Ground down

[caddyman]

I spent much of yesterday with a low-level headache behind my right eye and felt rather down all day. Not depressed, but certainly subdued. Apart from the headache, which is guaranteed to harsh my good humour, I have to confess that I hit a wall in my attempts to maintain my diet. I do not want to see another cocktail sausage for many months, if it’s all the same to you. I got to the stage yesterday where I was choking them down and finally I decided that feeling hungry was the preferred status.

Going home, the fresh air helped the headache, but it returned once I got home.

Further attempts to find palatable low-carb food led me to try fried corned beef with baked beans. I cannot recommend it and in the early hours I had to chew a Remegel for the indigestion that followed it. magpye has suggested some sort of sweet chilli sauce and calling it ‘student chilli’ which sounds possible, but I am already pushing the low carb side with the sugar that is in the tomato sauce that covers the beans. I’m not being strictly no-carb, but it’s all rather pointless if I let too many of the blighters through.

Be that as it may, I didn’t even turn the PC on last night when I got home. We watched an old Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes and by 9.30 I was in bed, which ism almost unheard of for me. I intended to read for a while, but in the end I just went to sleep. I woke up a couple of times during the night, but by and large I managed to sleep through to just before 6.00 and then doze until 7.00 when the alarm went off. Clearly I have been rather more run down recently than I thought. Still, nearly the weekend. Apart from a bit of bulb planting in the garden, I am aiming for a quiet one overall.

Comments

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

Are you on a cocktail sausage diet..?

I really need to lose weight, but I'm not even going to try this side of Christmas.

And Jeremy Brett is the definitive Sherlock Holmes!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It got to the point where it was beginning to feel like a cocktail sausage diet. I am actually doing the low carb thing and have been since we got back from Germany.

Overall, it's working, if slowly, but one of the downsides is that when you latch on to something you can eat, you tend to stick with it and then get fed up. I am desperate not to go off chicken...

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

I think I need to go on a low-carb diet. The problem I foresee is being vegetarian.

It will have to wait until the New Year, though. I'm not missing out on fruit cake and port...

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

A diabetic friend of mine has lots of low carb recipes - to the point wjhereby I believe she manages to get by without medication. I could see if she has any vegetarian recipes she could pass on.

I know she has some low carb bread recipes, but we don't have the time to bake our own on a regular basis (plus the flax seed flour is hideously expensive).

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

(as the friend in question...)

Sadly the "without medication" went away a couple of years ago but I am only on a relatively low dose of Metformin, and my doctor loves me. (Their dietician thinks I'm crazy, but it works for me... what can I say)

Vegetarian and low-carb is quite tricky but probably just about do-able with a bit of thought. (Vegan and low-carb would be very, very hard... no cheese?!). There do exist low-carb beans, but I've only ever found them by mail-order -- but they make things like chili possible, and they work well as a side dish for curries etc.

[keresaspa.livejournal.com]

Have you ever thought of using carb blocking tablets? They can be picked up on ebay fairly easily and I know somebody who has lost a lot of weight using them (although admittedly they have also been hitting the gymnasium pretty hard). I considered them myself for a while but eventually decided against, being a miser and all. Luckily I did as they contain shellfish extracts and that can kill me but they might work for you.

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

Some low carb recipes would be great. As I said, I won't be pursuing it until after the festivities, but it does need to be done.