The South Beach Forum has lots of recipes suitable for diabetics. Check it out.
I've now dropped 2 of the 3 pounds I put on over American Thanksgiving week! Yay! and my BGL was great this morning at 5.6(100.8). I have a dinner thingie tonight but will survive if I avoid the pre-dinner nibbles and refuse dessert. It's four days full of foodie challenges.
RUTH ~ Wow -- those are great numbers; good for you getting back on track after your trip down south ... your plan sounds good: you can do it!
Well, we got all our indoor decos done today; we have it down to only so many (to make things simpler) so it took us only just over an hour, but we put some Christmas music on that I picked up (some Pipe Carols) and we had a good time doing it together. Tomorrow, I need to get at my Christmas cards and gifts, so I can get them put too; that's the last thing I have to do until closer to Christmas time (I think) ...
I did my daily housechores in the AM, so I got some exercise in today with all the walking around doing the decos too. Had a good on plan day. Tonight was pasta night, so we had whole grain spagetti and meatballs.
Hope you all have a great Thursday tomorrow ... ROSEBUD
Hi, all. I've been on vacation since Thanksgiving and don't have a computer at home, so I've been out of touch. Spent the week cleaning my apartment and doing errands. Exhausting. Someone talked me into buying a whole pumpkin pie which turned out much larger than I expected. Ate it for days. My blood sugar was way high last week. One day it was 225! Don't know what's going on. It was 130 this morning. I get my A1c results on Thursday, so I will see.
Hope you all had good holidays. I have to do some serious dieting this week.
Have a good week.
I got my fasting glucose down to 6.2 with good control over the weekend. A bit of challenge last night, birthday dinner for my daughter, the format was a 4 course meal with choices for each course. I ordered the first 3 courses within plan but I stupidly didn't just say no dessert for me, and figured other people could eat mine. I ate half of it, and pushed it away. So not as bad as it might have been. but fasting this morning was back up to 6.9
Argg, gotta get over this, or I will never get thru Christmas
ROSETTA ~ that's why I don't eat pie that you buy becuz it has so much sugar in it. I make my own and put less than half in DH's and for my custard, I use 1 tbl cooking molasses and the rest artifcial sweetener. Hope things get under control for you soon.
FATMAD ~ you are doing well; I know we all have those days when we go out, but now what I do is get right back on track the next morning and it really seems to help. I think we will always have a slipup now and then, but if we plan to get back on plan right away, we will have the victory in the end.
BTW -- WELCOME BACK!
Take good care and watch that sugar; need I say that ... not!
Still doing OK as far as BGL is concerned although weight has gone up a bit - too many carbs. I did succumb to candied ginger the other day - I adore that stuff! I need to buy exactly the amount I need for a recipe from now on.
It IS a constant battle to eat properly but we will win it!
RIGHT ON, RUTH ~ yah, I really think that if we eat well the majority of days in a week, things will balance out in the end. Now, if we have one really bad day, the BSL's will go up for sure, but how many days does that take to level out again -- for me, if I eat well the next day, my sugars are OK again by the day after that.
Now I know that up & down constantly isn't good; but we are trying to be realistic here -- and we gotta enjoy life too. So I think that things will balance out, especially if we do a little exercise, like walking to counteract the sugar too. Even just walking around your home 5-10 minutes several times over the day can help ro lower you BSL's too.
We have had a blistery snowstorm here all day long and got about 6-8 inches by the looks of it. I just stayed inside and did things like bills, writing, meals, and daily chores. Hope you all have better weather than we have right now ...
Hi, all. We're having chilly weather here and some drizzle. There has been snow on some local mountains. This is a big deal for us. My bgl was okay earlier this week, but now it seems to be going up again. Saw my PCP yesterday. My A1c was 5.9, up from 5.5 last time, but still good. I'm not doing well resisting all the holiday treats floating into our office. Come New years, I will get serious.
Have a good weekend. Stay warm.
I am so encouraged by you all.
Have managed to get my fasting bs down below 6 now. I will confirm this with a lab draw early next week at work, but I am so encouraged by this.
Have managed to avoid desserts fairly well, but need to increase exercise
Thanks to people for posting, I sometimes only lurk and read, but get great inspiration from you.
HI THERE ~ we had lovely all day today, but now clouds have rolled in from the west -- about -10C today which is a bit warmer. Still eating well and doing some walking around here. I am trying hard to get used to the sudden drop in the temps, but it takes me a while. Then I will venture out with my poles on the sunny days I feel good.
FATMAD ~ glad that we are a help to you; that's why we are here.
I've been a diabetic for about 10 years now, ever since my last pregnancy. Well, I've been managing pretty well, but I'd love to see my insulin levels go down considerably (along with my weight).
KAI ~ you have some definite goals there; sounds like you are doing very well already, but that bodes well for the future too. Nice to meet you too ...
This is such a difficult time of year. I set myself a weightloss goal of five pounds for this month but realize that just holding the line will be success! I've done OK resisting sweets but still must be eating too many carbs as the scale is not budging. BGL is still good though.
I absolutely MUST get back to eating more veggies! I have broccoli and cauliflower in my crisper that need to be used up. Today I will be getting more fruit and veggies from our Good Food Box programme and will have to make a concerted effort to work them into my meals. A big pot of veggie soup might help.
very cold here right now; supposed to go down to -30C tonight ... brrr ... we had a good day; went shopping and got lots of walking in and ate well today. I did have a treat this afternoon of 2 bakery chocolate chip cookies but still kept in my calorie range for the day (this is a very rare treat for us). We had a light dinner of roasted chicken and loads of veggies.
RUTH ~ I love to roast some meat and veggies at the same time in the oven; easy one pan dinners that are healthy. I put things like onions, carrots, celery, turnip or parsnips, small new potatoes, and then sometimes put broccoli and cauliflower on top (turned upside down) ... yummy. I always have lots left over for other days and soups too.
HI THERE ~ we had lovely 
all day today, but now clouds have rolled in from the west -- about -10C today which is a bit warmer. Still eating well and doing some walking around here. I am trying hard to get used to the sudden drop in the temps, but it takes me a while. Then I will venture out with my poles on the sunny days I feel good.
KAI ~ you have some definite goals there; sounds like you are doing very well already, but that bodes well for the future too. Nice to meet you too ... 
