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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Woke very late today, knocked out by post op painkillers! So all my meals have been late!
Late Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Very Late morning, more like lunch time!: black coffee and cookies and cream phd bar.
Very Late Lunch: Pork scratchings followed by Greek yoghurt, strawberries and vanilla and raspberry LC granola.
Late Dinner: deconstructed bunless cheese and bacon burger with leafy salad followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
 
Evening all.

Travelled up to a wet Brum in place of the cancelled New York trip. Train carriage to myself and had a big win for breakfast.

With the cooked breakfast having mushrooms (to which I’m allergic) that couldn’t be removed (something to do with pre-packaging) and only carby options on offer I ordered 2 bacon rolls explaining that I’d be discarding the bread. Chef was obviously feeling generous as each roll had 3 rashers bacon, making for a decent meal.

Lunch was much later - ordered chicken wings from Nando’s to pick up before catching a local train to visit my Dad.

Dinner was picked up from Tesco’s way past my usual evening eating time. Pack of chorizo and cheese rollitos followed by a Kind bar and some Serious Pig snacking cheese. Bought some boiled eggs too but didn’t need them so they’re stashed in the fridge in my hotel room.

Looks like the sun will be out tomorrow so a decent canal walk is planned.
 
@Rachox, I was beaten to it by @Antje77! Sleeping=healing; so so glad you're able to sleep well!
 
@DJC3 Well done on the 30 hour fast! @Chook Did you really do a five day fast wow - I would have passed out long before I got to the five day mark I think - can you remember exactly how you felt on days 3, 4 & 5?
@Antje77 I wonder what the dogs would say if they could talk. @Goonergal Enjoy your break from work! @maglil55 try and not get too stressed out and look after yourself - some people are just not worth it! @Rachox Listen to your body it must have needed the lie in - rest up and take care

Brunch -2 boiled eggs mashed up in a cup with butter. Cup of earl grey and double cream.

Dinner - Breast of Chicken with cauliflower cheese. SF jelly and extra thick double cream.

It has been a really nice day and night here - dry and around 18 so went long walk to loch and seen some swimmers there who had travelled there on their bikes also - mega fit - I just stick to the walking - that's enough for me.

I am meeting up with 2 friends tomorrow for a catch-up.
 
Very rainy here all day too, so 3 very short dog walks in between the worst bits

Brunch was scramble of eggs, cheese and ham followed by ff greek yog with seeds

Pub meal chicken thighs in tomato and onion sauce with a large salad and white wine spritzer with added extra water. 2 mouthfuls of hubbys spotted **** pudding. When did custard get to taste so sweet!!!? It was not pleasant :yuck:

Conversation was mostly about diabetes. Friends mum is t2 , usual level 12 rising to 22 through the day!!! Heard of another covid sufferer who was hospitalised for 4 days 6 weeks ago. Now donating plasma but not feeling right. Now diagnosed diabetic, not sure what type yet. Bg was 4 on covid admission only 6 weeks ago.
 
17.08.2020
Breakfast: 2x CWC, nut granola.
CWC MID morning,
Lunch, several good sized chunks of emmental. 2 slices toast with pork rillettes. Salad, water and tea.
Afternoon more CWC, sneaky half glass of wine
Dinner: pasta and sauce, lightly died a small onion, added handful of frozen peppers and chopped courgette.jar of sauce from lidl. (21g carbs the whole jar)and stirred in a tin of crab. MrSlim had tagliatelke with his, I had 30 wholemeal penne. BG before meal 5.8, hour 7.5 Two hours 6.1. Glass of water and one of wine. Later lemon tea.
I have been feeling pretty awful and not eating well. Mostly just eating too much cheese and chocolate. But yesterday I came out of the supermarket in tears. There is so much nice food that I am not supposed to eat. Am so fed up of meat and cheese and eggs. I want falafel and puddings and cassolet, I miss pulses. Lentil and bean salads. Rice salad and pasta salad. Coleslaw is all very well but there must go something else? Potato in all its wonderful variety, colcannon, chips, dauphinois, boulangere, baked with cheese. and ofc i used to bake. Bread, cakes and biscuits. And make puddings. Have tried LC puddings. But can taste the sweeteners. Baking with coconut flour is a waste of other ingredients. The texture is awful. Have had some success with chocolate and almond cakes, but chocolate cake was never my favourite. The French do fantastic savoury pastries, cheese choux balls and pâté en Croute. Salmon and red pepper cake. Crêpes, sweet and savoury. All these are banned. And fruit, one of the reasons we moved here is for the delicious fruit. So much fresher and juicer than those English supermarket peaches that are hard as bullets for weeks and go mouldy without ever ripening properly. Now neither of us can eat them freely.
Am thinking in UK there was not so much temptation.

@maglil55 what a dreadful woman, the problem child is obviously learning his anti social skills from her. But how awful for you to have her screaming at you. Is there anything the school can do?
@Goonergal sympathy for your cancelled trip, a wet Brum, is no compensation for missing out on New York.
 
@DJC3 and @Mrs T 123 - Fasting for five days was fine with hunger mostly just coming in waves - apart from skipping dinner on day one and breakfast on day 2 (both of which I found very difficult) - right up until the fifth mid morning since I last ate when hunger became literally overwhelming and didn't fade. This might be just me, though. I'm know other people have managed a LOT longer. My fast was with plain bottled water, black decaff coffee and fruit teas - and I did put a couple of scrunches of pink Himalayan salt into my coffees (helps with mood and dizziness).

As for mood - it varied, at first I was full of enthusiasm but that wore off by what should have been dinner time on day 2. From then on I was fairly okay but got a bit irritable when Mr C prepared and ate his pre-work meal. Day five was horrible, just awful - I couldn't think of anything but food and got very irritable when anything else intruded on those thoughts - even phone calls from friends which I normally enjoy or the dogs doing normal doggy things got to me. So instead of waiting to break my fast at dinner I ended it at lunch time. My records show that the end weight loss was 12lbs and my FBGs got down to the mid 4s. The weight loss continued over the next couple of days to make a total of 14lbs. After a month most of it had come back on. :rolleyes:

I'm now thinking about doing another fast but not for so long - maybe 3 or 4 days.
 
Gorgeous day! Sadly not so gorgeous in here because the dogs ate a load of windfall crab apples on their morning walk and their tummies are being very antisocial. Mr C thinks its funny but he's not the one that stays here all day with them!!

Today's food

Breakfast: two boiled eggs and one slice of buttered Burgen cut in to soldiers - another meal I must stop eating because BGs went up from 7.4 to 10.6 at 2 hrs PP
Lunch: Longley Farm cottage cheese and a boiled egg with lettuce, cucumber and cherry tomatoes salad
Dinner: the other half of the cauliflower couscous thing I made on Tuesday with olives, griddled halloumi, baby courgettes and artichoke hearts diced in to it. Flavoured with lemon juice, chipotle paste and smoked paprika
 
Yesterday bed 6.7 FBG 6.4. To all that commented on the awful woman. The child in question already gets help but it has not helped him. He's even worse than he was 6 months ago. @Chook - the psychopathic tendencies of a child who takes pleasure hurting animals had already occurred to me. My DIL said to the neighbour who saw it that she would have called the RSPCA. However, I haven't seen the little dog recently. I pray that he has been removed. The "mother" has been told my grandson's slaps were retaliation for her son's 3 attacks. She is conspicuous by her absence now. Meantime, despite having a full time "minder" in class, her little darling was running around class with a hammer yesterday (thankfully not a real one - hard plastic) hammering the other children on the head. Took the teacher and the minder to catch him at which point he punched the teacher! He's also happily telling classmates his Dad is dead, he died of cancer - Daddy is very much alive as he goes there on a Friday. I was very impressed with my younger grandson when he commented "Perhaps he would benefit from spending more time with his Dad?" - his exact words. That child swallowed a dictionary and is blessed with common sense.
@DJC3 - I rubbed the drumsticks with Tamari Soy and salt.
B. TAG and a slice of LC toast with mortadella and coleslaw.
L. Nothing
D. Lidl high protein noodle carbonara.

I'll post today's food later but a miracle this morning! Elder grandson went in this morning, no clenched tummy, no sick with nerves and no tears AND a big smile on his face! He has been settling once he is in but I had a chat with him yesterday, while we waited for his friend, and pointed out that nothing awful had happened. Hopefully he accepts the logic and we don't go backwards on Monday. Sadly there are still lots of terrified children. I spoke to another little girl this morning with her Mum that we saw on the meet the teacher session. She was petrified too. She is going in just after the bell via the office. Sadly she's being bullied as well by the "mean girls". This is age 4/5 - what is wrong with children nowadays?
 
DJC3 said:
Evening all. Completed 30 hr fast. Not a happy bunny by the end of it, I was even getting grumpy with Dennis. Drank a lot of water today but still had a fuzzy head and felt out of sorts. I’ll see how it goes tomorrow. Evening meal was Salmon fillet topped with pesto, broccoli and sauce made with Greek yoghurt, mayo and pesto. DD recipe but not my favourite. Maybe it was because I felt so bad tempered.
@shelley262 I envy you your salads from the garden. What have you grown?
@Antje77 I love the dog bed photo. Took me a good 5 mins to decipher all the various bits of dog and how many there were.
@maglil55 what a horrible woman! Really outrageous behaviour. No wonder her son is a thug. Your air fried drumsticks look delicious were they marinated or coated in anything? Re pizza base I spotted in a Dr Almond email this week that they have a pizza dough mix on special offer atm. I was tempted but I need to use up some stuff in my cupboard first. Swimming is hard here too. The pool I usually go to is part of a holiday complex and will be heaving at the moment. I’ve no desire to go near it. Daughter went to Newquay shopping today and said it was terrible. Hordes of people, no social distancing and most without masks even in shops.
@Chook I can’t begin to imagine a 5 day fast. What was your mood like through it? Archie is adorable, such a great, lovable looking lad.
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I noticed the discount on the Dr Almond pizza base mix. Like most of their products you can yeast it which I suspect will give it a more pizza dough like taste. I need to check my supplies as I think I got Dr Almond pasta and the pizza mix to try. Thankfully I only had one of the Skinny Bread pizza mix!
 
DJC3 said:
Evening all. Completed 30 hr fast. Not a happy bunny by the end of it, I was even getting grumpy with Dennis. Drank a lot of water today but still had a fuzzy head and felt out of sorts. I’ll see how it goes tomorrow. Evening meal was Salmon fillet topped with pesto, broccoli and sauce made with Greek yoghurt, mayo and pesto. DD recipe but not my favourite. Maybe it was because I felt so bad tempered.
@shelley262 I envy you your salads from the garden. What have you grown?
@Antje77 I love the dog bed photo. Took me a good 5 mins to decipher all the various bits of dog and how many there were.
@maglil55 what a horrible woman! Really outrageous behaviour. No wonder her son is a thug. Your air fried drumsticks look delicious were they marinated or coated in anything? Re pizza base I spotted in a Dr Almond email this week that they have a pizza dough mix on special offer atm. I was tempted but I need to use up some stuff in my cupboard first. Swimming is hard here too. The pool I usually go to is part of a holiday complex and will be heaving at the moment. I’ve no desire to go near it. Daughter went to Newquay shopping today and said it was terrible. Hordes of people, no social distancing and most without masks even in shops.
@Chook I can’t begin to imagine a 5 day fast. What was your mood like through it? Archie is adorable, such a great, lovable looking lad.
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Just realised what you said about being grumpy while fastening.... I was recommended to put a pinch of salt in with my drinks and it really worked.

Thanks for giving me the reminder about fasting being a good way to reduce BGs - and last time I did it I noticed that it had a beneficial effect on my arthritis - so I've decided to fast next week - Monday to Thursday (last meal will be Sunday dinner and will break my fast on Friday morning).
 
SlimLizzy said:
17.08.2020
Breakfast: 2x CWC, nut granola.
CWC MID morning,
Lunch, several good sized chunks of emmental. 2 slices toast with pork rillettes. Salad, water and tea.
Afternoon more CWC, sneaky half glass of wine
Dinner: pasta and sauce, lightly died a small onion, added handful of frozen peppers and chopped courgette.jar of sauce from lidl. (21g carbs the whole jar)and stirred in a tin of crab. MrSlim had tagliatelke with his, I had 30 wholemeal penne. BG before meal 5.8, hour 7.5 Two hours 6.1. Glass of water and one of wine. Later lemon tea.
I have been feeling pretty awful and not eating well. Mostly just eating too much cheese and chocolate. But yesterday I came out of the supermarket in tears. There is so much nice food that I am not supposed to eat. Am so fed up of meat and cheese and eggs. I want falafel and puddings and cassolet, I miss pulses. Lentil and bean salads. Rice salad and pasta salad. Coleslaw is all very well but there must go something else? Potato in all its wonderful variety, colcannon, chips, dauphinois, boulangere, baked with cheese. and ofc i used to bake. Bread, cakes and biscuits. And make puddings. Have tried LC puddings. But can taste the sweeteners. Baking with coconut flour is a waste of other ingredients. The texture is awful. Have had some success with chocolate and almond cakes, but chocolate cake was never my favourite. The French do fantastic savoury pastries, cheese choux balls and pâté en Croute. Salmon and red pepper cake. Crêpes, sweet and savoury. All these are banned. And fruit, one of the reasons we moved here is for the delicious fruit. So much fresher and juicer than those English supermarket peaches that are hard as bullets for weeks and go mouldy without ever ripening properly. Now neither of us can eat them freely.
Am thinking in UK there was not so much temptation.

@maglil55 what a dreadful woman, the problem child is obviously learning his anti social skills from her. But how awful for you to have her screaming at you. Is there anything the school can do?
@Goonergal sympathy for your cancelled trip, a wet Brum, is no compensation for missing out on New York.
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SlimLizzy - UK is not the food desert you seem to imagine now. Were you in UK, there would likely be things you would near lust after.

It strikes me, as someone living with prediabetes, you have choices. You can decide to completely go for it and try everything you want. You could agree with yourself that one day every x is treat day, and on that day you have something from the sort of list you just wrote. Or, you stick as you are.


However, whatever you do, buy your decision and live with it. All this, feeling deprived won't be doing you any goodat all.

It's your life. You must live it, making your own compromises along the way. If you choose to eat dauphinoise, chips, followed by proper Brownies (or whatever) who is to judge you? You have to decide where you compromises lie, but you must believe in them or this "conversation" will play on a loop.
 
Chook said:
Just realised what you said about being grumpy while fastening.... I was recommended to put a pinch of salt in with my drinks and it really worked.

Thanks for giving me the reminder about fasting being a good way to reduce BGs - and last time I did it I noticed that it had a beneficial effect on my arthritis - so I've decided to fast next week - Monday to Thursday (last meal will be Sunday dinner and will break my fast on Friday morning).
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Good luck with the fast. I hope it does what you want it to.

Early breakfast today because I had an appointment for a diabetic retinopathy screening. n nThe optomotrist thought she could see something, but is not sure, it is so small, so I'll wait and see what the official verdict is.

Breakfast - one fried egg.
Lunch will be guacamole, probably with a RyVita. That's if I can be bothered to make it - feeling sore and tired at present.
Dinner will be the other burger from yesterday with cheese and, maybe, another egg. If I can be bothered, I might make a chaffle roll to go with it. Just feeling lazy after my trip out. Don't know why, the only thing I did was walk from the parked car, into the optomotrist's building, sat around while being tested, and out again.

We did call in at the garden centre to try to get some herb plants, but they didn't have any. Bought a wooden trough to sit on the back steps, where it is sunny but sheltered. That's where I wanted to put the herb plants. I really have a problem with parsley, which is why I want to buy plants. My existing effort produced just one tiny, thin shoot. It is still hanging in there after several weeks, but it isn't growing.
 
Hi All
Seem to miss days at a time. yesterday had my usual breakfast of slice HiLo toast, butter, lots of tea. Lunch was lump of Shropshire Blue cheese with mixed salad.
Supper was panfried smoked haddock with broccoli. After having another day of mot dropping below 6 I served half my fish fillet onto Mr PM’s plate.
FBG was back in the 5s this morning but we will see.
Today had my usual breakfast.
Lunch was two h/b eggs mashed with mayo and salad of chopped cucumber, spring onion, radishes and few cherry toms.
Supper is Chunky fishfinger being a Thursday so keeping everything crossed.

I am very interested in the Seriously Low Carb Co bread being discussed on another thread. It is only 1g carbs a slice and is getting good reviews for taste. It is pricey at £3.39 (I think) but as I only use one loaf a week thats not too bad and they also do packs of 4 rolls which I think are something like 1.7g each.
@maglil55 what a horrible child and mother. The school really should be taking a stronger line as its just not fair to the other children. @SlimLizzy my heart goes out to you with all the limitations. We can’t all be strong about this all of the time and that brick wall gets in the way! Sending hugs. Xx
 
SlimLizzy said:
17.08.2020
Breakfast: 2x CWC, nut granola.
CWC MID morning,
Lunch, several good sized chunks of emmental. 2 slices toast with pork rillettes. Salad, water and tea.
Afternoon more CWC, sneaky half glass of wine
Dinner: pasta and sauce, lightly died a small onion, added handful of frozen peppers and chopped courgette.jar of sauce from lidl. (21g carbs the whole jar)and stirred in a tin of crab. MrSlim had tagliatelke with his, I had 30 wholemeal penne. BG before meal 5.8, hour 7.5 Two hours 6.1. Glass of water and one of wine. Later lemon tea.
I have been feeling pretty awful and not eating well. Mostly just eating too much cheese and chocolate. But yesterday I came out of the supermarket in tears. There is so much nice food that I am not supposed to eat. Am so fed up of meat and cheese and eggs. I want falafel and puddings and cassolet, I miss pulses. Lentil and bean salads. Rice salad and pasta salad. Coleslaw is all very well but there must go something else? Potato in all its wonderful variety, colcannon, chips, dauphinois, boulangere, baked with cheese. and ofc i used to bake. Bread, cakes and biscuits. And make puddings. Have tried LC puddings. But can taste the sweeteners. Baking with coconut flour is a waste of other ingredients. The texture is awful. Have had some success with chocolate and almond cakes, but chocolate cake was never my favourite. The French do fantastic savoury pastries, cheese choux balls and pâté en Croute. Salmon and red pepper cake. Crêpes, sweet and savoury. All these are banned. And fruit, one of the reasons we moved here is for the delicious fruit. So much fresher and juicer than those English supermarket peaches that are hard as bullets for weeks and go mouldy without ever ripening properly. Now neither of us can eat them freely.
Am thinking in UK there was not so much temptation.

@maglil55 what a dreadful woman, the problem child is obviously learning his anti social skills from her. But how awful for you to have her screaming at you. Is there anything the school can do?
@Goonergal sympathy for your cancelled trip, a wet Brum, is no compensation for missing out on New York.
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@SlimLizzy I do so feel for you. I do think that the more you deny yourself those forbidden foods, the worse the cravings become. Why not just give yourself the occasional treat - not to go over the top, but ust to choose one of the things you are craving. Maybe another time, you could choose a different one.

I agree that baking with coconut flour and any sugar replacement is just a waste of ingredients, so I don't bother any more unless it is for other people to eat. Then I just use normal ingredients. And, if I take a taste, just to check, that's my choice and I will put up with the consequences. It doesn't happen often.

As long as those things you crave don't actually make you ill, what's the harm, once in a while?
 
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