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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Hello
Sunday
B. Red berries with yoghurt
L. We were travelling on the motorway. I was very hungry when we stopped for food and there was a Burger King. I though I would be fine with a cheeseburger if I left the bun. Then I saw a Cheddar Whopper advertised and thought that should be fine. I set to and started tucking in with great relish to this cheese patty. Three quarters of the way through I began to wonder if it was all cheese or whether potato had been added. I couldn't find nutritional information for it. They are advertised as 4 cheese. The bun was a strange red/orange colour so I was more than happy to leave it.
D. Camambert and walnuts. Raspberries and yoghurt.
 
Monday
B. Red berries and yoghurt

L. Camambert and roast ham.

45 minutes swimming

D. Smoked haddock with mushrooms, courgette and onion. Summer fruits with yoghurt. No pomegranate tonight.:(
 
B - 2 boiled eggs
L - massive salad - grated carrot, grated courgette, frozen soya beans, frozen ginger, frozen coriander, chopped fresh coriander, lettuce, green pepper, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, radishes, salt, pepper, a sprinkling of deactivated yeast flakes, apple cider vinegar, pinch of Splenda - with some home-slow-cooked ham, some home-brewed kefir cheese and half an avocado. No I don't have time to make this every day, but yesterday I made a massive bowlful of it which I divided into boxes for today, tomorrow and Wednesday
T - not sure what to have yet as the main feature, but it'll definitely feature some sprouts, some sugar-free jelly and some homemade yoghurt. Not on the same plate, though.

I normally snack a couple of times a day, and yesterday I made (and ate far too many of) some AMAZING pork scratchings out of the ham fat from the huge hunk of the stuff I slow-cooked the day before. For the good of my character I'm trying to avoid snacking on the scratchings today, just to see if I CAN.......

;)
 
Sunday

L: Ham salad
D: A Goose roast dinner, cheese and celery, some nice burgundy (both colours!)
To many choc coated ginger crystals, and finished off the xmas ale:happy:
 
B. Low carb coffee and walnut cake
L. Half Lidl roll with roast beef and mustard
D. Beef stew followed by a mini low carb baked lemon and raspberry cheesecake.. I do these in little ramekins now :)
 
Pre-breakfast (attempting to stave off liver dump between waking and breakfast; unsuccessfully) - about 100g of full fat Greek yoghurt

Breakfast- mini frittata (eggs, cream, pancetta, cheese and a small amount of onion)

Lunch - tuna salad with mayo

Dinner - lamb chops with broccoli

Snack (I was hungry today) - awfully posh pork scratchings

Drinks - water and 1 x cup of tea
 
Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs and a little slice of gravadlax

Lunch: Leftover chilli topped salmon from last night

Dinner: chicken in a creamy casserole with red pesto, feta and black olives, cauliflower rice and some kind of greens that isn't savoy cabbage.

To drink will be black black coffee or water
 
Sunday
brunch - porridge ( had a nice lie in :))
dinner - chicken baked in a cream, cheese and bacon sauce with peppers, leek slices and mushrooms, lashings of broccoli on the side. Alpro plain yoghurt with fresh blueberries for afters.
Snack - coffee with cream

Monday
breakfast - porridge
lunch - homemade spicy veggie soup
dinner - battered haddock (only ate part of the batter), cauliflower, a few carrots and peas on the side.
Snack - small square of cheese with a couple of pickled silverskin onions.

the pickled onion thing is new because before I started lowish carbing I liked them sliced on a sandwich but could never have just eaten them, they were too sour and acid, now I have less taste for sweet things and I could just eat a couple straight out of the jar with a spoon :) (and have!)
 
OK - still experimenting with this delayed dawn phenomenon while on my 3rd week VLC. Had 2 walnuts before I went to bed last night. BG only went up 0.1 overnight.
Pre breakfast - 2 M&S rollitos made from serranno ham and manchego. Coffee with a dash of cream. Was out for 1 hr walking with crutch to get No 1 grandson to school. Not enough to stop the rise - got to 9.7 before actual breakfast turned it around.
B. 1 cup vegetable bouillon and 2 scrambled eggs with parsley and a dash of cream.
L. 2 walnuts, 3 mini plum tomatoes, 12g edam and 12g red Leicester, romaine lettuce, small slice Fire and smoke turkey and 1/2 slice roast pork. Tblsp Helmanns.
D. Diet Doctor chilli salmon and wilted spinach (same as Chook's lunch today)
Will have the 2 walnuts pre bed again and see if the same thing happens overnight. Suspect I still have a bug lurking.
The investigation continues.
 
maglil55 said:
OK - still experimenting with this delayed dawn phenomenon while on my 3rd week VLC. Had 2 walnuts before I went to bed last night. BG only went up 0.1 overnight.
Pre breakfast - 2 M&S rollitos made from serranno ham and manchego. Coffee with a dash of cream. Was out for 1 hr walking with crutch to get No 1 grandson to school. Not enough to stop the rise - got to 9.7 before actual breakfast turned it around.
B. 1 cup vegetable bouillon and 2 scrambled eggs with parsley and a dash of cream.
L. 2 walnuts, 3 mini plum tomatoes, 12g edam and 12g red Leicester, romaine lettuce, small slice Fire and smoke turkey and 1/2 slice roast pork. Tblsp Helmanns.
D. Diet Doctor chilli salmon and wilted spinach (same as Chook's lunch today)
Will have the 2 walnuts pre bed again and see if the same thing happens overnight. Suspect I still have a bug lurking.
The investigation continues.
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I'm having the same issue with BG going up between waking and breakfast. Let me know if you crack it!
 
Hello
B. Red berries and yoghurt

L. Small piece of Camambert with olives stuffed with garlic

D. Steak and gravy carrots, onions and asparagus. Strawberries with yoghurt

Pot of pomegranate for later:)
 
For some reason wasn't hungry this morning so just had coffee and cream. Then by the time I got to the salad bar at lunch time, all the salad leaves had gone and the protein option was some rather dried out looking beef so I skipped lunch as well. Fortunately I keep a stash of Baby Bel in the fridge so had a couple of those instead. Was a bit surprised that BS levels before dinner were 5.7 which seems a bit high considering I had eaten nothing!
Dinner: lamb tagine, coconut flour flatbread. May have an almond flour pancake with blueberries and cream shortly.
 
Mongolia said:
For some reason wasn't hungry this morning
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Same here. I think it's all the fat in the Challenge dishes...

So, today I'm having:
Breakfast: Kippers - the boil in the bag sort which were very salty and full of wire like bones - won't be having those again

Lunch: Leftovers from last night's dinner = chicken in cream, pesto, feta and olive sauce with caulirice

Dinner: Stuffed cabbage casserole (also known as crack slaw) - basically fried cabbage with minced beef and cheese.

Drinks: Water, black coffee and (maybe) bovril
 
Yesterday

breakfast - porridge made with water, finished with a splash of almond milk and some omega 3 mix
lunch - homemade green soup - leek, broccoli and peppers with plenty of garlic, black pepper and a bit of chilli, finished with some almond milk.
dinner - shepherds pie with root veg mash (spotted in Asda's dent section :)), cabbage braised with streaky bacon, garlic, broccoli and green pepper on the side.

the omega3 mix is a ready made mix with ground flax, sunflower seeds, goji berries and some other stuff - I prefer home ground flax but couldn't get any flax seeds and had run out.
 
Hello
B. Red berries and Greek style yoghurt

L. Walnuts with melted Camambert

45 minutes swimming

D. Smoked haddock with asparagus tips with a smidgen of Philadelphia garlic and herb cream cheese

Pomegranate pot for later:)
 
OK Day 2 of the walnut trial - 2 walnuts and went to bed on 6.8 , got up to 7.2. Just had coffee before heading out. Back 10.20 and I 'd hit 8.7 (which is better than yesterday )
B. 2 scrambled eggs with parsley 11.20 still 8.7.
Significant drop had happened by 12.20 (2hr mark ) and it has continued to fall since then
L. Last night's chilli salmon with a wee bit spinach
D. The Diet Doctor chicken with creamy feta, olive and red pesto sauce and a mountain of veg - green beans, asperagus , broccoli and 1/2 a small avocado mixed through.
2 of my favorite dishes in one day- the salmon and the chicken - Yum yum.
Currently at 5.7. Will continue with the the nightly walnuts and see what happens as that was 1 point lower than the day before.
I want to see what happens when I'm 100%.
 
geefull said:
Sunday
brunch - porridge ( had a nice lie in :))
dinner - chicken baked in a cream, cheese and bacon sauce with peppers, leek slices and mushrooms, lashings of broccoli on the side. Alpro plain yoghurt with fresh blueberries for afters.
Snack - coffee with cream

Monday
breakfast - porridge
lunch - homemade spicy veggie soup
dinner - battered haddock (only ate part of the batter), cauliflower, a few carrots and peas on the side.
Snack - small square of cheese with a couple of pickled silverskin onions.

the pickled onion thing is new because before I started lowish carbing I liked them sliced on a sandwich but could never have just eaten them, they were too sour and acid, now I have less taste for sweet things and I could just eat a couple straight out of the jar with a spoon :) (and have!)
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That chicken dinner sounds very tasty :-)
 
Yesterday

B: Organic Lamb Sausage w/Tomato & Mushroom in Olive Oil
2 x Creamy Coffee
L: Creole Chicken & Coleslaw & Small glass champagne - very late Christmas lunch out
Tea w/Milk
D: Bacon Topped Cauliflower, Zuchinni, Cheese & Leek Casserole
S: Strawberries, Raspberries & Jelly w/Cream

Today

Been in the car pretty much all morning so been snacking on:

1/2 Apple
Hard Boiled Egg
Macadamia & Brazil Nuts
Sandwich of Low Carb Bread, Avocado & Marmite

Craving something sweet so had one of those rancid low carb bars with 2.5g carbs (allegedly)... Interested to note that when I eat sweet things with sugar I just keep on and on and on but with the 'non-sugar' sweetness it didn't give me the taste to want to eat more sweet stuff. Guess that's because it doesn't make your blood sugars go mental.

Got home about 2pm and had some left over Bacon Topped Cauliflower, Zuchinni, Cheese & Leek Casserole from last night.

Tea w/Milk

Dinner will be Roast Chicken w/Gravy and vegetables of some description. Probably followed by some jelly and berries and a small dollop of cream.
 
Last couple of days have been Week 1 DietDoc menus.
Delicious!

First day was nothing til dinner, then had the DIY burgers with feta and parsley in a tomato and cream sauce.
Second day was remaining burgers for lunch, followed by baked salmon in chipotle and parmesan sour cream.
Veg has been a lot of spinach and a lot of cabbage, but I am missing more veg variety and will be adding that in future.

So far, very impressed by the DD recipes. Quickish, easy, and marvellous flavours.
Blood glucose has also been good. It is rare that I am in the 5s after food, but both of these menus have achieved it. Will see what happens when I add back in more veg. :)

Today will be the chicken in cream, olives and feta, served with a big salad and some cauli or konjac rice. Already know that this one is a winner because we made it a couple of weeks ago. Definitely worth licking the plate.
 
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