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Trish, I too am happy for you that this new house is all falling into place. You will surely be happy there.
I think my problem with the pasta was that I have been eating more carbs in the past few days, and that is causing me to be more sensitive. I think my lower carb eating there for a while was exercising the second meal effect...that if I ate low carb meal, it affected the next meal, too. I was having a bit of carb in each meal rather than limiting it to supper only. I think I need to go back to limiting my carbs.
I noticed that I am getting some false hypos lately, and I have to remember to ride them out rather than eating something. That's a sign that your average blood glucose is dropping. Yay!
A weird thing happened last night. My CPAP mask is in very poor condition. I made an appointment with a sleep specialist to get an RX for a new one. Last night I remembered where I had a new one...behind the table beside my bed. When I got up this morning I thought maybe I had been dreaming but I looked and it was there. LOL I know I looked there before but didn't find it, and I have been trying to make this old one hold up until my appointment. I think I'm eligible for a whole new unit, so I am keeping my appointment. I hope I don't have to go for another sleep study. Hated that.
I should go back to bed. Maybe I would remember where I put a few other things that went missing! I had a pair of Christmas socks that went missing. I have lost 1 sock before, but never the pair. LOL
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Trish look at the generations there! When my oldest was little she had her great-great grandmother, her great-grandmother and her grandmother. My great grandmother kept my cousins and I when we were little in Washington, DC. When we graduated from high school she moved back here to NC which was her home.
Carol Sue, glad to hear you figured out how your carbs are impacting your sugar. Glad you found the mask.
sugar up this morning but I ate 2 cupcakes and cornbread my son made. It was good before that. Yesterday I had two readings below 110, so I clearly know what to do. I just need to do it
Rennie My Grandmother, my Mama's Mama, took care of her kids, her grandkids, and nieces and nephews. My Daddy's Grandmother raised him because his Mother died when he was 6 weeks old. She raised all of her kids, her grandkids and great grandkids. I think it is a blessing to me. When my nieces and nephews (some nieces or wives of the nephews) learned I was moving back they were so excited. In fact, one niece that I've met only once live about 5 minutes from where I'm moving and she went as soon as she knew and found the house (remember we haven't seen it) and took a video on her phone and emailed them to me. We have been chatting on FB ever since.
Carol Sue I am so glad you found your CPAP mask. DH thinks I should go for a sleeping test, but I'm not sure what Medicare pays on that and I only have Medicare. I understand about the one sock missing, but I have misplaced pairs of socks before to find them nicely put away some where much later when cleaning things out. It's called putting things in that "safe place" that I never remember where it is. LOL
Well the old builder salesperson finally wrote last night wanting to know if we got her email and wondering why we hadn't answered their proposal. We really hadn't said anything because we wanted to cool off so we will be "nice" and "Christ like" instead of telling them what we really thought.
DH did answer her and nicely told her that we were sorry but we had decided to go a different way because we want to move sooner than they could do the house and we were couldn't pay the price the had on the house as they had it and it didn't even include all the things we had asked for and told her to send our earnest money back. Supposedly they are supposed to keep only $100 of it, but we don't trust them to hold up to that. We look for them to find reasons to keep at least half of what we sent them.
The really strange thing is I still don't think they wanted to build the custom house for us, because we have never had her answer any of our questions in the same day much less the same night. In fact, I didn't think she was ever at the office that late. But she immediately emailed the form for us to fill out and sign and email or fax back to her, which we did last night. It says it will take 2 weeks to process and send back. We will see. However, we are done with them.
Trish, I think it's a great thing that your family is so close and that you'll be near one another. I have family here but we aren't as close as we were when we were younger. I'm left out or forgotten about till the last minute most of the time. Being an only child doesn't make it better. So it's great to hear about you and your relatives makes me smile I hope you get all of your money back and they realize the mistakes they made with you and don't do the same to another family. Can you google the companies reviews?
Rennie It is interesting you sharing these things with me. My DH is an only child. As much as his children love him and he them, he is hurt sometimes by them leaving and moving away from him. I get the feeling he feels abandoned by them. He was close to his 1st wife's family and wanted to stay close to them and although they accepted me and I love them and they seem to feel the same way about me, we just haven't been able to be close to them. The brother-in-law and sister-in-law we moved here to be close to moves all the time and left us here several years ago after we moved her to run around with them. DH DD and I knew that would happen because they don't stay anywhere very long. However, I have to say the church we joined has been so good for us.
We are at the place in our lives where we need to downsize. Since we have to move, I told him that I want to be with family. We cannot afford to live in So. FL where DD lives because it is too expensive. My sister asked me one time, why DH didn't want them to be his family. Her husband has one sister who lives in Missouri and no other family of his own. He and my hubby get along so well. Neither like sports much, but can watch it when around other members who do. They are interested in the same things. In fact, they went over to the new house yesterday and he took pictures of all the things he would want to know about ac, attic and things my DH wanted to know. They emailed the pics and then we called them and he told DH about each thing he saw in the attic, outlets etc so we know what we needed to know about the house. My DS did the same thing although she didn't take any pics since our niece had sent the videos. However, she knew the things I would be interested in and was able to give me a walk through description of what I have.
All these years DH would say to me "I have no brothers or sisters and you are all I have". My new Great Grandson is going to call him Grandpa and I hope that when we get there around everybody that he will feel like he has found his family and place with all of us.
Trish, I understand how he feels for sure. this is so sweet --> All these years DH would say to me "I have no brothers or sisters and you are all I have". My new Great Grandson is going to call him Grandpa and I hope that when we get there around everybody that he will feel like he has found his family and place with all of us.
I am not going to eat the crackers with or without protein any more. FBS just kept going higher each morning and was 191 this morning.
I am doing more of a Intuitive Eating/Flexitarian style.
Carol Sue Do you remember us talking about a book and dvd by Allen Carr? I don't remember if it was on this thread or the IE thread. The dvd is more like a hypnosis type thing making suggestions of eating healthy. The name of the book is Lose Weight Now. He says that diets do not work and now that you've tried the diets and it didn't work he will help you learn to lose weight without dieting. However, the book and dvd suggestions mostly vegetarian. Although I do not want to eat vegetarian, I am eating less meat and more fruit and veggies. I honestly believe it is helping me to eat less. I'm restricting anything but I'm finding that food just isn't as interesting to me any more. A big plus. I just hope this keeps working for me.
I was down 2 lbs this week and my bp was very good in spite of the FBS being so high. Strange thing is that I didn't feel like the bs was so high. I actually felt good and invited my friend over.
DGS is living in his own apartment now. I can't do the stairs so he has sent me texts with pics of how he used the furniture as he decorated his part of the apartment. I think this has been very good for him. I see a confident young man as he has learned that he is ready and can do what he thought he couldn't do. I am very proud of him. I told him that I cried when he drove off yesterday so I wasn't going to watch him leave so I wouldn't cry, but I cried anyway when he hugged me by. He was so sweet with me. I told him that his mother would be doing what I'm doing if she were here and he was leaving.
He has his life now. He had plans to go be with 3 different sets of friends for the 4th. The funny thing is that now that he has his own place, he says he finds that he wants to fix it up so that it really looks nice. He finally understands why we wanted to take care of things and keep them clean and looking nice. He is maturing.
I'm tired and going to bed. It has an emotional weekend.
Hope everyone had a great weekend and 4th. Catch y'all tomorrow.
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Trish, I am glad that DGS is becoming more mature and independent. I think living with you made it too easy for him to be irresponsible, with you doing everything for him. It's funny, but I was like that when I moved out of my mother's home. She always did everything for me, but she wanted me to be dependent on her so I wouldn't leave. I didn't know how to do anything, but I learned, fast. I can understand that you cried when he left. I know you love him, very much.
I hope you get your money back for the other house. It doesn't sound as though they have a legal reason not to refund it.
I don't recall a book called "Lose Weight Now," so I think it was someone else.
We had a little cook-out just the two of us yesterday. I had a couple bites of potato salad, and I didn't really like it. DH said it was good, so I think I'm just losing my taste for those things. Other than the lettuce and tomato on my burger-without-the-bun, I didn't have any veggies. So it wasn't a bad day, just not great. DH kept saying he wanted oatmeal cookies, so maybe I will make some for him, today. I will bake a dozen, then freeze the rest of the dough for another time. I freeze the dough in ice cube trays, then pop them out into a freezer bag. Then when I want to make more cookies, I just take out how many I want and bake them. You just put them frozen onto the cookie sheet. So easy! That's not really a good recipe for a diet/diabetes thread, LOL, but sometimes we need to do these things for the other loved ones in our lives.
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Morning everyone
Between company, grandchildren and dog sitting it's been crazy around here. Going away tomorrow for a few days as well. Busy busy...
Carol, when my bs runs higher then I like I go for a long walk. It helps bring it down quicker then waiting it out. I have to be very careful with pasta. My trick is to eat it with a salad. With a little bit of pasta noodles, more sauce and lots of salad...sort of. Mix it together.
Trish I'm glad your getting what you want in the house ( mostly) ... And that your gs has settled somewhere.
I'm sure he appreciated all you have done for him
Rennie I have 3 much older brothers and felt like I was an only child most times. I'm closer to them now then I was growing up.
Hope you all enjoyed your long weekend. It's hot hot hot here now...heading to the beach today to cool off.
Trish I'm sorry about the crackers and pb. I have good readings with them as a snack. Not perfect but much better than would without them. And as Carol Sue always reminds us ... We are all different and what works for some may not work for others. We see that holds true for you and I and the evening/bedtime snack Good job on the loss and the bp numbers Trish I love your family ties/bonds LOL it's funny how the light bulb turns on when it's only theirs and not ours and them using it/sharing it
Carol Sue good job on the 4th
p.a. you are busy I have a 12 yr old who I think feels that way most of the time. She has her brothers here 18, 17 & 15. But the 15 yr old pretty much stays to himself so she hangs with me
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Tomorrow I have an appointment with a sleep specialist for my CPAP. I need replacement supplies, and my supplier told me I need a new prescription. I'm hoping I don't have to do another sleep study, but this is a new doctor and I doubt if he will prescribe supplies without a study. Whatever. I need the CPAP.
p.a. you are having such a busy summer! It's great to spend so much time with family. As for the pasta, I think I am just going to stay away from it, especially since DH doesn't like it and I won't have to be making it for him. I think I have a frozen entree of spaghetti in the freezer, but it's a small portion that I would probably eat for lunch. I will eat it, not waste it, but I will probably have something else with it. It has meatballs, and I will add some extra meatballs to it.
Rennie, when I had the crackers and PB for a bedtime snack, I was in the hospital and they were giving it to me. They were checking my blood sugar the next morning and injecting insulin accordingly, so I don't know if it was helping or hurting. I didn't continue that after I came home. I used to eat a lot of crackers for snacks but I gave them up and no longer miss them. I think I still have some in the cupboard and they are probably stale. I have been crushing them and using them when I need a bit of breadcrumbs. Little by little I am weaning myself off the foods that aren't good for me. Tonight at a restaurant I had baked fish, with broccoli and carrots. I proudly did not eat my rolls, and did have 1 of DH's french fries. If you can stay away from things long enough you do lose interest in them, really. It takes a while, though. I don't think I will ever lose interest in chocolate! LOL
Quick flyby to check in. A lot is going on lately trying to get things going. Spent time going to bank to get things set up there to get work done around here. Bible study this morning and off from that for 2 weeks. So I will use that time to get things organized around here. I now have room in the closet in the bedroom DGS moved out of to put some packed boxes in there.
I had a vegetarian eating day today. I am hoping to work toward eating more vegetarian days similar to Dr. Joel Fuhrman's The End of Diabetes book. I similar because I am not giving up dairy. It is my hope is to eat meat but not on a regular basis. I just don't think I can do it 100% long term.
I bought a new zucchini/squash spiral appliance. It is so much easier to use than the original one. I happened to see it at Walmart a few weeks ago and wasn't going to buy it because I thought it was $30 but it was $19.88. I stir-fried 1/2 of it in EVOO and added some chopped tomato sauce to it. Had that and a salad for lunch. I will have the other half in a day or two.
B]Carol Sue[/B] I hope you sleep apnea doctor's visit went well.
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The doctor visit went well. I do have to go for a sleep study. I'm not happy about that, but it's that or not get my supplies. He thinks I will be able to get a new machine, as they have improved so much since got mine. They did a breathing test and breathing treatment and they said that was good. I'm glad there's no problem there. I don't go for the study until Aug 22.
I've been eating cookies lately. I don't know what's up with that. DH always has them around but they don't usually interest me. I think it's stress. I need to say no to them. Yesterday we had grilled salmon for dinner. We haven't had that for a while and it was so good I could have eaten more. I try not to have it too often because of the mercury. There's always something you have to watch out for.
I think today I will try spirilizing a sweet potato. Just not sure how I will cook it afterwards. Maybe I'll google.
makes me smile 
Trish I love your family ties/bonds 
