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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

B: 3 eggs scrambled
2 coffees with cream
L: salad, out with a friend I hadn't seen since before covid, so too much chatter to notice what I was eating really.
Mid afternoon: 2 cream éclairs
D: pork chop, swede fries and cauliflower. 2 sqs 85% chocolate
 
Morning All. Have been struggling with a stomach acid issue for a week GP says may be an ulcer so am on a month of Omeprazole and easy to digest diet excluding red meat, spicy food and fatty food and no alcohol! So some of my usual lc choices might have to be sidestepped for a while.
Breakfast still toast but one small slice white toast with tea.
Lunch has been scrambled eggs, or boiled eggs, cold meat or small amount of crustless quiche with cucumber, coleslaw. Tomatoes to be avoided!
Supper yesterday was a baked chicken breast and green beans.
Supper tonight is chunky fish fingers and peas.
 
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Morning all. @PenguinMum, I also suffered from stomach acid. Had an Endoscopy and there was severe inflammation and large Hiatus Hernia. Put on the same , then Lanzaprazole, both caused bad tummy upsets but since I started low carb, it has almost disappeared! Gaviscon tablets were my bosom buddies but now just the odd one. Hope it soon calms down. Today for me it's sausages and eggs for midday. Tonight it's salad with a variety of cooked meats. Snack will be my 70% Lindt. Have a good day everyone
 
PenguinMum said:
Morning All. Have been struggling with a stomach acid issue for a week GP says may be an ulcer so am on a month of Omeprazole and easy to digest diet excluding red meat, spicy food and fatty food and no alcohol! So some of my usual lc choices might have to be sidestepped for a while.
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I was put onto Esomeprazole about 15 or more years ago because of "erosions" in my stomach wall. I am still on the drug and, as far as I am aware, the erosions are still there. The only thing that has helped has been reduced carbs and high protein/high fat. I still take the Esomeprazole though. I did ask one doctor why I was still taking it after all these years but he didn't know, so he said "try not taking it and see what happens". I did that but ended up with a bad pain around where my gall bladder used to be. So I still take it.

Recently a doctor has recommended eating more red meat to try to prevent anaemia.
 
I’m nearly 200 posts behind. So much for me trying to keep the habit. No high carb foods still, but too much snacking on nuts and 100% chocolate. Still waiting for latest HbA1c results but if I’m below 42 I’ll take that as a win.
Todays food was
L/roll filled with sliced beef, smoked cheese and coleslaw.
DGF cake
Some Montezuma’s 100% choc buttons
Some Brazil nuts.
Pack of Tesco rollitos
Wild mallard breasts, with roast veg ( courgette, aubergine, red pepper, mushrooms) couple of glasses dry white wine. I need to cut that out too.
There are blueberries in the fridge, no point pretending I won’t have them later with some cream.
 
10 ish a few spoons of hm yoghurts with my supplements
12ish a mushroom omelette cooked in butter served with kimchi - followed by a chopped up strawberry with hm yoghurts and two squares of 100% chocolate with hemp
5ish venison meatballs in hm passata and glass of red wine followed by lc blondie

Will not be recording daily food for a week or so - although hopefully I will read others menus when get opportunity. I’m away from tomorrow - busy caring for much of the time for a week and then hopefully will be away for a few days at a conference in Bristol (PHC conference) and meeting up with some wonderful friends. I’m so looking forward to catching up with good friends in just over a week. Planning to stay low carb though fingers crossed.
 
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Morning all. @PenguinMum, I also suffered from stomach acid. Had an Endoscopy and there was severe inflammation and large Hiatus Hernia. Put on the same , then Lanzaprazole, both caused bad tummy upsets but since I started low carb, it has almost disappeared! Gaviscon tablets were my bosom buddies but now just the odd one. Hope it soon calms down. Today for me it's sausages and eggs for midday. Tonight it's salad with a variety of cooked meats. Snack will be my 70% Lindt. Have a good day everyone
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Thanks for sharing your info for me its not reflux or heartburn but low down belly button area burning knawing that came on abt 10 days ago. I have a bile acid malabsorption so it may be related to that and just a flare up. Since I got 2 doses Omeprazole into me since Sat things have improved.
 
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I was put onto Esomeprazole about 15 or more years ago because of "erosions" in my stomach wall. I am still on the drug and, as far as I am aware, the erosions are still there. The only thing that has helped has been reduced carbs and high protein/high fat. I still take the Esomeprazole though. I did ask one doctor why I was still taking it after all these years but he didn't know, so he said "try not taking it and see what happens". I did that but ended up with a bad pain around where my gall bladder used to be. So I still take it.

Recently a doctor has recommended eating more red meat to try to prevent anaemia.
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Thanks for comments Ann and I know you have really walked the walk as regards tum issues. Since I started two doses of Omeprazole Saturday things have improved but I admit I don’t understand the diet advice either but if I can eat chicken and fish and green veg thats pretty much what I usually have. It seems fat digestion requires acid to break it down but I am not a big eater of fatty food so it may not be much change for me. Maybe I just had a flare up of inflammation. I admire how you juggle your issues with eating low carb. Makes me humble to complain.
 
I had my carbohydratre allowance this morning in 1 slice of white bread, toasted. That was breakfast.

2nd meal was Imam Bayaldi - I don't know that I would swoon over it (like the Imam) but it is very tasty. That means I've had no protein today at all, but I'll make up for it over the next day or so because I took another box of frozen food out of the freezer which was labelled "Roast lamb". And right enough, that's what it was, but there were several small packets of cubes of roasted lamb - all frozen together, so I couldn't just take out one packet. Had to defrost the whole lot.

So this afternoon I've made lamb tagine - enough for 2 meals, lamb and veg stew - enough for 2 meals and lamb and mushrooms waiting for some onions to be added to make a dish of some sort with them - again enough for 2 or 3 meals. After cooling, they can go back into the freezer - separated this time with greaseproof paper or foil, in single portion sizes. I'll need to do something tomorrow with the lamb and mushrooms for tomorrow's meal and put the remainder back into the freezer.

Neil has just made an experimental shortbread using soya marg and sorbitol. It might work, you never know. Still too much carb for me, but if he can make something that extends his possible meals, so much the better.
 
I’m behind too @DJC3 and also off piste a bit too much, so you’re not alone.

@PenguinMum sorry to hear of the gastric issues. I’m another with a hiatus hernia - recently discovered during a scan for something else entirely. It’s not terribly troublesome and I’m skeptical of almost all dietary advice given out by the NHS so won’t be making any changes. Hope your situation soon resolves.

Been on the road today. Worked from home this morning and ate the remains of a tub of Fage 0% mid morning.

Lunch was around 1.30 sitting on benches outside Euston station - picnic of cold Waitrose 1 free range Cumberland sausages and chicken drumsticks which had been coated with lemon pepper and air fried. Followed up with an 85% hot chocolate from Hotel Chocolat. Got the whip in a separate cup with a lid and kept it in my cool bag to eat on the train! Snacks on the train were a small (24g) pack of Serious Pig snacking cheese and a Graze box of chilli lime nuts.

Dinner was at German Doner Kebab in Birmingham - small beef gymbox.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Food Dr bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: roast chicken breasts stuffed with pork and apple stuffing, cauliflower, runner beans and a splash of gravy followed by SF orange jelly and cream.
 
Back from four days of sailing!

Didn't eat any meals with the group after hearing my skipper's verdict on their first day of cooking pasta with a very sad bolognese sauce, so I had a random eating pattern based on low carb bread with lots of butter and either cheese or meat (or both), sometimes with cucumber or tomato and mayonnaise added, sometimes without the bread. Also hard boiled eggs with fish/mayo, nuts, pork scratchings, strawberries and chocolaty nut squares.
Today will be the same sort of meal as I just came home after having a beautiful sailing day from Vlieland to Harlingen with 6 Beaufort (which sounds like blue cheese but is wind force, and quite a lot of it), and now I just want to enjoy being alone with my dogs and cats and not 28 other people and not cook!

I saw my neighbour who took care of the cats and guinea pigs hasn't used the cauliflower I bought for the guinea pigs, so I took a pot of meaty stew with lots of veggies from the freezer to have with cauliflower purée tomorrow, to make up for the lack of vitamins. :)

Nothing I ate during the week was worth photographing, so instead you'll get a picture of our sailing and one of my lucky little dog Wolf who found out the captain had some room left in his coat to keep her comfy during the sailing. :)

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1030hrs breakfast. Omlette with cheese, bacon bits, mushrooms and Peppers
1330hrs lunch. Ham with cabbage, 1 small boiled potato with skin on, a few peas and butternut squash.
1830hrs. Chicken curry leftovers from yesterday's dinner with cauliflower, broccoli and Corgette.
Didn't see any big spike 1 and 2 hrs post lunch with the veg I had. Wonder if the fat content of the ham held back a higher spike
 
Started well with breakfast of yoghurt with seeds and 6 blackberries, and 1 cold sausage.
Coffee with cream midmorning was supposed to see me through a busy afternoon.
Did exercise class and a couple of errands OK, but then hit the big shop.
Have visitors coming for weekend so shop included carbs, not many but felt so strange buying things I shouldn't eat, that whilst unpacking them I ate:
1 large cookie,
1 fairy cake,
4 chocolate covered marshmallows
Some brazils,
3 low carb brownies (just so there was room in the freezer for something else :banghead:)
4 strawberries
2 grapes

And then I still had dinner of steak and broccoli and a grilled tomato!!!

Why, oh why such a binge? I told myself I was just trying them to see if they were good enough for my guests... but I knew i wasn't really. Definitely something self harming going on. I was in my own and knew no one coukd see. Haven't tested but feel bloated.
Oh and the marshmallows were horrible, cheap chocolate coating and loads of gelatine
 
Morning All firstly @Antje77 thanks for great pics and welcome back and enjoy a quiet time with your animals and easy nutritious food.
Today just had my slice of toast cooled and thick with butter and tea.
Lunch will be a few cold bites from the fridge and yogurt that needs moving on.
Supper will be cod loin baked with a drizzle of Teriyaki sauce and green beans, probs the remainder of that yogurt. If I feel like it I might celebrate Friday with a gin & soda (taking @Goonergal comments about rogue diet advice to the wire, haha.)
 
Morning all. Thanks for all your comments. Hope we all soon start feeling better! Bg was 6.5 this morning so that's given me a boost. I'm skipping bf today. (Once upon a time I wouldn't dream of doing that! I was told bf is the most important meal of the day!) Midday, airfried belly pork. At my local butcher's, he cooks belly pork every Thursday with crackling to die for! Teatime I will probably have egg mayo and cress with 2 buttered Ryvitas. Have a great day everyone :happy:
 
Took my insulin 35 minutes before eating this morning - pushing it well back from the time I was advised by diabetic nurse - just an experiment. Breakfast - a ham sandwich using white bread - must make some wholemeal today. One hour after the sandwich BG was 6.6. Will see how that goes.

2nd meal will be lamb and mushrooms with some added fried onions and some spices - all reheated in butter. Probably needs some other veg with it.
 
Now that's odd. BG dropped as far as 5.0 by early afternoon and started to rise again to 6.4 by the time I was cooking my 2nd meal - late afternoon. I took another dose of insulin - reduced this time and intended to eat after half an hour but my dishwasher broke down. I didn't even notice, but Neil did, so of course, it had to be pulled out and examined. It took 3/4 hour before he could put it back in - even he's not sure what he did, but it's going just now. So I ate my meal 3/4 hour after dosing, by which time my BG had dropped to 4.0. It is currently still dropping and is at 3..4 despite 2 boiled sweets and some bread. I guess there is something in this timing business after all - just a matter of getting it right.

For that meal I fried a small sliced onion and some garlic, added the lamb and the mushrooms along with some garden peas (frozen) and a large spoonful of the courgette and mustard thingy I made a few days back and some paprika. I added some slices of potato as well which were sprouting in the cupboard, so I'd sauteed them to use them up. Tasted good and the potato should have been enough to keep BG up, but it wasn't.
 
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