The Wagon ......

I haven't just fallen off the LCHF wagon l have dived off munching xmas cake and pudding. Andy made me a xmas cake as a present and did a home made xmas pudding.
I comfort myself with the fact my exercise factor has gone up by 10x in the last 2 days and it is very short term treat.
Been keeping loads of readings highest is 8.9 about 2hrs post eat at 3hrs 6.7 and went on a one mile run. Not including several 2 miles walks yesterday.

Hi Mid

Every diabetic has a day now and again when they say sod this for a game of soldiers. Christmas day or a birthday is as good as any for a blow out. I keep it to around one day a month. Funny thing is every time a eat a food that has been off the menu for years, I always think it tastes like cardboard and why do I eat this crap. I ordered up a full Xmas dinner in a Hotel last week it came with four roast potatoes. I ate one and thought this thing is totally tasteless compared to my usual mashed swede or celeriac.

l can safely say the pud and cake are heaven beats store bought into a cocked hat. Just had some cake xmas cake with boursin cheese.

Falling off the wagon is fine as long as you climb back on pretty sharp ! Those BG levels are not disastrous and occasionally we all let our guard down.

It has been on my mind this Christmas as I have watched the way people act, it strikes me that Christmas is not a celebration of anything other than a celebration of gluteny, we spend a stooped amount on presents for the kids and other family on things they don't need, it seems to be a rule to over indulge in as much of the unhealthiest foods as possible, it's nuts, why do we do it? I was chatting with my brother walking back to the cars from the restaurant yesterday, he said he put on a stone in weight last Christmas but ain't gonna do it again this year so he's eating normally, by celebrating Christmas the world seems to feel the need to pig out, as if it is a huge struggle the rest of the year not to stuff ourselves with shite, if this is the case, does that mean we are unhappily abstaining from what truly makes us happy for the other 50 weeks of the year? In which case is it in fact better to eat what we want and let it kill us earlier, or live longer unhappier lives? This is not a dig at you MID I have the highest respect for you and your efforts, you are inspirational, I'm just using your thread to try and articulate what's been going through my head this year, what is it that makes us over eat, over spend and generally over endulg in every way? Is it just another manifestation of us being brainwashed into spending money and lining peoples pockets benefitting from it, it seems ingrained into society, for the non religious like me, what am I celebrating? Eating? Drinking? Spending? Why is eating for our health so much more diificult at Christmas? Because everyone around us is being over indulgent and its expected, I have been accused of spoiling Christmas last year for trying to stay on the wagon, what is going on! I had 4 quality street chocolates Christmas day, I wouldn't dream of eating them any other time, what is the logic in "well it is Christmas"? Why did I eat them? Fkd if I know

Apart from being bah humbug like, it seems to me that Christmas is a celebration of everything that is wrong in our society, I enjoy it all, so I'm not being holier than thou, so I'm going to try my best for the rest of the holiday to enjoy the time with the family and enjoy the less endulgant sides of life 

I've never even noticed it before, I hope some of this makes sense, it's not a question, just sharing a thought, maybe I'm just too daft or shallow to have had the thought before

There's a lot of truth in what you say Andy although food has been a big part of celebrations and festivals for years, going back to Ancient times. No, that doesn't make it right, I just think it's perhaps not as recent as you think. The trouble is nowadays, with technology, it's more "visual". Pics of meals on Facebook etc.

None taken Andy and l am back on the wagon told hub last night hide the cake and don't eat any in front of me......he is an excellent cook. Felt bad as Hub went and made me a xmas cake for a present was tempted to kill him but well l ate a lot of it.

We do not "do" xmas as most folks. l buy one present for first hubs mum and hub buys his boet and wife one that's it. . There is just the 2 of us, we went up to Musselborough on Xmas eve and stayed in the m/h which we parked up on the quayside at Fisherrow Harbour. We came back yesterday as so much to do couldn't afford being trapped by snow.

We play the how much are people spending game it is staggering how nuts folks go shops are closed for 1 day!

Presents are insane people say they don't have money...but they spend the amounts they do, then come January they moan about no money.

l rarely buy presents but what sticks in my mind is the Japanese way...if you buy it can people run it. If you buy a camera can people afford the electric to charge it or the SD card to put in it and a bag to keep it in. If you buy all of the bits they will feel obliged to outdo a return the following year and it may well be to much for them to cover.

Bit like the old Indian Maharajahs who would give a white elephant to someone who annoyed them... it would bankrupt the person to try and keep it in the splendour demanded.

So don't buy for your ego buy for the receivers benefit.

I've got to the stage where I feel Christmas/New Year is just a very welcome break from work in mid-winter, a chance to see the family, and give each other presents. I'm not religious so that bit doesn't affect me, and I guess the pagan Winter Solstice thing is spiritually more significant.

But the overindulgence, ridiculous levels of spending and subsequent 'guilt' is just a product of rampant commercialism at its worst, to which I and most other people fall for every year. I wish it weren't the case, but the kids like it ...

Hi everyone. I had a low carb Christmas dinner - but my sugars shot up to 11.4 for over an hour. We traced it to chestnut stuffing homemade as well! (no bread crumbs either.) it was gorgeous though.

But it is only once a year and as I hadn't been daft I'll forgive myself knowing I'm back on the wagon.

Last year I got upto 17 - the life before proper low carb. Felt rough all day that Christmas - so wasn't worth it.

Sugar free jelly and cream as dessert shared with Nana in law. She has no teeth so she was happy not eating massive amounts of cake with nuts she couldn't chew.

At the end of the day, if you look after yourself for the majority of the time the odd fall won't matter.

Then straight back on the wagon!

@Andy12345 you are so right!  I agree with everything you said.  I was fine on Christmas day, but today I too had 4 chocolates and I didn't really enjoy them.  Ridiculous.  We have scaled down our Christmas's greatly the last few years or so, I just wish I was brave enough to give them up altogether.  Somehow I can't because I am stuck with the tradition of it.