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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

(March 31st)

Breakfast (9am): Half of omelette with 3 eggs, ham, cheese, onions, and mushrooms, black coffee
Snack (10:30am): None
Lunch (12pm): Beef pot roast with carrots (finally it was gone….yummy, but tired of it)
Snack (3pm): Brogie with peanut butter, black coffee
Dinner (6pm): Rotisserie chicken, salad of tomatoes and cucumbers
Evening Snack (10pm): Two low carb beers, handful of peanuts

Walked 9.63km to bring my YTD total to 394.19km.
 
valuator said:
(March 29th)

Breakfast (9am): 0% greek yogurt with keto granola topping, black coffee
Snack (10:30am): None
Lunch (12pm): Beef pot roast with carrots
Snack (3pm): None
Dinner (6pm): Beef pot roast with carrots
Evening Snack (10pm): Two low carb beers, PIZZA and carb-y snacks :banghead:

Walked 6.90km to bring my YTD total to 374.92km.

Feeling so ashamed of my poor eating behaviour yesterday. Once I started binging, I couldn't stop. From the looks of my Libre data, I've just undone all the good progress I'd made over the last two weeks in terms of Average Glucose and Time in Target. Also not feeling amazing this morning :(
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Everyone has been there. Don't fret about it. Everything sorts itself again.
 
So many pretty eggs! Wednesday bed 6.7 FBG 5 7
Still battling this bug but I'm having a rest from the school run. Hubby is of the opinion I'm suffering from this "super cold" they've been writing about, combined with possibly norovirus. Symptoms certainly fit.

B. TAG and a dash of cream

L. 4 M&S crispy cheese crackers with salmon pate.

D. The remains of yesterday's mince had to be cooked so Hubby turned it into bolognese which I had with shredded cabbage which I stir fried.
I also had a DGF Vegan Fudge brownie with 4 strawberries.
 
MrsA2 said:
You might find it easier to resist evening eating if perhaps you have your beers earlier and with a meal.
Any form of alcohol, low carb or not, really means I can be tempted to eat anything and everything, especially if drunk without food as it seems to go straight to my bloodstream, totally avoiding any self-restraint or motivation.
As others have said, don't beat yourself up, learn from it and move on
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@valuator M&S pancetta or particularly, serrano ham crisps are a great snack at only 0.1g carbs per pack. Or you can make them in the microwave but careful not to burn.
 
Thursday bed 7 1 FBG 6 5. Bug seems to be following a format. Not bad in morning once I start moving, congested afternoon to evening then very hoarse at night (and the tickly cough returns).

B. TAG

L. Managed a wander up to M&S. Masks are really not helping with congestion so it's in and out as quick as I can. 2 chicken drumsticks, 2 lamb kofta and a pack of M&S serrano ham crisps.

D. Poached salmon fillet with Honduran prawns and Marie Rose sauce (home made), 1/2 avocado and mozzarella pearls. A M&S Plum (no sign of the cherries!)

Peach & Tumeric kefir shot. I was hungry today but I take that as a good sign.

Well done @RosemaryJackson and @MrsA2 .
@Annb - Em is lucky to have such small classes. If they did a composite of all P4/5/6's at our school it would be around 180 kids! I feel for the teachers trying to control classes that size plus they are very short staffed we've just list another 3 to another school as well.
 
maglil55 said:
Thursday bed 7 1 FBG 6 5. Bug seems to be following a format. Not bad in morning once I start moving, congested afternoon to evening then very hoarse at night (and the tickly cough returns).

B. TAG

L. Managed a wander up to M&S. Masks are really not helping with congestion so it's in and out as quick as I can. 2 chicken drumsticks, 2 lamb kofta and a pack of M&S serrano ham crisps.

D. Poached salmon fillet with Honduran prawns and Marie Rose sauce (home made), 1/2 avocado and mozzarella pearls. A M&S Plum (no sign of the cherries!)

Peach & Tumeric kefir shot. I was hungry today but I take that as a good sign.

Well done @RosemaryJackson and @MrsA2 .
@Annb - Em is lucky to have such small classes. If they did a composite of all P4/5/6's at our school it would be around 180 kids! I feel for the teachers trying to control classes that size plus they are very short staffed we've just list another 3 to another school as well.
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Em is lucky. There are only about a dozen kids in her class when they are all able to be there. The other classes are about the same. That changes when they go on to the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway with all the kids from the north part of the Island going there, so classes are around the 30 mark (still not bad).

I've done a fair bit of food prep today - made some baked beans (using black eyed beans which I found in the larder); I still had quite a lot of the veg curry left so made some spicy veg pasties (they do have some pastry on them so will have to go carefully with them), some vegetable biryani (3 servings using cauli rice) and my pork and cabbage experiment - it's still in the oven but it smells fine. Also enough of the pork mixture left to make some meatballs. Now I have to squeeze it all into the available freezer space.
 
We were supposed to be going away for the weekend but it was cancelled due to someone elses covid. Something we usually do twice a year with one of the highlights meeting a relative in the way down for a pub lunch, so we did that instead. Felt strange driving straight home again, but c'est la vie.
Was a bit naughty, ham egg and chips and I ate ALL the chips and even dipped them in mayo. 1 small scoop ice cream while everyone else had full desserts. Only drank tea.

Trying therefore to stick to omad, but have already had a ketonut from my Mother's Day stash in the freezer. And a glass of wine "because I didn't earlier "
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Carb Killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: LC sausage roll, leafy salad, two cherry tomatoes and coleslaw followed by DGF lemon drizzle and cream.
 
Rachox said:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Carb Killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: Balti chicken curry and cauliflower rice followed by SF cherry jelly and cream.

And just to keep up with the ‘egg photo competition’ here’s our regular egg delivery we get from one of my husbands clients, they’re not a farmer they just keep hens in their garden!

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Hi what are the carbs like in those Aldi protein bars I was considering trying them
 
Hello. Didn't feel like bf this morning so my first meal was about 1pm.Had a Fishermans Pie. 32g carbs but found it in the freezer and it was easy and I was lazy. Tonight had a pork steak with sauerkraut. Was still hungry so had 2 Ryvitas with Philly and last of the smoked salmon. then 2 squares of chocolate. Think I've overdone the carbs but tomorrow's another day and I can be good. :stop: to the carbs:stop:! Have a nice weekend everyone.
 
Steak, two eggs, some refried leftover veggies including a small spud lite for breakfast.
No smoko, lemon cordial / mineral water mix with a heaped scoop of osmolax stirred in.
Fish and chips out at Moore Park beach for lunch, first feed of chips I have had for a while.
Just a couple of slices of low carb toast and vegimite as I was not very hungry for supper at six.

Four buttered Knackbrod with blue cheese watchin Prime.

Pix of the knockbrod in the parallel thread.
 
Morning all. Beautiful day but wrap up! I'm going to try OMAD today but I'm wondering, do u have small snacks or just drinks? Also can someone tell me what to type in to go on the parallel thread please? ty. Have a good day everyone
 
I daresay everyone does things in their own way. When I do OMAD it's food I'm talking about but not total fasting for the rest of the day. Because I have had trouble with my kidneys and was warned by my doctor not to let fluid levels drop, I make sure to drink 2 litres of liquids a day - could be water or tea in my case, and tea is more often than not with milk. I'm pretty sure it would be harmful as well to try to drink 2 litres of anything in one go so I have drinks throughout the day. It's just food that I keep to once in the day.

Sorry - not being in any way techie, I can't get the link to the parallel thread to go in here. I'm sure someone else can and will do that for you.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Also can someone tell me what to type in to go on the parallel thread please? ty. Have a good day everyone
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Here it is! https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-parallel-chat.177870/page-101
I've had no luck typing 'parallel thread' into the search bar, but you can always find it by going to 'Forums', scrolling down until you find the off-topic section and selecting General Chat.
The parellel thread is usually high up in the list of normal threads there.
And of course if you hit the 'Watch Thread' button you'll get an alert when someone posts there.

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(April 1st)

Breakfast (9am): Half of omelette with 3 eggs, ham, cheese, onions, and mushrooms, black coffee
Snack (10:30am): None
Lunch (12pm): Lunch at Lebanese restaurant with my wife. Pita wrap with schwarma. Spiked BS :(
Snack (3pm): None
Dinner (6pm): Rotisserie chicken, salad of tomatoes and cucumbers
Evening Snack (10pm): Two low carb beers, handful of peanuts

Walked 6.44km to bring my YTD total to 400.63km
 
Antje77 said:
Here it is! https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-parallel-chat.177870/page-101
I've had no luck typing 'parallel thread' into the search bar, but you can always find it by going to 'Forums', scrolling down until you find the off-topic section and selecting General Chat.
The parellel thread is usually high up in the list of normal threads there.
And of course if you hit the 'Watch Thread' button you'll get an alert when someone posts there.

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Bedankt @ANTJE. You put it on once before and I used that but now I have to go back to that page each time and it takes far too long! So I thought I might be able to type something in instead.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
I'm going to try OMAD today but I'm wondering, do u have small snacks or just drinks?
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Just drinks for me (usually water/Diet Coke) although I always say you set your own rules. It’s more effective from an intermittent fasting point of view just to eat once as you really give the pancreas a rest. However, you need to be able to eat enough - both for satiety and nutritionally - at one sitting if you’re going to do it regularly.

I used to plan OMAD far more often than I do nowadays - usually now it’s more of an accident or to do with timing than a deliberate plan. So today for instance I ended up staying out for longer than planned after a morning appointment so it was 2pm before I ate. I’ve eaten enough that it’s unlikely I’ll need to eat again. Sometimes I think that’s going to be the case and end up hungry later and have something small.

I can eat decent sized portions, so it’s relatively easy. If you can’t eat so much in one sitting, then spreading 2 or 3 smaller plates over 2 or 3 hours would have a similar effect to one larger meal.

It was weird today as I felt ravenous and bought some food from a food truck - mix of Doner meat and kofte - but couldn’t finish it. Seemed to fill up very fast. Followed up with some Hotel Chocolat 70% hazelnut chocolate.
 
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