What did you eat yesterday?

[NotWorriedAtAll]

I've not been posting because what I eat is shocking and stupid ie yesterday:-

B: Pint water with fibre / three very thick Warburtons white toasts with Anchor butter and thick mature cheese on top with brown sauce on two and ketchup on the other, I was full after two but forced myself to finish the lot! / Pint water with meds.
L: One deluxe orange chocolate Easter Egg (well, most of it anyways), Tuna and corn butties and probably more of the same later, I lose track, just keep eating, even my sister asks why are you like that? I don't know.
D: One huge Roast Chicken dinner inc. four huge fat Roasties, mound buttery Mash, one big Ear of Corn, some cheesy stuff and gravy. Good grief.
S: Two or three thick white toasts with cheese triangles on... this is what lead to the episode during the night and I've now got to start being sensible or one of these times I'm not going to wake up in time to stop myself choking. It's obscene that half the world is starving and I'm pigging out.

Oh Ditto!!

you must be feeling very stressed and you are comfort eating

Can you find something non-food related that you enjoy to do instead as a way of treating yourself? Or something that you get so engrossed in it will take your mind off food?

I'm a fine one to talk though.

I made Irish soda bread for my husband because it is our thirtieth anniversary today and I wanted to make something nice for him.
I ate two thin slices and my blood sugars shot up to 11!!!
That's after doing half an hour on the exercise bike as well.

So I drank two cups of double strength peppermint tea and that's bringing it down and I had an avocado without daring to even put lemon juice on it. It is at 8.9 now.

I don't think it matters if you eat a lot of food - but you mustn't eat high carb food. I've realised not even a little bit of high carb food is doable.

But you can eat generous amounts of bacon and chicken and cheese.

I think if you start the day with a massive omelette made with six eggs and cheese and plenty of melted butter mixed into it and some bacon and a big drink of tea you will find you don't get the urge to overeat as much because the high fat content will make you feel full.

If you eat carby stuff as well as high fat and protein your body doesn't trigger the feeling full mechanism and as soon as the carbs are processed your body starts craving more and that's why you end up over doing it.

Try a nice naughty feeling high fat breakfast with no bread or carbs at all. And see if that helps any xxx

 

[bakebeans]

Breakfast: eat natural granola and yogurt
Lunch: ham and cheese salad sandwich using livlife bread, packet of skips and half a cookie
Dinner: chicken breast covered in red pesto, slice of cheese and bacon cooked in the oven with swede and carrot mash and salad
Snack: hand full of cashews

Again plenty of tea throughout the day and a couple of pints of no added sugar Vimto squash

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Today.

Breakfast - guacamole made with avocado and tomato and garlic and olive oil and worcester sauce and tabasco
with a 'bread' roll made of coconut flour and psyllium husk
and a cup of decaff coffee.

Lunch
1/2 a Rib eye steak with tomato salad.
Water and coffee to drink.

Evening meal
1/2 a rib eye steak with stir fried mushrooms and yellow peppers and cauliflower rice and a half clove of garlic.
a bite of my husband's cheese on soda bread toast.

some cheese and a teaspoon of Branston pickle
and I sneaked some butter while I was making it for tomorrow.

checked my bloods before bed and 7.1 mmols/L

 

[bakebeans]

Breakfast: eat natural granola, yogurt, 8 blueberries and 2 bites of hubby’s cheese and ham bagel
Lunch: cheese and ham salad sandwich with livlife bread a packet of popcorn and 8 malteasers
Dinner: steak with peppers and onions, salad, celeriac chips and some pepper sauce.
Snacks: handful of cashews and 6 normal homemade chips
Plenty of tea, water and juice through the day

Bg before dinner was 4.9
Went for a little walk after, was 5.2 after 2 hours
5.7 after 2 1/2 hours
5.9 after 3 hours and a huge mug of tea

 

[bakebeans]

I bought a celeriac once, didn't know what the heck to do with it!

We love it. Get through a couple a week. I just peel it, cut it into chips and pop it in boiling water for a couple of mins then put it in the oven with some oil, paprika and salt.
Celeriac mash is also lovely

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

I bought a celeriac once, didn't know what the heck to do with it!

I fell in love with celeriac because my dad was from Paris and so he introduced me at an early age to something called Remoulade.
Basically you peel the celeriac (I find this hard work so I hack a manageable piece off and then peel the piece and then continue until I have the amount I want) and then you tightly wrap the rest in clingfilm to stop it going brown and keep it in the fridge..

Then you slice the celeriac into very thin matchstick pieces (or you can grate it using one of the bigger grate sizes) and toss them in lemon juice and then you have a choice.

You can either use them raw or (as Ido) you plunge them into boiling salted water still with the lemon juice (the posh term for this then is acidulated water - because it has the lemon juice in it) and leave them in the boiling water for about five to eight minutes and then drain them with a colander and run very cold water over them to stop them cooking any more and to cool them down fast.

Then mix them with mayonnaise and if you like it, a small piece of grated garlic. Then you have a salad/coleslaw type stuff you can eat all at once (my preference) or you can keep it in the fridge for 3 days and dip into it until it has gone. I don't think it keeps if you use raw celeriac - you have to eat it straight away.

 

[bakebeans]

Breakfast: eat natural granola and yogurt with a few blueberries and a mug of tea
Lunch: egg, bacon, mushrooms and an avocado
Dinner: chilli and lime chips with salad
Snack: 2 cold sausages and half a pack of cheese and onion french fries.

Water and tea throughout the day
Bg was 4.9 before dinner. Went for a walk and watched a film after and forgot to check it again

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

A bit of a weird day for food today.
I overdid things yesterday and I had no brain power or energy to cook sensibly.

Breakfast - five grilled slices of unsmoked bacon and three scrambled eggs with butter and decaff coffee.

Then I just sort of ate things during the day but not really meals as such.

I ate -
1. an entire cucumber including the skin
2. A smallish piece of cheese
3. A sixth of a chocolate digestive biscuit
4. About two ounces of salted peanuts.
5. The lid from a baked potato with butter and salt
6. an avocado with mayonnaise and vinegar.

 

[bakebeans]

Breakfast: eat natural granola and yogurt and some blueberries
Lunch: tuna salad and a packet of skips
Dinner: bbq burger, 2 sausages and 2 chicken drumsticks with grilled veg cooked in garlic butter
Snack: 2 tiny pieces chocolate and 2 chicken drumsticks

I’ve my half of a small Easter egg left that I’ve been putting off eating all week don’t think I can hold off much longer!

 

[SkinnyLiz]

Umm... right ... yesterday...that would be the 23rd. Can I remember that far back?
Breakfast: homemade nut granola with a splash of semi skimmed milk. 2 cups coffee with a tablespoonful of cream in each.
Started measuring cream once we were on lockdown. Becoming aware it might be a while before more is available is good motivation to be careful with quantities. 2 eggs scrambled with butter.
more coffee with cream and two lowcarb lemon and almond shortbread biscuits. First time making these.
Lunch: Avocado, tomato and cheese with vinagraitte dressing. Garden Salad, lettuce, radish, spring onion. water and tea.
Dinner: Roast chicken leg, cooked some courgettes with a bit of red pepper and cheese, frozen french beans
glass of wine,another of sugar free tonic
2 cups of tea

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

In my food dairy for yesterday I've just put "don't ask" but today I've been good. I can't believe it really.

Well done Jan.

Had a go at dyeing boiled eggs this morning in an attempt to boost my energy levels by doing something fun and make a sensible breakfast at the same time.
So

Breakfast: four boiled eggs - my husband had the plain ones and I had the decorated ones in case Sharpie ink is poisonous.

Lunch: Roast chicken (a lot of it), a small roast potato, a quarter of a roast carrot and a third of a roast parsnip

Evening meal: About three ounces of chicken liver pate made with ghee and chopped onion and salt and tarragon and garlic.

All day drinking water, peppermint tea and decaff coffee.


I've gone three days now without managing to do any time on my exercise bike.



I had a choice between exercising or sleeping this evening and sleeping won - mainly because my eyes kept closing when I sat down so it made sense to go with the flow.


Went to 'bed' ( it's 'chair' really but that sounds weird) around six o'clock this evening and woke up at 10.30.


Will potter about for a few hours and then try and get another four hours sleep. Tomorrow morning is the early dairy delivery when we get cream and milk from our milk person so I need to be up around four to bring it in from the doorstep and decontaminate it all.

Then I will be making butter from the cream and making a loaf of soda bread from the buttermilk.


I spent most of the day before yesterday re-organising and deep cleaning the kitchen and I'm still recovering from that which is why I went three days without using my exercise bike. I'm hoping to put that right tomorrow.

 

[SkinnyLiz]

@Ditto, no cream shortage in the shops. Getting there to buy some is the difficulty.

 

[bakebeans]

Breakfast: eat natural granola and yogurt with blueberries
Lunch: chicken salad
Dinner: meatball pasta and 3 pieces of garlic bread ( tiny portion of pasta, was mainly spiralised courgette and carrot)
Snacks: half a small Easter egg and a spoon full of peanut butter

 

[Felinia]

I'm on full lockdown and reliant on the contents of the Pensioner box delivered to me, plus meal replacement drinks. So not the best diabetic diet in the world - too much bread, potatoes and sweet treats. But I must confess I did enjoy the 90gm of new potatoes I had yesterday with some lemon sole from the freezer plus lots of veggies. Otherwise it was bacon, egg, mushrooms, tomatoes, toast, strawberries, yogurt plus a muffin.

 

[Eddy Edson]

B'fast - Extra-big soy flat white + chia seeds; blackberries and walnuts + lemon juice.

Lunch: Not really, just a soy flat white + chia seeds; peanuts + lemon juice.

Dinner: Bowl with avocado, leaves, edamame, strawberries, crumbled up pumpernickel, snow peas, walnuts + lemon juice.

Grazing: Too many almonds.

One multi-vit supplement for the Vit B12 and zinc.

Tomorrow: Pomegranate season started here & I have one sitting in the fuit bowl resigning itself to being breakfast 🙂

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

I'm trying something new today.
I have been buying a delivery box of veg and fruit.
Most of the fruit gets taken to my mum as do a couple of the big spuds and the more carby veg.

My husband likes potatoes though and so I prepared all of them at once and boiled them up in my pressure cooker and then chilled them down fast and "bottled" them in a huge olive jar with heavily salted water and put them in the fridge.

Now I've read somewhere that if you cook then chill then cook potatoes they become a lower GI.
I roasted some of the cooked and chilled veg (inc potatoes) yesterday and then today found a large roast potato hiding with the leftover chicken and that potato had been cooked chilled cooked and chilled again!!!

I made my potato salad (sliced in vinaigrette dressing with half a tomato) with the cold roast potato and made my husband's with the cooked then chilled and bottled potatoes.

My theory being that if cooking and chilling and cooking reduces the GI then another stage of chilling might help even more.

I also hoped the vinegar in the dressing might help too. I also had a pot of peppermint tea with my meal.

Breakfast

A 'bread' roll made from coconut flour and psyllium husk and a weeny bit of yeast and buttermilk - I'm pining after the soda bread I'm making for my husband and trying to make a non-spiking alternative - not got there yet but it iwas okay.

Chicken liver pate and home made butter.

Lunch

Cold roast chicken and my double chilled roast potato salad with half a tomato and oil and vinegar dressing.
Strawberry cream pudding - from whipped double cream and freeze dried strawberry powder and freeze dried strawberry pieces.
Pot of peppermint tea.

2 hours after eating my blood sugar is 6.8mmols/L !!! I think I may have found a way for me to eat potatoes that don't cause spiking - double chilling and a side order of peppermint tea!!

Not sure what I'm having for evening meal. I think it might be cauliflower cheese.

Edited to update - evening meal was an avocado.

 

[Kaylz]

@Ditto talking low carb I hope you checked your sausages, some can actually be rather high in carbs due to fillers etc xx

 

[bakebeans]

Today started well
Breakfast: eat natural granola and yogurt with blueberries
Lunch: cheese, ham and mushroom 3 egg omelette with salad
Snack: apple
Dinner: Chinese take away. We’ve not had a prober Chinese takeaway in a year so tonight we thought we would and I’d use it as an experiment.
Bg before eating 4.6
I had dry bbq ribs, 2 chicken balls, couple of spoonfuls of crispy chilli beef and mushroom chow mien, chicken and veg, 5 pieces of salt and pepper chicken and a few chips....then another chicken ball an hour later
Bg after 2 hours was 8.9 this worried me so I drank 3 glasses of water
Bg after 3 hours 7.5
Bg after 4 hours 4.2 checked another finger 3.9
Now it’s come down I’m happy to go to bed was worried it was going to shoot up after the first hour.

Verdict was the take away was nice but not sure it was worth the worry or the horrible uncomfortable too full feeling

 

[Kaylz]

@Ditto yeah I wouldn't say they were low carb, if they were Richmond Thick sausages then 4 would be 25.6g carbs xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

That's not bad I don't think Kaylz. Less carbs than Cheerios and milk, ton of sweeties, one CoOp Easter Egg, a trifle, a roast dinner, a portion of chips and a fry up on toast, typical day's fayre if I'm not 'low carbing.' Plus there was the day of four cans of baked beans. Low carb is fab, my liver symptoms have eased off already. I shall keep it up as I need to stay around a while longer. Be ironic if the virus gets me now!

I think you are doing brilliantly for now Jan. I must admit I've been a bit worried about you but I got a happy glow when I read your last couple of posts. I think I can detect the beginnings of a love-affair between you and low carb and it warms the cockles of my heart 🙂