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My Six Stone Challenge

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Today's Plan
1 slice of fruit bread with butter
Broccoli and Stilton soup
Dinner: Prawn and carb terrine with prawn layered salad and four blini
1 small glass of wine and a bottle of alcohol free lager
I may also have a snack dependent on how genuinely hungry I am during the afternoon
 
Despite not being well with the labythinritis ive kept to my calories and I've now lost 5lbs :D :D :D Dinner last night was salmon en croute with parsley sauce, courgette spaghetti and green beans. Fortunately Mark has been cooking for me. Dinner tonight is stuffed plaice with stir fried vegetables and noodles with black bean sauce🙂
 
Congratulations!!! Keep up the good work
 
Thank you Martin 🙂
 
Sounds lovely AJ and I share your challenge. It's so difficult when you love your food and drinkies especially when there's other pressures bearing down. The stress I'm under is testing me big time at the moment! 😱

I think that 'prawn and carb terrine' you had might have been a Freudian slip more than a typo! Lol
 
Thank you Amigo, we can support each other🙂 The drinkies is the hardest bit🙂 and food.....now I'm thinking of food and now I want everything🙂
Amigo you are doing brilliantly you really are, I so hope that the stress starts to ease for you x
Lol I hadn't realised that I'd written carb terrine:D
 
I've just been put on some tablets for dizziness....common side effect is weight gain!!!! Aaaagh and I'm starving despite having eaten so far today:
A slice of fruit bread with butter
Carrot and coriander soup
A slice of Leerdammer
A packet of Wotsits
 
Dinner tonight is cheese and onion crispbake with Mediterranean potatoes and vegetables 🙂
 
AJLang said:
I've just been put on some tablets for dizziness....common side effect is weight gain!!!! Aaaagh and I'm starving despite having eaten so far today:
A slice of fruit bread with butter
Carrot and coriander soup
A slice of Leerdammer
A packet of Wotsits
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I'd be hungry on that Amanda. A more substantial protein based breakfast might fill you more x
 
It does sound like you aren't eating enough. Doing both low carb and low fat. Getting hungry and driven back to carbs is why they say, most diets fail in the end.
“Dr Eric C. Westman, MD and president elect of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, has 15 years of experience helping patients lose weight and improve their health using low carb. He has also helped do several high-quality scientific studies on low carb.”
" Don't do low carb and low fat " at the 4.00 minute time in the video


 
Thank you Amigo and Bilbie. This is an unusual day for me in that usually that amount of food would be more than I can deal with during the day because of the gastroparesis during the day. Usually if I ate as much as that I would be VERY uncomfortable because the food doesn't digest fast enough. Therefore I tend to eat my main meal an hour before bed because I often (not always) don't notice the discomfort whilst I sleep. By the end of today I will have had 1400 calories, including a glass of wine, and that will be more than enough for me. It takes eight hours for my main meal to digest and if I have it at lunchtime I really suffer later in the day and I am fire fighting BG levels for several hours. With my evening meal I have to extend my bolus by six hours and have a basal boost from 1am onwards. Apologies for that sounding complicated🙂
 
Ps sorry I meant to add that a gastroparesis diet is meant to be low fibre and low fat and the carbs hang around much longer than for someone who hasn't got delayed gastric emptying. I could eat more if I went back into the gastroparesis medication but my consultant strongly advised me to try stopping the medication because one of them risks stopping your heart and the other loses its efficacy.
 
AJLang said:
Ps sorry I meant to add that a gastroparesis diet is meant to be low fibre and low fat and the carbs hang around much longer than for someone who hasn't got delayed gastric emptying. I could eat more if I went back into the gastroparesis medication but my consultant strongly advised me to try stopping the medication because one of them risks stopping your heart and the other loses its efficacy.
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That gastoparesis and diabetes don't really play nicely together do they AJ? 😱
 
Definitely not Amigo. Gastroparesis causes erratic BG levels and then the BG levels make the gastroparesis worse. A lot of people with gastroparesis can only manage a liquid diet and for some even that is too much so they're fed through tubes. So far I'm one of the lucky ones and I hope that continues 🙂
 
1489 calories today. Not exactly the healthiest diet but it was yummy and needed.
1 slice of fruit bread with butter
1 slice of Leerdammer
Beetroot and horseradish soup
A packet of Wotsits
Mushroom and ale pie (like shepherds pie but no meat) with two Aunt Bessie's dumplings
3 small glasses of wine...well it has been a stressful day and it is the weekend:D
 
The beetroot and horseradish soup sounds delicious. I love beetroots but it can still take me by surprise when my wee turns pink! 😱:D
 
Oh dear Martin 🙂 Lol Matt :D
 
Well as I'm not feeling well I was so tempted to just eat what I want but I decided that I can do this in style on bad days :D so rather a sumptuous feat today although the first part wasn't particularly healthy, actually most of it isn't healthy but it is within my calories🙂
1 slice of Leerdammer cheese
1 packet of Wotsits
A peanut butter sandwich made with one slice of bread
Home made polenta cakes with scallops and king prawns
2 small glasses of wine
 
Today's menu plan does feature a lot of mayonnaise and is 1500 calories and 95 carbs. I love using MyFitnessPal for the calculations, especially when it scans the barcode of foods:D
1 small pain au Chocolat
4 mini onion bhajis with a tablespoon of mayonnaise
Strawberry mousse
Homemade Spanish tortilla with two tablespoons of mayonnaise
2 small glasses of champagne 🙂
 
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