What did you eat yesterday?

[Edgar]

Breakfast this morning. Porridge mixed with cornflakes and blueberries. One slice of homemade granary bread with cottage cheese and Marmite. And the usual glass of tomato juice.

 

[rebrascora]

Breakfast this morning. Porridge mixed with cornflakes and blueberries. One slice of homemade granary bread with cottage cheese and Marmite. And the usual glass of tomato juice.

Wow! That is a rather high carb breakfast for a type 2 diabetic! Do you test to see how it affects your blood glucose. I know we are all different but I would not even get away with one slice of granary bread let alone the porridge.... and cornflakes on top of that just seems to be pushing things to the limit. Good luck if you can get away with it though!

 

[SkinnyLiz]

24-06-19
breakfast, nut granola, two eggs scrambled with butter, two teas
coffee and 2 coconut rocks thats 20g carbs in four mouthfuls! Had two hard boiled eggs afterwards, bit weird but might have slowed down the sugar high.
Lunch: mixed salad, whole can sardines in oil, ate all the fish, left most of the oil. Carrot and mangetout salad, tiny piece of beetroot - still trying to like this. Not sure why? water and tea.
Bad planning. Lunch nowhere near enough calories.
mid afternoon tea.
dinner: mushroom and pepper sauce with pasta. Wholemeal penne, 20 of them. (24g uncooked) Had very similar meal last week. BG results were acceptable, hoping to find same today, then can add it to regular meals. ( have far too few I know are ok) served with carrots and green beans. Added a dollop of green olive bruchetta topping, very tasty. Was going to put ham in my portion to boost the protein, ( MrS should eat low protein diet) but in the end just ate the ham, so much simpler 😛
BG before dinner 5.5
after one hour 6.5
after two hours 6.3
glass of rose wine may have affected next result
three hours 10 mins 6.2 going down slowly
Four hour 5.6 happy with that.

 

[Nicola1a]

Yesterday was:

B - 3 rashers of bacon, scrambled eggs (they don’t like me but I like then!), mushrooms and one slice wholemeal toast.

L - had people and their kids over so did sandwiches, salad, pizza. I had lots of salad and half a ham sandwich. Was good BG in range before and after.

D - selection of serrano ham, pepperoni, mozzarella, cucumber and 6 water biscuits.

Couple glasses of wine and couple of vodkas and diet lemonade throughout the day and evening! Yum yum!

 

[Edgar]

Yesterday Sunday 23rd June (where is this year going?!)

7.5 @ 5.58am (I'm only doing one measure a day, was beginning to feel like a pricked sausage, ignorance is bliss).
Breakfast: pint water with fibre, 2 fried eggs, 3 streaky bacon rashers, half red onion, tin tomatoes (agh always with the excess), half a box mushrooms, pint water with aspirin and usual meds.
Snack as will be eating late: Two tiny bits Gorgonzola with a mixed salad.
Lunch: 2 lamb chops (thin ones), half a carton of swede mash (as the veg got ruined when the black came off the tin, chucked the lot, tin and all, into the bin).
Dinner: Roast Chicken, half a can of potatoes (I didn't want and shouldn't be having, my brother again!), cauliflower and broccoli mix, some gravy (my only way to deal with this constant giving of full dinners is to buy him and Mum ready meals. I will buy decent ones from M&S but that way he can't leave any for me which I'd feel churlish to refuse, food is lurve and stuff apparently).

I will definitely be trying this. 🙂

The only way for me is to eat early if I know I'm not able to get to food on time. To always have stuff to eat in the fridge, ie bowl hard boiled eggs, grab a couple when low in blood sugar or mood or when hunger craze starts up. Never let yourself get overtired and jaded. Have to be really organised. Tell family not to give you anything, mind you I tell my lot over and over, waste of time!

Gosh, I couldn't eat that amount of food in one day. I wouldn't be able to move!

 

[fifteenkeats]

I stopped taking my metformin on Friday last week, so it's been a few days without (the nurse told me I could choose whether to try the metformin for the time being so this is why I chose to pause and work on diet!).

I'm still figuring out best options, etc. I'm vegan and on a budget so it's not always straightforward! But this is yesterday...

08:19 / 8.4
Breakfast: Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Multi-seeded Sliced Bread x 2 slices, Whole Earth crunchy peanut butter.
11:14 / 8.3
12:21 / 6.9
Lunch: Leftover sesame 'chicken' (Gardein brand, I need to find a cheaper alternative) with brown basmati rice and broccoli.
15:21 / 7.5
18:36 / 6.8
Dinner: Cauliflower & butternut soup to start, then a huge tofu scramble with shiitake mushrooms, cherry tomatoes (6), kale, onion, misc herbs and spice, 1tsp olive oil, 1/2 cup Daiya shreds.
Pud: Raspberries and unsweetened plain soy yoghurt.
20:36 / 7.2
Snacks throughout the day (need to work on timing of these): 1 pear, Walkers french fries, bag of mixed nuts and seeds.

 

[rebrascora]

@fifteenkeats
Well those are very consistent readings if just a little on the high side. What sort of readings were you getting with the Metformin?

 

[fifteenkeats]

@fifteenkeats
Well those are very consistent readings if just a little on the high side. What sort of readings were you getting with the Metformin?

They were averaging around 5.5 - 8ish so not a huge difference. I can (and will) work on my snack timings and carb intake more over the next few weeks and see how I get on. Dawn Phenomenon seems to have me beat so far but I'm persevering!

 

[rebrascora]

Have you considered a brisk walk or run before breakfast to see if it will help the DP? Exercise also plays a part in managing diabetes.

 

[fifteenkeats]

Have you considered a brisk walk or run before breakfast to see if it will help the DP? Exercise also plays a part in managing diabetes.

I commute by bike so my first reading is always following my bike ride into work (around 3 miles).

 

[rebrascora]

Ah! So those first results are not get out of bed figures but well into the morning routine pre breakfast readings. Do you know what your waking readings are? It might be interesting to check those and compare.

 

[Kaylz]

Today
B - usual jumbo oats, raspberries, almond milk, butter and a coffee
coffee
D - wholemeal smoked Bavarian ham, edam & mustard sandwich and a nature valley protein salted caramel bar, pint of water
2 cups of posh coffee
T - chicken breast with mayo dressing, boiled potatoes, roasted sprouts and a large flat mushroom, 1 square Lindt 90% and a pint of water
coffee
Soon to have last coffee of the day
xx

 

[Nicola1a]

Hi all

Yesterday was a day of experiments - they didn’t work though 🙄

B usual yogurt nuts and blueberries

L chicken tikka salad, it was from a cafe and I couldn’t accurately work out carbs but avoided tomatoes and onion and went for the greens but my lesson is I can’t have ranch dressing!

D king prawn stir fry - bean sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, bamboo shoots, peppers, courgetti instead of noodles and chow mein sauce. Prawns marinated in garlic and lime.

I tried a mini twister ice lolly afterwards - not again unfortunately.

A coffee, 4 teas and lots of water

 

[SkinnyLiz]

25-06-19
breakfast, my usual homemade nut museli, with a splash of semi skimmed milk, 2 eggs scrambled with butter and three fried mushrooms, 2 cups of tea, with the same milk.
coffee with cream and a coconut rock cake, only one, 10g carb, but it was a big mistake and body rebelled against all that sugar in one go. So no more of those. Luckily had already decided they are not a good idea.
Lunch: salad as usual, except it was scratch around in the fridge salad, no cucumber or radish, had yellow peppers; lettuce from the garden, little bit of carrot and mangetout salad left from yesterday and five baby plum tomatoes. 10 green olives, 2 slices of toast, its a new brand, must test it out, but 16g for 2 slices compares well with others i can take - in moderation. slices are small. duck and green peppercorn pate on the toast, delicious. water, tea.
glass of sugar free squash in the afternoon,
Before dinner small glass of rose wine, again decided its not good for me, so will be finishing this up and trying not to indulge in more.
cup of tea,
Dinner salmon, with lemon butter and pine nuts, two small potatoes, courgettes and cabbage. Odd mixture, again bottom of the fridge job.
tea before bed

Edited to add walked round garden in the evening, cherries are ripe. Scoffed a few handfuls straight from the tree.

Shopping tomorrow, better go early - we are predicted to get a heatwave and lot of goverment health warnings being broadcast. Going to check out the icecream, Saw one in supermarket only 13g per 100 ml, but was too far from home, looking for same in local store. Stock up on salad stuff as well. Maybe some strawberries?

 

[SkinnyLiz]

26-06-19
Breakfast: two teas, nut granola with milk as usual.not really hungry so out into the garden.
coffee with cream
finished topping the orchard, very hot work.
Lunch: Salad, ham, 2x hardboiled eggs, macedoine vegetable salad. water, cup of tea
several sugar free squash in the afternoon.
too hot to go outside 😱 Good Thing MrS is working on the kitchen now, installing wires and pipes and walls.
pottered about in the house finding small tasks to do.
Later pulled up some weeds, in the shade! Put in a few seeds. Resolved to buy mole trap. 😡
Dinner: 2x chicken sausage, (not brilliant wont buy those again) small piece of baguette, fried onions, green salad, stuffed vine leaves, (only one- stuffing is rice) grilled artichokes ( nearly choked on the excessive garlic) rest are headed for the bin. Vegetable crudities with red pepper hommous. Couple of glasses of wine, several water as well. Then raspberries and cream with icecream, dark chocolate heaven. Forgot to test before meal, bit late now.
Cup of coffee, we are running low on teabags - they need to last a month. Can hear you asking dont they sell tbags in France? Well. Yes, ofc they do - individually wrapped bags of weak tea at inflated prices.

 

[Jodee]

Well done Ditto 🙂

I was very naughty yesterday so didn't test BG until the evening about 8pm before I had another snack, 6.0 was chuffed.
I overindulged with dining out, frites, dessert and qtr sticky bun in the afternoon, met a long time friend so I had to celebrate with food and I also had a peroni 😛 😛 😛

Back to being low carb today.

 

[Philomena]

Making some great changes to your diet there, @Ditto. Well done!

 

[Ditto]

Thanks Philomena. 🙂

 

[Jodee]

@Ditto

Yesterday:
7.1 @ 7.46am
Breakfast: Pint water with fibre / Scrambled eggs with melted cheese, 1 small onion and tomato fried / Pint water with aspirin and meds.
Lunch: Pint Water.
Dinner: Roast Chicken Salad with mayo and dressing which included 2 hard boiled eggs and a few bites of Gorgonzola. / Pint water later.

Too hot to eat really isn't it?

Wow Ditto you are doing great 🙂

Well I was off the Wagon on Tuesday so I expect no weight lost this week, especially as I've just bought a load of cheese and salami, so...
Breakfast today, shreaded wheat x1 yoghurt, half banana a few redcurrents from the bush coconut milk, cuppa
Lunch a nice wedge of brie (just had to get some after discussions tother day ) 😛 and salami sausage, 4 slices with 2 cream crackers and a cuppa, may have an apple too shortly. BG before lunch was 5.1 mmol so thought pretty good

Yes its very hot, I've been eating salad for many days now, and going to be doing the same each day for next 3-4 days I suspect.


Yesterday I ate.

Oats with fruit and yoghurt for breakfast.
Cheese on toast for lunch
half plat salad for dinner, with half a basa filet (it was large) and some butternut squash crisps, doubly delicious those butternut squash crisps 😛 Bg not too bad on yesterdays nosh - between 5s,6s and 7s

 

[Kaylz]

Small can chilli con carne. (I googled and it said 21carbs?

if it was a can it should've said on the tin what the carbs were xx