well, I am true to ticker again, and not sure how that happened. Certainly not doing anything different, but makes me think the salty japanese food had a big effect and for several days. Had lots of family here this weekend, its my Dad's birthday tomorrow. Made a nice sugar free, flourless chocolate cake for the birthday supper. But cheated with supper and had a bit of yorkshire pudding with the roast beef.
overall doing ok this weekend.

Happy Sunday friends

Quick flyby!!!. As I said before, I'm going to like having this new scale with the way it goes to the tenths. I'm up .6 lbs today, but at least I know that it is because I ate out and I ate a lot of salty food last night. So I know it isn't a gain... it is water. It sure makes a difference.

Back to 190 again after a carby weekend. :shrug: When you go off Atkins, the carbs sure pile the weight back on. I did go a little carb crazy over the weekend with bagels for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and pancakes for supper - the pancakes were completely in my control as I was home then. Last night I had dinner with the "girls" and one cannot eat ham without scalloped potatoes. (This looks like a food porn thread!)

Got up late, no almond milk for a smoothie and ended up with a breakfast sandwich at the diner after gym. ** Sigh ** Twenty six carbs right there. :nono: No lunch needed so I'll have an early very low carb supper.

Gym was very hard this morning. I intended to do treadmill sessions over the weekend and didn't but it was particularly hard this morning. All the more reason to get back at it.

Our druggist here in town retired and I need to get to another one and get prescriptions renewed. I'm OK for diabetic meds but BP and Chol are gone. It's nearly time to book another bloodwork appointment.

It sucks to get old but, when you examine the alternatives ...

fast bs 5.5 today. Weight still true to ticker. Had to get up early for a meeting at the hospital. Home now, tired and aching.
Ruth: you are right, when you have been doing atkins, hitting the carbs can be dangerous, you suddenly feel out of control and start a carb binge, and then the pounds just go up and up. Really fast.
Back to a quiet life here. Will just have leftovers for supper tonight.
Have a good monday friends.

Lovin the grand babies to death. But I painted my daughter room friday and saturday and I guess from getting up and down on the ladder my feet have been killing me now. My feet are swellen so bad they hurt like my skin is gonna pop open. My left foot is the worst and and right foot is only slightly swellen so now I am gonna have to make a trip back to the Dr again. I have to make sure their isnt nothing wrong.


I hope all is going well will talk to you all soon.....

fbs 5.2 today. weight down a pound, so of course I have had some real cravings today. Hope to keep my self in check tonight.
Tired after physio, but got the nails done today.
Had a mini crisis, youngest DD is on a brand of BCP that has been recalled, and wanted a pregnancy test. No problems, thank goodness!
Having a busy week. Hope everyone can do ok.
Bonnie, hope nothing is wrong and the feet feel better with some rest.

quiet day here. Weight was mysteriously up, but was a bit constipated (sorry tmi) which resolved today, so tomorrow may be better. Had a work supper out, but appetite was low. Tomorrow is a busy day, interviewing the women we took to supper tonight, finding a person to join us in work life.
Then away for the weekend. Phew.

I went to the Dr and he had to give me a water pill to get the fluid off my left foot it was huge. Went back this morning to have them check them and the blood pressure pill I take has the water pill added so he gave me the next step up. Then we discussed on how my feet were and I told him that the foot dr gave me some cream lotion to put on my feet for Neurophay and that my insurance does not cover it so he has started me on a pill for that now. I have to something and get my butt in gear.

Yes I am still lovin my grand babies my grandson loves me to death already . I hope all is well I will check in as soon as I can.

Oh by the way my aunt went and had to had some blood work dont that will detail her pancreas and then they had to do a MRi she goes in on tuesday and have the biopsy done. Will let you all know how it goes...

Madeleine I agree. It has been really quite around here these past few days. Hope that isn't a bad thing. Hope everyone is just being busy. Sounds like you are into some busy times again. Glad things seems to be coming together for you.

Bonnie Glad you ae getting help with your feet. It is so much fun to be grandma cause you can spoil the grandkids. Glad you are enjoying them. Hope all goes well for your Aunt.

Ruthie and Slmn and others:wave: Hope all is well with y'all.

I am pleased to say that my eating is going very well and the weight and the fbs is begining to move downward. Seem to have found to eat that works for me.

Been very busy and stressed lately with changes at the Mill and tax deadlines and must admit I've been neglecting testing my blood. ("Hurting" myself first thing in the morning is not my favourite activity - making coffee is!)

Weight is still sort of stuck. I do fine on low carb and then some "social" event intervenes and throws me out of ketosis. Then the scale heads the wrong way. 189 this morning and am hoping to just stay in the 180s for a while. I also need to get my prescriptions re-filled. Our local pharmacist retired so I need to go to the next town now.

I'll try to pop in more regularly. Still have not made my HA1C test appointment - I am avoiding the results, I think. :nono:

Ruth, I don't test as often as I should and I also avoid going for the A1c. I keep thinking I will wait until my daily readings improve, but the A1c is going to reflect the past few months anyway, so why not just get it overwith. The last time I expected it to be really bad. It ended up being 7.7, not as bad as I expected, but bad enough that he upped my meds. This morning I woke up with a determination to quit fooling around with these BS readings and get my carbs under control. I hope I can stick to this. I have been really eating out of control lately.

I get most of my meds filled at Target and a few by mail-order. I guess things are different in Canada.

Bonnie - I know you are taking care of your grandchildren and also helping your aunt with her issues, but be sure to take care of you, too! You are no good to them unless your are healthy. It's good that you are taking care of your feet...that's so important for us diabetics. I hope you can get the swelling under control. At one time I was on a blood pressure pill that made my feet/ankles swell. They switched the med to something else. It was Norvasc, I think.

Mad and Trish - You seem to have your BS reading and eating well under control. That's good. You are an inspiration to me.

Well, once again I didn't check my blood. Probably just as well as I have not been taking my bedtime meds. This morning I am setting up my nightime dosette thingie and putting it right beside my bedside lamp on top of my current reading. Funny but I always remember to fill my water glass at night and seldom forget the morning meds.

Weight is back up to 190.6 this morning although I did stick to low carb yesterday. I suspect it was the salt in the fajita seasoning I used. We'll see what tomorrow brings. I'm planning a BLT without the bread for lunch today and have shrimp thawing for some sort of veggie stir-fry tonight. (I'll need to watch the darned soy sauce.)

we are having a treat tonight with a gourmet lasagna made by a local shoppe. Will see a movie and maybe get the paper work together for the accountant for the taxes. ( Canada is end of April, for me as self-employed I can wait until mid june, but prefer sooner not later.)
I was in Buffalo teaching a workshop to some New York state midwives, some nurse-midwives and some certified midwives. Learned a bit about their system, and taught about ours and worked on emergency drills. Had a great time.
And went out for chicken wings of course. A trip down memory lane, going to a bar where we went in out teens for wings and beer (underage drinking! )
We had a little ice storm here, power outages and trees down. Nothing like what Ruth went thru in Eastern Ontario a few years ago, but bad enough. Was glad to be away.
Went to test drive a new vehicle today. I am getting old, and am opting for things like heated seats this time, all about my comfort.
Shoulder slowly getting better, but it IS slow.

Well, will lay down and nap for a bit now.
Have a great weekend friends.

Quick flyby this morning. Just wanted to share that I lost 5 lbs last week and with the 6 had lost I can say I've lost 11 lbs. Haven't done that in soooo long. Heard of another book of a woman who lost weight and has kept it off for 15 yrs doing what some of us call Intuitive Eating. She just calls it eating the way we ate as infants. It is working for me. With the new scales, I see a consistent steady weight loss. When I'm up it is usually less than a lb and I know it is because usually because I've had too much salt or have eaten out and probably got some salt that I hadn't planned on.Within a day or two, usually the next day, it is back down. So even the scales have become a blessing for me.

Y'all have a blessed Sunday

Good morning everyone! Well the kids left this morning at 3 to take a 5 hour drive to atlanta to catch a plane back to texas. I am already missing my grand babies . Little liam was only 9 months and I had alot of grammie time. Aubrey who is 3 we had lots of fun too.

The swellen in my feet are staying away now I have to start the neuropathy meds. But all is well so I will catch back up to you all .

I need to get back in to testing and eating right and loosing weight..