shelley262
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Congratulations on going down a size lovely feeling well done great too to have planned something to look forward too.
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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)
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Emma_369
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That’s a wonderful achievement!! Well done
officially I’m probably still a 10-12 as I know very well there’s certain shops I stand no chance of squeezing into their 10’s. But I’m going to pretend they don’t exist and stick to the ones that make me feel good
Thank you! I was a size 18 end of August last year. I’ve just bought size 10, so dropped 4 sizes. Never in a million years expected that
That is a stupendous achievement!
Well done!
ianpspurs
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Forget science and HBA1C , if TB12 is in must be good for ya https://gridironexperts.com/diet-and-nutrition-in-the-nfl:angelic:
shelley262
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Sizes are weird but it’s the average that counts. I now unbelievably have some size 6 tops from m and s and Sainsburys but am 8 to 10 mainly it depends on shop!! Most important thing is difference from before you’ve done amazingly well.That’s a wonderful achievement!! Well done
Thank you! I was a size 18 end of August last year. I’ve just bought size 10, so dropped 4 sizes. Never in a million years expected that
That’s brilliant, congratulations!
DJC3
Master
Evening all. @Emma_369 what a great achievement, well done, you’ll have a whole new fabulous wardrobe by your holiday.
@Goonergal the thought of a spider under my bed chills my bones - I’d have to sleep on the sofa.
Today’s food:
B: DD breakfast sandwich
L: 1/2 a M&S egg and bacon salad and a spoonful of M&S whipped creamy cheese on one of the microwave flaxseed crackers. Whose recipe was it? @dunelm ? It was great, I wasn’t expecting it to be crispy. Definitely a keeper. Few Callebaut choc buttons and a sliver of HC yule log afterwards with coffee&cream.
D: Fried sea bass fillet with buttery garlic green beans and a blue cheese stuffed mushroom. Peach chia pudding afterwards. More decaf coffee&cream
@Goonergal the thought of a spider under my bed chills my bones - I’d have to sleep on the sofa.
Today’s food:
B: DD breakfast sandwich
L: 1/2 a M&S egg and bacon salad and a spoonful of M&S whipped creamy cheese on one of the microwave flaxseed crackers. Whose recipe was it? @dunelm ? It was great, I wasn’t expecting it to be crispy. Definitely a keeper. Few Callebaut choc buttons and a sliver of HC yule log afterwards with coffee&cream.
D: Fried sea bass fillet with buttery garlic green beans and a blue cheese stuffed mushroom. Peach chia pudding afterwards. More decaf coffee&cream
zauberflote
Well-Known Member
@ianpspurs um. Do you have biting spiders over there? We don’t pick up the ones that bite without that wasp catcher thing! If black widow or brown recluse, SQUISH!
@Goonergal and @VioletViolet they Always plot revenge...
@BibaBee wasps are harmless and not at all aggressive. Just, they will get stuck inside the sunporch. The hornets OTOH are terrifying, any size, but if they are squashed, the rest of the colony will come straight to you, and chase you wherever you go! BTDT
and congratulations on your fantastic size drop!
@Emma_369 way to go girl! My word you have done fabulously
I mistakenly bought 6 pr different color (my winter uniform) size 10 Gloria Vanderbilt “slim cut “ (ha! Legs like elephants’!) jeans in late October. Before Christmas they were all too big. Funny, my OLD 10’s are still good. Size creep 
Cat at vet, I’m waiting for the “come get him” call so can’t decide how to work my normal 6:00 supper/meds at 7:00. Definitely won’t make ballet class (! giving it a try after 30+ yrs!) so now what?
Meanwhile, for 4:00 outing with sick cat I fortified myself with a “bulletproof coffee hold the coffee”, but I’m hungrier than I was before I ate it. Argh.
ETA: Lord have mercy on arachnids...speak of a poisonows spider and It Will Appear! While cleaning up the basement bedroom from cat misadventures, I squished what was almost certainly a brown recluse. They are tiny and live to hide in the house in folded fabrics. This was under the quilt. My son LIVED IN that room for over three years! (but those little spiders prefer not to be disturbed...). Anyhow, now I have the creepy crawlies all over my skin <shudder>
After a supper that included about 1/4 cup mixed non-almond nuts and a large helping of dried up used up chicken dipped in yogurt (really good!!!), along with some greens and a my bread/butter in cream (had been prepared for after ballet class) I had a sudden access of super energy and took a 2.6 mile walk, pushing it all the way. Fun!
A little yogurt for bedtime meds and that’s it.
Estimated HbA1c just barely into almost normal. As I delete older, higher numbers each day so my 3 months is always current, it should keep going down. I have to keep reminding myself that my app’s math is only as accurate as the meter numbers I feed it, and I may be in for a disappointment in one month...
@Goonergal and @VioletViolet they Always plot revenge...
@BibaBee wasps are harmless and not at all aggressive. Just, they will get stuck inside the sunporch. The hornets OTOH are terrifying, any size, but if they are squashed, the rest of the colony will come straight to you, and chase you wherever you go! BTDT
and congratulations on your fantastic size drop!@Emma_369 way to go girl! My word you have done fabulously
I mistakenly bought 6 pr different color (my winter uniform) size 10 Gloria Vanderbilt “slim cut “ (ha! Legs like elephants’!) jeans in late October. Before Christmas they were all too big. Funny, my OLD 10’s are still good. Size creep 
Cat at vet, I’m waiting for the “come get him” call so can’t decide how to work my normal 6:00 supper/meds at 7:00. Definitely won’t make ballet class (! giving it a try after 30+ yrs!) so now what?
Meanwhile, for 4:00 outing with sick cat I fortified myself with a “bulletproof coffee hold the coffee”, but I’m hungrier than I was before I ate it. Argh.
ETA: Lord have mercy on arachnids...speak of a poisonows spider and It Will Appear! While cleaning up the basement bedroom from cat misadventures, I squished what was almost certainly a brown recluse. They are tiny and live to hide in the house in folded fabrics. This was under the quilt. My son LIVED IN that room for over three years! (but those little spiders prefer not to be disturbed...). Anyhow, now I have the creepy crawlies all over my skin <shudder>
After a supper that included about 1/4 cup mixed non-almond nuts and a large helping of dried up used up chicken dipped in yogurt (really good!!!), along with some greens and a my bread/butter in cream (had been prepared for after ballet class) I had a sudden access of super energy and took a 2.6 mile walk, pushing it all the way. Fun!
A little yogurt for bedtime meds and that’s it.
Estimated HbA1c just barely into almost normal. As I delete older, higher numbers each day so my 3 months is always current, it should keep going down. I have to keep reminding myself that my app’s math is only as accurate as the meter numbers I feed it, and I may be in for a disappointment in one month...
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maglil55
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A wee catch up from yesterday. Bed 6.2 FBG a more palatable 5.3. 2nd week of school run and still not totally adjusted. Was a bit back and forward as No 1 grandson had a doctor's appointment and No 2 managed to get embroiled in a fisticuffs fight at school and had a huge scratch across his face.
B. Just a coffee - too much going on for anything else.
L. Much later - 1 Slice Morrisons high protein wholemeal with slice of thin ham and mustard.
D. Gigot chop. They only had one in Morrison's. My brother and I loved them but they don't appear too often. Had it with veggie chips and green beans. Scoop of Breyer's cookies and cream with 3 strawberries and 2 raspberries.
Finally got our flu jab organised for Thursday morning (assuming we don't catch anything else by then).
B. Just a coffee - too much going on for anything else.
L. Much later - 1 Slice Morrisons high protein wholemeal with slice of thin ham and mustard.
D. Gigot chop. They only had one in Morrison's. My brother and I loved them but they don't appear too often. Had it with veggie chips and green beans. Scoop of Breyer's cookies and cream with 3 strawberries and 2 raspberries.
Finally got our flu jab organised for Thursday morning (assuming we don't catch anything else by then).
maglil55
Expert
When I think of some of The other things fed to us. Our French toast (or eggy bread ) was white bread soaked in egg with a little milk, fried then covered in sugar. Another was when we were sick , Grandma's dish was "saps" - white bread soaked in hot milk and sugar. Easy to digested but looking back now that was a lot of sugar.
The egg with the butter I just like the taste. There was always huge pots of soup on the go too.
maglil55
Expert
Yikes. I have the clear plastic one but it was impossible for catching them on the floor. I changed it to one of these things that looks like a pastry brush with plastic bristles on a long handle. You secure the offending creature in the bristles then deposit it outside (or out the window if upstairs). Makes it a lot easier to catch the speedy Gonzalez monsters on the floor. Just found the link
Hiveseen Bug Spider Insect Catcher, Household Practical Spider Insect Catcher Pest Control with 25.6inch Handle (Green) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07HG63TV9/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_CGCpCbC51WDB4
Handle keeps you far enough away from the things.
maglil55
Expert
Yes I agree with that - they do travel in pairs. Well done by the way on the clothes size mega drop.It’ll be it’s friend that’s hiding elsewhere in the house that’s doing that. They always seem to come in 2’s when they attack my house
Chook
Expert
As some folks here may remember, I have bad arthritis in lots of bits of me and am a bit unstable on my feet, so can only leave the house if I am being accompanied. So, feeling the need for some form of unaccompanied 'gentle' exercise, I bought myself a Tai Chi DVD. I finally got around to trying it out today and - wow - for an activity that looked so gentle I am absolutely shattered. Maybe I should have selected 'introduction' (21 minutes) instead of 'play all' (49 minutes)...... Incidentally, it seems I can't do anything that includes standing and closing my eyes at the same time as each time I tried doing it I wobbled and nearly fell. The dogs weren't impressed and decided it was safer to hide in the kitchen. The really disappointing thing was my BG which went up from 6.1 immediately before to 8.3 immediately after.
Today's menu
Breakfast: Bulletproof Coffee
Lunch: Chunk of cheese
Dinner: Lamb chops, broccoli, cauliflower, gravy (maybe a few bits of Mr C's carrots)
Pudding: Proper Greek yoghurt (not the Greek style) from Aldi (very similar to the lush Turkish yoghurt that Lidl used to sell and then discontinued) with chia seeds and pecan nuts
Drinks: Nothing with any carbs in apart from the BPC for breakfast.
Today's menu
Breakfast: Bulletproof Coffee
Lunch: Chunk of cheese
Dinner: Lamb chops, broccoli, cauliflower, gravy (maybe a few bits of Mr C's carrots)
Pudding: Proper Greek yoghurt (not the Greek style) from Aldi (very similar to the lush Turkish yoghurt that Lidl used to sell and then discontinued) with chia seeds and pecan nuts
Drinks: Nothing with any carbs in apart from the BPC for breakfast.
maglil55
Expert
You know I have similar problems with balance. What my good looking sadist (physio) told me to do was keep something like a dining room chair beside me to hold/touch to maintain balance.
The BG rise - had you eaten anything before you exercised. There are a few articles kicking about on this. It's a liver dump basically. If I remember correctly it is something along the lines of if you don't give your body something to burn during exercise your liver dumps hence your BGs go up. It does correct later and come down but I got into the habit of eating something pre exercise which got the liver to behave.
Chook
Expert
Thanks for that really helpful reply @maglil55.
I am determined to persevere with it (until I break something) on the hope that I'll get a bit less creaky - so I'll eat a proper breakfast tomorrow instead of the bulletproof coffee. Good idea about the chair, now why didn't i think about that! D'oh!!! 
zauberflote
Well-Known Member
@Chook way to go! Tai Chi is supposed to be good for core and balance. I have vestibular migraine, and it turns out even decaf is a trigger over my threshold, so I am walking around in a constant mild state of dis-equilibrium. I feel your pain! You will perhaps improve as you go on? And that’s awful that your bg shot up like that. If you only did the short segment, and stopped to rest every few minutes, would that help? (Not advice; I really want to know. I should take this over to the moderate exercise thread) Is your proper Greek yogurt like my Icelandic Skyr by Siggi’s? That could almost be sour cream.
@maglil55 well there’s my good answer re BGs! Thanks for pointing to that!
Bfast: 1/2 avocado, egg, v small piece my bread moistened with chicken stock from the other day, decaf/soy/cream. Skipping the recently added nuts, as weight loss has stalled and maybe reversed. And y’all here are the reason I know to cut the newly added fats to try to fix that - thank you all!!!
@maglil55 well there’s my good answer re BGs! Thanks for pointing to that!
Bfast: 1/2 avocado, egg, v small piece my bread moistened with chicken stock from the other day, decaf/soy/cream. Skipping the recently added nuts, as weight loss has stalled and maybe reversed. And y’all here are the reason I know to cut the newly added fats to try to fix that - thank you all!!!
maglil55
Expert
You haven't got my good looking sadist! I remember us having a debate about that. Made sense short of having a Barre installed!Thanks for that really helpful reply @maglil55.
Tori71
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Breakfast - Two heaped spoons homemade granola, hi lo toast and butter
Lunch - Cucumber, two cherry tomatoes, two cheese stuffed peppers, five bacon strips and one peters yard sou. Three strawberries, extra thick cream and small spoon of chocolate chia pudding.
Dinner - Chicken breast in parmesan and pork scratching crumb, roasted celeriac, peppers and mushrooms, glass of port
Snacks - Mosser Roth 70% mini bar, nuts.
Lunch - Cucumber, two cherry tomatoes, two cheese stuffed peppers, five bacon strips and one peters yard sou. Three strawberries, extra thick cream and small spoon of chocolate chia pudding.
Dinner - Chicken breast in parmesan and pork scratching crumb, roasted celeriac, peppers and mushrooms, glass of port
Snacks - Mosser Roth 70% mini bar, nuts.
We should start a 'weeble' club! My balance is rubbish due to neuropathy in feet. I hate icy conditions more than most but my funniest moment was leaning forward from my chair to paint my toenails and headbutting the carpet!! Actually, can't really blame that too much on balance as I was sat down!! Maybe alcohol?
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maglil55
Expert
I'd forgotten about themBreakfast - Two heaped spoons homemade granola, hi lo toast and butter
Lunch - Cucumber, two cherry tomatoes, two cheese stuffed peppers, five bacon strips and one peters yard sou. Three strawberries, extra thick cream and small spoon of chocolate chia pudding.
Dinner - Chicken breast in parmesan and pork scratching crumb, roasted celeriac, peppers and mushrooms,
Snacks - Mosser Roth 70% mini bar, nuts.
We should start a 'weeble' club! My balance is rubbish due to neuropathy in feet. I hate icy conditions more than most but my funniest moment was leaning forward from my chair to paint my toenails and headbutting the carpet!! Actually, can't really blame that too much on balance as I was sat down!! Maybe alcohol?
My legs have been more numb lately but I know that because they react to me being off colour.
Thanks for that really helpful reply @maglil55.
Chook - A friend of mine is a FABS/MoveItOrLoseIt practitioner/coach. When she was starting out, I did a couple of classes with her - as much bulking the numbers as anything, on the basis there's nothing worse than an empty or almost empty exercise class.
As FABS is designed for those a bit less energetic, they tend to have a mixture of standing and sitting exercises during the routine, but even the standing exercises can be done sitting. As the session gets going various people stand or sit, depending on their comfort zones.
I don't know if there are any decent FABS resources on YouTube.
