WOW, I wonder what would make the Fitbit explode too. I bet it was something rare. At least I hope so. My niece and her DH and DB wear them.
Carol Sue I think not weighing everyday or on UD is because it bounces around and might be discouraging when it goes up. I have no problem with it going up after UD because I expect it the weight to go up. Of course, I also expect it to go down after a DD.
I can eat the 1000 calories on a DD, but I am going to try to go lower tomorrow although DH and I may go out. We didn't go out after doctor's visit yesterday. I hope we can go to Golden Corral tomorrow because it will be easier for a DD. I don't seem to want dessert when I go there any more any way and I think it is because I can have it UD if I want it. I hope to do lower DD. I may not use MFP to count any more because it wants 1000 calories and I'm making myself eat 1000 calories to post on it. I don't need to use MFP for the UD because I just can't seem to eat more than 1800 calories so I don't think I will have any problem eating higher on UD as I will never eat even 2000 calories much less 2900. Eating this way just may make me feel like I am eating normal.
My weight was down to 216.2 this morning. This is just amazing to me.
Well, my life is very interesting these days. I got a call from my sister this morning and DD pacemaker monitor wasn't working. CHF Clinic and called to have him reset it and he didn't know what the colors meant and if it was good or bad. So I called the pacemaker clinic to see what was going on. I had to have him unplug the monitor and then go over there and call the man at the pacemaker clinic so he could walk me through resetting it. The good thing is that now I know what to do if it ever happens again. The system had been down a few days ago and they were having to reset everybodies. I never know from one day to the next what is going to happen.
I found out that the antibiotic he is own is making him feel like crap and it has caused some really bad side effects that were not reversible for some. He takes the last one tomorrow and it will take 3 days for it to get out of his system for us to know through a culture if the infection is gone and just hope there will be no lasting problems from the medicine. It would be so good for him to start feeling good again. CHF clinic did blood work and check the pacemaker and everything was good. I just hope the infection goes away. The home healthcare nurse is ordering therapy for him to help him get back to where he was.
All is good here. I hope all is well for everyone else. I hope you had a good DD fatmad
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Trish, I took Ciprofloxin and had very bad side effects that never really went away. I made the mistake of taking the whole prescription because I assumed the side effects would go away after it was out of my body. I hope that is not the same antibiotic your Dad is on. I know inform everyone that I am allergic to any antibiotic that ends in floxin, as they are all from the same family. Drugs can help, but they can also harm.
Yesterday was supposed to be a DD for me, but every time I turned around DH was eating something and making some for me, too. I only ate a couple bites, but then he wanted to go to Texas Roadhouse, so I made it an UD. I will firmly insist that today be a DD. I hate when he does that, and really feel that he sometimes does it on purpose. In the end, I am the one who puts the food in my mouth.
I don't usually weigh after an up day. In fact, for years, I have only weighed when I feel that my weight has gone down. I have been the same weight, give or take a few pounds, for years though, and there is really no big fluctuation. I can tell that I'm down when my rings start to get loose.
The past week or so I have felt so tired. I couldn't figure out why. Now I am thinking that I went back to taking Niacin, and I think it makes me tired. It's been years since I took it, and I think I used to take it at bedtime for that very reason, so I'm switching it to bedtime to see if there's an improvement. If not, I might stop taking it again. Medicine isn't worth it if it makes you feel terrible.
My hands and elbows are hurting, too. I don't know why it went away last time so I don't know what to do for it. I don't want to go to the doctor about it because they will just give me drugs. I think it's something I'm eating or not eating.
Carol Sue So sorry about your DD being messed up, but one thing about this way of eating is that it doesn't have to derail you. Today is my DD and I really didn't want to have Thursday as a DD, but I am going to try to make it work. I am going to try to talk DH into going to Golden Corral. We like the fish there and we haven't had fish this week which is unusual for us. We usually have it at leas 3 times a week. So he should be ready to eat their fish. I can go on MFP and figure my calories for Golden Corral. We need to have the car washed and it is close by so I'm sure he will go there today. That way I can keep my DD.
I am going to keep using MFP even on DD and try to ignore anything that comes up in red like too much sodium or not enough calories for the day. They have just about every count for everything even most restaurant and fast food places. I've got my DD calories set high at 1000 and my UD calories set at 1800 in my mind although I put it higher on MFP. 1000/1800 is good because over a 30 day average comes out at 1400 a day. That makes it a safe range. If I go under on DD that will be great and if I have a day that I do go over the 1800 it is no big deal. No guilt days or stress days. If it turns out that I can't do a DD, I read where some woman allowed a moderate day. And just kept going with her UD or DD the next day. That is what makes this so doable.
I am not sure I will keep weighing everyday. I did that when I checked FBS everyday. My weight yesterday morning was 216.2 and it was an UD. Today it was 216.4. So while it fluctuates, it doesn't fluctuate that much like it did on all the other diets. Sunday is my WI day. I will weigh that morning and then not weigh again until the following Sunday. I want to get away from the "diet" mentality. I don't have to think about food any more. Even my tracking on MFP will become just a check in thing by tracking what I ate. I will not be trying to figure out what I ate, but how much I did eat.
Carol, one of the things I love about our new doctor is that he told DH. "You take a lot of medicine and I would like to see you be able to come off of some of them. You know these things have a lot of bad side effects over time." He wants him to think about coming off of his sleeping pill he has taken for years because he said that it shortens you life. He think he will end up being like the doctor I went to years ago and my family did too. When that doctor quit the new set of doctors came in and moved the clinic out here. My sister kept going there but Daddy went to someone else. I told Daddy last night that the medicine that started all these reactions in Daddy was the medicine that had 10% penicillin in it. I told Daddy that his old doctor would NEVER have put Daddy on that medicine. I remember one time my previous hubby went to him for a kidney infection. He was allergic to penicillin and when he told that doctor that he had taken one of my penicillin pills years before that he had no reaction. Dr. Wi was furious. He told DH that under no circumstances was he ever to take any form of penicillin. I tried to get DD doctor for DH and me, but he didn't have any opening and then we decided to go with a different system that what Daddy is in. I'm glad we didn't get him. I feel God was protecting us.
DD nurse tells him he will feel better when the medicine is out of his system. I certainly pray so. She is in the same system I am and she might have to tell him that even if she knows better because she is crossing systems to deal with his primary. I have to tell you his pharmacist did not want to fill that 1st pill that was a form of penicillin. I trust pharmacists more than I do doctors because they know more about the meds than the docs. Docs just know what pharmaceutical reps tell them.
I am taking Niacin and I am really sleeping good at night. However, I also take 2 Tylenol at night before bed. The PA told him that they don't know why but they give older people 2 Tylenol at night and it helps their aches and pains and they not only rest better, but are more alert the next day. I do seem to have a deeper sleep although crazy dreams and I don't know if I'm any more alert. My tiredness I think is because I'm doing so much more trying to be everything everybody needs me to be. LOL I only take half the dose of Niacin that my DD takes. They have him taking 1 twice a day. I also take the flush free. He takes the regular because he said it is stronger, but my mother had a terrible reaction to the flushable so I've never tried it. I also saw Red Yeast Rice in the vitamin section at Walmart yesterday so I bought a bottle of that. I took before and stopped it when my doctor told me that it was a "natural" statin. He knew that I questioned statins. I never had any problems with it so why not take the natural rather than the prescription.
Got to get busy. Although I'm going to walk all over Sam's Club and maybe Walmart today and clean DD apartment some when I go over to do his meds, I do need to ride that bike today to strengthen my back and knee. I have got to find time to take care of me so I can take care of everyone else. I'll catch up with y'all again later or tomorrow.
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Trish, I take Slo Niacin. It is not flush free, but it releases gradually. I am feeling better already now that I did not take it today. I heard that the flush free does not have the same benefits as the regular, but I don't know for sure. I was originally taking prescription Niaspan, but I wanted to switch to OTC and the doctor said it was Ok. When I first started taking Niacin on my own I was just buying the regular. I noticed the flush so much more, but it didn't bother me. Just felt like a hot flash. I hardly notice the flush now. I do notice that I don't get so cold anymore, but the weather is warming up too.
I sleep much better if I take Tylenol at bedtime but I'm afraid to take it every day, so I only take it if I have had a couple bad nights.
If I were you, I wouldn't worry about MFP telling you you didn't eat enough. People are all different. It's just a computer response.
This morning I looked up a calculator to see how many calories I burn just to breathe and stay alive, based on my age, height and weight. It came out to 1478. Then I multiplied by 1.2 for low activity and that is supposed to be what I need to maintain my current weight. It came out to 1758, which seems about right, because I always felt that I could lose as long as I didn't go over 1500 calories per day. I want my UD to be about 1500-1600 calories, even though the Johnson calculator tells me more. Once again, it's just a computer, and I am a real person. At that calorie count I feel that I had enough to eat and I also don't feel that I overate. I still try to eat protein at every meal, and lower carb. I need to increase my water and also my exercise. Do you hear that broken record?? LOL
I have been meaning to ask you if you buy Duke's Mayonnaise. I have heard so much about it but it was never available up north. I saw it in Walmart and bought a jar, but DH and I don't like it. I was really disappointed because I never head anyone say they didn't like it. I guess I am just a Hellman's girl, til death do us part. LOL I think I will give this jar to my step-daughter once I buy a new jar of Hellmans. It's not that bad that I would throw it away. Maybe I'll make a mayonnaise cake to use some of it up.
Carol Sue Maybe I should take the regular Niacin since DH keeps the house so cold especially in the wintertime. I really hated having hot flashes, but might could use one in the evening when it gets cold in here. However, I would be miserable during the day. LOL Do you take 2 a day? DD says he couldn't take them both at once because it got flushed when he did so that is why he splits them up.
I used to use Duke's Mayo in S.C. because it was close to Hellman's to me, but I haven't seen it here in Central TX. I don't know if they get it in other parts or not. I too prefer Hellman's and may go back to it since I haven't found anything even close to it or Duke's here.
My MD was not too bad. I weighed this morning to see how it turned out and I was the same as yesterday. This is my UD and I since I want MWF for UD, I will probably be keeping TH as a MD until I don't have to go to Daddy's to do meds on that day. I will make TSS my DD.
I did almost make it a DD yesterday. We ended up going to Denny's because we went to Sam's first since I left my cane in the basket at Walmart the day before. I needed to go pick it up before we went to Daddy's. I was amazed that someone turned it in, but I guess people do realize people who have them need them. Anyway Denny's is next door to Sam's Club and this one here is so much better than the one we had in Charlotte. The girl told me it is whoever owns them. Any way they make a really good Baked Potato soup on Thursday and it was less than 400 calories so I ate that with a few crackers. But I wanted something more and ended up with a little more than 1100 calories. With the walking and stuff yesterday I figured I would be okay. I hope not to have a DD turn into an MD, but I don't think that was too bad. From what I read in Dr. Johnson's ADD book, I think he still considers it a DD. But I was raised we must be Miss Perfection, to me it is more of a MD. LOL
Got to get going... beauty shop day. We get a permanent next week and I am so ready. I wanted to go to church last week but my hair looked crappy. I even told the preacher when I saw him at step-nephews viewing that was why I hadn't come yet. I told him I would be there in a few weeks after I get my perm. He and his wife are my age. We graduated the same year, but didn't know each other even though we went to the same school. We went to the only high school in town at that time and it was a lot of kids.
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Trish, I'm glad you got your cane back. I think most honest people would turn it in.
Since I take the Slo Niacin, 500 mg, I take it once a day as it is gradual release. The regular is released all at once, and that's why the flush is so much worse. I would go according to the directions on the bottle to decided if you should take it once a day or twice a day.
Hi Friends: doing ok, but after 2 down days, weight hasn't budged. Am doing a regular day today, as I will be pretty active with yard work and don't want to eat too little.
About Cipro: I am able to prescribe it, but I stopped prescribing for my clients because of potential side effect, some of which don't go away after the medication is stopped. I am pretty leery of it, and think it should be saved for really bad infections that won't budge otherwise. Just not in the realm of usual for my mamas and babies. If they are that sick, they are under the care of doctor, not midwife at that point.
It is very quiet this weekend, so taking advantage and doing yard work, getting things in shape to enjoy the spring. Next weekend will be a planting weekend, even if its a bit early. (last frost date here is usually around our long weekend, May 22) But the long range forecast looks good. Although I guess if I was up where p.a. is I would wait for the long weekend, those couple of hours of driving make a difference in frost zones.
I am using a vivo move instead of a fit bit these days, and its also a watch. I haven't worn a watch for a long time until I got this one, and I like having an analog watch again, instead of everything digital.
Have a nice weekend friends.
Carol Sue I saw the extended life Niacin at Walmart or Sam's. I will look for those next time. I will finish this bottle and take the Red Yeast Rice and see if that doesn't improve my triglycerides.
I had a very interesting day yesterday. Since I've been on FB, I have met many of my cousins some distant etc. I have one cousin that I met while she was looking up our great grandfather in her genealogy research. My Daddy had seen it and wrote me asking me to get in touch with her if I could and he sent me the information that she had on him on Ancestry.com. She had some of the info wrong on my grandmother who had an unusual name for a woman and this cousin had her down as a male. I got in touch with her and gave her the correct info. Eventually we met on FB and called each other. This has be the blessing of FB for me as I've met several and renewed relationships with some I had lost touch with. The one redeeming quality of FB.
She had written me a few days ago and said she found another cousin and he lived close by and wanted to meet up with us. She told me his name and I faintly remembered us going to his Dad's so my grandmother could see her uncle/his grandfather. Long story short, I wrote her and apologized because Daddy was not recovered, I didn't think he would feel like going.
As I came out of the beauty shop yesterday, she called me and said she was in town to meet our cousin for lunch and told me where they would be. She thought she would come to my house after if she had time, but I lived to far away. We agreed that if I could I would swing by the restaurant for coffee if I could but I probably would. I called Daddy to see where he wanted to go eat while the people cleaned his apartment. I was surprised that he wanted to go meet up with my cousins. (These are my mothers family and they wanted to meet Daddy because he knew all of her people and is the only one of that generation left.) He can tell them stories no one else knows. So I got to go meet my cousin I have only conversed with online/phone and a cousin I had never met. He was a toddler if he was even there the day I was at his Dad's.
The great thing is that I did decide to grab a slice of cheese toast and one with pb before I left home and took coffee with me to drink on the way to the beauty shop. I got so involved in the conversation that I didn't eat again until about 4 o'clock. The only reason anyone even decided to eat was because Daddy needed to eat something. The interesting thing is that my DS and I decided that it was to close to time to eat with our hubbies so we would just have diet drinks.
When we left, I was wiped out and I still had to go by the store to get milk and fruit. Had other things to get but just too tired and hungry and bs dropping. Got my groceries, went by and picked up chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy at Bush's and came home. I was ready to feast. I piled fried chicken on my plate and some potatoes kind of making potato salad out of mine, got me a roll and set down and started eating. It was my UD and I wanted fried chicken and potatoes (rare meal for me although my favorite) ate 2 pieces a few bites of the potatoes and half the roll and told DH "I can't eat all this. My stomach must have shrunk because I'm full". The amazing thing was that I later ate a few bites of some toasted coconut chips I found at Sam's and a few pecans and I was through for the day. About 10 I had a Diet Dr. Pepper. I DID NOT GET HUNGRY DURING THE EVENING! Can you imagine me ever doing that? It had to be this new way of eating of JUDDD. Yes, I was up almost 2 lbs 218.2 from 216.4 from that meal. I'm sure it was the sodium and maybe the chips.
I decided this morning that yesterday was such a great success that this being my DD that I am going to eat fruit this morning and have OM today at 3 or 4 and then attempt at having a 24 hr fast. If I can't do a OMAD on my DD, I will attempt a 2 meal on DD. So far I've tracked my calories just under 700 on MFP.
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Mad, you are the first medical professional I have know to admit to the dangers of Cipro. The manufacture states it in the insert, but both my PCP and the pharmacist denied it. It took a couple years for my pain to subside, and it still flares occasionally.
Trish, I agree that DD seems to cause a shrinking of the stomach. Also, you are more in tune with the feeling of satisfaction and you stop eating as soon as you feel it. Not everyone does that, I've heard. There are some who actually use the UD to stuff themselves with all the things they could not eat on DD. It doesn't have that effect on me either, thankfully. I'm glad you have increased your DD calories to a point that you can still take the weekly injections.
I am trying to figure out how to use MFP because it syncs with my Fitbit. It seems to be more complicated than Fitday that I have used for years. I've been a member of MFP for a while now, but never use it because I can't figure it out. LOL
I am a little disappointed not to have succeeded in getting under 170 for May. I'm not sure I can take my ticker down to 172. I am slowing in weight loss. Not sure if its JUDDD or having a few carbs in general from time to time. Yesterday I had a meal with bread! Maybe too much.
The up days are hard on me, I have trouble sticking to down days afterward. The old cravings are there.
Although there are some NSV and wins. Yesterday at our meeting there were lots of snacks, cookies and brownies etc.
I did have a brownie toward the end of the meeting, but just the one.
However, my addiction is there, in the sense that those treats were calling to me and distracting me the whole time. I was also quite tired and would have loved to hoover the whole table of treats.
Its a victory that I held to one thing, but not that I haven't gotten over the constant craving for that stuff.
I'm 173 this am, so ok, but not losing lately.
My tendonitis in my forearm/wrist is finally better enough for me to consider going to yoga again. Doing some of the exercises at home, and planning to get more active this spring.
fatmad I'm not doing good with JUDDD either. I'm having too many UD. My DD become more UD. I'm thinking about going back to just counting calories just using IF 8:16 eating.
I'm almost gained back the weight I had lost. I've got to rethink what I'm doing. Maybe I should just do WWSP again. I just need to commit to something and stay with it. I've done to good to mess up now.
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I am also having a hard time committing to a DD, but I'm still trying since that's the only thing that's worked for me for ages. Weight is still hovering around 201-202. I have almost eliminated my scrambled eggs. DH hasn't been making breakfast lately and I don't make them for myself. I have been having a small snack around noon and then nothing until supper. I'm hoping to wean myself off the snack soon and just fast until supper. If I see improvement I will continue doing this, but if not, I will go back to more meals in the day. We are all different, so I don't know which way will work best for me. For years I controlled my weight by eating just breakfast and lunch, and I still believe that is best for me. But it took 36 years to realize I am not going to change DH, I can only change me. Never in a million years did I think I would stop being a breakfast eater.
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I did very well with my food yesterday and I'm back in Onederland. For what, the 15th time? LOL I would like to continue down from here, but if I have to keep bouncing in and out, so be it. I will just keep trying. My calories came to 1,099, with 56 gm of carb. My carbs would have been lower but I ate a banana before bed. I was doing a test. I read somewhere that a banana at bedtime will improve sleep, so I tried it. Not much difference, so I won't be making that a habit. DH and I split either a banana or an orange each day. That's the only fruit I eat. I have some blueberries in the freezer. I only like them frozen. I want to get back to eating them again because they are a superfood, but I just never think of them. I will have to check online to see how many is a serving.
I honestly thought that I posted a message yesterday. I have no idea where it went.
Carol Sue I found the Slo-Niacin and will get it when I run out of these I have.
I haven't been doing really well on the way I'm eating, but I am changing things up. I have come down to 216.2 and just thankful that I haven't gained. I am going to keep the IF way of eating, but I am changing the hours so that I can quit eating at night. I am going to try to continue the JUDDD way of doing it because I think the alternate DD,UD is a good way to eat. Too many benefits not to do it. I am not doing low carb. I am going to be a little more of the SF/LF woe.
The main reason I don't want to do low carb is that I hate it when I stay low carb and then eat something off and the results of one off meal or bite seems to wipe out all the days I've low carbed and stayed OP. I just think I do better with more of a WW way of eating, but I am going to continue using MFP rather than pay for WW.
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I have decided not to worry about all the things they say about low calorie causing your metabolism to slow down, at least for a while. When I did my UD yesterday, I felt like I was stuffing myself with so much food, even though I wasn't. I know you are supposed to eat more on the UD. I have decided to try doing a few lower calorie days for a while to see if I can get my weight low enough that when I bounce up, I won't go back into the 200s. I don't know what my problem is, but I have mental difficulties about my weight starting with a 2, even though 199 isn't really a big difference. I want to eat lower calorie to get myself into the low 190s and by that time I might have shrunk my stomach enough that I won't need so much food. There are some people who say that the slowed metabolism is a myth...that the amount it slows down is minimal. I feel very comfortable with 1000 - 1200 calories, and when I eat more, it's not because I'm actually hungry but often from boredom. I still have trouble with evening, too, Trish. I found that if I go into the bedroom to watch TV I'm not as tempted, and most of the time, DH is watching something I don't like out here.
