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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

First time I've posted my food and only 3 weeks in so please be gentle with me but would love some feedback on my food vs my BS levels (see pic)
Of course we'll be gentle!
Looking at your numbers it looks like your food choices have made you rise significantly.
Breakfast of porridge with skimmed milk rose you rather alarmingly high. If it were me I'd start to think about choosing a much lower carb breakfast, as the porridge doesn't seem to help you.

Do you like bacon or cheese and eggs? Or perhaps full fat greek yoghurt with nuts or berries?

Other things that stand out in your food choices are the sweetcorn, orange, grapes, potato and banana. Those are all high carb foods, and from your numbers it looks like you don't deal too well with them.
However, your breakfast results are the most obvious. Many of us find we have much more trouble dealing with any amount of carbs in the morning than later in the day, looks like you're no exception.

As for the chocolate, even if you're not particularly fond of very high percentage chocolate, we have some tricks to make it yummy!
And seeing your drop after dinner, it looks like you can get away with a little more carbs in the evening, and I completely agree with being proud of yourself for not eating the whole bag!

Have you encountered this blog already? I think you'll find it useful: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog/jokalsbeek.401801/
 
I pay by PayPal and they charge me straight away when I order, so I don’t know if your money being debited for your bank account is any indication of when they will arrive. Sorry I can’t help :(
No probs - many thanks - I am assuming if I have paid for the goods I should receive them soon ...
 
Of course we'll be gentle!
Looking at your numbers it looks like your food choices have made you rise significantly.
Breakfast of porridge with skimmed milk rose you rather alarmingly high. If it were me I'd start to think about choosing a much lower carb breakfast, as the porridge doesn't seem to help you.

Do you like bacon or cheese and eggs? Or perhaps full fat greek yoghurt with nuts or berries?

Other things that stand out in your food choices are the sweetcorn, orange, grapes, potato and banana. Those are all high carb foods, and from your numbers it looks like you don't deal too well with them.
However, your breakfast results are the most obvious. Many of us find we have much more trouble dealing with any amount of carbs in the morning than later in the day, looks like you're no exception.

As for the chocolate, even if you're not particularly fond of very high percentage chocolate, we have some tricks to make it yummy!
And seeing your drop after dinner, it looks like you can get away with a little more carbs in the evening, and I completely agree with being proud of yourself for not eating the whole bag!

Have you encountered this blog already? I think you'll find it useful: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog/jokalsbeek.401801/
I love bacon cheese and eggs. Going to have a couple of boiled eggs with crispbread to dip tomorrow...well today lol
 
Still feeling very sore, but not nauseous at least. Up and about early today. My cleaner is coming to do the floors sometime this morning, so to get ready for her I clear everything off the floors and put it all up on beds, tables - anywhere I can get it. I can't do the floors, but in any case it's good to have someone coming in because it makes me get myself organised to get the rest done before she gets here (dishes, washing, bathrooms, etc). No idea why I do that but I don't think it is all that unusual. Doesn't help with the painful joints though. Still, it's done now, which I why I am at this laptop now.

Breakfast: avocado on toast - 2 slices of a small wholemeal loaf - about 30g carb.

2nd meal will have to be either some of the gammon or the fish. Might make salmon cakes with some ready cooked butternut squash. Probably need an egg to hold it together. That and some salad will do me for the day, I should think.
 
First time I've posted my food and only 3 weeks in so please be gentle with me but would love some feedback on my food vs my BS levels (see pic)

B - porridge oats made with semi skimmed milk ( hubby made it but didn't weigh it - he eyeballs everything!) few strawberries

L - home made chicken n veg soup (chicken chunks, onion, peas, sweetcorn, small amount of grated carrot, green beans and oxo chicken stock. Followed by 1 plum, 1 very large Orange and about 10 green grapes

D - small jacket potato, knob of butter, cheddar cheese, 2 chicken drumsticks, mixed green leaves, Cucumber, spring onion, cherry tomatoes, red pepper. Followed by strawberries and a plum

Snacks: banana (between lunch and dinner). About 15 chocolate buttons (evening while watching TV).Normally I would have polished off the whole share bag without a second thought so quite proud of myself.

Clearly porridge is out!!View attachment 52524

I agree with Antje77. For me, oats of any kind, at any time, is a bad idea. Fruits are lovely but also have a bad habit of putting up the glucose levels - same applies to fruit juices - even more so. For me, full cream milk is best - more fat but fewer carbs. Same with yoghurts.

Bacon and eggs, or cold meats, are the only thing I have come across that doesn't put BS up at breakfast time. (The toast I had this morning will have put the level up, but I hope, not too far.)

Soups are great as long as they are not thickened with anything (flour/potato/cornflour etc) and as long as the vegetables are fairly low carb (onions, leeks, green leaves, courgette, maybe a small amount of carrot but legumes and corn are all fairly high carb and not good for BS).

I can get away with a small amount of tomato, but I'm not sure everyone can. I couldn't even eat one or two chocolate buttons - unless they are some of the 100% cocoa butter and no sugar ones. The trouble with normal chocolate buttons is not the chocolate but all the sugar that is in them. I have to say, most people don't like the 100% chocolate - it is bitter and they prefer something around the 90% level, which does have some sugar, but not much.

Having said all this, I am an extreme case and it takes almost nothing to put my BS up and even my starting level is higher than it should be. This, despite being on very high levels of insulin.

The thing is, to test your BS with everything you eat and see what it does to you. Everyone is different and what suits me, might not suit you, or anyone else on this forum.

The only thing that puts my BS down is to fast and even then, it will go too far down (hypo) and correcting that will shove it right up again (for example, I unintentionally more or less fasted yesterday but still BG went far too high (17.9), I took a correction dose of insulin around 10 pm but woke up at 2 am with a full blown hypo (3.6) then ate a boiled sweet and slept again until 7 am when BG was 12.0). I'm told that yo-yoing isn't good for me, but the alternative for me is to take even more insulin and eat absolutely no carbs, so only fish, meat and dairy really. By the way, I don't stick to my own rules all the time and I fall by the wayside. But I pick myself up again and try again tomorrow, and I'm still here to plague and puzzle everyone.

Don't think you will be like me. Mine is a very long standing condition which wasn't treated when it could have been. If you can get it right now, just recently diagnosed, you will do much better than me. So test before and after eating and you will find out what is right for you.
 
I love bacon cheese and eggs. Going to have a couple of boiled eggs with crispbread to dip tomorrow...well today lol
Yum! :hungry:
But be mindful of the amount of crispbread you eat, have a look at the back of the pack to find out how many carbs per slice. Just fill up on the eggs, and have a little crispbread on the side, not the other way around!
 
Had one of the gammon steaks with an egg on top for 2nd meal. Ended up eating the egg but not the gammon. So I still have one gammon steak and quite a lot of salmon to use up. I've cut the gammon into chunks and will make either a ham based soup or a ham and vegetable stew with butternut squash. I've mixed the salmon with some pre-cooked butternut squash and some onions and am currently baking off some salmon melts (rather than tuna melts). Not sure how they will turn out - I've never made melts of any kind before but I may have one to try before I put the rest away in the freezer. Also made some spinach and haricot soup with the chicken stock. I know, legumes are bad, but there's not many compared to the amount of soup. Not sure when I'll have that.
 
Online exercise class made it easy to skip breakfast
L: truffle brie with 2 homemade lc seedy crackers and 1 piece lc soda bread. Think a bit of ham went too, and soem marmite pecan nuts.
Today's cook ahead session was Delias cranberry and orange relish but I swapped the sugar for erythritol on the basis the stronger flavours would mask any after taste. Hubby thinks it's too sour, boy says it's just right. Main thing is it hasn't raised my levels at all Yay!
D: 5 strands of spaghetti with 1 veggie ball and a tablespoon of jar tomato sauce (sneaked portion from boys meal) topped with grated cheddar and an egg scrambled through. Was very tasty. Chocolate mug cake as fancied something warm and comforting. Hit the right spot.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a DGF white chocolate and lemon cookie.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Atkins bar
Dinner: scrambled eggs on Marmite on toast made with low carb toast followed by a DGF crimbo crumble and cream.
You may have guessed my DGF delivery arrived this morning after a sleep over in Swindon! I hope you got yours today @maglil55 x
 
Thanks so much for the idea of making boeuf bourguignon, @DJC3 !
I just found out I love it. :hungry:

And I made another life changing discovery, cauliflower purée tastes great! Not only as a dish on its own, but it comes so close to mashed potatoes I expect it will work as a substitute in traditional Dutch 'stamppot'. I've been missing the stamppot rauwe andijvie especially.
I don't dare translating andijvie because the google tells me endive is chicory (the white things) but andijvie looks more like a green lettuce.

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Does this happen at different times than at 11PM?
Did you get a notification for the PM I started? It would be really helpful if you'd share your issues with the forum there so we can have it looked into.
It's happening loads. One consistent thing I noticed is if it is long. Short posts done quickly work. Like this one.
 
It's happening loads. One consistent thing I noticed is if it is long. Short posts done quickly work. Like this one.
I've sent you a PM, it would really be helpful if you could reply there so we can look into it without having to try to find your posts on the issue in this thread.
We're trying to help but it doesn't make sense to do so on this thread.
Can it be you're having trouble finding the PM?
 
It's happening loads. One consistent thing I noticed is if it is long. Short posts done quickly work. Like this one.
I stopped using the forum app after one use, it is waste of time to use.

It takes too long to load, no refresh button (that I could see), crashing etc.

I found the Chrome browser to be better for the forum as it is easier to use, the only problem is the 8:00 am AEST slowdown which due to admins / tech doing their thing. slowing it down to a crawl.
 
Brunch - 1 egg mashed up in a cup with butter. 1 dgf shortbread finger (yep mine arrived today too @maglil55 ). Mug of earl grey tea

Dinner - Large mussel, prawn cocktail & salmon salad.

So after placing my order with Thelowcarbco on Friday they eventually got back to me today to say my order is being shipped to be delivered by Royal Mail on a 48 tracking delivery (to be delivered in 2-3 days) - I have not heard from Royal Mail yet to say they have even received it at Peterborough so I won't be holding my breath to getting it before christmas - If I was a gambling man I would bet I receive it next week mouldy! 1st and me thinks last time I will use Thelowcarbco ...
 
Monday 20 December – Bed 7.2 FBG 7.4
First proper day of holidays and I slept to 9am. I needed it following issues with my legs/feet since Friday. I'll explain on the other thread afterwards. Spent today finalising my shopping order.
B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with coronation chicken.
L. Coconut milk
D. Chicken breast with my pork stuffing mix and wrapped in bacon. Mini cob, asparagus and mushrooms.
Tuesday 21 December – Bed 6.6 FBG 6.9
A day for lots of running about. Physio first. Back for large shop arising then out again for what I hoped was my last scoot about collecting presents. It wasn’t!
B. just TAG as had to get to Physio.
L. Nothing
D. Did a lamb shoulder in the IP with carrot, onion and I nicked a couple of Hubby’s tiny potatoes. Rather tasty.
Unintentional OMAD and got a bit woozy coming back from the parcel collection.
Today, Wednesday 22 December – Bed 5.7 FBG 6 2. Glad to see BGs normalising again. I was planning on going out for last bits and pieces, but I guess I overdid things yesterday as I really didn’t feel good. I got up at 9 a.m., but I was rather aching and a bit nauseous.
B. Very late and after a lot of water. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with coronation chicken and egg mayo.
L. Just lots of water and rest.
D. German mini sausage, 2 slices of ox tongue, slice of ham, and small chicken pieces. Baby beet, santini tomatoes, and mozzarella pearls. I felt better later, so I had a DGF Christmas pie with a few blackberries and cream.
Parcels I wasn’t expecting until January arrived today. There’s about 6 things I need so out early tomorrow, but then it’s tidy and set the table time. Friday will be a lot of prep and turkey brining!
 
Thanks so much for the idea of making boeuf bourguignon, @DJC3 !
I just found out I love it. :hungry:

And I made another life changing discovery, cauliflower purée tastes great! Not only as a dish on its own, but it comes so close to mashed potatoes I expect it will work as a substitute in traditional Dutch 'stamppot'. I've been missing the stamppot rauwe andijvie especially.
I don't dare translating andijvie because the google tells me endive is chicory (the white things) but andijvie looks more like a green lettuce.

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Glad you enjoyed it! It looks really tasty in your photo and I agree about the cauliflower puree, it’s delicious, nicer than mashed potatoes I think.
 
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