What did you eat yesterday?

[Greymouser]

I wish I was normal like y'all

Hmmm, who you talking about there? Can't be me as no one considers me to be at all normal! Then again define: normal? Oh and by the way Ditto, that list of food doesn't sound that bad to me, except for maybe the ordinary toast.

You are right Eddy and Sue, I am hard on myself in some ways, I will relax about it all, at least for now. 😉

Today:
Breakfast: Two slices of Nimble with mushroom pate and small amount of sweet onion relish; packet of crisps; 50g of dry roasted nuts and an apple.
Lunch: The last of the Vegan Yoghurt and an apple.
afternoon snack of 50g of chilli peanuts.
Tea: Small tin of lidl salmon; small veg madras curry; ( small for me that is! ) about 10 small new potatoes and 35g of vegan white chocolate.
It is ages since I had new potatoes, but I blame Ditto for persuading me they are good, which they are with a little mint sauce! 😛

Again 3+ litres of water; one cup of black coffee and four flavoured ice.

I have yet to test today, which is unusual for me, but probably will in a bit. 🙂

 

[Ditto]

I am a bad influence! 🙂

 

[Greymouser]

You are! 😉😉

 

[SueEK]

Today I had:
Breakfast - one weetabix, semi skimmed milk, decaf coffee
Mid morning - decaf coffee
Lunch - two slices thin fresh white bread with pate, few cherries, small amount of monkey nuts
Mid afternoon - two chunks of 85% dark choc and decaf coffee
Dinner - beef stew with carrots, onions, 3 medium potatoes and FOUR dumplings. BG before 5.4, 2 hours later 9.4 aaargghh. Good job I only have it about once a month in the colder weather.
Evening - decaf coffee.
Small amounts of water.

This is probably not the best example of what I eat daily but hey ho, it’s honest.

 

[Greymouser]

I have got to say those four dumplings were very brave of you. Last time I had dumplings I was in double figures very quickly... 😉

 

[SueEK]

I have got to say those four dumplings were very brave of you. Last time I had dumplings I was in double figures very quickly... 😉

Not brave, just no willpower where dumplings are concerned. I get really fed up with my diet as I’m such a fussy eater so occasionally I think sod it, I’m having it - and I do!!!
Not saying that’s a good thing but that’s how I cope, sometimes we need comfort food and what’s more comforting than beef stew and dumplings haha x

 

[nipthelicker]

That made me laugh a lot🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

I guess most people would get bored with eating pretty much the same thing every day. Not me!

B'fast: Big bowl of fruit+melon; extra large soy flat white; 30g chia seeds.

Lunch: Bowl with avocado, raspberries, strawberries, walnuts, lemon juice.

Afternoon: Big soy flat white + 30g chia seeds.

Evening: Another big soy flat white + 30g chia seeds.

Grazing: Walnuts, almonds, sugar snap peas.

Cals ~2,000 vs ~2,500 burned. ~80g protein (bit below target); ~185g gross carbs; ~75g fibre (I am the Fibre God!)

Tomorrow I think will be Chicken Day.

 

[Eddy Edson]

I don't get bored eating the same daily, I like routine. Any chance of putting your bg levels? I find it all immensely interesting. 🙂

I can't put my menu for yesterday because I stupidly went off the rails. Not because I wanted the food, I wasn't hungry. It's just something I've done all my life. I'm mentally ill when it comes to food, I've decided. Normally it'd be a 3 dayer but I can't do that now, have to reign it in, due to health as there are immediate consequences and not what you would think neither. Can't say as tmi, wouldn't want to put you off your menus.

Back to low carb, kind of, today. 🙄

4.6 when I got up, 6.4 after brekkie and a walk, 5.2 evening after flat white & another walk.

I've gotten off lightly (so far, touch wood) with eating changes. I've always liked simple & mainly raw. It was a bit of a struggle to stop eating bread but apart from that it was mostly cuttinh crap that I'd been eating because I couldn't be bothered with thinking about food & replacing it with being more mindful and going for nutrient-dense stuff - plus lots of fibre!

Don't feel remotely qualified to give anybody any advice about how to change diet or reduce eating amounts, but maybe that's something worth trying - deliberately replacing whatever you're about to eat with something like nutrient dense like nuts or avocado or whatever. Maybe yr bod dials down the hunger signals if it's getting more of the good stuff. But I just made that up 🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

What is a flat white? Coffee with soya milk? You don't seem to eat very much. I'd be ravenous. 😱

Flat white = Oz version of a latte.

Lots of nuts! (Too many, probably.)

 

[grovesy]

I would call a flat white coffee with milk , not a latte, that has frothy milk.

 

[Eddy Edson]

I would call a flat white coffee with milk , not a latte, that has frothy milk.

So does a proper flat white, but the foam is a bit different. To quote a coffee-nerd:

1. Velvet micro-foam instead of stiff froth.

2. Medium size, bigger than a macchiato or cortado but smaller than a latte.

3. Double shot so the coffee does most of the talking, not the milk.

4. Free poured milk so that the foam is folded through the whole drink and there is no discernable layer separation between liquid coffee and foam. This also help preserve the crema.

https://www.peterjthomson.com/coffee/what-is-a-flat-white/

 

[grovesy]

Well here in the UK it can also depend on the coffee chain.

 

[Ditto]

Mine's just bog standard Nescafe in a cup with dash whole milk, tastes like mud. 🙂

 

[grovesy]

I have Nescafe Alto Rica.

 

[Eddy Edson]

Well here in the UK it can also depend on the coffee chain.

The main difference between Oz and the UK apart from marsupials and weather is that we're not infested with chains the way you are - we have lots more independent cafes and restaurants which are usually between two and four million times better for coffee than any poxy chain 🙂

 

[SueEK]

4.6 when I got up, 6.4 after brekkie and a walk, 5.2 evening after flat white & another walk.

I've gotten off lightly (so far, touch wood) with eating changes. I've always liked simple & mainly raw. It was a bit of a struggle to stop eating bread but apart from that it was mostly cuttinh crap that I'd been eating because I couldn't be bothered with thinking about food & replacing it with being more mindful and going for nutrient-dense stuff - plus lots of fibre!

Don't feel remotely qualified to give anybody any advice about how to change diet or reduce eating amounts, but maybe that's something worth trying - deliberately replacing whatever you're about to eat with something like nutrient dense like nuts or avocado or whatever. Maybe yr bod dials down the hunger signals if it's getting more of the good stuff. But I just made that up 🙂

I think I would manage much better if I lived on my own. I cook for my husband who works long hours and loves big filling meals whereas I could quite happily have simpler, like you, more raw foods. I do eat much less than him but it is tempting when there are things in the house I wouldn’t choose myself. I am fairly good but know I could be a bit better. PS not trying to get rid of my husband haha x

 

[Eddy Edson]

I think I would manage much better if I lived on my own. I cook for my husband who works long hours and loves big filling meals whereas I could quite happily have simpler, like you, more raw foods. I do eat much less than him but it is tempting when there are things in the house I wouldn’t choose myself. I am fairly good but know I could be a bit better. PS not trying to get rid of my husband haha x

🙂

 

[Felinia]

Thank you Felinia
Can I ask what the app is you may have already told me previously ?
I think I may have to up my protein intake as I've notice my muscle shrinkage ?
B: no time again not even a cuppa as I over slept thanks to the police deciding to recover a car right outside my house at 01:00am .
L: 12:30pm 3 egg omelette with 2 rashers of back bacon and a jumbo cumberland sausage mug of tea with full fat milk
14:00 medium costa latte
D: salad usual ingredients dressed with mayo and topped off with prawns and a little grated mature cheddar . Dessert 3 large strawberry's , a small plum, few raspberry's , small golden kiwi topped off with a dessert spoon of double cream . Medium costa latte

Hi, I use NutraCheck which is £7.99 (first 6 months free), but there are others completely free out there. I think Myfitbit might be one.

 

[Felinia]

Well I had an interesting experience yesterday (and I don't mean the accident, diversion and herd of cows in the road)!! I did my Aquafit class then came home for lunch, so monitored at 5.3. I had some sushi for lunch and 2 hours later was 11.5. So I guess I can add sushi and rice to the no-no pile. Today's delights
B: Poached egg, 1 rasher grilled bacon, 4 small mushrooms, 3 small tomatoes, Dairy free Benecol
L: Prawn and egg salad
D: Chicken, carrots, cauliflower, runner beans, low salt gravy
S: 1oz mature cheddar (yummy!!)
Plus 170ml skimmed milk, 1 cod liver oil capsule