What did you eat yesterday?

[Kaylz]

@Ditto Is it a 250g pot? That’s all I can come across for that brand, so the site I’m on states 2.2g carbs per 100g, so if you eat the whole 250g pot you’d do 2.2 divided by 100 and then multiply by 250g as that’s the amount your consuming so that would give you 5.5g carbs, say if you were eating only 60g then you’d do 2.2 divided by 100 and multiply by 60 so that would give you 1.32g carbs, it’s really that easy and there's nothing to it but a set of scales and a calculator if need be so no mental counting necessary xx

 

[Kaylz]

I quite like Lidl's Deluxe Super Nutty, though not had it for a while. I think they also do a Super Berry one but I have not tried that.

You don't remember the price and carbs information off hand do you? Just I still amen't going out and with my eating disorder it's more difficult as I don't buy things unless I know the carbs and have deemed it "suitable" for my ED xx

 

[grovesy]

I never have low fat anything, absolutely vile especially the cottage cheese. I bought it once by mistake. I went ill after today's cottage cheese with chives, dunno if it was a coincidence, I'm still not that good now, all shaky and stuff like I get if I eat bread. I felt that bad I did my bg, it was 9.3 an hour after eating. Dunno if that's good or bad really. It's supposed to rise by 2 isn't it? I don't have a days' allowance, I can't count. I just hope for the best.

Cottage cheese when were younger was always recommended for slimmers because of it being natural low fat. Personally too tasteless for my palate.

 

[Ditto]

Thank you @Kaylz 🙂 I always eat the entire carton of anything, I think I'm a 'completist.'

5.5 isn't bad is it? I'm not getting the chives one again though.

@grovesy You took me back! When I was an Office Junior at AEI Trafford Park that was always our lunch at noon, small carton cottage cheese and a Ski yogurt. We were always 'slimming' Flipping heck, I wish I was 9stones 3pounds now...

 

[Kaylz]

@Ditto I wouldn't say it's bad at all but you know there are likes on the forum that would spout "that's almost this amount of my daily allowance" it's up to you what you do so....

Are you generally ok with chives? As the nutrition carb wise is exactly the same as the plain one so it could just be coincidence that you felt unwell after it hun xx

 

[Ditto]

Yes, it could be anything, I'm always crook!

Re carbs, I was going off the Atkins Induction where you're allowed 20 carbs a day so I thought 5.5 wasn't bad. I thought 20 was very low so I wasn't bothering really as everybody on the forum seems to eat quite a lot of carbs considering or I've got the wrong end of the stick!

 

[Kaylz]

@Ditto it depends what your eating the rest of the day though, I'm not being pushy or lecturing you but I believe you don't weigh what you are eating so for instance the 2 large tomatoes alone could have been almost 6g carbs, maybe more depending on the type of tomato and the actual weight of them so you can't be certain of how many carbs you are actually consuming, for meals I tend to stick to 30g for brekkie, 45-50g for dinner and then 30g for tea but then I'm different being able to cover it with insulin but with my body being a bit of a mess I don't feel comfortable with changing it as my insulin needs are different on a daily basis just now it seems but as I'm busy dealing with cleaning a lot then I don't have time to treat lows or anything so try to stick the same but I had almost 50g carbs un-injected for at bedtime last night and was still fine this morning xx

 

[Leadinglights]

From what I gather from people here is it really depends on whether you are Type 1 or 2 or indeed any of the other variations and your individual tolerance when it comes to the amount of carbs you can have. Type 1 although it does seem to be quite tricky to manage have the 'luxury' of being able to compensate for higher carbs by adjusting the insulin. With Type 2 it seems more hit and miss as to what foods you can tolerate without pushing up blood glucose.

 

[Lucyr]

From what I gather from people here is it really depends on whether you are Type 1 or 2 or indeed any of the other variations and your individual tolerance when it comes to the amount of carbs you can have. Type 1 although it does seem to be quite tricky to manage have the 'luxury' of being able to compensate for higher carbs by adjusting the insulin. With Type 2 it seems more hit and miss as to what foods you can tolerate without pushing up blood glucose.

This is why I am happy being on basal bolus insulin and don’t want to go back to tablets. The tablets rarely worked for me, and it was very hit and miss whether they’d decide to work on any given day or not. The same foods could give wildly different results on different days based on what mood my pancreas was in it seemed! Insulin is still unpredictable at times, but my bgs are way more stable injecting the insulin than with taking tablets to encourage my body to make a random amount more insulin with no correlation to what I ate. I also have the benefit of being able to eat a moderate carb diet which works better for my stomach issues.

 

[silentsquirrel]

You don't remember the price and carbs information off hand do you? Just I still amen't going out and with my eating disorder it's more difficult as I don't buy things unless I know the carbs and have deemed it "suitable" for my ED xx

Sorry, thought I still had some in the cupboard, but if I have it's well hidden behind/under other stuff......
No memory at all of the carbs, but think it was around £1.69/£1.79 for 500g, so way cheaper than Dorset. If it was relatively pricy I wouldn't have been buying it! They occasionally do it as one of their Super Weekend reductions, worth looking out for on their website.

 

[Kaylz]

have the 'luxury'

I'm glad you put it this way as insulin is certainly not that much of a luxury, it's necessity to stay alive and comes with it's own bigger problems xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Thank you @Kaylz 🙂 I always eat the entire carton of anything, I think I'm a 'completist.'

5.5 isn't bad is it? I'm not getting the chives one again though.

I'm a completist too Ditto! 5.5 doesn't seem bad to me either - the chives one has the same carbs as the natural one.
I worked out the carbs because it said 2.2 per 100 and 250 is two and a half times 100 which is 2.2 twice and 1.1 once which makes 5.5. I can't do complicated sums like multiply by sixty so I need to find easy ways to work stuff out!

I made a booboo today

I made proper French bread rolls for my husband and you can guess what's coming next...
I tried a little weeny bit just to taste - and now my blood sugar is 9.7and I think that is after it was higher because I was putting off checking because I didn't want to know.

So now for drinking loads of water and weeing a lot and doing lots of exercise just to get back to where I started. Also scared to eat anything else in case I make it go higher again.
Tomorrow I will tackle making keto French bread so I don't get tempted again. It wasn't even as nice as the croissants I made the other day and I ate one and a half big ones of those but they were keto ingredients and had no effect on my blood sugar at all. Amazing the difference it makes.

 

[Kaylz]

Sorry, thought I still had some in the cupboard, but if I have it's well hidden behind/under other stuff......
No memory at all of the carbs, but think it was around £1.69/£1.79 for 500g, so way cheaper than Dorset. If it was relatively pricy I wouldn't have been buying it! They occasionally do it as one of their Super Weekend reductions, worth looking out for on their website.

Thanks but you didn't even have to try and find some! LOL xx

 

[Newbie777]

@Newbie777 sorry to be rude here but you may want to go canny on the cheese consumption, you mentioned that you didn't want many eggs due to it aiding constipation, cheese can have exactly the same effect unfortunately xx

Hello Kaylz,

Please don't apologise, you have not done anything wrong

Yes, I have now cut back back on my cheese consumption I was on about 150g a day minimum, now about 50 to 70g a day and also no more than 2 eggs a day.

Also I now look at alternative snacks that are good and not too dry too like full fat Greek yogurt with Blueberries

 

[Newbie777]

B- usual
L - Chicken grilled with boiled egg salad
T - homemade spicy seekh kebabs (using lamb mince meat, cooked on grill) 3 pieces with salad. Nb, BG did not spike well.

Snacks not had much as trying to get fasting read below 6.0...so a few walnuts, 30g of cheese but checked this morning and it is 4.9!

 

[Leadinglights]

I'm glad you put it this way as insulin is certainly not that much of a luxury, it's necessity to stay alive and comes with it's own bigger problems xx

Sorry, I certainly didn't mean to imply that it was easy if you are on insulin, anything but. I do have a habit of putting my big foot in it sometimes. I am amazed how well people cope with a regime that needs constant adjustment.

 

[rebrascora]

@Kaylz
Between @silentsquirrel and myself we will get you the info. as I too use the Lidl Deluxe Super Nutty Granola. It is 58.5g carbs/100g. I used to weigh it out and have it with yoghurt and berries but now I am a bit more lax and just have a sprinkle on the top of my yoghurt, berries and seeds. I haven't tried the Super Berry version as I was interested in the lowest carb they sold, which is probably a contradiction in thought process when I then have it with defrosted frozen berries 🙄
I agree that the price is probably about £1.79 for 500g

 

[Kaylz]

@rebrascora thanks for that, much appreciated! After years of porridge I'm getting a little fed up of it! But as I say budget is away to become even tighter for keeping myself fed so cheap is the only option but I like being able to pot things up etc in advance as any touching things as you know involves a rather long session at the bathroom sink and I do enough of that through the day without it at 7am! lol xx

 

[Catherine Lindsay]

Hi all I have a question, for a long while now way before diagnosis I've not been able to finish my meals. I have had explorative stomach appointments in the past and all has been OK. Is it possible that this has been a diabetes symptom? For instance last nite I had a pouch of wholegrain rice and a serving spoon of quorn curry v mild and I could only eat half of it. Xx

 

[rebrascora]

Aren't those pouches generally supposed to contain 2 servings? Apologies if the one you are using is just a single serving but it is very easy to lose sight of what a portion is and many of us found once we started looking more closely at labels and carbohydrate content that we had been eating quite shocking amounts and not thinking anything of it.
Having said that, I very much doubt it is the diabetes which is causing you to struggle with eating it all. You would however generally be better off eating more of the curry sauce and much less of the rice. On the rare occasions that I eat rice, I limit myself to 2 dessert spoons which is usually just enough to mop up the juice from the chinese or curry.