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Carol Sue DH is the reason I started eating the center cut w/o bone too. It fits my low fat plan, but I still like the flavor of the bone in better.

I'm not going to get the kindle book. I've read so many books and I know what to do. I just need to do it. Besides I'm motivated to do what I'm doing. DH told me last night "You are doing the right thing to control your diabetes. I'm not controlling mine, I'm treating the symptoms". He said that because he is on 3 meds to control his which bothers me. I figure if I can do this with the diet and exercise maybe it will inspire him to work at it with his diet and get moving. Plus DS and DD are also now motivated to work at their weight loss. I believe my niece and I have something to do with that.

[Wannabehealthy]

Like I said, I did not recommend the book as a suggested plan, but only because it sounds so much like Dr Fung's fasting protocol, even though it is from 1914. It's almost as though that's where he got the idea.

DH got Wendy's for dinner today. I was not hungry as I had a good lunch, but I got a small Frosty. I will pay for it later with my blood sugar, I know. It's not something I do on a regular basis, but maybe once a month. Too bad they don't have one that's sugar free. LOL

Trish, what does your DH eat that you don't eat, that makes his diabetes treatment different? I sure hope DH does not ever become diabetic. I don't know what he would do. Carbs seem to be his reason for living.

[pattygirl63]

Carol Sue I know you weren't recommending the book, but you know how I am when hearing of another book. I knew you were just sharing and I appreciate it. I'm not able to fast any more for some reason so even if I wanted to try it, I know I couldn't.

DD was upset that we didn't go to Carl Jr's the other day so we are going tomorrow. That turns out good for Friday because by the time we get there after hair appointment it will be 11am and I can get a grilled chicken salad with Low fat dressing and my calories won't be extremely high. I will make it a brunch.

Stayed within points today so that is good. I am feeling bloated when I eat lately. I wonder if it is to many carbs. I really need to cut some of my carbs out of my diet.

Oh, DH eats more of a high carb way of eating.

Good night.

[Wannabehealthy]

Trish, It would probably be good for your DH to eat more like you and get off some of his meds. By praising you, it sounds like he is aware of it, so maybe he could start with cutting out some carbs here and thee.

I didn't really get hungry lasst night after only eating that Wendy's Frosty for dinner. I had to take some Glimiperide for my blood sugar, though. I was not surprised. Later in the evening I checked my BS and it was 109, which is good for me, but I was concerned that BS was still going down from the Glimiperide and I didn't want a hypo overnight, so I had a piece of deli turkey wrapped in a slice of mozzarella cheese. I checked again before going to be and it was 120, so I felt safe with that. When I got up this morning it was 135, so not a big overnight spike. Now today, I'm going to keep things very low carb so I don't get any spikes or need any meds. Once I start out with a good BS in the morning I find it easier to stay in line the rest of the day.

My step-daughter said she wants to get a used exercise bike or treadmill. I know I gave her my old exercise bike a few years ago and I'll bet she got rid of it. Now I'm contemplating giving her my treadmill and buying a new one. It still works, although it is very old. We went to the sporting goods store last night and they have one on sale that I really liked. I tried it out, and it was so quiet and smooth compared to mine and now I want to buy it. I think having it be more comfortable and quiet will make me use it more often. I'm not encouraged to get on that rickety old one. LOL The sale is until 9/30 so I have a few days to think about it and consider spending that extra money. I figure it is money well spent and DH can use it, too.

We don't have Carl Jr's here either. Some of these places are in Pittsburgh and north, but we are at least 20-25 miles from there and never go in that direction.

EDIT: I just checked. The closest Carl Jr's to us is 328 mi away in New Jersey! Won't be going there soon. Ha Ha

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Carol Sue I don't know if DH would ever eat less carbs on his own, but I do have control of one meal a day. LOL!!! He needs to go back to eating nuts like he did in SC. His cholesterol actually improved when he was doing that, but he likes the sugar covered one and that was when he had so much trouble with his taste because of tongue problems. I know the sugar covered nuts was the cause although I would never convince him of it.

I got up this morning and decided I wanted to start eating lower carb although I'm not setting a low for me at this time. I'm just going to follow my taste. I was thinking this morning how I would love to have a flat stomach before I leave this world and found myself asking me "Just how bad do you want that? Do you want it more than you want that slice of bread or bag of chips?" I think I do, but then that is easy when not faced with food.

I know I'm going to Carl Jr.'s. So I got up with the idea that I could do CAD and count calories. I had 2 sl bacon and 2 eggs for breakfast. I had decided yesterday that I would have their Chargrilled Chicken Salad with Low fat Balsamic dressing as that will be lower carb and calories, but I had noticed on their site they have Low Carb Wraps. So this morning when I logged my calories on MFP, I typed Carl Jr.'s Low Carb Wraps. They have a Low Carb Guacamole Turkey Burger Wrap for less than 300 calories and 6 g carb. So that is what I plan to have for lunch today. It is a little further to drive (literally on the other side of town from me), but it would be worth it as they do have Low Carb foods on the menu plus the Walmart I really like is on my way home. If they want to change and start going there, I think it is a blessing for me.

Carol Sue I'm really more interested in that last book you read on how to low carb. I think you had to pay for it but got it on kindle. If you can remember which one it was, I would like to order it as I just might talk myself into doing low carb again. Thanks.

Got to run. Beauty Shop and then meet DD and DS for lunch.

I'll probably be back but if not have a good weekend.

fatmad Are you moving or getting ready to move? Have had you in my thoughts a lot.

BBL

[Wannabehealthy]

Trish, I would love to have a flat stomach, too, but I'm afraid that ship has sailed for me. LOL After that surgery where they cut through my ab muscle twice, I will never have ab control again. I have a lot of abdominal fat and losing that would help, but it will never be flat again.

I tried to look back at older posts to see which book you were interested in. I have read so many, but the only Kindle one I paid for on Amazon recently was Diabetes Unpacked. It stressed the importance of low carb eating for diabetes, and why. There were some chapters that were heavy on technical jargon, but others that were very informative and I will be rereading it. I highly recommend it for all Diabetics.

I think it is very difficult to get rid of a sweet tooth once you have it. If you just stop eating sweets, eventually you won't crave them. I also like those sugar sweetened nuts, but just a few satisfy me. I mainly eat baking nuts that don't even have salt on them. My biggest problem is those pretzels DH has been buying. I have to just put my food down and refuse to eat the first one, because then I can't put them away. He eats other snacks, like cheese curls and corn chips that don't interest me at all so I will try to keep them on hand for him and maybe he will forget about the pretzels.

I have not had to take any pain med for a couple days, and I also have not had any light headed spells. For a few days I was separating those two BP meds that both say they can cause dizziness, but yesterday I forgot and took them together, but I still didn't get dizzy. I don't know why I have these things sometimes and then not at other times. We have had the air condition on the past couple days, so I'm wondering if that is making the difference. My hands still hurt, but that is different from the leg pain.

I think I'm getting a new treadmill. My step daughter told DH she wanted to look for a used treadmill, and jokingly I said "Give her mine and I will get a new one." Mine is probably 20 years old or more, but still works fine. Out of curiosity we stopped in Dunhams to see if they had any on sale, and I tried one out that was $399. I was amazed at how quiet it was compared to my old one, and also, the belt was very cushiony. Part of my problem with the treadmill is the steady pounding that bothers my bad knee. I didn't feel that with this new one. The sale is on until the end of the month and I said I will think about it. So, we went to the casino last night and I won $400, so I took that as a sign that I should get the new treadmill. Today I want to go to Dicks and see what they have to be sure the one at Dunhams is the one I really want. I don't know how many years I'm going to be around to use it to get my money's worth, but I feel that the more comfortable I am walking the more I will do it, and the more I do it, the more I will be able to do it. I will still use my recumbent bike. Some woman told me that she healed her bad knee using a recumbent bike, and I did notice that when I first started using it my knee would click with each time I straightened it out, but it no longer does that, so I do think it's helping me. I know I am fortunate to have this spare room that I can use for my exercise equipment. So I'd better take advantage of it.

I wonder how the house sale is going for Fatmad.

Mad, do you already have a place in Waterloo, or will you need to look for one?

Also, I wonder where some of our former posters have gone. Like p.a., and Bonnie.

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Carol Sue Congratulation on winning the money to buy a new treadmill. That is terrific.

That is the book I was talking about. I just went to Amazon and I can read it for free and will start reading it today. I read one on Paleo eating last night for free. It had an introduction explaining what you can eat and the rest was recipes. My problem with Paleo is that I don't want to give up my one glass of milk a day or some of the bread I eat although they did have some recipes so you could have bread made with other flours. That gets expensive plus I don't have room in my kitchen for all that stuff. You have to be able to store it. Other than that, I could live with it. I still might try some of the recipes that uses substitute flour in place of regular especially the desserts. So I don't think Paleo is for me.

I'm not going to try to change what I'm doing too much. I think my plan is pretty healthy, I just need to learn to cut back enough to lose weight. My FBS was 127 this morning so that isn't bad. I can't eat a whole lot of raw or just sautee'd crunchy veggies because they seem to hurt my stomach. However, I'm thinking the Carl Jr's burger was too greasy and it was too spicy for me. I can't eat spicy foods any more for some reason. DD and DS even had some issues after eating there so they said we will go back to eating at Whataburger. That works out great for me and my eating plan.

I made me an egg, bacon on toast sandwich this morning. I read that the yellow in the eggs helps raise the good hdl cholesterol so I figure one is actually good for me. So I'll keep that for my home breakfasts. I will go back to my taquito at Whataburger.

I have Air-fried catfish planned for today with a salad and air-fried shoestring potatoes which DH and I both like. For dinner I'm having veggies only with a serving of Blue Bunny NSA Sweet Freedom ice cream for dessert. I was on a 4 day diet with DS and her friends on her job one time and a .5 c vanilla ice cream was the last thing you ate. It became a signal to me that I was through eating until tomorrow. I like the strawberry and it is my hope to be able to revive that same message to my brain to end my eating each day. I can see this also being made within an IF eating window of 8 hrs or less.

My calories for today are less than 1300 calories.

I don't know if I will ever have a flat tummy again, but I surely would like to get rid of all this belly fat.

Have fun shopping. Hope everyone has a great day.

[Wannabehealthy]

Trish, I also was able to read that book for free, but I only had a trial membership of Kindle Unlimited, so when that expired I actually purchased the book so I could read it again and refer back to it. I do not have Prime.

I remember that diet that allowed the .5 cup of ice cream. I think it was called the Military Diet. Everyone was doing it back then. I will have to look at the Blue Bunny.

I don't have milk every day but I want to have it once in a while, and the same with cheese or bread. I went back to buying the sprouted grain bread at Target. I keep it in the freezer and only have it occasionally.

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I've been thinking about buying the Ezekiel bread. Is that the one you get? Do you like it?

My day has gone very well. I like to eat a few nuts and Dark Chocolate covered Pomegranite Favor candy DH gets. I've read so much about dark chocolate being good for us so I decided to end my lunch (main meal) with 1/2 oz pecans and half the serving of dark chocolate pomegranate which is 9 instead of the 18 pieces. That with a cup of coffee makes a nice ending to the lunch. I may continue doing that. It gives me just enough magnesium with the nuts without having to take a pill and the dark chocolate is a healthy fat. I'm not sure about the pomegranate as it says flavored, but it is actually some kind of berry. Can they fake that these days too?

Any way I am happy to say that I actually ate exactly what I planned to eat today and not one bite more and I also got my 20 minute exercise on the bike done. It was a good day. I saw a diet book on Amazon that says it takes 21 days to create a new habit. I have always heard that so I plan to see if I can follow my plan for 21 days and get myself into a habit of eating and exercising this way.

[Wannabehealthy]

Trish, I buy Silver Hills Little Big Sprouted Bread. I get it in Target, but it's hard to find and not available in all parts of the country. It is probably on the same order as Ezekiel. I have never tried Ezekiel, so I cannot compare the taste.

I buy bars of dark chocolate candy in Aldi's and break off a piece to eat every once in a while. For a while I was buying the Brooks dark chocolate covered almonds but they were too expensive and I ended up eating too many. The reversatrol in dark chocolate is what makes it so healthy, like red wine. I prefer chocolate to wine. LOL

I have a lot of bad habits I would like to break, but right now I want to work on the pretzels. There are other things I got so tired of that I no longer eat them, and I wish that would happen with the pretzels. If I even try to resist them it just makes it worse. I'm thinking of putting money in a jar for every day I don't have any. I saw someone doing that on another thread. Once I conquer this, I will start on another bad habit. Maybe when my time comes, I will have no more bad habits. LOL

[pattygirl63]

I read some out of the Diabetes Unwrapped last night and this morning. It made me think of Dr. Whitaker's Mini-Fast Diet and started reading it. I'm reading that they give up one meal each day and exercise during the fast. Many people give up breakfast although, he says you can be flexible with that to make it fit your own lifestyle. Some give up other meals or if you like breakfast which I do like mine and I know I'm going to be eating breakfast with DD and DS 4 days a week, he said have it at noon. He says fast in the breakfast in the morning because that is easier for most people.

I do like breakfast foods so I am going to eat my breakfast around 11 each morning and stop my eating 6 or 7. On some days, I may not eat after our main meal. Sometimes when we have other things going on like Tuesday when we go to my Dad's to do his meds, we don't eat until 4 or 5 pm so I will I won't eat after that. If I'm not hungry after the main meal each day, I will not eat anything else until the next day at 11am.

It didn't take me long to see reading Diabetes Unwrapped to see why IF works. As I've said before, I trust Dr. Julian Whitaker who wrote Mini-Fast Diet. He is the reason I trust taking berberine. He says some of the people doing the Mini-Fast Diet are low carbers, some are vegans and some eat what they want, but eat healthy and still include some of the sweets they like. He allows his patients to keep their coffee or tea with sweeteners of you choice although he prefers stevia or Splenda and you are allowed the cream in your coffee and non caloric drinks during the fasting hours.

I can do this. It is so similar to how I ate as a teen and was thin until I started eating breakfast with college friends and going for cold drinks or shakes in the evening with them. It was a slow gain but only because we walked everywhere since no one had a car.

Thanks Carol Sue for sharing about the books you read. The Diabetes Unwrapped should be read by everyone. I'm going to do my best to get DH to read it. His medical mind of always wanting to know how and why medically plus some things he is feeling right now just might get him interested enough to read it.

I am going to track on MFP for a few days just to see how I'm doing, but I will probably stop counting calories since Dr. Whitaker says that when you cut out one meal, exercise when you are fasting to get your body started burning fat that you don't have to count calories any more because you are automatically eating less. He says exercise 2 hrs before you eat and wait as long as possible after exercising before you eat again. I am going to change my exercising to evenings so I get the benefit of my metabolism being revved up to burn fat while I sleep at night.

FBS was up today but that was because my weight was back down. I had a 2lb loss which makes me almost back down to the 212 loss. The weight loss gave me the motivation to keep going as I know that many times a high FBS means a good weight loss. Just seems to be how my system works at least for now.

[fatmad]

Hi friends: am a bit below ticker, but really want to be below 170 before I change it again.
My week of holidays on Prince Edward Island did no harm to the weight, we ate seafood everyday, I was in heaven. Most of the time I didn't bother with potatoes. I had a few treats too, but with walking and all did ok. Also, most days only had two meals, we slept late, had more of a brunch than either lunch or breakfast, maybe a small snack in the afternoon, and heavenly suppers. Seafood this fresh is just so much better. Next summer we will see the other eastern provinces, I hope. We have several friends who have moved there, so lots of people to visit.
Now that we are home, and have sold the house, the packing will begin in earnest. I am starting with certain things tho, that are a little more in depth. I have been going through the coins my mother kept. At one point she was a collector, but her dementia got the best of her, and she started just adding coins in randomly. Some of the bags look like she just threw pocket change in. I have sorted the wheat from the chaff now, but even her older and better coins are not in good shape. WOn't get much for them. but thats fine.
Also will go through the file drawers and reduce everything in there. These are tedious jobs, but well worth doing, and easier now in the beginning, as you know, near the end we will just be hurrying and dumping things in boxes to sort through "later", you know, that day that never comes.
Last few days of my holidays, we are going to check out our new home today, decide what work we need done, then go to Toronto to meet older DD for supper. Younger DD also coming along, so that will be lovely, to enjoy all four of us together, so rare now.
have a good day all.

[Wannabehealthy]

Sounds like you had a nice trip, Mad, and are doing well. That's good. I really want to start decluttering our house now, rather than waiting until it becomes a much bigger job. DH is such a saver. It has benefitted us a few times, but has been a drawback at others. He saves things that he thinks will be worth a lot of money some day, but it's only worth what someone is willing to give you for it. Most of the stuff I consider junk. LOL

I got my new treadmill yesterday. Can't really set it up yet as the old one is still in the way, but maybe we will work on that today. My step daughter wanted the old one but now says she doesn't have room for it. I know she can make room in one of her 2 extra bedrooms, which she is just using for storage, anyway. She also needs to declutter.

I have a plan in my mind to get back to exercising regularly and regain some of the strength I've lost. I lay awake sometimes wondering what I would do if something happened to DH, and then a little voice tells me to do something about it. It's not too late for me. I need to listen to that little voice. God seems to be telling me that I can do this!

Just as a heads-up to both of you, the 3FC tickers are not working for some reason, and no one can figure out why. Many are using the Ticker Factory tickers, instead.

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Trish, I was looking at the nutritional info for Ezekiel bread and it seems to be a little higher in calorie. Maybe the slices are thicker. The one I buy has very thin slices like the Sara Lee 45 cal bread and is 110 calories for 2 slices, and if I could not get the Little Big bread I would stick with Sara Lee. I don't understand why there aren't many other sprouted grain breads available in stores. There are a couple others available online. I'm not really sure of the nutritional value of sprouted grain. I read it, but didn't really understand it.

[Wannabehealthy]

We got the old treadmill out of the way and got the new one set up. DH started on it around 11 AM and I went down to help shortly after that. It took us a little over 2 hours altogether. It wasn't hard if you follow the instructions step by step but sometimes it was hard to understand their little diagrams. It was a workout in itself, both physically, and a workout for my marriage. LOL