What did you eat yesterday?

[SueEK]

Two days of bad food choices, was just about to have Cheerios and milk 😱 reading this forum made think twice, so measured - 9.1 agh. Back to the low carb... I just go awry when I'm with people. If it's a normal day, just me and Mum, I'm fine. When I visit family or spend time with other people I get complacent ie my long time diabetic sister who isn't doing her insulin injections brought me and Mum individual trifle and a jelly Saturday, I ate both. She was the first one of us to be diagnosed type 2 but has more or less always ignored it. You just can't ignore the consequences. Heart attack etc. It was the beginning of the end for the weekend. Couldn't get back on track.

Back now, bit late in the day but better late than never?!

Never too late Ditto, it is hard but I’m sure you can do it and we all fall sometimes x

 

[Philomena]

@Ditto Don’t beat yourself up over it....if you’ve had a bad day it’s not the end of the world and you haven’t ruined all your good efforts. You just have to put it behind you and start the next day afresh with your best intentions. Frankly, if you’ve had years of not making the best food choices it’s not suddenly going to change overnight. Make little changes, praise yourself inwardly and think positive.

 

[bakebeans]

Didn’t test until the afternoon as I’d run out of testing strips.
Breakfast 6am: yoghurt and strawberries
Break 10am: packet of weight watchers cookies and tea
Lunch 12.30pm: chicken salad
Snack 2.30pm: packet of pop corn
5.4 when I tested at about 5pm then did my 25min hiit cardio exercise video
Dinner 6.30: home made burrito and salad
7.1 at 8.30pm

 

[Kaylz]

Today
B - as usual 45g jumbo oats cooked in almond milk, knob of butter and topped with 60g raspberries and a cup of coffee
mid morning - coffee and a pack of drumstick squashies (hypo)
D - wholemeal ham, cheese & mustard sandwich and a salted caramel nature valley protein bar, pint of water
mid afternoon - 2 cups "posh" coffee
T - chicken breast, potatoes, roasted sprouts and a large flat mushroom with mayo dressing, 1 square Lindt 90% and a pint of water
Cup of coffee
just away to have my last coffee of the day
xx

 

[Jodee]

I'm going round the bend thinking about it all. Have had another piggy breakfast which was horrid, don't know why I ate it, wouldn't like to measure now, I was over eight to start with!

I think as a proper addict I'll have to take it one day at a time, do a shop for one day, try not to have anything in, just the days' victuals! I shan't list what I had to eat yesterday, do not want to be a bad influence on newbies. 😱

May be just half your portion size Ditto and have a snack (apple or half banana) to take the edge off, 2 hours later, I think in time your stomach and body chemistry will adjust, its just having the will power or making decision not to do the thing you know will not help you. Its not easy and my meal out once a month has already turned into 3 but I am trying to do the diabetes food when out as well. Today I have one toasted sarnie, ham and cheese with side salad, only the normal bread toasted was the naughty but my BG when I measured 2 hours later was at 7.5 so not too bad.

 

[Kaylz]

How many carbs in jarred artichokes? Must google...

Not too much I wouldn't think but should say on the jar rather than googling it

 

[Kaylz]

I do have a look but it's all Greek to me! It was a one off anyway, just to see what it was like. Very nice with scrambled egg. 🙂

if you can decipher it on the internet you should be able to use the label as well as its generally displayed in a table format? And it varies with brands anyways due to what individual company adds etc

 

[Nicola1a]

Hi all, hope everyone’s ok.

B usual yogurt with blueberries and nuts

L spinach leaves, halloumi, 30g pasta tossed in pesto.

D king prawn stir fry (just veg no noodles)

Couple glasses of red wine!

 

[KARNAK]

B, L, D, sod all, except fluids.

 

[Nance1]

Breakfast: Oats with raspberries and blackberries
Snack: Nuts
Lunch: Tuna salad
Snack: 2x marmite rice cakes
Dinner: Salad with mince pita

Berries spike my sugars SO SO SOOOO high! Doing a test every 2 hrs at the moment and keeping a food diary - my sugars spikes to over 20 after braekfast - is this normal?!?!?!

 

[Kaylz]

Berries spike my sugars SO SO SOOOO high! Doing a test every 2 hrs at the moment and keeping a food diary - my sugars spikes to over 20 after braekfast - is this normal?!?!?!

I don't think it's the berries spiking you, its far more likely to be the oats, what insulin are you on? do you pre bolus? are you carb counting?
xx

 

[Rogerbee]

Breakfast 10:00am - 3 x weetablix w/skimmed milk
Lunch - 2 x medium eggs (scrambled) - 2 slices granary bread
Dinner - Bang Bang Chicken w/noodles & veg (from the diabetic food finder) : https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/recipes/bang-bang-chicken-salad

 

[rebrascora]

Breakfast 10:00am - 3 x weetablix w/skimmed milk
Lunch - 2 x medium eggs (scrambled) - 2 slices granary bread
Dinner - Bang Bang Chicken w/noodles & veg (from the diabetic food finder) : https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/recipes/bang-bang-chicken-salad

That is a rather carb heavy diet for a Type 2 diabetic and you have also included significant carbohydrate portions with every meal which can sometimes make it worse.... Having one very low carb meal a day can help to reduce levels. Do you monitor your blood glucose before and after food to know if you can tolerate that much? 3 Weetabix for breakfast seems particularly excessive, but great if you can get away with it.

We are certainly all different but I am concerned that someone else who is Type 2 might read your post and think that is a reasonable menu for a diabetic.... Not meaning to be critical in any way but just to make you aware, particularly if you don't test your blood glucose, that it may not be an ideal choice of diet for your condition..... diabetes is not just about sugar, but starches too and the starchy foods like bread/pasta, rice, noodles, cous cous and potatoes can actually be worse. Bread will spike me high for up to 10 hrs (even wholemeal) whereas sweet stuff is usually gone after 2-3 hrs. Apologies if I am telling you stuff you already know and your body will tolerate all that starch from Weetabix, bread and noodles. The recipe you mention does not include noodles in the nutritional info and may well have been created to be eaten without noodles (quite surprised it contains honey!)..... or maybe something like Naked Noodles which are very low carb.

 

[Kaylz]

@rebrascora I have mentioned this in Rogerbee's other post, he's newly diagnosed and on Metformin but currently doesn't test xx

 

[Rogerbee]

That is a rather carb heavy diet for a Type 2 diabetic and you have also included significant carbohydrate portions with every meal which can sometimes make it worse.... Having one very low carb meal a day can help to reduce levels. Do you monitor your blood glucose before and after food to know if you can tolerate that much? 3 Weetabix for breakfast seems particularly excessive, but great if you can get away with it.

We are certainly all different but I am concerned that someone else who is Type 2 might read your post and think that is a reasonable menu for a diabetic.... Not meaning to be critical in any way but just to make you aware, particularly if you don't test your blood glucose, that it may not be an ideal choice of diet for your condition..... diabetes is not just about sugar, but starches too and the starchy foods like bread/pasta, rice, noodles, cous cous and potatoes can actually be worse. Bread will spike me high for up to 10 hrs (even wholemeal) whereas sweet stuff is usually gone after 2-3 hrs. Apologies if I am telling you stuff you already know and your body will tolerate all that starch from Weetabix, bread and noodles. The recipe you mention does not include noodles in the nutritional info and may well have been created to be eaten without noodles (quite surprised it contains honey!)..... or maybe something like Naked Noodles which are very low carb.

thanks for the reply, I am finding my way through all of this and yes, from what you say it makes perfect sense. I am cutting out bread as I found my levels spiked a you say! Yes the bang bang chicken was with noodles instead of salad, but I had 1/2 a portion and my levels were fine, although I am very aware that noodles, etc are not good! 🙂

 

[Kaylz]

thanks for the reply, I am finding my way through all of this and yes, from what you say it makes perfect sense. I am cutting out bread as I found my levels spiked a you say! Yes the bang bang chicken was with noodles instead of salad, but I had 1/2 a portion and my levels were fine, although I am very aware that noodles, etc are not good! 🙂

Sorry I'm not quite sure I understand, you say here your levels were fine but in your thread you say no meter?
xx

 

[Rogerbee]

I used My GF's Father meter, but need to get one of my own 🙂

 

[rebrascora]

Hi @Rogerbee (curious if your member name indicates that you are a beekeeper like myself?)
Many of us find that we are more resistant to insulin in the morning, so eating a low carb breakfast like kippers or eggs (scrambled, poached, boiled or fried ...personally I find an omelette works well) or even a full English breakfast (without bread or toast) or yoghurt and berries if you prefer something lighter is a better option than cereal. I eat my carbs in the evening because my body handles them much better then.
I have just read your intro post and you have done really well with your weight loss so far. Cutting out bread is a good move but can be mind bogglingly difficult... I haven't eaten any for months now and feel better for it. In fact cutting carbs out of any meal is very difficult to get your head around when you first contemplate it because our whole lives have been spent filling our plates up with them, every mealtime. Learning to find other things that we like and our bodies will tolerate better takes time and testing and some re-education of our palette too.... I am currently teaching myself to drink (and enjoy) coffee without sugar or sweetener after being a 2+ spoons a cup girl all my life.... I could use sweetener but I'm looking at my diagnosis as a positive life changing experience and I was a sugar addict before, so I would like to be free of that addiction and to eat and drink more healthily for the rest of my life. It is amazing how much more sensitive you become to sweetness once you kick the habit and how you can change your tastes if you put your mind to it.

 

[Rogerbee]

Sorry I'm not quite sure I understand, you say here your levels were fine but in your thread you say no meter?
xx

I used my GF's Father's meter to test 🙂

 

[Edgar]

It's really strange with food isn't it. I'm trying to keep a steady weight of about 67kgs and it goes up and down. Yesterday, I attended the funeral of my friend, and the wake was held at my Championship football club as he was chairman there many years ago. I have to say I'm a glutton at buffets, but i do try and control it. However, the food was incredible and I ate all the wrong things including beautiful thick cut chips and lovely sandwiches. I dreaded going on the scales this morning, but was pleasantly surprised to see I had LOST 1 kilo. Weird, isn't it.