Shannon, how did you make your zucchini? Details such as peeled or unpeeled, seeded or unseeded, did you leave the zucchini whole and just twist it in the Vegetti, the way the picture shows? Did it work the way you expected? How long did your strands turn out? Did they stay whole as you worked with them?

Good Morning Chickies,

Well one day back on low carb and the ticker is correct again and my fbs was 113 this morning. Why of why do I play with this stuff. It is very clear what works. I am just going to have to face the facts and go with it. That is what I'm going to have to do is work on my attitude about all this.

I have my plan for today already posted on MFP. I think knowing I am tracking the food and the exercise on there makes me do what I need to do. I'm not good using things like this on my cell but I guess I need to download the apps for MFP so I can use it on my trip. Calories are a little under 1200 calsories, carbs are 60 g and fiber is 19 g. I've tried to remember how we ate when I lived with my aunt and I lost loads of weight never having problems with potty issues. We didn't cut out any foods, but we ate a lot of veggies especially greens. I notice in keeping track that fish, chicken and veggies especially greens keeps the calories low. Not adding fruit into my diet for a while.

Carol Sue and Shannon I have been looking for the Veggeti at my Walmart for quite some time. They seem to carry the more popular tv sale items that are good. I decided to look up the reviews on Amazon and I just had to order one. One 4 star review said the reason she gave it a four was because it was hard to clean the blades other than in dishwasher or power wash on faucet if you had that. However, one of the 5 star reviews said to use a tooth brush or bottle brush to clean the blades. Just thought I would mention that for future reference if needed here. I'm supposed to get mine Friday which is nice. I usually go to grocery store after beauty shop and can get some zucchini and yellow squash. Since I'm eating only meat and veggies at dinner, this will make a nice treat each day to use as a stir-fry that isn't frozen. Please share how well you like it and any new ideas you have. I think this is going to be a real plus for me. If I like it, it just may become a birthday present for my Daddy.

Catch y'all later. Hope we all have a great OP day.

Carol Sue I did not peel mine (but you can) and I left the seeds in and used the entire thing other than chopping the two ends off (left whole and twisted it like the picture). I read a blog saying the "core" did not make good zoodles but I didn't notice any difference from one strand to another when I ate it. When you are done you end up with a couple small pieces that are twisty looking, I just tossed those. The strands are very long, like two pieces of spaghetti together so when I was done I chopped mine up a little. I did have to use the little holder thing towards the end but that worked fine. I used the "thin" end so I can't say anything about the other side yet. I read a couple recipes but didn't want to attempt anything complicated on my first try so I just sauteed them in a little coconut oil, maybe 4 minutes. It brings out the color more when you heat them. Then I had read you need to salt them in a sieve or colander to get the liquid out....I did that but not really sure if it was necessary. They lose their warmth kind of quickly so right before dinner I threw them back in the pan for a minute with a splash of heavy cream. Hubby likes zucchini but he did not like the zoodles. I thought they were good. As far as cleaning Trish is right, the blades are very sharp and they have these tiny openings where the noodles form which get food particles stuck in them. I rinsed the Vegetti really well with my sink sprayer and used a toothpick to push a few pieces through. It was not a big deal, just be careful not to touch the blades. It is dishwasher safe but I was satisfied that it was clean and did not run it through.

Trish, I also have accepted that low carb is the only way for me. Every time I stray from low carb I get poor blood sugar readings. I can do IF or IE, WW....but it has to be low carb at the same time.

I haven't tried my Vegetti yet. I don't have a dishwasher, so I hope I don't have problems cleaning it.

Shannon, we were typing at the same time! It's funny, but I don't like zucchini, but I think I will like it made into noodles. I don't like radishes, but my husband slices them tissue paper thin on a mandolin and I like them like that.

So, my daughter is mostly better at this point but I am still not feeling great. I'm not sure yet if I also have a sinus infection...just waiting it out right now. I've mostly lost my voice and am coughing alot, very tired/run down. Of course, life goes on so what did I do in the 90 degree sun today while Olivia was in preschool? Mow the yard and trim the other set of hedges, close to 2 hrs in the heat. Talk about feeling like crud! The grass was way too tall already and our yard waste pick up is tomorrow, otherwise I would have waited til another day. Next year I need to remember to do the hedges before the heat starts. I might even do them before the first mowing, it really wears me out. Next week is the last week of preschool so I'm trying to get as much done as I can....it is kind of stressing me out, lol!

As far as diet goes, I keep trying to get back on track but I'm having a hard time. Ever since I let myself have those first carb heavy meals a couple weekends ago when I was out of town it has been a struggle. Before I really had no cravings and it didn't even bother me to have junk around. Now, I am having to exercise more will power and I am often failing. But, I keep trying. The scale was up even more this morning. It is kind of depressing but I'm just trying to focus on stringing enough mostly on plan days together to turn things around and get moving in the right direction again. My birthday is next Tuesday and the week after we are on vacation so who knows....I'm not giving up....as much as my stomach keeps trying to tell me to, I'm doing my best to ignore it.

Speaking of radishes, I am experimenting with those today, I have them cooking in a beef stew, pretending to be potatoes. Curious to see if either The hubby or I like them.

Shannon, I had to laugh at "pretending to be potatoes."

I had a hard time getting back on plan after my carby Easter. Before then, I rarely ate carbs, but once I ate them on Easter I couldn't quit eating them. It took almost 2 weeks and still I sneak some in. Today I made stuffed cabbage rolls, and I usually make Haluski (cabbage and noodles) with the leftover cabbage. I cooked too many noodles and didn't want to put them all in, so I put some salt on them and ate them as they were. Just checked my BS and it was 107, so apparently noodles don't affect me as much as bread. I had the same reaction with the lasagne. Also, we went shopping this morning so we went out for breakfast. I had a slice of wheat toast with my eggs and I didn't spike. I have no idea how I walked away from the rest of that toast. It's not like me, but I'm glad I did it.

I'm glad Olivia is doing better, but we have to take care of Mommy, too. My 5 year old grandson is graduating from preschool this month. He will continue to go there for daycare as his parents work, but he will be with the school age kids instead of the preschool age ones. He hated being the oldest one in the class.

Hi guys, I was reading this forum for a while but had to register today, because I feel I need support and can not deal with that stuff on my own any more. My family just can not listen to me anymore or they don't know what else they can do to help.

I have Type 1 since 1,5 years ago, debuted at 33 and after that my life got so messed up with food, diets and feeling deprived. I have good control, my numbers are great but I've developed ED, where I literally can binge eat my brain off on low carb meals. I need to stop this, because it's getting out of control... I can not go on like this my whole life... Feel so ashamed that I can not get it together, I hate every second of this stupid disease. And yes, therapy didn't help :)
I gained a lot of weight since DX, and itt is hard on me because I was thin my entire life and now everything falls apart. I haven't weight this much even when i was pregnant.

There is only food, thinking of food, planning stupid food, calculating carbs, calculating proteins that will turn into carbs .... I can't win this game I feel.

sanssucre :welcome3: So glad you have decided to join us. I think we have all felt the way you do. I know I have and still do sometimes. A lot of your feelings are the process. I have had times when I was so angry because I even have to deal with this. I even told my doctor once that I felt like was in total rebellion to dieting because I was so angry about having to deal with it. I was thin for years as a child until I reached my 20s and it has been one diet after another since then. My sister and I were just talking today about how we thought we needed to go for counseling because we seem to think we don't deserve to be thin. So don't give up. It just takes a while to adjust to all the emotional feelings that goes with this disease.

Carol Sue I still ended up eating some carbs, but stayed within my calories. I ended up riding the recumbent bike for 40 minutes instead of the 30 that I had planned. Really strange thing is that on MFP shows how much weight you should lose in 5 weeks with the number of calories and exercise I did today and it showed that by eating about 300 calories more (still less than 1400) that I should weigh less than it showed previously if I had eaten less than 1200 calories. Maybe there is something about eating a little more. Perhaps I am learning how many calories and how much carb my body will tolerate. It will be interesting to see how the numbers turn out tomorrow morning.

Shannon Certainly hope you will be okay after doing all that work while feeling sickly. At this point, I hope maybe you sweated the infection off. Is Olivia going to be going to any activities during the summer. I remember you saying something before, but sorry that I don't remember.

I know I am so concerned about our up coming trip and trying to stay OP. However, I thought about it today when talking to my sister that in the past, I usually ate pretty good while traveling. Not low carb, but I usually eat sensibly. We usually stop somewhere during mid-morning around 10ish for a fast food breakfast. In the past DH and I would get something like an egg mcmuffin or I would get a breakfast wrap and coffee. He would get hash browns, but I was usually good about refusing to get one. Then later in the afternoon around 3 or so, we would go somewhere so we could get a good more balanced meal. Depending on where we would have to eat, we would half a meal. So I'm trying to think in that way and maybe eat that way. I seem to have given up nighttime snacks so if I can stay away from snacking at the motel like we used to do, I should be able to at least hold my own and not gain any weight and just might have a slight loss. I'm trying to psyche myself for this so I don't mess up what I've done so far.

Funny thing is my sister said she told Daddy that she thought that I was upset because I haven't lost the weight I wanted to lose by the time they saw me again. However, that isn't my problem as much as the fact that I just don't want to gain weight while I'm gone. I'm so tired of starting over. I just want to be able to at least keep the 15 lbs off that I've lost so far.

Sanssucre, Welcome to our Diabetes thread. Unfortunately, we are all type 2 here, and realize that the treatment for type 1 is different, but we have all had trouble with different types of eating disorders, or we wouldn't be here. We will try to help you the best we can. I'm assuming you are on insulin, and insulin causes weight gain, from what I've heard. I too sometimes eat too much because I think it's OK as long as I eat low carb.

Tell us more about yourself. Do you work? Have any outside interests, hobbies, etc? Maybe if you had something to take your mind off eating. Also, it helps to keep a food log, either on paper or online, like with MFP or Fitday. Also, a group like Weight Watchers might help. I tried it for a while and I was able to follow it while eating low carb, but it got too expensive for me and I was not able to stick to it on my own. I needed the meetings to succeed.

Stick around and feel free to jump in to our discussions. We're happy to have a new friend, as we've never had a type 1 here for a long, long time.

You also might want to look in Chicks In Control, which is a thread for people with eating disorders. You might find some others who have similar feelings to yours.
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/chicks-control-64/

Something is wrong with our refrigerator. It is a french door refrigerator with the freezer drawer on the bottom. We hear a lot of creaking and cracking and ice in forming in the tray under the freezer drawer. We take it out, but it comes back in a few days. My husband says before we call a repair man we should shut it off and let it defrost completely because they could be a ice buildup in the drain for the autodefrost. So it looks like we have to try to eat all the frozen vegetables from the freezer in the next few days. I have a small freezer in the basement but it's pretty full right now. My daughter has a turkey in it and I'm trying to get her to take it home, but she says she doesn't have room for it either. Everything in the upstairs freezer is not going to fit in the one downstairs.

And now my computer is humming. I guess it's going to break, too!

And I'm fat. I think I'll go on a starvation diet until I get skinny.

Rant over! LOL

Weight down .6 lbs. Thank goodness for a scale that weight within .2 of a lb. As often happens fbs sugar up from 113 yesterday to 120. Who can figure how all this really works. I surely cannot.

Carol Sue I felt the same way this morning. I just wanted to go on an extended fast until all this weight is gone and everything is back to normal, but of course, that is impossible. So I guess we just keep trucking along. :dizzy:

Hope defrosting your fridge helps and that your computer keeps working.

Everybody have a good one.

Wanted to share this blog/site I found....we all complain about ADA and RDs not recognizing low carb as best practice for BS control but this RD does, very interesting blog posts
http://www.lowcarbdietitian.com/blog.html

Thank you for your support! I hope I can turn this thing around!