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Feeling MUCH better today, folks! :D

The wheat effects are fading (though still carrying 4.5 lbs of water retention). It'll be interesting to see when that goes...

Had scram eggs for brekkie
Carvery lunch with the In-Laws. Very enjoyable, food and company.
Had one roastie. No ill effects. Forgot to test. :mad:
Tea will be berries and cream, and maybe cold meat.

And I may make a batch of low carb cheese straws :woot: I'm craving the savoury cheese melting crisp crumble in the mouth. :wacky:
It sound perfect... It seems that none of us should eat wheat, and most carbs, ever? My husband is eating with me and although he is the carb king he says, after three weeks, that he didn't dribble when he popped to the bakery this morning early for bottled water... :) I see from an earlier post that we produce a specific enzyme to deal with carbs... must have stopped producing it then...;)
 
Morning All,
(Feeling almost back to normal today! :D)

I thought it was time to test my HbA1c again, so I hauled my last test kit out of the back of the fridge and ran it.
FAIL
No result and an error message.
:mad:
Not happy.
What a waste of money!

So, I thought I would let you know that I have decided to award myself an imaginary (and delightfully celebratory) low score!
In the normal range. Of course.
And since until last week my BG hadn't risen above 7 for 2 months, I'm thinking I should be in the Less-Than-42 (aka the old 5% club)
I deserve it.
Even if I have no proof at all.

So, I'm celebrating my new a1c folks. Wanna join me in an equally imaginary party?
I've got imaginary LC cheese straws and plenty of imaginary booze. And I'm not driving. ;)
 
Morning All,
(Feeling almost back to normal today! :D)

I thought it was time to test my HbA1c again, so I hauled my last test kit out of the back of the fridge and ran it.
FAIL
No result and an error message.
:mad:
Not happy.
What a waste of money!

So, I thought I would let you know that I have decided to award myself an imaginary (and delightfully celebratory) low score!
In the normal range. Of course.
And since until last week my BG hadn't risen above 7 for 2 months, I'm thinking I should be in the Less-Than-42 (aka the old 5% club)
I deserve it.
Even if I have no proof at all.

So, I'm celebrating my new a1c folks. Wanna join me in an equally imaginary party?
I've got imaginary LC cheese straws and plenty of imaginary booze. And I'm not driving. ;)
I'm in.. :) I love parties... I'm flying home tonight and will make cheese straws tomorrow.. lush...
 
Morning All,
(Feeling almost back to normal today! :D)

I thought it was time to test my HbA1c again, so I hauled my last test kit out of the back of the fridge and ran it.
FAIL
No result and an error message.
:mad:
Not happy.
What a waste of money!

So, I thought I would let you know that I have decided to award myself an imaginary (and delightfully celebratory) low score!
In the normal range. Of course.
And since until last week my BG hadn't risen above 7 for 2 months, I'm thinking I should be in the Less-Than-42 (aka the old 5% club)
I deserve it.
Even if I have no proof at all.

So, I'm celebrating my new a1c folks. Wanna join me in an equally imaginary party?
I've got imaginary LC cheese straws and plenty of imaginary booze. And I'm not driving. ;)
... and congratulations on your lovely low score... bravo.. :)
 
We don't have an icon with a party hat and squeaker, so I have my imaginary one on... :playful:
 
Loving all the positivity this morning!! Party? Count me in
Good, the more the merrier.. :) We went to our fave Chinese restaurant last night for the first time since I was told I had a problem... I've been eating to my meter since... I had crispy duck wrapped in chinese cabbage leaves with broccoli and oyster sauce, followed by Chiliean Sea Bass steamed with blackbean sauce and spinach... it was brilliant... this morning I have 5.7 fasting which is up a bit, but I am still celebrating dear Brunneria's 'low score'... :)
 
Morning All,
(Feeling almost back to normal today! :D)

I thought it was time to test my HbA1c again, so I hauled my last test kit out of the back of the fridge and ran it.
FAIL
No result and an error message.
:mad:
Not happy.
What a waste of money!

So, I thought I would let you know that I have decided to award myself an imaginary (and delightfully celebratory) low score!
In the normal range. Of course.
And since until last week my BG hadn't risen above 7 for 2 months, I'm thinking I should be in the Less-Than-42 (aka the old 5% club)
I deserve it.
Even if I have no proof at all.

So, I'm celebrating my new a1c folks. Wanna join me in an equally imaginary party?
I've got imaginary LC cheese straws and plenty of imaginary booze. And I'm not driving. ;)

Brill, I havent been to a party for yonks! As its imaginary, can I wear my size 12 evening dress, heels and loads of bling? And can I eat jacket pots with a variety of fillings? Or a plate of creamy mash with loads of butter will do?
 
Good morning from Cyprus...We had mushrooms, tomatoes and bacon fried for breakfast, and coffee with cream... We were working til two yesterday, then lunch got held up yet again, so I quickly had a bullet proof coffee and peanut butter on almond/flax flour bread... once the crisis was over I boiled eggs and made egg mayonnaise with lush anchovies stuffed with capers on top of almond bread and lots of water.... we didn't need food again until 8.30 last evening, when we ate out on herb salad, seared scallops, filleted Dover sole, creamed spinach and asparagus - we also had two glasses of a wonderful local dry white wine... we drank black herbal tea and water in-between... my reading was 5.2... :) I was so happy... my lovely husband eats low-carb with me so I don't have to cook two meals... he is happy as his tummy has gone flat and he's lost 3 kilos... :) I made poached salmon and a rainbow salad for lunch today, and put a teaspoon of honey in the dressing...

I've been reading here that people sort of 'fight off' the diabetes sometimes for years before succumbing to it.... do we know what changes - is it the food we eat? My brother and mother have diabetes, which makes it fairly certain that I have inherited duff genes... I am 66, 164cm and 62.5 kilos - I lost 3 k's very quickly which was an alert for me really - and I have lost another 2.5 since starting the low-carb diet... When I'm at home I use a treadmill every day....I did hours and days of research before I decided what to eat and this forum helped the most to start me off - carbs hurt us I think, and they are even hidden in things like potatoes and onions sadly... I am amazed sometimes at the things with high carbs in them... sweet potatoes are obviously going to be high sadly... :) If my levels go up past 7 or 8 I check the carbs in every single thing that has gone in my mouth for 12 hours and I usually find a good reason for the spike... sadly, so far, it's always been carbs and it seems there's no way round it... I am, like Brunneria, eating to my meter and it seems to work well....

I wonder why we cannot use red wine as a natural reducer of blood glucose? If I eat a little baked potato and I have a glass of good red my levels are perfect.... and it's very civilised... :) I don't often eat something I know is bad for my BG though... I have tried to discover if wine used as to lower BG is a bad thing but cannot... It seems the established thinking is that they advise diabetics to eat mostly carbs then give them drugs to bring sugar levels down... it makes no sense... I have never been attracted to carbs really - I love anything with cholesterol in it but have denied myself the fat for many years... I used to try to be good by eating porridge every morning, but found the first time I used my meter that it spikes my levels alarmingly... so now I happily avoid it like the plague... :)

Sorry, this is a long ramble, but I cannot manage to catch up every day and although I've read a huge amount of your entertaining posts on here I know I've missed such a lot... SamJB seems to be very knowledgeable, and he's really patient with new people... it's all new to me so I am on a steep learning curve... Good job you people have a delete button, I've run on a bit.... :) But thank you all for your continuing support....

It sounds idyllic @Susikav , Im so jealous! I agree, carbs hurt us. One thing that someone said in a post was 'Our poorly bodies are being poisoned' which resonates with me. And the NHS collude with this and make us feel stupid and irresponsible when our health continues to deteriorate.
 
Poor I hope you feel better soon... Maybe some soft scrambled egg would settle you? :(

The way I felt yesterday, eggs was the last thing I wanted!:grumpy: Literally could not face anything at all, just sips of water. However, feeling much better today - so far! Made some porrige with skimmed milk and a dash of cream for brekkie :)
 
Morning All,
(Feeling almost back to normal today! :D)

I thought it was time to test my HbA1c again, so I hauled my last test kit out of the back of the fridge and ran it.
FAIL
No result and an error message.
:mad:
Not happy.
What a waste of money!

So, I thought I would let you know that I have decided to award myself an imaginary (and delightfully celebratory) low score!
In the normal range. Of course.
And since until last week my BG hadn't risen above 7 for 2 months, I'm thinking I should be in the Less-Than-42 (aka the old 5% club)
I deserve it.
Even if I have no proof at all.

So, I'm celebrating my new a1c folks. Wanna join me in an equally imaginary party?
I've got imaginary LC cheese straws and plenty of imaginary booze. And I'm not driving. ;)

I'll do one later for you and let you know your score. ;)
 
@Brunneria congrats on those excellent results . Red win will go really well with the cheese straws so I'll bring a box of that and a few nuts forgot measure :)
 
B - stuffed mushrooms (stuffed with onions, tomatoes and olives)
S - handful of cashews
L - bacon, mushrooms and a poached egg
S - handful of cashews
D - crustless quiche with cheesy coleslaw

Berries and cream for later :)
 
B. Bacon & Tomatoes

L. Roast Ham & Cathedral City Cheese

D. Tandoori chicken Balti and Bombay potatoes ( without the potato:-) )
 
Oh yes please. Absolutely. Count me in and tell her thankyou. God I can't wait!!!! :)

@alliebee + AndBreathe

Not much on atm, and she really will only post what she likes cooking but here is link if interested (can't get it to be a link, sorry)

http://the-blakeys.blogspot.com

She assures me plenty more to come.

B 3 bacon
L som tam
D beef nam tok
P chocolate
 
B - Bullet proof coffee
L- Avocado pear with 30g of Stilton, 4 cherry tomatoes on the vine, handful brazil nuts
D -home roasted chicken, 1 Rankin pork sausage, savoy cabbage, sliced runner beans, half a potato skin
Sugar free jelly

1 square of Lindt Excellence 90% dark chocolate
 
Breakfast slice black pudding turkey bacon, poached egg
Lunch smoked turkey , cheese salad with homemade coleslaw
Dinner out steak mushroom stack, salad and 6 potato chips
Snacks too much dark chocolate
 
Bacon and eggs, coffee with cream
3 x 97% meat sausages and 11g carbs savoury popcorn (black pepper and sour cream, will buy again, providing the carb cravings don't strike!)
pulled pork, broccoli, green beans and sugarsnaps, followed by strawbs, blueberries and cream

had to bathe the dog today. :woot: very exciting for both of us. burned off a lot of calories. the hair dryer was the most exciting bit.:woot::woot:
 
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