Rie, that makes my blood boil! How could anyone do that?

Well, the beer can chicken was great and I now have three meals of leftovers which I am starting to call "planovers". I can't stand dry chicken breast either, Mad. My mother overcooked chicken and turkey all the time and the whole family slowly migrated to the dark meat end when given a choice. The only thing is that I left it until nearly six to start it and it wasn't done until 7:30. Good thing I didn't invite anyone for dinner!

Strange week ahead as I leave on a wee trip again Wednesday evening and won't be back until Sunday. It's with a group of MODs from here so the food will be good - if not perfect. We have a rented house with a great kitchen so lots of recipe swapping will be happening, some of it good, some of it .

BGL a decent 4.6 this morning and darned weight just on the cusp of getting below 185. Those extra pounds are well rooted after having a summer to get attached to my body!

Do something nice for you today. I am going to the gym although I had a bad night and don't feel like it.

How many times a week do you do cardio and strength traning and how long do they last trying to set me up a routine and stick with it. Getting back on plan if it kills me the only one who can accomplish my weight loss is me not the family so I am going to try to build me a big wall and not let them pull me into this spiral downward pull again. I have faced the facts they put it their but it was me who picked it up and ate it I have to gain the motivation to want this enough not to do this again. Where will it get me no where Jest on more meds here is 5 more months. I have to take and be the one responsible for what I have done to my body it wasn't the family it was me I have been going for years and now it is time for me to stop and do it for me and not for everyone else I know my dr can suggest me to loose weight but I have to want it to do and I do. So from here on I will be thinking of me.


For breakfast I had some low fat cream cheese and gala apple and two slices of sara lee 45 calorie multi grain bread. Going to get my room clean so I can start my workout for the day so it will be out of the way. I think I am in the mood to do a richard simmons video! I love the Richard simmons number three at the carnival ! so here I come..

OMG Rie: I can't believe someone would do that to any one. It makes me feel sick, to put people through that kind of grief. Hope you are doing ok for now.

Ruth: happy holidays and have a great time.

Trish: hope the diet changes help with the achiness, however, some of it DOES come from age, as I am finding out to my own soreness.

Bonnie: I think for a while you were doing a couple of hours of walk-it-out everyday. I think you could plan for a 3 days a week thing, have a good workout Monday Wednesday Friday or Tues/Thurs/Sat. in between just make sure you get out for a walk or something. Depends on YOUR schedule too.

Eating on plan yesterday and today. Managed NOT to snack at the reception after the funeral, just visited and came home for supper. Knowing supper was in the oven really helped. (oh yes, a PLAN!)

Happy Monday everyone.

Mad I couldn't find my Sweatin to the oldies so I did a five mile watp. I was thinking the same thing I jest want to do some arm exercise to start toning my under arm hang

Feel great this morning as I slept until 6. I have insomnia problems - woke at 3 yesterday and just could not get back to sleep.

Had a fairly carby day yesterday - muffin, sandwich and pasta - so BGL was 5.6 this morning. I realize I've not been taking my a.m. Metformin or my Victoza. Gotta fix that. It should take priority over feeding the dogs.

I'm off for a long weekend starting tomorrow evening and will be very careful what I eat when I'm away. I'm not too worried as I'll be with a some of the MODs from this site and we are all pretty health conscious. We have a rented house and will be doing most of our own cooking - always fun to cook together. The scale next Monday may not be pretty.

Time for breakfast and another coffee. I am cutting carbs today - scrambled eggs with chopped peppers and zucchini is on the brekkie menu and I'm thinking chicken and veggie soup for lunch. It's a cold wet day and that would just hit the spot.

Have a "be nice to yourself" day.

Ruthie Guess we swapped places. I've been awake since 3:30 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. Have fun on your long weekend.

Fatmad Thanks. I checked on Amazon and the 2011 book was not very expensive so I ordered it mainly because I found a thread on another site and they said that he says not to eat gluten-free products. Guess it goes back to processed foods thing. Doing the best I can until I get the book. Also joined his blog.

Bon.nie I love my Sweatin' to the Oldies but don't have room to do it until the kids move. DD graduates from nursing school Dec 7 and according to DGD they are moving into an apartment when DD goes to work.

Baby is sleeping late so I got to go get him up. His morning therapist will be here in 30 minutes.

Y'all have a great day.

I also had insomnia last night. COuldn't get to sleep, until late, but woke up ok for work, but was bagged by afternoon. Had a snack when I got home, but got an allergic reaction to something! eyes all itchy and swollen. Am now also sleepy from the meds. I am not eating right for now, as a result.
Trish, I bet you can't wait until December!

Have a great day!!!

didnt go to ww tonight, as I was called out for a labour check at 5, got home about 7, no baby for now. Will be on tenterhooks for the night, this won't help my insomnia!
DH made a lovely fire and we watched a couple of interesting shows. New show, Perception with darling Eric McCormack, and Jane Goodall on the Strombo show. Off to bed early just in case.

woke up before 5 and couldn't get back to sleep. Weight up a tad, still retaining fluid from the allergy problem. fbs 5.7 today, up a bit, might be from the insomnia.
Potluck day at the office, I may not eat other's food after this allergy thing happening again.
Hope everyone doing well. Have a good THursday.

I got the Wheat Belly book and I'm really glad I got it as it is a real eye opener as to why I have problems with weight loss and I definitely will be going wheat/gluten free. He recommends using flaxseed, nut butters and flours instead of wheat. He stresses veggies which are always healty and said eggs, meat and fats are good for us not bad. I can see why low carb works so well. He said he used Wheat Belly in the name of the book but that wheat damages so many organs in the body that he could have used any organ in the title. He had been on what we are taught Diabetic/Heart Assoc calls a healthy lowfat complex carb diet and his wife took a picture of him sleeping on the beach. This is when he realized that not only had he developed diabetes, but he was amazed to see that he also had what used to be called a beer belly and he didn't drink and he worked out like crazy. Oh and he is a cardiology prevention doctor. He wondered what his patience thought when they saw him and he told them to eat healthy.

I am amazed at the foods that he says raises blood sugar... one is oatmeal . Interesting since I learned that I could not eat oatmeal, remember? He said that te complex carbs we are told to eat causes our blodd sugar to rise higher. Within 2 - 3 months he was no longer diabetic. His fbs was 84, but when he eats oatmeal or complex carbs his blood sugar skyrockets. In fact, he found that the simple carbs did not raise his bs as much as the complex carbs. However, he still says eat neither one.

I got up this morning and made a flaxseed/almond meal cereal. The recipe in the book was flaxseed coconut cereal, but I didn't have coconut. I guess the kids used it all. No lowfat anything either... use full fat cheese (which can be use for snacks as well as nuts) and if you use milk use whole milk, almond or soy although some soy products can be gluten. Raw nuts are unlimited. That will surely take care of the regularity. He also says that when we eat wheat that it causes us to want to go back for more. Fruit is limited. What as made wheat so bad is that it has been cross breeded to the point that the chromosomes have been so changed that it is not the wheat that even our great grandmothers cooked with so it leads to diseases like celiac.

Placed a new recipe for ice cream in the diabetic recipes which Dr. Davis posted on FB this morning as a result of the request of a 14 yr old.

Hope everyone is doing okay.

Hi everyone....I am a type 2 diabetic and haven't really taken good care of myself at all since I found out a couple of years ago. I recently had to go on meds and now I am really regretting not learning more and doing more for myself. I still have a lot to learn, but I was wondering what is "fbs" and "BGL"? Sorry to sound so dumb, but I'm trying to learn. Thanks.

WELCOME Kuntreegirl!!! We are all in a learning process. Read and find out what works for you.

HI everyone: have been having a busy weekend with 3 deliveries and lots of new baby visits, but quieter now. Going into town to see my little Lilia, my grandniece by friendship, and enjoy some grandma like activities. DD is not pregnant (yet) so I will just keep enjoying the other little ones around me. A recently new co-worker has a delightful 5 year old I just LOVE. So I am getting my fix in.
FOod wise has not been brilliant with the crazy hours, so time to get back on track. Discovered there is LEMON juice in my new yogurt (was sure I had read the label the first time I bought it, so maybe they changed the ingredients) and that explains the allergic reactions. ALL is calm now.
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