SlimLizzy
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 3,679
- Location
- Normandy, previously Worcestershire
- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
- Dislikes
- football, both the game and the culture.
Diabetes is tough enough without giving yourself a life sentence of food you don't enjoy. To me that way of eating, no matter how good the resulting BG, is certain to be abandoned at some time. We all have to find our own best compromise between healthy and delicious. Some of us actually manage to do both at once.Bit of a leap to assume I have never even tried salad to dislike it? The reason I don't like salad IS because I have tried eating it. Many times. I just. Don't. LIKE it.
I didn't like it when I was a kid, but what kid likes being told to eat their greens. I have tried salad pots in work canteens. I have tried salad pots at Grand Slam media restaurants. I still don't like it.
But if it means some other thing to prove I don't belong in this or any other diabetes/LC carb group then so be it. I am in the normal range with meds, exercise and staying roughly round 80-125g of carbs WITHOUT salad, and at the end of the day what matters to me is MY BG range.
So yeah... no salad.
Looks like spring to meA forest of bubble thoughts and not a care in the world
I agree. I finished my duck supper with creme fraîche ice-cream as a matter of fact and sipping a night cap before beddy-byes. It's a question of balance as you say.Diabetes is tough enough without giving yourself a life sentence of food you don't enjoy. To me that way of eating, no matter how good the resulting BG, is certain to be abandoned at some time. We all have to find our own best compromise between healthy and delicious. Some of us actually manage to do both at once.
Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - Chinese Lowry - I went to school with himThe skill of hole filling, too much filler and you have a the Alps, too little and you have a Meteorite Crater.
Good misty start to the art today. Like the colour and streaks in the sky, also the Chinese version of Lowry fishermen creeping into the picture.
No need to feel for me. Just one of those things. I have managed to live nigh on 51 years without it, soon to be 52 in a week and a day and can perfectly go on for years more without a lettuce leaf in my future. All good. Except when it comes to finding options on the Twickenham High St, it would seem.@RFSMarch I feel for you not liking salad. The only way I am clinging to LC for now is by eating fish and avo salad about 6 days a week and forgetting what I'm doing on the seventh - still vlc. Peanut or any other nut butter would be on my food hell list. Just goes to show how we are all different and suggesting how to eat LC from your own experience is fraught with issues. Hope you find your way through this.
Yes thank you @jjraak MrSlim seems to be stable at the moment.Now anyone can take in a cat and get my kudos.
but when it's a poor unfortunate like Errant
(and god help those that scared him so much)
that's almost Damehood material.
A wonderful uplifting story.
Ps hope Mr Slim is doing ok
Not completely in the buff I did wear a fig leaf needed some dignity.indeed, maybe there is a market in 'Lowry matchstick fishermen, cats & dogs'..
btw gave a funny for the roots post
the idea of you all captain Ahab in the sou'wester, in a ditch bailing furiously
V
you all homer Simpson, buff naked in a hole.....
Not enough eye bleach to erase those thoughts...
But have a hug for tomorrows aches.
That's exactly how I feel about mussels. I ate one mussel once when I was young and that was it. Never ate one again. I feel the same about oysters, even though I have never eaten one, because they look like mussels.I have tried salad pots in work canteens. I have tried salad pots at Grand Slam media restaurants. I still don't like it.
Congratulations on passing your Herculean trial - time for a soak.Tree root gone, it took son and I 4 hours, blunted two axes and a chainsaw, sons got an inverter in his workvan and so managed to keep sharpening the axe.
Finished my Tarn Gorge painting but over worked so not what I wanted but can't win em all, I blame the aches...
A4 watercolour
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Also finished the recording of the jolly little English Dance tune Buttered Peas and it arrived back assembled today. I'm on there playing Bass, Tabor, Mandolin and Tenor Banjo, Mrs MC Soprano and Treble Recorder with other musicians throwing in their two penny worth. Listen for the wonderful Bass Concertina.
Buttered Peas
Not everyone's taste and certainly not brilliant but we are trying and not getting to rehearse together is beginning to show I'm afraid.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I'm not sorry because you don't like salad, many don't. It is just unfortunate that the most easily available LC option in the area may be salad. As said frequently we all have different tastes and needs.Except when it comes to finding options on the Twickenham High St, it would seem.
I can eat Montezumas but I would absolutely refuse to eat a Diet Doctor recipe ever again.I don't think I ever finished a portion of those.That's exactly how I feel about mussels. I ate one mussel once when I was young and that was it. Never ate one again. I feel the same about oysters, even though I have never eaten one, because they look like mussels.
We are all so different. I love Montezuma 100% chocolate which @ianpspurs views in the same way as I view mussels - absolutely100% yuk.
Good work with tree root @Muddy CyclistTree root gone, it took son and I 4 hours, blunted two axes and a chainsaw, sons got an inverter in his workvan and so managed to keep sharpening the axe.
Finished my Tarn Gorge painting but over worked so not what I wanted but can't win em all, I blame the aches...
A4 watercolour
View attachment 48028
Also finished the recording of the jolly little English Dance tune Buttered Peas and it arrived back assembled today. I'm on there playing Bass, Tabor, Mandolin and Tenor Banjo, Mrs MC Soprano and Treble Recorder with other musicians throwing in their two penny worth. Listen for the wonderful Bass Concertina.
Buttered Peas
Not everyone's taste and certainly not brilliant but we are trying and not getting to rehearse together is beginning to show I'm afraid.
Bit of a leap to assume I have never even tried salad to dislike it? The reason I don't like salad IS because I have tried eating it. Many times. I just. Don't. LIKE it.
So yeah... no salad.
Not completely in the buff I did wear a fig leaf needed some dignity.
Yes thank you @jjraak MrSlim seems to be stable at the moment.
Errants problems were not all immediately evident, to start with he just appeared to be thin.
We didn't discover all his health issues at once.
@ianpspurs , @jjraak and last but by no means least
@RFSMarch .
LCHF does not work for me and me's, low to medium carb seems to work, high fat unless it's cheese is a real no no.
My medications screw things up, big time, but carbs are a big requirement in the morning for me.
As for eating things we detest just for the sake of lowering blood sugars a marginal amount does not equate, there are better ways to do that, we just have to find what works with our own bodies chemistry set.
I have to remind myself that life is for living, not fretting about things that I have marginal control of. My transplanted liver seems to able to regulate my bodies requirements, unless I get very active and burn up more energy than I estimated in the morning. Just recently a common occurrence.
Good luck all.
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