We are trying fried fish from somewhere we've never been before. It's expensive, but if it's good fish, that's what's important. We need someplace new close by. We looked at the menu online and they have a lot of really good things on their menu. Someday we will go and eat inside, but during the week, not on a weekend.

Carol Sue I saw that y'all in the northeast are getting nailed with really cold weather and possible snow storms. Y'all be careful if you get out and bundle up. DH recently complained about the warm weather, now we are getting really cold weather. It is supposed to get down in the low 20's starting Sunday night. Maybe that will slow things down for New Years Eve around here because it is supposed to rain all day Sunday and then freeze at 24 that night. Either it will slow people's traveling or there will be loads of accidents with all that ice on the ground. None of my bunch will be out in it though.

I don't making loads of trips into the house with groceries either. I usually help DH bring in the first load of groceries and then he likes for me to stay in the kitchen and start putting things away while he brings in the rest. However, most of the time, I make a quick run to the store while he is sleeping and then I bring them in myself. Those are usually smaller loads though. Today, I was able to carry everything from 2 stores in all at one time. DH would love to have a basement, but I don't think I would want one.

Didn't go to the beauty shop as my beautician has a sore throat and earache in both ears. So she took off to go to the doctor. I was dressed and wanted to go get the reading glasses for DH and myself and I needed to go get salad veggies. It was so cold that I didn't think Daddy needed to get out even just to drive to drive through to get his Lasix so being the good daughter that I am :?: I drove over to his part of town to get his meds at that HEB store. There is a Dollar Tree across from there so I went there and I am really glad that I did because they had better choices for men. The other store we went to yesterday had mostly girly reading glasses. I don't know why DH didn't want to wear those. LOL

I made some green tea to drink throughout the day because I can heat it. It is just so hard to drink cold drinks or water when the weather is so cold.

I didn't eat as soon as I got up. I wanted to get out of here so I could get back since I wasn't going to get my hair done. I also was going to run Daddy's medicine to him. He changed all his medicine from Walmart to HEB so he can just drive through to pick it up. The prescription he had was an old one for 1 pill 4 days a week and of course he now takes 1 a day and his insurance wouldn't allow him a refill. I had to call CHF nurse to have them call in the new dose. Daddy said he called and they wouldn't refill it. Come to find out, he was using the old bottle # to see if it was ready and of course it was not. I told him to call and talk to someone and tell them that CHF had called in a new prescription for 1 pill a day. He called them and told them what I said and he explained to them it was a critical medicine that he needed. While he was talking to me, they called back and said it was ready. I stopped by Whataburger and got him a hamburger and to that and the Lasix to him and I wasn't happy to learn that his feet were really swollen bad. I told him to take 2 Lasix today.

On my way home, the nurse who had called in the medicine night before last to see if we got things straightened out and I told her I had taken the medicine to him so he didn't have to get out in the 39 degree weather. I told her that I had told him to take 2 pills because he had missed one dose and his feet were pretty swollen. She said that was good.

I checked my FBS when I got home. I hadn't had anything to eat or drink this morning and my bs was 128. I tell you the 2 days of walking so much sure did the FBS good. I asked DH what his was when he got up and his was 124. So I told him that proves our problem isn't what we eat so much as it is the fact that we are not active enough. I hope we can change that next year. Like you said, I'm sure we said all this last year at this time, but I truly pray we can do it this year. DH, DS and I had a lot of stress last year with moving in and then Daddy getting sick and going in and out of the hospital which caused all of us to have some health issues ourselves.

Trish, right now our temp is 23, but it goes into the teens at night, and some days don't get above the teens. Then we do get some warmer spells during the winter and we actually see people wearing shorts and flip flops. We have had very little snow so far this year. A few inches here and there, and they clear the roads quickly. We are in southern PA. To the north in Erie, near the Great Lakes they had over 50 inches of snow over Christmas, maybe more. They always get a lot of lake effect snow, but this was a record for them. I don't know if it was a record just for Christmas or an overall record. New England the the northern plain states get a lot of snow, too. Some winters we get a lot, and some not. Right now I'm thinking two more months and it will be spring. LOL

We don't go out for New Year. In fact, we will be in bed before midnight, for sure. No late nights for us anymore.

Hi Friends: haven't come to visit for a while, and am long overdue.
As you might guess, I am having troubles.
I have realized that although there were good reasons for our move, I am having a lot of trouble adjusting, and its made me pretty blue. And that of course means difficulty staying on plan.
I did well in that I started this holiday season 15 pounds less than last year, but I did gain over Christmas, and am struggling to lose that again.
I Do have company for walks here though. I have the dog that DD brought with her. (mostly a good thing, but I think she depends too much on me and DH to walk HER dog) and sometimes neighbours and friends here in town.
I still struggle with loneliness more than I expected however. I am not getting out and about as much as I would like
The move took so much out of both me and DH, I would come home from work exhausted and get on the couch and turn on tv, and not leave that spot until bedtime. ( I exaggerate only slightly, I do eat and go to the washroom, and sometime read instead of watch tv, but really not getting anything done at home. )
So I am starting on my new years resolutions, or really post holiday resolutions before new year is even here. Which is to eat better, and exercise more. and maybe check my blood sugars a bit more too.

hope everyone has a safe and happy new year

Mad, I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble adjusting to your move. Is it the different house or different location that is bothering you? I don't understand about the lonliness, though. Are you alone more now than you were at the other place? If you are closer to town, there should be more people around. But then, you can be lonely in a crowd of people. Perhaps you're suffering from some depression. Or maybe it's the winter season that's getting to you. Either way, things might improve now that the holidays are over. I think a lot of people become depressed this time of year.

Actually, I have a few years on you, but most of my energy is in the morning and afternoon hours. Around 5 PM or shortly thereafter I get tired and don't want to do anything or go anywhere. I wasn't always like that. I remember when I used to go out for a walk around 7 PM and be gone for about an hour, and that was after working an 8 hour day. Now I'm getting cozy and sometimes ready for bed around 7. Instead of having more time after retirement, I have less, because the evening hours are useless. I could probably work on changing that, making myself do something in the evening, I don't know. But I do hope things improve for you as time goes on. I think they will.

I won't get on the scale to see how much damage I've done over the holidays. I know from how I feel that I've gained, and I know that what I've been eating is not good. I feel like I did when I was eating very poorly and gaining. I don't know why I'm doing this, because I don't feel well when I overeat like this. I feel much better if I'm just a little bit hungry, and food tastes better. Actually, nothing tastes good to me and hasn't for a while. You would think that that would keep me from eating, but it doesn't. I think I'm eating more, hoping to have something taste good. I did much better when I waited until I felt hungry to eat.

One thing I have to do is get rid of the cookies that are left. I don't know if DH wants to take them to his daughter? She works about a mile from our house, and we often drop things off to her. If he doesn't do that, I think they are going into the garbage. I don't know if it's too late to freeze them. I know if they were not sitting out on the counter I wouldn't be digging in the freezer looking for them. I have to do something.

I also have some ham I set aside, to make some ham and cabbage with potatoes. Maybe I will do that today for my lunch. It's leftovers, so it won't be a shame if I just eat a bit and throw the rest away. I also bought 2 artichokes to stuff. I had stuffed artichokes years ago at a friend's house and decided to try it myself. Yesterday I watched videos on Youtube to see how to do it, so today I might try that. The bad thing about this is neither of these things are something DH will eat, so he will be expecting me to eat with him at supper, unless there's something I can make for him and not me. It would work out so much better if he was a little more adventurous in his eating and would try new things. Or if I was less adventurous and would be satisfied to eat just what he wants. We are a mismatch in that sense.

It looks like we got a few inches of snow overnight, and it's still coming down very fine. The salt truck has gone up our road. We are always the last road in the area to be treated, so we know if the maintenance truck shows up on our road, all the other roads are already cleared and getting off our road will be the only problem. DH doesn't like to take our new car out in this weather if he can help it, and the locks on our older car have been frozen for the past few days. He wanted to run it a little bit since it sits outside but he couldn't get the door open. He was able to get the back door open, and he just reached up and put the key in the ignition and started it that way, but it didn't defrost the front door. I guess he needs to get some deicer to spray in the locks. A hair dryer would help, but the car isn't close enough to the house for the cord to reach. It's a good thing we don't NEED that car for something. This is what happens when you live in a cold weather climate.

DH finally got the locks open on the older car and we went out to the store. The roads are a little slippery, but not bad. There weren't many people out at 10 AM. I didn't make my food that I wanted to make today because DH wants to go out for supper and I didn't want to be too full to eat something, so maybe I will make the stuff tomorrow. I hope my artichokes don't go bad.

The cookies got thrown out for the birds, or whatever else wants to eat them.

fatmad Good to hear from you, but sorry you aren't happy with your move. I understand how you feel as it took DH and me a long time to get over the move itself. However, I never knew how much of that was caused by the stress of my Daddy's illness last year. I felt like I was meeting myself most days. We never had time to rest and get calm with our move before all **** broke loose. I don't think I ever got any rest until my 4 days in the hospital. My eating also changed a lot with eating what we could grab and that didn't help at all. Of course, I feel that was no different than you working all day as you adjust to being in a new place. I pray things get better for you so you can be happier with things as time goes on. I will keep you in my thoughts.

I still deal with a lot of things concerning my Daddy, but I have learned to adjust to it and not allow it to get to me any more. I really do take advantage of the times when things are going smoothly. He has learned to read labels and has a new found desire to be as healthy as he can be. Good treatment and the help of CHF clinic here and lots of prayer, we have come through the holidays with no real problems. We have learned from the experience how to deal with some set backs without me even having to bug the nurses. I have learned what they would do so instead of going to the ER or call CHF nurses, DH and I know how to do what they would do. Example, he changed pharmacies, and his insurance wouldn't refill his prescription because it was too soon. I called CHF and had them call a new prescription with his new dosage of 1 Lasix a day instead of 1 pill 4 days a week. During that time he didn't take a pill one day because he was afraid he wouldn't get one the next day. By the time we got the new prescription, his feet were real swollen. I had him take 2 pills instead of one which is what they did before. Later, nurse called to see if he got the meds and I told her I had him take 2 that day and she agreed that was the thing to do. Sure enough the fluid came of and swelling is less. He is back to 1 a day today. His weight seems to be stable so I'm not under the stress I was last year. I am really proud of my Daddy. He makes himself exercise, but has learned to rest when his body needs it.

Carol Sue I can't imagine what you and fatmad are experiencing with the cold weather as it is only 47 degrees right now and I'm wrapped up in my heavier snuggie. Daddy needed to go to Walmart to get his allergy medicine and I told him to go this morning as it is going to rain this afternoon and he doesn't get out the rest of the week as the temperature is going to be in 30s during the day and 20s at night all next week starting with 20 degrees tomorrow night. I hope you have everything you need if you get snowed in. I know y'all in north can get around more than we can in the south because y'all have the equipment to keep things open because y'all get snow so much more than we do. Any way you guys that are experiencing the blizzard and snow storms stay warm and safe.

My weight seems to have stabilized at 216.4 for the last 4 or 5 days. FBS is still coming down... 154 this morning. This tells me that I'm eating enough to maintain this weight so I need to start cutting back. I decided this morning to do something I felt impressed to do years ago when I prayed about it. I am going to start cutting my portions in half so I can eat what I really like and want, but eat only half. I notice this is what DH does. We are having hamburgers today. He takes 1 sl of Sara Lee 45 calories bread, cuts it in half and makes his hamburger. We already eat half a hamburger patty. I may try that today myself although I don't think it is really necessary to eat an equivalent of 1/2 a slice of 1/2 a slice of bread which is what 1 sl of SL bread is to start with. I will eat half the amount of Air Fry French fries than I usually eat.

I had a Multi-grain English muffin, 1 sl bacon, 1 egg and about 1/2 serving or less of mozzarella cheese, grated for a homemade low calories Egg McMuffin. Been drinking regular coffee lately since it is so cold, but only use 1T of FF h&h per 2 c of coffee.

I plan to eat whatever I want to eat, but eat only half of what the servings are.

I read yesterday that even if you exercise 30 minutes a day that is not enough. It is suggested if you sit a lot (used desk job as example), to get up every 1 or so and walk around for a few minutes to get your circulation working. So I'm going to work at doing that since my doctor wants me walking. I will still do the recumbent bike for my back and just add walking around the house 5 or 10 minutes ever hour or so. Moving is moving. LOL Also read that aerobics it the best exercise for diabetic control. I may get my Sweat 'n to the Oldies back out and start doing that 3 days a week since that is what they recommended. That will be a New Years Resolution goal. Maybe the aerobics 3 days and the bike 3 days. That would be a good goal to set for next year. Come to think of it, that is how I got control of the diabetes the first time I got it under control and didn't have it again for many, many years. Maybe it will work again.

Sorry this is so long. Hope it helps me to get it on paper and read it again.

Have great day and again stay warm.

Trish, don't ever worry about your posts being long. I am always interested in hearing what you have to say. One thing to remember about the aerobic exercise. I think the more intense your exercise the higher your blood sugar will go up afterwards because you are stressing your body. That doesn't mean not to do it. Over time, it will definitely help your blood sugar, but just be aware of that if you test after exercising. You might see a higher number than you expect. Or maybe not. We are all different.

I also have some thoughts about eating half of your meal. I remember a while back I decided to eat until I felt satisfied, and when I did that, I realized that after eating half of a hamburger, I was no longer hungry. I just finished it because it was there. It's easy to do...keep eating and finishing the portion that's on your plate. Lately I have been having problems with not being hungry when DH wants to go out to eat. He objects to me ordering something small. I don't know why. He says if that's all you're going to eat we might as well stay home, but then what about him? He's hungry. It really shouldn't matter to him what I eat as long as I'm not starving myself. I wasn't really hungry when we went out today. I ordered an appetizer. It was really big, and was probably meant to be an appetizer for a whole table, but it was my meal. I couldn't finish it. The server asked if I wanted a box, but I wouldn't eat it, so I left it there. What I really wanted was a cup of soup, in this cold weather. DH said I could get a cup of soup and a sandwich, but I didn't want a sandwich. I would have been happy with the cup of soup only. I guess I have to order the soup and sandwich and let them throw the sandwich away, just to please DH. Or I have to just start ordering what I want to order and let him get mad. Eventually, he should get used to it. I am apparently eating more calories than my body needs.

We rarely get enough snow to be considered snowed in. We get a couple inches, and you're right, we are prepared with plows and salt trucks in our community to clear the roads. We would be in trouble if we got a seriously big snow because I don't stock up on food anymore. DH never seems to want what I say I'm cooking, so I quit buying it. I only buy ground meat and freeze it in patties, and steaks, which I freeze individually. Those are things that I know he will eat. There were actually times when we got 3 ft of snow and it was less than 24 hours before the roads were passable. The road crews are pretty quick to get things done. It's really a big joke around here because when the weather man says it's going to snow, the grocery stores get packed with people buying anything they can get their hands on, like they think we won't get out for weeks. LOL

The physiologist at cardiac rehab told me that 30 minutes a day was recommended for health, but 60 minutes a day is recommended for weight loss. That goes against what they say that exercise doesn't help with weight loss, but I think it's somewhere in the middle. I think if you exercise, it puts you in the mind to be healthy and you automatically want to eat healthier. I have heard that it's best to split your exercise into 2 sessions rather than 1 longer one. That the beginning of your exercise session is more productive, so if you do 2 separate sessions, you get 2 beginnings. It makes sense, but you hear so many things you don't know what to believe. I'm lucky to get 1 session in and I'll take what I can get. I have my Fitbit set to vibrate every hour to remind me to get up and move. I sometimes ignore it, and sometimes I take it as a reminder to go to the bathroom. LOL I can remember years ago when I heard that your body does not start to burn fat until 12 minutes into your exercise routine, so you should always exercise more than 12 minutes. I wonder if that theory has now gone by the wayside. LOL I know one thing, I was a lot better off before I started paying attention to what people said I should be doing. Making my own decisions.

I bought some bananas today for the first time in a couple weeks. Think I'll go have one now, with peanut butter. And a cup of tea.

Carol Sue I don't know about the 12 minutes rule, but I have noticed when I have to force myself to exercise because I don't really feel like it or even when I've done it when have experiencing a slight headache, that about 15 or 20 minutes into it that my whole attitude changes. I really think it makes me come alert and feel better. Some times I read while riding the bike and forget the time and I have gone 30 minutes. Example, the other day I planned to do just 10 minutes, but by the time I looked I had done 12 so I decided to do 15. I read some more and when I checked I had gone 17 so I decided to go to 20 etc until I finally did 30 minutes. I used to take my romance books I like to read to the YMCA to read while riding the bike and the time went by so quickly. Perhaps I should do that again. I get free kindle books from Goodreads. I haven't use it in a while so perhaps I should start getting them again since I pay for it monthly.

I used the 2 slices of bread for the hamburger instead of just one slice. I figure since 2 slices is supposed to be considered 1 slice in calories to just eat it. I had the fries, but had 1.5 oz instead of the 3 oz serving. I was just as satisfied. I'm finished eating for today. I will have a small glass of wine before I go to bed. I have been doing that this week before going to bed. I mix it in 5 calorie cranberry juice. I find it relaxing and read it is really healthy for women to have a small glass each day.

If I decide to do the Oldies aerobics, I won't be able to do it all at once in the beginning. I know I'll have to do as much of it as I can and add a little more each time when I can because that is what I had to do the last time I used it. Took me a while to build myself up to do the whole thing. I figure it has to be good for me to do as much as I can.

Sorry your DH gets upset if you don't eat as much as he thinks you should. My hubby doesn't say anything to me any more one way or another. He changed a lot when he became diabetic and he now has to watch what he eats. I think it is because he understands better what I go through. I've heard him say "I don't know why I am so hungry" or he'll say "All I want to do today is eat". Those are things I've said over the years that he didn't understand until he experienced it.

He had to quit taking the cinnamon. It isn't helping his bs, but that along with the Fraxiga he takes along with the Metformin is making him drop weight. My DS said it is the Fraxiga. She told him she lost weight when she first started taking it. Wish I could take it but I would have a yeast infection all the time. I had forgotten that the cinnamon will help weight loss as well as lowering bs. He doesn't think it is doing anything for his bs and he doesn't need to lose any more weight.

I actually got the idea of eating less like half servings from DH. I make a whole 16 oz bag of cauliflower for him to eat before he goes to bed. He used to eat the whole thing in one sitting, but he now eats 1/3 of it over 3 nights plus I cut back on some of the cheese and butter I put in it. I hope he will be rewarded with a better cholesterol reading next month.

I actually have my routine figured out as to what I want to eat and when plus the exercise routine I want to do too. So now it is just a matter of bringing it into reality. I think it will help my attitude and I know I will feel better.

Trish, that's funny that your DH eats that bag of cauliflower before bed. Back when I was thin, I ate a lot of cauliflower. That was before they sold it in bags, and it was in that rectangular cardboard package. I would eat the whole thing for my dinner, but I just ate it with salt. That's when we were told that butter is bad for us. I still don't know what I believe regarding butter. I was thin and healthy when I didn't eat it very often.

When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, I was put on Metformin, and I lost 20 lbs without trying at all. But after than I just maintained that loss and didn't lose anymore. The only time I was able to really be thin was when I didn't eat dinner, or was eating just the cauliflower for dinner. I always ate breakfast and lunch, just no dinner. It was when I started eating with DH and added a full dinner to my diet that the pounds quickly piled on. It's funny, but he probably wouldn't care if I only ate a few bites of my meal and left the rest. He just wants me to order a full meal because he's afraid of what others will think. All they would have to do is look at me to realize I am not starving myself. Many times when I order a meal, I am satisfied after eating the soup or salad, before my meal even gets there. I just eat it because it's there. I think if DH wasn't here, I would drop weight very quickly, but I don't ever want to think of that happening.

I just remembered there were times when I fasted on Sat and Sun. I lived alone and there was no one around I had to cook for. I did IF before it had a name. There was no way I could get through an 8 hour day of work without eating, but on weekends, I mostly just lounged around and watched TV.

I just watched some videos on how to make cheese crisps in the microwave. You just put a little bit of shredded cheese on parchment paper and microwave for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes, then peel it off the parchment. I'm going to try that. I buy bags of shredded cheese for certain recipes that I made and the only thing I use it for after that is to sprinkle on salads. Sometimes it gets moldy and I have to throw it out. Now I have a use for that leftover shredded cheese. One woman put it in a circle on the parchment, and it looked somewhat like a donut. After it cooled and was crisp, she cut it in small pieces like little crackers. That is something that I could make a few of in a short time if I wanted a low carb snack. I'm going to try it today. I also want to make my stuffed artichokes and my ham and cabbage today, too. So much food, so little time. LOL I wish I was one of those people who just isn't interested in food. They are few and far between. I need a hobby.

I also want to talk about the Tumeric I've been taking. I bought it at Walmart in the supplement aisle. I think the brand name is Youtheory. Tumeric is to be taken along with black pepper, which helps it to be absorbed by the body. This brand has the black pepper in it. It can also be bought on Amazon. It took about a month or so of taking it for my tendonitis pain to stop. If you remember, I was having that terrible pain mostly in my foot, but also my hands and elbows. I started off with 3 per day like the bottle suggests, then cut back to 2 per day to make them last longer. Sometimes I forget to take them, even for a couple days because I don't have the pain to remind me, and then the pain starts to come back, like today. I haven't taken it for 2-3 days. So it really is working. I don't know if it's doing anything else for me, but you can read up about the benefits online. Yesterday, I bought a bottle of tumeric in the spice aisle and I am going to start adding it to my food. I might add some to DH's food too if I can do it without adding a taste that he will be able to notice. He gets pain, and I think he takes way to many Ibprofen. And he would never take the pills. They are like huge horse pills. I strongly recommend this for anyone who has pain like this. The pain in my hands never goes away completely, but it is much relieved. Just remember, if has to be combined with black pepper for better absorption. I tried this a while back with no results. The capsules I had did not contain pepper, but I would take it when I cooked my eggs and put pepper on the eggs. I think it might have been because they didn't contain pepper, or maybe I didn't take it long enough for it to have an effect.

Carol SueThere were times when I was young and thin that I fasted all day too. Mostly because I got busy doing something and just forgot to eat. I can't imagine me forgetting to eat now, but I sure wish I could.

I've decided that if I want to put a name to the way I am eating now is IE. However, I am eating soon after I get up right now. It is easy to do that during the cold weather since it is too cold for DS and Daddy to get out. I'm taking advantage of that. Saying that I still don't want to eat unless I am hungry. I want to get away from thinking food all the time. The only meal I have to fix and eat is when DH and I eat our main meal together. All my other eating can be when I really get hungry.

I'm not following any rules right now. In fact, I'm thinking about getting the book out that I have which has success stories of people who have lost weight and kept it off. Some have no rules, some followed a plan, but they learned to eat the way they could live with. This is my goal this year. So far this is working. My FBS was 152 yesterday and today. That is usually a good sign that it will go lower in a few days. My weight was down 1 lb today. I washed my hair and stayed up for it to dry and the next thing I knew it was almost 3am when I went to bed. I woke up around 8:30 and got up and feel fine. I'm not sure all the stuff I read and try to follow is right for me. I never used to need 7 or 8 hrs of sleep until I heard it would help my bs reading. When I need a nap, I will automatically fall asleep sitting in my chair. So I'm going to learn to go with how things makes me feel. The funny thing is that about midnight, I was hungry. Since I don't do low carb, I don't keep meat to eat so I decided to eat some little carrots. There were about 4 left in the package. Can you believe they tasted soooo good. Made me think of the WW leader I had one time who said "If you are truly hungry, a carrot or a piece of celery will taste really good". I thought, I must have really been hungry if these little carrots taste this good. So maybe I had a moment of recognizing hunger. LOL

Exercise today has been cleaning around the house. You know when you removed the rugs off the floor and sweep and mop that it becomes a real workout. I actually felt sore afterwards.

DH bought some fish sticks the other day at Sam's since we can't agree on anything but Cod and Swai white fish. I can only get the Swai at HEB. I quit buying fish at Walmart because they charge too much for small pieces. So we are having fish sticks, salad and he wants some fried potatoes, but not French. So I'm going to cut them in circles and try air frying them. Probably cook the fish sticks in there too. I will cook some broccoli for a green veggie too.

I have some bags of greens that I haven't used. I had a friend who use to cook them like they were fresh greens so I'm going to try that today with ham in it for flavor. I think I will soak some Great Northern beans tonight and cook them tomorrow with that ham bone.

DH will be getting up pretty soon so I will go and get some more stuff done before he gets up.

Carol Sue Thanks for sharing about the turmeric. I can't take it as it sends me running to potty. However, I told to my best friend which I still haven't seen yet. She is having problems with her knees with this cold weather. I had forgotten about the turmeric so I will let her know about it and pray it will help her. I also have a friend back in SC who took it for her legs. I will have to check and see which kind she used as I didn't know about taking it with pepper.

My friend here told me not to eat beef if my joints hurt. She eats only fish and poultry and obviously that isn't what causes hers. I have no interest in giving up beef. Besides I don't eat that much of it. I just read a article about why your joints hurt and I don't remember it saying anything about beef causing. Besides, mine is not any kind of arthritis. The main thing the article said to do when the joints get stiff is "move" them. They said they knew it sounded strange but you need to get up and walk or wiggle the fingers. I am constantly moving my toes and fingers to keep them limber and when I do the pain goes away. That tells me why using the bike makes my knees and hip stop hurting. Learn something new everyday.

Trish, I remember when I lived in Philadelphia there was this old man across the street who used to squeeze a ball. I never understood why, but I was only 7 when we moved away from there, so I was pretty young. Now I understand that he was doing that for the arthritis in his hands. I bought some therapy balls on a clearance in Kohls. They are 3 balls that you squeeze, one soft, and the others a little harder, and I use them once in a while, and think of that old man. My hands are hurting more today, and I think that's because I went too long without the Tumeric. I think it's ok to use the Tumeric without the pepper if you eat pepper on your food. I usually do.

I have heard that meat increases inflammation so maybe that's why your friend told you about the red meat. I eat more now that I used to, but still not a lot. Mostly it's just steak or prime rib, rarely ground beef or roast. I used to only eat poultry and fish until I met DH. Seems like he has bad a very bad influence on my eating. I should have never gone along with him in the beginning, and I wouldn't be going through what I am with him now.

I feel so tired today. I don't think I slept good. DH is watching football, so I went into the bedroom to watch something else and I kept dozing off.

Trish, I haven't followed any rules or counted anything for a long, long time, and I also haven't lost any weight. But I haven't had any big gains like some people do, si I can only assume I am eating to maintain 200 lbs. Other than keeping carbs low for my blood sugar, I think I too need to follow some IE principals, just so I don't eat unless I'm hungry. I think if I had did that all alone I would not have this weight problem. I want to truly make a difference this year.

Here is some information I just read on the internet.

A good rule of thumb is that after 20 minutes in your aerobic zone, you will be burning more fat than carbos. Covert Bailey, in Smart Exercise, states that you will be burning fat after only twelve minutes of aerobic exercise. If you can increase your aerobic activity to 30 minutes or longer, you will be burning a larger percentage

Now I understand where I heard about the 12 minutes. I have 2 books by Covert Bailey about exercise. They are very old. But he is the one who said that after 12 minutes your body starts to burn fat rather than glucose. I think that would depend on how much glucose a particular person has. We alre all different.