What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

JenniferM55 said:

Once again been a bit lax recording my day's meals, or should I say meal since I've had two days just eating one meal a day.

It's so easy to do one meal a day when we have to go out. Hubby had an appointment yesterday and today so being out of the house till dinner time is a great distraction. Tuesday he had the results of his Pet scan, the consultant said that it was 85% positive. In the words of my step daughter "85% is a distinction result" so we'll take that as great news. Today was an hour of physio, trouble was the appointment was at a hospital nearly two hours away, goodness knows how less mobile patients cope. Tomorrow we're out again, this time to SIL's, we've been invited for a coffee and mince pie before she goes on holiday for Christmas.... I'm just so worried about that mince pie, can my resolve really be corrupted by a hm full-carb mince pie?

Yesterday's meal was simple enough, it was a hm burger topped with cheese and served with swede chips. Today's meal was just as simple; leftover roast beef and gravy, served with creamed celeriac and sauteed mushrooms.

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If you are in remission I'd say you'll return to pre-mince pie level within 2 hours anyhow - not worth worrying about. Just smile and wave. If you aren't driving a tot of whisky/brandy/rum (or one of each ) with the mince pie should deal with it. I'm lucky in that anyone who may invite (my wife) knows I never ate them nor Christmas cake - even if I go as well. I'm also very anti social so it is unlikely to ever be a problem. Hugs for those who socialise.

B: ff greek with seeds
12ish a handful almonds
1:30 2 scrambled eggs and a nut bar
7ish takeout curry. I had the tandoori mixed grill and shared a sag bhaji (not a battered one, just cooked)
2 glasses red
9ish a coconut ice cream bar 13g carbs according to the packaging.

Interesting libre readings, 6 through the night. Rose to high 8s until 4:30 ish, which coincided with some relief of tension. My fears of sad news were confirmed, a relative has a terminal diagnosis, maybe soonish

Awaiting evenings readings with interest.

MrsA2 said:

My fears of sad news were confirmed, a relative has a terminal diagnosis, maybe soonish

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Yuck.
I'm so sorry. Wishing you and your relative as good a time as possible.

Antje77 said:

The rest of the afternoon was a cosy affair to do with sharing a blanket and some almonds on the couch with 5 small dogs, and at around 5 pm I remembered I had wanted to make slow cooked beef.

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That was yesterday, but today I put the beef on at around 2 pm, didn't eat until 9:30 so it was perfectly cooked!
I was going to make cauliflower mash to go with it but got caught up in working on my Sinterklaas surprise (we're celebrating late on sunday, my friend had to work on the 5th and 6th). And suddenly it was time to go to the gym, with an outdoor dip in the icy water afterwards, and when I came home I didn't feel like spending time in the cold kitchen to make mash anymore.

So I had it on a slice of low carb bread with mustard instead, very nice!
I'll do some vitamins again tomorrow.

ianpspurs said:

If you are in remission I'd say you'll return to pre-mince pie level within 2 hours anyhow - not worth worrying about. Just smile and wave. If you aren't driving a tot of whisky/brandy/rum (or one of each ) with the mince pie should deal with it. I'm lucky in that anyone who may invite (my wife) knows I never ate them nor Christmas cake - even if I go as well. I'm also very anti social so it is unlikely to ever be a problem. Hugs for those who socialise.

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Know from old that one leads to another one, then it's 'Hey but it's Christmas.....', I seriously can't be trusted. Afraid I'm the driver so alcohol won't be able to help in this instance .

So sorry it was the worst news you could get, @MrsA2. I hope you manage to spend some quality time with them.

Thank you very much, @ianpspurs. It was actually today. All was okay, but will need further appts & for them to sort me out. It was interesting to see the video results of a barium swallow I had a few weeks ago. I understood what the problems were, fascinating to actually see them though.

Dinner today was a tad naughty, my lovely nephew & my great nephew came to visit bringing kebab meat & salad for me, fish & chips for them. The chips & batter looker gorgeous, but I didn't pinch any. I'm still getting over the shock of that! I think my nephews might be too!

Only tea so far but have an experiment in the oven for Em's breakfast. It is a wholemeal wrap as a base topped with a 2 egg, very flat, omelette, then a layer of ham and a further layer of Dairylea cheese slices. There's enough there for both of us, but I will only have the topping and leave the wrap. If it works out, I can make it in future without the wrap as a base and maybe with more layers and maybe with different cheese.

2nd meal will be the last of the coq-a-leekie soup.

Leg wrapping day today - first outing of the new wheelchair - and shopping day. On the way home I will try to totter into the butcher's shop and get a supply of meat but I don't know what they will have in, so the list there is fluid.

So sorry to read about your relative @MrsA2 sad news somehow seems so much worse at this time of year.
@shelley262 and @ianpspurs re the KC xylitol, I probably wouldn’t have bought from them if I’d noticed beforehand but actually I’m glad I did. It’s a much nicer taste than erythritol. I’ll just have to be vigilant
@JenniferM55 I’m glad your hubby got a distinction! I agree with you, OMAD is so much easier if you’re busy and out of the house all day.
Forgot to post yesterday, spent a few more hours at the farm making up boxes with another lady who is carnivore so we had a good chat while we worked. They are all moving on to plucking the geese today, that’s way too cold a job for me so I’ll just be doing school runs and looking after grandchildren.
Nothing to eat until 2pm just black coffee at home and a mug of tea with milk while at the farm.
L: wrap made of very thin omelette, filled with roast beef and the last of the Glastonbury Burner cheese. KC cinnamon donut.
D: Swedish style meatballs ( creamy sauce rather than tomato based). They all had pasta with it, I intended to have courgetti but the courgette I knew was in my fridge had gone awol. Daughter said a random courgette had appeared in her fridge so I guess that was it but I don’t know why I’d have taken it there.

Oh well, Em didn't like the experiment and just had a wrap with Philly cheese on it instead. I thought it showed some promise. I think what she didn't like was the egg part. Maybe it's not for her, but I think it might be allright just with the omelette as a base. Maybe with some mozarella instead of the Dairylea.

JenniferM55 said:

Know from old that one leads to another one, then it's 'Hey but it's Christmas.....', I seriously can't be trusted. Afraid I'm the driver so alcohol won't be able to help in this instance .

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Morning @JenniferM55. Exactly what I was about to suggest. One mouthful reminds us of a food we once enjoyed at Christmases past and tends to lead to another. Alcohol tends to weaken our resolve, so may not have helped much anyway.

I take it your SIL knows you're diabetic and is aware of your husband's condition. If I were you, I'd enjoy a lovely cup of coffee and a good old chin wag with her and skip the pie. Surely, it's you and your husband's company that matters to her, not what you had to eat.

Morning all. Yesterdays carvery was excellent. Didn't have christmas pudding but ate the apple out of an apple pie with cream. They gave us all a mince pie and I brought mine home. I'm a sucker for them and I thought, at 85..... why worry? I've been good the rest of the day. So today I have home baked gammon with fried eggs for lunch (no bf) and pink salmon with mayo later. Maybe my 7.4 today will go down to 7.3 tomorrow!! Who knows. Have a good day folks.

LivingLightly said:

Morning @JenniferM55. Exactly what I was about to suggest. One mouthful reminds us of a food we once enjoyed at Christmases past and tends to lead to another. Alcohol tends to weaken our resolve, so may not have helped much anyway.

I take it your SIL knows you're diabetic and is aware of your husband's condition. If I were you, I'd enjoy a lovely cup of coffee and a good old chin wag with her and skip the pie. Surely, it's you and your husband's company that matters to her, not what you had to eat.

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Thank you, precisely the situation is exactly as you say. How many of us just might eat something at this time of the year because they don't want to disappoint. Food is so wrapped up in emotions, especially so when food is part of celebrations.

Evening all

Today:

B: two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, slices of avocado and crevettes all seasoned with black pepper.
Water to swallow tablets.
Espresso.

L: Walnut and mushroom nut roast made with onions, eggs and flax 'egg', garlic, stock and rosemary.
Brussels sprouts tray bake with pistachios, last of the home grown French Tarragon, orange zest and garlic butter.
Carrots, onions and apple peel sautéed in butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D: Planning to have a seafood salad with king prawns and brown shrimps, lettuce, Romano peppers, celery, baby plum tomatoes, Kalamata olives and lemon verbena, plus a dollop of home-made aioli for dipping, topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to swallow tablet.

Evening all.
Tea until 11.30 - not the normal amount just enough to make vein finding nice and easy but no comfort break walks needed
2 x 15 gms Advent calendar cheese - no babybels today, small slice ( <28 gms ) KC lemon drizzle cake, Adonis bar and CWC while having immunotherapy which actually drops bg 10-30-12.30
KC multi seed roll with corned beef and mug of tea 2.30 pm
Shepherd's pie - lamb mince, some mushrooms, celeriac topping but some mashed potato crept in - I know I react ok to that amount. Good amount of vit B12, B3, Zinc and iron, allegedly, so not the total nutrient desert I imagined. Good for protein - Cystine not quite 100%. again, allegedly. Any one else use Cronometer and trust it? Water to drink. 6.15 pm @JenniferM55 was today #mincepiegate? Hope it went well.

Small glass of kefir with my supplements before heading out
Lunch on return spoon of kimchi and sauerkraut with soft blue cheese and four lc olinas seed crackers ( I've got a good stash now thanks to waitrose) followed by spoon of berries and yoghurt
Dinner hm chilli con carne with LC garlic bread and glass of red wine followed by LC crumble and cream
@ianpspurs I sometimes have some potato too I par boil with skins on, cool and open freeze in roastie or chip shapes ,store in a bag in freezer, and then oven bake from frozen. I only have a small amount when include them in a meal and always eat them as the last part of my meal. I've found doing this I don't have a rise in my blood sugars - mind you I only do this occasionally and in small quantities. Potatoes in a big portion were a huge part of my diet growing up in the North as a coal miners daughter - they were very much a plate filler - so I find it comforting to include them at times.

shelley262 said:

Small glass of kefir with my supplements before heading out
Lunch on return spoon of kimchi and sauerkraut with soft blue cheese and four lc olinas seed crackers ( I've got a good stash now thanks to waitrose) followed by spoon of berries and yoghurt
Dinner hm chilli con carne with LC garlic bread and glass of red wine followed by LC crumble and cream
@ianpspurs I sometimes have some potato too I par boil with skins on, cool and open freeze in roastie or chip shapes ,store in a bag in freezer, and then oven bake from frozen. I only have a small amount when include them in a meal and always eat them as the last part of my meal. I've found doing this I don't have a rise in my blood sugars - mind you I only do this occasionally and in small quantities. Potatoes in a big portion were a huge part of my diet growing up in the North as a coal miners daughter - they were very much a plate filler - so I find it comforting to include them at times.

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I found instant mash - Idahoan since I live among 12k Americans - worked for me when I initially tried a couple of times so I was relaxed today. We use butter in those which I would never normally have (thought it barbaric) so fairly high in fat which helps I guess. A small (King Edward only) roast in goose fat is also fine - maybe twice a year. The Fen measure of a proper helping of mash is/was up to the peak of your cap - seated I always assumed.

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: gammon steak, with runner beans and mushrooms plus some left over hollandaise sauce.

Cast now in place on my leg, I chose purple!

Went to get my legs bandaged and was informed I had to have bloods done. If they'd told me beforehand I wouldn't have taken BP pills this morning. As it was my veins were all being coy. Eventually the 2nd nurse managed to get enough for 3 phials. A few bruises, but no harm done. BP was higher than I would like (159/95) but I was exhausted after pushing myself around in the medical centre on a carpet with too much friction for ease of wheelchair tires. Then found the chair wouldn't easily go through the door to the practice room. Had to take the footrests off to get it through. It was a different room to my normal one which actually does have a wide doorway.

Finally managed to get my log in to My Diabetes website sorted out so had a quick look at some of my blood results on there. Cholesterols up from last time, creatinine up from last time. but it noted that my raised level is what would be expect for a diabetic woman of my age. Not that I find that very satisfying; it's part of that opinion that says T2s just get worse and worse and there's nothing to be done about it. HBa1c up from last time. Nobody thought to contact me to see why. Not much else on the records - obviously our GPs don't bother putting much information on there. No mention of liver function. Bit disappointing after all the effort it took me to get them to recognise my log in details.

Black coffee x2 or 3
Brunch- fried mince with an egg broken into the middle 1/2 way through and grated cheese on top.
D-mild chicken curry using just garam masala, red pepper and coconut cream. Side salad and rice for them ( not pictured, no one needs a photo of boring rice!) KC raspberry traybake square with cream.

Did an emergency overnight dash to poorly relative. Was very chuffed that I thought to take nuts, nut bars and even a little pot of cream to keep as lc as possible... would have been better had I remembered to pack my toothbrush

today
No breakfast just coffee with quitea lot of cream
A few nuts while on motorway.
L: a few more nuts and a cheese and ham rollup
Big shop, planned to get ahead for Christmas but have to clear some room in the freezer ASAP.
D: 2 scrambled eggs witha little chorizo. A lidl protein pudding that came free on a coupon. 7.5g carbs but hasn't raised bg at all.

Bg suddenly peaked with some rushing around, changing plan type stress, and took a few hours to go down. Wasn't planning on testing bg with this Libre, but it's certainly proving interesting

Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Small avocado
Greek yogurt and sour cherry sauce.
Brie and cherry tomatoes