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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Brunch- bacon roll ( 3 rashers in buttered SLC roll)
Dinner- v slow roast, bone-in unrolled brisket ( put in oven at 11:30 last night) cauli cheese, mashed swede, green beans with garlic&flaked almonds, sprouts with bacon. Several glasses of wine.
 
Lunch one each of slice bacon and egg with a few mushrooms and slice of hm lc bread followed by yoghurt, a few nuts and two squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner slow cooked beef brisket (@DJC3 snap but shorter cook as small piece) served with roast celeriac and braised celery and glass of red wine followed by the new DGF Christmas crumble - yum - heated and with additional dash of brandy served with double cream.
 
Three slices middle bacon, two egg and cheese omelette. tomatoes and mushrooms for breakfast.
Tub of greek yoghurt, lemon cordial mix for smoko.
Lamb shoulder chops, veggies and gravy, low sugar pineapple jelly for lunch.
Two low carb toasted egg sandwiches, last tub of jelly for supper at six.
 
L: 3 m&s seed crackers with a quarter of a camembert. 2 scrambled eggs. Lc got chocolate to drink
D: chicken casserole, served with buttered leeks and crispy air fried kale. 1 glass white wine

Needing a good kale recipe for tomorrow please
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Carb Killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake!
 
MrsA2 said:
L: 3 m&s seed crackers with a quarter of a camembert. 2 scrambled eggs. Lc got chocolate to drink
D: chicken casserole, served with buttered leeks and crispy air fried kale. 1 glass white wine

Needing a good kale recipe for tomorrow please
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The BBC food website has a few:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chinese-style-kale
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/salmon-burgers-kale-salsa
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spiced-kale-crisps
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/kale-pesto

and I quite like this one:
https://www.acouplecooks.com/12-best-kale-recipes/

Breakfast: toasted cheese
2nd meal: not a meal, just grazed on chicken nuggets - too much carb, of course, but it wasn't too disastrous on my BG. Virtually tasteless. No more of those either, but it was easier than cooking!
 
Here is another kale recipe, if you like soup. It is similar to Antje's kale soup, but with a few more veggies and I don't usually add meat:

KALE SOUP

kale – enough to fill the pot before shredding
one onion
one leek
one carrot, cut into small cubes
plus any other vegetables available (eg, turnip, parsnip, celeriac), also cubed
garlic, crushed
butter plus a tablespoon of oil to prevent burning
one chilli pepper, if you like it spicy
other spices, eg paprika, onion powder, north african mix
stock or stock cube
water to provide enough broth for your soup (can be added to later)
handful of frozen peas
extra knob of butter
*

Sweat onion, garlic, carrot, leek, and any other vegetables in butter and oil
Add chilli and spices
Add stock and water
Shred the kale and add to the pot
Bring to boil and simmer for about ½ hour
Add frozen peas at the last minute – they take no time at all to cook
finish with a knob of butter

* can add some chopped up cooked meat/sausage

Might actually get around to making some tomorrow - all being well.
 
Lunch- tinned tuna, 2 h/b eggs, h/m mayo and green salad.
A bit later - pack of chilli Cheesies from advent calendar.
D- smoked haddock in cheese and mushroom sauce with green beans snd sprouts. DGF blondie and a Montezuma’s Absolute Black advent choc.
 
B: ff greek with 8 blueberries, 3 walnuts and tablespoon milled linseed.
Exercise class, then cup of coffee with friends
L: Hubby had bought a tub of veg soup. Stated carbs were 19g for a portion. Too high for me so I took just half a portion and watered it down, so say max 10g. Camembert.
So why, oh why, did bg zoom up to 10 (from 6) within 25 minutes? It had gone back to 6.2 in another 25 minutes, so whole spike was contained in an hour. Remind me, is this a problem?
The main ingredients was water, next was tomatoes, everything else was miniscule under 1% including rice, lentils, buckwheat

Mid afternoon a piece lc choc cake and a few walnuts. Bg hardly blinked.

D: 2 90% sausages, fried with kale and served with boiled carrot. Dessert of lc coffee cake with 50ml proper icecream and a good tablespoon of brandy cream which I hadn't realised contained sugar when I ordered it. Bg rose to 7. 5 and is still there . A smooth hump not a spike for more carbs than lunch, and some from real sugar.
This diabetes is confusing
 
Two slices of middle bacon two egg and cheese omelette, mushrooms for breakfast.
Tub of greek yoghurt, lemon cordial and osmolax mix for smoko.
Nandos mild peri peri marinated chicken legs, green veggies for lunch.
Jamie Oliver fish cakes, low sugar lemon jelly for supper at six.

The sun comes up and the sun goes down
The hands on the clock keep a-goin' 'round
I just get up and it's time to lay down
Life gets tee-jus, don't it, hmm

Grief and misery, pains and woes
Debts and taxes, yea, so it goes
I think I'm gettin' a cold in my nose
Life get tee-just don't it?...

Thank you Walter Brennan.
 
The day started well enough with egg mayo for breakfast, but after that it deteriorated - more of the ready made stuff. Why did I continue eating it and not just throw it in the bin? No idea. I knew it would do me no good - tasted like blotting paper anyway, but I just soldiered on. More fool me. Now I am feeling very nauseous and berating myself for being stupid. Also haven't had enough to drink today so have to try to fill up before I go to bed. On top of everything, the house is very cold and so am I and I have a runny nose! I don't blame life though - it's all my own doing.
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
Life get tee-just don't it?...
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Hope you are feeling a bit better today @Riva_Roxaban. :sorry:

BG this morning - after yesterday's nonsense - was 18.6! Took a correction dose at 5 am and it has now come down to 4.9 (8.40 am). So far I've had 2 cups of tea (plus pills of course taken with 2 tsp yoghurt) and will make myself an egg salad.

Today's job is to keep myself motivated enough to make some kale soup for later.
 
So far today:

Breakfast: Greek Yoghurt mixed with a scoop of sugar free, chocolate protein powder, with a few blueberries, raspberries, pomegranate seeds and chopped walnuts and almonds.

Lunch: Omelette made with 2 eggs, olive oil, garlic, turmeric, cumin and chilli flakes, a VERY big chunk of broccoli sliced very thin, mushrooms, spinach, some extra mature cheddar and raw red onions. Very filling thanks to all the veggies. Looked huge but not high in calories or carbs.

Post lunch treat: 4 small squares of 100% cocoa chocolate, no added sugar

Later today:
Dinner: planning to have a chicken salad - 1/4 of a chicken, roasted aubergines, red cabbage, spinach, broccoli, red onions, a dressing made from Greek yoghurt mixed with minced garlic, mined fresh chillies, salt, finely chopped fresh parsley and olive oil.
 
Craig.smith1972 said:
Wispa, boost, magnum bar, sarnie, kettle chips, Maynard gums, beans on toast. In a state of denial. Waiting on follow up app at gp. A1c was 94, last finger test 16. Finding hard to adjust until I get diagnosis
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Craig, I can really understand that! I grew up with so much chocolate in the house, as my mum worked for a large well known chocolate manufacturer. I've always had a sweet tooth, not surprisingly LOL. I did use the T2 diagnosis to motivate me to change my diet drastically. I really recommend the LCHF approach, when it is done right you're eating lots of tasty food with healthy fats, non starchy veg and enough protein for your requirements. I started eating to influence my blood sugar, I found it really useful at first to measure my BG with a glucometer fairly often to see the effects of what I ate and my physical activity. For me several things helped after my diagnosis of T2:
  • I changed to LCHF from a diet that had a lot of carbs (big bread lover as well as choc and sweets )
  • I reduced my calorie intake significantly using the Newcastle protocol for 12 weeks (around 800 calories a day, more on very physically active days though as I am very active)
  • I would check the consequences of my activity and diet on my blood sugar and my weight
  • If I had to give in to my sweet tooth once in a while I'd make sure it was a sugar free option. There are a lot of really good sweets with sugar substitutes, you can find ones that suit you.
  • I restricted the times that I would eat. When on 800 calories a day, I would have 2 main meals a day, a brunch with lots of non starchy veg, healthy fats and a decent amount of protein. Very filling, but low on carbs. Then an evening meal at about 6 or 7 PM. No food after that.
  • I'd get some activity in every day, a walk, a HIIT workout, or perhaps some resistance training. Whatever I felt like on a given day. I'd make sure I could do the workout by keeping it simple and not devoting ridiculous amounts of time to it. If I felt tired I'd relax and do something the next day.
  • I told all my friends and family what I was doing so they would understand my changes in diet and support me.
  • After 12 weeks on the 800 calories/day, I had lost 2 stone, my fasting and post meal blood glucose were totally different to before. My initial A1C was 60 in Sept. My fasting levels in mmol/L were down to the low 5s most days , sometimes in the 4s (from initially being in the 8s), my BG 2 hours post meal were in the 6s (from initially being as high as 14 at times).
  • Now I eat 3 meals a day, minimal snacking, nothing after my evening meal still LCHF, enough calories to maintain my new lower bodyweight. I check my weight and BG a few times a week to ensure I'm not drifting and make changes if I have to to get back to the right levels. I don't miss the carbs anymore or the sweets and chocs. I find the improved BG and weight motivating. I like the taste of the food I eat and how full it makes me. I find alternatives at restaurants when I go out with friends and family, there's always something.
Throw out all the naughty stuff mate and stock up on what you need for LCHF. I'd post some links to books I found helpful and YouTube videos here, but I find the forum software seems to think that I might be spamming if I include links even this website's own Newcastle Protocol link gets treated as potential spam LOL.

Give it a go mate. And do not be hard on yourself, one bad day is just one bad day. Make the next one better. When you start to see really good progress you'll start sticking to a good protocol. Slowly you'll see things change for the better. Do not panic and do not despair. There is plenty of time to make things better. There are lots of people here in the same boat, and great support and advice, it is a great resource. The very best of luck to you

I forgot to add my next A1C test is not until March next year, but I'm expecting a big change from 60 given my BG measures. Also there are some support services available from the NHS that you will get your details forwarded to by your GP. But they take a LONG time to get in touch - months. By the time I was contacted I had luckily managed to get it under control myself. This site and its forums would have helped keep me motivated I'm sure. Check out the Newcastle protocol link on this website and use this LCHF forum to start making changes. If you want a pointer to some books with easy recipes to help there is a forum here dedicated to that .. PM me if you want to know the book I used as a starting point. Good luck mate.
 
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My own small victory (over myself): actually chopped veg and made kale soup! That will be my evening meal. I didn't have any stock to hand (although I know there is some chicken stock in the freezer) so used a vegetable stock pot. One small onion, one small piece of swede, one carrot, one stick celery and half a panful of shredded kale in butter and oil plus the stock. When it's done I'll add peas. It's not a huge pot of soup, but it won't put the BG up and there will be enough for breakfast tomorrow.
 
Another two meal a day - seem to have shifted to this daily routine currently.
Lunch one each of slice of bacon,egg and a few mushrooms with one hm lc roll followed by a few nuts and three squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner slow cooked game casserole served with roasted celeriac followed by lc warmed blondie served with yoghurt.
 
Was AWOL yesterday visiting daughter in London for the day.
So yesterday:
Early Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Mid morning: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and a Carb Killa bar.
Lunch at one of the London Flat Iron steak restaurants: steak with roast cauliflower and creamy mushroom sauce.
Mid afternoon: black coffee
Dinner: spicy fried chicken with homemade guacamole, coleslaw and salsa followed by strawberries and cream.

Today:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a Carb Killa bar
Dinner: Liver and onions with Brussels, broccoli and LC rosemary and sea salt focaccia followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.
 
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