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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

breakfast: low carb granola, low carb toast and butter and a mocha
lunch: olinas seeded crispbread, cream cheese and serrano, protein bar
dinner: pork schnitzel with sauerkraut, strawberries, raspberries and cream, 90% lindt (notice I've stopped posting quantities of this)!!!!
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Pipp said:
You folks post some amazing pics of your grub. Whenever I try with iPad, I find the files won’t upload. Too big.
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I had to download an app, think its called Photo resizer. Works well, and simply
 
Had breakfast today as knew might be a later than usual lunch. Ff greek with yoghurt, seeds and a small handful of all the broken bits from the bottom of the frozen raspberries bag. Splash of cream
11 coffee with cream
L: out at a retirement do. Very keto friendly buffet of cold salmon, ham and beef with mixed green salad, coleslaw. I only had to skip the bread, potato salad and pizza wheels. Most people didn't take much beef...I did! It was lovely. Was so refreshing not to be the ubiquitous sausage rolls and quiche.
4pm lc hot chocolate
6pm dinner 2 97% sausages , celeriac chips, cabbage in tomato sauce. 2 sqs 85% chocolate
2 bites of hubbys brownie for dessert. I white wine and soda. Mint tea
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a Carb Killa bar.
Dinner: pork and apple stuffed chicken with roasted brussels, cauliflower and brocolli followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.
 
@Rachox UK Low carb podcast, episode called Keyto health with Keto Kev episode 1 has lots on oxalates you might find interesting
 
Bed 6.4 FBG 6.2. Gee I've been hungry today. Usual school run and I did a trek right around the school grounds to try to build up my strength again. Grounds are big so it is a decent walk (especially with a crutch).

B. Just water again. Then 2 M&S crackers with whipped cheese.
L. 2 SLC toast with salmon pate. The last remaining M&S plum (must go buy more)
D. Boys here so I did DD slow roated beef with a herby butter cabbage and broccoli. Boys had mash and separate bits of puff pastry plus a mix of broccoli and peas. Beef was meltingly good. Lots of water and I eventually gave in to a DGF vegan fudge brownie with 3 sliced strawberries and a dash of cream.

The remainder of the evening with be water. Also today, been busy organising with my former work colleagues and wives/husbands a return to our annual meet up (which was last in 2019 due to covid). We've decided to return to Bath. Although it's not until October there's a lot of us so it needs early booking.20220316_182432.jpg
 
PenguinMum said:
@Antje77 dont know why but finding the half eaten carrot in your bed really made me chortle.
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My dogs absolutely love carrots! For about 6 months of the year they are lucky, as that's when carrots are sold very cheap on the roadside for animal food, and I always have a large bag in my kitchen to feed my 17 guinea pigs. This means the dogs can steal carrots and I regularly find half a carrot and carrot sprinklings in my bed.
But to give them credit, by the time I go to bed every last morsel has usually disappeared!
Annb said:
liver and bacon, Asian style. I sliced the liver very thinly and the same for the bacon, then an onion had the same treatment and finely chopped some ginger and garlic. Stir fried and finished with some chicken stock and some soya sauce.
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That sounds absolutely delicious!

I made a very tasty experimental meal today, glad I made enough for two days!
Fried slices of chorizo sausages they sold at lidl, and added an onion, half a bell pepper, some tomato paste, a little water, cabbage, some bok choy, a spoonful of an Indonesian hot sauce and a generous scoop of cream cheese. :hungry:

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Two slices of middle bacon, two eggs and cheese omelette, button mushrooms for mushrooms.
No smoko snack or cordial.
Nothing much for lunch feeling crook, tin of Chunky beef soup and a couple of slices of low carb toast.
Toasted cheese and tomato toasted sandwiches for supper at six.
 
Thank you all for suggestions for uploading pics. Will have a look in other thread too. I am a bit of a Luddite, and don’t go near Facebook, ever.
Late brunch after pool workout: Full fat yogurt, mixed seeds, four walnut halves, black coffee.
Dinner: ham and egg , salad leaves, balsamic vinegar.
Evening snack: cream cheese on a stick of celery.
 
A bit despondent today. Fbg was again 7.2. I have been so careful with my food, counting carbs, not eating after 6pm. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong. I can't exercise so am wondering if that's the reason. Today I'm skipping bf. 1st meal will be chicken drumsticks airfried (I love my airfryer!) with steamed kale, sprouts and cauli, plus a spot of gravy (counted). Evening meal will be scrambled eggs with some cream and butter and grated cheese. Any advice would be very welcome. tia.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
A bit despondent today. Fbg was again 7.2. I have been so careful with my food, counting carbs, not eating after 6pm. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong. I can't exercise so am wondering if that's the reason. Today I'm skipping bf. 1st meal will be chicken drumsticks airfried (I love my airfryer!) with steamed kale, sprouts and cauli, plus a spot of gravy (counted). Evening meal will be scrambled eggs with some cream and butter and grated cheese. Any advice would be very welcome. tia.
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@RosemaryJackson my advice would be not to fixate on your fbg as it’s always last to come down and don’t let your reaction to it colour your day - easier to say I know but it can be a bit of a cycle where you feel annoyed and say well I may as well eat what I fancy as it isn’t making a difference but your bgs may be even higher if you were not counting. Maybe your change of tactic should be doing just some pre and post foods for a few days to see if you can work out the food that really suits you best and take a short break from fasting ones. Important thing is to keep going. As many of us say it’s a marathon not a sprint you’ll get there if you eat things that suit you and also manage your stress. Enjoy your meals today. to stay on topic I’m about to have my usual hm full fat yoghurt in about an hour I tend to break my overnight fast after 16 -18 hours.
 
shelley262 said:
@RosemaryJackson my advice would be not to fixate on your fbg as it’s always last to come down and don’t let your reaction to it colour your day - easier to say I know but it can be a bit of a cycle where you feel annoyed and say well I may as well eat what I fancy as it isn’t making a difference but your bgs may be even higher if you were not counting. Maybe your change of tactic should be doing just some pre and post foods for a few days to see if you can work out the food that really suits you best and take a short break from fasting ones. Important thing is to keep going. As many of us say it’s a marathon not a sprint you’ll get there if you eat things that suit you and also manage your stress. Enjoy your meals today. to stay on topic I’m about to have my usual hm full fat yoghurt in about an hour I tend to break my overnight fast after 16 -18 hours.
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@shelley262. Thank you. I'll do the pre and posts tests. But it's not going down at night either. It's staying at around 6.8. BrianDoc advised to try walking as I can't exercise so will try that too. I'll try anything to beat this beastie!!!
 
Yesterday (March 16th)

Breakfast (9am): 0% greek yogurt and "keto granola", black coffee
Snack (10:30am): more black coffee
Lunch (12pm): Homemade beef chili
Snack (3pm): None
Dinner (8pm): Spicy turkey meatballs with a red curry broth (all homemade)
Evening Snack (10pm) - No food, but two low carb beers

Walked 9.66km yesterday to bring my YTD total to 284.33km.

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First thing after usual 18 hour overnight fast a few spoons of hm yoghurts
Lunch a few spoons of hm sauerkrauts and some bits of cheese and five m and s seeded crackers followed by hm yoghurts with a few berries and four squares of 100% chocolate with orange oil
Dinner see photo - venison wrapped in Parma ham - panfried and then rested while made mushroom sauce cooking mushrooms in juices and a blob of butter and a dollop of double cream gently warmed in pan served with cauliflower mash and asparagus also had glass of dry white wine followed by lc blondie warmed and served with spoon of hm yoghurt.
Edit to add @RosemaryJackson id also agree with the walking advice mainly because,for me, it helps manage my stress. I often also walk around our house whilst listening to podcasts in the evening good way to chill and it does seem to help with processing the sugars in the early evening meal. You can just go at a pace that suits you.
 
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Bed 5 6 FBG 6.1. @RosemaryJackson I agree with @shelley262. My FBG took months to come down. Even now it has a tendency to head upwards if I don't eat something.

B. Still not back on coffee - just water then 2 slices SLC toast with whipped cheese when I returned from school run.

L. Just water

D. Was on the rub to jujitsu so dinner was a bit late and I couldn't finish it. Salmon fillet, little bit of smoked salmon, 1=2 avocado, boiled egg, 5 santini tomatoes, helmanns, 2 M&S crackers and a bit Port Salut.

Currently relaxing with a vodka and diet coke and a pint of water.
 
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