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Hi all, I'm back from my "vacation" to MN and I'm enjoying the staycation at home. There was no relaxation visiting family and that was frustrating. Of course I ate and ate - and it truly was an emotional comfort. I'm just not gonna go back. I'd be good this week but I have my restart date set for Saturday since I'm not going to diet on my birthday. I think I have a gazillion pounds to lose now. I can say exercise is great. We brought the tandem to MN and biked as an escape of our family. OK, mostly my father. The rest are normal people and easy to spend time with. I'd list my foods but that might take a couple hours. Exercise was bike, bike and walking. Since we got back at 11:59 pm on Sunday night, I've ellipticalled, walked and swam and made a German Chocolate Cake. Bad me. And DH will make my Red Velvet b-day cake tomorrow. At least when I restart on Saturday, I know the Red Velvet calories and will allot them into my days. That and mochas. Since it's fresh fruit season, I can see my menus for the weekend. Cake, Mochas and Fruit. :)
Mary, seems like you're doing great. I hope your dr gives you more strips so that you can figure out what is best for you. Am2, I thought of you when we went for a 28 mile bike ride in the 93 degree heat and 100000% humidity. That kicked my but. I so much like the desert air at home better. Since you're a heat and humidity dweller, I'd have skipped the 100 degree walk. But then, I got more used to the humidity by the end of the week. Tera and Maizy, :wave: to you both! Since I'm not being good (bad is nearly an accurate description) I won't post my calories until the restart on Saturday. Then Monday I'm going to dust off the evil scale. But I will be here daily again regardless if the sweet tooth has a noose around my neck. BTW, :rofl: at the idea of a sweet roll being low glycemic food. Hahahaha!!!! Love you all. Marie |
Tonight was hard but I managed. My dh picked up a little blueberry pie at New Seasons today...the first ingredient is 100% whole sugar cane ..that sorta gives you an idea, oh it was so sweet and the crust was perfect and the blue berries lucious...I almost cried that I only ate 1/4 and wanted to eat 1/2 of it. I was afraid to because I don't know the carb count. :( I almost felt I shouldn't eat any rather than just a little but I wanted it so badly that I did eat 1/4.
But I am determined to get my bs under control or as much under control as I can. So I had to estimate the amount of calories in that little bit of pie, but I think my calories for today were about 1223 and 12 carb servings. That's when it's hard when I could have eat more calories but I'm out of carb servings!!:( I worked out as usual. Marie - Glad you're back. Doesn't sound too bad..you should be able to get back on track. German Chocolate Cake is my favorite cake. And know what you mean about the fruit...we have some cherries on the counter all rinsed and easy to pickup and eat..such a temptation. I find myself rationalizing...but, but, but they are GOOD for me!! LOL No, not so much if you are diabetic...a little bit is ok but can't eat very much. |
A little high on the calories today at 1621 but my carb servings were ok at 12. My bs was high again this morning (higher than yestertday even ) and the rest of the day it was a teeny bit high. I think it's because I have eaten too many cherries. I count them but tend to eat them off and on at the wrong times. I think with diabetes it is important to space out your meals right. At least if I can't control my bs and need more meds I will know I gave it a good try. So doubt my weight will be down tomorrow but hopefully I won't gain.
ETA: No formal exercise today but I worked very hard here at home. |
Hi Everyone,
Sorry I have not been posting lately. I am flying to Seattle tomorrow for a week long vacation with my husband and daughter so I have been trying to get everything caught up around the house and at work and it is just an impossible task. I have not been to the Y in over a week and have been guilty of some emotional eating as well (work has been a bit stressful). Not too big a deal though. Life is like this sometime. So anyway, I am trying to be good today to get ready for a full day of plane rides tomorrow, ugh. We are very excited though to get there. I doubt I will post while I am there but I will definitely be back after we return. Marie-Check you out! You are really rocking the diabetes management lately. Keep on keepin on. It sounds like a difficult job but well worth the effort. Possibly after a while it won't seem so hard. Feeling healthier and losing weight are very, very rewarding also. Marie-Welcome back and happy birthday. Enjoy your cake. I am impressed with all the great, fun exercise you reported. Good for you. A2-Congrats on the steady weight loss. Hope your pup is doing better. |
1519 calories and 12 carb servings. No exercise except walking slowly around the fair.
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Huzzah, Marie, glad you are back and enjoyed reading about everything, especially the red velvet cake. SOOO love that. Happy Birthday. My acquaintances tell me I am crazy to think it is humid here compared to, say, Indiana, where I lived decades ago but it really gets humid in Arizona, I think.
Anyhow, Terapet. My doggie is doing great, all her tests came back and showed excellent health. It is unknown why she was limping. I am giving her pills for joint health. Hope you enjoy your vacation in Seattle. Maryea, good work with the blueberry pie! Also was wondering if when you are out of carb servings but could have more calories if you are allowed to just eat a cube or two of excellent cheese. There are no carbs in cheese, although there is saturated fat, which I don't worry about too much but it is not good for us, they tell me. Haven't posted in a few days, just not feeling too well for some reason but the calories and exercise have been good. It is just my mood that needs improvement lol. Have a good night, all! |
Morning everyone. Thanks for the b-day wishes. Day one post diet vacation. This morning I've logged my foods for the morning (not hard as I made homemade bagels the other day and put the recipe in LoseIt while they'd been baking). I took the 3 healthy pups for a walk this morning. I don't think I mentioned my souldog, Miss Blizzard (Blizzie) broke her ankle right before we left. We didn't know it was broken and my sitter and I talked about when to bring her to the vet if her limp didn't improve. She brought her and they found a long fracture. So now she's in a cast for a month. Two days after the cast, she freaked out while being confined (because the sitter was taking the other pups out for a walk) and ripped the door trim and sliced her tongue on a remaining nail. She needed loads of stitches. My poor baby is miserable. Other than a checkup to bring my DH and I up to date, she hasn't gone to the vet in 9 days. That now seems like a record. Kai Pixie, my sweet baby had a seizure at 4:30 am. Because the post-seizure is lots of pacing, I took the 3 pups for a long hike while DH stayed home with Blizzie. In a bit I'm going to elliptical. With that elliptical exercise, it will be the first time since March surgery that I did my real exercise schedule (a full dedicated aerobic workout on Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, and Sat). I "exercise" on the other days with doggie hikes and such, but the real schedule is the one I used to do for maintenance/weight loss. So even though I restarted my diet today, I got into the exercise routine a week early. :) So here's to staying strong and dedicated to my desire to lose about 10 pounds.
Mary, you are doing great with your carbs. Look at the carb total with a day at the fair! Way to go. Am2, I hope your mood improves. I'm proud of you for sticking to eating and exercise even when not feeling well. You're an inspiration. Tera, enjoy your Seattle trip. I hope the weather is beautiful and warm and that you have a great time! Marie |
Marie, sorry to hear of the health problems of your pets. Hope all the furry friends get well soon.
My cat and dog had been having some issues and I'm so happy that recently all of their tests came back with an improvement in one of them (the kitty) and total bill of health on my golden mix girl. Still moody but not negative. It is just the heat and work and time of life and all that jazz lol. Cranky. Will be much improved if I lose some weight in my weekly weigh-in towards my goal. PLEASE don't tell me that the scale isn't important lol (I know you won't). My scale goal is important to me for a number of reason, mostly personal, but also because I want that weigh off of my knees and joints so I can run and be more active. Anyhow, my exercise today was a 90 minute walk and 15 minutes of pilates towards my pilates challenge. I'm actually not sure how many minutes of pilates I pledged myself to do for August lol. Will have to look that up. Ending eating day at 1580. Woot! |
A pretty good day. 1439 calories and almost 12 carb servings but no exercise. My BS started out quite high and I forgot to take my medicine with breakfast so it got even higher but later it was fine. I have been using my phone but for some reason it did not alert me today or at least I didn't hear them (I have 3 alerts set..2 for meds and 1 for bs) I checked the settings and they were right and my ringer was high but I set a second alert for each one so maybe that will help. This phone is strange sometimes. I remembered my bs but was late on my meds both times but at least I took them and they are actually just twice a day..not necessarily with meals although I prefer to take them with meals.
ETA: Amarantha, forgot to answer your question about cheese. Yes if I have calories left but no carbs I can eat other things and sometimes I do eat cheese. I do have to watch my fat though as fat can prevent the insulin from taking the glucose into the cell. I'm to have no more than 45 g and I usually go over. Usually most of my fat comes the one mocha a day when I use real pb (instead of powdered) and from meat. I don't eat a lot of meat but usually have some every day...then I get little bits of fat from other sources like Smart Balance and pb2. So if I eat cheese it is more fat, but I still eat it now and then. I love it and it is filling. |
Hi all,
I faced the music this morning and it was more a funeral dirge than anything else. I really wasn't expecting anything different if I was honest with myself. So I changed my ticker and started the 20 pound ticker once again. 'Tis a bummer but the scale will be daily once again. Am2, this is for you, whenever I think that I can live like a "normal" person and not weigh daily, I regain. Somewhat interesting since I log about 2/3 the time. That other 1/3 was what got me. So I seal-a-mealed the remainder of my b-day cake and froze it. The 453 cals are hard to fit into my plan. ;) DH will be bummed but I think having them as a special treat when there is room is better than just eating it because it is there. Yesterday I planned for the 453 cals and that was not easy. Mary, you're doing well with those carbs. Interesting fact about the fat and insulin absorption. Am2, the scale is important. That's what I'd actually tell you through it all. You handle its nastiness way better than I. But it is important because I swear using my clothes as a marker does not work. I'm wearing the same size as I was 10 pounds ago. To be honest, I stopped weighing daily because of my hysterectomy. The scale was up and down like a yo-yo and therefore so was I. Now I'm stable mentally and can handle its nastiness (but only after I kick it back into place and give it a middle finger salute). So onward and downward. :) Marie |
1136 calories and 12 carb serv. No exercise. I used my carbs up fast today so if I get hungry tonight it will have to be a non-carb food but I am not planning on eating anything more. This is going to be a very busy week, I will have to be very careful to keep my priorities straight and stay on track. Lots of things going on this month.
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Woot, all! It is 109 and humid (for us) and I'm cranky lol! :carrot: Anyway, ending eating day at 1580, which included 2 chocolate snack cakes early this morning when I came home from the gym. I really don't like the gym, prefer to exercise at home or in nature or anywhere outside but am only minimally working until the end of August and decided to go every day it is open and train on the indoor track and other facilities just because I have the membership and should use it. It was too hot to run outside even at 88 this morning. I am not handling not working too well lol.
Also I forgot to add some food into My Net Diary yesterday so was up in the 1800s but glad it was the first day of the week and am calling it the high day and feeling okay about cals. Maryea, thanks for explaining about the fat in cheese affecting the insulin response. I never thought of that, not that it is my biz but I was curious. you are doing so well with this. Huzzah for you! Mary, lol, someone DID tell me the scale wasn't important yesterday, plus people tell me that all the time. I so agree with you. I weigh only once a week (lol, know I've said that) unless I hop on for an unofficial private check now and then, but IF I did not have a regular scale routine and the data, I would still weigh 247 pounds. I absolutely have to know what the scale says despite some of its vagaries. The way my clothes feel is subjective. The data gathered from the tape measure is quite solid and does help give me the whole picture of how muscular I am, but I can't do without the scale. Woot, I am going to do pilates now and hope I feel better, exercise so far was walk/run this morning on the gym track and then went to park despite the heat and just gently walked. |
Am2, without a doubt a tape measure would be a much better than clothes to note weight changes. But I think I'd hate measuring more than scales. :) Sorry but 109 humid degrees is just insane.
Mary, good luck staying on plan with the busy week. It is hard but make it a self-challenge to stick to it. I know you can. The birthday bloat left based on the scale this am. I wish I could lose 1.3 pounds every day. ;) :dizzy: Went back to work and have a couple co-workers that want to lose weight with me. One came in my office and asked what I was having for lunch and after I told her, she said she'd walk to the grocery store and get what I had. And then she did. :) I was going to ask of a good Android app for tracking calories for my co-worker but googled LoseIt first. And they finally released one so I'll let her know tomorrow. Marie |
I had no problem going without carbs (or anything) last night. I sat in bed and read until I got sleepy. Nothing to watch on TV anyway.
Today I'm a little on the high side for calories at 1621 but my carb servings are still not quite 12 so I'm satisfied. My calories are higher because I had a very small meal out and 1 1/2 snack/protein bars plus sloppy Joes tonight (on 1/2 bun). Glad your weight is starting down again Marie. See you are even a good example at work! :) |
Mary, you had sloppy Joes? Isn’t your DH named Joe? Is he sloppy? :lol:
The weigh in had the scale kicked into the wall this morning. Since I had 1300 cals and lots of exercise, I’m thinking it’s a stupid idiot. The funny part is, when I thought my little tantrum of kicking it into the wall, I feel better and it doesn’t screw up my day. I thought about weighing only twice a week but I chanted the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The only way I maintain or lose is to weigh daily and just accept the ups and downs. How is that for rational thinking? So all is good and tomorrow I will weigh once again. Woots! Life is good. Marie |
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