Good Afternoon Chickies,

Mad Yes it was me. My FBS is always a little higher when I don't sleep well. I asked the doctor if there was anything I could take when I can't sleep that would not make me feel like a zombie for 2 days after and he asked if I had tried Melatonin. I told him that is what I've been taking and that it has helped me to sleep well. You know, Mad, I too have wondered what it is about having the alarm set that keeps me awake at night. You would think that knowing the alarm will wake me would make it easier for me to sleep. Go figue.:dizzy: Weird!!!

Lindy :welcome2: back. I think I must be new here since you were here. Great accomplishment passing on the rice pudding and raisin/date bread. I would have no problem passing on rice pudding, but I might be tempted with the raisin/date bread. I love raisin bread and would have got some today, but I had left my WW book at home and wasn't sure which one was the lower pts. Probably a good thing for me not to have it with me. I look forward to getting to know you.

Ruth I realized that I've been calling you Ruthie. I hope that wasn't a problem and if it was I do apologize. You just feel like a Ruthie to me. However, I have gone by all the nicknames that goes with Patricia and most of them are okay except for Patsy. I knew 2 Patsy's that I did not like and decided as a teen that I hated the name not realizing that I also knew a Patsy who was a real sweetheart. I'm glad your FBS is up so that you feel better. You and Mad are good at getting your execises going. I am working on that as well.

Rosebud So glad to see you. Miss you when you don't get to drop by.

I had my doctor's appt today and it went really well... in fact it was better than I expected. Doc walked into the room and said "Good job... good work". He said my A1c was 5.9... down from 6.2 in September. He said some of the numbers were up a little, but he wasn't worried. He was pleased that I had chosen to do WW and that I had not doubled to Metformin as I felt that was crazy when I could do the same thing with the diet. Told him that I could do low carb, but that it is difficult to do when DH likes to eat out at places where it is hard to get low carb foods. He said that actually any diet will work, but that we have to find the diet that we feel comfortable with. My bad cholesterol was up a little bit, but he said the exercise will bring that down. I had lost 6 lbs since my last visit. So he was pleased and so am I. He is a good and caring doctor.

He also saw DH and thinks he may be experiencing either dehydration sometimes and some atrifib at times. He wants Tony to see the cardiologist and wear the monitor to see if it shows up. Tony told him that it never shows when he wears the monitor... that he wished that it would. Doc laughed and said that he needed to wear one all the time. I called cardiology and we get the monitor Thursday and then see that doc on the 19th. So we both had a good productive doctors appt.

Y'all have a great day and 1st week of 2011.

Good morning. BGL is back to the usual lowish reading - 3.8 this morning. Food was good yesterday and there is just a wee drop on the scale - not ticker change worthy!

I had a good gym session yesterday and remembered most of the exercises. I did skip the floor ones as the knees were not happy but did everything else just fine, although with slightly lower weights. My BP was 114/75 when I finished which was good.

Pattygirl, I have no problem with your calling me Ruthie. Some of my friends and all my relatives do and it makes me feel young.

Time for breakfast and getting on with the day. :wave:

Ruthie Great numbers as you got back OP. I'll bet you get to change the ticker as well. You know I remember you from SBD thread and you have been an inspiration to me. My Daddy who is 87 stays busy and is not like an 87 yo man always has looked and acted younger than many who are half his age. It is difficult to believe you are going to be 72 as you seem so much younger. That is what gives all of us hope. I am not too far behind you... I'm 67 and people like you and my Daddy help us all know that we may have to get older, but that does not mean we have to get old. I love your attitude and I am choosing to make it mine as well.

My FBG was 113 this morning. Steadily going down so I feel that the new WW Pts + is definitely working for me.

Mad, Rosebud, Lindy, Lindyloo & others reading :wave:

Have a great day!!!

a good day
 

Hi everyone:
Last night was not as planned at all, DH said, don't cook, lets go see a movie since I was on holiday and not on call. We had been wanting to see the new true grit with Jeff Bridges. He sure is good at playing the old curmudgeons now. It was excellent and I highly recommend it to those who liked the book or the first movie with John Wayne. We had supper at the food court at the mall, I always go to the Feta and Olives kiosk, I can have a chicken souvlaki on a stick, greek salad with olive oil dressing, tzaziki and I get a chick pea salad instead of rice, and can stay low carb. It seems to be the only place in the food court I can get stuff, but was glad for it. No popcorn during movie since we just ate, so not tempted.
This am I am back to ticker weight :carrot: and fbs was 5.6. I didn't go back for the blood work, had insomnia about 4 to 630, then slept until 1030. I wasn't sure it would be accurate that way.
I did the hot yoga again yesterday, and wow, was it crowded with newbies. Its New Years resolution time. The yoga studio has doubled up on staff for a bit to handle the incomers. I am getting ready to go cross country skiing instead today. BTW, I have started using my orthotics again thinking the foot pain may be a heel spur and it is getting better to my delight.
Trish you are right, a good doc is worth his or her weight in gold. I have always been happy with mine. She only works half time tho, so sometimes I have to see her partners and they are not all as great. Its a 4 woman office, and they all work 2.5 days/week, so really 2 docs, but full coverage. Interesting work plan.
Ruth, so pleased for you, every little bit helps, I know I was quite delighted to see the weight this am and know that I am on track and doing well.
Lindy and Rosebud, so glad to hear from you all too. Enjoy the day. time to go!

Deviant eating yesterday so scale up a tad again but BGL fine. I'm off to the gym. I am serving a ham dinner tonight so won't weigh tomorrow because of the salt.

Just checking in to say hi to all. Had some chips last night, but after I had a bunch of carrot sticks. Could not resist them while playing Clue with my 2 aunts and my mom. I did not have the cherry pie though so that was good. Planning a good day today. While my family eats pizza, I plan to make my own veggie pizza with a low carb flat bread. Totally yummy. Well I have to get back to work so I do not get it trouble. Have a great day everyone!

A quick one today as I stayed up late and therefore got up late. Just couldn't get sleepy. Scale up, Ruthie I forget about salt and I had homemade cheeseburger and used a lot of salt and a bite of ham which I had late in evening. So guess there is a reason for the scale to be up a bit and even slight increase in FBG although the increase is still within what doc calls normal.

Lindy I love having pizza made with low carb flatbread. Sounds good. I might make me one of those today myself.


Got things to catch up on today as things get back to normal for me next week. Bible Study Fellowship starts back next Wednesday. DH has doctors appt etc.

I better get busy. Y'all have a great day.

Wednesday is hump day
 

Am feeling quite out of sorts today. Went for fasting blood work, but the lab was so busy with after holiday people, I had to wait for an hour before my blood draw. Since I planned a whole morning in town, had to rush to make my chiropractor appt, just had a tea and an egg mcmuffin (minus the muffin LOL) to eat, then went from that appt to my doctors office. Reviewed rxs and am now onto 2 metformin/day based on my sugars. She is agreeing with me to keep me "non diabetic" numbers as long as we can, and avoid glyburide etc if possible for the time being. Nice to be in sync in our thinking. Will see what the results of the blood work are and decide if we need to tweak anything else. time for a physical again too, but will book that in early June so we can do another (almost) 6 month review. She was pleased with my continuing tho slow weight loss, so no complaints. She also agreed that it looks like heel spurs, so ordered me some new orthotics. I am going to be busy with medical appointments, as I also have to go to the travel clinic and get some planning done for my next holiday.
But hard to stay to plan with such a day, am behind in my water drinking and supplements etc. Its a beautiful sunny day so will take the dog out to the trail this afternoon for a little jaunt for my exercise. want to keep up the exercise no matter what, I am certainly feeling better for it.
LIndy, its so hard not to snack and not to snack badly when in these fun and social situations, good for you for moving onto carrots and avoiding the pie.
Veggie trays can be perfect in these situations.

have a good day chickies, ttfn

:wave: HI LADIES ~ sounds like you are all doing pretty good; food has been good for me this week and I'm happy to be back on track after the holidays. Dh and I picked up a mild cold or tummy bug, but I am feeling better tonight, so hope it's going away ...

I thought it was my sugars dipping but I think it really was that making me feel a bit nauseated for a short while this AM. I'm glad I gave away most of those chocolate junkies; could mess up my system if I ate too many. I have been sleeping much better; do wake up if it's too hot though -- we have about 4 blankets and comforters on our bed and the temps came up last week.

It's supposed to get colder tomorrow, so will leave them all on; as we need them from January til March here. Just stayed home and did cleaning and such today. Ate well today too ... made DH a healthy banana loaf with bran in it for his snacks tonight ...

Have a wonderful week ladies ... Rosebud :flow2:

Good morning! Good BGL this morning after a pretty decadent dinner last night. The ham was delicious but I am definitely avoiding the scale for a bit. I don't know what I was thinking to buy such a big ham. :shrug: It was 4.145 K not pounds. I have enough leftovers to feed half the village. I do have to make sandwiches for a funeral 'lunch' tomorrow so that will get rid of some of it. I may freeze measured portions for a toasted western once in a while. And, of course, there's pea soup!

My PT was back at the gym yesterday and made a few changes/corrections to my routine. I'm feeling it this morning but a good hot shower will ease out the soreness.

My Christmas is officially over as of today and it will be good to get back to a more peaceful and less tempting routine. I plan to get fullbloodwork done at the end of the month just to make sure I have lots more mileage ahead.:D

Morning all. Had some doritos last night and have no idea why--just because they were there I guess. My kids are stick figures and love stuff like that so I usually have it in the house. I need to find the will power to stay away. Really enjoyed my veggie pizza that I made last night and now back on track for today.
We are expecting some snow again here tomorrow, at least 6 in. Just enough to cause havoc and replenish some of the 2 ft from last weeks blizzard that had melted. Hoping all have a good day. Need to get backt o work now. :)

Good Morning Ladies;)

I haven't been around for awhile as I had a computer tech here trying to fix my wireless connection. He did something and all my saved passwords, connections, and reminders were gone. Age makes it necessary for reminders to go to some sites.

Having trouble with high fasting BG in the morning since I stopped taking my one medication. Sure hope I don't have to go back on it. Maybe I can add in another Metformin. Sometimes it's around 7.4 way to high and this morning it was 6.8.

Ruth, I love pea soup. I normally make a ham along with a turkey for Christmas, but didn't this year.

Pattygirl, sleep causes my fasting #'s to go up as well. Maybe thats the problem I'm having. Not sure about WW. I'm still trying to get my head around everything. I still have three months, so we'll see what happens.

Lindy. welcome back.

Mad - congrats on your doctors visit.

Mega snow coming tonight and through the weekend, so I have to rush and do everything today.

Have a great day everyone.

had insomnia in the middle of the night again, but had to get up and take the car in for service so went to yoga instead of sitting and waiting for the car. Had a good workout, then after lunch had a massage. Many errands later got home.
Made quiche for supper, mine with no crust. Stuck to plan today generally, but maybe more dairy than I am allowed on plan.
generally tired now, but have to put away groceries. Skiing tomorrow if the weather godess is on my side.
thanks for all the well wishes. not up to personal hellos today, but I love hearing about everyone's day. best wishes to you all.

:wave: We had lovely :sunny: again today; a pleasant surprise ... :carrot:

Ate well today too; had salmon with brown rice, veggies, and salad for dinner tonight; it was nice. Did catchup laundry day today from Christmas so I could put stuff away. I lost my small hand-weights in the spare room, so used the medium ones instead, but we ended up sorting out the whole spare room looking for them anyways and it gets better organized each time. Then when I was doing laundry guess where I found my weights? DH was little red=faced on that one -- said he set them there and forgot about it ... :lol:

Well, at least I have a couple of pairs so if I lose one, I can use the other. I use them every other day; hoping to increase my strength and my metabolism too.

RUTH ~ Christmas is now over for me too; we leave stuff up til the 6th; the day the Magi were supposed to have brought gifts to baby Jesus; some orthodox religions celebrated Christmas yesterday. We are leaving our lights up so we can put them on during our winter carnival; the big strobe light is frozen in the ice anyways. DH broke one like it last year and a candy cane set trying to pull them out -- so I "NICELY ASKED" him to leave them there this year ... ;););)

My job this weekend is usually to take the tree and decos down; but sometimes, I like to leave them up a bit longer, esp if I was later putting them up like this year. I had my tree and lights up from the beginning of December but didn't get it decorated until Christmas week; the room decos didn't go up until Christmas Eve ... and that's late for us.

Anywho, will get them all down and put away eventually. Am sure loving my new fireplace woodstove; have wanted one for ages and got a real bargoon deal on it too. Gives a nice ambiance to our livingroom and some extra warmth when needed too.

Have a fabulous Friday, ladies ... Rosebud :flow2

I usually leave my outside lights up well into January to brighten up the long dark nights. It's great to get the Christmas stuff stashed away though. I'll enjoy my simplified house for a bit and then will get the urge for more plants - maybe an amaryllis?

I'm struggling with weight again as ham is catching up with me. Darned water weight is so discouraging! I'm not posting my ticker because it's up again, not the whole bit but still ...

Didn't check my FBGL this morning because I have new strips and need to programme my monitor. How lazy is that? I guess it's time to put on my big girl panties and get on with it.