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What did you eat yesterday?

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trophywench said:
Ah well, yeah if you're wanting to lose weight! I only like belly pork sliced and crisped up, not soft.
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Difficult to do with our oven - the seal's gone and that's the first time I've ever cooked belly pork in it. Will definitely do it again but it's going to be a rare treat!
 
Does any one that use frozen raspberries, have way to defrost without them turning to just mush and juice?
 
EllsBells said:
I had a horrible but tasty relapse yesterday with poor portion control:

Pre breakfast: 7.8
brekkie: handful berries and greek style yoghurt
Pre-lunch: 6.5
lunch: 300g belly pork, 1/2 tin mashed butter beans (cooked with onion and garlic), green beans, leeks and peas coated in honey/mustard dressing.
Post lunch: 10.2
wasn't hungry. so skipped tea.
Drinks - 4 milky teas/water.
Bed: 7.2

Gotta say lunch tasted divine but probably won't be buying belly pork again soon!
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Don't blame the belly pork - poor old belly pork.

Butter beans + onion + garlic = mostly carbs and quite a bit of sugar.
Leeks and peas = also mostly carbs
honey - well no need even to go into that you know honey is sugar.

If you'd skipped the carby veggies and had maybe celeriac crisps and the green beans or just skipped the beans and peas - you'd have had a much better reading and loads of fat is no problem as long as you don't have carbs with it.

Belly pork is excellent and it did its job and kept you so satiated you didn't need to eat an evening meal.
 
@grovesy I quite like mush and juice, with cream on. 🙂

@EllsBells luv that name lol. 🙂 The butterbeans and peas would send me towards the stratosphere, but the belly pork would be fine, I'd never think to weigh that out. I think fat only puts weight on if you mix it with carbs.

Hey - look at that day of yours!! Brilliant.
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Thank you @NotWorriedAtAll but not really me though, circumstances make it imperative that I at least try and stop pigging out.

Weight 14stones 8.2pounds Tum 50
Not long after getting up - 6.5 @ 7.43 / pint water
Brunch: pt water / 2 extra large eggs scrambled with butter, large tomato, large red onion, bag grated cheese
Nescafe ~~~ Pink Lady Apple
Dinner: boil in bag fish in butter sauce, grab of frozen Brussels sprouts, grab of frozen cauliflower / pt water / 6.6 @ 1.07
 
NotWorriedAtAll said:
Don't blame the belly pork - poor old belly pork.

Butter beans + onion + garlic = mostly carbs and quite a bit of sugar.
Leeks and peas = also mostly carbs
honey - well no need even to go into that you know honey is sugar.

If you'd skipped the carby veggies and had maybe celeriac crisps and the green beans or just skipped the beans and peas - you'd have had a much better reading and loads of fat is no problem as long as you don't have carbs with it.

Belly pork is excellent and it did its job and kept you so satiated you didn't need to eat an evening meal.
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Argh and I thought I was doing so well with the low carb thing. So that actually came in towards nearly 80g carbs. Can I cry now? I like leeks and butterbeans.
 
Lol, it's all trial and error, no worries, you'll soon get it down pat I'm sure. I don't even attempt to count carbs, I just hope for the best. 🙄

Is 80g for the day? I thought that was okay.
 
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Lol, it's all trial and error, no worries, you'll soon get it down pat I'm sure. I don't even attempt to count carbs, I just hope for the best. 🙄

Is 80g for the day? I thought that was okay.
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Pretty much but only cos no tea. I'm not properly counting carbs or anything - but getting a feel for what I can cope with. Cutting out the obvious culprits was straightforward - but beans and pulses are proving more tricky. Portion control is by far the biggest challenge - so next butterbean mash - halve the amount on the plate type of stuff and repeat.
 
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@grovesy I quite like mush and juice, with cream on. 🙂

@EllsBells luv that name lol. 🙂 The butterbeans and peas would send me towards the stratosphere, but the belly pork would be fine, I'd never think to weigh that out. I think fat only puts weight on if you mix it with carbs.


Thank you @NotWorriedAtAll but not really me though, circumstances make it imperative that I at least try and stop pigging out.

Weight 14stones 8.2pounds Tum 50
Not long after getting up - 6.5 @ 7.43 / pint water
Brunch: pt water / 2 extra large eggs scrambled with butter, large tomato, large red onion, bag grated cheese
Nescafe ~~~ Pink Lady Apple
Dinner: boil in bag fish in butter sauce, grab of frozen Brussels sprouts, grab of frozen cauliflower / pt water / 6.6 @ 1.07
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Ta! I'm fresh from the diabetes expert book. A portion is the size of a postage stamp or cheese is a match box etc...
 
Ditto said:
@grovesy I quite like mush and juice, with cream on. 🙂

@EllsBells luv that name lol. 🙂 The butterbeans and peas would send me towards the stratosphere, but the belly pork would be fine, I'd never think to weigh that out. I think fat only puts weight on if you mix it with carbs.


Thank you @NotWorriedAtAll but not really me though, circumstances make it imperative that I at least try and stop pigging out.

Weight 14stones 8.2pounds Tum 50
Not long after getting up - 6.5 @ 7.43 / pint water
Brunch: pt water / 2 extra large eggs scrambled with butter, large tomato, large red onion, bag grated cheese
Nescafe ~~~ Pink Lady Apple
Dinner: boil in bag fish in butter sauce, grab of frozen Brussels sprouts, grab of frozen cauliflower / pt water / 6.6 @ 1.07
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I usally have fresh ones and eat them one by one. The last couple of weeks we have had problems getting from Sainsbury's online shopping. Tried frozen berries before and I ended up throughing them out. So ordered frozen as a stop back. Though these could ende up the same way. We thought maybe there was as shortage of fresh ones, but when I went in the Pharmacy last week, other half went into Tesco Local and he got 2 packs of fresh.
 
I'm loving the frozen sour cherries from Lidl at the moment. I have 6 or 7 of them with creamy Greek yoghurt and cocoa and seeds and a sprinkle of nutty granola for breakfast and a sprinkle of milled linseed which I am rather enjoying in/on a few different meals.
 
rebrascora said:
I'm loving the frozen sour cherries from Lidl at the moment. I have 6 or 7 of them with creamy Greek yoghurt and cocoa and seeds and a sprinkle of nutty granola for breakfast and a sprinkle of milled linseed which I am rather enjoying in/on a few different meals.
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Do the cherries turn to mush?
 
They probably hold their shape and texture a little better than raspberries or strawberries but they do release their juice and lose some structure.... it is the nature of berries to do this when frozen. They still contain all their wonderful flavour and nutrients but they will collapse to some extent when they are defrosted. I suppose it depends what you want to use them for as to whether it matters or not. Swirled into yoghurt, I actually prefer them mushy. If you put them in a bowl still frozen and pour over sugar free jelly so that it sets whilst they are still frozen, that helps to preserve their texture as the jelly supports them.
 
rebrascora said:
They probably hold their shape and texture a little better than raspberries or strawberries but they do release their juice and lose some structure.... it is the nature of berries to do this when frozen. They still contain all their wonderful flavour and nutrients but they will collapse to some extent when they are defrosted. I suppose it depends what you want to use them for as to whether it matters or not. Swirled into yoghurt, I actually prefer them mushy. If you put them in a bowl still frozen and pour over sugar free jelly so that it sets whilst they are still frozen, that helps to preserve their texture as the jelly supports them.
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It sounds like it is not for me then, as I use Fage on top of fruit as you would a blob of cream.
 
@grovesy I've never tried it as I don't use frozen but apparently putting them in a cold water bath stops them from turning to mush, could always try it and see if it works xx
 
Kaylz said:
@grovesy I've never tried it as I don't use frozen but apparently putting them in a cold water bath stops them from turning to mush, could always try it and see if it works xx
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The ones I had last week I left them in a container for about 2 hours before tea, I don't understand what a cold water bath is?
 
grovesy said:
The ones I had last week I left them in a container for about 2 hours before tea, I don't understand what a cold water bath is?
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put them in a food bag and then plunge in to a bowl of cold water xx
 
L Chilli, chorizo and cheese omelette
D - Sloppy Joes from Pinch of Nom
 
Weight 14stones 8pounds Tum 50>
Not long after getting up - 7.5 @ 9.04am / pint water
Brunch: cold roast chicken salad with cheesy coleslaw, baby tomatoes and a spoonful of potato salad / pt water with meds
Nescafe and a Pink Lady (to use them up, Mum's false teeth can't hack it).
Dinner: all the rest of the chicken salad and all the rest of the cheesy coleslaw and the potato salad / 2 pts water

It'll be individual portions for family in future, because I can't stop myself eating up all the leftovers! The birds aren't into salad, not even the 'sea' gulls.
 
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