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Week 8 of the Summmer Body Challenge in collaboration with The Transatlantic Housewives of Youtube:
@BusyBeeMaree
@tinastalktime
@Maria_crocker
With guest videos from @Jane-Sunstoneyoga & @BeckyBartlam
Purition Protein Shakes: https://www.purition.co.uk/products/purition-original-40g
Low Carb Berry Smoothie https://youtu.be/CP09A76Ms58
Keto Mocha Smoothie https://youtu.be/mZ4z2KPLyc0
Keto Broccoli & Stilton Soup https://divaliciousrecipes.com/keto-broccoli-and-stilton-soup/
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Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Jordie Grandma
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Welcome back to week eight of the Summer Body Challenge, which if you didn't already know, is a collaboration between me
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at Busy B. Marie, at Tina's Talk Time and at Maria Crocker
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So just four women on YouTube who decided to get together to try and more
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motivate each other to lose weight, get fit, a bit more healthy and hopefully motivate anybody
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who was watching as well. We've had some really good reactions to the videos we've been doing
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There's people following along with work, giving them with some really good motivation as
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well and we've been sharing some great tips. So we're all doing different healthy eating plans
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I'll put the links to the other ladies below so you can go and see what they're up to
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and how they're doing with their weight loss. and healthy eating. I'm doing low carb, mainly because I'm type 2 diabetic and I want to get my
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blood sugars under control. I've been type 2 diabetic for about 15 years now and it's just
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way out of control. So that was why I chose low carb because there's been research done that says
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you know, it's proven that a low carb diet helps get your blood sugar down. So with every video I've done
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in this series. I have a bit of a format. I'll tell you how I've been doing for the week
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I'll show you any meals I've been eaten that are nice and I'll tell you about the things
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that I've been eating that shouldn't be eaten. We also have a focus of the week every week
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And this week it is on juices and shakes. Then I'll tell you, I'll show you the way in so you can
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say if I've lost or I've gained. And then I usually end with
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what did I learn from the week. So let's go back and talk about what's been happening this week
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Well, we went camping at the weekend with the grandkids, the first time we've ever took them camping
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and I was full of good intentions. I took some low-carb buns. I took some Richmond meat-free sausages
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because we were going to have a barbecue. They had ordinary buns and hot dogs and things like that
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And I had that. I was fine. And we had a few stressful moments, let's say, during this camp
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And we only went for one night. So there was a few stressful moments. So I did eat some bourbon biscuits
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We went to the beach for a walk and a paddle in the sea
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And I had to have an ice cream. I mean, it was absolutely delicious, this ice cream
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The next day we went to a cafe in the morning. And I had a tea cake
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I had a toasted tea cake with butter. But, hey-ho. That weekend was a day
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over you get back to normality and get back to the healthy eating plan which is
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what I did I haven't really eaten many different meals this week I haven't
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eaten any different meals this week so I don't really have any meals to show you to talk about I have been eating lots of those excuse me lots of those
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butter bowl kind of things that I showed you in last week's video I've really
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been enjoying those I did talk about a broccoli and still and soup that were in
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made for us a few weeks ago and I showed a picture of it and we put some in the
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freezer because he doesn't like Stilton so it was only me eating it so put some of
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that in the freezer and the last time I had it before we put it in the freezer it was a
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little bit thick so when I took it out the freezer this time and defrosted it
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I heated it up with I mixed it in with a little bit of water and heated it up and it
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was absolutely delicious it kept its taste which you know it usually does in the freezer
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was absolutely delicious and I had that with a low carb bun and that was really nice
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I highly recommend that broccoli and stult and soup. I think I've put the link to it somewhere in a previous video but I'll put the link again below because it was really nice
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So apart from that, I haven't really eaten anything new. I've been having lots of salads as I say lots of butter bowls
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I've been having salads. It's been too hot to have anything, you know, major really
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So that's what I've been eating. Now this week the focus is on juices and shakes like I said and for a for a diabetic
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juices and shakes aren't really good idea because they're usually full of sugar
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so I don't I tend not to I tend not to drink juices I never buy fruit juice and I
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very very rarely have a shake and I thought I didn like smoothies so juices are were a bit of a no go for me on this topic When you doing low carb you can really only eat berries
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So strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries. Now Warren is following this diet with us, so this healthy eating plan
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And when we go shop and you say, can I have a melon berry? Can I have a banana berry
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No, if it doesn't say berry, you can't have it. so I have made a few I've made two smoothies this week and I've got another protein shake that I have quite
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quite regularly so I'm just going to show you them now I'll show you me making them and tell you what
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they're about and what they tasted like I like to have a protein shake some mornings because
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it's just quick and easy and if you put something frozen in it. It's quite refreshing especially on a summer morning and for the protein
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shape I use something called purition. You can get these in pack sample packs of
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12 or I think you can get them in sample packs of 24 as well but I usually get them
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in a sample pack of 12 because I like a variety of flavors. If you find a flavor that
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you do like then you can get like a whole bag of it but you get like hemp, strawberry
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There's almond, almond and orange, chocolate orange, coffee and walnut, banana, and macadamia and vanilla
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And I think I've used a couple, so there was some, I think there's a blackberry one and a vanilla one as well
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And in these, there's 40 grams in one of these sashes, and it's got 3.5 grams of carbohydrates
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188 calories 15.9 grams of protein so it's quite a lot of protein in there which is good and 14 grams of fat. So I think I'm going to have the coffee you mornut one this morning and I use
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me Breville active blend blender for these. I wouldn't put nuts or anything in the Breville Blender because they don't
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really they wouldn't really blend up very well in it but it's great for this kind of protein shake
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so I've got 250 mils of almond milk it says 200 mils on the packet but I'm also going to put
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some frozen avocado in so 250 mils of almond milk and I'm going to put in the protein shake powder
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I'll add into the bottle. And then I'm just going to add some frozen chunks of avocado
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These do, sometimes you leave some little chunky bits of avocado, but you can give it a good blitz and that should be okay
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So then you put the end of the blender on, screw it on
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and then put it into the the bravel and then give it a good blitz
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and once it's blended I usually do about 30 seconds on it
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is what it looks like kind of a creamy texture smoothie texture probably
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screw my lid on it I could pour it into a glass but I don't mind drinking it out of this
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bottle if I can get the lift on it so once it's done it's just ready to go that's
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quite nice and they do actually keep me full until lunchtime so really tasty so
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yeah I definitely recommend you try the Purition protein shakes if that's your
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thing I'll put the link in below not affiliated to them at all I'll just get them from
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on this is smoothie number two although technically the first one wasn't a smoothie it was
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a protein shake but this is a berry smoothie and I got this recipe from a website
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called or a YouTube channel no this was a website called iHackeddiabetes.com he also has a
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YouTube channel I'll put the link below just in case you want to have a look at what else he's got on there and for this smoothie it is half a cup of frozen
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berries so there a mix of strawberries blackberries blueberries and there actually some black currants in there as well so I using a different food processor for this one because some of the things are frozen and I don think the brevill will blend them up and up
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So put the berries in and then it has got half a cup of ice cubes. They are American measurements
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because it's American site but I do have some cup measures. So half a cup of ice
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then it has one cup of almond milk pour that in there's one tablespoon of stevia
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so put that in as well and there's half a teaspoon of vanilla extract
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and pop that in as well and then we blend it up
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I think that's blended enough, that's about 30 seconds. I'm just gonna pour it out, into the glass
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I think it's still got a few lumps in there. If you like your smoothie's a little bit lumpy, then that's fine
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but if not you can just blend it up a little bit more. Looks like a really nice colour
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So that is the berry, frozen berry smoothie. You could put a couple of berries on the top of you on
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wanted to look a little bit prettier and in this is 70 calories there's 4 grams
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of carbs which makes it low carb one gram of protein and 3 grams of fat if you
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wanted to add some more protein to it you could also put some pro some low carb
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protein powder in there as well so I'm just gonna have a taste that's really
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nice that is so refreshing really good this next smoothie feels a little bit more
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like a grown-up smoothie I have to say and it is a mocha smoothie so for this one I'm
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going to add one and a half cups of almond milk that's one I'm going to add half a cup of
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coconut milk which is going to give it a creaminess one teaspoon of vanilla
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3 tablespoons of stevia. Now I'm going to add 2 teaspoons of coffee, instant coffee, any instant coffee you'll do
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So we're going to add 2 teaspoons of that. I think that's what makes it sound a little bit more grown-up smoothie
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And then we're going to add 3 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder
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now we're also going to add half a medium avocado but i'm going to blitz this up first
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blend that up first and then put the avocado in so we'll just give this a blend
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so i probably blended that for about a minute because i want all the cocoa powder to be
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blended in well and now i'm going to add the half avocado to it
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I do like an avocado and it gives you the good fats along with that coconut milk
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We'll just put the lid back on. I'll blend that up some more
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So that's about another 30 seconds just to make sure that avocado is well blended in
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I'm going to now pour it into the glass. Oh that smells lovely
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It smells like that keto cheesecake I made the other week. So we'll just pour it in
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You can say it's a nice thick smoothie. You could probably get two in there if I put it in a smaller glass
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because you can see there's some left. So you can definitely probably get two
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You could sprinkle some little dark chocolate shavings on the top just to make it a little bit more decadent
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So we'll give that a taste and let's see Oh, that is good. That is really good
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That tastes like a really good chocolate milkshake. I do like that. So in that is
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There is 249 calories in that So there is a bit more calories in it than the fruit one 21 grams of fat but they good fats Six grams of carb so very low carb
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And 4.5 grams of protein in there. Again, you could put maybe some chia seeds in there
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to add some extra protein or some, even some protein powder if you wanted to add more protein
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But that is definitely my favourite. So those were the protein shake
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and the two smoothies that I made. The berry one, I think I said, came from I Hacked Diabetes
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which I'll put the link below. And the Mocka smoothie was from a YouTube channel called Ruled.me
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which has a lot of nice recipes on there. So just the other one, actually, that I'll be dipping into quite often
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you know, going into the summer and the winter. But I did say the..
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the calories and the macros for that mocker. And I think that mocker is for two people
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So if you drink the whole thing, you'll have to double those macros
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So it was 249 calories. You'd be having like 500 calories if you were to have the whole thing
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But it's quite rich, so you probably would only want half. And it was a really nice smoothie
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I didn't think I liked smoothies. I didn't think I liked the smoothies. but making me own, yeah, I'll definitely make those again
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So if you've got any, you know, recipes for nice low-carb smoothies or shakes that you've had
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let us know in the comments below. I always like to try new things and I hope you try one of these smoothies and if you do
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you can also let us know in the comments below and let us know what you think of them. Now it's time for The Wayne
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So I'm just going to put it here. I didn't actually do a video of it. It was a photograph
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I was in such a rush this morning that I just took the photograph. So as you can see, I've lost a pound
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I think I started in the 10 weeks at 14 stone 12 and a half
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12 and a half. I put it here. And I'm now at 14 stone 5 and a half
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So I've lost 7 pound. I did put some couple of pound on a couple of weeks ago
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But I've managed to get that back off. and I'm back to have losing half a stone in what is eight weeks
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And I'm quite happy with that because like I said, the weight loss was a bonus
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It was really the blood sugars that I wanted to try and get down. I'm actually going for my HBA 1C blood test in the morning
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which takes an average of what my blood glucose levels were over the last eight weeks
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So I'll get a good idea if how this healthy eating, how this low carb eating
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is working with that. I think a normal HBA1C is around 45 and mine was 85 about four months ago
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That is the highest it's ever been which is one of the reasons I wanted to do this because I really need to get it under control
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Like I've said before I've been having problems with my feet with diabetic neuropathy and I don't want to end up in a wheelchair
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So I really needed to get that under control. you know next week what the results of that test were and I'm hoping it's come down some
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So next week the focus is on dairy free and meat free meals which is going to be fairly easy for
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me because I don't eat meat so that'll be easy. The dairy free I don't know if I'm going
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to follow that strictly. I do already drink almond milk. but on a low carb diet you need to eat like cream and stuff like that and cheese and because
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I don't eat meat I need to get the you know the vitamins and stuff from elsewhere so I
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don't think I'm going to be following the no dairy strictly but I will share some
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some products with you next week on that and we're having a barbecue on Sunday with
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the family so I'll be getting some meat-free barbecue products to do so I'll try and fill them a little bit of that and let you know
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what those meat-free products were like because I don't tend to buy stuff like that very often
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but I'll be able to tell you what it was like and show you some clips of that so that was all
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I've got for you today it feels a little bit short and sweet today but there is those smoothie
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recipes to have a look at so I hope you found that interesting that's all I've got for
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you for now I'll see you again soon So I say you next week
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