Fatmad Thanks for sharing about the protein powder shakes. I have to cans different flavors and decided this morning to drink one 2 x a day until I get my eating under control. I think I will continue doing that until I use them up hoping to get more control then go back to eating real protein foods.
I have been so out of control for 2 days. We went out to eat at a hamburger place Monday when DH had to go to the doctor and we went to pick up meds and some groceries. And I've been on a binge for 2 days. I gained 3 lbs from the hamburger. I got on the scales this morning and still weighed the same as yesterday, I decided to count that as a blessings and not to push it so I had a protein shake this morning. I'm not surprised to learn that the shakes are not all they claim to be, but I am going to drink one for breakfast and one for dinner and only eat one meal a day at least until I get rid of the cravings. Then I will get back into a routine of eating healthy to lose weight again.
DH was feeling better last night. I hope we hear from the lady about the house in TX today so we can start planning our trip. I want to get the building of the new house started at least by the middle of this month. I want to be able to move before fall.
Anne Glad to see you here.
I got up late so I'm running late on everything today. So will try to get back later. Y'all have a great day.
Thanks Mad,,,,,I started reading more about protein powders to after I wrote that I was going to try some.....then I thought better of it. In my mind I thought why not add some plain Greek yogurt to almond milk and a few berries. I realize almond milk isn't that great either it's mostly water, but I think of it as a vehicle to make a smoothie. That way I know exactly what I'm drinkling
p.a. and Mad I didn't have the shake tonight. I have also heard pros and cons on soy milk. I already gave up almond milk because I wasn't sure if it was causing me stomach issues. I believe regular milk does, but I also think almond milk does too.
I am going to have to make myself buckle down and learn to eat healthy within the calories that I need to. I know that the quality of life I live depends on it.
Not sure why I haven't heard from the lady I've been dealing with from the construction company that will build our house. I'm beginning to worry about her because it isn't like her not to get back with me. I'm wondering if she is sick or going through something major right now.
I haven't worried much about it since DH has been ill. I always believe that God has a reason for everything that happens in my life and tonight I got a call from my sister telling me that our step-mom is in the hospital and they aren't sure she is going to make it this time. So maybe there is more going on here that I don't know about. She will turn 84 either this month or the next if she lives. We have seen her go to the hospital with no hope to come out so many times, so that may be the case this time too. My sister said that my Daddy is having a really hard time with this. All we can do is pray for her and Daddy. We may be going for my Daddy as well as business. I hope not, but will have to wait and see.
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Trish, I am glad DH is starting to feel better. Hope he continues to mend.
Ya know, I never think of a hamburger with a bun anymore. At home I eat them with lettuce, tomato, and onion mostly, and occasionally a slice of cheese. It just doesn't enter my mind to have it with a bun. We rarely eat at fast food places, but you could either ask for a knife and fork, or maybe carry plastic ones in your purse. I always take the bun off in a restaurant. The meat tastes so much better standing alone.
I think maybe you should call the woman about your house. You need to know what's going on with it, plus that way you will find out if she's OK.
I have been having pain in my upper back around my shoulder blades and I bit of a fever. This has been going on for 2 days. It hurt when I moved a certain way and hurt if I coughed. It seems a little better today. I think I might have pleuresy. I was going to call the doctor but since I feel a lot better this morning I think I'm getting better. It no longer hurts if I move or cough, but still hurt when DH was rubbing it for me. Fever is down. I don't like to go to the doctor for every little thing, but when you get older, it's hard to tell if something is serious or not. DH wants me to get better by Friday as we are supposed to go to the casino. I know where his priorities lie! LOL
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I can't do lettuce burgers. I've tried to like them, but it's a no go. Which is weird since I eat hamburger steak with onions and gravy with no issue. It's pretty much the main reason I avoid fast food burger joints.
CarolSue - I get recurring pleurisy about once a year. I know how painful it is. I'm glad you are doing better and it's clearing up. I get it in my chest and it hurts so bad every time I take a breath, like someone is hammering nails in my chest. First time I got it I thought it was a heart attack and went to the hospital. I can't lie down, I have to sit up and just gasp for air. Sometimes it turns into pneumonia and sometimes it just goes away in two or three days. Advil takes the edge off, but when it flairs I'm in for at least 3 days of misery.
Trish - so sorry to hear about your step mom. You have my prayers and God definitely always has his reasons. I hope she pulls through and I hope you hear from the construction lady soon.
I've heard soy milk can mess with hormones, especially in women but I've never tried it. Almond milk isn't very good to me and I think it messes my tummy up too. I was using it with my shakes just to give them a little bit of creaminess, but stopped after a bit. I gave my shake mix to my friend yesterday.
Still no love from the scale. Blah. Today I'm having steamed shrimp for lunch and grilled pork chops for dinner with broccoli and cheese. I've been craving pizza for months now and I think Saturday I'm going to cave in and get some. I'll keep it under 1200 calories, but I'd rather get rid of the craving instead of continue to fight it.
AND this one shows how low fat diets may lead to diabetes
Skimmed Milk: Study Finds People Who Eat More Full-Fat Dairy Less Likely to Develop Diabetes
The study, held over the course of 15 years and published in the journal Circulation, found that those subjects who consumed more full-fat dairy were 46 percent less likely to develop diabetes.
also home with a nasty cold. Others covering my work, as I am sure I am contagious.
Carol Sue, sounds like pleurisy or pneumonia, hope you feel better soon. Trish, thats a lot to deal with, DH sick, Step-mum sick, and worries about the building project. Good for you to be determined to stick to plan, one way or another.
Lotskids, hope continence is improving if slowly. I had a procedure done a few years ago. I have to be careful to empty fully, have been prone to UTI's ever since. (and now I am taking cold pills, that can bring them on, the decongestants can cause urinary retention, so do SSRI med, FYI)
Sounds like we are having a rough week. pounding fluids myself. not too hungry for now.
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I don't use much milk now that I stopped eating cereal, but I do buy skim and use it in recipes. I just don't like the taste of full fat milk. DH uses it in his coffee. I don't buy any other low fat dairy such as cheese. It's full fat all the way.
I don't have a lot of pain now, but the low grade fever is hanging on. If I wasn't checking it with a thermometer I wouldn't know I had the fever. I don't feel feverish at all. DH wants to go to the casino tomorrow so I hope I feel OK. He will not be a happy camper if we can't go.
Our weather is so chilly and wet the past few days. It's supposed to start to warm up on Monday. Maybe it will finally stay that way and we will have Spring. I haven't been out for 3 days as I am trying to stay out of the chilly weather while I'm not feeling up to par.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts, prayers and advice concerning all that is going on in my life right now. I am determined not to let it get to me, but it does take a lot of prayer and I'm thankful for the support of my friends. To tell you the truth I'm dealing with some feelings I've got to get through and let go of.
Some of you we wanted to move to TX last year but couldn't because DH DGS is living with us while he goes to college and he was supposed to graduate this year. It wouldn't be so bad, but we've done everything in our power to help him get up and go to school and family in FL has been pushing to get him through to graduate, but he obviously doesn't want to graduate. I woke him up this morning before I left to go to Bible study. When I got home he was still in bed. When he finally got up, he informed me that after I woke him up... in his words "I just wasn't feeling it" so he went back to sleep. Right now, I'm wishing I could be there with my Daddy and the only reason I'm not is that we sacrificed for a kid who is throwing his college diploma away and I'm really angry with him and wondering "what the heck did we do this for?" He doesn't want to work and he doesn't want to go to school. I have to keep my mouth shut because it is DH responsibility to do something about all this. I don't want this to cause problems in our marriage. Grrr!!! I will be ok and I will get past it. It is just the timing of everything.
My sister says that our step-mom is dying. They didn't expect her to make it through last night as they say her body is shutting down. When I told DH how she is doing, vital signs etc, (he's a retired respiratory therapist), he thinks she will pass away sometime tonight. She will be missed and my Daddy is taking it hard besides loving her, he didn't want to bury another wife. I understand that feeling since I've buried 2 husbands myself and have said many times I don't want to go through that again. So I really am disappointed that I'm not able to be there. Oh well, that is life.
I did call the lady about the house when I got home today and they are waiting for pricing on the oversized garage DH wants. She said since we customized a customized house that they had to re-graft it so when she gets the rest of the info she will call us with the results.
I decided to go to the store and get some meat/protein. I bought some pork chops, turkey legs, a rotisserie chicken etc and I have had very little carbs today. My carbs have been 1 apple, and snacking on nuts. My DS who is diabetic eats a lot protein and snacks on nuts. I thought I would do this until I get rid of cravings and then add some veggies back in. This just might work for me as I noticed thatI cannot overeat meat because too much of it makes me almost nauseous. And when I eat the nuts, I notice that they satisfy me so quickly that I can't eat too much of them either.
Carol Sue I hope you get to feeling good enough to get out tomorrow, but don't push it.
Fatmad Sorry you have a cold. Hope you get to feeling better. I just read yesterday about the skimmilk causing diabetes. I used it for so many years especially when I was lowfat dieting. In fact, I used a lot of ff and lf products back then until I started hearing they were so bad for us.
Fickle I read that soy milk/products can cause thyroid problems as well as other problems. I am seeing more and more that real food is probably the only way to eat to be healthy.
"I'm not feeling it." Wow. I'm 36. I blew my chance at college. I had a full ride and everything, not one penny out of my pocket would have been spent. I spent one year at Florida State, living in Tallahassee, and ended up skipping class pretty much every day and dropping out. I had a 4.0 GPA. I had scholarships. I was going to go to med school. I came crawling back home and yeah, let me just say, getting your degree while working full time, and having to pay for it suddenly, is not fun and not an experience I would wish on anyone. His "not feeling it", yeah, I felt that too. I "not felt" it for a whole year and then paid for it for the next decade.
I get the generation behind me and I get their disgruntlement with things. I understand where they are coming from. My husband was told there was a teacher shortage. Got his degree, and certification, and no one will hire him, at least for a full time position. That piece of paper doesn't guarantee a job, but that doesn't mean you just give up. At some point, you have to grow up. It's not an option.
And sorry for my rant. It just irks me when I see kids and younger people than me throw their future away because they refuse to act mature. Not only that, you guys seem to have gone out of your way to help him and he's being completely ungrateful. You are in a hard place too with your hubby. You have my prayers. So so sorry about your step mom and your father. I know it's hard not running to Texas to be with them. I couldn't imagine losing my spouse. So sorry for your past losses.
CarolSue and fatmad I hope you both are feeling better today. I thankfully have avoided the cold/flu bug going around here. /crossingfingers. I don't have any sick time accrued, so I suppose I'd have to go to work and infect everyone if I get it. I take some kind of morbid sick glee with that..... (jking) I hope you feel better soon. Lots of rest and lots of fluids!
I was never a huge dairy person save for cheese. I only used milk in cereal or the occasional ice cream binge. My husband otoh, he chugs it. He LOVES milk. His hair and nails apparently love it too.
Scale hasn't moved in two weeks now. Blah. Part of me wants to take a week at maintenance, just watch sugar and carbs and not care about calories, but I'm afraid if I go down that path, I won't get back on this one.
Today it's Mexican for lunch and grilled pork chops again for dinner. Or maybe left over steak and eggs. I'm not sure. Food depresses me lately.
Morning everyone
Ficklehearts, I know what you mean about food depressing you lately. I had a good conversation with my dd last night. I was finding I was hungry but when I cooked something I wasn't interested in eating it. I'm hungry but not for whatever I cooked. I was getting obsessed with my bg readings and curating carbs drastically...I think it started to really affect my inner self. So today I started to go a bit higher ( under 50 carbs) per day. I'm going to re-introduce a bit of fruit and crackers. I lost over 40 pounds doing it this way last year and I was feeling better. My bg is under my Drs guidelines just higher then what I was seeing on gyclazeide. That's what I was obsessing over.
Trish I'm sorry and sending you good thoughts. Thinking of you.
Carol and Mad feel better soon
P.A. - I'm at that place now. Low carb works so well for me with my BG readings and weightloss, but it's just not something I want to do for life. I'm getting bored with it, I suppose. I was losing weight one time just counting calories and eating what I wanted in moderation. I'm seriously considering that again, with of course watching sweets since I have a bad relationship with them. Getting a bit obsessed lately with calories and carbs and that's not healthy.
Fickle Thanks for sharing your experience. DGS has wanted to take a break from college in the past, but his family talked him out of it and pushed him to stick with it. I have 2 nieces and a nephew who took breaks and went back and finished. I really don't blame him for how he feels as I think he needed the break and if they had let him do it his way that he probably would have gone back and finished because "he wanted to". But as I said, I'm the outsider so to speak in this situation so I've set here and had to watch him struggle through this. I'm not really mad at him so much as I am disappointed in the whole situation. While I believe a college degree helps, I am not one of those people who believes it is everything. I also believe that while DGS is smart enough to study what he has been studying, I also believe that it is not what he really was interested in. He has studied very difficult subjects for a chemistry degree and he is more of a people person. So I think he is like a fish out of water so to speak and needs to be able to find what he really wants to do with his life without everyone trying to make him do things he doesn't really want to do. Needs to be allowed to "find out who he really is" in my opinion.
Talked to my sweet Daddy this morning. My Step-mom past away around 2:35 am. Daddy and my step-brother were going to plan services later this morning. I told Daddy that I might not be able to make the funeral, but I would be there as soon as I could and he told me not to worry about it. I talked to my sister who lives there later and she said that she thinks they will try to bury her by Sunday so that our step-sister who lives in OK won't have to leave and come back. So I couldn't get there in time any way since we will be driving to stay a few days to take care of business with the house. She didn't suffer and it is better that she doesn't have to lay in a nursing home bed any more. She is free. It will be hard for Daddy, but I think this running to the nursing home everyday and her wanting to go home with him etc has been so stressful on him that maybe he will have time to take care of himself now. Makes my moving home more important than before.
Eating is good right now. I just not hungry. I hope that is as much the high protein way of eating as it is the emotions right now.
p.a. and Fickle I too prefer eating what I want and counting calories, but I'm not counting anything right now. I too have been so obsessed with counting calories/carbs and eating this and not that trying to eat healthy.
Ahh Trish, this is a tough time for you. Losing step mother, and difficulty with DGS. Grief will take its shape, and your father will be glad for you to be there. For DGS, time for him to stand on his own two feet. one wonders if he "isn't feeling it" if there was no roof over his head and no food. Suddenly, working for a living might feel really good. I have to say, paying my own way really made me value what I did.
Fickle, its ok, you are just having a little plateau. Your weight set points are re-adjusting a bit. Give it a bit of time. Maintenance might be good. Upping the intensity of workouts too. (see how wise I am? should I follow my own advice, well yes Madeleine, lets do that)
Cold is a bit better today, not quite so punk. Once this gets better, I will up the intensity of my walks. Have a least gotten back into the groove of eating within my points for the day.
In the meantime, more fluids and rest for me.
Madeleine Glad the cold is getting better. Rest and fluids will help the healing continue.
Yes, the move is coming at the right time. I called Daddy to tell him that we got word on the house and they can build it within our price range and we will be moving. He perked up and sounded like my Daddy is supposed to sound. If the wait has been to help him get through this time, it was worth it. Now my Daddy, sister and I are excited because the move to TX is going to happen. Hopefully we can get things together to go this week to pick out colors, flooring and sign contract to get it started. If we can get it started sometime this month, we still could get moved in my the end of August and maybe even around my birthday which is what we were shooting for. Thank God there is always good that goes along with the bad.
They planned the grave side service around my step-sister's convenience and that is as it should be. Mom will be buried Sunday morning. I'm really glad it worked out that way because no one will expect me to get there. Mom's family was not all that close so we were close to them. My responsibility is being there for my Daddy in the days ahead.
Today was a carby lunch because we ate at a little Greek fast food next door to the auto place while the car was being serviced for our trip. So I won't be eating much if anything tonight.
