Low-carb diets support thread

Mercy

Yesterdays foods
B - 2x gf sausies, 2 baby plum toms, 2tbls kimchi
L - ham, lettuce, 4 plum toms, 2 big tbls asda creamy coleslaw
eve - 3 wraps. ham wrapped around coleslaw I was too starving to wait.
snack - 2 pieces of dark choc.

today's food choices
pre brek munch of 1 hot sausie fresh from the oven at 05.30* :j
B - as yday but kimchi has started fermenting**
L - as y'day
eve - plain greek yog plus pecans and walnuts


* I was so tired last night. I did things I needed to like sort recycling, plant rhubarb, wash up, sort cats, fill bin for emptying today. But was too tired to concentrate on anything else. I was in bed for about 7.45pm and switched the light off at 8.30. had set alarm for 4am and got up after 2 snoozes

Put defrosted sausies in oven, caught up on emails, washed, dried and styled hair, did pedicure, ate sausage, put bins out, emptied dishwasher, refilled ecig carts, made up brek n lunch for today.

I've been yawning all week at work - very much less today. ?

May well just do it again tonight

** kimchi is coming along nicely Knew it had started to ferment as the stoppered jar's stopper was ajar. (never thort I'd type that! :rotfl:) so put it in the fridge. The mooli/radish/daikon has gone more yellow and is slightly softer. The garlic and spring onions are much less strong and give a more rounded taste. The chilli flakes i've used have never made it very hot but you could taste them. Now they simply blend in nicely with the whole thing.

I'll be stopper checking regularly and letting off excess gas at regular intervals to prevent my fridge suddenly becoming spice heaven wouldn't mind it tainting the cheese but in the milk would be too much

daska - I think I'd do the same if using the yog pots but may put a few pin holes in lid to be sure. I do take your warning as good advice tho, wouldn't want to have to clean garlic and onions off the ceiling :eek:

Mx

Edwardia

Hey Mercy !

I discovered that even strangers are quite willing to lecture me about my food choices if they are aware that I have diabetes and frankly that peeves the Hell out of me, especially when they are fatter than me LOL.

You're doing so well on the non-smoking you should get rid of all the smoking paraphenalia hon and not allow yourself the opportunity to self-sabotage (((Mercy)))

B - Boiled eggs
L- Quail's eggs salad
Snack - strawberries & raspberries with double cream
Dinner is either dab, lamb meatballs or turkey depending which has defrosted !

SHEILA54

Seems like everyone is very positive :T

Put on 3lb this week but did have half a piece of chocolate cake when away and you can never be sure if there are hidden carbs when you eat away from home. Fed up though as I thought that I had been quite good and would at least stay the same

breakfast - scrambled egg and a rasher bacon
lunch - green salad with half avocado, chicken, mayo & ham
dinner - stuffed mushrooms with veg and cheese
treats - 1 sq 70% chocolate, 1 oz nuts, 1 tbsp seeds, low cal jelly, 2 tbsp yoghurt, 4 tbsp cream, 4 tsp splenda, 3 decaff coffees and 1 tea.
bedtime - 8 oz lactofree milk with tsp cocoa

This comes out at 36 carbs on fitday but can anyone see if I am not eating properly please?

Mercy

Edwardia wrote: »

Hey Mercy !

I discovered that even strangers are quite willing to lecture me about my food choices if they are aware that I have diabetes and frankly that peeves the Hell out of me, especially when they are fatter than me LOL.

You're doing so well on the non-smoking you should get rid of all the smoking paraphenalia hon and not allow yourself the opportunity to self-sabotage (((Mercy)))

The strangers - How very dare they! All bought into the food pyramid - fools. Scorn them, like you do :rotfl:

I really do think buying into the zeitgeist is such a wonderful idea! Play on what they know to empathise with What HELLO and LATEST HORROR IN HUMAN FORM AND EASY READING gives them.

secretly want to publish a mag called LATEST HORROR IN HUMAN FORM AND EASY READING. But I'm too moral.

I'll get rid of the smoking paraphenalia when I'm ready. My self sabotage comes along the lines of
'No baki in the house? NO BAKI IN THE HOUSE? AND I'VE HAD A SKIN FULL? Then let's visit the all night garage and really do it good by spending over the odds to just rub salt into the wound of failure. Yeah, do it!'

So I'd rather have some readily available. That way it's easy to refute. As below

I want 'baki?' How strange cos i've not had any for quite a while. Am I sure? Maybe I'll just chong away for a bit and see how I feel? OOooh, facebook!'

Seems to be working so far :rotfl::A

It's not the same as foods for me. I have a proper nicotine addiction. Which I'm servicing For me it's not having the cancer causing things which is important. Like aspartame :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Thanks for caring you lovely woman! ((Edwardia))

MX

Mercy

SHEILA54 wrote: »

Seems like everyone is very positive :T

Put on 3lb this week but did have half a piece of chocolate cake when away and you can never be sure if there are hidden carbs when you eat away from home. Fed up though as I thought that I had been quite good and would at least stay the same

breakfast - scrambled egg and a rasher bacon
lunch - green salad with half avocado, chicken, mayo & ham
dinner - stuffed mushrooms with veg and cheese
treats - 1 sq 70% chocolate, 1 oz nuts, 1 tbsp seeds, low cal jelly, 2 tbsp yoghurt, 4 tbsp cream, 4 tsp splenda, 3 decaff coffees and 1 tea.
bedtime - 8 oz lactofree milk with tsp cocoa

This comes out at 36 carbs on fitday but can anyone see if I am not eating properly please?

Well all that looks lovely Except
1 - what were the mushrooms stuffed with?
2 - low cal jelly / splenda artificial sweeteners can cause stalls, often they act worse than sugar as many cannot be metabolised properly and inspire the body to store them as fat.
3 - 4 teasp splenda - all at once? :rotfl:
4 - decaff coffee - personally I can't see the point. Not a criticism, I just don't understand it and any I've tried always gave me headaches so assumed something evil must be lurking in there.

Pretty much nothing massive you are doing wrong. Though I would ask the above questions (like I did) If you are happy with the answers then fair enough.

It's likely water as like you say, there's hidden things when you can't control it all. It'll be fine.

I love the way you care so much about all of us. I do hope I've not p'd you off with my reply. (feeling flippant and cheeky:o)

Big love
MX

daska

I'm the same Mercy, I can't not have a former crutch totally unavailable but for me that's the betablockers and sleeping pills. I don't use them but I take comfort from them being around if I need them, so the very fact that they are means I don't... or am I weird?

Anyway, I've had a lovely day munching away on various goodies.

B - Romaine leaves, chicken liver pate, 'cultured cream' and blackberries
L - hardboiled egg, baby lettuce, ditto
S - Fried salmon fillet, watercress sauce, broccoli, ditto

and I'm feeling very tempted to just go and check it's still as nice as it was earlier LOL. I'm not serving myself huge bowls full, just a dessert spoon and four or five blackberries. Mmmmmmm... lush!

daska

SHEILA54 wrote: »

Seems like everyone is very positive :T

Put on 3lb this week but did have half a piece of chocolate cake when away and you can never be sure if there are hidden carbs when you eat away from home. Fed up though as I thought that I had been quite good and would at least stay the same

breakfast - scrambled egg and a rasher bacon
lunch - green salad with half avocado, chicken, mayo & ham
dinner - stuffed mushrooms with veg and cheese
treats - 1 sq 70% chocolate, 1 oz nuts, 1 tbsp seeds, low cal jelly, 2 tbsp yoghurt, 4 tbsp cream, 4 tsp splenda, 3 decaff coffees and 1 tea.
bedtime - 8 oz lactofree milk with tsp cocoa

This comes out at 36 carbs on fitday but can anyone see if I am not eating properly please?

Could it be that there's something in there that works for other people but which doesn't like you. Matteson's sausage does that to me - I don't even like pork yet if I buy one for DS2 (a very rare thing indeed) I'll have gobbled 80% of it within an hour and my weight either goes up or won't shift at all for a couple of days. It's not new, it was something I discovered when I first tried low carb.

Personally I'd be tempted to ditch all the processed stuff for a week - bacon, ham, splenda, jelly etc. - and stick to food you've prepared entirely from scratch. See if that gets the weight moving again then try adding things back in one at a time and see where you stall.

Mercy

daska wrote: »

I'm the same Mercy, I can't not have a former crutch totally unavailable but for me that's the betablockers and sleeping pills. I don't use them but I take comfort from them being around if I need them, so the very fact that they are means I don't... or am I weird?

Not weird to me, hunni!

I can say no when I have the opportunity to.

MXX

Mercy

Woo! Amazing serendipity

Found a packet of mozzarella chese in fridge which needed to be used by today. so omlette

6 fr med eggs
125g mozz
1 spare gf sausie, chopped fine like
4 plum toms sliced thinly and laid on top
Turmeric
extra sea salt as moz has little flavour
black pepper
mixed herbs

Cooked in the stove top / grill alternating manner.

Cut into 8 pcs with spatula and 'dried off' under grill.

LUSH! Had 1 slice, then another!

Rest for eating tomorrow. Lunch n eve i reckon.

had worse surprises of an evening

MX

SHEILA54

Mercy - mushrooms stuffed with half courgette, bit onion, half garlic clove, little red pepper, mushroom stalk, half tsp thyme + cheese

splenda spread through day for drinks x 4

decaff as I was told that caffeine can stall and I get fed up with water all day. Don't like herbal teas.

Forgot to add 1 tbsp coconut oil

No you are not cheeky as I really want to get a handle on this and you are being helpful

I don't smoke but know how hard it is to give up as ex gave up for 2 years and went back and DD gave up when pregnant and went back so keep it up :T
I had a great deterrent as my Mum smoked and got lung cancer. She died when DD was a baby and it was hard to watch. Also nursed people with lung problems when younger.


If you've lost the yellow tinge then wear nail varnish and show them off!!]

daska - you could be right as I was losing when keeping things basic but have added things for variety. Perhaps I will ditch the pig, sorry pork !!

Don't eat more than 2 eggs a day as they constipate me. I need veg and salad for same reason.