What did you eat yesterday?

[Mrsw2811]

Good morning all,

Feeling happy after first full week low carb - weight loss of 4lbs. Don't know how it affected BG as I don't monitor but losing more weight is a good thing 🙂

B - 1 small slice granary toast
D - kfc twister wrap, small chips & gravy
T - nectarine & kiwi
Treat - jam teacake

 

[Tee G]

Breakfast: (pre 5.7) 1 Livelife toast, peanut butter, mug of tea.
Lunch: Beef slices, coleslaw, cucumber/tomato salsa, chunks of brie, cup unsweetened soya milk (post 1 hr 5.9)
Dinner: (pre 5.2) : Pork mince curry with cauliflower 'rice' 1 small glass red wine. sugar free jelly and bit too many raspberries on top (got a little spike at 8.5 1 hour later, but nothing too bad)

Went for 'very brisk' 10 min walk after dinner walk - 2 hour reading 5.5 phew! note to self: watch those berries LOL 😛

 

[Mrsw2811]

B - 1 small slice granary toast, fruit
L - 2 ryvita, dairylea, & salad
T - small portion of homemade chicken biryani
Treat - some teasers chocolate

 

[Toucan]

B- Mushrooms, turkey rasher, egg, Lovelife toast
L - Pate made with smoked mackerel, cream cheese, onions, celery, + tomato and 2 finncrisps
Snack - A few walnuts
D - Chicken curry, cauliflower korma, 1 poppadum
Lots of cups of tea and coffee and water.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Just got back from a weekend away.
Saturday was our friends' fortieth wedding anniversary. He is Indian so the food was vegetarian Indian.
Saturday Food.
For brunch I had steak and lettuce and coffee before we set out.
About four o'clock I had small pack of marie rose sauce and large tiger prawns from M&S and a packet of chorizo crisps from M&S
Evening meal at the do.
I had paneer (cheese cubes) in a little bit of curry sauce with some green beans and half a poppadum and a tiny taste of a little pastry dumpling soaked in syrup. I had three glasses of wine.

Sunday Food
Breakfast - 3 rashers of bacon 2 fried eggs 4 little hotel mushrooms.

Lunch - 5 flaps of Maasdaam cheese from Aldi
2 slices of Brunswick ham from Aldi
1 egg from inside a scotch egg - my husband eats the outside stuff 🙂

Evening - steak with avocado and half a lemon to squeeze over the avocado
Dessert whipped cream with raspberries and strawberries and no sugar.
Drank mineral water.
The chef at the hotel was brilliant and made us the dessert even though fruit and cream wasn't even on the menu.

So I stuck to my keto diet all weekend even travelling home today.

Today - breakfast bacon and egg again.
Lunch on the move.
prawn thing from M&S again.
1 small cooked chicken breast from M&S
Some roast salted almonds.
Water to drink.
Evening meal.
Currently waiting for my pressure to cook Chinese chicken soup made with star anise (good to stave off viruses in case we picked anything up while out and about even though we were very careful) cinnamon, szechuan pepper, ginger wine, gluten free soy sauce, 2 chicken drumsticks, 1 teaspoon of coconut oil, 1 oxo cube, four sprouts, some dried mushrooms and once it is done I will add some shredded lettuce and sesame oil. Edited to add picture of my supper.

 

[Neens]

Hey Wirralass, the dish on the cover page might be good for cholesterol but it would play havoc with my blood glucose! Take care when you get round to reading it.

It just made me miss spaghetti (again)!

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

I like the look of those eclairs.
Low carb, treats, new choux
Fantastic

The great news was that my blood sugars actually dropped after eating them!! Maybe the activity of whipping the cream was more exercise than I'd even hoped! LOLS

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Thank you. I'll do some research about the effects of dietary fat on cholesterol and look at Dr Attia.
I agree that 'low fat' is not necessarily good, I try to avoid 'fat free' products and have smaller amounts of full fat e.g. real butter and don't get worried about eating 'natural' fat in nuts.
Changes to my diet and taking metformin so far haven't reduced my BG (though I have been tested for MODY awaiting results,which could explain that). It did however help weight loss which I see as positive as it will help reduce risk of other complications. I plan to see if low carb helps lower BG at my next test and will switch if it doesn't.
Really appreciate your viewpoint and you taking the time to explain, thanks again.

I've just caught up on this thread about cholesterol and wanted to agree with rebrascora. When I was diagnosed with diabetes in January 2019 I also had the beginnings of fatty liver disease and high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

I went straight onto a very low carb and high fat diet and within three months my cholesterol levels were good, my liver function was back to normal and my blood pressure loads better. Those results kept getting better through the year.
I eat plenty of fat and try and stick to 20g of carb or fewer per day and I have no problems with cholesterol at all.

At the start I was told low fat and wholemeal carbs etc but that made no logical sense to me so I chose to go with first of all very low carb and then very low carb high fat. I've never been more consistently healthy. This has been my best year for health since my twenties.

 

[Mrsw2811]

I've just caught up on this thread about cholesterol and wanted to agree with rebrascora. When I was diagnosed with diabetes in January 2019 I also had the beginnings of fatty liver disease and high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

I went straight onto a very low carb and high fat diet and within three months my cholesterol levels were good, my liver function was back to normal and my blood pressure loads better. Those results kept getting better through the year.
I eat plenty of fat and try and stick to 20g of carb or fewer per day and I have no problems with cholesterol at all.

At the start I was told low fat and wholemeal carbs etc but that made no logical sense to me so I chose to go with first of all very low carb and then very low carb high fat. I've never been more consistently healthy. This has been my best year for health since my twenties.

Thanks. Great to hear how well it is working for you 🙂

 

[Mrsw2811]

B - greek yoghurt, seeds, satsuma & pear
D - frittata, coleslaw, cucumber & peppers
T - scrambled egg on granary toast

 

[Kaylz]

Today
6:10am - glucose chew as woke a bit close to the knuckle at 4.2
B - jumbo oats made with almond milk and raspberries, mug of coffee
mug of coffee
D - wholemeal ham sandwich and a digestive biscuit, pint of water
mug of coffee
T - chicken breast, roast sprouts and boiled potatoes with some mayo, square Lindt 90% and a pint of water
mug of coffee
mug of coffee
xx

 

[Mrsw2811]

B - greek yoghurt, seeds, satsuma
D - frittata, coleslaw, salad
T - turkey mince bolognese (homemade with lots of veg in) with cheddar cheese

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Brunch - chinese type stew - same recipe as last time except I chucked 1 chicken drumstick, 1 chunk of roast beef, 26 prawns into it. Shared between two of us.
Evening meal - lemon sponge cake - made with almond flour and coconut oil and sweetener and lemon zest.

All day drinking decaff green tea and coffee.

 

[Ditto]

26 prawns! Lol. That is a very specific amount.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

26 prawns! Lol. That is a very specific amount.

Yes - it is a bit funny isn't it?
My husband keeps laughing at stuff I say and I have a little think about it and the quirkiness becomes evident and then I see the funny side. What can I tell you -when people say they are going to think out of the box, I start looking for the box.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

I have to say what I ate today because I've already forgotten what I ate yesterday.

Breakfast.
Some leftover cold chicken mixed with mayonnaise and a breakfast muffin made with coconut flour, linseed, psyllium husk and baking powder, spread with butter.

Lunch.
More leftover chicken on its own.

Evening meal.
I made some spaghetti and peas and cauliflower with a leek and potato cuppa soup and double cream sauce for my husband and then because it smelled so wonderful I nicked some of it.
First spaghetti/pasta for over 15 months.

I tested before eating it because I wanted to see what would happen.

Before eating it at 17:15 = 7.1 mmol/L
Straight after eating it 17:21 = 6.6 mmol/L
I had a small amount of second helpings.
after the second helpings - 17:28 = 6.3 mmol/L
Kept testing to see what would happen
18:25 = 7.4 mmol/L
19:21 = 6.9 mmol/L
20:38 = 6.4 mmol/L

I think I may be okay having small amounts of pasta as long as it is with high fibre and high fat.

 

[Ditto]

Those readings are good aren't they? They say pasta is weird though and can affect your sugars for hours afterwards.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Those readings are good aren't they? They say pasta is weird though and can affect your sugars for hours afterwards.

I am trying to be 'good' today but made the mistake of buying M&S bread with my gift card off the insurance. Agh I can never resist bread, it's my bete noir. I've come up with a plan though, just buy a small Warburtons white toastie which is the bread Mum likes and then freeze it and take out just a couple of frozen slices when she wants her egg on toast. Sorted.

Yesterday was a no go. I can't even list what we had yesterday. I was with my Type 2 sisters and we are completely ridiculous. Talk about a family in denial.

I used to go off the rails with my eating but since I went keto my relationship with food has become much much happier.
I much prefer the keto versions of stuff and find them much quicker and easier to prepare so I'm not finding I want any of the 'old' food. I've even gone off chips now. I suppose I like how I feel after eating keto food and I enjoy it so much.

I never ate cakes and biscuits and desserts and puddings before so now I am on keto and get to eat thing like that it feels as though all my food worries have disappeared because now I know exactly what makes me feel healthy and yet it feels like I'm eating 'naughty' treats.

I had cinnamon rolls for breakfast today!!!

Breakfast:

Cinnamon rolls - made with seed and nut flour and Truvia.
Coffee with cinnamon.

Lunch:
Hotdog sausage.

Evening meal:

Another hotdog sausage.

So not conventionally healthy food at all today but I enjoyed it and my blood sugars are fine and tomorrow I will probably eat salad stuff.

Mostly drinking decaff coffee and tea today. Will have a pot of star anise and oregano tea later to help me feel I am warding off any lurgy that may be around.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Today:

Missed breakfast because I slept in.

Lunch: Small rump steak with cucumber and 2 low carb rolls - 4g carb
Snack`: two squares of chocologic chocolate - around 1.5g carb
Evening meal:
two and a half strawberry cupcakes ( around 5g carb) made in honour of Neens brilliant HbA1c result.
ate them with a huge cup of decaff Earl Grey tea and now I am full.

Strawberry Cream Cupcakes - around 2g carbs per cupcake.
This recipe makes ten proper size cupcakes.

For the cakes
140g almond flour
2 tablespoons of psyllium husk
2 tablespoons of erythritol
2 large eggs or 3 medium
2 tablespoons of melted butter
2 teaspoons of baking powder (I use Dr Oetker)
splash of vanilla essence.
1/2 teaspoon of freeze dried strawberry powder ( I bought this from Amazon they have a few brands I got 60g in a tub it is expensive but it will last and it is nothing but strawberry so I count it as good value compared with buying fresh)

For the topping

Double cream ( I just sloshed what looked like a good amount into a bowl)
1/2 teaspoon of strawberry powder
erythritol to taste
1/4 teaspoon of citric acid powder (I love this stuff so zingy and it makes cream go like clotted cream and keeps it from going runny)


Method
I put a glass bowl onto a weighing scale and then put a plastic sieve on top and then zero the scale.
Then I weigh out the almond flour into the sieve.
Then I measure all the other powders in with it including the strawberry powder.

I use a pestle and mortar to grind the erythritol into powder but it isn't strictly necessary.

Then I use a spoon to stir the powders in the sieve to get it to go through the sieve into the glass bowl. That mixes them together and gets rid of any lumps.

I melt the butter in a small bowl in the microwave then I add the eggs and whisk them up together with a splash of vanilla essence.

Then mix the liquid into the powder and stir until it is all mixed together in a fairly wet looking cake batter.

I spoon the mix into silicon cake cups - this mixture makes ten.

Then I cook five at a time (because I only have five silicon cake cups so I do it in batches)
in a 900W Microwave at full power for 2 minutes and 20 seconds.

The I tip the cakes out and put the cakes on a wire rack to cool.

The topping

Whisk the cream until it thickens a bit.
Then add the strawberry powder, erythritol powder and citric acid powder and stir until it has thickened into a fairly stiff consistency and is all one colour.


I used a piping bag with a nozzle to squirt the cream onto the cakes once they had cooled and after I put them into paper cupcake cases. If I'd had enough silicon ones I would have put them back into those.

I had some wafer flower decorations with best before October 2017 and they looked okay and smelled okay so I used them up to make them look pretty. Luckily they tasted okay too.

 

[Neens]

I've just caught up on this thread about cholesterol and wanted to agree with rebrascora. When I was diagnosed with diabetes in January 2019 I also had the beginnings of fatty liver disease and high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

I went straight onto a very low carb and high fat diet and within three months my cholesterol levels were good, my liver function was back to normal and my blood pressure loads better. Those results kept getting better through the year.
I eat plenty of fat and try and stick to 20g of carb or fewer per day and I have no problems with cholesterol at all.

At the start I was told low fat and wholemeal carbs etc but that made no logical sense to me so I chose to go with first of all very low carb and then very low carb high fat. I've never been more consistently healthy. This has been my best year for health since my twenties.

This is good to hear. I tend to have less than 50g carbs a day (nearly typed crabs then), avg is 38 with some days 20 or below (usually when I am not working). They were worried as I had high cholesterol at dx and even though it has gone down it is still high, so it my next thing to tackle. I haven't really looked into it but will probably be dropping carbs when we reach self-isolation stage anyway. I may not need as many and it will make my food go further! Do you eat cheese?


And as for your recipe! Yum! Can't wait to try it! Will let you know. 😉

Breakfast: Spinach, scrambled egg and sunflower seeds, 1 coffee.
Lunch: Mackerel and salad (mainly leaves) Water
Dinner: Soya bean spaghetti, 8 prawns (thought I'd be specific too - only know because I counted the rest into lunchbox for work tomorrow), pak choi, 50g of frozen stir fry veg and a splash of soy sauce. It was scrummy!