What did you eat yesterday?

[Kaylz]

Saturday
B - super berry granola with semi skimmed milk, mug of coffee
D - extra mature cheddar and pickle sandwich, bar moser roth orange mousse filled chocolate
mug of cafetiere coffee
T - king prawn, mozzarella & spring onion omelette with baby potatoes, massive bowl of strawberries & blackberries with double cream, pint of cherries & berries squash
mug of coffee
Before bed - 1 and a half digestives

Sunday
B - Same as always
D - cheesy scrambled egg sandwich and a bar moser roth orange mousse filled chocolate
mug of cafetiere coffee
T - smoked haddock, baby potatoes and steamed sprouts, pint of cherries & berries squash
mug of coffee
Before bed - 3 all butter shortbread fingers

Bubbles got a teeny bit of the smoked haddock and absolutely loved it, so much so that when I noticed a bit had flaked onto my lap he was peering up in the hope it would go to him, it did so he was happy, he would've been welcome to more if it hadn't been smoked so I'll have to get a packet of unsmoked fish for him lol xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Thanks for advice and links peoples. I am going to give cooking low carb a whirl, there's only me now so can mess about and it'll all get eaten anyways, I'm not fussy. Good job.

Sat
Weight: 15 1.6 / Tum: <51 BG: 10.2 @ 6.17
Breakfast: pint water with fibre / cottage cheese salad / pint water with meds
Lunch: 3 bacon, 2 fried eggs, 1 tomato, half red onion, garlics, 1/4 melted cheese / pint water
Dinner: rump steak, mushrooms, half a tub of coleslaw nom nom nom 🙂 / pint water

Pleased with today. I wasn't hungry once. You're just not when doing low carb and it makes you feel all gungho and happy or is that just me?

Hello you

we haven't bumped into each other here for a while.
I find low carb is very satisfying and it is only when I stray and have something carby that I get hunger pangs or cravings.
Anytime you feel the urge to fall off the wagon you can message me on Facebook and I will be happy to help you find a quick alternative to hit the spot and keep you on track. Just message me on my page xx
Having control of your own kitchen and your meals is a huge part of getting this tackled and enjoying your life more from now on. Well done on Saturdays food.

 

[Ditto]

Thanks for that and will do. 🙂

Sun
Weight: 15 1.4 / Tum: 51 1/2 BG: 10.9 @ 6.27
Breakfast: pint water with fibre / cottage cheese salad! / pint water with meds
Lunch: melted cheese, garlics, 3 bacon, 2 fried eggs, tomato, red onion / pint water
Dinner: rump steak, mushrooms, half a tub of coleslaw / pint water

I just have to keep going with the low carb, don't let myself be put off, don't mix up eating regimes, keep to it, learn how to do low carb recipes, look for an easy 'low carb for extreme beginners' cook book in the free bookshop as soon as I can get into town and Storm Franklin abates. I'm fed-up with this weather! Stay healthy all x

 

[Kaylz]

Yesterday
B- super berry granola with semi skimmed milk, mug of coffee
D - garlic sausage and mayo sandwich then 4 dark lindor truffle balls
mug of cafetiere coffee
T - dijon mustard pork loin steak, baby potatoes and sugar snap peas, pint cherries & berries squash
mug of coffee
Before bed - 3 all butter shortbread fingers and half a digestive xx

 

[Lucyr]

Yesterday:

B - 2 toast and 2 vegan chipolatas, 1 coffee

Snack - 1 latte. Resisted chocolate biscuits offered on the course

Lunch - tuna and egg salad sandwich (weird combo from Tesco healthy range, wouldn’t buy again), snack pack of a babybel light with a few grapes and few slices apple

Snack: raspberries and blueberries (still avoiding the chocolate biscuit offerings). Later, a bag of Cheetos

Dinner: Wholegrain rice with frozen peas, steamed spinach, and a reheated portion of homemade chicken tikka masala

Snack: don’t think I had one in the evening!

Came in under on calories and over on fibre so all good

 

[Kaylz]

Later, a bag of Cheetos

I used to love cheetos, not the puffs like wotsits though had to be the crunchy like nik naks for me xx

 

[Lucyr]

I used to love cheetos, not the puffs like wotsits though had to be the crunchy like nik naks for me xx

Ahh it’s the little wotsit like bags for me. One packet from the multipack is only 64 calories and 6g carbs!

 

[Kaylz]

Ahh it’s the little wotsit like bags for me. One packet from the multipack is only 64 calories and 6g carbs!

Cheers for that, might give them a bash if I can find them anywhere locally xx

 

[PattiEvans]

Yesterday:

Brunch: Scrambled eggs on 1 slice Scandalously seeded bread toasted + half a slice of torchon ham.
Dinner: Chicken tagine with giant cous cous. Fruit - small slice melon, bit of mango, some slices of golden kiwi.

 

[Leadinglights]

B: boiled eggs, slice toast
L: homemade soup, chicken, tomato, Ryvita thin, cheese, celery, half apple
D: pork rib rack, salad, potato salad, half roll, strawberries and cream

 

[janw]

Tuesday

L - 2 slices plain Nimble with a breakfast pattie (97% pork) and a touch of HP sauce sandwich. Hovis crackers and an oak smoked cheese mini, a packet of wotsits and a few grapes. Caramel coffee
D - Chicken Biryani (homemade with brown basmati) with just a nibble of naan bread. One pre-cut watermelon fan. Cup of tea
Supper/Snacks - more Hovis crackers with a seriously strong spreadable mini, one s/f Werther's butter candy, 2 squares of Lindt 70% dark chocolate. Decaf coffee

Carbs a bit higher than usual, but still under daily limit, tiny bit over with fat - but so hungry from lack of food the previous day! Swings and roundabouts spring to mind!
Short but sharp burst on exercise bike, one rotation per second for just a few minutes - still on low resistance as knees will complain otherwise - my excuse and I'm sticking to it - working out my lungs and not so much my legs! lol

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Breakfast: my keto version of a sheet pancake. I used oat fibre and ground almond and psyllium husk with erythritol and monkfruit instead of flour and sugar and I served it with a small dollop of cream cheese because I'd run out of double cream.

Lunch: half a sirloin steak with brussels sprouts and oyster mushrooms
Evening meal: Breadless Ham and cheese sandwiches made with slices of ham spread with a very small amount of cream cheese and mayo with a slice of red leicester and a snipped spring onion between.

To drink - decaf coffee, decaff tea and a can of Strawberry and Blueberry and raspberry Loveau which is possibly the prettiest drink ever - I spent more time looking at it than drinking it - zero calories, carbs etc and all natural with no sweeteners.

 

[Ditto]

Mon
Weight: 15 2.2 / Tum: 51 1/2 BG: 8.8
Breakfast: pint water with fibre / 2 eggs scrambled, tomato, garlics, red onion, pickled beetroot, grated cheese / pint water with meds
Lunch: 2 hard boiled eggs, bacon, salted cucumber slices / pint water
Dinner: bacon baked, v lg red onion, half jar pickled beetroots, bulb garlics, tomato, mayo / pint water
(no wonder bg high next morning!)

Tue
Weight: 15 0.6 / Tum: 51 BG: 13 @ 5.25
Breakfast: pint water with fibre / vanilla SlimFast mix / pint water with meds
Lunch: banana SlimFast mix / pint water Snack: ham sarnie, few crisps, cuppa
Dinner: vanilla SlimFast mix / pint water

I might just try for low carb once all the SlimFast has gone, I seem to have tons of it! The nurse at the health centre today swears by very low carb and says her sister does the keto and has reversed her diabetes. She gave me a little booklet, she was very helpful. She made the bloods man wait as he was going out the door so she could take my bloods and not have to go to the hospital phlebotomy on Friday for urgent bloods. I'm worried now as to what she read into my blood pressure.

 

[Lucyr]

Weight 0.3lbs down since yesterday, 7lbs down since I started counting calories on friday

Breakfast: grapes and coffee (feeling sick and would have preferred nothing but painkillers needed food)

Lunch: fried mix up of chicken, mushrooms, green beans, tomato, spring onion, fajita spices. Yoghurt after.

Dinner: vegetarian spinach and mushroom Kiev with roasted carrot, parsnip and potato. For pudding had blueberries, raspberries, peach activity yoghurt, and sugar free jelly.

Nutracheck says 11 portions of fruit and veg but too low at only 1065 calories, so may find something extra later on.

 

[harbottle]

B: Coffee
L: Turkey sandwich with mustard and baby cucumbers, plus a load of small peppers, celery and peanut butter and baby cucumbers.
D: Prawns, Peppers, onions, garlic stir fried with white wine, double cream paprika and konjac noodles (Caldesi recipe) plus some raspberries and yoghurt.

Snacks: rather too many almonds and a few spoons of Almond butter plus a square of dark chocolate.

BG level at 5.5 at the end of the day, and resting heart rate dropping to the 60s.

 

[Annemarie]

Where it’s only coffee for breakfast do you reduce your pre meal insulin? My weight continues to rise, I think that’s because I often eat when I’m not hungry but assume I need to as I still have my Novarapid

 

[Lucyr]

Where it’s only coffee for breakfast do you reduce your pre meal insulin? My weight continues to rise, I think that’s because I often eat when I’m not hungry but assume I need to as I still have my Novarapid

Are you on fixed doses? If I was just having coffee for breakfast I would only have fast acting insulin if I needed a correction for high bgs. If good bg I wouldn’t take any.

The novorapid dose should adjust to when you want to eat carbs, not you adjust your eating patterns to match novorapid.

 

[Annemarie]

Thank you Lucyr that’s helpful. I’m still waiting and hoping for more support but with the vast increase in type 2 patients (which the hospital blame on lockdown) there’s no space for people like me. I never had the courses, I only heard about them on this forum. While in hospital I was told to take the doses even if I was feeling unwell and not eating. I’m desperate to lose the weight most of my clothes hardly fit I can’t even fasten my coat

 

[Lucyr]

Thank you Lucyr that’s helpful. I’m still waiting and hoping for more support but with the vast increase in type 2 patients (which the hospital blame on lockdown) there’s no space for people like me. I never had the courses, I only heard about them on this forum. While in hospital I was told to take the doses even if I was feeling unwell and not eating. I’m desperate to lose the weight most of my clothes hardly fit I can’t even fasten my coat

I’ve never been on a course either but adjust my doses. You can read about it online or do the online Bertie course and try it yourself.

 

[Annemarie]

Yes I did try, several times, using the DUK website. Unfortunately I couldn’t follow it as I kept getting cut off - my computer/technology skills are non existent. I have been adjusting my Novarapid but with either non or dramatic results, I feel I’m playing Russain roulette with insulin.