What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Antje77]

That is what we are doing. Using his new name is becoming fairly easy as time goes on. It's really just the personal pronouns that I'm finding difficult. That and actually thinking of him as a man. It's all in my head, of course and is my problem - not theirs.

You're doing well!
And you will get used to it too, give it some time.

Started feeling nauseous just when I was about to start prepping food, so have given up on the idea of having anything tonight. I just wrapped a blanket around myself and dozed in the big chair. I do this quite often. You would think I would lose weight, just with one meal of bacon and eggs on many days. But I don't - the weight is just piling on.

Not fair!
Hopefully the nausea will be short lived.

 

[Annb]

I have the smoked haddock out ready to cook and am about to prep the leeks. That will be my first, and perhaps my only meal today. If I'm going to keep on just having the one meal, I might as well make it a main one.

 

[filly]

Coffee and cream x 2
Tuna sweetcorn
Brie.
Gammon Ham

 

[Rachox]

Way behind on this thread, so I’ll just post today’s food!
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a DGF ginger cookie.
Dinner: spaghetti bolognese using Edamame bean spaghetti with a sprinkle of grated mature cheddar followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.

 

[MrsA2]

Major fail today.
My son had asked for a carrot cake for his birthday and it's so long since I last made one that I used the wrong recipe and wasn't sure it had worked, so I cooked 2/3 in one tin and a 1/3 in another so I could try it before icing.
So I tried it, and tasted it, and tried a bit more. Cooked it a bit longer then tasted and tested again, and again, and again.
I'm not going to say how much disappeared but I'm still feeling bloated and sick 8 hours later.
Drawing a veil over today, and just hoping Santa brings my low carb motivation and habits back soon.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

I forgot to post yesterday for some reason that escapes me.

Yesterday's menu.

Couple of hard boiled eggs, two slices oftoast and vegimite for breakfast.
Ham and mixed salad, couple of bits of mixed stone fruit for lunch.
Bacon sandwiches fo supper at six.

Glass of single malt for a nightcap.

 

[DJC3]

Horrible travelling day, set off 3am from Cornwall up to the Lake District for Christmas, 5 adults, 2 children and 2 dogs ( one of which, an elderly Great Dane has a very pongy abscess, car smelled appalling) plus luggage and presents split between 2 cars. One car conked out just over half way. AA said it needs a new engine! Low loader sent to take it and Paul back to Cornwall ( took them 12 hrs) meanwhile daughter in law, who had reached our destination, unpacked and drove the 3 hrs back to collect the rest of us. Traffic v heavy by this time and we arrived finally at 8pm.
On topic - food was from my emergency snack supply: predominantly nuts, cheese, cured and roast meats. Way too much I expect and also too much coffee. Just so grateful to have finally arrived.

 

[Annb]

Horrible travelling day, set off 3am from Cornwall up to the Lake District for Christmas, 5 adults, 2 children and 2 dogs ( one of which, an elderly Great Dane has a very pongy abscess, car smelled appalling) plus luggage and presents split between 2 cars. One car conked out just over half way. AA said it needs a new engine! Low loader sent to take it and Paul back to Cornwall ( took them 12 hrs) meanwhile daughter in law, who had reached our destination, unpacked and drove the 3 hrs back to collect the rest of us. Traffic v heavy by this time and we arrived finally at 8pm.
On topic - food was from my emergency snack supply: predominantly nuts, cheese, cured and roast meats. Way too much I expect and also too much coffee. Just so grateful to have finally arrived.

What a traumatic start to your Christmas holiday. Will Paul be joining you when he has dealt with the car? Just as well you did have an emergency supply and under those stressful conditions I think anyone would have over indulged a bit. I hope you can have a happy, peaceful and restful Christmas from now on.

 

[Annb]

Breakfast: eggs scrambled in butter with some of yesterday's smoked haddock through it.
2nd meal will be a couple of Cumberland sausages with onions and tomatoes.

I've just checked the big fridge in the back porch (I don't get out there very often) and there is some salmon on its use by date and some beef mince past its use by date. The beef will be OK despite the date. I must do something with both of those today but I don't feel like having more fish or having beef right now. So I'll just cook them and put them in the freezer for another day.

BG was high this morning but is in the 7's this afternoon, so that's not too bad.

Another typo that had to be edited.

 

[filly]

Coffee and cream
Gammon Ham Brie
Smoked salmon Gammon ham
Greek yogurt and a very tiny fresh fig

 

[Antje77]

A feast!

Yesterday I was in Amsterdam to visit a dying friend (very good visit) and Amsterdam of course has all kinds of food not available in my rural village. Would have been a shame to not make use of that!

I chose an Indonesian takeaway, where you choose the foods you want and they fill little containers with the cold dishes to heat up at home.
No idea of the carb content so dosing my insulin on luck but from the taste it was pretty low. If I go high it's the stuff at the top of the picture, it's a delicious crunchy spicy tempeh which definitely involves ginger syrup.

Clockwise from there, it's baby squid, taugé with tofu and something green, another very tasty tempeh, green beans, rendang (deef stew) and a hard boiled egg in the middle. Everything differently and well flavoured.

You're supposed to eat it with rice or noodles but it went very well without. I thought about making cauliflower rice with it but I didn't have a cauliflower and they are expensive too at the moment.

Same again tomorrow, I used half of each little container.

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a food dr bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: egg mayo on a LC roll with coleslaw followed by DGF butterscotch and pecan brownie and cream.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Fried bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes for breakfast.

Chicken wings, some stone fruit for lunch.

Cottage pie (mre) for supper at six.



Small gass of single malt before going to bed.

 

[plantae]

Breakfast: Bacon, 2 eggs, tomato, multigrain toast with butter, coffee

Snack: pistachio nuts

Lunch: Salad (rocket, red leicester, pickled onions, beetroot, tomato, black beans, zucchini, capsicum, balsamic vinegar), salmon, 1 slice multigrain bread

Snack: kiwi fruit

Dinner: Steak, mushrooms with butter and garlic, green beans, carrots, broccoli, small amount of mashed potato, no added sugar ice cream

Snack: protein bar, 2 pieces 95% cocoa chocolate

 

[MrsA2]

We drove from one side of the country to the other, started in pouring rain and floods. Christmas migration. Took 4 hours instead of the usual 2.

Took opportunity to skip breakfast and lunch was at a friend's. Sausage casserole (with beans) and veg. Cheese to follow

Tea was more cheese and 1 sq 85% chocolate.

Cheeses are our contribution to the family gathering so expect them to feature highly over the next few days. The whole Brie I'd ordered turns out to be huge, 2.2 kg

 

[Stephen Bond]

Not been on for a while as this Christmas run up has been very hectic. Have been pretty good up until this week. OMAD most days and BG's 4.5-5. Fell off the wagon Monday and had a few glasses of fizz after low carb dinner and rum baba for desert.. 7.1 before bed!! Next morning down to 4.8, so not so bad. Only drinking alcohol every 2 days, and then limiting to 2 glasses of fizz, 1 glass of wine and a scotch.
The next two days had meals out and that pushed things up... 6-7 at bedtimes mid 5's in the mornings. Overall not too bad as I lost 1.5kg this week.

Today I had a really small portion of Thai green curry and left half of the rice. No booze. BG is 6.9 before bed. There was sugar in the curry plus of course the rice.
I have made a regular trifle for Christmas day, but i think i will try to make a low Carb "tester trifle" made with Low carb jelly, low carb cookies (sherry soaked), raspberries and some low carb ambrosia custard, topped with cream flaked almonds and a grating of 90% chocolate. Fingers crossed, i have high hopes for this as I love trifle!
Merry Christmas and big hugs to all of you!!!! Onward and upward!!!

 

[Antje77]

I chose an Indonesian takeaway, where you choose the foods you want and they fill little containers with the cold dishes to heat up at home.
No idea of the carb content so dosing my insulin on luck but from the taste it was pretty low.

Looks like I nailed it with my guessing game!
Injected at 8, ate at 8:15, added a little more insulin at 9 because of a quick rise to 6.8 and expecting to rise more (not really necessary in hindsight) and I'm now sitting at a stable 4.3, four hours after the last insulin. (I'm an hour ahead of you.)

A bedtime snack of chicory and hummus will make sure I won't dip into hypo territory during the night, I expect.

 

[DJC3]

What a traumatic start to your Christmas holiday. Will Paul be joining you when he has dealt with the car? Just as well you did have an emergency supply and under those stressful conditions I think anyone would have over indulged a bit. I hope you can have a happy, peaceful and restful Christmas from now on.

Thanks Ann, yes Paul came back yesterday - he borrowed a car from his friend and drove the 8hrs back up. He said hello and went straight to the pub! All good now.
Sorry I know I should have put this on the parallel thread but I don’t know how to move it.

 

[DJC3]

Yesterday began with black coffee and continued until lunchtime:
1 slice toasted HiLo topped with cheesy scrambled eggs.
Dinner: DIL made pasta carbonara for everyone but forgot to take my portion of the sauce out to top my Bare Naked noodles. Pasta and sauce all mixed together, she was quite upset about it, we had to put a regular portion in a dish then I picked the pasta out, added extra cream and parmesan and my noodles. I expect that some of the pasta starch will have leached into the sauce so didn’t bother checking BG afterwards as there was nothing to be gained by it.
Later Brie and M&S crackers ( last box, saved for Christmas)

 

[Annb]