Are you limiting your calories as well as your carbs?
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Are you limiting your calories as well as your carbs?Lunch - after workout beansprouts with minced meat and sliced courgette. Took my reading 2 hours later and it was 5.5 happy with that!
Dinner 6pm - Left over steak with lamb chops, gravy and 1 very tiny potatoReading was 6.5 after so not too bad for me.
I am starving now!
Not too flippant I’ve been singing it for years and nearly sang it to the dental technician!Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and Carb Killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a phd bar
Dinner: chilli con carne with cauli rice followed by SF jelly and cream.
I use Koko coconut milk (or dairy free alternative drink as manufacturers have to call it!) as a bedtime drink, I love the taste and it has fewer carbs than cow’s milk. It comes in a Tetrapack rather than a tin.
@shelley262 I can’t help singing that song in my head “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!” Sorry, too flippant? Seriously I hope your teeth turn out as you wish
Not too flippant I’ve been singing it for years and nearly sang it to the dental technician!
Nothing odd. I just found it in Sainsbury's. Cows milk spikes me but this is low carb and rather addictive!Have I missed something @maglil55? Is there a reason why you are drinking coconut milk? How does it suit you as opposed to cows' milk? I use tinned coconut milk sometimes in cooking but I can't help feeling that it would be rather rich to drink for my odd tum. Sometimes cows' milk is as well.
Up at 3.30 am and felt very hungry so eventually had some wholemeal toast and butter at about 5am. Went back to bed then and slept until 7.30 when I jumped up thinking I was late putting out the recycling bin. I wasn't late - the bin is still outside (10am) waiting to be emptied.
DIL has taken on a job as a home care worker for the winter and starts today. She trained as a nurse some years ago and feels that, with the staff shortages at present, she should be making her contribution. That means that Em will be coming here every afternoon. Not that that will be any different to the norm. Just means, if I do have any appointments, I'll have to make them in the morning.
2nd meal: will be some more of the cabbage and butter. I rather fancy the idea now that you've reminded me. Tom also enjoyed it with cheese melted through it but melted cheese doesn't appeal these days.
Gee wizz! I've been having days like that and I don't know why. Not great when it happens.Black coffee all morning.
Lunch- cold roast beef with a salad of chopped courgette, celery and spring onions in a mayo/ soured cream/ Dijon mustard dressing.
Dinner- calves liver, bacon, broccoli and mushrooms followed by a slice of Spanish cheesecake https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/oven-baked-low-carb-cheesecake which is delicious. Slightly higher total carb count for this meal than usual but I really didn’t expect a 2hr reading of >11 blimey! that was a bit of a blow. A rise of over 5.
Hia no just carbs, I am not counting calories at all. Just fancied a wee little tinned potato first time in agesAre you limiting your calories as well as your carbs?
I asked because you said you were hungry. If you're hungry, you might need more food!Hia no just carbs, I am not counting calories at all. Just fancied a wee little tinned potato first time in ages
Nothing odd. I just found it in Sainsbury's. Cows milk spikes me but this is low carb and rather addictive!View attachment 52195
I think I was more hungry yesterday due to the extra hard work out I did. The cold weather seems to make me hungry too - I thinkI asked because you said you were hungry. If you're hungry, you might need more food!
Had my aunt over for lunch, so instead of my usual slice of low carb bread, I defrosted a piece of the terrine I made a few weeks back to have with a side salad and some snow peas.
Aunt was very impressed!
Evening meal will be more of the same I guess.
Been away from the site for a while and I can't for the life in me remember what DGF stands for. The mincemeat pies sound delicious @maglil55 , I suddenly have a hankering for them. Can you remind me of the site please so that I can order some?OK , despite telling myself I wouldn't buy more DGF until I cleared some of the many boxes in the freezer, I succumbed and more cookies and a box of the Christmas mincemeat pies arrived today.
Www.deliciouslyguiltfree.comBeen away from the site for a while and I can't for the life in me remember what DGF stands for. The mincemeat pies sound delicious @maglil55 , I suddenly have a hankering for them. Can you remind me of the site please so that I can order some?
Hug for delivery stuck in PeterboroughEvening all, and welcome back @Tori71
@Goonergal and @maglil55 I think now that the BG issue yesterday may have been due to the last couple of strips in the pot going off - perhaps getting damp. Also today the battery light on the meter flashed so perhaps a combo of both, either way I had to do some deep breathing exercises to calm down lol.
Today B- black coffee and a horrible Hiit session in the park. I don’t know why I put myself through it really.
L- quick mackerel pate, 1/2 avocado and chilli sauerkraut, followed by DGF cake.
D- chicken & mushroom cobbler with spinach, I used @PenguinMum ‘s cheese scone recipe for the topping and it worked really well. I’m saving the last DGF cake for bake off
@maglil55 my Mince pies are stuck in Peterborough it seems, in spite of Royal Mail telling me they’d be delivered today.
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