My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

Broccoli in largish quantities but not every day, I add spinach to foods like curry but the proportion is not huge, cucumber and mushrooms yes but the mushrooms are in curry mostly, I love peas but have been avoiding them.

I'll have mashed potatoes (carb allowance for the day) beef stew with mushrooms and broccoli tonight that will get me some potassium.

When people say their mouth tastes foul in the morning do they just mean the morning, mine is foul all day even after brushing my teeth and drinking water.

My dental hygiene is high I floss regularly as I paid for a lot of expensive work teh other year to save teeth that I really need to keep.

Checked my Ketone levels again actually closer to 16 mmol/litre by mid afternoon, had some 85% Lindt Chocolate and felt a bit better.

I think I need to talk to the doctor when they get back to me regards the 24 hour ECG last Friday to find out exactly what results they got in my bloods the other week.

You're never going to let me live that down are you

Ok so took me a lot of tries to figure out how to use this thing properly but I think I have it now.

Because I don't have hot running water in this flat my fingers are always freezin and it is damn hard to get blood out of some of them and I had not realised the significance at first of having to wash your hands really well before any test because any sugars on your skin can throw readings way off.

So while I am going to be continuing to monitor regularly, here are a couple of results from today.

Fasting 14 hours.



Meal at 2:15pm, had jelly and double cream after this and 2 squares of Lindt 65% Cocoa chocolate.



Reading result 2 hours after meal, after following procedures to the letter.



edit: 19lbs in 34 days, 17st 9lbs this morning.

edit: the eggs are done with double cream instead of milk, they are very nice that way.

My health is otherwise not so good, so that tempers my satisfaction, constipation is still bad, and I am not sure that I am eating enough to prevent glucogenesis from protein or that I am eating the right balance for that but yes the weight is lower than it has been for a long time, and I appear to be properly hydrated so at this stage it is not additional water loss over and above the expected loss at the start.

edit: When I am down to about 16 stone I will be feeling a lot better I think.

I don't eat stuff like porridge and generally don't eat bread even before starting this but I do sometimes still have rice with a curry, a 100 gram serving of cooked basmati has about 20 grams of carbohydrate total so that would be a day where everything else was very low carb.

My next meal will be this, still cauliflower rice, but the sauce has a little more carbohydrate per portion about 15 grams so will see how that goes 2 hours later, still getting the hang of this device and have run through most of the lancets and test chips, but I ordered more which have already arrived, if I do turn out to be T2 the lancets and test strips are available on prescription for this device which is pretty good.