Yeah you are back! I missed you ladies.

Todays cals-2250 Exercise-60 min step. I keep eating too much!!! Today I went to a different restaurant than usual and did not look up the calories before I went. I was pretty suprised to find out my sandwich was 800 calories. Not smart. So from now on (except Thanksgiving) I am going to be much more careful. Well at least I am tracking, the first step towards success.

Marie-Sorry to hear you were sick. Good thing you are getting better now before the holidays. Great job on the cals. (i'm jealous)

Am2-I love hiking although I don't get to do it much. You are fortunate to have to have a group to join. Congrats on the loss of weight and inches.

1526 calories and about 9.6 carb serv. A strange thing has been happening to me recently. I notice that when I over eat in the evening I get uncomfortably full...almost feel sick. I have still been overeating but tonight I noticed this sick feeling more than ever and I had to stop eating. I have in the long ago past eaten til I felt sick, but I haven't eaten that much in a very very long time and I know what I have been eating is nothing like I ate then. Recently I have been disappointed in my not being able to control my bs even when I eat right, so I decided to allow myself to pretty much eat whatever/however much I wanted until I saw the doctor and got on another diabetic med. Sorta rebelliousness I guess.;) Would not advise anyone else to do that, esp if they are a diabetic! :-O

Well I went to the doctor yesterday and my A1C has actually dropped 4.2 pts (or whatever it's called)! Keep in mind that the A1C is delayed usually and considering my eating one would not really expect it to show that much of a drop. Because of the drop, the doctor did not recommend another medication. He just told me to try to lose more weight.

Again last night and tonight I continued to eat to much (during the evening only) but in the past week or so I notice that I feel almost sick when I do it. I have felt I was almost forcing the food down in the evenings! I hate to think how many calories I got, way over 2000 I'm sure many days in the past few weeks because of my evening snacking! I would track my intake all day until evening and then I would stop tracking because I knew I was going over and I didn't want to face the number. During this time (several weeks) I gained a bit at first but then went down again and have now stablized kind of in the middle of my weight range. The food tasted good but I just felt too full! Each night I am eating a little less! Tonight I felt almost sick with the food and couldn't eat another bite! I pray that this continues! I know I still ate too many carbs during this evening, but overall at least I did pretty well

I wonder if all the exercise I'm getting these days could have anything to do with this? I am exercising almost two hours a day plus what I am in PT almost two hours 3x week. Whatever is causing it I just want it to continue.

ETA: Dh and I shared a slice of pizza for lunch. I couldn't even eat all my half. It tasted too fat and too filling. I ate no more than 2/3 of it, maybe a little less. I got two samples at Costco (before lunch) and threw away 1/2 of one. I turned down others because I felt too full and knew we were getting pizza. Usually I can eat several samples PLUS eat 1/2 slice pizza without any problem.

Hello, all, just another flyby and sorry am MIA so much from this thread. I love this group and will always be back although 2012 is almost over and hope there is a 2013 challenge.

I really HAVE been kind of in a long slump and also have been spending too much time sort of beating head against a brick wall lol, which is unproductive and not helpful.

Today a strange thing happened. A store clerk who has seen me in the grocery for the past 18 years or so suddenly looked at me and said that I was beautiful. Lol, I don't know why she said that, guess she was having some private trouble that made her feel she should tell people what she was thinking. She said that she had watched me transform myself for years and that I was beautiful. So I said she was beautiful, too, and that I was glad we were both still here.

That got me to thinking, not for the first time, that I needed to transform mentally as well, as in spiritually, intellectually and that as in physical transformation, that doesn't mean I don't like who I essentially am (because I do), but that I have to function better and better all the time to reach my full potential in life as to be honest, ladies, I am not gettin' any younger here lol.

So used today to pull the plug out of one of the more negative social media sites I blog on but where I've had one too many negative experiences with one too many negative people.

A small step, doesn't mean I am giving up social media, just that I have to be more careful to use my time productively (I still intend to revive my career in 2013) AND in a positive manner.

Another thing I did in the spirit of the diet journey (which is a huge part of my shaping up mentally as well as physically) is to throw away TWO BOXES of dark chocolate bars I recently bought thinking that I could eat one half of one bar a day and be fine with that.

Uh, no. I've gone over calories each day since I've had those.

Anyhow, still doing the 10,000 steps, going hiking tomorrow.

Going to bed now and apologies for lack of personal responses. Woot! Have a great Thanksgiving to all in the U.S. and a great Thursday to all not in the U.S.

Hope everyone had a great holiday or if not in the U.S., a great Thursday.

I did and calories were 1590, did weights & the 10,000 steps.

Trying a new tracker today, actually, not new to me, used it before, it is My Fitness Pal. I love My Net Diary, which I have been using for more than a year but I think I will get more accuracy out of My Fitness Pal and I have been playing with the site and like it. It also tracks better (I think) with Fitbit.

Have a great day, everyone! :wave:

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Thanks, Marie, re the lady in the store. I don't know why she said it, either. But yea, it pumped me up.

Hmmm, social media, although it wasn't FB I cut myself off from, was sort of related to FB, though.

I go on FB to see a few people and that's about it. I do love to see my family members, especially the kids.

Glad your relationship with your son improved after unfriending him. I would have done that, too.

I have unfriended people on there. Sometimes it is the only way to cut off a not-so-good set of interactions.

Lol, been playing with diet phone apps all day. Like MFP that I started using instead of My Net Diary, which I also liked, but decided to log on my Fitday PC software again for awhile and just use the phone for notes when away from home. Probably will go back to using MND eventually.

Not sure why I am so obsessed with diet apps & software today.

Well, knew I would do this but changed weigh-in back to Sunday and was down a pound! Woot! :wave:

Good for you, Marie, on the cinnamon rolls and doing well eating wise on the Reno trip. I try never to think of that cinnamon roll place. Hope you enjoy your trip.

Thanks for the congrats! Woot! :wave:

Didn't track today ...just got busy and forgot. I continue to feel full a lot. We had lunch/dinner out today and I couldn't eat much. Brought home the rest but haven't eaten it. Just not hungry for it although I did eat plenty other things tonight. Marie, I have thought about it possibly being my hernia but I don't know. I am having no other symptoms. Whatever it is it is controlling my eating to some degree. I am just allowing myself to eat what I want in the evenings (within reason)...most days I am tracking...but I am very busy and occasionally I don't get the whole day tracked but I know I should and will keep trying. My weight is stable on the low end....going up and down 2-3 lbs. I haven't seen a high number for some time now.

I was trying to figure out how my A1C could be only 6.8 (at doctor's office) when I've gotten so many highs most of period of time tested. Today when I was over 200 and remained that way all day, I decided to check it with my dh's meter and found out it was 26 points lower on it! Tonight I checked it with another meter I have and it was 22 points lower. So I think that meter is no good anymore. The numbers I got were a little bit high but made more since in light of the 6.8 A1C. So I'm hoping that this is right. I didn't have any of the testing solution on hand.

I'm still spending about 2 hrs in PT, about 1 hr in home exercise for my back and another about 1 hr at the gym 5 days a week. I am hoping to be more careful about my eating tomorrow. I'd like to eat only one small snack in the evenings.

Thanksgiving was too much food fun as usual. It is almost gone now except for one piece of pumpkin pie. I just cannot get myself to toss it since we only have it once a year and it is sooo yummy. I'll be sorry I am sure. On the good side, I have been exercising more lately. I had been so busy with this and that and just was not getting to the Y as often as I should but the schedule is wide open for awhile so I want to try to get lots and lots of exercise in. I just feel better when I do. Today was rather high in calories but I am still working myself off from the foodfest high I have been on. Todays cals-2160,Exercise-60 min step class at the Y.

maryea-Sounds like you are doing pretty darn well. Good for you.

Am2-Congrats on being down a pound. You are in the groove!

Marie-Travelling can be pretty disruptive on the weight. Hope your work trip is kind to you.

Huzzah, just finished my 10,000 steps, a little late in the day as I spent time today with a special friend and had a big meal and just sat and talked a long time and didn't find I was anywhere near the halfway mark, so started pacing in her yard while she sat and we talked maybe another hour. Drove an hour home then walked some more and FINALLY done.

Feeling really good on the 10,000 step program. Did weights today as well and about 15 minutes of a Leslie DVD for fun. Cals in the 1400s despite big lunch.

My new tracking system is to use MFP in the phone for a summary and lookup (as it has a great database)when eating out and then log everything in the Fitday PC software I have in my hard drive and use that for analysis.

Mary, hope you get your new meter soon. You are doing great.

Tera, also glad you have more time to exercise. It seems to be the only thing that helps me feel okay most of the time, mentally & physically.

Marie, sounds like you are having a nice time where you are staying and that the training is going well. The cake sounds good.

Good night, all!