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Summer Body Challenge Week 6 : Low Carb Weight Loss Over 50
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May 13, 2024
Week 6 of the 10 Week Summer Body Challenge in collaboration with The Transatlantic Housewives of Youtube @Maria_crocker @BusyBeeMaree @tinastalktime Keto Blueberry Donuts: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/keto-donuts Keto Chocolate Cookies: https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/keto-chocolate-cookies/ Keto Vanilla Mug Cake: https://sugarfreelondoner.com/keto-vanilla-mug-cake/#recipe #lowcarbdiet #weightlossjourney #type2diabetes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegeordieg... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegeordiegr... Blog: https://www.thegeordiegrandma.co.uk Email me: [email protected] Disclaimer: All products were purchased by me unless otherwise stated. These are my honest opinions. This video may contain affiliate links, which means when you click on one of the product links, I will receive a small commission.
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Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Georgie Grommer, welcome back to my channel and this is week six of the summer body challenge in collaboration with at Busy B. Marie, at Maria Crocker and at Tina's Talk Time, also known as the Transatlantic Housewives of YouTube
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So what we're doing is, if you don't already know, we're doing a 10 week challenge to kind of motivate each other, lose a bit of weight, get fit, get healthy and hopefully feel happier
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We're all doing different healthy eating ways of life, diets if you want to call it that
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Busy being Marie is doing the 16-8 fasting. Maria Crocker is doing Slim and World and Tina is doing, I think she's doing
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She's doing the Cambridge one to one, I think it's called, which is meal replacement shakes
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And myself, I'm doing low carb, which means that I'm eating under 130 grams of carbs a day
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So basically I'm not eating any bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, try to cut out chocolate, crisps, cakes, biscuits, that kind of thing
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So this is week six. How is my week gone? to be honest and say it hasn't gone well and I kind of knew it wasn't going to and it
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was my own fault for not planning properly but it was a bank holiday weekend again
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Milo's in the background so be he'll hear yourself Milo yeah it was a bank holiday weekend
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and I also took two days holiday from work so I had five days off and it kind of went downhill
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I tried to not eat stuff that were carbs but it just didn't work out like that
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So I had, what did I eat that was bad? I've had to write it down here so I remember
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We went to Costa. I do have a hot chocolate from Costa on a Friday but I'm usually at work
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We have a Costa at work, I work on a hospital and I usually have a hot chocolate at work and
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then I would stop there and not have anything else. But I went to Costa with Warren and I had the hot chocolate and we had like a chocolate pastry as well
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which was a big mistake and to be fair I didn't really enjoy it that much
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It wasn't brilliant. I also had a Snickers. I don't even know why I had the Snickers
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I'm not particularly fond of Snickers but it was in the house so I had the Snickers
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I think we'd got them for the kids or something. I also had a McDonald's
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We did have the grandchildren over the weekend and they do like to go to McDonald's
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And usually I can not eat when I'm there. I'll just have a coffee
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But for some reason, I don't know whether it was because I felt it was in holiday mode
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But I had a fish burger and a fries. I didn't have the apple pie
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So that was good. And I've also been buying, I've talked about the Calorice cakes before
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And I usually get the dark chocolate ones and I picked up the milk chocolate ones by accident and I think the milk chocolate, it's, obviously it's different to the dark chocolate, but it makes me want to eat more of them
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So I have been eating more of the callow cakes, calo rice cakes as well
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So I need to go back to having the dark chocolate ones because the milk chocolate seem to give me that craving that I want more sweet stuff
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I still seem to be focusing on treats too much snacky foods which I'm trying to get away from
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You probably already know this but I'm type 2 diabetic. So one of the reasons I wanted to do low carb was because you're taking in less sugar
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which is better for type 2 diabetes and it has been proven that low carb diets help to get type 2 diabetes under control as well as lose weight
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So the whole point of me doing this 10 weeks and my body challenge was to get my blood sugar levels down and the weight loss is an added bonus
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So that's why I wanted to cut the sweet stuff. I have had some good things this week
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It hasn't been a complete disaster. I did have some egg fried cauliflower rice which I'd seen a couple of people on YouTube make and I thought that looks tasty
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so we tried that which was basically cauliflower rice we actually had some frozen
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cauliflower rice in the freezer so we used that and it had pepper and onion and spring onion in it
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a bit of soy sauce sauce some garlic some ginger obviously some egg you kind of scramble the egg into it
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and fry it all up and I added some meat-free bacon as well and Warren had some ordinary bacon with his
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and that was actually really filling it didn't look like it was going to be
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because it was just like cauliflower, but it is really filling and it doesn't really taste
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like cauliflower when you fry it up. So I did enjoy that and I would have it again and I would
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possibly try it with some different things in. I also had some avocado salsa which I made
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last week when I had the tuna and avocado salsa with that and there was some left over
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after I had that so I had it for my breakfast the next day and I had the avocados
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Cavaado Salsa with some hard-boiled eggs and that was really nice. Now usually avocado when it's been you know opened it goes a funny colour when you've
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left it in the fridge for a while but I think because I had lime juice in the
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avocado salsa I kind of kept the colour so that was really nice and I would definitely have that again But my problem this week was definitely in the planning
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So I need to start doing that a little bit more. Now this week was the focus is on sugar or no sugar
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Try to cut down on sugar which is a type 2 diabetic. That's what you want to do
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You want to cut down on sugar. You know if you eat too much sugar, you put weight on
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You know, I've spent 40 years. eating cakes and chocolate and biscuits and crisps and it ends up in a you know if you over-eat
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them which I have done over the last 40 years you just put loads of weight on and my
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weights crept up and up and up over the years I've been up you know 19 stone I've been
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down at 11 stone in the minute at the minute I'm around the 14 and a half and we'll do the
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way and later to see if I've put weight on I lost weight so yeah it's just you know
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eating you know sugary things isn't good for you and the sugar in everything which you know
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if they tell you if they tell you some diets say you know eat low fat so you'll get a low fat yogurt
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but if you actually look at the ingredients on it it's actually got quite a lot of sugar in it
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so on low carb you avoid low fat you want to eat fat but you want to eat good fats
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so if you're eating lots of sugary things you put weight on um
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It does make you feel tired eating sugary things. I know before I started the low carb, when I was at work
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I'd be practically falling asleep at my desk after my lunch after I'd had bread
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or, you know, borrow chocolate or something. It does make you tired eating sugary foods
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It can make you spotty. You know, if I've been having a binge on cake or chocolate or whatever
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I do find my skin looks worse, you know, over the next few days after it
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So it can make you spotty. And if you eat sweet stuff, it makes you crave sweet stuff
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If you don't eat it, you don't crave it. I'm not quite sure why that is
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There's some scientific reason around that. But if you eat sweet stuff, you crave more sweet stuff
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So it's easier not to eat it. And is a diabetic, obviously, it will raise your blood sugar, which we don't want when we're diabetic
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So if it does all those things, why do I continue to eat sweet stuff
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Well, because it makes you feel good, doesn't it? It does taste nice. while you're eating it
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It's like a reward, you know, when I've heard us say to the grandkids
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you know, if you eat your dinner up, you know, you can get some sweets
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Why do you do that? You know, I'm sure my mom used to
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I mean, Anna used to say that to me when I was young, you know, if you eat all your greens
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you can get some pudding. It's kind of the savory stuff, the good stuff
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that you should be eaten is, is Tret kind of like a bad thing
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but if you eat it, you can have the thing that's nice which is the wrong way to think about it really isn't it
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I remember me auntie, great hand she was unfortunately she's no longer with us but she always
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used to say have you got a biscuit? She says, tea's too wet without a biscuit and I know what she means
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you know what you know I know exactly what that means it's coffee your tea is too wet without
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the biscuit so you feel like you have to have the the chocolate biscuit or
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or the ginger snap or whatever. And you get to thinking, do I actually want the cup of tea or the cup of coffee
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Or is it the biscuits that I want? And if you cut the biscuits out
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you can actually enjoy the tea or coffee more, I think. What do you think
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Would you agree with that? Keep looking at me notes here. So we talked about, you know, strategies to
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I think it was a couple of weeks ago, we talked about strategies to keep your mind off binging
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or emotional eating, comfort eating, and eating all the, you know, the chocolates and biscuits and crisps
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that you really don't want to eat, but you do. But talked about ways of coping with that
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you know, like reading a book or going for a walk or having a telephone conversation with friends
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something like that. Sometimes they don't work and you just want something sweet
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I mean, how many times have you sat watching the TV if anything like me
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I've sat watching a film and I've mindlessly ate a whole bag of mincelling
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Like a sharing back of minstrels, I could eat the whole lot
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So sometimes you just want something sweet, don't you? So if I know that I want something sweet, I need to plan and make something that is sweet but has got very little sugar in it
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And there's loads of alternatives around. If I went to Sainsbury's, say, before I started the low carb, sorry, I feel like I'm going to sneeze. No
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No, before I started the low carb, we would pick up a pack of donuts and the donuts
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that always come in fives. Why is that? Why do they come in fives? There's always one spare and I'm
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usually the one that ended up eating it. But you buy a pack of vanilla custard doughnuts from
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Sainsbury's and I've just wrote down some macros here for them. In one donut there's
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267 calories which if you're low carb you're not really counting calories but there is 37
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grams of carbs in a vanilla custard donut, which is a lot if you're only having 130 for the day
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If you were doing keto, that would be way more than you should have for the day. And out of those 37 grams of carbs, 19 grams of that was sugar
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So that's a lot of sugar you're eating in one donut. And I would definitely eat two, if not three
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So they were really bad. So instead of having the same speeds of vanilla custard donut, I came across a recipe for a keto bluebird
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doughnut I'll put some pictures here which look really tasty you would just have to put a
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little bit of thought into it beforehand so you had them ready but in the blueberry
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the keto blueberry doughnut there 183 calories 11 grams of carbs but only one gram of sugar so you know that really doable you could quite easily have one of those and have no problem I assuming with a lot of things like that you can freeze them so you not
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tempted to eat more than one. Biscuits, you know, like I'm talking about having biscuits with a cup of
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coffee. And so in a chocolate digestive, there's 83 calories in one chocolate digestive. There's 10 grams of
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carbs just in one and the 10 grams of carbs five grams of that is sugar and you
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wouldn't stop at one chocolate biscuit or I wouldn't you know I will probably eat
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half the packet so you can kind of see how I'm getting to where I am with my
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weight and although eating sugary things doesn't doesn't cause diabetes even though people think it does it does not cause type 2 diabetes but if you're overweight
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you're more likely to get type 2 diabetes. So you can see why these things have happened
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So instead of having the chocolate digestive, you could make some keto cookies
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And I believe Busybee Marie is making some sugar-free cookies over on her channel
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so don't forget to go and watch after you've seen this one. But in a keto cookie, the one I found online
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I'll link all of these recipes below. There's 71 calories in one of the keto cookies
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There's only 2 grams of carbs and there's no sugar in it at all
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So you could probably have more than one of those and be quite happy
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And a lot of these things taste really nice. So that was the keto cookies
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What else do I like to eat? Cake. I'm a big fan of cake
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I had a phase where before I started this low carbon in the last six weeks
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had a phase where every night I'd be caught. every night I'd be calling into Aldi of Sainsbury's and picking up a cake
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I don't know why I just felt like I needed a cake at the end of the day. But I don't have any macros for a cake because I just eat so much variety of them
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But I found a recipe for a keto mug cake, which sounded really good
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And I've actually made some. So I'll just slot that in here
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Papa, papar-parra-da-par-da-par-da-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa. So the keto mug cake is 246 calories for one
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5.5.1 grams of carbs, which is really good and only 1.3 grams of carbs and only 1.3 grams of
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sugar in that mug cake that was a vanilla one and I put some strawberries and cream
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with it as you saw you could put some you know some 85% dark chocolate in
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there some cocoa powder in there you could kind of chop up some strawberries
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and put them in there so there's lots of different things you could do with that they're really quick they only take about four minutes to make I think it
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was like 90 seconds in the microwave and they were really tasty and they're very
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filling and I don't think I would want to eat them every day because I think that
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would that probably wouldn't be good for you and you shouldn't be wanting to eat
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puddings all the time but if you're really craving something and you don't want
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to go for the you know the high cob high sugar doughnuts and things like that then
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one of these mug cakes is a really good idea so I highly recommend that again I'll
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put the link to the recipes down below you'll probably notice that a lot of the keto cakes and biscuits are very similar in calories but they are
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lower in carbs and sugar which means there's more healthier ingredients in them and it's not
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going to spike my glucose levels either so they are good if you know you're type 2 by diabetic
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and you're not going to crave more because there's no there's not lots of sugar in so
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you probably won't crave lots of them. Okay, let's get to the way in
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As you can see, I've put weight on this week. I've put two and three quarter pounds on
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which is not good, but I kind of knew that was going to happen after the, you know
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me five days off. I knew that was going to happen. I am a little bit disheartened about that
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because I'd lost seven pound previously and now I'm kind of back to just losing £4
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But I'm not going to... I'm not devastated. I did take me blood sugar this morning
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so this was before I had my breakfast and before I took my medication
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I take metformin so I hadn done that I had taken it over the weekend at roughly the same time you know before the medication before I had food and it was at 11 which is on the high side
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it always is a little higher in the morning but it was 11 and it has been under 10 you know in the
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previous weeks and I took it this morning and it was only 8.3 so that was good so even though
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I've put weight on my blood sugars are still looking like I'm
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I've got them under control. I will be going for my proper HBA-1C blood test at the doctors in about three weeks time
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So I'm hoping that's come down when I go for that and I'll share that with you when I get the results
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So I'm not going to be devastated about that two and three quarter pound weight gain
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I've got back on track a couple of days ago now. So the weekend is coming up
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So I'm going to try and stay in the motivated zone. And I usually ask, you know, say the question at the end of these videos, what did I learn
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And I learned that I'm not practicing when I'm preaching. I'm not taking my own advice
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And I think on week one, I think what I learned was that I needed to plan
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And I'm not doing it. And I really need, that is what I've learned, that I'm learning nothing
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So I am learning that now that I do need to plan
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If I don't plan, I just go right off track. So this week, this week, probably Saturday morning, I'm going to sit down and I'm going to
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plan what I'm going to eat for the rest of the week and then go out and buy the stuff
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and hopefully that'll help us stick to what I'm supposed to be doing a little bit better
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What about you? Do you plan or do you find if you don't plan that you go off track
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Just let us know in the comments below. I have getting some lovely comments from every
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everybody, you know, for these videos. And I really appreciate, you know, everything everybody
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says. Any tips, any advice, anything like that, any encouragement. I'm really happy to hear
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it. So thank you for sharing those. Now last week, Tina from Tina's talk time set us a challenge
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which we've been trying to do each week, challenge and each other to do a different thing
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And this week, Tina challenged us to play a childhood game, which I thought was a
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VAB idea. I did do a video when I first started YouTube about I think it was seven
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childhood games I remembered and this was one of the childhood games that I used to love
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and I hope some of you can remember it I used to play Elastics. So what you do is you get
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yourself a bag of Elastics and you join them all together and you make one big hoop
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Now we used to play Elastics in turn. different ways when more kids and we play this for hours and it's really good
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exercise so I thought well I'll try this for this video the one I'm gonna show
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you is where you usually have three people so there's two two people standing
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with the elastics round the ankles and the other person is doing the jumping
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in the middle I've had to put the around the elastics around the legs of two
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chairs because I didn't have two other people although I did play this with the grandkids it they entered the action
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loved it so I'm gonna pop the video in here of me playing elastics just so you can see
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what it was like. So that was me attempting to play elastics like I used to do when I was like 10
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And my God, I'm so unfit. You don't realize until you do start to be quite energetic, how unfit you've got
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I was shattered afterwards and I'd only done it for like two minutes
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But can you imagine if you were doing that every day? Like you used to when you were kids
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I wasn't overweight as a kid and that's probably why because we're playing that all day long
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So thanks Tina for setting that challenge. I really enjoyed it. I challenge you to go and get some elastic bands
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and try it yourself. It's a lot of fun. We also used to play it where, you know
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the two people would hold an end and then you'd put it at your ankle
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and the person would jump over that and then you'd put it to your knee and you'd try and jump over that
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And I seem to remember you used to get a shoulder and head you'd have to try and jump over it
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I don't think I ever managed it, but I definitely couldn't manage it now. But I did really enjoy the game of Velastics
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So thanks for that, Tina. Now next week we're going to be talking about processed food
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which for me is a good thing. I don't eat a lot of, well, I don't eat any ready meal kind of things
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But I do eat a lot of plant-based foods because I don't eat meat
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So it'll be interesting for us to look into that and say exactly what's in the plant-based food
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and how that would affect a low carb lifestyle. So if you're interested, that's coming up next week
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So if you enjoyed this video, please go over and watch at Busy Being Marie
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at Tina's Talk Time and at Maria Crocker, to see how they've done this week
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and how they've coped with things that are sugar-free. Like I say, I think Busy Being Marie's made some sugar-free cookies
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so that would be interesting. Maria and Tina may have done something as well
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So I hope you found that interesting. That's all I've got for you today
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Hopefully next week I'll have lost weight. But like I say, we're concentrating on the blood sugar rather than the weight loss
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And I am feeling a lot healthier. So thanks so much for watching
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I'll see you again soon. So bye for now
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