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It was such a beautiful day here yesterday. 71 and sunny. I guess everyone was out enjoying the weekend. It's supposed to go back to cold again, and maybe snow. Winter isn't over yet.
I have not been on plan the past few days. Eating more than I should, for no good reason. I hope to get back in line today. DH ate cake for breakfast so he didn't make my eggs for me. I am not hungry yet so I won't eat until I am. I will have scrambled eggs with some collard greens mixed in. I was reading my book on SuperFoods, so I'm back to healthy eating again. I'm hoping to go out for dinner where I can have a big salad, either grilled chicken, or tuna. It's hard for me to keep everything in the house for a good salad since I'm the only one eating it. Everything goes bad before I can eat it all. I wanted some orange peppers but they were $4.99 lb at the store yesterday. I don't think so!! I will look somewhere else. Maybe Aldi's. My book said that the orange peppers have the most nutrition, but there are different nutrients in the different color peppers. Who knew? DH will only eat green.
Fickle, I can't remember what you said you do for a living.
Good to see you here Cindy!
Trish, I hope you weren't at the debate last night. I heard some sound bites and it seems like it was a rough and tumble crowd! LOL
Yesterday DH and I went to Toronto to see DD and DSIL. We went out for brunch/lunch with them and I had a frittata with veggies and a latte, and didn't eat all the toast. So pretty happy with that, and ate a healthy supper of braised red cabbage and duck leg. Also did lots of walking. We took the dog to the trail in the morning before leaving, and walked from the kids' apartment to the restaurant, which was a good 15-20 minutes each way, of pretty brisk walking. DH drove, but on the way back, the back didn't like the driving, even from the passenger seat. In short, sitting seems to be the worst. And doing my physio exercises seems to make it worse to some extent. Will have to tell my physio about that.
Over all things are slightly better than a week ago.
Carol Sue, hope you can get things working for you for salads etc. Its a real pain, I know. We have been buying a mix in a bag, (7 super foods) that includes Kale and brussels sprouts, and eating a bit most days. DH cuts a tomato into his, I add a bit of cucumber. We too have to be careful (and there's two of us) or we waste veggies, and you are right, at these prices, can't afford to throw out stuff.
Its above freezing today, but not as warm as yesterday.
Well, time for a walk with the dog for today.
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My breakfast was delicious! I was starting to get hungry, and food always tastes so much better when you're hungry. I cooked 3 slices of bacon and ate 2. DH will eat the other one. I sauteed 3 mushroom, sliced, and added a sprinkling of frozen spinach. (finish off the spinach before opening the collards) Then I added my 2 eggs to that. And I had a few sections of orange. Since I count calories and carb grams, it calculated out to 247 calories and 10 gm of carb. I know the fat was high from the bacon and the butter used to saute the mushrooms, but not excessively high. I know it would make my points much higher if I was doing WW. But I'm not. I think if I can make it through the whole day keeping my calories around 1200-1400 I will lose. Those eggs with the mushrooms and spinach....yum!
I don't mind eating bagged salad, but just when I start back buying it they start talking about recalls for e-coli and it scares me off. DH will eat a salad if it's just iceberg lettuce and shredded carrots. I like to add hearts of romaine, onions, pepper slices, radishes. Getting it in a restaurant works well for me, although I know they usually use bagged salads. I pretend I don't know. LOL This one restaurant we go to has a salad with a bed of greens topped with tuna salad. It's very good, and because of mayo in the tuna salad I don't have to use dressing. Then every other day I like to eat my sauteed kale with mushrooms, onions, and feta cheese.
Your frittata was a good choice Mad. Toast temps me every time!! I'm sorry to hear your back was hurting on your trip. We got a new car and it has a lumbar support adjustment but I can't get it adjusted just right.
I haven't been having much pain lately. It comes and goes for me. Sometimes fingers, sometimes elbow, sometimes shoulder, sometimes back. I have never been able to pin point what makes it come, or what makes it go.
I have also been having a hungry day. Could have eaten non-stop. Have worked hard to put spaces between the food, but was still hungry. Kept eating "good" foods. But did cave and had 5 chips when DH got out his pringles. (damn him, why are they even in the house? and why did he get them out in front of me, and they weren't that good). But since then have finally stopped eating. Dug into the flex points for sure.
Made sure to get out walking. Back is still bad, had acupuncture today at physio. See if that helps a bit
Work has been far far busier now that they've implemented some new programs. I don't have as much time to post anymore. My blood glucose seems to have settled around 90-95 fasting, which I'm pretty satisfied with. I'm noticing that if I don't eat, metformin makes me incredibly queasy. I'm not purposefully not eating, I just had to work through lunch today and didn't get time to eat anything until a quest bar around 4:30. Ugh..... Won't do that again. Just going to have to explain to my boss I kinda need to eat. :P
Back in the habit of working out. I rotate bike rides with walking to keep things interesting. Upgraded my fitbit charge to the fitbit charge HR and loving it so far. Although I'm noticing the calories I can eat are a bit higher and I'm just assuming it's because of my heart rate? /shrugs.
Gained some TOM weight over the weekend and got back up to 214, but I know it's just water. Depressing nonetheless, but it'll go away. /crosses fingers. I also joined a Dietbet. Had a friend win $150 last year and thought, meh, why not. If anything, here's hoping it'll keep me straight. I HATE wasting money!!! Still going strong on keto, mostly. I need to stay away from movie theaters and popcorn. Keeping carbs under 100 on movie days is still "low carb" but definitely not keto.
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Mad, sometimes I have issues like that with DH's foods, but you have to remember, this is for life, and you will never be able to go through life with those foods never making an appearance. It has to come from you. Either you eat a small amount and accept it, or you stop and remember that they never taste as good as you think they will, and abstain. For the most part I have done the latter, but I still indulge once in a while.
Fickle, I have always wanted to do the Dietbet, but I'm afraid. I think it would be very good incentive, but I don't give myself enough credit to be able to lose and win. Not only that, but I don't trust them enough giving them my credit card info and I don't trust Paypal. A few years ago I set up a Paypal account and right after that my credit card was hacked. I closed the Paypal account and never used it again. I did something similar on a smaller scale at my job one time. We had an in-house nurse, and she ran the bet. Everyone got weighed once a week and put money in the kitty. At the end of the month, the person who lost the most weight won the kitty. It was on a lot smaller scale than Dietbet.
Trish, we all have days like that. You are on track, girl. You can do this!!
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totally overate yesterday, but at least it was hungry eating. I truly never felt "full" or that I had overeaten. In the end it was about 50 points. yikes. I did eat protein and vegetable foods, other than the 6 pringles.
back is middling, i seem to be pretty good in the mornings, getting worse as the day goes on. DH gives me a little massage in the evenings, I take a pill and some herbs, put on a pain patch and try to sleep. Usually sleeping not too bad. Tried calling the doc today, as she wanted me to call in 2 weeks if not much better, but couldn't get through. Will try again tomorrow. I do think its time for an X-ray to make sure nothing else going on.
I did get out for walks yesterday and today, hope to keep that up, the sunshine helps, but snowstorm coming tomorrow!
So my nonfasting BG today two hours after lunch was 90. My Dr. said he wants me to up my met dose to 2500 next week. I'm not so sure I need too. I'm going to call him tomorrow and double check. It's been pretty dang good lately. I think it's my diet in conjunction with the exercise.
Still at 211.4 now for two days in a row Hoping this weekend I see a nice drop, but I'm still .6 lbs lighter than I was. Any loss is a loss!
Yes, Fickle, I am wondering about the upping of dosage when it seems to be doing its job. And you are doing great with diet and exercise. Be really proud of yourself and your good habits. A good review seems like a good idea.
We are having interesting weather, lots of slippery roads here. But while I was in town for the chiropractor, got into the doc as well. Got some stronger pain meds (plain codeine) and an X-ray. I feel better with stronger meds, but the side effects are significant.
TMI alert: I get really constipated, and that affects my weight loss. SO am also taking some stuff to keep me regular, hope it will help.
Fickle You are doing very well. I don't think I would up the Met if you don't need to. I think I messed myself up doing that. I started out with 500 mg. Then the doc raised it to 1000 mg a day. I was doing very well with it back then, but I wanted to work it up to 2000 so he let me as long as I had no problem with it. Now there are times I have problems with 500 mg and I really think I need to go up to 1000 and may see if he will work me up to that.
Carol Sue You mentioned taking 850 mg Met. Makes me wonder if there is a 250 mg Met. I'm thinking I might could take 250 in the morning and 500 at night. I will have to discuss that with my doctor when I see him next month.
Fatmad Do you know if there is a 250 mg Met? I'm glad you finally got some meds to help ease your pain. I do pray you keep improving and the x-ray turns out ok.
I too have been having trouble with constant hunger. So I'm going back to using my protein powder shakes 2x a day. I heard that Nutrisystem bought out SBD and they advertise 2 shakes a day. Then someone told me that they have you drink a shake twice a day for a jumpstart weight loss.
I think buying the V-Day candy set me off to crave sweets. I don't have any sweets to eat and won't buy them, but I end up eating a lot of other things. I have this Designer Whey Protein Powder I bought before the holidays so I decided it might be a good idea for me to drink one for breakfast and another one for dinner in order to get rid of these crazy cravings. On WW SP milk is to expensive pts wise even FF milk so I am using unsweetened Vanilla Almond milk for my shakes. I saw an oatmeal shake on WW so I make it for breakfast for 4 pts. and 3 pts for dinner.
This leaves me 23 pts to spread throughout the day for lunch and snacks. Hopefully I can use this to get rid of the stupid cravings and help me stay within my 30 pts.
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Trish, I googled Metformin dosage and it does not come in 250mg. Some people say regular Metformin can be cut in half. If there is a score line you can definitely cut it in half, but if not you could probably use a pill splitter. I use that for my Glimiperide.
I heard about the storms in the south. I hope you're safe!!
Mad, every time my surgeon prescribed narcotic pain meds he told me to take a stool softener. I never had a problem. There are several different things you can take for it. When my DH was taking pain med he would not take the stool softener, so I made jello and added Miralax to it. He never knew. LOL
Fickle, I agree with the others that you should not need to increase your Metformin. I think the reason doctors increase the dose is because it's relatively harmless, but beneficial for other reasons. But what meds you take is up to you in the end. You pay your doctor to advise you, but the final decision should always be yours. That is how my relationship with my doctor has always been, and he's been my doctor for over 20 years.
Back OP and water, water, water.