Welcome to the forum, Stan the Baron, and congratulations on your efforts and their effects on your diabetes. You're really putting in the miles and hours! Did you modify your diet at all?
Thanks for the welcome.
🙂Without having to look it up, are copepods edible? To answer your question, yes my diet has changed, but many people will now ask, how did you get your blood sugar with a diet like that? I must admit at first glance it does look like I've thrown away the text books. From a young age, like pre-school, I have never eaten much in the way of veg, can't stand the textures mainly, often the smell, however peas I did eat, and still do, sweetcorn if I have to and thats it. I'm not much better with fruit, used to be an apple a year plus the odd homemade apple pie, and a banana once a year, usually as a banana split. Today I also eat berries, raspberries,blackberries, blueberries, blackcurrants, and as of late I buy a pineapple and liquidise it, including the core and have that as my daily fruit juice, a pineapple that way will last me almost two weeks. I start the day in bed with the crossword and a coffee, frothy coffee in a large mug, regular instant coffee, with a tsp on freshly ground Ceylon cinnamon bought direct from Sri Lanka , topped with lots of the mandatory chocolate sprinklkes, actually Cadbury's low cal Options. My breakfast since retirement in 2005 has always been cooked, now I start with one Ryvita, with real butter, Marmite and Chia seeds, 1 tsp stuck on the Marmite. Next it's a grilled bacon rasher, a dry fried egg, sometimes a slice of black pudding all on a slice of toast, made from homemade bread, wholemeal flour, seeds of all kinds and potato, no preservatives at all, we freeze it sliced and use it from the freezer. Elevenses will be a cup of tea with a jam bun, again homemade, with wholemeal flour and more cinnamon. Lunch might be a smoked mackerel, maybe cheese and Hovis biscuits, just 2 and about an ounce of cheese, or even a homemade pizza, some ham and cheese with tomato puree grilled on a slice of our bread again. We also buy pate and repack it in old paste jars, freeze it to save waste,then have it spread on a couple of Ryvita, always followed by and Aldi Lemon Greek style yogurt with 3 tsp of Chia seeds, and another cup of tea. I'll stop there to let that be digested, hopefully tomorrow I'l go through a few typical evening meals, not forgetting supper of course, and maybe explain my user name, it's not random but has a story behind it that partly explains how I've made all this work for me.
