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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

I think 6 hours on laptop and phone trying to get phone maker to accept phone back has done me in. And they still got my address wrong. So order cancelled.
My food intake for the day has gone spiral.
Coffee and cream
Creme Fresh salmon and tomato
Ham and tomato
I ate the whole tub of creme Fresh!
Calories off the planet and carbs 25.1
 
Annb said:
Nothing to be in awe about in me. I always feel so inadequate when I think of how my mother just carried on, despite everything and how my brother drives himself to recover from really serious conditions. When I think, as well, of all the multiple conditions people on this, and other threads cope with alongside their diabetes. I just get by.

Didn't get my cauliflower cheese until about 2.45 pm - just in time to eat it before Em came in from school. Left me a bit hungry so I've just made a big colntainer of raspberry cream (just mashed raw raspberries and double cream), Having a small bowl now and will make some kind of cheesecake with the rest. Very nice, but I shan't eat too much - there were rather a lot of raspberries to use up so it will have a few carbs in it.
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Don't underestimate yourself. You have so much to face yourself and do so in good humour.
 
DJC3 said:
I’ve Not managed to post for a while and the DCUK app I use has stopped sending me notifications ( since 4th Aug) so apologies if anyone’s tagged me anywhere.
I’ve been trying to skip breakfast, mostly with success. Today was just black coffee until around 12:30
L- Feta and spinach omelette with salad and chilli&garlic sauerkraut. DGF cake with clotted cream.
D- https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-chicken-caprese-casserole which I make quite often but use chilli pesto which I prefer to the green one. Steamed broccoli and a glass of red.
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Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs with a knob of butter and avocado slices seasoned with black pepper, plus a wedge of Teifi.
Water to swallow tablets.
Espresso.

L: Salad using salmon fillets poached first thing with black peppercorns, salad onions and lemon juice, then refrigerated.
For lunch, combined with lettuce, watercress, avocado, cherry toms, celery and sweet cicely, dressed with olive oil plus a touch of lemon juice, lemon verbena and garlic, topped with toasted almonds.
Skipped pud.
Water to drink.

D: Seafood salad made with king prawns, mussels, chicory, Romano peppers, Welsh onions, Kalamata olives and mustard cress, with a dollop aioli for dipping, topped with toasted pumpkin seeds.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
maglil55 said:
It is very good. I've made it more than once and the non low carbers don't realise it's LC.
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Deffo on the menu for Sunday. Son and his Fiancé are coming over. Having Traditional Coffee and Cake. Hes fit thank god, but once he saw how I lost weight and was able to build muscle with a transplant and pre-diabetes, It nudges him to more concern in his diet.
 
shelley262 said:
@Rachox impressed by your hba1c going down - note that you are changing meds and hope you have one prescribed that works for you to help you carry on managing your bgs as well as you do alongside eating low carb.
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Thanks @shelley262! I changed from Metformin to Victoza in the spring to kick start some much needed weight loss. Over my nightmare last three years I put on two stone. I’ve lost over one and my head is in a much better place now. So in view of not being able to get Victoza now, I had a decision to make, go back on Metformin or go drug free. I’m going for drug free!
 
B: ff greek with seeds and the last of the mango puree - thank heavens! I think it might have triggered cravings

Dancing, but sat out the last 2 suddenly very tired.

L: half an avocado and half a tin of salmon on lettuce with mayo. One tomato. About 30g weight of 85% chocolate . Later 1 ice cream lolly.

Not feeling well, headache, nausea and very tired. Oddly the soles of my feet are tingling. Bg is 6.9.
Dozed most of the afternoon except when accident prone hubby cut himself and I had to fix him.

19:30 4 hm seedy crackers with pate, 6 large strawberries with cream.
Legs still very tired. Don't know if last nights yoga session unleashed something or if i have else, a cold maybe? Head is very foggy
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: cheese and mushroom omelette.

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Mallyman said:
Any particular reason? I love it as it is only 2 Cabs per 100g. The fritters I made were amazing and very tasty.
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I'm not all that keen on the taste of cauliflower but it's OK if it has something else to flavour it. However, it dislikes me rather more than I dislike it. Turns me inside out. I keep on trying because it is so easy to use and I keep thinking "maybe next time will be allright." But it isn't. So no more.
 
Eating seemed to be 'on the hoof' today, so meals have been fragmented. Had two appointments at the surgery today, the first with the pharmacy nurse, and the second with the diabetes nurse. The first appt could have been handled over the phone, but the 2nd appointment with the diabetic nurse was brilliant. She said I was in remission, music to my ears - Hba1c came in at 42! She asked about my diet, and just said to keep doing what I'm doing.

Had to do some shopping, then spent the afternoon down the hospital with my husband, he needed to have an ultrasound scan and biopsy. We didn't get back home till around 7.

Skipped breakfast, had chunks of corned beef and coleslaw for lunch.

Didn't fancy dinner, but cooked my husband a salmon fillet and veg.

Did have some double cream with a spoonful of cocoa stirred in.... yummy.
 
Morning all. I'm not yet back 'in the loop' so to speak but am getting there slowly. But I have to say to @Annb, don't put yourself down so, they are all right, you are amazing how you keep going. You put me to shame! I am full of admiration for you. So be proud of yourself, you too @maglil55. I am not yet back on the right food track but am trying hard. Yesterday I had battered fish (the last of them), done in the oven, then cottage cheese and tomatoes for tea. TodayI have airfried chicken with cauliflower and broccoli. No idea what's for tea. I'm fasting till lunchtime now whereas I had been having toast for bf which is something I haven't had for ages. My brain seems to have gone AWOL for a while!
 
Annb said:
I'm not all that keen on the taste of cauliflower but it's OK if it has something else to flavour it. However, it dislikes me rather more than I dislike it. Turns me inside out. I keep on trying because it is so easy to use and I keep thinking "maybe next time will be allright." But it isn't. So no more.
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Hi Ann. Im sorry to hear that. Try it with Brocolli. Same tasty fritters.........Just greener;)
 
Mallyman said:
Hi Ann. Im sorry to hear that. Try it with Brocolli. Same tasty fritters.........Just greener;)
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Planning to ask Neil to get me broccoli next shopping day and try that alone. I usually mix it with cauliflower so results are not good, but alone it might be allright. Worth trying anyway.

Breakfast: mushroom omelette. 3 eggs, closed cup mushrooms, cooked in butter. Still feeling rather hungry though. It should be enough to keep me going for hours, but I suspect not today.

2nd meal should be salmon with some courgettes.

My left foot and ankle have been one solid, immovable block for the last while, and very painful to put on the floor but yesterday evening, I found that I could actually move my ankle and today it is much less painful so I shall get back to walking with the zimmer frame and Neil can put the wheelchair back in the car. My niece's husband was diagnosed as having plantar fasciitis but when the pain travelled up over the top of his foot (as mine did) his doctor changed the diagnosis to tendonitis. Whatever mine is, it is some sort of "itis" and seems to be settling itself down now. Maybe soon, I will be able to tell the podiatrist not to bother.
 
Had streaky bacon and sauteed mushrooms cooked in butter for elevenses, 2x G&Ts relaxing in the garden, got rib-eye steak for dinner with sauteed cauli rice and French green beans from the garden. Will be cooking up a chilli in preparation for tomorrow's dinner, obv remove the kidney beans in my portion, and replace rice with sauteed caul rice.
 
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Hi All
today usual brekkie of slice LC toast cooled, thick butter and two large mugs builders tea (often omit this detail)
lunch was a brunch meeting up with friends at cafe where I had sauteed mushrooms with butter & cream on small slice sourdough toast (two came but slid them over onto one) and it was very tasty
supper chicken, chorizo, red pepper stirfry with paprika mixed with cauli rice.
 
Busy day so mainly black coffee and tea through day apart from at 12 ish yoghurt and a few blackberries with my supplements
5pm sea bass in lemon butter with garden green beans and a few cooked from frozen hm new potato chips and two glasses of dry white wine then LC brownie and two squares of 90% chocolate - got the chockky taste!
@MrsA2 keep going you are very good at helping others and I'm sure you make a difference.
 
Great results @JenniferM55 and @Rachox. @Annb - my left foot (and ankle) for you; my right foot and ankle for me! I'm glad to say I can walk again. I've been hobbling around downstairs without a crutch, but I'm still unsteady. Crutches are, therefore, positioned in strategic points just in case. Eldest grandson also persuaded me to venture out with just one crutch as he was "there to support the left" if I needed it. I made it. Just to the car but it's a step forward.

Bed 5 5 FBG 5.7

B. Just water until much later as I was ferrying DIL on errands after school runs.

Much later, LC mixed Berry granola with 4 blackberries and sugar-free coconut milk. Benecol dairy free and TAG!

L. Nothing

D. Boys were here, and I was persuading Hubby to have a plate of broth too.

Me? A bit later than usual, a cheese and ham toastie made with SRSLY bread, and lettuce, tomato, mayo. CC little chocolate pot.

If I can get Hubby eating properly again, I can get some of the mounds of protein that has been consigned to the freezer back out. Currently, I'm just raking about for anything I can find. I'm glad to say the swelling/inflammation is now localised in the big toe. Maybe tomorrow it will be gone?20230823_184447.jpg
 
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