What did you eat yesterday?

[Eddy Edson]

I've made a huge change to my diet - now adding a bit of rockmelon (cantaloupe to you) to my breakfast. Such an outlaw 🙂

Anyway:

B - Bowl with strawberries, rockmelon, walnuts, slice of pumpernickel broken up, lots of lemon juice. Extra big soy flat white with 30g of chia seeds.

L - Blackberries and lemon juce. Medium soy flat white with 30g of chia seeds.

D - Salad with edamame, leaves, avocado, pear, sugar snap peas, lots of lemon juice. Soy-isolate protein pwder in water (I get little signs from my blood tests etc that I could do with increasing protein a bit so I've been adding this in too.)

Snacking: Lots of almonds, a carrot, a nectarine (stone fruit season here, have to make the most of it). Trying to remember to drink more water, thirsty or not.

 

[RirisR]

Today usual breakfast of weetabix and yoghurt
Lunch 2 slices of livlife bread with cheese and a portion of celeriac chips
Tea Home made chicken curry with cauli rice and jelly meringue and yog
water etc.

 

[Lucyr]

Today I had

Breakfast: 2 ingredient banana and egg pancakes

lunch: small jacket potato with cottage cheese and salad

dinner: Mediterranean veg and squash slice with carrots

 

[Ditto]

Evening all. Had a very busy then very lazy day. Went for my jab, lied to a few of the questions, and was in and out really. Didn't even feel it. Bit of a hassle trying to leave when I was pulling a door for ages when it was a push door. Doh!

I then got a bit of exercise walking in the dastardly cold back up to the shops, got all I wanted for just under £20, I luvs Quality Save. I got tub Cottage Cheese, packet Mushrooms, 2 packets Bacon unsmoked, dozen Eggs, 3 tins Tuna, 1 crusty farmhouse loaf for Mum, packet of Tomatoes on the vine, 2 boxes Whiskas (fish and poultry), large jar Hellmans mayo, forgotten what else, so I had £6 left for a black cab as I just missed the bus. Sorted!

Weight 14 9.6 Tum <50 my tum never really goes down now and won't I don't think. Horrid.
Not long after getting up - 7.6 @ 7.36am / carton cottage cheese / pint water with meds
Brunch: pt water / bowl mince and tomatoes / Snack: Ryvita with Philly thickly spread on it mmm
Dinner: Miami chicken and fries with gravy (like KFC) with family, a treat but I was forcing myself to eat it so took most home saying I'd have it for supper and didn't, but ruined this sensible move by finishing off some apple crumble left in a foil container on the side, but I did pour single cream over it to minimise the damage (who am I kidding, it was divine with the cream!)

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Evening all. Had a very busy then very lazy day. Went for my jab, lied to a few of the questions, and was in and out really. Didn't even feel it. Bit of a hassle trying to leave when I was pulling a door for ages when it was a push door. Doh!

I then got a bit of exercise walking in the dastardly cold back up to the shops, got all I wanted for just under £20, I luvs Quality Save. I got tub Cottage Cheese, packet Mushrooms, 2 packets Bacon unsmoked, dozen Eggs, 3 tins Tuna, 1 crusty farmhouse loaf for Mum, packet of Tomatoes on the vine, 2 boxes Whiskas (fish and poultry), large jar Hellmans mayo, forgotten what else, so I had £6 left for a black cab as I just missed the bus. Sorted!

Weight 14 9.6 Tum <50 my tum never really goes down now and won't I don't think. Horrid.
Not long after getting up - 7.6 @ 7.36am / carton cottage cheese / pint water with meds
Brunch: pt water / bowl mince and tomatoes / Snack: Ryvita with Philly thickly spread on it mmm
Dinner: Miami chicken and fries with gravy (like KFC) with family, a treat but I was forcing myself to eat it so took most home saying I'd have it for supper and didn't, but ruined this sensible move by finishing off some apple crumble left in a foil container on the side, but I did pour single cream over it to minimise the damage (who am I kidding, it was divine with the cream!)

Lied?
They would stick a vaccine in you if you said you from Mars.

 

[Kaylz]

Yesterday
B - same as every other day
D - wholemeal spicy chorizo sandwich, nature valley protein blueberry & almond soft bake and a pint of water
mug of cafetiere coffee
T - king prawn, mozzarella and spring onion omelette, baby potatoes, steamed broccoli, 2 squares Lidl 95% and a pint of water
mug of coffee
bedtime - 4 oaties and a digestive biscuit, levels have been very unpredictable since I did my injection and didn't feel comfortable at all going to bed on 5.2, woke to 7.5 so not overly bad considering xx

 

[Newbie777]

Killed it yesterday, mind you it's been 2 weeks keeping to strict low carb diet

B- 1 piece of Burgen Toast with peanut butter, 1 boiled egg and cup of tea.
L- 1 very large Kobeda kebeb (lamb mince meat) made in the Tandoor (kiln) with salad, resisted usual naan bread and fries!
T- Sardine in tomato sauce with salad.
S- 4 Spicy lamb chops.
Snacks, 1 cracker with cheese, some walnuts-no apple.
Treat- My wife's birthday, so 3 spoons of Victoria sponge cake, not the icing part.
Best news is that my reads kept within levels, slightly high this morning at 6.7, but will def do this again!

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Yesterday - a bits and pieces day because I was working on perfecting a keto recipe for croissants.

So I had thin slices of keto bread and butter and cheese slices and ham slices with hot sauce and gherkins during the day and had four small pots of no sugar jelly in total.

I conquered the keto croissants by using a modified version of the white bread recipe and following a modification of the classic lamination technique and got this result:



I made them for breakfast today and my husband agreed they were better than some 'real' croissants we'd bought from supermarket bakeries and similar to ones we've had in France! So I am a happy bunny.

 

[Ditto]

Lied? They would stick a vaccine in you if you said you from Mars.

Weight 14 9.4 Tum <50
Not long after getting up - 7.6 @ 9.15am / pint water
Brunch @ 12: large can tuna, eggs scrambled with olive oil, melted cheese over, garlics / pint water with meds
Dinner @ 6: pint water / bacon, fried eggs, melted cheese / pint water
Who else eats a whole bag of cheese in one day?

I hate how greedy I am.

 

[Newbie777]

Weight 14 9.4 Tum <50
Not long after getting up - 7.6 @ 9.15am / pint water
Brunch @ 12: large can tuna, eggs scrambled with olive oil, melted cheese over, garlics / pint water with meds
Dinner @ 6: pint water / bacon, fried eggs, melted cheese / pint water
Who else eats a whole bag of cheese in one day?

I hate how greedy I am.

I think I may also be guilty

Easy as it is the smaller 150g packet and used in part of my main meals and snacks, but very moreish and worth it.

 

[Leadinglights]

Breakfast fried egg, bacon and mushrooms, thin slice toast
Lunch Home made soup, Ryvita thin with ham, celery, red pepper, cheese, few nuts
Dinner Tuna steak, creamed spinach (from Keto Kitchen book) pepper and tomato salad, sugarfree jelly and cream.
1 square dark choc
During day - 4 cups coffee and 2 cups tea, 2 glasses flavoured sparkling water.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Weight 14 9.4 Tum <50
Not long after getting up - 7.6 @ 9.15am / pint water
Brunch @ 12: large can tuna, eggs scrambled with olive oil, melted cheese over, garlics / pint water with meds
Dinner @ 6: pint water / bacon, fried eggs, melted cheese / pint water
Who else eats a whole bag of cheese in one day?

I hate how greedy I am.

This hating how greedy you are is probably the set of the problem.
Do not hate yourself for anything.
Hating yourself sets up a huge feedback loop where you feel bad about yourself for eating something and the feeling bad makes you feel you need comforting and that makes you feel like eating some more for comfort. Plus hating yourself makes you feel like you are not worth nice things - like feeling good about yourself and it also then makes you feel you might as well overeat because you are greedy anyway.

You are not greedy.
You ate a bag of cheese.
I eat packs of cheese (plural) in a day as long as it is cheese that is very low carb it isn't a problem for my blood sugars. I'm guessing it isn't bad for you either.

I wonder if maybe you could focus on a month of just eating to keep your blood sugar down and stop bothering about the weight? Just to give you a rest from this feeling of failure thing.

Because you should be feeling proud of that day not bad about it. It was a good day from where I'm looking - very low carb intake. A very good day. Well done you xxx

 

[Deleted member 21371]

This hating how greedy you are is probably the set of the problem.
Do not hate yourself for anything.
Hating yourself sets up a huge feedback loop where you feel bad about yourself for eating something and the feeling bad makes you feel you need comforting and that makes you feel like eating some more for comfort. Plus hating yourself makes you feel like you are not worth nice things - like feeling good about yourself and it also then makes you feel you might as well overeat because you are greedy anyway.

You are not greedy.
You ate a bag of cheese.
I eat packs of cheese (plural) in a day as long as it is cheese that is very low carb it isn't a problem for my blood sugars. I'm guessing it isn't bad for you either.

I wonder if maybe you could focus on a month of just eating to keep your blood sugar down and stop bothering about the weight? Just to give you a rest from this feeling of failure thing.

Because you should be feeling proud of that day not bad about it. It was a good day from where I'm looking - very low carb intake. A very good day. Well done you xxx

There is more to a diet than simply eating anything and in any quantity, and only considering BG.
Many of us eat a healthy diet, watch the quantities, and enjoy the benefits that brings to our overall health.
If I overeat, I simply put on weight, so I do need to watch what I eat for many reasons,
You may have a different opinion, which is fine, but it's my personal responsibility to look after myself, and if I recognise I overeat one day, I simply cut down on the next.
My weight is important, I concentrated on reducing it, reversed my diabetes, so I don't actually need to laser focus on BG, in fact I don't at all, because I now have a normal response because of the weight reduction.
I focus on eating healthy food, including carbs, and that's all I need to do.

Brunch Sausage, bacon, fried egg, mushrooms, tomato, muffins
Lunch Pate and muffin
Dinner, (will be) Pate stuffed mushrooms, Steak, potatoes, pepper and mushroom sauce, cheese and biscuits, and a bottle of champagne.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

There is more to a diet than simply eating anything and in any quantity, and only considering BG.
Many of us eat a healthy diet, watch the quantities, and enjoy the benefits that brings to our overall health.
If I overeat, I simply put on weight, so I do need to watch what I eat for many reasons,
You may have a different opinion, which is fine, but it's my personal responsibility to look after myself, and if I recognise I overeat one day, I simply cut down on the next.
My weight is important, I concentrated on reducing it, reversed my diabetes, so I don't actually need to laser focus on BG, in fact I don't at all, because I now have a normal response because of the weight reduction.
I focus on eating healthy food, including carbs, and that's all I need to do.

Brunch Sausage, bacon, fried egg, mushrooms, tomato, muffins
Lunch Pate and muffin
Dinner, (will be) Pate stuffed mushrooms, Steak, potatoes, pepper and mushroom sauce, cheese and biscuits, and a bottle of champagne.

I wasn't suggesting everyone should focus only on BG I was just suggesting it as an experiment in the very short term for Ditto as a way of maybe helping her with a very specific issue. Glad you have found a way to deal with your diabetes. I ate healthily for decades - ate proper quantities and followed all the advice and dieted etc and I developed diabetes because for me that wasn't suitable. We are all different. It has been shown that some people can eat exactly the same diet and do the same amount of exercise and some of them will gain weight and some won't. Individuals have different responses to different foods and ways of eating and exercising.

I just don't think beating ourselves up about how we eat is kind or helpful to our long term health. I think being kinder to ourselves is the way to move forward.

 

[Lucyr]

Today’s diet was a bit low on veg:

Brunch: 2 bacon on Hovis whole meal, coffee
Snack: the ends of some cookies I baked that needed taste testing..
Dinner: steak and homemade sweet potato fries
Snack: Galaxy light hot chocolate with squirty cream

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Today’s diet was a bit low on veg:

Brunch: 2 bacon on Hovis whole meal, coffee
Snack: the ends of some cookies I baked that needed taste testing..
Dinner: steak and homemade sweet potato fries
Snack: Galaxy light hot chocolate with squirty cream

That's such a good menu. Squirty cream is so good too

 

[Lucyr]

That's such a good menu. Squirty cream is so good too

I was very restrained on the cookies! Didn’t try a whole one, just a few of the rejected odds and ends. Was down half a kilo this morning which was quite motivating to not go overboard as I had been the same weight every day for a while. Squirty cream is one of those things that feels indulgent but doesn’t actually have many calories or impact blood sugar much

 

[Leadinglights]

Breakfast bacon, tomatoes, scrambled egg, skinny slice toast
Lunch half tin mackerel in tom sauce, 1 ryvita, celery, cucumber, red pepper, half pear, few nuts
Dinner pork steak, salad, potato salad with cheese ( I have to use up my crop of potatoes somehow, typically my allotment yielded better than ever), jelly and cream.
1 square dark choc
4 cups coffee, 2 cups tea, 2 glasses flavoured fizzy water

 

[Ditto]

Thanks for all the input guys.

Valentine's Day... couldn't get the front door open to bring the milk in, it was blocked with envelopes, yeah right.
Weight 14 9.8 Tum 49 1/2
Not long after getting up - 7.1 @ 5.56am / pint water / Nescafe / tub cottage cheese (I love the stuff, not sure if should have it though as it wasn't allowed when I tried to do Atkins that time... high carb?)
Brunch @ 12: bacon and fried eggs (wonder who first put these together and thank you!) / pint water with meds
Dinner @ 4: brown sauce, gammon and fried eggs (maybe too many eggs today) / pint water / large can tuna with mayo and 2 salted tomatoes (for no other reason than I wanted to chomp agh) / 7.1 @ 21.50

 

[Newbie777]

B- 1 Burgen toast,1 boiled egg and a cup of Tea.
L- Cauliflower curry with salad.
T - Chicken with Nandos sauce, boiled egg and salad
S- 3 Chicken nuggets.

Snacks, 1 cracker and cheese, more cheese, 1 piece dark chocolate and walnuts.