. . . Food wise I am unsure how to make my lunches more lunchy! I've always had leftovers for lunch and usually they're a carb free version of dinner the night before so shouldn't be high calorie - suggestions for lunches would be great.
If they're a carb-free version of dinner then they shouldn't be a problem.
I know you are coping with a new baby too, so lunch needs to be easy stuff. Nothing too time consuming to prepare.
My friend Christine loves her eggs, so she often has omelette and salad for lunch plus she makes a SW quiche in a loaf tin and has slices of that with salad. This lasts here several days - she did it when I was there and it was delish.
Plus she has lots of baked spuds with something on as they're quick and easy to do in a micro.
Her addiction is baked spud with baked beans and cheese! But obviously high in carbs and needs to use a HexA
As you know I do mostly red days - so try to keep my lunch totally neutral if I can and just have stuff that is free on either day - so I avoid meat and carbs.
I love my chunky soups though. I make a huge pot-ful and freeze it in single portion containers that are quick to re-heat in the micro.
I've normally got 3 different varieties in the freezer at any one time so that I don't get bored with one.
The Little Book of Soups has some amazing recipes in. I have quite a lot of the pages photographed as a lovely Minis friend sent them to me.
If you want a copy of these - pm me your email address and I'll send them.
Bev my new sweet tooth is certainly annoying! At the moment I'm curbing it with fruit, yoghurt and meringue. Maybe I'm now having too much fruit? Therefore too much sugar and high calories??
I eat loads of fruit and yoghurt - I love it and I find it filling and satisfying and having it at lunch stops me wanting to snack in the afternoon.
So I don't think you really need to cut back on this.
Is the meringue an extra though that you've suddenly added, it could be adding extra sugar that you wouldn't have had before and that your body is having problems processing because of a left over from the diabetes.
Maybe try and miss this out for a week and see if it helps.
BUT . . . Some fruit is higher in sugar than others though so not classified as a "Speed" food in new parlance (or Superfree in old terminology).
Perhaps limiting the amount of non-speed fruit might help and eating more of the speedy ones.
Non-speed fruit includes things like grapes, bananas, mango, lycees, blueberries . . . and cherries and pineapple now seems to have been added to the non-speed list (which is a pain as I love pineapple and have it most days as it's freely available here all year and relatively cheap :cry
Melon is good - as well as being a speed fruit it's also high in water so helps with the slooshing effect.
Things like mandarin oranges and clementines are good too. I find these really satisfy a sweet craving and are quite filling.
I'm not sure I can do this plan if I need to lower my food, I'd spend my life starving!
You deffo don't want to be starving - as Sarah said, that's a recipe for disaster.
It might me some little tweaks are needed because of a) post baby b) effect of your diabetes.
Hope this all makes sense
