A new low-carb support thread for 2016

A bit more up-to-date would be good BB .

Can get the thought of duck and fresh figs out if my mind.

It is delicious*Anya*. We marinate the dried figs in brandy but I guess apple juice would do. Cut the duck into pieces and thread on the skewer with the figs. Very simple but delicious.

That sounds delicious Mamie .

Exactly Anya. My new doctor is female and young so I go with good hopes

I'm going to try that on Saturday Mamie - using apple juice but I'm sure it will taste just as delicious.

Should be fine - though the alcohol would burn off!

Yes, I thought of that then I remembered Id be left with half a bottle of brandy just saying 'DRINK ME' like something from Alice in Wonderland.

BB here's a link to a GP I know personally who has researched the effect of LC on his diabetic patients. You might want to print out a copy just in case???

Dr Unwin GP Low Carb and Diabetes

Thanks Anya , I will certainly take that article with me. Let's hope I won't need it .

Hello everyone

I am so glad I was directed to this thread, so interesting. I am Pre Diabetic and am in a bit of a panic. Read Michael Moselys book, looked at the Diabetes UK site and feel a bit overwhelmed. Low carb seems the way to go.

I know I have to cut down the amount of fruit I eat. I also have a bit of an addiction to Nakd bars. Especially the pressed dates and cashew nut ones!

Cauliflower rice/mash has been a revelation to me. So..onwards and upwards..hopefully.

Welcome, this is a great thread for lots of support and advice and answering questions. Low carb is so easy, I have been on LCHF since April and so far have lost just over 2 stone, only two more to go. I never feel hungry and lots of energy, sleeping better too, in spite of night temperatures of 30 degrees centigrade outside, thank heavens for air conditioning.

Must dash need a dip in the swimming pool it is 40 degrees, the ironing will have to wait.

Welcome Cathy04, glad you found us.
Warming up here in Normandy, too.
Tonight we are having salmon in cream on a bed of spinach with courgettes in a parcel.

Excellent Cathy Glad you got here. Lots of excellent advice from very generous posters. The panic will soon go.

Mamie, it the BBQ tonight, chicken something, DH invention, with chillies from the garden, I may be even hotter! Then homemade raspberry ice cream, we finished up the cheesecake last night.

Sounds delicious - no raspberries here yet, but the cherries are wonderful.
We have chillies growing too and the espelette peppers from SW France.
Cathy, don't know if you picked it up from the thread, but OH got out of pre-diabetes and has stayed out for over a year now, on this diet. It does work!

Very disappointed as too poorly to go into Leamington to only shop likely to have fresh figs for fig and duck kebabs, which is a shames as OH has just finished building a brick BBQ. Ah well, there's always tomorrow,

But welcome Cathy glad you managed to find your way across to this thread.

The recipe is soaked dried figs Anya. I think fresh ones would collapse.

ONE transgression, just ONE and a BG of 11.8. Annoyed with self.

Mamie thanks for that info...now those I can manage. I've organised a family BBQ for Tuesday so I'm going to put those on the menu.

Izabella put it behind you, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again, as the song says ..good luck.

Never mind Izabela Today is a new day.

Well I got it all wrong for dinner this evening. Temperature in mid 30s and we are supposed to be having roast lamb. I'll pretend we are in Greece and make it minty and yogurty

It is 37° here and I had planned a salad niçoise, but decided barbecued sausages ("saurizo" from Carrefour which I presume are chorizo sausages) salad including our own artichokes which OH was up preparing at 6am and a glass of wine, felt like a better idea.

Gosh! I would melt at 37 degrees. DH bought me some diabetic ice cream ( bless him), but I looked it up on the net and it's a real no-no. Full of artificial everything. So he will probably eat it
Just strawberries for me then

We had our BBQ last night and the duck and fig kebabs were delicious, though the children ate the duck and left the figs

Will definately have those again.

Made a very refreshing fruit salad with melon, peaches, kiwi and grapes. Yes, loads of fruit sugars but did help to quench the thirst in this heat. DH and I ate our sausages and beefburgers wrapped in lovely crispy and crunchy iceberg lettuce so very few carbs there.

Day 55/100

Over half way Anya well done

Thanks BB

Glad it worked Anya. Our saurizo sausages were delicious, will buy those again.
Off to the beach again this morning, will take lots of ice packs and pick up some fish from the quayside as well.
Too hot in the garden....