Patty, sounds to me like you have a doctor who actually listens. My Dr Jack says our relationship is a partnership and I am in charge of 99.99% of the work.
He would not have been pleased yesterday though. I had forgotten that I was going to eat at the pancake supper, not serve, and ended up taking my friend Barb there and falling off the wagon badly. (Barb is waiting for a knee replacement and is sort of down so I promised her I'd do pancakes with her so she could get out of the house.) Yes, I ate pancakes and syrup and loved every mouthful. No good deed goes unpunished.
How's this for a menu? Pancakes, maple syrup and butter, sausages cooked in syrup, baked beans ditto and for dessert - maple cheesecake. Now really!
The scale, ticker and FBGL tester are not pleased with me this morning. It will be a clean eating day and I will not eat the goodies at the Pampered Chef Party tonight.
On we go trudging over the Wednesday hump. We're getting halfway there through February too.
Trish I know what you mean I have a diabetic check up here cumming. Susposed to be today but I am going in the next few days here. I am jest so sick of coughing.
Been home most of the day by myself so far I need to get the energy to get up and get busy doing some workouts going or at least set all my stuff back up and in place. I got tons of Dvd's of Leslie and Jillian and Biggest looser so I dont have a excuse for not doing some things here.I would like to do it in mid week so that I have no excuse to fail on the weekends.
But I guess I better Be going and will check back later...
Ruthie I do have a really great caring doctor. I told him as I left yesterday that I so appreciate the way he takes care of us especially DH. He won't let anyone take over DH treatment for the Warfarin but him. He refused to let Tony's cardiologest take over the treatment of it and I think it is because the cardio should have run the tests etc to find the clot and treat it, but he didn't. I so appreciate that he cares about helping us get well or at least live a better life. He sent us to see a skin specialist one time because he didn't know if some moles on DH back were cancerous or could become cancerous. Specialist asked DH "Who are you?" When we asked why he said "Your doctor sent instructions like we were to treat you like VIP". Good luck with eating clean at the party tonight.
Bonnie Hope you feel better soon.
Got up early and did my exercise. So far eating is clean, healthy and OP. Got 3 months to turn this all . Actually isn't too bad. I'm already beginning to think about how I can eat at the hospital next week so that I can stay OP. I'm sure it won't be difficult. I might use Atkins drinks and then buy one or 2 meals at the hospital. I'm hoping we will only have to stay one night, but regardless of how long I am staying OP.
Hope we can all enjoy St. Valentine' Day. DH and I celebrated last evening, as he has dental surgery this am.
I had higher carb meals the last 2 days, and it shows. Even with "good" carbs, complex carbs etc. I was getting about 100g carbs each day, and today's fbs was a shocking 6.9!!!!
Back to normal this am. I am quite tired as well, which likely goes with the sugars. All symptoms are here, including excess thirst.
I DID get to yoga last evening. Its my weekend off, I am hoping to get some good exercise this weekend in general. THe workweek has been busy, and I tend to be just exhausted when I get home, makes it hard to exercise then. I went to yoga straight from the office last night. On Monday, I came home first, and was too tired to go out later to yoga. So the key is to just keep going and collapse when I get home.
Ok girls, kick my butt, I really have to get hold of myself and get losing weight again.
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Bonnie - Hope you are starting to feel better. This is probably effecting your BS too.
Trish - I could have written your post. My BS is so bad right now and I know why. I too need to get back to business and eat right and exercise.
My friend's mother lost 50 lbs with diet and exercise and she no longer has to take her meds or test her blood. I want that. We are going to do that, Trish! That woman is no better than we are!
My husband will eat broccoli and cauliflower if it's in cheese sauce. LOL He lives on fried potatoes and can not go 2 days in a row without them. He knows nothing about nutrition and doesn't care. He tells me that he has been eating this way all his life and has never had a weight problem. He does eat very small meals, they are just not healthy foods. He says he will not eat tasteless cardboard and then die anyway.
When I told my doctor that I might have to go back to basics and test bs after foods agai to see what my body tolerates, he said "You should already know that". He is right I know that there are certain foods that I might can eat occasionally but not on a regular basis. So it is time for me to get with it. Didn't do as well as I wanted yesterday, but I think I know what set me off. However, I am happy to say that I didn't eat any sugar yesterday. So there was progress.
Along with Mad, I'm in the line-up for butt kicking! I have made absolutely no progress in weightloss. (I've gained ten pounds since last February!) I know this will affect my next HA1C reading and am seriously P'd off with myself.
Off to the gym this morning and then nose to the grindstone to get those T4s issued. (That's record of earnings and deductions and has to be issued before the 28th.)
Maybe reducing my workload will reduce my body. ???
stayed on plan yesterday, and got exercise doing laundry and not just sitting on the couch last night. Also, we did a dance at a meeting for the billions rising celebration.
I am off call for the weekend, plan to go to yoga at noon hour and do a bit of admin work at the office this morning.
DH's dental surgery went well. I slept in the guest room for us both to sleep better, we have both had some restless sleeps lately and wake each other up. I slept well, and with him healing, so did he. But don't read any problems into not sleeping in the same bed on Valentines day!
Have a lovely Friday friends.
Good afternoon hereit is 11:52 so close enough. Well Been busy here I am so tired I feel like I am gonna fall over I am so Sick of coughing. I will be going to the Dr again sometime this weekend.I spend half of the night coughing when I take the syrup it wires me up and I stay awake so I dont win either way.
Me and the hubby has been talking he has a friend who lives in saluta Sc and has a two bedroom house he said we could have it but he would like to finance it himself so we can buy it. I told hubby i has to be legal or no way. It will only me me and the hubby and my 15 year old I told the two oldest to get out on their own they have till the summer.
So I went in to a rampage last night I was kinda pissed cause all it seems like I do is cook and then have to do the dishes for everyone everyday I am so tired of it. I told hubby last night I am going to buy stuff for sandwiches and they can eat it or go somewhere else . I am so tired of it all. Our aunt has her granddaughter here all day and is constantly shoving food in her and then when she leaves to go home she come in and says she has to go here or their and takes off and I get stuff cleaning up after everyone from the whole day.I was so mad It was valentines day and I had to stay up and clean. Mean while my two oldest was out on dates and his aunt was holding her daughters hand while she was at work.
Sorry for that it has been on my mind all night I done told the kids that I am not putting up with it and that I am done. Not saying anything to the aunt cause I know she will fly off the handle she has been using her back as a excuse for her not to do any work around here and now it is getting old no one wants to do it any more.She tells the hubby she can't help him do the yard stuff but she has all the energy to have the grandkid over all day .
Well I need to figure out how to get some of this togeather and start working off all this weight .
I went over and was looking at the blogs I have not been their in a while and people left some pretty rude things on my page so I wont be using that again. So I hope you guys dont mind if I write a little and you dont have to read it if you dont want to but It might help to get this out. I have been thinking about this alot. This may be my main problem and if you have any ideas how to help please do.
When I was born I only weighed 4 and 1/2 pounds I was two months early I was in and out of the hospital most of my 1st year of life the Dr's told my mom I would be lucky to live and if I did have a normal life with out some delays or mental problems I would be lucky. As you can see I am alive and well and the one problem I know I have is that I am FAT and it is because I kinda hoard food. But I dont have a self or a hide out I eat it. So i guess u could say that my stomach is the hide out or storage where I keep it all.
As growing up we never had food I could never go into the kitchen and open a cabinet and jest get some food out and cook it. from the time I was able to remember I would go to school I would eat breakfast at school a and then I would eat lunch when I got home their would be no telling if we had dinner. Summer time was the worst . I was number 8 in 12 children the first 5 was grown up and then their was the 5 of us that was from my dad and then 2 from a step dad. When summer rolled around we would be home with at the time taking care of the younger kids we did all we could to make sure they were feed. my mom decided that she didn't feel like paying rent so she moved us to a camp ground . Me as the oldest at home and my 3 younger sisters and a brother . We had no food but the potato's and corn they went and made us pick up out of the fields in town. so leave it to me as I was like 8 to start a fire and cook corn on the cob and potato's for the kids. My mom would get up when she woke up and she didnt come home till wee hours in the night.
When my brother in law got stationed here in SC he told my mom as long as she could pay to bring us with. We stayed their a year with them 9 people in a trailor. she finally got a place of our own and we still never had food even though she got food stamps and a check she seemed to buy some grocries and then sold the rest. It got to the point where me and my two sisters would rake leaves and stuff for money to go buy food for the little brother and sister. As I got older and in middle school I was being teased by kids for not wearing the up to date clothes and stuff. So I go embarrassed and stop going to lunch so I would spend all day in school and not eat when I got home I would hunt for food and eat till I couldnt eat any more. As I got to meet my hubby I got to where when I was around food I would eat cause I was so scared that their would be none tomorrow . I started packing on the pounds and when I got pregnant I only used that as a excuse to eat more. I see it now that when their is food and especially something sweet I would eat it like I couldnt let no one else have it I jest eat the whole thing. I couldn't stop it the urge to eat and eat till their was nothing left. I find that I still do that now. I am so sick of it I know I will have food in my house tomorrow but for some reason I can get it to click into place I shouldn't have to hide food from people jest so I can have it all . I don't know what to do I jest feel so hopeless any more. I jest don't know how much longer my body can endure this.
Thank you guys for letting me write this it helps so much to tell someone something..
Ladies, We've all been having difficulties lately some of us more than others. Someione made a post on another thread that led us to this website. It is a very long lecture by an Endorinologist whose specialty seems to be working with obese kids. The lecture is long but so worth taking the time to watch. I so understand so much more why low carb works and why lowfat high carb doesn't. He goes into great detail that Madeleine will understand far more than I ever could. This man even caused DH to see why and how we have to change our eating. I've been clean eating after watching this on YouTube. Knowing what I learned has made it easy to eat clean.
Madeleine Is Splenda actually sucralose? I didn't understand if he said table sugar is sucralose and/or if Splenda is. I'm not sure whether to use it after watching this show.
It's called Sugar: The Bitter Truth if you can go to YouTube and just look it up or you can use the route below
Bonnie I am so sorry but I don't think your problem is your fault... it is caused by all the trauma you experienced growing up. I have just heard about how traumas we experience in our lives can cause us to eat more than we should. I think if the truth be known... we all have had them. You might need to find a Trauma councellor to help you put those experiences behind you. Never heard much about them till a few days ago and called my DBIL to have him see to it that my sister into counciling. He said she was diagnosed bi-polar and she may be but I also think that she has had so many things happen to her in her life that she needs someone to help her deal with the trauma. I'm thinking you might need to have the same kind of help. Hope this helps you or gives you another way to deal with things.
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Bonnie - I am sorry to hear all that you had to deal with. You really didn't get to be a child. And now as an adult you have also had to deal with some things. Sometimes when eating is the only thing you can control, that's what you do. No one faults you for that. I can see that your really fight for your family and that is commendable.
I have been doing pretty good with cutting way back on carbs the past few days. On Thursday when I went to bed my sugar was 122. I happened to wake up at 3AM so I checked and I was at 132. At 8 AM when I got up I was at 137. Considering the high readings I've been having, that was a great improvement. Last night when I went to bed I was at 103. I don't know where that came from. I have not been that low in over a year. I decided to skip a snack and see what happens. This morning I was 159, so I guess I had a liver dump because of no snack. I still don't understand this except that "it happens". I used to think the snack was what's raising my BS overnight, but now I see that it isn't. I'm going to figure this out if it kills me! I guess that's not a good choice of words. LOL Someone on another board said that since my BS hasn't been good for so long, my body reacts to a BS reading that is high, but lower than I normally go. ???
Hey friends:
Feeling good about myself. Had more energy yesterday than have had in ages, felt good to do things around here. DH is low energy, healing from his dental surgery. It could be healing up from that virus in December, or sleeping well in the guest room, or getting back on plan, don't care, felt good. Went to yoga at noon yesterday, and went skiing on the trail with the dog today. So have been exercising 3 days out of the last 4. Pretty happy with that.
To answer a few questions:
Sugar is sucrose, and splenda is sucralose.
And carol sue, you can read about sugar dumping in many books, I like diabetes for dummies personally. But yes, a small snack at bedtime helps prevent the overnight dumping. You could save a few carbs for that time. Even a carrot with ranch or blue cheese dip would be fine. Doesn't have to be a meal! That is what the metformin should also help with, but mine is not extended release, that is my next visit to the doctor to request that. But for now, no real reason to go to doc. Recent blood work was fine, so no biggie to go in for now.
Bonnie: I am sure with finances being tight it might be hard to consider counselling, but perhaps there is something that might help. I was a bullied child, but otherwise had lots of family love and support, and really can't blame my childhood for my weight. But there is research that prematurity, low birth weight and formula feeding may affect our weight later in life. However, the key is find ways to overcome our disadvantages. I have a strong family history of diabetes, and am trying to stay active and lose some of this weight to avoid the negative parts of aging with diabetes. As well, I certainly hope these adult children are pulling their weight at home with chores etc. I know the last year DD was here was really hard that way, and we had real trouble getting along. She has become quite the little housekeeper since leaving home. Makes me laugh.
Well, I slept in the guest room again last night, and my hips are not sore, and had another great sleep. So I guess if I want to sleep with DH again, we will need a new mattress. That won't be cheap, but I do love my husband, and he is worth it. TIme to dip into the savings account I guess. Have a good weekend everyone.
Thanks Guys . It was jest me sitting here thinking of my life and what could be the reasoning for it and that what I keep cumming back to. By all mean my life was **** and I didn't have a relationship with my mother to speak of She died of colon cancer and when she died she suffered big time. She died alone with my oldest sister she was so ashamed she didn't want us at to even be at her funeral cause she said she didn't deserve us their for what she done to us. Well we did go and I wouldn't of changed a thing.
I am going to the Dr tomorrow of my diabetic check up and I will have to talk to them to see what my options can be. I will also be finding out what they can do for this freakin cough I am still coughing up a storm. My ear has been bothering me alot lately too. been having some funky stuff going on here with it. But I am gonna have to run have to get all my meds togeather so I can get refills and I will be back tomorrow....
