jayney27
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Yes, it was in the oven in less than 5 minutes, and only the bowl that I mixed the eggs and cream in to wash
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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)
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Kingmidas
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Brekkie: low carb bread with peanut butter (How had I forgotten about peanut butter?!) Tea. More tea 
Lunch: almost got stuck as I was in Costa with husband and EVERYTHING was bread, more bread, cakes and biscuits ... then I saw a tuna nicoise salad. Phew. Cold brew coffee.
Snack: SF jelly
Dinner: steak and salad and my first low carb Clafoutis. Wow! Absolutely delish. Had mine with extra thick double cream. Now comfortably flup (full up)
Lunch: almost got stuck as I was in Costa with husband and EVERYTHING was bread, more bread, cakes and biscuits ... then I saw a tuna nicoise salad. Phew. Cold brew coffee.
Snack: SF jelly
Dinner: steak and salad and my first low carb Clafoutis. Wow! Absolutely delish. Had mine with extra thick double cream. Now comfortably flup (full up)
DJC3
Master
Brekkie: low carb bread with peanut butter (How had I forgotten about peanut butter?!) Tea. More tea
Lunch: almost got stuck as I was in Costa with husband and EVERYTHING was bread, more bread, cakes and biscuits ... then I saw a tuna nicoise salad. Phew. Cold brew coffee.
Snack: SF jelly
Dinner: steak and salad and my first low carb Clafoutis. Wow! Absolutely delish. Had mine with extra thick double cream. Now comfortably flup (full up)
I’ve had that problem with Costa too. It’s such a pain. I tend to go to Pret a Manger now if There’s a choice. There are more carb friendly choices there, plus you can get a filter coffee for 49p if you take a reusable cup!
Your clafoutis looks fab.
Kingmidas
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It's really good! I was beginning to get a bit disillusioned with puddings but I'm only a few months in to low carb so haven't had time to really experiment. There's more variety than I thought
DJC3
Master
It's really good! I was beginning to get a bit disillusioned with puddings but I'm only a few months in to low carb so haven't had time to really experiment. There's more variety than I thought
I agree - I tried it last week when I’d taken the grandchildren out blackberrying - they helped me make and eat it afterwards!
I haven’t done a lot of puds either though, I usually stick to sf jelly and cream or berries and cream - just laziness really.
Thank you @maglil55
I have for several years just focussed on BG too. Until I had a scare recently, I was ticking along nicely, though HbA1c had been teetering on the brink. The shock was the recent 52 HbA1c up from the previous 41.
I do use Myfitnesspal, too. I find it overestimates calorie expenditure on exercise though.
I do find I struggle with too much food, yet still seem to stay same weight. Done IF for a while, and tend to eat between 1pm and 8pm most days. I am wondering if I need to eat something earlier, as my fasting BG is always the highest of the day. I like the diet doctor site.
Had a lovely birthday, thanks everyone who has sent me birthday wishes
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: Skinny Café pancake with bacon and SF maple syrup followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries and a spoonful of LC chocolate granola.
Mid afternoon at Nero’s cappuccino and a raspberry PhD bar.
Dinner at Jamie’s: Tuscan lamb which was ‘Slow-cooked lamb breast rolled with a Tuscan-style herby stuffing, served with sweet & sour peppers & salsa verde’ (10g carbs according to the website) Then I looked at the dessert menu and saw berries mentioned in a meringue concoction, so asked if they could do me a bowl of berries and cream, they obliged, and added mint leaves for decoration, however hubby who had opted for no dessert, just coffee ended up having banana and cream, as they must have decided my berries looked too red, so added chopped banana which hubby duely relieved me of!
However when the bill came there was no charge for my pud, so all in all very good. Blood sugar pre meal 5.0 and 2 hours after 5.1 I’m very happy as I feel like I ate way too much fruit! 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: Skinny Café pancake with bacon and SF maple syrup followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries and a spoonful of LC chocolate granola.
Mid afternoon at Nero’s cappuccino and a raspberry PhD bar.
Dinner at Jamie’s: Tuscan lamb which was ‘Slow-cooked lamb breast rolled with a Tuscan-style herby stuffing, served with sweet & sour peppers & salsa verde’ (10g carbs according to the website) Then I looked at the dessert menu and saw berries mentioned in a meringue concoction, so asked if they could do me a bowl of berries and cream, they obliged, and added mint leaves for decoration, however hubby who had opted for no dessert, just coffee ended up having banana and cream, as they must have decided my berries looked too red, so added chopped banana which hubby duely relieved me of!
However when the bill came there was no charge for my pud, so all in all very good. Blood sugar pre meal 5.0 and 2 hours after 5.1 I’m very happy as I feel like I ate way too much fruit! 
ianpspurs
Oracle
@Pipp MFP and calories on exercise is definitely way off. Personally, I totally disregard that part and rely on scales. My hunch is @shelley262 is onto something with the 3 small meals per day. A few members seem to have highest numbers where breakfast would be when on IF.
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jayney27
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Peanut butter has always been one of my favourite things and now I can eat it without guiltBrekkie: low carb bread with peanut butter (How had I forgotten about peanut butter?!) Tea. More tea
Lunch: almost got stuck as I was in Costa with husband and EVERYTHING was bread, more bread, cakes and biscuits ... then I saw a tuna nicoise salad. Phew. Cold brew coffee.
Snack: SF jelly
Dinner: steak and salad and my first low carb Clafoutis. Wow! Absolutely delish. Had mine with extra thick double cream. Now comfortably flup (full up)
Clafoutis is lovely isn’t it, I made my first low carb version this week.
I have been thinking perhaps I should forget about the 8 hour window to eat and perhaps add cream to coffee, and have that as soon as I get up. I don't always feel like eating early, easpecially if I am going to the swimming pool in the morning. I have ususally had coffee black, but just this week started to add a little cream. Maybe just need that earlier.
jayney27
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Nice to read you have had a lovely birthday and enjoyed your lovely meal xHad a lovely birthday, thanks everyone who has sent me birthday wishes
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: Skinny Café pancake with bacon and SF maple syrup followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries and a spoonful of LC chocolate granola.
Mid afternoon at Nero’s cappuccino and a raspberry PhD bar.
Dinner at Jamie’s: Tuscan lamb which was ‘Slow-cooked lamb breast rolled with a Tuscan-style herby stuffing, served with sweet & sour peppers & salsa verde’ (10g carbs according to the website) Then I looked at the dessert menu and saw berries mentioned in a meringue concoction, so asked if they could do me a bowl of berries and cream, they obliged, and added mint leaves for decoration, however hubby who had opted for no dessert, just coffee ended up having banana and cream, as they must have decided my berries looked too red, so added chopped banana which hubby duely relieved me of!
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ianpspurs
Oracle
@Pipp If you really want an accurate measure of calories during exercise look up METS http://download.lww.com/wolterskluw...mss_43_8_2011_06_13_ainsworth_202093_sdc1.pdf Metabolic equivalents
This explains why they may help
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_equivalent
Much more useful then MFP IMHO. By far the most useful item I have is a chest heart rate monitor. METS and HR have probably been at least as important for what limited control I have as diet
This explains why they may help
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_equivalent
Much more useful then MFP IMHO. By far the most useful item I have is a chest heart rate monitor. METS and HR have probably been at least as important for what limited control I have as diet
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Moggely
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B. Well it was brunch really. 3 small left over chicken legs and half avocado very small salad. L. Green Matcha tea and several glasses of different drinks like water and lemon and soda water and more Matcha tea. D. Curried sausages. Maybe later sf jelly and cream.
Thank you @ianpspurs .
I have never taken much notice of the calorie expenditure on MFP, as it then adds the supposed spent exercise calories to the amount you have remaining to consume. Ridiculous and very misleading. I do use it to check the nutrients ratios though. I was also synching it with a Garmin fitness tracker which gave up suddenly a few weeks ago. It had been useful to track the effect of sleep, exercise, walking and food consumed etc on BG and weight. I am going back to basics, as I have a lot of unused or broken outdated technology to get rid of. Those basics will be BG monitor MFP, and no more stressing over CICO.
ianpspurs
Oracle
You are welcome @Pipp I use the fitbit for data and the free MFP to do some carb couting. I ilke the data on resting pulse, steps and sleep hrs. Don't think the absolute numbers are very accurate but definitely show trends which can then be used to analyse impact on bg. IMHO sleep and resting pulse are usually big clues as to what horrors or goodies the day will hold. Certainly help to put together a picture of how things unfolded. Obviously, hasn't helped me but hope springs eternal
Geoffno6
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Usual egg, bacon, sausage and double cream for late breakfast at 9.15. My freestyle libre has shown me two days in a row that my BG climbs hours before I get up. My levels were really high today so I did a two mile run in 20 mins followed by 20 mins gardening which brought me down from 10.5 before breakfast to 6.9 at 10.30, it’s now stayed down at 8 on the libre which seems to show 1 or 2 above the blood test.
Btw I use the Fitbit, it shows some interesting things such as how much higher my sleeping heartbeat is if I have a glass or two of wine in the evening
Btw I use the Fitbit, it shows some interesting things such as how much higher my sleeping heartbeat is if I have a glass or two of wine in the evening
Geoffno6
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Cheers @ianpspurs the cream used to have some fruit in it like an after breakfast pudding, sadly I’ve dumped the fruity option to decarb it more 
maglil55
Expert
I'm the same ( as are many of us). The good old dawn phenomenon. It's always the last to go. I commented the other day that it's still there - it's just my starting point is a lot lower these days so it only makes it to the 5's /low 6's before it turns again.
