What did you eat yesterday?

[Leadinglights]

B: Greek yoghurt, mixed berries, scattering Lizi's low sugar granola
L: homemade Broccoli and Rochefort soup (much better with Stilton but didn't have any) ryvita thin, pastrami, celery, half apple.
D: barbeque spare ribs, salad, half a bread roll, stewed apple and half tub quark desert.
Drinks as usual

 

[Leadinglights]

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

Does it matter if you are not finishing what is on your plate? Maybe you are putting too much out for your appetite. It depends if you are then feeling hungry later. In the days when we could actually go out for meals, it was very off putting if the portion was just too big, it was overwhelming. So try smaller portion on your plate, you can go back for more if you still feel able to. You could try smaller amounts of a bigger variety of foods on your plate.

 

[Catherine Lindsay]

No its certainly doesn't and its a good thing as I'm losing weight. I was just wondering if it was a T2 thing. Xxx

 

[Catherine Lindsay]

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.

Ahhh good points thank you ill check the pouches as I hadn't even though that they might be 2 servings!!!

 

[rebrascora]

@Catherine Lindsay The ones I have say it in the nutritional information table on the back. It gives nutritional info per serving (half the contents). I was quite surprised that I couldn't find it displayed more prominently anywhere else on the labelling.

 

[Leadinglights]

The Tilda rice sachets are 250g and say on the front per 125g portion but only give sugars in the traffic light info, as you say the carbs are on the back. A typical one is 28g carb per 125g serving i.e. half the sachet. So a whole sachet would be quite a big portion and quite a lot of carbs (my total per day amount).

 

[Ditto]

I'm in a rush, trying to post before midnight! 🙂 I'm all behind! Many a true word...

Weight 14 8.2 Tum 49
Not long after getting up - 6.5 @ 6.37am / pint water / Nescafe
Brunch: pint water/ carton Longley Farm cottage cheese with chives / pint water with meds / 9.3 @ noon
(I measured my bg as I came over unnecessary, ill, dunno if cottage cheese or not.)
Dinner: pint water / large can salmon and pkt microwave cabbage / pint water / 6.9 @ 21.09

I was full to bursting, just no need to be so greedy... what I think of as healthy food but just too much! The pkt cabbage said four servings and the salmon would have served a family of five in the 1930s!! 🙄

 

[Kaylz]

Yesterday
B - as per
D - wholemeal German peppered salami sandwich and a strawberry Barny sponge bear, pint of water
mug of cafetiere
T - king prawn, spring onion and mozzarella omelette, baby potatoes, steamed broccoli and 2 squares Lidl's 95%, pint of water
mug of coffee
bedtime - 5 digestives and half a pint of water

Today
B - you guessed it
D - same sandwich, Cadbury's raspberry mini roll and a pint of water
mug of cafetiere coffee
T - quarter of a smoked sausage, quarter of a spicy smoked sausage, baby potatoes, roasted sprouts, large dollop of mayo, 1 square Lidl 95% and a pint of water
mug of coffee
We'll see whether biscuits are required
xx

 

[Ditto]

Weight 14 8.4 Tum 50
Not long after getting up - 6.3 @ 5.16am / pint water / Nescafe
Brunch: pint water/ bowl tinned apricot halves, 3 eggs scrambled with Anchor butter / pint water with meds
Snack: pkt mozzarella and pepperoni (round discs of cheese and meat at the bus-stop in an effort to stop me getting hungry and pigging out later... didn't work!)
Dinner: 2 Nescafes / huge bowl cold pasta and pesto @ 4ish / pint water / 9.6 @ 18.53
Supper: 2 pork chops / 7.2 @ 22.56 (my jaws never stop do they?)

 

[Leadinglights]

B: fried egg, mushrooms, desert spoon beans, skinny slice toast
L: broccoli and Rochefort soup, ryvita, ham celery, cheese, half apple
D: stir fry veg with duck, small sweetcorn cob. stewed apple and cream
Drinks as usual

 

[Lucyr]

I’m feeling totally burnt out this last few days by lockdown and life (work etc) and it’s affecting my diet. Not sure how to get back into being able to face cooking and eating properly.

yesterday
Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled on 1 toast
Lunch: ham salad roll and a small slice of quiche
Dinner: turkey salad sandwich with coleslaw and quavers (I got as far as cauliflower cheese coming out of the oven and just not being able to face eating it)

 

[Leadinglights]

B: greek yoghurt and berries with scattering All Bran
L: half tin mackerel in tom sauce, ryvita, cucumber, red pepper, cheese, half pear
D: salmon, brocolli and spinach in creamy sauce, red pepper and tomato salad, jelly with berries and quark topping
Usual drinks, 1 liqueur choc

 

[Ditto]

@Lucyr I'm so sorry you're feeling badly, just keep going, there's light at the end of the tunnel now with the vacs and everything. They've just sent Mum a letter telling her to shield, I don't quite get that because she's had the first jab, surely we're safer now? I know nothing!

Weight 14 7.0 Tum 49 1/2
Not long after getting up - 7.4 @ 8.32am / pint water /
Brunch: pork chop, sprouts, gravy @ 11 (dinner left over from last night, I can't waste anything).
Snack: pint water/ large can tuna with mayo / pint water with meds / 1 medium orange (my sister gave it to me so I ate it).
Dinner: pint water / 2 battered fish (not chippy, like a breadcrumb coating) with mayo, 3 fried eggs

 

[RirisR]

B Avocado and a yoghurt
L 2 slices of livlife egg and bacon small sliced apple
D 2 small pieces of chicken breast mediteranean veg
raspberries in jelly and squirty cream
snacks Olives and stick of cheese and some pastrami ham

 

[Newbie777]

B- big change ditched toast! Full fat Greek yogurt and Blueberries, 1 boiled egg.
L- Grilled chicken with humus salad and 2 falafels.
T - Lamb and Okra curry, with salad.

Snacks- zilch!

 

[Newbie777]

I’m feeling totally burnt out this last few days by lockdown and life (work etc) and it’s affecting my diet. Not sure how to get back into being able to face cooking and eating properly.

yesterday
Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled on 1 toast
Lunch: ham salad roll and a small slice of quiche
Dinner: turkey salad sandwich with coleslaw and quavers (I got as far as cauliflower cheese coming out of the oven and just not being able to face eating it)

Hello Lucyr,

It must be really hard, hope it gets better for you very soon x

 

[Lucyr]

Hello Lucyr,

It must be really hard, hope it gets better for you very soon x

I’m just picking out a new recipe to try tonight to get my mojo back for cooking. Looking at a creamy garlic chicken recipe

 

[Leadinglights]

late breakfast: fried egg, bacon, mushrooms, skinny toast
No lunch
Snack: 2 chedders, quarter nature valley prot bar
Dinner: sausage and veg casserole, salad, jelly and quark
Usual drinks, square dark choc

 

[Ditto]

Fascinating how we all have the same or similar conditions yet eat such different things. I wouldn't know quark if I fell over it in the dark.

Weight 14 7.8 Tum 50
Not long after getting up - 7.5 @ 4.09am / pint water / Nescafe
Brunch: pint water / 3 rashers bacon and 2 very large fried eggs / pt water with meds
Snack: 1 medium orange
Dinner: pint water / lg can tuna with mayo, Brussels sprouts / pint water / a very small portion of pea and ham soup

 

[Leadinglights]

Fascinating how we all have the same or similar conditions yet eat such different things. I wouldn't know quark if I fell over it in the dark.

Weight 14 7.8 Tum 50
Not long after getting up - 7.5 @ 4.09am / pint water / Nescafe
Brunch: pint water / 3 rashers bacon and 2 very large fried eggs / pt water with meds
Snack: 1 medium orange
Dinner: pint water / lg can tuna with mayo, Brussels sprouts / pint water / a very small portion of pea and ham soup

Quark is a bit like fromage frais, the one I found is from ASDA Lindahls Kvargand although low fat is only 5.1g carb for 150g pot but high protein 17g per pot, there is raspberry and white chocolate and maybe blueberry.
I have noticed you do drink a lot of water, I can't drink that much in one go. I probably don't really drink enough. Do you have any other things to drink?