What have you eaten today?

[bookmite]

Awwe wish you well and hope you feel brighter tomorrow

 

[pavlovsdog]

I ought to!
And I bet they wouldn't have such a bad effect.

But no, we just went into Tescos and looked for carby things that would provide approx 10g carbs per (small) portion.

My research continues...

Today, no wheat.
Fasting was 6.8 - pleased with that after last few days!
Morning choc snack and afternoon 9bar barely registered.
BG hit 7.6 one hour after potato salad, cold chicken and a coyo at lunch (rise of 1.3), so delighted.

But I've felt dreadful.
It's been building all week.
A bit less restful sleep, a bit more achy (which I recognise from my high insulin resistance in the past), less mental clarity. That hint of a hangover feeling in the mornings, with slightly red rimmed eyes. Slightly stiff knees. The depression is starting to loom too, like a black cloud on the horizon. Like tears are always there, behind my eyes.
A bit worse each day, and ending the wheat yesterday has not stopped the decline.

Going to have a think about the way forward.

I've always had monumental insulin resistance - overweight, with PCOS, and on medication that increases it even more, but I had forgotten how horrible this is. And how debilitating.
And I don't want to lose my lovely three day weekend to feeling this cr*p.

Contemplating a few days back on stage 1 until I bounce back to wellness.
(That actually makes me feel a strong sense of relief!)
Then a much more systematic phase 2 re-entry.
No wheat. One carb at a time, in 10 g portions, until I can identify their effect, and my tolerance.

Ah well, a useful lesson.
And a very effective reminder of how dreadful I used to feel, all the time. Except in those days I thought it was normal!

Im sorry you're not feeling so well. Its interesting you saying that it may be something to do with wheat, particularly after my experience with the bread roll on Monday. You are absolutely right, it is very easy to forget how unwell we felt until something like this happens. Hope you feel better soon

 

[Avocado Sevenfold]

@Brunneria Take care m'dear x

 

[Kezzer4321]

I ought to!
And I bet they wouldn't have such a bad effect.

But no, we just went into Tescos and looked for carby things that would provide approx 10g carbs per (small) portion.

My research continues...

Today, no wheat.
Fasting was 6.8 - pleased with that after last few days!
Morning choc snack and afternoon 9bar barely registered.
BG hit 7.6 one hour after potato salad, cold chicken and a coyo at lunch (rise of 1.3), so delighted.

But I've felt dreadful.
It's been building all week.
A bit less restful sleep, a bit more achy (which I recognise from my high insulin resistance in the past), less mental clarity. That hint of a hangover feeling in the mornings, with slightly red rimmed eyes. Slightly stiff knees. The depression is starting to loom too, like a black cloud on the horizon. Like tears are always there, behind my eyes.
A bit worse each day, and ending the wheat yesterday has not stopped the decline.

Going to have a think about the way forward.

I've always had monumental insulin resistance - overweight, with PCOS, and on medication that increases it even more, but I had forgotten how horrible this is. And how debilitating.
And I don't want to lose my lovely three day weekend to feeling this cr*p.

Contemplating a few days back on stage 1 until I bounce back to wellness.
(That actually makes me feel a strong sense of relief!)
Then a much more systematic phase 2 re-entry.
No wheat. One carb at a time, in 10 g portions, until I can identify their effect, and my tolerance.

Ah well, a useful lesson.
And a very effective reminder of how dreadful I used to feel, all the time. Except in those days I thought it was normal!

@Brunneria I am really sorry your feeling unwell. Having seen how well you have done so far I am sure you will find a way through this next stage

 

[Kezzer4321]

B - scrambled egg and bacon
L - poached salmon and salad with a table spoon of potatoe salad
S - 9bar
D - grilled salmon and broccoli

 

[bookmite]

B - scrambled egg and bacon
L - poached salmon and salad with a table spoon of potatoe salad
S - 9bar
D - grilled salmon and broccoli

You love your salmon lol.

I've spiked tonight I had x 3 sainsbury butchers choice sausage, 1 med potato done Spanish style and veg

It was the spud, the 3 sausage was 9g carb, the potato 26g ...when will I learn *sigh*

Well that's my treat for the week

 

[Kezzer4321]

@bookmite i do like salmon but not as much as I have been eating. Unfortunately my freeze broke and it was either cook em or loose em.... And salmon is too expensive to throw away... I may never eat salmon again after this week lol worst still I have the last of the salmon to eat tomorrow for my lunch grrrr

 

[Brunneria]

@bookmite i do like salmon but not as much as I have been eating. Unfortunately my freeze broke and it was either cook em or loose em.... And salmon is too expensive to throw away... I may never eat salmon again after this week lol worst still I have the last of the salmon to eat tomorrow for my lunch grrrr

I came across a fab salmon recipe once.
Grill and drizzle with equal quantities mirin (sweet rice wine) and dark soy sauce.
Serve with coleslaw.

I think mirin could be subbed with a tiny bit of maple syrup or LC alternative.

Delicious!

 

[Adelle0607]

I ought to!
And I bet they wouldn't have such a bad effect.

But no, we just went into Tescos and looked for carby things that would provide approx 10g carbs per (small) portion.

My research continues...

Today, no wheat.
Fasting was 6.8 - pleased with that after last few days!
Morning choc snack and afternoon 9bar barely registered.
BG hit 7.6 one hour after potato salad, cold chicken and a coyo at lunch (rise of 1.3), so delighted.

But I've felt dreadful.
It's been building all week.
A bit less restful sleep, a bit more achy (which I recognise from my high insulin resistance in the past), less mental clarity. That hint of a hangover feeling in the mornings, with slightly red rimmed eyes. Slightly stiff knees. The depression is starting to loom too, like a black cloud on the horizon. Like tears are always there, behind my eyes.
A bit worse each day, and ending the wheat yesterday has not stopped the decline.

Going to have a think about the way forward.

I've always had monumental insulin resistance - overweight, with PCOS, and on medication that increases it even more, but I had forgotten how horrible this is. And how debilitating.
And I don't want to lose my lovely three day weekend to feeling this cr*p.

Contemplating a few days back on stage 1 until I bounce back to wellness.
(That actually makes me feel a strong sense of relief!)
Then a much more systematic phase 2 re-entry.
No wheat. One carb at a time, in 10 g portions, until I can identify their effect, and my tolerance.

Ah well, a useful lesson.
And a very effective reminder of how dreadful I used to feel, all the time. Except in those days I thought it was normal!

Sorry to hear about this @Brunneria, hope you can fight it and continue your way forward xx I was talking to a friend the other day, who happens to be a doctor and says pcos is considered a prediabetic state by itself with the insulin resistance and I've had it for ages which is frustrating. I'm now down to size 0-2 and now my menstrual periods have come back observing such a careful diet (with the occasional pasta/bread mixed in during the week) But I must admit that the discipline it takes to achieve it is frustrating at times. then I get into that mind frame that it's all for health and it becomes more tolerable again.

 

[JohnD54]

@bookmite i do like salmon but not as much as I have been eating. Unfortunately my freeze broke and it was either cook em or loose em.... And salmon is too expensive to throw away... I may never eat salmon again after this week lol worst still I have the last of the salmon to eat tomorrow for my lunch grrrr

Send it here never enough lol

 

[Weird Science]

B small bran flakes, 2 bacon
L a terrible carbfest as ate at work, pushed me up to 9.1 from 5.4!
D doner no pitta
Coyo

Hope you feel better Brunneria

 

[cold ethyl]

@Brunneria Take care m'dear x

Seconded. Wheat really can be a catalyst for all sorts of ailments so maybe just stick to other extra carbs. You could try a proper spelt bread to see if it has similar effect. I remember when I was trying to conceive that candida was all the rage as the intolerance illness to have, and I pop pooed it, but I've had a lot of the same symptoms as you list over the years whenever I eat wheat based goods and am beginning to think there was something in it. Sadly mushrooms were also a banned food on the diet so not sure I could give them up as well as carbs!

 

[cold ethyl]

Breakfast scrambled eggs
Lunch cheese and tuna salad
Dinner out - wes meant to be steak but the restaurant couldn't cope with an event and real cooking so ended up at Indians - poppadums, onion bajhia Lamb curry and spinach and paneer. Stuffed and BS too high for my liking. I suspect they use sugar in pickles and sauce.

 

[Brunneria]

Sorry to hear about this @Brunneria, hope you can fight it and continue your way forward xx I was talking to a friend the other day, who happens to be a doctor and says pcos is considered a prediabetic state by itself with the insulin resistance and I've had it for ages which is frustrating. I'm now down to size 0-2 and now my menstrual periods have come back observing such a careful diet (with the occasional pasta/bread mixed in during the week) But I must admit that the discipline it takes to achieve it is frustrating at times. then I get into that mind frame that it's all for health and it becomes more tolerable again.

Thanks.

your post made me grin.
Size 0-2?!? you must be a wafer of air!
Even at my slimmest, age 12, before the adolescent PCOS hormones hit, my bone structure would never allow me to be less than a 12-14. Add on any flesh at all, and I was bigger than that. I was 5'7" at eleven years old, and wearing my mother's clothes in school plays.
Put us side by side, and we would look like we came from two different species. lol.

 

[Brunneria]

Seconded. Wheat really can be a catalyst for all sorts of ailments so maybe just stick to other extra carbs. You could try a proper spelt bread to see if it has similar effect. I remember when I was trying to conceive that candida was all the rage as the intolerance illness to have, and I pop pooed it, but I've had a lot of the same symptoms as you list over the years whenever I eat wheat based goods and am beginning to think there was something in it. Sadly mushrooms were also a banned food on the diet so not sure I could give them up as well as carbs!

I remember my mother, in her 40s suddenly became obsessed with food intolerances, avoiding wheat, and sugar and nitrates and... the list was endless. but now I am in my 40s too, I think the body just reaches a point where it cannot cope any more. All those tiny little toxic invasions, one after the other, day by day, year by year, and things just start to fail.

And someone looking at me, with my weird LCHF, my blood testing routine, herb teas, posh choc, my strange packed lunches, and refusal of cakes and biccies in the office probably thinks 'obsessed!'

Do you think I'm turning into my mother?

(mind you, she has made it to 80+ with fantastic skin, good health and a fairly acute brain, so why not? )

 

[cold ethyl]

I remember my mother, in her 40s suddenly became obsessed with food intolerances, avoiding wheat, and sugar and nitrates and... the list was endless. but now I am in my 40s too, I think the body just reaches a point where it cannot cope any more. All those tiny little toxic invasions, one after the other, day by day, year by year, and things just start to fail.

And someone looking at me, with my weird LCHF, my blood testing routine, my strange packed lunches, and my refusal of cakes and biccies in the office probably things 'obsessed!'

Do you think I'm turning into my mother!

Heaven forbid. Though I looked in the big mirror lat night for first time in years ( that way I could convince myself I had no excess chins! ) and thought I was looking at my mother. Scary.
I stayed off wheat for years and felt great then it crept back in and I developed IBS and fibromyalgia and then diabetes. I think you are right that the body copes as best it can till one day it just gives up trying.

 

[mamamodge]

Brunneria ,
Wheat appears to affect me in that way as well .I feel awful eating it .Spelt was slightly better for me .I do hope you are feeling better today.
**** that pcos ....

 

[mamamodge]

B.omlette with bacon gluten free 90% sausage and mushroom .
L cheese and spinach leaves with mayo.
Alpro Coconut milk ...which although experimental I think has caused carbs craving as it has rice in it.
D.steak and kidney in onion gravy cauliflower and butter.
Snack ...piece of cheese.

 

[AndBreathe]

Sorry to hear about this @Brunneria, hope you can fight it and continue your way forward xx I was talking to a friend the other day, who happens to be a doctor and says pcos is considered a prediabetic state by itself with the insulin resistance and I've had it for ages which is frustrating. I'm now down to size 0-2 and now my menstrual periods have come back observing such a careful diet (with the occasional pasta/bread mixed in during the week) But I must admit that the discipline it takes to achieve it is frustrating at times. then I get into that mind frame that it's all for health and it becomes more tolerable again.

Blimey @Adelle0607 – Is the 0-2 using Australian sizing (which I believe to be pretty much the same as the UK measures)?

I am running at 6-8, and there’s nothing of me, at 49kg (and annoyingly dropping again, but not really out about that yet, as Mr B will blow a gasket!). What on earth do you weigh and measure? Are you a shorty?

 

[Brunneria]

Blimey @Adelle0607 – Is the 0-2 using Australian sizing (which I believe to be pretty much the same as the UK measures)?

I am running at 6-8, and there’s nothing of me, at 49kg (and annoyingly dropping again, but not really out about that yet, as Mr B will blow a gasket!). What on earth do you weigh and measure? Are you a shorty?

He obviously needs to feed you more.