a mug of tea. @Chook I really sympathise with your inexplicable breakfast rise in BG. This pretty safe ( so I thought) lunch put me up nearly 2 mmol as well.
Dinner has been a Thai chicken and aubergine curry made in the slow cooker with Bare Naked noodles. Followed by a happy pudding combo of sf strawberry jelly and choc chia pudding.
Almost forgot - I had the h/m strawberry gin infusion with soda before dinner. It was very good indeed, so fragrant. I’m definitely going for a bigger batch next time.

No breakfast
L : some h/m seed crackers with marmite, cheese and tomatoes, but the crackers tasted a bit fishy and strong, even overpowering the marmite. Some blackberry bake. Thought i might see if I could do omad today but when I checked its only 8g carbs and 700 cal.
D : not hugely hungry but feedings boys so had a little cold roast beef and a courgette slow fried in butter.. then succumbed to more blackberry bake

1st day of my holibobs
Breakfast and lunch at home as due to Covid cleaning we weren’t allowed into our holiday lodge til 4pm.
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and strawberry Carb Killa
Late Lunch: Chicken satay sticks followed by Greek yoghurt, chopped dark choc almonds and LC chocolate granola
Dinner: Chinese takeaway, crispy duck two small pancakes a tiny amount of sauce and veggies followed by DGF brownie, cream and LC chocolate granola.

Evenin’ All!

Mr B’s Covid test came back negative, so he (we) we’re liberated today, and the dogs got a lovely walk, just as it was starting to get HOT.

No B today, L was some mug bread with cheese.
D was smoked bass a fillet in cheese sauce. Lovely. I thought it was a touch salty, but Mr B was v enthusiastic, and says I have to do it EXACTLY the same next time. Fat chance. I just make it up as I go along - every time!

Hi all

A bit late posting today.

Back in an office today. New location but familiar lunch - 2 fried eggs, bacon and grated cheese. Not so tasty as the old cafe so will try out some others in coming days.
Dinner was air fried chicken wings and some crisped up pork belly pieces coated in chilli oil and salt.

Morrison’s delivery was complete and substitute free, except for some shampoo that got sent back. Yay!