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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

10ish small portion of kefir with supplements then one slice of bacon,egg and mushroom fried in butter served on LC toast
2ish nibble of stilton and a few walnuts and one square of lindt 90% chocolate
5 ISH roast chicken and 2 chipolatas served with a few carrots and one small hm roast potato served with glass of dry white followed by DGF low carb blondie warmed and served with spoon of ff yoghurt.
Had hoped to finish clearing loft over weekend but a few more days work needed on it yet -how did we get all that stuff up there including some bits of furniture,! Anyway booked a BHF charity van collection for end of the week so that at least feel done some good.
@DJC3 sounds like a lovely birthday weekend for Paul - Happy belated birthday to him. We are not doing dry January - we try to have at least 3 to 5 alcohol free days a week most weeks in the year instead it seems to work best for us.
 
Antje77 said:
I'd have the one of these I felt like eating most for today and chuck the rest in the freezer, together with part of your unmentionable soup (I've been a member here for long enough that even I know what the soup is! :hilarious: ).
Then eat the soup again tomorrow and maybe the day after.

Unless your feet are not up to cooking lamb or fish today, in that case just have the soup and maybe smoked salmon for starters or a snack.
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When it came to it, I just shoved the whole lot, apart from the soup, into the freezer. Just didn't feel the need for any more food. Kept the smoked salmon out and will have that tomorrow, probably for breakfast.
 
shelley262 said:
10ish small portion of kefir with supplements then one slice of bacon,egg and mushroom fried in butter served on LC toast
2ish nibble of stilton and a few walnuts and one square of lindt 90% chocolate
5 ISH roast chicken and 2 chipolatas served with a few carrots and one small hm roast potato served with glass of dry white followed by DGF low carb blondie warmed and served with spoon of ff yoghurt.
Had hoped to finish clearing loft over weekend but a few more days work needed on it yet -how did we get all that stuff up there including some bits of furniture,! Anyway booked a BHF charity van collection for end of the week so that at least feel done some good.
@DJC3 sounds like a lovely birthday weekend for Paul - Happy belated birthday to him. We are not doing dry January - we try to have at least 3 to 5 alcohol free days a week most weeks in the year instead it seems to work best for us.
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I think the alcohol free days throughout the year is a much better idea generally. January us already seeming a long month.
Good luck with the loft sorting. We found a black bin bag full of rubbish and used Christmas wrapping when clearing out for one house move. It was obviously meant for the dustbin at the time but accidentally got put in the loft instead and stayed there for 5 years!
Sorry should have put this in parallel thread.
 
Annb said:
When it came to it, I just shoved the whole lot, apart from the soup, into the freezer. Just didn't feel the need for any more food. Kept the smoked salmon out and will have that tomorrow, probably for breakfast.
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I’d have done the same. I often freeze stuff on its sell by date, that I’ve bought with a reduced sticker. It’s always been perfectly fine, and saves the stress of trying to cook it all at once.
 
Brunch of 2 rashers smoked bacon and 3 scrambled eggs. 1 cc chocolate pot, improved with 2 teaspoons double cream in top. Cwc
4 hours dancing! Well probably kept moving for 3 out of the 4 hours in total. Not too strenuous but the first since early December. Expecting stiffness at least tomorrow.
Was lovely to come home to perfect roast pork with crackling, broccoli and a mix of buttered seeds and carrots all cooked and ready on time by son.
Finished a good day with hm lc ginger cake and coffee ice cream
 
Two slices cheese on toast for breakfast.
Tiger prawns and sand crab meat, with a mixed salad for lunch.
Blue cheese and crispbreads for supper at six.

Several glasses of my single malt before bedtime.

I have been checking up to see what the new PBS safety net is in 2023, I only have to pay $6.80 x 36 scripts = $244.80 before I get free scripts for the rest of the calendar year. Twelve less scripts than last year.
 
It's just gone 11 pm and 40 minutes ago I was ab out to go to bed when my Libre started beeping at me and told me my BG was 3.4. It didn't feel like it. Usually at 3.4 I would start to feel a bit odd. Anyhow, I had a fruit pastille to counteract the hypo effect. Didn't work. Had a second one. After a while BG was 3.6 - not high enough to go to bed. Had 2 more fruit pastilles and am feeling pretty sick. Not sure if that's the hypo effect, or the sugar effect. I'll wait a while longer and see if BG will come up to a safe level before I go to bed.

Now 5.6 - I think I'm safely on the way up so I'll go to bed. Goodnight all.
 
Annb said:
when my Libre started beeping at me and told me my BG was 3.4. It didn't feel like it. Usually at 3.4 I would start to feel a bit odd. Anyhow, I had a fruit pastille to counteract the hypo effect. Didn't work. Had a second one. After a while BG was 3.6 - not high enough to go to bed. Had 2 more fruit pastilles and am feeling pretty sick.
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Please tell me you confirmed with a finger prick!
Libre is good, but I don't trust a Libre hypo unless I either have symptoms or a fingerprick tells me it's indeed a hypo.

Also, Libre is notoriously slow to recognise a rise after treating a hypo so I always use a finger prick to see if treating the hypo did the job after 15 minutes instead of waiting for Libre to catch up.

Sleep well!
 
Antje77 said:
Please tell me you confirmed with a finger prick!
Libre is good, but I don't trust a Libre hypo unless I either have symptoms or a fingerprick tells me it's indeed a hypo.

Also, Libre is notoriously slow to recognise a rise after treating a hypo so I always use a finger prick to see if treating the hypo did the job after 15 minutes instead of waiting for Libre to catch up.

Sleep well!
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Yes - I did check with a finger prick and it was only 0.1 out. Didn't check the 2nd time though. It was the sweetness of the fruit pastilles that made me feel sick, but it passed so no problems. I only slept for about an hour in bed. Dreamed that my whole left side was paralysed and painful and woke to my fairly new pain (arthritis?) in my neck and shoulder plus the very new one in my foot, joining up to give me the symptoms of my dream. Odd, b ecause I was laying on my right side. Got up then. Took the pain killers I should have taken last night and dozed in the chair for a while. BG was 10 on the Libre at that point; later 7.9; currently 11.4. Breakfast soon so it will start to drop again, I assume.

Breakfast will be scrambled egg with the smoked salmon - it's only a small pack.
 
OK - breakfast was scrambled eggs. Neil went to town so I asked him to get some cream with which I may make smoked salmon pate, but I am thinking about an experimental recipe which bakes smoked salmon as a kind of souffle mixture (but obviously not as light) between 2 pieces of salmon. I can probably be motivated enough to experiment, but bog standard cooking leaves me cold.

2nd meal - the remainder of the soup. That should do for today.

BG is behaving itself at present and staying in the 7's, which is excellent for me.

A friend of Neil and Alistair just called in. He is T2 diabetic - not on insulin - and he said his cousin, who is a doctor, told him that there is an injection that has become available, although not commonly used yet, which is injected into the abdomen and encourages weight loss. I've never heard of such a thing. Has anyone else? I asked to be told about it if he can get more information.
 
Annb said:
A friend of Neil and Alistair just called in. He is T2 diabetic - not on insulin - and he said his cousin, who is a doctor, told him that there is an injection that has become available, although not commonly used yet, which is injected into the abdomen and encourages weight loss. I've never heard of such a thing. Has anyone else?
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Ozempic?
 
Another day on project loft clearance including a long trip to nearest recycling center our flood barriers up here again today so town not passable while put up so long way round...
10ish a few spoons of kefir with my supplements
1ish mushroom and chicken omelette with spoon of kimchi followed by one square of 90% chocolate
3ish DGF frozen ginger cookie -needed a little reward
5ish slow cooked beef with one hm roast potato followed by DGF warmed chocolate mint brownie with spoon of yoghurt.
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Coffee and cream
Coffee and whipped cream
Beef and tomato
Roast Lamb and pesto (this was extra yummy, nearly ate it all)!
 
Today started with my usual low carb coconut porridge, before departing for holidays.
Had a few coffee shop cappuccinos, then ate out this evening. I’ll let the picture speak for itself, and yes there were chips involved but I didn’t eat the sauce! Blood sugars seem to tolerate this much occasionally, 5.3 before eating, 6.5 after one hour and back down to 5.0 after two.

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B-cheese omelette with ginger and turmeric sauerkraut.
L- DGF wrap filled with ham, Brie and lettuce. Few frozen raspberries and cream.
D- mince and broccoli fried together in butter, splash of soy sauce on top. DGF cookie and mug of tea with milk afterwards.
Still struggling to drink tea without milk. I’ve ordered some white tea and some rooibos to see if they are any easier.
 
B: ff greek with seeds and 8 blackberries
Exercise class followed by coffee ( well mint tea in my case)
L: an egg mixed with cream cheese and a little grated cheese then cooked in the waffle maker. Shouldn't really bother it's an awful lot of bother and mess where I'd be just as happy with it scrambled . 2 sqs hm coffee cake and a couple hm cheesey seedy crackers.

Usually eat evening meal at 6 but trying a new yoga class tonight so only bite or 2 while cooking for boys, then yoga
Meant I was hungry at 9 so ate a slice cold roast pork, bit of coleslaw, 2 seedy crackers and a bit cheese and 4 sqs Godiva 90% chocolate.
Far too much for this late, and tummy complaining now.

If I stick with this class I'm going to have to get better at having an omad day, but today I've been hungry all day!
 
DJC3 said:
Still struggling to drink tea without milk. I’ve ordered some white tea and some rooibos to see if they are any easier
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I like the herbal ones without milk. There's a turmeric you might like, or lemon and ginger. I find they taste different enough to black tea that I don't mind the difference if you see what I mean. I'm not substituting like for like but swapping to something different and therefore have different expectations. Just a mind con but it works for me
 
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