WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Big Kev]

Interesting to reflect that my 15 hour fast every night is dead in line with MDs CLANGERS. Nice!

Depends what hours you keep and when you eat your meals I suppose. I keep reasonably conventional hours and have three meals a day. Light breakfast, light lunch and main meal at tea time. Nothing then apart from an evening brew until the following morning which by my reckoning is about 14 or 15 hours. Seems pretty normal to me.

Similar for me, 13-14 hours between tea and breakfast. I've never been able to eat late evening, it keeps me awake.

[Stanley]

So, regardless of what hours we keep we are doing the same thing. I like the way Dr Hammond put it, giving your stomach a rest during the night. I always remember a doctor telling me that the hardest work we ever do is digesting a good meal, he said that's why we feel sleepy after it. Cue the crumblies on the sofa snoozing at Xmas after the feast.
I had the remainder of the tea I half ate for breakfast and a steak pudding and peas for tea. Both small helpings.

[Marilyn]

I tend to agree. After eating Low Carb all week, we may not have felt the benefits, but our gut had. To then have a Chinese meal ( lovely as it was), I laid awake half the night feeling the Rice was swelling up in my tummy. I just didn’t feel good for 24 hours afterwards. Good to get back to Low Carb tonight which was a plate load of steamed Veg, with a bit of Chicken.
Sometimes you don’t realise how good you feel until you eat the wrong things. Not only was I feeling off, but I was exhausted, which is so unusual for me, and I couldn’t think straight. Very odd indeed. ( no excessive alcohol involved I assure you!)

Possibly the carbs in dinner had swamped the Metformin. I didn’t take my BSL machine, but it would have been interesting to get a reading. The next afternoon, when we called in to see husband’s grandson for his birthday, I didn’t dare eat a thing, because I felt so flat by then. Then we had the two hour drive home. I just wanted to go to bed and sleep...

[PanBiker]

Chicken, tomato and pasta for me with a small slice of garlic and rosemary Focaccia, glass of Merlot to go with it.

[Marilyn]

Pasta and Focaccia are forbidden just now, Panbiker, as is Rice or Spuds or any bread.
I feel better already just going Low Carb today. It may become the new normal (who knows).
We started it because hubby had to get weight off, but I think I am thriving on Low Carb.
Nowt wrong with a glass of Red though...

[Stanley]

I had a big improvement when I first went low carb but then it tapered off and I felt better with a smaller intake.
Eggs and bacon for breakfast. Sausage cherry tomatoes and baked beans for tea.

[Marilyn]

Spicy Beef Noodles tonight, but the noodles are made from Zucchini. I’ve already put them through the spiral slicer, and they will sit in the fridge uncovered now to dry out a bit before I add them to the sauce a few mins before serving.

[Stanley]

They look good enough to eat Maz!

[Marilyn]

They are, and Dave loves them!

[Stanley]

I'm cooking veggies....,

[Marilyn]

I’ve made a Mediterranean Vegetable Bake this morning. Not sure if we be having it with Fish or Chicken, but either are an option.

[Stanley]

Bacon and egg for breakfast, Sausage and veggies for tea.

[Marilyn]

Had the fish last night, so it is Chicken tonight.
Will have to swing on the freezer door for tomorrow's choice, but I think it will be either Sausages or Beef Mince.

[Stanley]

Sausage and onion gravy for Dave?
Three eggs for breakfast. Sausage and veggies for tea.

[Stanley]

Egg, bacon and tomato for breakfast. Mackerel fillets in spicy tomato sauce and veggies for tea.

[Stanley]

Bacon and fried tomatoes for breakfast. Sausage, plum tomatoes and veggies for tea.

[Stanley]

Two eggs for breakfast and a small pork pie with mushy peas and veggies for tea.

[Marilyn]

Making Chicken Tikka tonight.
No Rice, No Naan Bread, so not overdoing the Carbs.

[Marilyn]

May I just add politely that going Low Carb changes bowel habits....and well...everything becomes so much harder ( as the actress said to the bishop). I am drinking lots of water. I can’t believe Carbs make such a difference to “ normalness”.

[Big Kev]

Chicken Tikka Shashlick with Saag Bhaji at the Four Elephants. All very civilised, socially distanced tables and all the staff wearing face masks. To top it off a 25% discount for booking a table before 6pm.

I'll just loosen my belt...

[Wendyf]

May I just add politely that going Low Carb changes bowel habits....and well...everything becomes so much harder ( as the actress said to the bishop). I am drinking lots of water. I can’t believe Carbs make such a difference to “ normalness”.

Never had that problem since going low carb. We do eat loads of fat and fibre in the form of green veggies and nuts, nuts and more nuts.

[Big Kev]

May I just add politely that going Low Carb changes bowel habits....and well...everything becomes so much harder ( as the actress said to the bishop). I am drinking lots of water. I can’t believe Carbs make such a difference to “ normalness”.

Never had that problem since going low carb. We do eat loads of fat and fibre in the form of green veggies and nuts, nuts and more nuts.

Cheese and 90% cocoa solids chocolate for me, lots of nuts and leafy green stuff too. I do have around 90g of carbs for breakfast (porridge) though so probably not as low carb as I could go. Blood sugar levels are always between 5 and 8mmol so I must be doing something right as I don't have any solidity issues either.

[Marilyn]

NUTS! Gotcha

[Stanley]

Steak pudding peas and veggies for breakfast, meat pie an veggies for tea.
Like Kev I eat a modicum of carbs but nowhere near what I used to. Also like him I have no problems. I used to have on the very low carbs.....

[Stanley]

Two eggs for breakfast and a pork pie and veggies for tea, a very small helping....