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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Morning all. I've not been posting as my eating has gone a bit (or a lot) haywire. Bit ashamed actually. But I'm back in charge and today I'm having pork steak with cauli mash and cabbage. I have some smoked trout for tea. I know you all understand when I go off my diet but I always feel that, at my age, I should be more in control. We'll see what today brings! It's a beautiful but cold day here, hope it is wherever you are. :)
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Morning all. I've not been posting as my eating has gone a bit (or a lot) haywire. Bit ashamed actually. But I'm back in charge and today I'm having pork steak with cauli mash and cabbage. I have some smoked trout for tea. I know you all understand when I go off my diet but I always feel that, at my age, I should be more in control. We'll see what today brings! It's a beautiful but cold day here, hope it is wherever you are. :)
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I should be wiser at my age too, Rosemary, but it doesn't seem to follow. I still crave carbs but I'm trying to keep as low as possible. It's not easy, but I have the added incentive of having a damaged liver and I want to give it a chance to heal itself, which may be possible by cutting right down on the carbs (my age may be against me on that). I have to keep telling myself that eating carbs is damaging my liver, every time I want to eat something carbilicious, and stop myself that way. It doesn't always work and then I just have to tell myself that I will do better next time.

Food today will be bacon and eggs for breakfast and the remainder of the beef stew for my second meal.

I've just ordered some more sausage skins from Amazon - so I expect the ones I've put away somewhere will resurface.
 
Hi All
Today usual brekkie slice of LC toast and lots of tea.
Lunch out with a lovely very elderly friend who I treasure, she is nearing 90 but is so interesting, inspiring and still sparky. Anyway our usual tea shop is closing down so last lunch of Coronation Chicken salad and pots of tea after.
Chilli con carne here tonight with cauli rice for me! Bit of a spicy day.
@RosemaryJackson I can easily fall into bad choices especially if I have had a gin & soda!!
 
10ish kefir with lemon and lime zest
1.30 usual go to quick lunch of mushrooms cooked in olive oil two fried eggs on LC toast followed by 100% chocolate and LC ginger cookie
5ish slow cooked chicken served on bed of cabbage and small glass of red wine followed by hm LC rhubarb crumble with yoghurt.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and DGF millionaires shortbread.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a phd bar.
Dinner: gammon, fried egg, cauliflower and peas followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.

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@maglil55 what a pain to have all those services disrupted, I hope tomorrow is better. Your water company sounds about as good as ours, they are always trying to patch things up and usually end up making things worse. We frequently turn on the tap to find the water looks like beer ( but doesn’t taste like it!)
Still feeling rough and achey with this cold and not enjoying coffee.
B- scrambled eggs with parmesan.
L- M&S lemon and garlic prawns in a DGF garlic and herb wrap ( I’m sure I’ve read that garlic is good for colds!) h/m yoghurt with seeds.
D- slow cooker beef bourguignon. DGF frozen cookie and copious tea.
 
Going to try to post this now:

Yes, Rosemary, 21 was the age I stopped counting at. My brain just doesn't accept that I could be any older than that. My body begs to differ!

Breakfast: bacon and eggs again, but a larger serving in the hope that I can avoid anything at lunch time.

2nd planned meal: chicken curry on courgetti. Neil has a better chance of getting courgettes than cauliflower when he goes shopping today (I hope). His blood pressure has been dropping worryingly low (35/50) so he's maybe not up to it. If he's not up to it, I'll have to ask Alistair to get some shopping for me when he finishes work.

Neil's blood pressure was high and the doctor increased his Ramipril dose, but it seems to have been too much. He'll have to try to get another appointment to talk about it. I haven't seen him yet today (bit concerning, but he was up doing his carpentry late last night) but he really didn't look very good early on yesterday. He did look better after a cup of coffee - he always finds that coffee puts his BP up.
 
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Trying to reply to Rosemary, but software won't up load it, so am trying to just post separately - won't give me access to do that though.
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Looks like there was a small glitch on the forum around the time you tried to post. I think this sometimes happens when the tech team is working on something.
Just let us know if it happens more often. :)
 
Antje77 said:
Looks like there was a small glitch on the forum around the time you tried to post. I think this sometimes happens when the tech team is working on something.
Just let us know if it happens more often. :)
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It has happened a few times in the past - always when the reply is fairly lengthy but it works when it is sent as a separate post. No problem, I can make it work.
 
Ah well. Plans having to change again. Neil didn't go shopping but, once he started feeling a bit better, he decided to empty a cabinet of china and glassware which he intends to incorporate into the new wall unit he is currently building. He put the contents into several boxes and put them onto the kitchen table to be washed before being put away again. It's a slow job and I've been doing it bit by bit all afternoon. DIL came in to pick up Em and was very happy to take away 2 boxes - one of Chinese/Japanese blue and white china boxes which I had collected over years and another of 2 Japanese tea cups and saucers which had been hidden away for years - we rarely used them because they were so fine that nobody liked to touch them. Neil didn't want them and they would eventually have been sent to a charity shop after I am gone. So DIL is welcome to have them now.

So, I haven't even started making the chicken curry yet and I don't have any courgettes anyway. So I guess it will be another plate of smoked salmon, ham and cheese. Feeling very hungry now, but the bacon and egg breakfast sustained me most of the day.
 
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