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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Evening all, @shelley262 I know what you mean about the weather and feeling hungry, not very Easter like here, more like stew and dumplings weather!
Yesterday
B Coconut porridge, cinnamon and seeds
L Hummus,avocado and salad
D Slow cooker gammon, red cabbage,green beans and creamy garlic mushrooms
Today
B Yog,blueberries, seeds
L HM pea and ham soup, Ketochef roll,small piece of cheddar
D Gammon, green beans and a chaffle
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and another carb killa bar.
Dinner: cheese and mushroom omelette, not as neat as my usual offering!

 
Had a bit of a day so eating very haphazard ....
Coffee and cream
Yogurt and raspberries x 2
Cheese and tomatoes.
 
B: some cold chicken and cheese
2 good walks while exploring the NE coast in unexpected sunshine
3 pm lunch in a seafood restaurant ignoring all those eating fish and chips and bread and butter and mushy peas all around us. I had crab pate using just 1/3 of the bread supplied then seafood pot - nothing but fish and shellfish in a wine and garlic broth,
A glass white wine
He had squid with chorizo then seafood risotto and a beer.
When we came out weather had returned to cold rain so curtailed our plans.

This evening, a small chunk of cheese and 2 sqs 70% chocolate

Bg has been fine all day but have nasty headache this evening
 
Visiting family, also diabetic, surprised how low carb the lunch was, egg salad and cheese, dinner too, mince beef with onion on a bed of salad AND the pudding (frozen cream & raspberries thing) seems to be getting the right idea from somewhere now.

Was half expecting to be plyed with pasta and bread, ah go on, it’s a “treat” etc. but no, though, did mention before coming I was currently only eating meat and veg and dairy mainly, they didn’t make the food especially though.

Refreshing and shows how easy (and natural) it is to think cynically based on past experiences if don’t keep on top of that, even though I know from my own personal experience of change that people and things and ideas are always in a state of flux rather than a fixed thing, (although some more than others I guess) it’s only right to afford others the same luxury in my mind.

Doesn’t mean of course that people can get away with whatever of course, and depends on the situation, just how they are met, and expectations I mean.

Hard to explain lol
 
Well, I suppose that's to be expected @Antje77. After all domesticated ducks are larger than chickens.
I've not come across duck's eggs as yet, so we have that pleasure to look forward to.

We were once given some goose eggs and they were seriously large. I'd hoped to poach them for breakfast, but found the shells really tough and difficult to crack open, so ended up boiling them instead. They tasted richer than hen's eggs and made rather nice omelettes.

At the other end of the scale, we've been given quail's eggs in the past and I can certainly vouch for the flavour of those too.

All the above are diabetic friendly of course and very nutritious.
 
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Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, avocado and three crevettes seasoned with black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Walnut and mushroom nut roast made with onions, eggs and flax 'egg', (no breadcrumbs) garlic, vegetable stock and rosemary.
Vegetarian gravy
Steamed Brussels sprouts with toasted slivered almonds smothered with butter.
Carrots cut on the diagonal, onions and apple peel sautéed in butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D: Seafood salad made with mussels and brown shrimps, lettuce, Romano peppers, celery, baby plum tomatoes, Kalamata olives, flat-leaf parsley and salad onions, with a dollop of home-made aioli for dipping, topped with roasted macadamia nuts..
Water to wash down tablets.
 
Back to bacon and egg for breakfast. That seems to sustain me better during the day than anything else.

2nd meal will be cold pork slices, out of the freezer and maybe some cheese.

My evening meal yeserday was just poached chicken thighs. I would have roasted them but my oven needs cleaning after a spill of cake mixture from a Victoria sponge I was making (that's today's job). I poached them and finished them in a frying pan with butter. I was hungry and BG was in the 4's so that should have been fine. However, it still rose to 10.0 by bedtime. 10.7 this morning. That's on no carbs at all - apart from half a dozen chunks of pickled cucumber yesterday morning - and insulin before breakfast and 2nd meal.
 
Annb said:
I was hungry and BG was in the 4's so that should have been fine. However, it still rose to 10.0 by bedtime. 10.7 this morning. That's on no carbs at all
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Many people find that if they eat very low carb, they have to dose for some of the protein. Protein gives a much slower rise than carbs, so the insulin will have to be taken (much) later.
How much insulin, and how much later needs careful experimenting of course.
 
I didn't know that Antje. Explains some things.
 
Annb said:
I didn't know that Antje. Explains some things.
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Glad it explains some things!
The more tools you have the better you can regulate your BG.
I'm still amazed by how much you've managed to improve over the past couple of years, despite not getting much help from your diabetes nurse. A while back, I think you would have been happy with seeing only a 10 after eating!
 
You are so right. And to keep it at 10 I would have had to take a huge amount of insulin. Yesterday I only took about 8 units of Humalog - that's 52 units less than I would have taken a year or so back.
 
So nice to see some sunshine today even though it didn't last.
Kefir with my usual supplements mid morning (my kefir grains had to be put into hibernation in the fridge earlier this week to slow up my supplies. Just popped the grains in some milk in jar in fridge and then woke them up again yesterday. They woke up straight away and produced kefir in normal 24 hours - they are very lively grains!)
Lunchtime scrambled a couple of eggs and served with LC toast. Followed this with 30g of mixed nuts and a few squares of 100% chocolate
Dinner salmon served with English asparagus and a few oven roasted hm new potato chips cooked from frozen plus had a glass of dry wine. Had one large organic Spanish strawberry sliced and served with hm bifido yoghurt.
 
@shelley262 I think I will have to do likewise with my grains, it's a bit warmer in the house although oudoor temps are still very chilly - I keep forgetting spring holiday is very early this year.

Breakfast - a bit peckish so 3 sausages, 3 eggs, two fried tomatoes AND 3 slices of bacon!!

Greek yogurt and pumpkin seeds
small bowl pistachios

Dinner will be lamb steak with mushrooms and purple sprouting broccoli which is still producing loads - @IanBish I know you've had poor luck finding it in the shops (M&S have some I think but pricey) - might well be worth picking up a few small plants from the garden centre, they should be in in a few weeks and stick them in a couple of large tubs in the garden until next spring. That's what I did and from six plants I've had a pretty impressive crop, and given lots away to my neighbour. Apart from watering in the summer I've ignored them, even when they flopped over in the storms - they just grow right back up!
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: LC pizza with coleslaw.

 
@jpscloud and @Annb I went full carnivore for a month at the beginning of the year. It was great for BG control and I had no hunger at all. However I missed veg and found it had unpredictable and difficult to manage effects on my digestive system! ( ps well done on your fasting jpscloud)
@Shelley252 I’m envious of your English asparagus already.
I had granddaughters and their new 10 week old puppy to stay today so we had a lot of fun. (and a few little accidents)
B- bacon in lc roll
L- not very nutritious and I’m not particularly proud of this but it was a DGF raspberry bakewell and a couple of shards of the macadamia nut chocolates I made as an Easter treat to myself.
D- DD Swedish meatballs which are apparently very similar to the famous IKEA ones. I’ve never tried those but these are very good. Cabbage noodles to serve. Couple of glasses of zero sugar organic white wine.
 
Wow those macadamia nut chocolates look so good! And I think you deserve them after wrangling puppies and kiddies!

Edit: I'm trying to get as close to carnivore as I can - the more I do, the less hunger and much steadier BG. I still find cravings popping up while having meals though, but the fast was amazing this time, no cravings during the fast at all! Hope that carries on in the next fast (hopefully next week).
 
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Annb said:
You are so right. And to keep it at 10 I would have had to take a huge amount of insulin. Yesterday I only took about 8 units of Humalog - that's 52 units less than I would have taken a year or so back.
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It really is amazing what you've achieved once you started owning your diabetes!

Evening meal will be something Thai style with shrimp and mixed veggies. Neighbour thinks he's funny, I asked to keep the rice apart, he said it's noodles so don't worry and laughed his ass off.
He knows, and the noodles will be separate.

I also found out he's a man and can't multitask. He told me to stop touching him while cooking if I wanted to eat.

I winged the insulin dose, the sauce was pretty sweet, we'll see!
 

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Breakfast, and rather than opening a big tub of yoghurt, hubby suggested I have the plain corner from his strawberry ones.? Well that was a mistake, the nutrition label didn't specify what was from the yoghurt and what was in the strawberry corner. Well my libre says there was sugar in the plain corner. I tried a tiny bit of the strawberry and it was soooo sweet and processed tasting.
Never again

Mid morning a tea and a nut bar
A walk along the beach
A walk up down and around a castle
Shared at 2pm lunch of cheeses, ham etc. Hubby ate the bread and chutneys.
Late meal of brie and bacon, his on crusty bread. Mine with kimchi and coleslaw. 2 cooked figs (which didn't spike me on Monday... who knows now? Signs good so far)
 
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