Blood sugar diet thread 9

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Shiny new thread for the blood sugar dieters!

Weighed myself this morning and was the same as Friday, so looks like the extra low-carb calories on the weekend away didn’t do too much harm.

BUT last night the whole family ate low carb pasta that I’d found made from soy beans. They hated it anyway but my son’s vomited 3 times since and is now off School and I’ve had diarrhoea. We’re going to a concert tonight and the babysitter didn’t want to come in case it’s something contagious. Luckily a lovely friend is going to babysit.

Just made a cauldron of leek and celeriac soup from the BSD website, I reckon about 16 portions. Except I couldn’t get any celeriac so have substituted celery, cauliflower and a little bit of parsnip. No idea if it tastes the same as I’ve never had celeriac, but it tastes really nice :).

My lunch was made for Me! By my friend, because I fed her cats over the weekend. How cool is that!

Sigh... 700 of my 800 calories eaten by 10am. One of those days...!

Oblomov that’s looks a delicious lunch!

I’ve just grazed a bit for my lunch today, I bought a wedge of Blacksticks blue reduced yesterday, so I have had a few slices of that, plus some of Asda’s delicious Mediterranean houmous (normal houmous but it has a dollop Of stuff on the top, so this one was sundried tomato and feta).

Not sure what to cook tonight, it’s supposed to be green curry but I forgot to get coconut milk!

Lunch today was leftover sausage, chorizo and butter bean casserole (mushrooms, onions, tinned toms) painstakingly made and calculated and measured out last night into portions. Silly question coming up...

When I make a big dinner and portion it up, it seems I'm working it out in a really confusing way. As I'm putting it all in the pan I weigh out the ingredients going in, so for eg 100g mushrooms, and I write down all the ingredients and weights. Then while it's cooking I'll calculate the total calories. But the problem I have is when I come to dishing up, I normally have added stock or tinned tomatoes which makes a big dish and I don't know the weight of the cooking vessel so I can't just remove Xg. I have to put another pan on the scales, set to zero, then transfer the whole pot of food into the new pot, weigh in, then I know how to divide it up per portion (and attribute the calories accordingly). Is this what everyone else does? Ideally I'd weigh my pot before adding anything that way I guess I wouldn't have to transfer.... thus creating extra washing up grr

Any life changing suggestions?!

PS I will be out for dinner tonight, so I have looked at the menu and planned accordingly - minute steak with buttery garlic mushrooms, and a side salad.

Aromatic if it’s something like chilli or anything in smallish pieces, I usually just flatten it all into the bottom of the pan and roughly divide by 4 or 6, especially if there’s nothing like cream or cheese in it which could make a big difference to the calories. If I’m portioning up to freeze, I put my storage pot on the scales and zero it, and aim for a similar amount in each pot. If it’s bigger pieces (like a chicken curry) I would divide the chicken breasts into equal numbers (so each into 5 chunks for example) then count 5 into each storage pot, then divide the sauce. Again, I’m never 100% accurate.

When I do my recipes on my tracker. I just do the total amounts for the whole recipe, enter the whole anoung as a ‘new food’ with all the carb/protein etc stats, then when I eat the meal I enter 1/4 or 1/6 of the whole recipe as my meal. It’s not 100% but it’s good enough I reckon.

Had a bad few hours eating wise 😞 have lots of stuff going on at the moment, relationship, health and more. Feeling really down and sad and angry at myself for comfort eating. This is only my 2nd week and I felt great last week on this woe, but I've failed today. Can someone give me a kick up the arse as I need to do this for my confidence and health.

Zazu bend over then, while I get my big, stompy, arse-kicking boots on......

Actually no!! No butt kicking. Don’t punish yourself, you Can’t un-eat it. I find doing a really good plan for the next day, drinking some water, have a hot bath and a bit of pampering all help me. We’ve all been there. What’s important is what you do next- carry on or turn it around???

😄Ha! newaveragebear that sorted out my miserable "feeling sorry for myself" face! You're right I can't uneat it.

Onwards and downwards with those scales...... will report back with a good day tomorrow

Ta muchly

If you know the calories of the whole thing, then you can work out how many portions you need to get from it. I don't worry too much if one is slightly bigger than another. It'll even out in the end.

Thanks all for portion/calorie advice

Delicious, delicious stilton and celery soup for lunch. I may have replaced my love for crisps with a love for stilton. There are worse fates.

Getting back into meal planning really helps. (in other words, bear was correct, as per usual. ) Going to try to keep it up, especially when work loosens up next week.

Fuckity fuck fuck. We have 2 freezers in the garage, both very full. The small one contains 9 portions of soup I made yesterday, 6 of soup I made a couple of weeks ago, and loads of homemade chicken and turkey stock. Or it did. Husband got home just now and discovered that the chilli I’d shoved in today had forced the door open and the whole bloody lot had defrosted :(. Had to chuck it all out - can’t take any risks with it being hot here and having a child who’s been vomiting for 48 hours :(.

Oh no rarely!

Very, if you get an ounce of grated Stilton and an ounce of grated Parmesan, sprinkle into a very thin layer on a non-stick tray, and bake it (hot oven, long enough to melt, then begin to crisp up- you need to watch them!). Cut into squares while still melty as it will all crisp up, you can make BSD, carb free, Stilton crisps. You’re welcome

OMG bear that sounds marvelous.

That's terrible rarely! What a supreme pain!

Rarely, so sorry. I hate having to throw out food. I did the exact same thing on the 23rd of December - yep, we lost a LOT of expensive food.

I read a depressing article today about what happens when you go off intensive calorie restriction diets, you're body is more prone to fat storage because it wants to prepare for the possibility of another 'famine'. www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-j-wurtman-phd/stopping-afterdiet-weight_b_9889770.html

I've been reading about it all afternoon, and basically it looks like the only way to keep your metabolism firing is to keep at the cardio (high HR cardio especially). I've got to get into a routine with the exercise - I'm very hit and miss!

I've kind of resigned myself to the fact that I need to stay off white carbs long term. I don't mind pasta, rice and potatoes, but god I miss bread.

I've been dreaming about porridge. Lovely sticky porridge.

Finishing the day on 1250 cals, 48g carbs (of which 17g were fibre). 12k steps. No run today, but I did do a workout from 30 day shred.

I just can’t seem to keep the calories down this week, I’m hungry!! It isn’t doing too much damage, I’m still at my lowest of 11st4, but I was really hoping for a few days at 800. Perhaps tomorrow....!! I’ve been working the last few days which I don’t normally, so it has skewed my routine a bit I suppose. Back to normal tomorrow, plus a walk with Ds and friends in the morning.

Measured tonight 7cms off my waist/tummy button which I’m v pleased with.

Managed another sub-800 day today, had a takeaway curry but I had mainly steamed broccoli and three tablespoons of lamb dhansak which was plenty, and so tasty. Feeling good!

Oh no re freezer!!!!! Such a shame

That’s fantastic aromatic, well done!

I’ve been out all morning at soft play (we had more snow this morning, which cancelled our walk!!), so had two milky coffees for breakfast! I’ve deposited Ds in front of paw patrol and just ran my longest distance yet, 6km, which i’m chuffed with as I’ve been finding the treadmill a bit of a grind these last few weeks and had hit a wall in terms of increasing distance. Really should eat something now though!!

Kitchen closing on 961 cals, 35g carbs. That’s my best day in a while, and I’m determined not to graze this evening- so I’m going to have to find something to do!

I calculated my Bmi today and.....it’s 24.75 which means I am officially (but only just!) no longer ‘overweight’ but ‘normal’!! Hopefully that will keep me motivated over the weekend.

Well done Bear, I dream of that.

And for surviving soft play as well - I usually require cake and or chocolate for such things!

Well done Bear.

0.6 kg off this week, which is ok as I’ve been over a few times.

Have made another big vat of soup ...

Poor son is still sick, vomited again last night (so 3 days) although I think finally today he’s on the mend. Since school started 6 weeks ago (we’re in Oz) he’s had 3 weeks of terrible diarrhoea, 1 week of flu, 1 week of vomiting. I think his attendance this year must be below 50%. The poor kid’s immune system is just so low. It’s a real strain on us all (lots of (different) health issues last year too) and the only good thing is that, having done Dry January and then just carried on, I’m managing not to use wine to cope.

Feeling proud of myself today. I went round a friend's house last night for a bit of a wine and nibbles night. I knew it would be tricky, so I bought a smoked salmon/hb egg/spinach pot from Pret on my way home to take to hers, and had a bit of fage yoghurt when I got home after. No wine, just herbal tea. Didn't feel as antisocial as I thought I would! Ended the day on 693cals. Have been under 800 for three days running now. Am off out for dinner tonight so might be a smidge over but will stick with on-plan food. Have already inspected the menu and will have a 'starter' of seared fillet of beef, and have with a side salad (or seasonal veg depending what they are). Might have a gin and tonic.

Your poor son rarely, that sounds tough. It's horrible when they're ill. But good to not be relying on wine to get you through it. Hope he perks up super quick.

Well done aromatic, it’s a good feeling isn’t it when you get through a situation like that, especially if you didn’t feel deprived.