Evening @LivingLightly, the "pasta" was from NLC Kitchen.Evening @IanBish. Which low carb "pasta" would that be?
Your experiment with cooked, cooled and reheated macaroni sounds interesting. Please post your findings.
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.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.
Please post your numbers. Or a graph if available.Might try that myself tomorrow.
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'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'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.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.
Did you double check with a finger prick?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.
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.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.
That looks lovely!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
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.@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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Evening @Antje77. Here in the UK, it's known as white coat syndrome.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 @IanBish. Perhaps you needed to tackle those chicken legs like Henry VIII.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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