What did you eat yesterday?

[Barfly]

I don't know what your blood glucose levels are but your meals except for lunch are very carb heavy with muesli, toast, then a banana and beans on toast also high carb.

@Leadinglights I was hesitant to post, but honesty is the best policy. I eat the same breakfast every day, I thought I was being so good, removing the cornflakes and weetbix with lashings of fresh cream and 3 spoonfuls of white sugar I used to have. I haven't had a proper dessert, chocolate, sweet or bit of cake or ice cream since diagnosis. I've had about 20 strawberries and rasberries in the month. I've only been diagnosed for a month and have had no guidance whatsoever - no input from any professional other than looking at this forum. I am supposed to see the diabetic nursie Monday. Her mind won't be on the job as apparently she's getting married on Saturday....... I thought bananas were good? Lots of potassium and other stuff.....Baked Beans are supposed to be a super food, now I'm really confused...I think I'll have half a bottle of scotch tonight and stuff it.

 

[Leadinglights]

@Leadinglights I was hesitant to post, but honesty is the best policy. I eat the same breakfast every day, I thought I was being so good, removing the cornflakes and weetbix with lashings of fresh cream and 3 spoonfuls of white sugar I used to have. I haven't had a proper dessert, chocolate, sweet or bit of cake or ice cream since diagnosis. I've had about 20 strawberries and rasberries in the month. I've only been diagnosed for a month and have had no guidance whatsoever - no input from any professional other than looking at this forum. I am supposed to see the diabetic nursie Monday. Her mind won't be on the job as apparently she's getting married on Saturday....... I thought bananas were good? Lots of potassium and other stuff.....Baked Beans are supposed to be a super food, now I'm really confused...I think I'll have half a bottle of scotch tonight and stuff it.

Sorry that was a bit of a downer on your choices, so enjoy your Scotch. Essentially diabetics have a problem in tolerating carbohydrates which include bread, potatoes, rice, pasta, cakes, biscuits, pastry and starchy veg and tropical fruits like bananas and sugary drinks but proteins and fat cause no problem. Many people therefore restrict their intake of these foods. Breakfast is something people find difficult but good things to have are eggs in any form, with bacon, high meat content sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, some people can tolerate a thin slice of bread or toast or they may have full fat Greek yoghurt with maybe a small amount of low sugar cereal like granola or All Bran with berries as these are the lowest carb fruits.
A good desert would be berries with cream or zero sugar jelly with cream.
For light meals then cooked meat, tuna boiled eggs or cheese and salad with coleslaw are good options.
Stirfries are good meals and low carb.
Sadly many foods considered to be 'healthy' are not so good for good blood glucose management, but there are lots of things you can eat.
You might find the book Carbs and Cals useful for giving you carb values of many foods and meals.

 

[Kaylz]

Today
B - super berry granola and Greek yoghurt, mug of coffee
D - milano salami wholemeal sandwich, chunky PB kit kat, pint of water
mug of cafetiere coffee
T - king prawn, mozzarella and spring onion omelette, baby potatoes, cauliflower then a bowl of strawberries with double cream, pint of blueberry & blackberry diluting
mug of coffee
xx

 

[goodybags]

Saturday
B - 1 Slice of Wholemeal Toast Buttered & Sugarfree Marmalade
1/2 Apple

L - Cheese Salad, Shredded Crispy Lettuce,Finely Chopped Celerry,1/2 Apple,Thinly Sliced Carrot, Slithers of Cucumber, topped with Quartered Walnuts, Mayo, Halfed Walnuts, Chia & Flaxseeds.

D - ChickenTika Breast (AirFred) Sliced Setved on a Mixed Salad of Shredded Lettuce, Chopped Tomatoes, Diced Carrot, Dressed with Greek Yoghurt & Chopped Mint, Sprinkled with Chia seeds.

Quite Surprisingly I’m enjoying some of the salads I’m eating
cooked up some Lamb in the Slow cooker overnight - ready meals for the freezer (used Lamb Shoulder, Liver & Heart -Tesco didn’t have Kidneys)

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Yesterday 24/7/2021
Breakfast
1 croissant with melted cheese on - different to my usual of 2 rounds of toast
Lunch
Batchelors beef & tomato cup a soup
Sandwich - 2 rounds of warburtons medium white sliced and 2 chicken with herb slices
1 25g bag of walkers ready salted crisps
Tea
Margherita pizza - ate out

 

[Gwynn]

Well I'm onto a feast today

Breakfast...............All Bran (10g), Shreddies (10g), banana (50g), milk (50g) all in 131Cals, 22.9g Carbs
Morning snack.....Pear (150g) all in 69Cals, 15g Carbs
Lunch....................Prawns (70g), Cucumber (100g), sauce (20g) all in 132Cals, 6.2g Carbs
Afternoon snack..M&S Eclair (44g) all in 172 Cals, 12.7g Carbs (Treat)
Tea....................... Chicken (100g), Green Beans (100g), Mushrooms (100g), Butter (10g) all in 302 Cals, 3.4g Carbs
Evening Snack.....Raspberries (100g) all in 52 Cals, 11.9 Carbs
Night....................Strawberries (150g), Salted Peanuts (15g) all in 129 Cals, 10.9 Carbs

Day totals Consumed 1055 Cals, Carbs 89.8g
Exercise Cals burned 280 Cals
Weight maintenance Cals requirement 1450 Cals

Overall calorie excess/deficit = shortfall of 625 Calories (intended)

Other day totals Protein 60.8g, Fibre 33.5g, All Fats 38g, Sat Fats 14.5g, Salt 3.5g, Cholesterol 198mg, Fruit/veg portions 11.4.

Day sum of Glycaemic Loads 39.6 (not sure if this is a legitimate way of looking at GL across a day)

Of course it all assumes that I have got my sums right. Can't be too far off as things seem to track predictions well.

But what a feast.

Although I have a weight goal of 57Kg I have kind of changed it to 55Kg as that gives me a bit of breathing room to 57Kg. Besides I like the roundness of 55.

Whoops that is all the meals for today not yesterday. Ah well.

 

[Kaylz]

@Gwynn what kind of raspberries were they? Or have you got the weight you had wrong? Just 100g raspberries have just under 5g carbs

 

[Gwynn]

Hi I got the info from the fatsecret web site and a general internet double check.

The ones I buy from M&S don't have the info on the pack, but I never thought to check on their Ocado website and sure enough, just checked, 4.6g Carbs in 100g of raspberries.

Its a bit difficult to know if all the information is correct. So thanks for the heads up. I will correct things. Might take a while.

Still, its good news as the carbs are less

 

[Kaylz]

@Gwynn hence why I personally don't trust the websites or apps lol as it could be dangerous for those on insulin but yes great that they are lower carb than what you thought! xx

 

[Leadinglights]

B scrambled egg and smoked salmon
L cooked meat, cheese, salad, ryvita thins, half apple
D stirfry with halloumi, courgette, green beans, onion, pepper, mushrooms-., berries and quark and seeds.
Square of dark choc

 

[Gwynn]

I have just done a quick trawl of the internet and their seems to be at least several possible answers to how many grams of carbs in 100g of raspberries. Might depend of the type.

Lowest was ASDA at 4g
Then Sainsburys at 4.4g
M&S at 4.6g
Dietdoctor website at 5g
Freecaloriediet web site at 9g
Fatsecret at 11.9g
Verywellfit web site at 14.7g
The Rasberry web site at 14.7g
Nutrition value web site at 15g

I bet theres some that are higher.

It never crossed my mind that it might not be right as so many web site state pretty much the same and I was trusting Fatsecret. But then those site may not mention the type

Oh well, close, but no cigar (hate the things anyway, cigars, not the raspberries)

 

[Kaylz]

@Gwynn I would imagine some of the sites you mentioned are US based in which case the Fibre content won't have been deducted from the carb total like the UK does xx

 

[Gwynn]

Now I understand.

Just been on a web site 'healthline' where they quote values for 123g of raspberries.

Converting to 100g we get

11.95g carbs

But then they go on...

11.95g of total carbs, 6.5g non digestable carbs (ie Fibre), and 5.4g of digestible carbs.

Doh the Fatsecret web site and others may have british and American values intermixed. Not sure but the difference is new explained.

I have changed my database and will be trebble checking the whole thing now.

You say potato and I say cucumber !! Nah, not good words to a song. Needs some work.

I am more enlightened now, thanks

 

[silentsquirrel]

I have just done a quick trawl of the internet and their seems to be at least several possible answers to how many grams of carbs in 100g of raspberries. Might depend of the type.

Lowest was ASDA at 4g
Then Sainsburys at 4.4g
M&S at 4.6g
Dietdoctor website at 5g
Freecaloriediet web site at 9g
Fatsecret at 11.9g
Verywellfit web site at 14.7g
The Rasberry web site at 14.7g
Nutrition value web site at 15g

I bet theres some that are higher.

It never crossed my mind that it might not be right as so many web site state pretty much the same and I was trusting Fatsecret. But then those site may not mention the type

Oh well, close, but no cigar (hate the things anyway, cigars, not the raspberries)

Fatsecret is an American site, so the carbs includes fibER, which you need to subtract to get net carbs. Best to stick to UK sites where fibRE is listed separately, hence the different values.

 

[silentsquirrel]

Posts crossed!

 

[Gwynn]

Yes, thanks, whoops, a bit of work to do. Still its all in the right direction.

It just never dawned on me cos the things that I double checked seemed ok.

We live and learn. Trouble is, there is so much to learn.

I'll go and stand in the corner for a bit and cry.

 

[silentsquirrel]

Yes, thanks, whoops, a bit of work to do. Still its all in the right direction.

It just never dawned on me cos the things that I double checked seemed ok.

We live and learn. Trouble is, there is so much to learn.

I'll go and stand in the corner for a bit and cry.

Perhaps the things you checked were all low in fibre, so little difference. Easiest way to check the origin of the site is to look how they spell fibre - fibre means UK, but USA spells it fiber.

 

[rebrascora]

Breakfast....Cup of coffee with cream and a Nature Valley Protein Bar (10g carbs)

Lunch..... Tesco Beautifully Balanced Chicken broccoli and almond salad with a few olives and feta. Half a Kind dark choc, nut and sea salt bar (horse scrounged the other half off me) ( 30g carbs)

Snacks and drinks.... Packet of pork scratchings and some more olives with feta. Mostly water but I add a splash of either Lidl elderflower and Mexican lime sparkling flavoured water or their Morello cherry variety of the same. Usually just an inch in the bottom of a tall glass and topped up with tap water, just to give it a little flavour without having too many additives and sweeteners
(no appreciable carbs)

Evening.... Fibre drink Cup of coffee with cream. Half a left over quarter pounder burger (no bun) with cheese coleslaw and a couple of forkfuls of kimchi. I was absolutely shattered and couldn't even be bothered to throw a salad together to go with it. (no appreciable carbs)

 

[Gwynn]

And yet Fatsecret say .uk

Fooled me

Mind you, I'm easily fooled.

I have just spent a few hours updating the food database based on uk stuff and then the recipe database and then the big one, the meals database for the past 6 months.

It kind of was a game of heads you win, tails you lose. In the end pretty much of a muchness. Good to get it all 'more' right though.

I will post the improved results for today .... tomorrow.

Thanks for all your help and understanding.

Rats, I'll have to put that chocolate fudgecake back and the 1Kg slice was only 0.5Cals, 0.001g carbs before. 🙂

 

[Ditto]

That was all most interesting and lol funny. People saying "rats" cracks me up for some reason. 🙂

I'm losing it a bit because it's been a few days I've been trying to low carb but then I always drift away and 'forget' I'm type 2. Got to keep on track, I seem to sabotage myself as soon as my weight starts to go down, step away from the choc ices in the freezer, they're calling to me like succulent sirens.

I have finally thought of a 'name' for me on the forum but I won't change it again as I must be driving the mods daft with not being able to make my mind up... it's perfect though... JanetTheGannet 😎

Saturday
6.8 @ 7.09 / weight 14stones 8.8pounds / tum 49 1/2
B: pint water with fibre / 2 eggs scrambled in butter, garlics, 1 red onion, pkt mushrooms / pint water with meds
L: pint water
D: Take out from our local Chinese, Wings, but very disappointing, peas (far too many), huge fish (the fish batter was soggy and I couldn't get it off the paper without a great deal of hassle), lg portion chips (the chips weren't as nice either), and I have to stop doing this. I know why I do it, it's to be sociable with family, but I could have had an omelette but I thought if I eat any more eggs I'll be clucking!