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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

B: bacon, egg and one small sausage, coffeesubstitute and cream
L: none
D: last of the DietDoctor chickenfetaolive thing. With broccoli, green salad and konjac noodles. Then a blob of Haagen Daazs vanilla for afters.
 
I loved today.. my blood sugar has behaved, I have behaved... I won today. Tomorrow I may lose, but today I'm a winner.

B. Left over crustless quiche
L. Cheese plate, with three slices of apple, and a couple of baby tomatoes.
D. Hubby was having hot dogs, so I had burger meat, two frankfurters, and fried up some onion, chopped tomato and mushroom... it was lovely.
 
Fleegle said:
That all sounds lovely - in particular the hamburger. low carb Ketchup - I haven't found that yet.
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Hi @Fleegle

I found the ketchup on the internet -- originally ordered Nature's Hollow ketchup, but was send Tautona ketchup. The Tautona brand is made with xylitol (like Nature's Hollow) and has only 6.3g of carbs. It is thick and tastes like ketchup -- so I'm happy, even if it isn't the product I originally ordered.

I googled the product on amazon.co.uk and it seems the Tautona brand is not available there. Entering the search terms xylitol and ketchup, I got two alternatives, however. The review for both products seems to be good. Maybe one of these, might be good option. I also found some brands made with stevia, which might work too.
 
Yesterday.

Breakfast: Two cups of double decaffeinated espressos with cream and xylitol.

Lunch: One chicken wiener and a couple of macademia nuts.

Dinner: We went out to our favorite tapas place: Two and half glasses of wine (a lot for me, but we were there for four hours), some fried sardines and two small skewers of lamb and bell pepper, some toasted and salted almonds. I also brought one of my home-made low carb roles to have with the aioli dip.

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Saturday....

Breakfast: Lidl high protein roll cheese toastie with a spoonful of baked beans

Lunch: Fresh raspberries

Dinner: Lamb, sour cream, lettuce, tomatoes, red onion followed by 50g of Alpro Coconut Ice Cream (nice, but not so nice as the chocolate and hazelnut one)

Drinks: Coffee with cream at breakfast and mid morning - then some but not enough sparkling mineral water - and then with dinner and after a couple of glasses of Prosecco (this time we had the gold bottle Martini brand prosecco - the nicest we've ever had).
 
Saturday
B: 1 slice toasted cheese/ black tea
L: ( Ate out) Mince beef/ onion pie ( V. small amount of flaky pastry topping), peas/sweetcorn/ carrot/ 2 baby new potatoes: tap water
D: Cheese sandwich/ black tea
S: 1 teaspoon smooth peanut butter/ small glass semi skimmed milk.

FBS this morning: 8.0
 
Well the weirdness of my BG readings continues. Bed on 4.9 FBG was 4.8 ?? And amazingly pre breakfast was also 4.8. No idea what is different but I guess today will be an acid test with Sunday dinner plus a wee drink in the mix.
B. Boiled egg, slice thin ham, slice ox tongue and 4 cherry tomatoes. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream.
L. Nothing
D. Usual campari and soda and a wee prosecco.
Pate and half lidl high protein roll toasted.
A bit undecided but I think I'll make veal involtini. Basically thin escalopes of veal stuffed and rolled with just about anything. I'm going to use mozzarella, herbs and parma ham. Brown on the outside then cook in some white wine and stock. I'll add spring onion and mushrooms to the mix and cream to thicken. (You can do them in tomato type sauces too but I want a white sauce today). Fresh asperagus, remains of the cauliflower mash and that cauliflower that looks like sprouting broccoli. The carb eaters also have cheesy potatoes and mini cobs.
Might have some berries after.

Yesterday I was down at 4.7/4.8 pre dinner and even after dinner it only got to 5.5 before coming down again. Keep waiting for the bubble to burst.




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Tea
B: 1 bacon, 2 eggs, 1 sausage, beans, tomato, 1 granary bread toast
2.30ish: cheese & 4 crackers
T: Leftover pulled pork from yesterday & salad
Tea, coffee & NAS squash during the day.
 
Bit of an erratic day today. Had free tickets to a T-20 double header at The Oval, which threw my eating out a bit and sitting in the sun pushed my blood sugars up.

Breakfast - none

Lunch - Five Guys. Bunless cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato and onions

Dinner/Snacks - 50g Almonds, 30g peanuts, 3 slices of smoked cheese when I got home as still hungry

Drinks - 1 mug tea with cream, 2 Diet Cokes, copious amounts of water
 
B- 1/2 lidl roll with butter and homemade raspberry chia jam
l - other 1/2 of the lidl roll with tahini and watercress, 60g Oppo ice cream
D - 150g natural greek yogurt with some toasted almonds and raspberry chia jam
Drinks - 2 x nespresso with lactoftee cream, sparkling water
840 cal 33g carbs
 
Yesterday ...

Breakfast: Two cups of double decaffeinated espressos with cream and a bit of xylitol.

Lunch: A small piece of sea bass plus left-over butter-fried cauliflour with tahini. Desert three heaping table spoons of home-made low carb mousse au chocolat.

Snack: About 70g of macademia nuts throughout the evening. A low-carb role with butter and low-carb blackberry marmelade prepared with xylitol.

Very late dinner: Salad with parmesano, chicken breast and Caesar's dressing.
 
Sunday...

Breakfast: Eggs, bacon, chipolatas, mushrooms, grilled tomato

Lunch: Fresh raspberries

Dinner: Roast chicken, (one) roast parsnip, cauliflower mash, runner beans, purple sprouting broccoli, carrots

Dessert: 50g Alpro coconut icecream

Drinks: Coffee with cream with breakfast and mid morning, sparkling mineral water all day, Prosecco during while cooking dinner then red wine with dinner
 
Brunneria said:
I wouldn't write off apples without a bit of further testing.

Here is my thinking:
Is 4.4 a bit lower than you usually see? Or were you v hungry?
If so, your body might have reacted to being lower than usual with a liver dump.
In which case, you 9 may have been due to the liver dump and the apple.
I wouldnt expect the steak and veg to impact at all, within an hour, and if the apple came after the main course, then that would be slowed down too.

If you want to test my theory (although feel free to write my suggestion off as some OCD excuse for a testing frenzy) then eat an apple by itself, and test every 15 mins til your bg returns to the starting point. :D
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@Brunneria Look what happened today, I bought some Green and Blacks 85% chocolate (aka a bar of migraine.....) intending to have 30g as the Pioppi diet recommends. Instead I accidentally had 70g on an empty stomach. These are my numbers

Before 5.2
1 hr later 6.2
1.5 hrs later 6.9
2 hrs later 7.8
2.5 hrs later 6.4

It's funny how apple spiked me so quickly and it took 2 hrs for chocolate to peak. Is that to be expected?

PS Currently running up the wall like Donald O'Conner thanks to the caffeine :wideyed:
 
B - 100g greek yogurt with 25g raspberry chia jam and 10g toasted almonds
L - 1/2 Lidl roll with butter and some more raspberry chia jam. 50g Oppo ice cream
D - fried leeks, mushrooms, cougettes and almonds with a drizzle of tahini
S - low carb muffin
Drinks - 2x nespresso with 1 tbsp lactofree cream
850 cals 35g carbs
 
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VioletViolet said:
@Brunneria Look what happened today, I bought some Green and Blacks 85% chocolate (aka a bar of migraine.....) intending to have 30g as the Pioppi diet recommends. Instead I accidentally had 70g on an empty stomach. These are my numbers

Before 5.2
1 hr later 6.2
1.5 hrs later 6.9
2 hrs later 7.8
2.5 hrs later 6.4

It's funny how apple spiked me so quickly and it took 2 hrs for chocolate to peak. Is that to be expected?

PS Currently running up the wall like Donald O'Conner thanks to the caffeine :wideyed:
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I would guess the fat in chocolate would slow things down
 
VioletViolet said:
@Brunneria Look what happened today, I bought some Green and Blacks 85% chocolate (aka a bar of migraine.....) intending to have 30g as the Pioppi diet recommends. Instead I accidentally had 70g on an empty stomach. These are my numbers

Before 5.2
1 hr later 6.2
1.5 hrs later 6.9
2 hrs later 7.8
2.5 hrs later 6.4

It's funny how apple spiked me so quickly and it took 2 hrs for chocolate to peak. Is that to be expected?

PS Currently running up the wall like Donald O'Conner thanks to the caffeine :wideyed:
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:)

That is about what 70% does to me.
If you had eaten just the 30g your bg might not have even hit 7 :D
That, and not wanting to climb the walls, tends to stop me at 2-4 squares ;)
Besides, it means i get to eat more chocolate, guilt free, in the longer term...

The dark choc seems to release the carbs much more slowly, while the fruit sugars from the apple release much faster and harder.
 
Brunneria said:
:)

That is about what 70% does to me.
If you had eaten just the 30g your bg might not have even hit 7 :D
That, and not wanting to climb the walls, tends to stop me at 2-4 squares ;)
Besides, it means i get to eat more chocolate, guilt free, in the longer term...

The dark choc seems to release the carbs much more slowly, while the fruit sugars from the apple release much faster and harder.
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Thanks you, that makes sense:)

My trouble is it tastes good = eat until you're fit to burst! I know when I'm buying it exactly what's going to happen but still I go through the motions of "just a few squares!" ;) Looking forward to being up all night :woot: and tomorrow's migraine :hungover:
 
Bit of an unexpected liver dump today - up to 6.1 from 5.0 on waking. Quite unusual for me these days and not sure what caused it.

Breakfast - none

Lunch - tuna mayo with salad and a small amount of coleslaw

Dinner - diet doctor creamy salmon zoodles recipe. Used the thicker setting on the spiralizer so the courgette was more like tagliatelle than spaghetti. Will have this again, although the portion was quite large and I couldn't finish it; 2 squares of Lindt 90%
 
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