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I cannot type here. Have a new book and still trying to muster what I can swap things I don’t like . Smoked salmon , avacado , steak . Seem to be among the things I need to exchange .
I cannot type here. Have a new book and still trying to muster what I can swap things I don’t like . Smoked salmon , avacado , steak . Seem to be among the things I need to exchange .
At one time I had a huge folder of recipes I had torn out of magazines of things I liked, didn't bother with the rest. You could make your own 'book' with recipes from here or the internet.
Try things and if they are OK blood glucose wise bank then for future use.
Yes, that’s what I am doing . Breakfast I cope with . Lunch usually soup or salad I cope well with. Or omelettes but it’s dinners especially if in a rush or out and I am seeing my bad pattern if I fail once I continue too long so I am working towards that line. Some one has said it’s getting things so I am not hungry and I best when not alone. I have things for hubby but can even eat out of the freezer if I am hungry. Blood sugar is 9.5 That is on metformin now which to be fair has raised it rather than lower. I am stopping it today as cannot cope with stomach pain . Toilet trips and well I eat more and go out less as need to be near a loo.
Yes, that’s what I am doing . Breakfast I cope with . Lunch usually soup or salad I cope well with. Or omelettes but it’s dinners especially if in a rush or out and I am seeing my bad pattern if I fail once I continue too long so I am working towards that line. Some one has said it’s getting things so I am not hungry and I best when not alone. I have things for hubby but can even eat out of the freezer if I am hungry. Blood sugar is 9.5 That is on metformin now which to be fair has raised it rather than lower. I am stopping it today as cannot cope with stomach pain . Toilet trips and well I eat more and go out less as need to be near a loo.
Yes, that’s what I am doing . Breakfast I cope with . Lunch usually soup or salad I cope well with. Or omelettes but it’s dinners especially if in a rush or out and I am seeing my bad pattern if I fail once I continue too long so I am working towards that line. Some one has said it’s getting things so I am not hungry and I best when not alone. I have things for hubby but can even eat out of the freezer if I am hungry. Blood sugar is 9.5 That is on metformin now which to be fair has raised it rather than lower. I am stopping it today as cannot cope with stomach pain . Toilet trips and well I eat more and go out less as need to be near a loo.
Good plan, not everybody tolerates metformin. I thought you were not going to take it. How long have you been having it and is it the slow release version if not then that might be better for you.
I’ve tried both but started statins this time which had I thought slight constipation effect . Sorry tmi but the ibs is soul destroying and not helping as I was getting readings of 7 at most and done 5.8 now it’s lowest is 9 so in wrong direction. The flare ups must outdi benefits. However I have an inflamed arm fromCovid do that could be sugar up too . I am going to have weekend off metformin and try to at least enjoy out Nordic walking today want to cycle tomorrow so that’s my plan . That n new diet book. oh the joy.
I’ve tried both but started statins this time which had I thought slight constipation effect . Sorry tmi but the ibs is soul destroying and not helping as I was getting readings of 7 at most and done 5.8 now it’s lowest is 9 so in wrong direction. The flare ups must outdi benefits. However I have an inflamed arm fromCovid do that could be sugar up too . I am going to have weekend off metformin and try to at least enjoy out Nordic walking today want to cycle tomorrow so that’s my plan . That n new diet book. oh the joy.
Hopefully the higher readings are temporary and just a reaction to your vaccine and upset stomach. Testing before and after your meals may be more useful at the moment so you can sort out meals which suit you.
Yes they are not too bad so your right but I can’t cope with Metformin . I am dreading letting practice know because they look like they never believe me or I am just a nuisance.
What a disappointing day yesterday. So looking forward to trying a new cafe, only to turn up to find the only 2 low carb options not loaded with bread, rice, potato or pastry had been removed from the menu, but the website not updated (still). The only item left, which was in any way suitable was the carb heavy leek and potato soup with bread (which I sent back). I was not offered a salad garnish instead of bread, and not given a discount. Following suggestions from members, I have emailed the cafe requesting a low carb option be included, and salad offered as an alternative to bread or chips. We'll see.
B: Strawberry Exante
L: Leek and potato soup
D: Poached egg, premium sausage, small slice of toast (nothing taken out of freezer as I was not expecting to have to do a main meal)
Today:
B: Lemon Exante
L: HM yellow vegetable soup
D: Stir fry vegetables with soy sauce, 5 spice and chicken
Yesterday:
Breakfast - 2 poached eggs on a bed of spinach with melted cheese on top Drink - Taylors Malty Biscuit Flavour tea.
Evening meal - I made a paste from two tiny preserved lemons and unsalted butter and oregano and two small cloves of garlic and stuffed that under the skin of a whole chicken and slow roasted it with celeriac and three small shallot onions as a trivet. Had some of the chicken with a bowl of konjac noodles and mushrooms cooked in the drippings.
Drink - mango and pineapple vitamin tea which has 0.5 g of carbs per teabag and I made three big cups from it.
Today
Usual breakfast of greek yoghurt chia and raspberries have cut out the weetabix and milk as trying to lower carbs
L. one slice of livlife bread buttered and bacon and mushrooms
Tea will be 3 chipolata sausages scrambled eggs rest of mushrooms Jelly and cream
have coffee to drink after meals and water if thirsty.
My meals are nothing to be copied at the moment since the medications make me feel sick…
Yesterday
Breakfast - half a coffee
Lunch - M&S chicken salad sandwich & crisps
Tea - piece of toast
Snack - few mini eggs (chocolate not hard boiled)
Today (trying to eat something with some actual nutrients in though no appetite until about 3pm when I suddenly felt ravenous)
Breakfast - small banana, well diluted orange juice.
Lunch - Reheated chicken & veg pasta with cheese, though only a few forkfuls of it. Sugar free jelly.
Snack - bit of a plum
Tea - chicken, potato and green beans ready meal. Was only 230 calories and 22 carbs so one slice bread and butter too.
Also had a few coffees with whole milk.
L - one slice of Schneider Brot protein bread (a new find, for me, in Asda), buttered with a slice of topside beef, handful of baby spinach and a squeeze of mayo. Half a dozen grapes
D - Jacket sweet potato with a minced steak mild chili, just a few kidney beans. A few more grapes
Supper/Snack - a Hovis cracker, breakfast biscuits and a mature cheese mini stick. Quavers and a peanut butter popcorn bar.
Drinks - 2 decaf coffees with sugar free toffee caramel syrup and double cream, water and some Pepsi cherry max
B: bacon, mushrooms and egg, slice of toast
L: homemade soup, ham, cheese, half roll, half an apple
D: Tuna steak, stirfry veg, few prawn crackers, sugarfree jelly with berries in and cream
Small glass TiaMaria.
B: Greek yoghurt, raspberries, peanut butter and Coffee
L: Turkey roll with lashings of mustard, cucumber, a sprinkling of cheese and some salad. Bread is made from Almond flour and other stuff. (Caldesi recipe, which they freely say is inspired by another recipe.)
D: Chicken roasted in mustard and wine on a bed of onions with steamed leaks and tomatoes plus a pile of cauliflower rice. Yoghurt and berries for pudding.
As a snack I had 3 Nairns oat cakes (5g of carbs each), without realising, and was surprised to see BG was lower after a few hours. Oh, a pack of Snafflin' Pig Pork Puffs. Low in carbs and sat fat - my only junk food treat.
I think I did sneak in 2 squares of montezuma 100% chocolate,
Also some nuts during the day. BG remained between 4 and 7 all day. Maybe reducing the Metformin to one 500mg before Xmas hasn't had any adverse effect. If the next hba1c is low, the GP says we can look at stopping it.
Yesterday - got up very late so didn't have breakfast.
Lunch: leftover lemon chicken from day before's roasted lemon chicken. Had asparagus with it with more butter.
Drink: one of my last cans of Le Joli Lime and mint - zero carbs and zero sweeteners - they've stopped making them so I am only having them as treats - I have five left 😳
Evening meal - I made a microwave pudding with oat fibre, psyllium and almond flour and chopped frozen cranberries and shared it with hubby with Greek yoghurt poured over it.
Big pot of Taylor's Bedtime tea with almond milk to drink.
Drinking Taylor's teas and sparkling water through the day.
