What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Antje77 said:

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

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Never mind those vitamins, had the same thing today, this time with the natural gravy. Worked well with the bread!
I did have a good portion of chicory leaves with hummus as a midnight snack last night, will have the same today, and this will have to do for veggies.

Lots of goings on today keeping me from making that cauliflower mash, and all good things too!
I haven't been sleeping well for the past 3 weeks because of pain in my neck so I made an appointment with the GP. The ownwer GP's of the practice I don't like at all, and neither seem the people who work there to do, those locums seem to be using revolving doors going in and out, and I never see the same person. All fine with me, anything's better than the owners.

Today I hit the jackpot: Locum GP took his time reading through my records, didn't understand why the rheumatologist hadn't ordered an MRI already and ordered it himself!
He also didn't agree with me not getting enough sleep from pain, and prescribed tramadol to be used for two days at least to catch up on sleep, and use responsibly afterwards.
Turned out he worked as an internist in Germany, and spent years working in a rheumatology department in hospital before deciding to spend his last years before retirement as a GP.

And then I got another Sinterklaas present with a wonderful poem in the mail. I think the poem applies to all of us, so here's to you! https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...aps-recipes-anything-goes.198916/post-2663248

ianpspurs said:

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.

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It was easy to dodge the mince pie today, SIL apologised for not doing any baking as she's off visiting her daughter for a month on Monday. So it was a doddle to refuse the shop bought offering.

Thank you for the info about celeriac, I use Cronometer too and hadn't noticed that 100g of celeriac contains almost half of our daily need of Vit K. Strangely I was only watching a quick Dr Berg clip a couple of days ago where he stated that Vit K foods can help remove calcium build up around the heart. Think celeriac and cheese mash should now be a weekly staple in our house.

As it was a drive of over an hour to SIL's house I only had a glass of water for obvious reasons. Then had a cup of coffee until we got home, having dinner around 5pm. Today was my third day of only having one meal. Hoping the effort will be showing good results.

G&T as soon time allowed after getting home. Homemade meatballs on a bed of tomato passata, a small onion which was seasoned with Italian seasoning and chilli flakes. Towards the end of the cooking mozzarella cheese was added as a topping. Had leftover mashed celeriac from yesterday's dinner, fried.

2 squares of Lindt 90% chocolate.

Will be having cocoa with cream, frothed, before bed.

Hi All
Yesterday usual brekkie of slice LC toast, butter, copious tea.
Lunch was out with friend at a veg cafe and was a very tasty smashed avo on sourdough toast with poached egg and half cooked tomato. Didnt eat all the sourdough as was large slice.
Supper was stirfried beef with ginger, lemon and something else (?) from the farmshop with red & yellow pepper matchsticks added.
Today same usual brekkie.
Lunch will ham and eggs, ham needs moving along! Tea likely.
Supper will be chunky cod fingers with broccoli move along from Firsday!
@MrsA2 sorry for your bad and shocking news. @Rachox glad the new cast is on must be more comfy, purple is good!

Breakfast: cheese omelette

2nd meal: spicy chicken with some shredded Brussels sprouts and mushrooms

Em had 2 toastedand buttered crumpets and a cup of tea before going to school. Would have preferred her to have some protein but she wasn't in the mood this morning. Seems not to have slept very well but she went off to school cheerfully enough. Poor sleep was due to the new pup her mum bought and had taken home for her. It's young and was in her bedroom and snuffling around during the night. Apparently a cross between an American bulldog and a black labrador. Just what's needed to make life easier!

Turkey steak, cottage cheese, rocket, cucumber, plum tomato, 1 sourdough crumpet - I don't normally have the crumpet but I've checked my bloods a couple of hours after and we are all good

For dinner tonight I'm planning a burger with large flat mushrooms as the bread bun and maybe cauliflower cheese because I'm obsessed with cauliflower right now (just a small amount of gram flour used to make the roux).

I've eliminated most sugars, especially the added sugars, I'm pretty low carb usually between 30-70g per day, I can't remember the last time I went over 90g in a day (is this low carb enough for this thread??). I am eating higher protein and higher fats, the fats is my next part to tackle to ensure im doing that healthily enough and it doesn't have a detrimental effect in the future. I'm taking things one step at a time which is working great for me, upping exercise is the next step too.

It's a lot to work out but I'm proud of my little self and despite the scales saying I've lost nothing my clothes seem to be getting bigger so I'll take that!

When I pre heated the air-fryer in preparation for cooking last night's dinner, I discovered I'd left some Tesco chipolatas in the oven from that morning. They were pretty charcoaled when they were discovered. I had 4 of them for lunch, I find well done sausages rather flavoursome . Also had a mug of cocoa made with cream and frothed. Cocoa must be a comfort phase I'm going through,

Had an early dinner of shepherd's pie. The topping was mashed swede and celeriac, which was topped with Jarlsberg cheese, with Red Leicester cheese on top of that. The Jarlsberg cheese melted like mozzarella does in strings, with the Red Leicester making a nice crunchy top, bit like pastry. Hadn't tried Jarlsberg before, I think it might be a staple, it worked really well with Red Leicester.

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Rushkami said:

Turkey steak, cottage cheese, rocket, cucumber, plum tomato, 1 sourdough crumpet - I don't normally have the crumpet but I've checked my bloods a couple of hours after and we are all good

For dinner tonight I'm planning a burger with large flat mushrooms as the bread bun and maybe cauliflower cheese because I'm obsessed with cauliflower right now (just a small amount of gram flour used to make the roux).

I've eliminated most sugars, especially the added sugars, I'm pretty low carb usually between 30-70g per day, I can't remember the last time I went over 90g in a day (is this low carb enough for this thread??). I am eating higher protein and higher fats, the fats is my next part to tackle to ensure im doing that healthily enough and it doesn't have a detrimental effect in the future. I'm taking things one step at a time which is working great for me, upping exercise is the next step too.

It's a lot to work out but I'm proud of my little self and despite the scales saying I've lost nothing my clothes seem to be getting bigger so I'll take that!

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And you should be proud of your little self! It is a lot to take into consideration to begin with but it looks like you are doing well. Even if the scales don’t show a loss yet, the fact that your clothes are looser is very encouraging.
Welcome to the thread!

2x black coffee first thing.
11am goats milk kefir
Lunch- 1/2 KC pizza - base topped with sour cream ( I much prefer it to tomato sauce) salami, olives, peppers and mozzarella. H/m yoghurt, blueberries and seeds.
Dinner - Three cheese, broccoli and ham bake. Ok but lot more trouble than it was worth so deleted it from my CMT. Salad with it and Montezuma’s Absolute black to follow. Tea with lactofree milk.

Before going out small kefir with my supplements
Lunch stick of fenland celery, blue soft cheese and four lc seeded olinas crackers followed by a spoon of berries and yoghurt
Mid pm shared LC KC cinnamon donut - I warm it up from frozen in air fryer and add extra cinnamon I have about a third and OH the rest they are quite big.
Dinner salmon, sweetheart cabbage and a couple of chips - using frozen par boiled new potatoes oven cooked in olive oil - and glass of dry white wine followed by LC brownie.

Coffee and cream
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Porchetta and tomatoes
Herring and smoked salmon tomatoes.
Coffee and cream

Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs with a knob of butter and avocado seasoned with black pepper plus a wedge of Leckford washed-rind cheese.
Water to swallow tablet.
Double espresso.

L: Packed lunch made with leftover walnut and mushroom nut roast.
Chicory, Romano peppers, celery sticks and baby plum tomatoes with a dollop of home-made mayonnaise for dipping.
Prawns and brown shrimps
Almonds, hazelnuts and brazils.
Strawberries to round off lunch.
Water to drink.

D: Smoked salmon and cream cheese salad made with lettuce, celery, baby plum tomatoes, salad onions and mustard cress, dressed with olive oil and a touch of lemon juice, topped with toasted sunflower seeds.
Water to swallow tablets.

Middle son’s birthday today but he’s in Winchester. Festal Matins in the Cathedral Christmas morning was wonderful last year but we all know what memories bring, they bring diamonds and rust. Family meal in MK Sunday - easiest drive for everyone
Tea and generous dessert spoonful of peanut butter - crunchy, no palm oil or added salt, as breakfast/for tablets
Adonis bar - double choc crisp
Avocado and cheddar, CWC with s/f caramel syrup and Ceylon cnnamon
Akami Tuna sashimi (very high in Vit B12 on Cronometer) - treat when ordering Christmas meat, hamper, cheese hamper - because of the scooping Gorgonzola which JKP now loves, and a fish hamper. Also bought an Octopus tentacle - rude not to really - JKP bought some real faggots - she looked pleased so all good. @filly and ordered a porchetta to collect early, cook and have cold over Christmas - nicer than the gammon of Yore in our old age view. Worthers original from a cardigan pocket anyone?
Salmon (wild) salad topped with toasted pine nuts, water
@Rushkami yes, be very proud of your little self; @JenniferM55 I do like Jarlsberg but from a large uncooked hunk never cooked with it, also like Red Fox uncooked ; @shelley262 I had fen celery (in the salad) but getting near the end of season. Think I've run out of Cinnamon doughnuts but JKP makes them - silicone pans are much smaller the KC ones I need 3.

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 an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: salmon and cream cheese on a LC roll with coleslaw.

Rushkami said:

It's a lot to work out but I'm proud of my little self and despite the scales saying I've lost nothing my clothes seem to be getting bigger so I'll take that!

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Take a good leather belt and mark which hole you started at, then each one that you go down.. Much easier to see results on that than fickle scales. I went down at least 5 holes and had to buy a new belt to wear. I still keep the old one as motivation though

MrsA2 said:

Take a good leather belt and mark which hole you started at, then each one that you go down.. Much easier to see results on that than fickle scales. I went down at least 5 holes and had to buy a new belt to wear. I still keep the old one as motivation though

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Very good idea!

Mid morning 2 cheese and ham rollups.
Was doing batch cooking ready for Christmas, soup for the starter and some veg to go with the main.
Also a big pot of veg soup for now, using up last years turkey stock and a bag of frozen mixed veg.

L: a bowl hm veg soup

D: venison grillsteak with swede chips and green beans

Out for Xmas social, so 3 white wine and sodas.

10pm munchies : pate on 4 olinas seed crackers and a small avocado

Gammon to cook today, so I'd better start that fairly soon. Might manage some baking as well, depending on how long Em sleeps for (she's in my bed at present, making up for lost sleep having to get up early to come here when her dad goes to work).

Breakfast (soon) will be bacon and eggs.

2nd meal will be more of the spicy chicken from yesterday.

Morning all. Very dark morning almost depressing. A bit dopey this morning. No sleep the night before last and too much last night. Can't win! Christmas lunch today , only one more that I have no control over then back to normal. Will try very hard not to have the pudding. Then a no-carb tea. Maybe I won't do too much damage. Tomorrow I'm going to my granddaughter's and we will go to our favourite restaurant where they know I'm diabetic and I can control it. I shall have lamb shank and veg and they don't put any potatoes on my plate. Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Yesterday - especially to share with those of you who love good food but are lazy cooks like me -

Brunch: 2 x hardboiled eggs with Hellman's Mayonnaise.

Dinner: Handful of walnuts and hazelnuts. Grilled lamb Barnsley chop with sprouts and cauliflower. 1 glass brandy to follow.

I don't normally list what I drink, but just for a change - 2 glasses sparkling water, 4 black coffees, 1 cup of black tea, one cup of hawthorn tea.

Break fast - 2egg white omelet with mushrooms, tofu fry, coconut chutney, cauliflwoer fry. Almond milk coffee.
Snack - Almond milk coffee