Buyer beware! But yes, honestly, tablespoons in the recipes I've read and copied.Dude if I puke I'm blaming my gullibility on the fact this forum hasn't done me wrong. Yet.
Really, tablespoons??
some folks use it as a meal substitute.... so it has to be packed with go juice.Dude if I puke I'm blaming my gullibility on the fact this forum hasn't done me wrong. Yet.
Really, tablespoons??
Buyer beware! But yes, honestly, tablespoons in the recipes I've read and copied.
OMG - I can't imagine the day I'll be saying I don't want to lose any more weight! I'll be in my grave before then, I'm sure.Hmmm, it's taken me about a year, give or take, to nearly reach my target weight. When I started LCHF, it was a leap of faith, and, like you say, I don't think I was able to imagine succeeding! The other day I actually caught myself thinking about a maintenance rather than a weight-loss strategy! Wonders will never cease!
Never use a recipe for soup, but I make mine by sautéing a chopped onion in butter, adding fresh kale leaves (take the stems out) and chicken broth. Cook for about 10 mins then blend. I keep some kale back to begin with and add more kale / broth depending on the consistency. I like mine thin. At one time I would have added milk at this point, but now I stir in a tablespoon of double cream before serving. I freeze in portions without the cream. This is a VERY green soup! I am having it often as the kale bed in the vegetable patch is producing better than ever and hasn’t been attacked by caterpillars this year.Do you have a recipe for cream of Kale soup? Sounds delicious.
I've never really been a big bread eater so I'm not missing it, but thank you.
This weekend I've been on a camping trip...
B - 4 bacon, babybel, avocado
L - KFC - my daily carb allowance in one fell swoop. A couple of hot wings, a fillet and a "original piece" comes to about 25g carb - it's a naughty holiday treat as long as you lay off the fries.
S - pork scratchings, avocado
D - rump tails, babybel. After all this talk of steaks, here's my butcher's offering. After he's got all the rump steaks he can from a big piece of cow, what's left is too small for a proper steak. He takes these, called rump tails, and hammers them flat. He then soaks them in a garlic & chilli oil and sells them or £1.70 each. Flash fry them on your campfire for a minute each side - I can't get enough of them.
I was very proud of myself - my daughter and other kids were toasting marshmallows over the campfire and I didn't eat a single one! (got pleasantly hammered on red wine instead)
OMG - I can't imagine the day I'll be saying I don't want to lose any more weight! I'll be in my grave before then, I'm sure!
Dude if I puke I'm blaming my gullibility on the fact this forum hasn't done me wrong. Yet.
Really, tablespoons??
some folks use it as a meal substitute.... so it has to be packed with go juice.
Makes sense the 'whipped' part now... ok. I will google this.
In a bit.
Honest.
Na I'll prob just do it....
Admiration for imaginative planningI was stuck for two days in Saudi Arabia, so I took crustless mini-quiches - made with mushroom, garlic, spinach and ham - with me in a tupperware and stashed them in the hotel fridge with some cacao fat-bombs... I have eaten nothing else for two days, so nothing much to report...
Today will be eggs and bacon and another Bullet Proof...
Chicken soup for lunch, made with stock from the poached chicken
I think I'll try Geoffers' rump tails for supper, with cauliflower cheese and green beans, followed by berries and cream...
Bullet Proof chocolate before bed...
That's the plan - it could go egg-shaped, it often does...Tomorrow will be chicken, ham, mushroom and leek pie with an almond crust I think...
Nope.
I generally live in ketosis, which means that i dont have significant glycogen (glucose) stores in the liver. So if my bg dips a bit, my fuel is dietary or body fat, and my bg levels stay ok. Better in fact than when i eat carbs.
I had decades of fluctuating bg, including very inconvenient lows while i was moving through low carb to the point i am at now. My current lchf is the best (most stable) bg levels i have ever seen. My level rises a bit pre breakfast (that well known dawn phenomenon) to 6.5 to 7.5 then from breakfast onwards, my bg stays in the 5-6.5 range all day. If it rises higher, then i've eaten too many carbs.
A big protein breakfast (like yesterday), or a big meal like steak and salad will have my bg sitting in the low-mid 6s for hours. No need to eat or snack with that level.
Eventually i get hungry again, and that is the time to eat again.
I've never been a grazer. I find endless phaffing with tiddly little portions very irritating and a complete disrruption. Nowadays i usually eat 3 meals and no snacks (weekdays) or 2 meals and a snack (during the weekend). But nothing is set in stone.
Hi @Brunnaria,
Apologies for a question coming from left field here. Am I right in thinking that you have done various 'experiments' to reduce the effects of dawn phenomenon?
I've just been reading up about it again recently and wondered if you had ever tried tricking your body with the 'Cephalic Phase insulin release' - so the body's natural insulin response to the smell/appearance of food before it's even been eaten. If you feel like being a bit of a guinea pig (sorry for being so bold as to ask!) - I would be really interested to hear if smelling a jelly baby (or something super sweet) first thing in the morning curbs your BG rise.
I wanted to post the question to you directly, but I can't access your details.Sorry for throwing the thread off course everyone.x
Hi @Brunnaria,
Apologies for a question coming from left field here. Am I right in thinking that you have done various 'experiments' to reduce the effects of dawn phenomenon?
I've just been reading up about it again recently and wondered if you had ever tried tricking your body with the 'Cephalic Phase insulin release' - so the body's natural insulin response to the smell/appearance of food before it's even been eaten. If you feel like being a bit of a guinea pig (sorry for being so bold as to ask!) - I would be really interested to hear if smelling a jelly baby (or something super sweet) first thing in the morning curbs your BG rise.
I wanted to post the question to you directly, but I can't access your details.Sorry for throwing the thread off course everyone.x
I was stuck for two days in Saudi Arabia, so I took crustless mini-quiches - made with mushroom, garlic, spinach and ham - with me in a tupperware and stashed them in the hotel fridge with some cacao fat-bombs... I have eaten nothing else for two days, so nothing much to report...
Today will be eggs and bacon and another Bullet Proof...
Chicken soup for lunch, made with stock from the poached chicken
I think I'll try Geoffers' rump tails for supper, with cauliflower cheese and green beans, followed by berries and cream...
Bullet Proof chocolate before bed...
That's the plan - it could go egg-shaped, it often does...Tomorrow will be chicken, ham, mushroom and leek pie with an almond crust I think...
That is fascinating.
Somewhat inadvertantly, my experimentation kicked off again recently. I decided to do my own DIY version of Interminttent Fasting, but without risking the chance of any of those nasty hunger pangs. So I eat lunch and evening meal, and 'fast' for the other 16-17 hours a day. Except that I can eat fat during the 'fast'. Essentially, this means that breakfast is a cup of coffee with a good slug of double cream, which lasts me til lunch. And if I get peckish late evening, I have a mug of broth, again with cream.
I started it in the hope of triggering further weight loss - which has worked like a charm - after a 8 month plateau.
But the additional side effect is that my DP has definitely reduced. By an average of 0,5-1 mmol/l every morning.
I am delighted.
I will however have a sniff () at your 'cephalic pase insulin release' and see if it looks like a possibility. Although, I must admit that my first reaction on reading your suggestion was to question your sanity. When, in the history of the world, has a jelly baby been that close to a human nose and mouth and lived to tell the tale? (or set aside for sniffing the next morning?) I mean, REALITY CHECK, please!
Will let you know if I try it though.
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