What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[IanBish]

Evening @IanBish. Which low carb "pasta" would that be?

Your experiment with cooked, cooled and reheated macaroni sounds interesting. Please post your findings.

Evening @LivingLightly, the "pasta" was from NLC Kitchen.

I've read that starch-resistant pasta doesn't really work, but I'll give it a go. After all, I can afford to waste a few HbA1c mmols. I'll be sure to post the results.

 

[Annb]

Evening @LivingLightly, the "pasta" was from NLC Kitchen.

I've read that starch-resistant pasta doesn't really work, but I'll give it a go. After all, I can afford to waste a few HbA1c mmols. I'll be sure to post the results.

I am intending to try tomorrow. I already have the pasta cooked and in a tomato sauce (left from the food I prepared for my guests who were unable to come to visit on Saturday). 2 trials are better than one since we all react in different ways to different stimuli.

 

[IanBish]

Might try that myself tomorrow.

Please post your numbers. Or a graph if available.

 

[Annb]

I'm not technologically smart enough to figure out how to get Libre results onto my laptop so input results into a spreadsheet every so often to let my diabetes team see how it's going. Will be doing that today for my own benefit, but might attach it to a post here. Starting BG now is 6.9.

 

[sueh21]

Morning all, fingers crossed for good results on the pasta experiments
B Yog, raspberries, coconut
L Egg mayo, parma ham,salad, slice of livlife with butter and marmite
D Chilli con carne, cauli rice. Itsu seaweed thins. Trying to keep my B vitamins up

 

[IanBish]

I'm not technologically smart enough to figure out how to get Libre results onto my laptop so input results into a spreadsheet every so often to let my diabetes team see how it's going. Will be doing that today for my own benefit, but might attach it to a post here. Starting BG now is 6.9.

I don't think you can upload data from the LibreLink app, but you could either do a screenshot or share the image of the graph if that's easier.

 

[Annb]

I don't think you can upload data from the LibreLink app, but you could either do a screenshot or share the image of the graph if that's easier.

I'll be attaching my spreadsheet graph. It's the only way I know to get it on screen. So far, so good. BG is dropping, but it's early yet. I'm checking every half hour to see when it does start to rise.

 

[Annb]

I mistakenly put this on the wrong thread, so am copying it here.
This morning's results:

I took my normal insulin that I would take with any amount of carbohydrate, about 15 minutes before eating. Peaking at plus 2.8 but dropping again quite quickly, it seems to work for me. Only problem is pasta is not very filling and I've been hungry for more carbs all morning. I do think that having carbs just feeds the craving. I suppose it means that I could have a small amount of pre-cooked and chilled carbs alongside a larger amount of protein. This is not to say that eating carbs won't make the weight pile on again.

Today I am going to have 3 meals (another minus point) because I don't feel as though I've eaten anything yet. So I'm off to get some cold meat or fish to make a quick snack.

Libre started yelling at me that BG was dropping too low (3.9) so I just had a couple of dates to stop the drop. Now will get some ham or something.

 

[Annb]

Thought I had an unopened pack of ham but there's none. Justg took a cold sausage and a piece of cold pork out of the remaining pot au feu to try to stop the drop (currently at 3.6). That, after the 2 dates should do it.

 

[Annb]

Now there's a different problem - can't stop my BG dropping. I keep eating something - so far 5 dates, 2 sausages, some cold pork, a cup of coffee with cream and a cup of tea with milk and, in desperation, a line of milk chocolate from a bar (5 small pieces) and it is still dropping. Each time I eat, it rises by one plus points and then drops down again. Not really sure what to do about it.

 

[Antje77]

Now there's a different problem - can't stop my BG dropping. I keep eating something - so far 5 dates, 2 sausages, some cold pork, a cup of coffee with cream and a cup of tea with milk and, in desperation, a line of milk chocolate from a bar (5 small pieces) and it is still dropping. Each time I eat, it rises by one plus points and then drops down again. Not really sure what to do about it.

Did you double check with a finger prick?

It might be you suddenly need a little less basal for whatever reason. (Happened to me last month, very annoying.)
Remember, if you're low already, you don't want to mess with proteins or a splash of milk in your tea, you need to get your numbers above 4 as quickly as possible, which needs quick acting glucose.

If you tend to keep dropping, you'll want something with carbs that keep on doing their thing for a longer time. When I had the basal issue, I ate some crisps right before bed. Because they are both carby and fatty, they tend to keep my BG up for many hours. Which is why I don't eat them anymore, they're impossible to dose for for me. But exactly that trait makes them perfect to prevent nighttime lows when my basal is on the high side.

 

[Annb]

Did you double check with a finger prick?

It might be you suddenly need a little less basal for whatever reason. (Happened to me last month, very annoying.)
Remember, if you're low already, you don't want to mess with proteins or a splash of milk in your tea, you need to get your numbers above 4 as quickly as possible, which needs quick acting glucose.

If you tend to keep dropping, you'll want something with carbs that keep on doing their thing for a longer time. When I had the basal issue, I ate some crisps right before bed. Because they are both carby and fatty, they tend to keep my BG up for many hours. Which is why I don't eat them anymore, they're impossible to dose for for me. But exactly that trait makes them perfect to prevent nighttime lows when my basal is on the high side.

Fingerpricks correlate with the Libre (couple of decimal points out). Had 2 clementines and that has brought my BG up to 5.8. Maybe tomorrow I'll reduce the basal dose. I have had mostly fairly low readings over the last while with a few spikes.

 

[shelley262]

10 ish kefir then two boiled eggs and LC roll
1 ish kimchi, cheese and four lc seeded crackers then two squares of 90% chocolate
5ish hm Bolognese with a few bits of LC pasta then LC Blondie warmed and served with a few spoons of yoghurt.

 

[IanBish]

@Annb That's interesting. However, I don't take insulin, so my result may be slightly different.

Anyway, for lunch I had a sourdough corned beef sandwich. So for dinner I just had a small, air-fried chicken. There wasn't much on the legs, but the breast was lovely.

 

[IanBish]

Spent today packing and eating up food likely to go off in the fridge as we’re off to London tomorrow for my annual scan Wednesday. I’ve just been checking restaurants near our hotel for likely candidates to eat at. There are loads, including Lebanese and other Middle Eastern places all of which serve baba ganoush which I love. The chat on here has set my tastebuds tingling. I feel a baba ganoush crawl coming on!
Todays food - kefir and coffee
L poached salmon, boiled eggs, avocado, red pepper, h/m mayo mixed with Tabasco.
Mid aft - h/m yoghurt and seeds
D- air fried chicken breast cut into strips and coated in a mix of pork panko and Parmesan. Sprouts cooked with bacon, large mushroom stuffed with butter and the rest of the panko/parmesan crumb. DGF cookie. View attachment 65774

That looks lovely!

 

[Antje77]

Tomorrow at 1 pm will be my yearly appointment with my endo. Lab results are already in, everything is fine (except I'll have to do some explaining on my low hba1c, no problem, I've already adjusted my basal, which she'll accept), and still I'm nervous enough to not fancy food.
I was properly hungry this afternoon but couldn't think of anything I wanted to eat so I eventually had a slice of LC bread. High time for my second meal but no idea what I want to eat again.

Oh well, I'm not at risk of starving anytime soon, so who cares.
Worst case scenario will be pork scratchings with aioli in bed, which is fine as well. But I'm sure glad I only see my endo once a year, no matter how well she works with me!

 

[Annb]

@Annb That's interesting. However, I don't take insulin, so my result may be slightly different.

Anyway, for lunch I had a sourdough corned beef sandwich. So for dinner I just had a small, air-fried chicken. There wasn't much on the legs, but the breast was lovely.

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Not taking insulin means that your results will be clearer than mine, which was bound to be skewed a bit. But I was looking for what works in my situation. Your results will show what works for you.

 

[LivingLightly]

Tomorrow at 1 pm will be my yearly appointment with my endo. Lab results are already in, everything is fine (except I'll have to do some explaining on my low hba1c, no problem, I've already adjusted my basal, which she'll accept), and still I'm nervous enough to not fancy food.
I was properly hungry this afternoon but couldn't think of anything I wanted to eat so I eventually had a slice of LC bread. High time for my second meal but no idea what I want to eat again.

Oh well, I'm not at risk of starving anytime soon, so who cares.
Worst case scenario will be pork scratchings with aioli in bed, which is fine as well. But I'm sure glad I only see my endo once a year, no matter how well she works with me!

Evening @Antje77. Here in the UK, it's known as white coat syndrome.

The anxiety of being around doctors (with or without their white coats) is something few of us are able to control. This time tomorrow the agony will be over for another year and you can concentrate once again on preparing a good square meal for supper.

 

[LivingLightly]

So for dinner I just had a small, air-fried chicken. There wasn't much on the legs, but the breast was lovely.

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Evening @IanBish. Perhaps you needed to tackle those chicken legs like Henry VIII.

 

[LivingLightly]

Evening all

Today:

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

L: Salmon fillets baked with broccoli, mushrooms, double cream and lemon verbena.
Steamed carrot batons and French beans smothered with butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D Seafood salad using tiger prawns, brown shrimps, lettuce, baby plum tomatoes, celery, Romano peppers, cucumber, Halkidiki olives and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic, parsley and garlic vinaigrette, topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to swallow tablets.