What did you eat yesterday?

[scousebird]

Tea
B: Porridge made with water.
Tea
L: Ham salad with mayonnaise, pear, Mullerlight Greek yogurt.
Tea
T: Meatballs in tomato & garlic red wine sauce, wholemeal pasta, glass of red, strawberries & natural Greek yogurt.
Red bush tea.

 

[scousebird]

Tea
B: 2 fried eggs on 2 slices of Danish bread fried in lard - yum
Tea
L: Ham & cheese ploughmans without the bread, berries, mullerlight greek yogurt.
Tea
Red wine
T: Local Thai - mixed starters to share, a duck dish, beef red curry & chicken cashew with mixed vegetables and a spoonful of rice. More red wine. This was an impromptu meal out and delicious; I fell asleep on the settee when we got in I was that full 🙄

 

[Eddy Edson]

Pretty much the same as yesterday, except baked salmon+green beans+couscous+lemon for dinner, instead of the chicken+avocado. Nothing wrong with being boring & predictable, I tell myself 🙂

Grains ... I keep flirting with them. 90 minutes after the couscous I read 8.5, a number I don't see very often these days. But NBD.

Off to the vampire's lair tomorrow morning & I'll find out the latest on HbA1c etc etc next Tuesday.

 

[Philomena]

I fasted till 2pm although I had a coffee with cream at 6.30am.
Had some English asparagus cooked in a bit of butter and avocado oil.
Then had oven-baked patties....turkey mince with grated courgette, aubergine, some red pepper, onion, chilli, spices, garlic, chia and flax seeds mixed into it, cooked in a hot oven, wrapped in iceberg lettuce and with some garlic mayo. A big plateful!
Full fat Greek yogurt, a few English strawberries, topped with some cacao powder.
Half an avocado with chilli and lime juice later on.

 

[Philomena]

Pretty much the same as yesterday, except baked salmon+green beans+couscous+lemon for dinner, instead of the chicken+avocado. Nothing wrong with being boring & predictable, I tell myself 🙂

Grains ... I keep flirting with them. 90 minutes after the couscous I read 8.5, a number I don't see very often these days. But NBD.

Off to the vampire's lair tomorrow morning & I'll find out the latest on HbA1c etc etc next Tuesday.

As I live alone I often make a big lot of something and eat it on two/three continuous days, sometimes twice in the same day, tweaking as the days go by. Saves on time and washing up things! 😉

 

[Jodee]

Can't give you exact fats, carbs, sugars at this time but I may up date my posts later when I have more details to hand about them.

My sweet treat tips variety are, (perhaps no one wants to hear them so look away now)..... I don't have these everyday but just when I want that fix
- snack a jacks choc rice cake 12g carbs 62calories
- Tesco no added sugar Marmalade or Jam, less than a teaspoon carbs and kcal on label per 100g and tablespoon.
- Harleys 10 cal 0.4g carbs (of which o.2g sugars) Jelly the lime is more my liking, but the berry and orange ones I find a bit too sweet

Last nights Dinner (based on the diabetic plate - half plate of veg/salad, qtr plate protein, qtr plate carbs)

cooked salmon filet (I may just have half will see) 🙂 [ate half saved other half for lunch today]
1 medium sized new potato
Mixed leaf salad with cucumber, some salad cheese, a few walnuts and dressed with 3 teaspoons of live natural yoghurt 😛 😛
oh and quarter nectarine chopped and mixed in the salad 😛

Later in evening small handful of walnuts
1 naughty choc digestive (9g carbs 73 cals according to carbs and calorie counter) and a cuppa

I drink water throughout the day averaging 2 litres +
I have about 4-6 cups of tea a day, with skimmed or semi skimmed milk

I currently weight 70.0 kg (11 stone) I am looking to reduce this initially to 10.7lb then 10.3lb then I will rethink if I want to go lower. Keeping the weight off, I guess is being familiar with the amount of calories that it takes to do that and the amount, it takes to lose more if desired.


What I am finding helpful is the book https://shop.diabetes.org.uk/produc...Ol_ciZkUh9UTl9iaqDy2R6sDKxsAQqAhoCGcwQAvD_BwE

I am thinking of getting the pocket size one to carry with me when out.

 

[Jodee]

Hi Ditto, just looking at the amount you are consuming in the day, I wonder if you might benefit from checking out the content of the Carbs & Cals guide https://shop.diabetes.org.uk/products/carbs-cals It gives you a good idea on the different portion sizes regarding carbs and calories. Its very useful if you are looking at reducing some weight.

 

[Northerner]

The problem I have, apart from being an absolute pig, is I can't count! I have a numbers block. It stopped me passing the 11Plus. At secondary school I was in the top class for everything but had to go in the dunces class for maths. Oh the shame. Couldn't even do those maths! We did a lot of geometry sewing on card and stuff.

So I can't count carbs, I'm guessing all the time. I really want to only eat 20 a day at the minute so I'll lose weight. I'm probably having nearer a 100!

Thank you for the link though, I'll check it out.

That sounds like you may have dyscalculia, @Ditto - similar to dyslexia, but with numbers. There's more information here:

https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/dyslexic/maths-difficulties-dyscalculia

 

[Docb]

Hi Ditto, don't really buy the can't count carbs thing. If you can count money, then you can count carbs! More than that, with money you have to be spot on, with carbs near enough is OK.

Anyway yesterday my thing was:

Breakfast: My own granola (toasted oats + nuts + mixed seeds) with milk, bergen toast with mini marmalade and tea. Estimated carbs, 20g
Lunch: Tin soup, ham salad . Estimated carbs, 20g
Tea: Veg Bangala Garlic + tandoori chicken tikka from takeaway. Estimated carbs 20?
Later Brew and biscuit Carbs 16 (from packet)
Snacking Odd brew and or Pistachios

Blood glucose 6.5 on waking; 7.1, 1.5 hours after lunch; 5.4 before curry and 5.8 a couple of hours afterwards; 6.2 at bed time. Particularly pleased with curry - the takeaway chef knows what I am looking for and provides it by tweaking his recipes.

 

[Eddy Edson]

A mainly raw, plant-only day ...

B'fast: Fruit bowl - 3 figs, one kiwi, 125g blackberries, 35g pomegranate arils, juice of one lime. Extra big soy flat white + 30g chia seeds.

Lunch: Almonds, walnuts, peanuts, snowpeas (and snacking thru afternoon). Big soy flat white + 30g chia seeds.

Dinner: 50g pumpernickel+half avocado+one fig+lemon juice. Big soy flat white+chia seeds.

About 2,400 cals, ~225g total carbs, ~80g fibre, ~90g protein, ~145g fats.

Waking BG 4.9, bed time 5.4. Walking 12.5km.

 

[rebrascora]

Breakfast:- Whole milk Greek yoghurt with a little stewed rhubarb from the garden with sweetener instead of sugar and a handful of pumpkin seeds.
Lunch:- 2 egg mushroom, onion and aubergine omelette with salad leaves, pea shoots, 4 cherry tomatoes and avocado.
Dinner:- Pan fried salmon (in butter) with aubergine slices... needed something to soak up the surplus butter 😉, sweet potato, home grown spinach sweated in butter, broccoli and mange tout.

Fasting BG was 6.1 went down to 4.7 before lunch, 11.3 2hrs after lunch, 4.7 before dinner and 6.4 at bedtime.

 

[Ditto]

Thank you for the link Northie, very interesting. I've saved it after skimming, will read up more on that.

Interesting Docb re the money counting thing. I had a think about it and you can put money in piles and count in tens making it easy. I do have trouble in the supermarket counting out the pennies. If carbs came in blocks of five I'd be okay. Yeah, maybe I'm just being lazy. I should weigh the food and then count...still difficult though. I hope I never become Type 1. :O I'm so in awe of how they manage their condition.

 

[Kaylz]

Thank you for the link Northie, very interesting. I've saved it after skimming, will read up more on that.

Interesting Docb re the money counting thing. I had a think about it and you can put money in piles and count in tens making it easy. I do have trouble in the supermarket counting out the pennies. If carbs came in blocks of five I'd be okay. Yeah, maybe I'm just being lazy. I should weigh the food and then count...still difficult though. I hope I never become Type 1. :O I'm so in awe of how they manage their condition.

it's not as difficult as you might think, most packs at least give values by 100g some even per item in the pack, for working out whats in your portion just weigh it, then you take the carbs for 100g, divide it by 100 and times by what your portion weighed, so as an example the potatoes I eat are 14.9g carbs per 100g and I have 150g potatoes, so that's 14.9 divided by 100 = 0.149 then multiply that by 150 = 22.35 so its 22.35g carbs in my portion, its very easy to do and even easier with a calculator xx

 

[Docb]

Everybody has blind spots Ditto, mine is with simple memory. Physics and maths, dead easy because what you cannot remember you can work out . History was a real problem because there you had to remember stuff. I can have quite long conversations with people I have met before without them realising that I cannot remember their name or the context in which we met. Those not good with numbers usually figure out work arounds which work for them but make no sense to anybody else, and money is one area where you don't get far if you don't work something out.

Not sure what sort of workaround would help with carb awareness. I do a lot of cooking and tend only to think about ingredients with carbs over 10g per 100g and only then if there is a significant amount in the recipe. Cooked something called chicken marengo ( braised chicken and veg in passata with olives) and called that no carbs. Not strictly accurate - there are carbs in the passata and the onions - but for me life is too short to add them all up and then divide by the number of portions to get the carb content per serving. Not going to be a lot. Different with the roast, crushed new pototatoes, that went with it where I cut the portion size to hit my 20g carb target.

 

[Jodee]

Foods packaged, I always check fat, sat fats, sugars, salt and on the reverse carbs etc On the Desmond NHS course the lower the carbs the better aiming for the carb content for women to be between 25 - 35 mg per meal if aiming to lose weight and for men 35-45 mg per meal. Snacks lower the better again, but aiming between 5 - 10g carb maximum. But it would be down to personal preference and what each persons health professional advises for your personally.


Yesterday I ate
Breakfast: 25g low sugar corn flakes, with 8 blueberries, quarter banana and 1 dessert spoon of yoghurt.
Lunch: Low carb Bread ham, lettuce and tomato sandwich (qtr Banana)
Dinner: minced turkey with carrots and tomatoes and herbs, with mangetout and baby corn on the cob + 1 slice of low carb bread.

Snacks, 1 apple. 2 slices of low carb bread with tesco no sugar jam, small handful of cashews x 2 (not in one sitting - spaced out between main meals)

Drinks, tea and water throughout the day.


One thing about recording meals I am finding is where I can improve, it seems yesterday my portion size was too small and could be why I was snacking more. Still experimenting. I am gradually losing lbs.

 

[Jodee]

Breakfast:- Whole milk Greek yoghurt with a little stewed rhubarb from the garden with sweetener instead of sugar and a handful of pumpkin seeds.
Lunch:- 2 egg mushroom, onion and aubergine omelette with salad leaves, pea shoots, 4 cherry tomatoes and avocado.
Dinner:- Pan fried salmon (in butter) with aubergine slices... needed something to soak up the surplus butter 😉, sweet potato, home grown spinach sweated in butter, broccoli and mange tout.

Fasting BG was 6.1 went down to 4.7 before lunch, 11.3 2hrs after lunch, 4.7 before dinner and 6.4 at bedtime.

Sounds delicious rebrascora 😛

 

[Jodee]

A mainly raw, plant-only day ...

B'fast: Fruit bowl - 3 figs, one kiwi, 125g blackberries, 35g pomegranate arils, juice of one lime. Extra big soy flat white + 30g chia seeds.

Lunch: Almonds, walnuts, peanuts, snowpeas (and snacking thru afternoon). Big soy flat white + 30g chia seeds.

Dinner: 50g pumpernickel+half avocado+one fig+lemon juice. Big soy flat white+chia seeds.

About 2,400 cals, ~225g total carbs, ~80g fibre, ~90g protein, ~145g fats.

Waking BG 4.9, bed time 5.4. Walking 12.5km.

Hi Eddy

I am noticing you like your Chia seeds, I have them too but not in the quantity you are eating. Are you soaking yours in water or skimmed milk before consuming? I can imagine doing that quantity could help to fill you up with added nutrients.

I love soaking mine in skimmed milk or water then adding a couple of teaspoons of flavoured yogurt 😛

At the moment only taking about 2-3 teaspoon soaked at a time and not every day.

Good for Omega 3 and lots of other nutrients too 🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

Hi Eddy

I am noticing you like your Chia seeds, I have them too but not in the quantity you are eating. Are you soaking yours in water or skimmed milk before consuming? I can imagine doing that quantity could help to fill you up with added nutrients.

I love soaking mine in skimmed milk or water then adding a couple of teaspoons of flavoured yogurt 😛

At the moment only taking about 2-3 teaspoon soaked at a time and not every day.

Good for Omega 3 and lots of other nutrients too 🙂

I'm kind of addicted to them now, I fear, but only in coffee - I just dump a couple of tablespoons or more in a soy flat white, instant soy milk-coffee-chia something-or-other. I love it but so far my efforts to get others on the bandwagon have achieved zero success, so probably I'm just weird.

Could be eating more of them than I should but they really are such a convenient source of high-quality fats and protein and obviously fibre ....

 

[Jodee]

Wow that sounds like something to try 😛 I never thought of putting the chia into coffee, it would make a good iced coffee for summer time too. Or for the chocolate fix - Raw Cacoa powder instead of coffee 😛 I'm gonna try the Cacoa one today as one of my snacks

Thanks for sharing Eddy

Fab 🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

Continuing on my unexciting but I hope very artery-healthy path ...

B'fast: Bowl of rockmelon/honeydew/strawberries/kiwi/grapes. Extra big soy flat white + 30g chia seeds.

Lunch: Grilled chicken breast + arugula/avocado/snowpea/cucumber/carrot + olive oil+lemon dressing. Small soy flat white + 15g chia seeds.

Dinner: 250g raspberries+one kiwifruit+juice of one lime. 50g slice of pumpernickel+third of an avocado. Large soy flat white + 30g chia seeds.

Grazing as always on walnuts+almonds+peanuts+snowpeas.

Walking 11.5 km. ~2,200 calories, 100g protein, 215g total carbs, 120g unsaturated fat, sod-all saturated, 85g fibre.

Waking BG 4.8, bed time 4.9.