What did you eat yesterday?

[rebrascora]

Breakfast
45g High Fibre Granola with full fat Greek yoghurt, half a kiwi fruit, chopped hazelnuts and pumpkin seeds with a cup of coffee and a knob of butter... ran out of cream and someone suggested coffee and butter was a good diabetic drink....yum! (3 Carbohydrate portions(CPs) took 2 units of NR)

Lunch
4 rashers of streaky bacon with a fried egg and a square of cauli bake.... a combination of mashed cauliflower, spelt flour, baking powder, eggs, mixed herbs, paprika and chopped mushrooms, onions and ham, baked in the oven and then cut up into squares and reheated in the frying pan.... I was experimenting the other day and this was the result.... tastes like a very substantial stuffing and goes really well with bacon and eggs....something to soak up the egg yolk instead of bread or hash browns. Had this with a large side salad.... who knew bacon and eggs worked well with a salad! An apple and a chunk of cheese to follow. (3 CPs and took 3 units of NR)

Dinner
Some crudités and dips.
My brother in law's bolognaise sauce which contains lamb mince and haggis with 105g wholewheat pasta (30g carbs or 3CPs) and a big pile of savoy cabbage, followed by a Full fat Greek yoghurt with other half of Kiwi and nuts and washed down by 3 very naughty glasses of rum and diet coke. (4 CPs total and took 4 units of NR)

 

[Greymouser]

I too prefer the same, or at least similar things to eat each day, but do like trying new things too, such as those cauli bake things suggested above! 🙂 Without the ham though.
Anyway, to my simple report:
Breakfast: Two slices of Nimble bread with mushroom pate and sweet onion relish; a packet of crisps; 50g of dry roasted peanuts and an apple.
Lunch: A bit late again, but 50g of salted peanuts and an Apple.
Tea: Vegetable and fish Madras curry, thickened up with dry instant mash. It works well, but I may regret that add in when I test in a little while...
Again the single black coffee and 3+ litres of water, with snacks of the flavoured ice again.
Incidentally, I tested last night, three and a half hour after eating, so a bit late, but it was only 5.6, which was good because I was expecting it to be high still. 🙂

Tomorrow I think will be Chicken Day.

I like the way you think, anticipation is a great sauce. For me tomorrow as it is a Friday and my treat day, I will be mostly, in the evening, be eating Egg and chips! I will avoid the beans this time, because last week, I discovered that adding them was a bad idea and without them, I only went to 8.1, which whilst higher than I would like, considering the chips, I was well pleased! ( Tomorrow I might even have a glass or two of Shiraz... )

Edit: Oh and stupid me forgot my blood pressure tablets this morning, have to stop doing that!

 

[SueEK]

How does everybody manage to drink so much water?? I thought I would measure my intake today and even having far more than usual I still haven’t got up to one litre!!!

 

[Greymouser]

I find it easy and sometimes go above three litres, well above sometimes. I just had a half litre in one go just now and will go for some more soon. With my BP tablets, when I remember to take them, which I mostly do, I need to be sure where the nearest toilet is though, because my Grandma didn't call them " water tablets, " for nothing!

Edit: I have just tested two after finishing and it is 5.5! Yahoo! I can officially relax a bit more.

 

[Kaylz]

How does everybody manage to drink so much water?? I thought I would measure my intake today and even having far more than usual I still haven’t got up to one litre!!!

I have at least 5 pint glasses a day so 2.84 litres at least, I'll have one pint between 10-11:30, a pint with dinner at 12, 2 pints between 1 and 4:30 at least and 1 with my tea, it can be more but never is less, dont you vape? That supposedly dehydrates you and makes you drink more xx

 

[SueEK]

I have at least 5 pint glasses a day so 2.84 litres at least, I'll have one pint between 10-11:30, a pint with dinner at 12, 2 pints between 1 and 4:30 at least and 1 with my tea, it can be more but never is less, dont you vape? That supposedly dehydrates you and makes you drink more xx

I do but drinking a lot of water makes me feel really yuk. I literally can’t drink more than a small glass in one go. I do drink quite a bit of decaf coffee but don’t suppose that counts, I don’t know.

 

[Kaylz]

I do but drinking a lot of water makes me feel really yuk. I literally can’t drink more than a small glass in one go. I do drink quite a bit of decaf coffee but don’t suppose that counts, I don’t know.

I believe cuppys do count towards water intake as well hun, I go through 4 mugs and 2 costa cups a day of coffee and all that water so I really dont understand how I can go from 9:40pm to 6am without needing the toilet lol xx

 

[SueEK]

I believe cuppys do count towards water intake as well hun, I go through 4 mugs and 2 costa cups a day of coffee and all that water so I really dont understand how I can go from 9:40pm to 6am without needing the toilet lol xx

Blimey no, you must have a bladder of steel haha 😱😱
If coffee counts then it’s not so bad x

 

[Billy Bob]

B 3 egg 2 rasher bacon omelette mug of tea
L 2 bacon , 1 sausage, mushrooms, 2 eggs, burger,2 tinned toms and a mug of tea
afternoon medium costa latte
D butternut squash chunks roasted , 2 rainbow trout fillets and some mixed veg peas,string beans carrots sweet corn , Dessert 4 strawberries , a few raspberries , water melon chunks and dessert spoonful of double cream

 

[Greymouser]

So,
Breakfast: Two slices of Nimble bread with Mushroom pate and spice; a packet of crisps; 50g of dry roasted nuts and an apple.
Lunch: Leftover vegetable Madras.
Tea: Two fried eggs and Chips, followed by 35g of Vegan chocolate! I am so naughty, but it was so nice! I have no wish to know the carbs, but I have tested about three hours late and it is 9.0, which whilst not good, is not too bad and it will not put me off. Besides, if I keep sipping this wine, I will soon care not at all!
I also had at least 3 litres of water, one black coffee and several flavoured ices as snacks.
Happy days. 🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

Weighed in at 64.2kg, near my 64kg target. I'd been as low as 63kg- and then crept back up to 65kg+. They're little differences, but I really wish nature had built us so we didn't have to pfaff around manually managing this stuff ... I'm am really thankful that I've been lucky enough to have whatever metabolic/hormonal profile you need to be able to do the managing relatively easily.

BTW, I find this body weight planner very useful:
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/bwp Based on the excellent work of Dr Kevin Hall's https://twitter.com/KevinH_PhD obesity group at the NIDDK in the US. For me it does a great job of estimating how many calories I should be eating in conjunction with what kind of exercise to achieve& maintain a weight target over a specified period. Nature should have built this into our brains 🙂

Anyway ...

B'fast: Usual - big bowl of fruit & melon; extra large soy flat white; 30g chia seeds

Lunch: Chicken! Grilled chicken breast + salad with leaves, broc, snowpeas, pumpkin seeds, edamame.

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

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

Evening: Another large soy flat white + 30g chia seeds

Grazing: Walnuts, almonds, snowpeas.

Calories: In ~2,300, out ~2,300. ~110g protein, 190g gross carbs, 80g fibre.

BG: 4.6 after getting up, 4.8 after carby b'fast and an hour's walk - that's low for me.

 

[Felinia]

Weighed in at 64.2kg, near my 64kg target. I'd been as low as 63kg- and then crept back up to 65kg+. They're little differences, but I really wish nature had built us so we didn't have to pfaff around manually managing this stuff ... I'm am really thankful that I've been lucky enough to have whatever metabolic/hormonal profile you need to be able to do the managing relatively easily.

BTW, I find this body weight planner very useful:
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/bwp Based on the excellent work of Dr Kevin Hall's https://twitter.com/KevinH_PhD obesity group at the NIDDK in the US. For me it does a great job of estimating how many calories I should be eating in conjunction with what kind of exercise to achieve& maintain a weight target over a specified period. Nature should have built this into our brains 🙂

Anyway ...

B'fast: Usual - big bowl of fruit & melon; extra large soy flat white; 30g chia seeds

Lunch: Chicken! Grilled chicken breast + salad with leaves, broc, snowpeas, pumpkin seeds, edamame.

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

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

Evening: Another large soy flat white + 30g chia seeds

Grazing: Walnuts, almonds, snowpeas.

Calories: In ~2,300, out ~2,300. ~110g protein, 190g gross carbs, 80g fibre.

BG: 4.6 after getting up, 4.8 after carby b'fast and an hour's walk - that's low for me.

Thanks for posting the link to the body weight planner. It was very interesting.

It's also very interesting how we all follow such different diets. I've been told never to have fruit in a main meal - certainly not to mix them, and my NHS Type 2 Training Course website reinforced that. Weird and so far nobody understands why - when I queried it all I was told by the dietician running the course, "well it must have been based on some research". I do sneak in the odd bit of fruit!!

B: Poached egg, mushrooms, tomatoes
L: Prawn and egg salad
D: Baked haddock, cauliflower, runner beans, carrots
Plus 4 pints water, a dairy free Benecol drink, 170ml skimmed milk in de-caf tea, mineral and vitamin supplements, cod liver oil.

 

[Greymouser]

Today:
Breakfast: three slices of Nimble with mushroom pate and onion relish; an apple; 50g of dry roasted nuts and a packet of crisps. ( no, no a different order doesn't make any more interesting. 🙂 )
Lunch: four crackerbreads with peanut butter and sweetener, in place of jam. ( I do miss jam! )
Tea: A tin of Kippers and a large amount of Broccoli with Branston fruity sauce. I will probably have a little bar of Vegan chocolate too in a minute, perhaps wait until I test my BG.

No coffee at all today but loads of water and three flavoured ices. Felinia has given me the urge to get some smoked haddock tomorrow as well, ages since I had that. 🙂

Edit: I have just checked my blood reading and it's 5.1! What's that all about then?

 

[TiredOldGal]

Today:
Breakfast. Full fat Greek yogurt and yum yum sprinkles
Lunch. Homemade quorn and veg spag bol sauce (no pasta) with 3 slices of halloumi
Snack. Chickpeas
Tea. Veggie schnitzel with tinned tomatoes, asparagus and mushrooms

May have some jelly after I take my BG reading

 

[Eddy Edson]

I've been told never to have fruit in a main meal - certainly not to mix them

Maybe there's some good reason for this I've never heard of but having said that ... it's rubbish 🙂

 

[Felinia]

That was my reaction too - but the dietician on the course said that there must be research backing it up, otherwise the NHS approved training course would not have put it on their website. In other words, she hadn't heard of it either!!!

 

[Eddy Edson]

That was my reaction too - but the dietician on the course said that there must be research backing it up, otherwise the NHS approved training course would not have put it on their website. In other words, she hadn't heard of it either!!!

I'm not saying these medical info sites are necessarily correct, but in this case they are 🙂

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/best-time-eat-fruit
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325253.php

 

[Felinia]

This is rumbling on, so I have contacted OVIVA who posted the no fruit with meals advice on their website, asking for details of the research. Also they have removed my access to their website, and I want to know why - kill 2 birds with one stone. Good job I'd printed off a hard copy. I'll feed back their reply.

 

[karloc]

Maybe the no fruit with meals brigade are just hatters of hawaiian pizza, duck a l'orange or lemon chicken .

I can understand an idea of no fruit as snacks for diabetics or people trying to loose weight as it could be an unnecessary spike to insulin levels between meals.

Also if its no fruit with a meal - That cuts out so many 'meals' as tomato is a fruit!!! 😛

 

[Felinia]

Maybe the no fruit with meals brigade are just hatters of hawaiian pizza, duck a l'orange or lemon chicken .

I can understand an idea of no fruit as snacks for diabetics or people trying to loose weight as it could be an unnecessary spike to insulin levels between meals.

Also if its no fruit with a meal - That cuts out so many 'meals' as tomato is a fruit!!! 😛

Can I refer you to EddyEdson reply above and the 2 links he has posted. I have decided to ignore the OVIVA advice and follow the advice in the links. Also, cocoa beans comes from a fruit pod and if anyone thinks I'm giving up my strip of dark chocolate, they're crazy!!!!!