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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Hello all.

Love your new avatar, @Goonergal. How slim you look!

@maglil55. Glad that your DD keto rolls turned out well. Yes, you have to probably experiment a bit to see how much water to use. I don't add eggs, but put in some extra seeds -- this is probably why I need more water. I also usually bake the keto roll for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Amazing blood sugar levels, btw.

@Stronggirlsclub --Weight loss will probably come with time. Most of us T2 have high insulin levels to start with, which prevent our bodies from burning body fat for energy. The low carb diet tends to also lower insulin levels with time and this is when we start losing weight. Btw, you are doing really, really well.

Felt hungry for most of the day, so lots of food again today. Hope that once I'll be back at work again on Monday, the amount of food consumed will be more reasonable.

Today ...

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and xylitol. A DD keto roll with tartar and mayonnaise, a coffee-caramel flan.

Lunch and various snacks throughout the day: Three strawberries, two wiener sausages, about 50g of 88% chocolate, another double decaffeinated espresso, another coffee-caramel flan, a homemade low carb tortilla with steak, mushroom, creme fraiche and cheddar.

Dinner: A cornsalad with Caesar's dressing and parmesan. Half a DD keto roll with liver pate, two glasses of dry red wine.
 
Evening all hope all have had a good day today
Breakfast bacon and egg fried in coconut oil
Lunch prawn and advocado mixed with mayonnaise and lemon juice
Dinner chicken stir fry using 30grammes of explore cuisine bean pasta (3.9 g carbs) as noodles followed by one slice of low carb coffee and walnut cake with cream
 
@ziggy_w and @shelley262 thanks for your kind words

@maglil55 great to see you recovering and getting brilliant BG numbers

Ate very early tonight so I can get to my Pilates class.

Lunch was M&S ham and manchego rollitos with a small Greek salad minus the olives.

Dinner was 2 Waitrose free range Cumberland sausages and 2 rashers bacon followed by chocolate chia pudding with clotted cream: thanks for the tip about the 40g pots @DJC3 . Still experimenting with liquid vs seed ratios in this version which uses only almond milk. Added extra seeds and consistency was much improved.
 
Hi,
Busy day today but I’ve enjoyed some nice food and levels have been good.
Breakfast was peanut butter on livlife toast
Small pack of pork scratchings as a late morning snack
Lunch was a homemade tuna salad
Then I had an hour drive to deliver some training for work, the lovely ladies I went to see made me a small cappuccino, very welcome it was too
Stopped on my drive home to pick up lemons to make my cake tomorrow night
Dinner was bacon, omelette with blue cheese and mushrooms and 3 heck chicken sausages
 

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Goonergal said:
@ziggy_w and @shelley262 thanks for your kind words

@maglil55 great to see you recovering and getting brilliant BG numbers

Ate very early tonight so I can get to my Pilates class.

Lunch was M&S ham and manchego rollitos with a small Greek salad minus the olives.

Dinner was 2 Waitrose free range Cumberland sausages and 2 rashers bacon followed by chocolate chia pudding with clotted cream: thanks for the tip about the 40g pots @DJC3 . Still experimenting with liquid vs seed ratios in this version which uses only almond milk. Added extra seeds and consistency was much improved.
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Do you have a recipe for the chia pudding?

Another good food day for me. I also went for a 30 min swim this morning and signed myself and hubby up for gym membership.

What effect does exercise usually have on your blood glucose?

B; bulletin coffee before swimming. Slices of cheddar, Gouda and Roquefort with some crispy fathead crackers after swimming.

L; 2 slices of fathead pizza

D; 1 pork chop, 1 waitrose sausage, buttered asparagus and cauli cheese

Snacks; 1 sugar free jelly, 1 babybel and a bag of pork scratchings.

Macros; 16g carbs, 152g fat, 74g protein.
1,845 calories.
 
jayney27 said:
Hi,
Busy day today but I’ve enjoyed some nice food and levels have been good.
Breakfast was peanut butter on livlife toast
Small pack of pork scratchings as a late morning snack
Lunch was a homemade tuna salad
Then I had an hour drive to deliver some training for work, the lovely ladies I went to see made me a small cappuccino, very welcome it was too
Stopped on my drive home to pick up lemons to make my cake tomorrow night
Dinner was bacon, omelette with blue cheese and mushrooms and 3 heck chicken sausages
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Your food looks Delish!
 
Stronggirlsclub said:
Do you have a recipe for the chia pudding?

Another good food day for me. I also went for a 30 min swim this morning and signed myself and hubby up for gym membership.

What effect does exercise usually have on your blood glucose?

B; bulletin coffee before swimming. Slices of cheddar, Gouda and Roquefort with some crispy fathead crackers after swimming.

L; 2 slices of fathead pizza

D; 1 pork chop, 1 waitrose sausage, buttered asparagus and cauli cheese

Snacks; 1 sugar free jelly, 1 babybel and a bag of pork scratchings.

Macros; 16g carbs, 152g fat, 74g protein.
1,845 calories.
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Hi @Stronggirlsclub your food sounds good made me a bit hungry!
Exercise has several impacts on my blood if I go for a moderate walk after a meal it seems to bring my post food bgs down however if I do vigorous stuff it takes my bloods up initially sometimes by a fair bit but then by a couple of hours later it’s lower than normal. Plus the fitter you get I think the lower the readings are in general. Hope this helps.
 
6FFD4EC7-7E96-4E72-AB95-22086E0DC357.jpeg Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream (2 tsp) washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: 2 x boiled eggs with Marmite soldiers made from one slice of HiLo bread followed by Greek yoghurt and blueberries.
Mid-afternoon: cappuccino and smuggled in Adonis bar at Caffè Nero.
Dinner: I successfully recreated a pizza that I used to love at Pizza Express, can’t remember it’s name but it had a white sauce instead of tomato with chicken, red onions and black olives. So onto a fat head pizza base I put sour cream with some Parmesan mixed in to thicken it (thanks for the idea, I think it was @Brunneria ’s suggestion), cold roast chicken, red onion and mushrooms (I never ate the olives anyway!) then a sprinkling of mozzarella. Turned out well though I say it myself :happy: Followed by strawberries and vanilla Oppo.
EDIT to add the photo.
 
Stronggirlsclub said:
Do you have a recipe for the chia pudding?

What effect does exercise usually have on your blood glucose?.
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Hi @Stronggirlsclub

My tried and tested chia pudding recipe (makes 4 portions) is:

120ml double cream
240ml unsweetened almond milk
25g of the lowest carb cocoa powder you can find (best so far is Lidl’s at 8.7 per 100g)
33g erythritol
64g chia seeds

Mix everything together, pour into ramekins and put in the fridge until set. Overnight is best, but usually set in about 4 hours.

I’m currently experimenting with using all almond milk as the liquid. Using 360mls with same quantities of seed led to a runny middle. Adding 16g of seeds got a better result, but probably need to add a few grams more to get it like the original.

Exercise generally raises my BG in the short term (i.e. immediately afterwards), especially if it’s strenuous, but it then comes down and FBG the next day is always low. As I’ve increased exercise the rises have got smaller.

As an example, yesterday I did 90 minutes of walking football (more demanding than it sounds) and rose from 5.3 before to 5.6 afterwards. An hour after that it was 5 and this morning FBG was 4.

Tonight I’ve done an hour of gentle Pilates. Forgot to test immediately before, but my pre-dinner reading about 90 minutes earlier was 4.4 and post session I was 4.7.

By comparison, early morning (very early) gym visits for weights and abs work usually lead to at least a 1 mmol rise, sometimes more. Much less in the evening.

Editing to tag @shelley262 to say that this Pilates class was much better than the one at the gym and a much better level for me. I’m now signed up for weekly sessions.
 
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Goonergal said:
Hi @Stronggirlsclub

My tried and tested chia pudding recipe (makes 4 portions) is:

120ml double cream
240ml unsweetened almond milk
25g of the lowest carb cocoa powder you can find (best so far is Lidl’s at 8.7 per 100g)
33g erythritol
64g chia seeds

Mix everything together, pour into ramekins and put in the fridge until set. Overnight is best, but usually set in about 4 hours.

I’m currently experimenting with using all almond milk as the liquid. Using 360mls with same quantities of seed led to a runny middle. Adding 16g of seeds got a better result, but probably need to add a few grams more to get it like the original.

Exercise generally raises my BG in the short term (i.e. immediately afterwards), especially if it’s strenuous, but it then comes down and FBG the next day is always low. As I’ve increased exercise the rises have got smaller.

As an example, yesterday I did 90 minutes of walking football (more demanding than it sounds) and rose from 5.3 before to 5.6 afterwards. An hour after that it was 5 and this morning FBG was 4.

Tonight I’ve done an hour of gentle Pilates. Forgot to test immediately before, but my pre-dinner reading about 90 minutes earlier was 4.4 and post session I was 4.7.

By comparison, early morning (very early) gym visits for weights and abs work usually lead to at least a 1 mmol rise, sometimes more. Much less in the evening.
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Thank you for the recipe. Do you think Soya milk would work? I’m going to pick up some sweetener tomorrow to try this. Do you have an idea as to the carb content per serving?

Really interesting to hear the effect that exercise has on your bloody glucose. Perhaps I’ll stick to swimming and walking for now as I’d rather not increase my numbers just now.

Mornings seem to be the worst for me, so hopefully some gentle exercise will help with FBG.

Your numbers are enviable-great work!
 
Stronggirlsclub said:
Thank you for the recipe. Do you think Soya milk would work? I’m going to pick up some sweetener tomorrow to try this. Do you have an idea as to the carb content per serving?

Really interesting to hear the effect that exercise has on your bloody glucose. Perhaps I’ll stick to swimming and walking for now as I’d rather not increase my numbers just now.

Mornings seem to be the worst for me, so hopefully some gentle exercise will help with FBG.

Your numbers are enviable-great work!
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Sure soya milk would work, but as I’ve discovered the thickness of the liquid has an impact, so you’ll need to experiment with liquid to seed ratios. Carb count is roughly 2g per portion. I’ve found that chia seeds vary a lot in carb content, but the pudding has minimal impact on blood sugars regardless.

Let us know how you get on with the pudding.
 
Goonergal said:
Hi @Stronggirlsclub

My tried and tested chia pudding recipe (makes 4 portions) is:

120ml double cream
240ml unsweetened almond milk
25g of the lowest carb cocoa powder you can find (best so far is Lidl’s at 8.7 per 100g)
33g erythritol
64g chia seeds

Mix everything together, pour into ramekins and put in the fridge until set. Overnight is best, but usually set in about 4 hours.

I’m currently experimenting with using all almond milk as the liquid. Using 360mls with same quantities of seed led to a runny middle. Adding 16g of seeds got a better result, but probably need to add a few grams more to get it like the original.

Exercise generally raises my BG in the short term (i.e. immediately afterwards), especially if it’s strenuous, but it then comes down and FBG the next day is always low. As I’ve increased exercise the rises have got smaller.

As an example, yesterday I did 90 minutes of walking football (more demanding than it sounds) and rose from 5.3 before to 5.6 afterwards. An hour after that it was 5 and this morning FBG was 4.

Tonight I’ve done an hour of gentle Pilates. Forgot to test immediately before, but my pre-dinner reading about 90 minutes earlier was 4.4 and post session I was 4.7.

By comparison, early morning (very early) gym visits for weights and abs work usually lead to at least a 1 mmol rise, sometimes more. Much less in the evening.

Editing to tag @shelley262 to say that this Pilates class was much better than the one at the gym and a much better level for me. I’m now signed up for weekly sessions.
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Good news about Pilates @Goonergal im sure it will be helpful for your middle something you were keen to work on and balance is very important
 
shelley262 said:
Good news about Pilates @Goonergal im sure it will be helpful for your middle something you were keen to work on and balance is very important
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Balance is definitely an issue! My ankles have never quite recovered from severe ligament damage in 2 separate footballing injuries in my early 20s.
 
Bed 6.7 FBG 6.9. Ever had one of these days when nothing appeals and you just cannot be bothered? I did today. All I wanted was simple food with little cooking if any.
B. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream. One of these keto rolls with mortadella. Had to pop it back into a hot oven to crisp it up - worked fine.
L. 1/2 Mattesons smoked sausage.
D. Medium avocado with prawn cocktail.
Halo Top ice cream.
 
Evening all, everyone’s food looks and sounds lovely today.

B: bacon scrambled eggs 1/2 tomato and mushrooms. Decaf coffee and cream

L: celery sticks with cream cheese in the middle and a packet of pork scratchings. Greek yoghurt and 4 raspberries.

D: after yoga this evening, cauliflower with lots of creamy cheesy sauce. Chocolate chia pudding.

Mine was also made with almond milk @ Goonergal and was quite runny. I couldn’t remember the proportions I’ve used in the past, nor where I’d got the recipe so I guessed, but obviously not correctly!

Drinking a lot of chai type teabags to try and wean myself off coffee, but its not the same.
 
shelley262 said:
Hi I tend to make the original smaller by emailing the photo to myself in small size as my iPad then does it automatically to send it! I then use that photo! Bit convoluted but I know it works for me. I have seen others use apps and I’ve used software in the past but this is quicker for me! Good luck would be good to see your rolls.
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I tried emailing it to myself but it didn't make it any smaller. I use Android. The size of the jpegs is ridiculous!
 
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