What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Goonergal said:

Hi all.

Seem to have joined the thread’s erratic BG club. Hoping it’s the current tub of strips.

FBG 4.3. Stayed in 4s all morning, 4.1 before lunch then shot up to 6.2 on smoked salmon and cream cheese! Still in 5s before dinner of ribeye steak with garlic butter.

Click to expand...

I beginning to hope that I have a pot of strips that are a bit “off” maybe it’s all the topsy turvy weather

I’ve just started a thread about SD Code Free dodgy readings, thinking about a change.

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: 1/2 tin of stewed steak with a few peas followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
Mid afternoon: raspberry Chia pudding and a black coffee.
Dinner: M&S prawns in minted pea pesto with cauliflower and broccoli salad, coleslaw and pork scratchings followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.

B. Half avocado on HiLo toast with lime juice and chilli. Black tea, black coffee.
Walk to cafe to meet friend for lunch.
L. Cheese and spinach omelette, lots more black coffee.
Snack after walk home. Lots of mixed nuts.
D. Vegetable chilli made with Quorn mince. Two cherry liqueur chocolates.
Hi Shelley, I hope the day went as well as could be expected under the circumstances although the food at the wake sounds challenging.

shelley262 said:

Hi all from a currently rainy and windy Yorkshire. Well funeral went as well as these things can he was relatively young well in my opinion as he was only one year older than me! His mum who is 86 and has terminal cancer was clearly lost but the service was very well done and comforting and good to see all the older generation together - in their 80s - my mum. Two aunts and an uncle all managed to have a good reminiscence together with my mum who’s 87 nearly 88 at the funeral lunch. Pleased could support my mum and other relatives. Went to drs too this pm and mum now on steroids as she’s not well but def bit improved this evening so it’s clearly her asthma from a cold rather than a chest infection. So hoping she’ll be well enough for pre operative assessment in morning at hospital.
Breakfast one slice bacon and egg
Lunch at funeral range of cheese ( other offerings people tucked into include pork pies, sausage rolls, bread and dripping, very bready sandwiches, scones and egg custards in pastry) pleased to find the cheese! Think I heard my polar opposite at the buffet she was complaining about the high fat content and that she’d need to take the fillings out of the sandwiches and pies and just eat the bread @nd pastry! She gave me quite a look when I just loaded my plate with piles of cheese and looked my thin body up and down suffice it to say she had a lot of middle!) you couldn’t make it up.
Dinner pork casserole with roasted butternut squash followed by LC lemon cake and cream.
Hope everyone had a good day.

Click to expand...

Glad everything went as well as it could, lovely for your mum to spend time with family and take a trip down memory lane, I’m sure this will have done her some good.
I love your bit about the lunch choices, I enjoy seeing people’s reactions when I pour cream in my coffee at work or mention egg and bacon breakfasts.

Hello from a very wet and windy Devon, by 4pm it was completely dark!
Another day of higher readings than I would expect so really not sure what’s going on, I think I need to take a deep breath and hit “restart” so with this in mind I have booked my next HbA1c test, hopefully this will motivate me.
Coffee with cream on waking
B 2slices of roast chicken with emmental cheese
L cauliflower cheese with ham hock pieces
Almond milk cappuccino and half PhD bar when I got home
D frittata with onion, peppers, cheese and ham followed by a microwave mug cake, not made one before and was pleasantly surprised.

Yesterday:
Breakfast - Couple of teaspoons of choccie coconut manna fat bomb, hazelnut decaf with hazelnut milk and truvia

Lunch - remains of my spicy minced lamb with aubergines, courgette and tomatoes; followed by a mix of ground hazelnuts, crunchy hazelnut butter, cocoa, .powdered erythritol, and hazelnut oil - a sort of porridge type pudding; mint tea. And just for fun: pre meal 7.0, 2hrs post meal 7.0

Dinner ready made cauliflower cheese which sounded great but tasted very bland, with some weird tasting crispy bacon - not one of my best dinners, but happily preceded by rather a lot of chocolate marzipan, scoffed while cooking it; turmeric tea.

Bedtime cocoa with hazelnut milk and last of cream.

Lots of lime flavoured water & a couple of pieces of lindt 85% choc.

Today: had a bad night with leg and ended up sleeping very late so nothing before lunch except water

Lunch: cold roast beef with baby cornichons, little gem lettuce, radishes and Hellmans; pumpkin bread with butter and my last tiny windfall apple. Turmeric tea,

Dinner - Heck 97% pork sausages with sprouts and baby leeks cooked in butter with parsley, rosemary, sage and sweet paprika; followed by fresh raspberries and some rather disappointing Oppo Raspberry Nipple ice cream so named as they've collaborated with a breast cancer charity; lemongrass & ginger tea. And another nice flat pair of readings; pre meal 6.8, and 2hrs post 6.7. (It gives me a a bit of a smile to see a bit of flat as a pancake when my overall levels are staying so high due to blooming leg.)

As usual plenty of water....

salted mixed nuts
salted canned spicy tomatoes
water
diet pop

My BG has also been erratic. Getting huge highs and lows, all within a few hours. Had a 9.1 this morning (my first "red high" since Sept. 9th) then a 3.2 this afternoon. Not eating anything different.

Had a sandwich with low carb bread, cold cuts, and sliced veggies - tomatoes, cucumbers, and red peppers.

Cooked some chicken breasts. Going to chop up some veggies, add mayo, and make a chicken salad. I'm not a very inspired chef.

@jayney27 and @neithskye I have huge sympathy for you both re the problems of unexpected changes to patterns of bg levels. I would guess you are both way more phlegmatic than I am but it will still be some kinda #traumagate. Hang tough you'll emerge triumphant - I have taken to howling at the moon

ianpspurs said:

@jayney27 and @neithskye I have huge sympathy for you both re the problems of unexpected changes to patterns of bg levels. I would guess you are both way more phlegmatic than I am but it will still be some kinda #traumagate. Hang tough you'll emerge triumphant - I have taken to howling at the moon

Click to expand...

Thank you. I was so concerned I went and saw my doctor today. She wasn't worried. I stopped taking Jardiance last week (still on Metformin) and was only diagnosed in July (so still quite new to all my lifestyle changes) so it's probably just things rearranging themselves.

ianpspurs said:

@jayney27 and @neithskye I have huge sympathy for you both re the problems of unexpected changes to patterns of bg levels. I would guess you are both way more phlegmatic than I am but it will still be some kinda #traumagate. Hang tough you'll emerge triumphant - I have taken to howling at the moon

Click to expand...

Thank you for your support, this condition really is a mystery and so unpredictable. I won’t give up, the horrors that could result from that route are not part of the future I want for myself but I will not let it rule my life either. I know what I have to do and I hope that in the long run I’m doing enough to tame this beast.

Morning oh wise ones. 2 questions. From whence hail the IP silicone trivets and is their purpose to stop/slow down heat transfer in some recipes? I need to find some love for this device - slow old job but we have moved from outright hostility.

Hi everyone. Didn’t manage to post last night so a quick one this morning before I forget.
Yesterday breakfast smoked salmon 1/2 avocado and a scrambled egg. Coffee cream
No lunch as bgs still in mid 5s ( self imposed rule - no lunch til I’m in 4s)
Dinner- DD keto chicken casserole. This was no sort of casserole at all but was very nice anyway. A couple of glasses of red.
Later went round daughters and had more red and some almonds.

@shelley262 I’m glad you made the funeral and were able to support your mum. The food sounds like standard buffet fare - all beige carbs so common. I wish I could have seen the puzzlement on the other lady’s face at your plate of cheese - that would have been me not so long ago though.

Good morning all. Hope you are all enjoying the weekend.

Yesterday, still a bit careful with food...

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol.

Lunch: Soup with chicken, duck, eggplant, fennel, celery, pumpkin, edamame sprouts and snow peas, red curry paste, chicken broth and coconut milk. A small piece of low-carb carrot cake. Half a glass of red wine.

Dinner: Very small serving of cauliflower mash with cream and cheddar, three tablespoons of beouf bourguignon. Two squares of 95% chocolate.

Forgot to mention: A couple of teaspoons of lupin bean hummus to taste while I was preparing it.

ziggy_w said:

Lunch: Soup with chicken, duck, eggplant, fennel, celery, pumpkin, edamame sprouts and snow peas, red curry paste, chicken broth and coconut milk. .

Click to expand...

Your soup sounds delicious. Is it an actual recipe or did you just make it up with stuff you had to hand?

Got my BG down from 8.7 before egg n bacon breakfast yesterday to 7.1 at 11.30 after walking 4 miles across London from Victoria for a Craft Guild of Chefs lunch. Salmon, Steak lots of butter on veggies, bubbly, red wine, white wine, port then a 4 mile walk back to the station and a ‘good for me’ 6.4 at 4.30pm. Train home, then met a friend and had 3 more glasses of red. Then I think I found out why they say don’t drink alcohol when on Metformin. At 8.30, just before my dinner arrived I rushed home and spent 2 hours on and off vomiting. So no ParkRun this morning :-( Egg n bacon at 10pm then I got all motivated and ran 10km at lunchtime today, my legs hurt and my blooming weight is still falling :-(

shelley262 said:

Hi all from a currently rainy and windy Yorkshire. Well funeral went as well as these things can he was relatively young well in my opinion as he was only one year older than me! His mum who is 86 and has terminal cancer was clearly lost but the service was very well done and comforting and good to see all the older generation together - in their 80s - my mum. Two aunts and an uncle all managed to have a good reminiscence together with my mum who’s 87 nearly 88 at the funeral lunch. Pleased could support my mum and other relatives. Went to drs too this pm and mum now on steroids as she’s not well but def bit improved this evening so it’s clearly her asthma from a cold rather than a chest infection. So hoping she’ll be well enough for pre operative assessment in morning at hospital.
Breakfast one slice bacon and egg
Lunch at funeral range of cheese ( other offerings people tucked into include pork pies, sausage rolls, bread and dripping, very bready sandwiches, scones and egg custards in pastry) pleased to find the cheese! Think I heard my polar opposite at the buffet she was complaining about the high fat content and that she’d need to take the fillings out of the sandwiches and pies and just eat the bread @nd pastry! She gave me quite a look when I just loaded my plate with piles of cheese and looked my thin body up and down suffice it to say she had a lot of middle!) you couldn’t make it up.
Dinner pork casserole with roasted butternut squash followed by LC lemon cake and cream.
Hope everyone had a good day.

Click to expand...

I loved ‘She had a lot of middle’ That old bread and pastry diet

I have given up trying to control my BG because control means doing things that will give me a BG I expect.
I am having to settle for merely influencing it to be better than it might have been if I’d fed myself yummy food.

@Geoffno6 you’re doing a fantastic amount of exercise - you say the weight is still falling off, are you trying to lose weight?
I hadn’t heard that you’re not supposed to drink alcohol with metformin, but I’ve certainly found that I can’t drink as much since I’ve been doing lchf. Probably just as well.

B. 2 HiLo toast with crunchy peanut butter, black tea, black coffee.
3 mile walk along the Thames then two art galleries.
L. Tuna nicoise
Snack. Mixed nuts
D. Fried cod, mushrooms with greens.