Norfolkmell
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- Location
- Norfolk England
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Tattoos, carers calling me lovey or duckie when I've only just met them
Get the Mrs to knock out some low carb muffins for you during the day for the following days....
Of course but it was in jest - tongue in cheek. As I explained I am at home all day and do most of the cooking, I work from home.Bit sexist there listlad!
If I need to do a pack-up, for whatever reason, mine tends to focus around protein and fat to keep my fuller longer.
A pack of chicken thighs (I think if I recall about 8 decent sized ones) is under £2 in Lidl. Cook them all at once (roasted, BBQ or airfried for me), then when cooled, wrap individually in foil and fridge what will be eating in a couple of days, then freeze the rest. As they are already foil wrapped, they are easy to remove from the freezer singly. If you are having them at work, if you take the out the night before, or in the morning, they'll have defrosted by the time you want to eat.
Wrapped in foil, they cane become (slightly inelegant) finger food. Wings or drummers also work, they they're less meaty.
Baby bell, or other little blocks of cheese. Again, if using block cheese, prepping ahead, wrapping cut mini-block portions in foil and refrigerating works well.
Cold meats - Buying a gammon joint from the butcher or supermarket, roasting, slicing and wrapping would be favoured by me, over processed ham.
A gammon hock, stripped of its skin (to be made into crackling), then boiled for stock, for soup, then the meat "pulled", by shredding with forks, then adding any condiments you like, like mayo, or chilli sauce, or whatever makes a great pot meal, eaten twith a fork.
A gammon hock in our butcher's in under £3 and gives crackling, a fair few sliced on the best parts, then plenty pulled gammon, plus soup stock. Leftover veggies, or a fridge clear up can go in the soup. All in all - loads of meals from under £3.
Oh, and of course hard boiled eggs.
The flour,as a grain, will do a lot of the damage. There are recipes for low carb muffins out there. Mostly using either almond flour (ground almonds) or coconut flour. Neither are cheap if I’m honest (amazon is often good for. A bulk buy) but that should help you use them as treats rather than fillers. Switching the cherries and sultanas for berries (frozen are cheap and work in baking) would help. If you’re eating more fats and less carbs you won’t get as hungry anyway.Now as far as cooking lo carb muffins we'd have to look into that.
From what I can see the cherries and sultana's are the baddies but hell do they taste good.
What about the theory of having manderines and burning the sugar off during the shift at work?
Let me try and get this straight in my head.
I test my blood four times a day (as instructed)
If my blood sugar is between 5 and 7 then everything is ok?
I've seen on here that a raise of 2 after meals is ok as well
Am I right or have I got it wrong?
The purpose of testing is to check on the carb content of our meal. So, test before you eat and Two hours after the first bite. If the rise under s less than 2 then your golden.
Fruit will overwork your liver which is working hard enough as it is.
Basically yes you’re right.Let me try and get this straight in my head.
I test my blood four times a day (as instructed)
If my blood sugar is between 5 and 7 then everything is ok?
I've seen on here that a raise of 2 after meals is ok as well
Am I right or have I got it wrong?
Sorry but this wouldn’t work for me.The reason for asking is that I'm back at work on Monday.
Testing times will have to be 6am, 1pm, 5.30pm and 10pm
Feeding times will be 6am breakfast, 10am break, 1pm dinner 5.30 ish tea.
During the day working I will be moving about doing this and that.
My theory is that any IF any extra carbs I take will be burnt of during the course of the day.
The only high reading should be the 10pm one because between teatime meal and bed time I would'nt have done so much moving about than during the day.
What do members think of my theory?
I'm asking for advice here.
Normaly for work I take these items:-
Two thins with three slices of square ham on each and cheese and onion sandwich filler.
Two thin cheese squares
One packet of cheese puffs
Two home made muffins
One carton of grapefruit segments
Two chocholate buiscuit bars
1 ltr of diluted orange squash
I have two breaks a shift and I make the above last over the two breaks.
When I go back to work I intend to change my sandwich box to this :-
Two thins with three slices of square ham with a thin spread of low fat cottage cheese
One carton of manderine segments
1 ltr of diluted orange squash
Now thats what I've got so far. Some will say it's all bad but if you bear in mind cost of things that is what I have.
If any members have any tips or suggestions please let me know. Pennies are the issue as well as the health issue.
http://specsymmetry.com/treatment/utermohlen-p-eyeglasses <-- my mom's had it for over 20 years, this is the first thing that helped. She still gets episodes every now and again, but they're not as bad, shorter, and they're few and far in between. I think she'll take her prism glasses (not regular ones, but made with Utermöhlen's specifications) to the grave with her. No idea why Dr. Vente's site is in English, (he's Dutch) but there's probably someone who can help you where you are?Just goes to show you have to keep testing to find what you can and can't eat. I've fallen off the wagon a bit as I've now added Ménière's to my list of defects and being so dizzy and nauseous all the time has meant I'm either not eating or eating lots of carbs. However as there appears to be no cure or treatment for the Ménière's I need to take a grip and just get on with LCHF and more testing. Lots of good ideas on this thread some I'm going to try. Thank you everyone.
Was he a heart pro or diabetic pro?Another thing about the test times I have.
The diary that came with the kit I was given has 8 differant times of the day to do a reading.
The consultant ringed 4 times for me to do.
Before Breakfast
Before Midday Meal
Before Evening Meal
Before Bed
I dare say the is a reason he marked those times down.
He's the pro.
I'm just the sad ------ trying to grasp it all.
Another thing about the test times I have.
The diary that came with the kit I was given has 8 differant times of the day to do a reading.
The consultant ringed 4 times for me to do.
Before Breakfast
Before Midday Meal
Before Evening Meal
Before Bed
I dare say the is a reason he marked those times down.
He's the pro.
I'm just the sad ------ trying to grasp it all.
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