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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

I'm fasting for 4 maybe 5 days, so for the last three I've only had coffee with milk, herbal tea and oxo!

Getting back to normal after a (pretty well controlled) holiday and a week in hotels for work. It's the best thing I've found for lowering BS and blood pressure and not bad for weight loss either.

I hate it when your away and you've told people your dietary restrictions and you end up eating the fillings of a couple of sandwiches because they haven't bothered to get something else for you. This happened repeatedly last week! Rant over........
 
Dunno how you can last days like that. I salute you. I like 24hr fasts - long enough to make a difference for me but I can see my body resisting at some point that will force me for longer fasts....

My bg is coming down which I'm happy about! X


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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
 
B: Eggy bread (psyllium/Piri spices/eggs) fried in coconut butter
L: Smoked sausage diced cheddar few cherry toms and spinach leaves
D: Tilapia poached in chorizo butter with allspice and samphire and extra thick jersey cream and a couple of blueberries

Happy fuelled by LCHF
 
B: egg, bacon, sausage, mushroom
L: a Lidl roll, half with chicken liver pate and mango chutney, and half with Roses Lemon/Lime Marmalade and butter. Had Branston for the first time in years, yesterday, and my goodness it was delicious. WANT MORE.
D: Bratwurst and caulicheese, berries and cream

Had a couple of days of higher carb, to show my nurse what carbs did to me, as recorded on the Libre. Sooooo glad to be climbing back on the carb wagon. In just two days I got inflammation in hands and knees, worse concentration, worse digestion, and now have carb cravings. Funny how they lose their compulsion when you realise how grotty they will make you feel, eh? lol.
 
Breakfast cauliflower and chicken
Dinner peanut butter and celery
Tea prawn salad
Yogurt


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B Cinnamon crunch with almond milk & berries
L Poached egg on cheese on half Lidl toasted roll & butter
D Coconut fish curry with broccoli and cauli
S1 Mug cake
S2 Cinnamon crunch with butter & coconut oil added & baked again as a biscuit. But it turned out like granola.
 
Tues 28 / 6 / 16
B up early half a lild roll / homemade lemon curd
B Plain omelette
L 1 slice of cheese and onion quiche no crust / 1 pkt pork scratchings / half a can zero coke
S 2 pieces of 81% choc
D 4 slices chicken breast / caul / broc / 5 strawb / 5 raspb / 5 pieces banana / d/ cream
 
Yesterday (Tues 28/6)
B: Cup of tea
L: Tinned mackerel with 3-bean and mint salad; apple; piece of dark chocolate (75%)
D: Bowl of veg soup (with added chickpeas); full fat yoghurt with a multitude of berries and linseed mix; apple
Snacks: coffee, handful of nuts

Despite the somewhat austere nature of the above intake, I've recently begun to add slightly more carbs (eg a couple of small roast potatoes with my Sunday dinner; the occasional slice of toast with my porridge) into my meals. This seems to have had no effect on my weight, which has been stable (between 9st 2lbs and 9st 4lbs) for the past four months or so. I don't eat breakfast during the week, but do have porridge at weekends (and sometimes as a replacement evening meal if the rest of the Canasta clan is whooping it up with pasta, pizza, fish 'n chips, etc), so perhaps the regular mini-fasting is helpful in this regard. I've also found that breakfast is more a state of mind than anything else - found it difficult to go without the first few times, but now don't even think about it, and can't say I've noticed any diminution of energy/concentration/physical strength in the mornings.
 
B- sausage hp roll
L- chicken salad
D- chicken breast stuffed with goats cheese, mushroom courgette,tomatoes and red pepper

Plus and hour at the gym


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B: cin crunch And cream diluted with water. I think i prefer it to crunchy nut cornflakes - which is no small statement! Hahaha!
L: olives, pepper, feta and one sausage
S: too much 70% choc
D: tinned salmon and mayo followed by caulicheese and sugarsnaps. Low food stock atm.
 

Love the sound of that crunch . Is it the one from alldayidream?
 

Like my croissant treat on Sunday that gave me the runs within an hour!!


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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
 
Fast day

D Bolognese courgetti (it was yucky but are it anyway!), whipped cream with melted dark choc and flaked almonds.

Really feeling full and need to reduce portion sizes I think...


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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
 
B-yogurt with raspberries
L-soft garlic and herb roule with lettuce
D-chicken and cauliflower cheese
Followed by some blueberries and cream
 
B: coffeencream
L: cold chicken breast, brie, salad leaves, coleslaw
D: scrambled egg, smoked salmon, Lidl roll; Oppo ice cream
 
B-yogurt few blueberries
L-high protein roll with soft cheese
D-mackerel with scrambled eggs and bacon lardons
 
B: Chia pudding & strawberries
L: Sukrin roll with butter, cheese & Marmite; raspberries
D: Curried turkey steaks, mashed avocado with lemon, paprika & cumin, roast red peppers
 
B bacon and eggs, coffee

L crayfish avocado salad

D Bolognese sauce with mozerrella, choc chia pudding, melted square of dark choc and dollop of cream.

Feeling really stuffed. Need to look at portion sizes as I really don't need so much and am just greedy



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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
 
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