DH and I have been feeling yucky sick ever since we got home. DH is allergies and I think mine was just week from not drinking enough water/liquids when traveling. Feeling better today and I hope DH will start feeling better too. Interesting thing is that his allergies didn't act up at all while in TX. In fact his allergies hit him as we got closer to home.
I will get busy today cleaning things out that I can either throw out or give to Goodwill.
DGS isn't going to graduate. He plans to work until next spring and go back to school to graduate next year. I hope he will be moved by the time I get the house on the market. I hope to have it up for sale b June 1st.
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Trish, I'm sorry to hear that DGS isn't going to graduate. I hope he follows though and does go back in the spring. It would be such a shame to waste the time and effort he has already put into this. I do understand his problems, though. You can't worry about it, Trish, you did so much to help him out. Will he move back with his parents?
Are DH's allergies due to the difference in climate between SC and TX? If so, the move should do him a lot of good. I hope you are both feeling better.
My weight is back up a bit and I'm not real happy with myself right now.
I am in less of a funk today. Fixed my sewing machine and made my coworker a pillow that she really loves and got some of my guinea pig accessories done. Tonight I'm going to make a lap pad and a cage liner and tomorrow I should get my piggies. Learning to sew has been fun.
I still think I've lost my mind on my new pets, but too much money spent now to back out.
In the weight loss front, things are still going good. I'm down to 193.8 but going to wait till tomorrow before I update anything. BG has been 95 or less, so my binges and carb fest haven't hurt too much. Tomorrow we're trying out a new seafood place and seafood, fried or not, is pretty decent on calories. I should be okay this weekend as long as I avoid Starbucks and DQ. I'm so low on net calories from the week that it probably won't hurt me diet wise all that bad. BG wise, um, yeah, ice cream is evil.
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Morning, all. I am not so sure about my dilemma with the bacon. Yesterday morning, DH made breakfast, and I had bacon and eggs. This was before I had taken my first meds of the day. Shortly after that he suggested going to the casino for the day, and I thought "Oh no, I ate bacon!" When I went to take my meds, I had the Metformin in my mouth but then spit it back out thinking maybe it is the combination of the bacon WITH the Metformin that causes my problem. I went the whole day with no problem at all. So I will have to eat bacon this morning and also take my Metformin to see if it causes a problem. I am planning to be home all day today if it does. Otherwise, I don't know what's causing it. I did take my bedtime Metformin.
I got a book from the library The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet by Dr Michael Mosley. I didn't realize it until I got home that he is the same doctor who wrote The Fast Diet, which I believe is 5:2 Intermittent Fasting. Expecting this diabetes diet to be the same, I found that it isn't. In this book, he is promoting an 800 calorie per day diet for 8 weeks to drop blood sugar reading and stay off meds. Haven't gotten all the details yet, but it does eliminate starchy carbs and he's saying that the rapid weight loss that results is what lowers the blood sugar, and compares it to what happens after bariatric surgery. I'm surprised that he is not promoting IF for diabetes, as so many people do. I'm reading that IF is very contraversial especially for women.
Fickle, yes, ice cream can do a lot of damage, good as it may taste. There is a certain DQ in our area that has the best ice cream I've ever tasted. We don't get ice cream anywhere else. We used to stop often, but because it really spikes my blood sugar, last year I made a vow that I would only eat 1 ice cream cone from there the whole season. And I stuck to that. Even though DH would stop for one, I passed. Finally, sometime in September, I had my annual ice cream cone, as I figured they would be closing soon for the winter. I am going to do the same thing this year, and only treat myself one time all season. We have ice cream in the freezer that has probably turned icy by now. Doesn't temp me in the least anymore.
Good luck with all the pets! It's a big responsibility.
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Weight is up a bit, but FBS has come down running between 100 to low 140s. Never sure why the swings, but I'm sure the weight gain is the change in the way I'm eating.
I am 100% WW SP. I am reading on the WW site and I'm eating more fruit and veggies. However, I never eat a whole serving of fruit. This morning I had 1/2 c lowfat cottage cheese with about 1/2 c strawberries cut up into it with a cup of coffee and it tasted good. Nice change. This is Sunday and we have eggs for lunch. So I am having an Egg McMuffin type lunch made with a slice of Canadian bacon, 1/8 c mozzarella cheese and egg on a Light Multigrain English muffin. WW shows using rice cakes to make different kinds of snacks/meals that look really good so I plan to use those too.
As you can see, I'm not doing low carb. WWSP plan is more of a low saturated fat and sugar diet. I think that is a good plan so I decided to go with it. I kind of used that way of thinking when I ate on my trip. I used the WW app for cell phone to check on some of the foods I ate when I could and it worked. No foods are forbidden, however, some foods are better choices than others. It is a healthy plan and it promises to help me get and stay healthy if I follow the plan.
I've been thinking about how I ate on the last 2 trips home. I ate pretty much what I wanted on my trip and my FBS and weight came down so I have decided that maybe I should continue eating that way and just learn portion control. I remember the last time we took a trip that I did the same thing and I was so surprised when I got home and had the same results as this time. I think when I'm home that I just stress myself out with trying to diet (stress can raise bs) and when I'm on a trip that I just go with the flow because I know I can't change things. I actually had a McDonald's Egg McMuffin ever morning for breakfast on both of those trips and I lost weight and FBS came down. So why not relax and go with it on an everyday basis here at home.
Carol Sue You mentioned that you wondered if I was diabetic. My doctor actually told me one time that he thinks I am more Insulin Resistant than diabetic. I'm not sure what the difference is, but I think I've finally found the plan through WW that will help correct whatever my problem is. It has also amazed me that my eating carbs that are forbidden on low carb has actually caused my FBS to come down rather than raised it. But if it works, I would be crazy to continue doing what doesn't work for me.
Hi friends: I have lost my way. Had a binge the other night. Feeling quite blue as well. Having some inter-personal issues at work at well. It's all set me off I'm afraid. I will have to learn to deal with adversity without turning to food. I guess I have myself in hand now. What I have done right is that I have been for walks and working in the garden the last few days. At least that is going well.
This is the first time I have really hit the blues like this in months. Ever since I went on the low dose SSRI (a type of antidepressant) to help my sleep, I have been doing really well. I lost a bit of weight without trying, simply by not eating to stay awake. That started me on this newest journey to better fitness and weight loss. I can accept it going slowly, but the blues really affects my eating. That is a problem for me to deal with. I am trying to rein myself in, and not try to eat the blues. or start some other destructive behaviour.
I think it really does take a year, all the holidays, the seasonal ups and downs, to re-learn how to eat and lose or at least stop gaining weight. Some days i really doubt myself, and this is one of them, I guess. I am not sure I can really re-learn how to eat, (or how not to over-eat at least).
Just baby steps, eat a little less, exercise a little more.
Fatmad I'm so sorry you are having issues at work which are probably causing you to have the blues. My prayers are with you. I agree with you that it does take time to learn how to eat to lose weight. I also think we have to learn to accept the fact that we will have better days than others and not let it totally derail us. Good job of doing what you could do. It goes back to picking ourselves up and getting back OP at the next meal or snack.
I remember years ago that I read in a book on cybernetics that when a missile is shot at a target that it zigzags before it hits its target instead of traveling a straight line. However, it always hits the target. Maybe we (I am including myself in this thought) should think of our weight loss the same way. Work at reaching our goals knowing that a slip up (zigzags) doesn't have to derail us. I think we work too hard at perfection. I have watched normal thin eaters and they do not eat the way we dieters think we are supposed to eat. They do have times when they eat whatever they want and as much as they want only they don't feel the guilt we feel. They do not shoot for Perfection all the time. I think we are just too hard on ourselves. I pray tomorrow will be a better day for both of us.
I didn't do great today either. I was not feeling well today and didn't plan very well. I came back home from the trip with a little bit of a bladder problem due to not drinking enough fluids while traveling. I did finally cook some lentils and ate it and I actually began to have some energy. I hope that after a good nights sleep that tomorrow will be better.
I didn't like the way that eating small meals made me feel so I'll go back to eating regular meals tomorrow. I felt like I was eating all day. Another lesson learned.
Well, sounds like I'm not the only one back in a funk.
Some days I just wish I could eat what I wanted. Today is one of those days. I've been fighting the urge to say "the heck with it" all dang day. I'm just so tired of calorie counting and worrying about carbs. I haven't caved yet though and thankfully almost time to go home. Maybe tomorrow will be better. I've come too far to stop now.
Weekend was okay. The new seafood place was delicious. I didn't cave on ice cream, but I did cave on homemade key lime cake and Starbucks. Did not get my guinea pigs because my husband fell in love with a ferret.... and then changed his mind (thank God). Bah. Men. If I keep putting this off it's not going to happen, but maybe that's his plan. Either way, it bought me time to redo some things with my current cage set up. I suppose I'll be getting the piggies this Saturday. At this point, who knows LOL. At least my sewing machine has gotten some use. 2 dogs, 3 cats, fish, and now rodents. My BFF says I'm overcompensating because I want a baby.
She's probably right LOL!!!
I agree with you Trish. I know I try too hard to eat perfectly and then struggle with guilt after I "fail". It's food. Why does it have to be so emotional? A friend on another site had a signature that said, "Progress not perfection." I'm starting to agree with it more and more. I had cake on Saturday and then yesterday I was right back on track. How much damage did I really do with 400 extra calories on ONE day? Not much in the grand picture. I put on some water, yes, but one piece of cake will not add on 70 lbs of fat. It just won't. Why is it so hard for me to comprehend that? Even with ice cream and a 3000 calorie day the weekend before, I STILL lost 2 lbs. Just all the more evidence that losing weight is a journey with lots of winding paths.
Tonight it's spaghetti without bread. I figure the pasta won't be too bad since I'm back to my Mon - Friday one a meal a day thing. I'll still be under 1200 calories.
Fickle Congratulations!!! You didn't cave in today. Sometime we have to just take it One Day at a Time and then other days we have to take it one meal at a time.
I ran a registered child care in my home years ago. I kept a little boy who ate only when he was hungry. More like Intuitive Eating. His Mother and I learned that if he ate good for me during the day that he wasn't very hungry for dinner, however, if he didn't eat good for me, then he was hungry and wanted to eat when they got home that night. I really think this is how we were created to eat and some of us ate that way growing up, but somewhere along the way (maybe because we learned to eat by a clock) we forgot how to recognize when we were hungry and when we were full or satisfied when we did eat. I've tried to learn how to eat Intuitively again, but the only time I seem to be able to do it successfully is when we travel which tells me that when I'm at home that food is too available. Although we did take food for snacks, but we were so bus that we never ate them. My sister and I talked today about how none of us even snacked when we were at her house. Just not sure why.
I had my breakfast of eggs, bacon and toast this morning to finish up the bacon I had in fridge as I didn't want it to ruin and have to throw it out. I am switching to Canadian Bacon. Going lower fat has stopped the bowel problems from the Metformin. I won't always have the muffin, but I will when I want it. We had cod fish, salad with EVOO and ACV and broccoli with a little bit of butter. Tonight I had 2 rice cakes with peanut butter and 1/2 banana. I've had 1 c of watermelon for a snack and I have half a serving of popcorn planned for a snack later if I need it. That will spend all my pts for today if I eat the popcorn. If not I will be 2 or 3 pts below the pts for today.
I'm learning that I do need to eat better/healthier so I feel better. I need the small amount of carbs for energy however I don't really need big portions to satisfy my hunger. FBS seems to have stabilized at 140 for right now which is really good.
Thanks for the article Trish! I tried the ACV one time and hated it. Wonder if I added it to something other than water if it would be better to swallow.
Today for me is much better. Still carrying around 2 extra lbs but I can live with it as I'm pretty sure it's water from the carbs and the pasta last night. Tonight we are having company and doing hamburgers, so not as bad as the spaghetti. Still not great, but I'll still be under calories so I think it'll be okay. I haven't had spaghetti in so long it was worth it.
Nothing new here. Work is still pretty busy, but I'll manage. So ready for the weekend!
Fickle I use a Tbls of ACV and about a tsp of EVOO on my salad everyday. It seems to help lower my FBS not sure if it helps weight loss for me. I've also been reading about how fiber helps lower bs and weight and have added a little of it to my diet within my allotted daily pts. Will be interesting to see the results over time. I'm glad you are having a better day.
Getting back to pre-binge weight. I have been too busy with work to dwell on things, and am more tired than blue today.
Thanks for all the support. I know in my head that weight loss is a journey with many ups and downs, but its a pain when the facts get in the way and the scale says, "hey, that was some crazy binge you just had".
Hope we all get to feeling better and back on track.
off to bed now, at 730!
but going to wait till tomorrow before I update anything. BG has been 95 or less, so my binges and carb fest haven't hurt too much. Tomorrow we're trying out a new seafood place and seafood, fried or not, is pretty decent on calories. I should be okay this weekend as long as I avoid Starbucks and DQ. I'm so low on net calories from the week that it probably won't hurt me diet wise all that bad. BG wise, um, yeah, ice cream is evil.
But if it works, I would be crazy to continue doing what doesn't work for me.
I'm so sorry you are having issues at work which are probably causing you to have the blues. My prayers are with you. I agree with you that it does take time to learn how to eat to lose weight. I also think we have to learn to accept the fact that we will have better days than others and not let it totally derail us. Good job of doing what you could do. It goes back to picking ourselves up and getting back OP at the next meal or snack. 