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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

@Antje77. I have a feeling that the figure I'm supposed to aim for is 52. Not sure where that figure came from but I may even be below that, if my own calculations are anything to go by (but we all know that I am not numerate - I'm sure there's a word for that, but can't think of it).

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Breakfast kefir and hemp seeds before heading off to pick up youngest son's dog as we are sharing dog care while they are on their three weeks honeymoon. Went early to beat traffic and heat. Lovely to have him here for a bit. He's a very sweet tempered poodle.
Lunch one LC roll with ham, boiled egg and mustard followed by my quick frozen raspberry yoghurt and a few squares of 100% chocolate
Pre dinner ACV in water with a few olives and walnuts
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Cooked a roast chicken yesterday so ate some cold with half a sausage, small beetroot, salad with mixed leaves, radish and cucumber and some marinated artichokes with glass of red wine followed by LC cake and decaffeinated coffee.
 
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Can't remember any breakfast!! Memory is definitely ageing.

Mid morning, several tastes as I was making a cheesecake cream ready for visitors

L: mostly planned and cooked by son: marinated pork chops with roasted peppers with anchovy and capers, aubergine and courgette in tomato sauce , roast new potatoes for the carb eaters. Pud was blackberries with cheesecake cream and almond biscuit for the carb eaters. Lots of cheeses. White wine

Supper: a little cheese, olives and one tomato. 2 sqs hm lc rhubarb cake with cream
 
Annb said:
@Antje77. I have a feeling that the figure I'm supposed to aim for is 52. Not sure where that figure came from but I may even be below that, if my own calculations are anything to go by (but we all know that I am not numerate - I'm sure there's a word for that, but can't think of it).

Website playing up a bit again so I'm posting this separately in response to the above "reply"
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The word I was looking for was dyscalculia. I can calculate but slowly and with no confidence. Mental arithmetic is a waste of time because I can never remember the numbers I am trying to work with.

Didn't have any more food today so it was just 2 RyVita with melted cheese plus a lot of tea of different kinds. BG is still in the 8's though.
 
Antje77 said:
That's not a step in the right direction but absolutely brilliant!

Don't forget that on insulin you can't aim as low as on diet only because of hypos, and even more so if your not the youngest anymore.
I think that 53 is the official target for T1s on insulin (at least in my country), and the risks of insulin are the same, regardless of type.

Some of my neighbours had come together to throw a 'poetical picknick' over two gardens today and I had a wonderful afternoon. Poems were read in a very informal way, and the whole garden had conceptual pieces of art representing a 'hilarious saint'. The pieces were numbered and a booklet was given with descriptions of the 'saints' represented, lots of fun hunting through the garden to find them all!

The host had supplied food and drinks, ranging from fruit to crisps, salty snacks, deepfried snacks etc, but she had also made sure to provide plenty of cheese cubes, olives and cherry tomatoes with little mozzarella balls on a stick especially for me, so sweet!
I also had two bitterballen though, can't resist those.
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That sounds like bizarre but completely wonderful day. Who decides if a saint is hilarious or miserable?
 
@Annb well done on your HbA1c result. Especially in light of all the trials and tribulations you’ve had recently.
Today’s food-
B- 90 sec mug bread filled with cheese and bovril ( run out of marmite) and fried in butter.
L- 2 cold Coop chipolatas, cheddar and a spoon of sauerkraut
D- roast chicken. Garlicky green beans, cauli cheese, big mushroom filled with blue cheese, roast courgette, red pepper and broccoli stalks. Few glasses of wine.
 
DJC3 said:
That sounds like bizarre but completely wonderful day. Who decides if a saint is hilarious or miserable?
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In this case, the artist neighbour. And they weren't real saints anyway, and I can assure you they were all hilarious, according to their description, but many were miserable as well.

Evening meal was a slice of LC bread with butter and parmesan, a cracker with German mett, and a bowl of yoghurt in hopes to nudge BG up a little. I've been hovering around 4 for hours, must have misjudged those bitterballen.
It's too warm for cooking.
 
Evening all

Today's plans included lunch at neighbour's outdoor party. Rather than turn up empty handed, we took a Caprese salad and a Greek salad to share.


B: Two eggs scrambled in butter with a generous dollop of double cream, sautéed chestnut mushrooms and a tomato, all garnished with chopped flat-leaf parsley and seasoned with one or two grindings of black pepper.
Water to swallow tablets, followed by espresso.

L: BBQ'd sesame tofu kebabs in a lettuce wrap, corn cobs with butter and Greek salad made with red, yellow and green peppers, feta, vine tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber, Kalamata olives and oregano dressed with vinaigrette.
Coffee with cream.

D: Cheddar cheese salad made with lettuce, Romano peppers, celery, cherry tomatoes, salad onions, mint and black olives, dressed with homemade mayonnaise, topped with pecan halves and macadamia nuts roasted in butter.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
Morning lovely people. I wish there was a 'mm that sounds yummy' emoji!! Question....when you want to comment on a sentence in a posting; like some of you commented on Annb's 'diabetic nurse gave me'. That was just one sentence out of a few so how do you do that please? Do you just highlight the particular sentence you want to comment on? Didn't dare try it! @Annb, your A1c is brilliant when you take all your problems into account. Hope you soon feel better too. It's pensioners lunch today, so I'm fasting till lunch, will take my crackers and cheese (but ohhh, I do envy those who can eat the puddings!) I have the mackerel pate plus salad for tea. Hope not to do too much damage! Have a great day folks. :joyful:
 
No food so far today - just fluids. My cold is still going strong, but I do feel a lot better today. When I made the coffee cake for DIL I baked an extra small one to check the flavour. So I finished that off with buttercream and tasted a small bit of it. Despite all the coffee I put into it, it was a bit disappointing. But, it is what it is and I just had to finish the main cake off with strong coffee flavoured icing. I'm saying no food, but there was, of course, the little bit of coffee cake, which I don't regard as food. It shoved my BG up to 14.9! Too sweet for me as well.

I have some broccoli, onion and tomatoes ready for making into a meal at some stage today. That will be the only meal.
 
B- scrambled eggs with spinach stirred through. Turmeric and ginger sauerkraut and an Edam crisp.
L- large salad with a couple of h/b eggs. 2 chicken wings and all the usual veg. H/m yoghurt with frozen blueberries.
D- started with salad ACV/oo dressing. Then pasture fed rump steak and a blue cheese stuffed mushroom. Finished off with a DGF Notella brownie.
 
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Share what you've eaten today with the rest of the DCUK community and maybe steal a few ideas for yourself!

Please remember that this is the 'Low Carb Diet Forum' and that this thread isn't for low carb debates :)
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I did many courses on future learn and one on managing diabetes for patients, thats my achievement,
 
Very similar to yesterday
Long early morning dog walk before breakfast into our local forest as it was cool first thing - saw a wonderful stag deer which just stood and watched us go past, magical! Going to stick to this routine while weather hot and we are dog caring.It's actually a bit muddy in forest because of so many wild storms with heavy rain and currently experiencing third one in a row so no doubt even muddier tomorrow - don't need to water though.
When back kefir with shelled hemp seeds
Lunchtime half a LC roll with ham and a few slices of tomatoes then yoghurt mixed with frozen raspberries
Mid pm a couple of squares of 100% chocolate
Pre dinner ACV in water and a few olives and walnuts.
Dinner roast Chicken and salads followed by LC brownie.
 
Malt vinegar in water, turmeric in water, and orange. I had cake over the weekend was my Birthday. Need to cut down. I don't really talk about what I eat as much as cooking. I was overwhelmed when I was initially diagnosed, didn't think app would have helped me, Before diabetes would have had mental stamina to do it by myself. I think for motivation groups are helpful.
 
I was just discussing with a neighbour that a female cousin had mentioned you are gaining weight it was a horrible experience. We were 6. No adult said anything. Of course, I felt shame. So that is the past. As much as body image affects one's habits. Disappointment is a healthier version of shame. So yes am disappointed by my health outcome.
I am glad she left the continent.
 
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