[Wannabehealthy]

Trish, I googled that doctor in the first link and bookmarked a lot of sites. I will read through them later. It does sound like she's selling something, but Dr Fung is a practicing physician and has a program to sell, but he offers free info also, so making a living is not always wrong. I am not real big on supplements though, and prefer to use yogurt to get my probiotics.

The other website looks good too, since it is not all vegetarian, but makes some favorite recipes healthier. My problem is making full recipes, because DH will not eat them.

Fit For Life. I googled that book and the cover looks familiar, like I might have read it at one time. You know me and books. LOL I'm not a fruit lover. I can eat a small piece, like half a banana or orange, but I could never make a meal of it. It would not feel like a meal for me. It's great for you, since I know you enjoy fruit. DH likes fruit, too, and can eat a big plate of fruit and call it dinner. Somewhere I read that if you eat fruit, eat it in the morning. I don't remember why.

I think I am settling in with IE, low carb style. My problem are blood sugar and portions, so this takes care of both. This morning I ate 2 pancakes that were left over from DH's pancakes last night, and had a fried egg in between them. It was very tasty and I feel good that they weren't wasted. I tend to treat myself to something after weigh-in day, and hope that it doesn't continue for days like it did last time and cause a gain. I want those 2 pancakes to be my carbs for the day and not eat again until I feel hungry. Force down a couple bottles of water.

DH is in a grouchy mood because I wouldn't go to the casino this weekend, so he's being difficult to live with. I hope he gets over it. I don't always get what I want, either.

[Wannabehealthy]

Another good food day, as long as I can go the rest of the night without a snack. I came in at 1082 calories, and 76 gm of carb. I had the 2 pancakes and egg this morning and for dinner I had 2 pork chops, scalloped potatoes and corn. I thought it would add up to more than that. I had 1 spoonful of the potatoes and corn. I saved the leftover corn but put the potatoes down the disposal. Yay for me on that one! Very difficult. In the past, I would have finished them off. I cooked the pork chops on my grill pan and they were tasty. A little too much garlic salt, though.

I am on my second bottle of water.

I might need a new meter. Remember a week ago when I woke up with a blood sugar reading of 28? I ate a piece of candy and it went up to 158 or so, then in the am it was over 200. I think that reading of 28 was wrong and I should have checked again immediately. Today before dinner I got a reading of 28 again. I checked again twice and got 132 and 130, so something isn't right. From now on, any time I get an unexpected reading like that without extreme symptoms I will check a second time.

The game is starting. I will read while it's on and only look up occasionally. I'm not really into it. I do want Philadelphia to win......

[pattygirl63]

Carol Sue I agree you need a new meter. We are watching the game and don't really care who wins but DH said Philadelphia hasn't won and it would be nice for them to win since neither of our teams are playing.

I got a Ketogenics diet book for free on kindle and I do not want to do ketogenics. Not for me. I also checked out Paleo and while I like the fact that I can have fruit, I don't like the fact of giving up my dairy. However, I could probably do a modified paleo and keep my milk in the plan. I understand there are all kinds of modified versions of it. Even the Fit for Life says humans don't need dairy. However, considering the fact that my bone density showed I need it, I'm not giving it up.

I did print out an online guideline for the foods to eat on Paleo and will just go by it with the addition of the dairy products. I am in the process of creating my own plan.

I had the bowl of fruit I told you I had this morning around 11 then I didn't get hungry again until we had our hamburgers. I just went ahead and had the burger on Sara Lee Multigrain bread and air-fryer fries. Interesting thing is my FBS this morning was 169. I didn't check again until 3 pm when I got ready to eat the burger and my bs reading was 113. That is really good. So I think I will continue eating that for breakfast. I had lintels with onion and tomatoes chopped in it, but I didn't like the tomatoes in it. I always love onions though so I'll keep that in them.

I really like that new recipe site too because she has some great looking recipes with and without meat She had a really nice looking chicken pot pie I would love to try sometime. I get hungry for it, but just will not buy the frozen one. I also saw a recipe for a veggie lasagna I want to try too. Of course, I'm not sure DH would ever eat the lasagna, but I still may try it once.

I ended up eating only within 4 hrs of the 8 allowed so I'm really pleased and I feel like I ate too much.

I'm going to Daddy's in the morning, but DS and I pretty much decided that we will eat at home so we can stay on our own diet plan and then we will either get him something or I will cook some eggs for him when we go over there. I want to keep the apartment as clean as possible for him.

Catch you tomorrow. Good night.

[Wannabehealthy]

Trish, my mother used to make really good chicken pot pie. She only put a top crust on it made from Bisquick. She made that because it made a little bit of chicken go a long way. I get it occasionally at Bob Evans. I don't make it because DH wouldn't eat it.

I agree about Philadelphia never winning before, plus I was born there. Never did get out of PA, though. LOL Just went from one end to the other. Right now NE is ahead by one.

For right now, I am going to just double check if I get an unexpected reading like that. I'm thinking maybe I got some bad strips. I have 2 Relion meters. I thought the first one broke so I bought a new one. DH said it just needed a new battery and he was right. So maybe I will switch back to the other one. If it still does it, then I'll assume it's the strips.

At 8PM blood sugar was 124. Now at 9:45 it's down to 103. This makes me nervous going to bed because I don't know how much lower the Glimiperide is going to take it. Don't know what to do.....

[pattygirl63]

Carol Sue I forgot about the battery. I would try a new battery before buying a new meter.

Philadelphia just went ahead. LOL Such a close game. Obvious the commentators are Brady fans and were very upset over the 2 questionable touch downs of Philadelphia. But Philadelphia has come to win. I sure hope they can hang in there.

I just put my food for today on MFP and my calories are 1444 so I stayed under 1500, but my fiber was 43 g. No wonder I feel so full. Drinking lots of water to get pass this feeling before I go to bed.

[pattygirl63]

A quick one this morning. I've decided to use Paleo guidelines for the way I eat with a few modifications and not think of it as a diet, but just think of it as a lifestyle way of eating. I woke up with a headache and my FBS was 186. Maybe too much fiber or something. Anyway, the sample plan I found yesterday had eggs and bacon with 1 piece of fruit. Meals were pretty much protein, veggies and fruit. The only thing I will change is that I will have my milk and Greek yogurt because of bone density. It will work well with CAD, IE and or IF. So I think this is the way for me to go.

Getting ready to head out to Daddy's to be sure all is okay there and then go to Walmart before I come home to get some more eggs and fruit. Also DH is out of his Harvard beets and that is the only place that sells them.

Have a good day and I'll catch ya later.

[Wannabehealthy]

Trish, the battery icon isn't flashing, but it still might be low I think DH has some extra batteries. I will try the other meter also. They can't both be bad. If it still happens, I will assume it's the strips.

Last night I ate a hard boiled egg, plus a deli turkey/mozzarella roll up. I was disappointed that I had to eat when not hungry and those calories added on to what I had for the day. When I woke up at 2 AM blood sugar was 114, so I guess it didn't go hypo. 128 when I finally got up. I am going to resign myself to taking the Glimiperide as long as I continue to lose weight. I will take the least than I can. My weight stayed the same today, just barely under 200. I still hope to lose enough weight to get off it.

We had to drive out to the highway to get DGS. He didn't have school today so we met DIL on her way to work and brought him to our house for the day. He's just laying on the couch playing his video game. On the way home we stopped at McDonald's and got a breakfast sandwich. I don't know how long we will have him. Probably until around 5 PM.

I was glad to see that the Eagles won the game. It was so close and such a good game. I was disappointed that there was trouble in both cities after the game. I don't understand why. I think people drink too much and lose control.

You sure had a lot of fiber!! I don't think I ever reach that much. I'm usually in the 20s or below.

The cauliflower shortage has finally hit PA. Walmart hasn't had any in for over a week. We have been there 3 times. I bought some today over at the store where we picked up my DGS. They had Birds Eye so I bought 2 bags. I never had Harvard Beets. I googled them and saw that they are the ones that have sugar added, so I have to stay away from them. I buy the plain canned slices and add ACV to them. I love them like that, and so does DH, surprisingly. I wanted to get more eggs but they were $2.38 in that store!! They are only 88 cent at Walmart and I buy 3 dozen at a time. I eat eggs almost every day, and I hard boil them to soak in the beet juice. I also want to make a cheesecake for DH and that uses eggs. I will eat a small piece of the cheesecake. I could eat more if I put artificial sweetener in it but DH wouldn't eat it then.

When we got home I made brownies for DGS. He made the honor roll in school and I told him they were his reward, but I would have made them anyway. They are cooled, so I need to go cut them.

[pattygirl63]

It sounds like you must have had enough snow and or iced roads for your DGS school to close. It was supposed to get up to 61 this morning and then they changed it during the day to 58, but I don't think it never got above 45 if that high.

I ended up eating only 2 meals today and a tonight I had a very small apple that I sliced and ate with a little bit of PB. I'm through for the night. I think I will do better just eating that way. I like the diets but never seem to follow through with the rules. I think the key is eating healthier foods and eat less of it.

Daddy is moving slow and I'm not sure if he is having a difficult time getting around or if he is just so afraid of falling again. DS washed his clothes while I cooked breakfast and cleaned the kitchen and vacuumed his living room and picked up trash. Then we realized he was out of Ensure and needed some more milk so I went to the store and got it for him. I needed to go to Walmart and decided to go get what he and I needed and bring it back. We had planned to fold his clothes together when I got back, but they weren't dry so I'll fold them tomorrow when I got to do his meds for next week.

I just talked to DS and she said Daddy told her that he isn't ready to go to assisted living yet, but he promised that he would go when he knows he can't live on his own any more. We have to trust him. I think he may be exercising too much. He has a cycle he can sit in front of his chair and use. He has it next to his chair. He used it 60 minutes day before yesterday and 45 minutes yesterday. I don't know how much he used it today. He is working to keep his legs strong. He always sits and does the leg exercises the therapist taught him to do. I guess I know where I get my stubbornness from, I just need to learn to make it work for me. I need to be using the bike more although I felt I had done enough with the walking at the store and cleaning for him.

Now I have to wash sheets. I'm on a program with our local electric company where I get free electricity between 8 pm and 5 am. I thought it was a special thing for going with them when I moved here and my time was going to be up at the end of March. I was able to go on line and renew it for another 20 months. So I do my laundry at night instead of during the day. It saves me around $50 on my electric bill. I don't abuse it. While everyone else had high electric bills during the winter mine was about $60 less. So I'm glad I was able to stay on it.

[lotsakids]

I had the highest fb this morning that I can remember at 139. I'm up 5 pounds and feeling gross. Going to see the doctor next week where I'm sure he won't be happy. I'm at that point of knowing what to do and not doing it, not caring. I've got to get back to doing the things I need to do. The guys were home for the super bowl and there was a lot of eating going on this weekend. 3 years ago I would not have touched any of it but its like I have given up.

We have a dx for my mom in law and its not good, I'm sure that's part of what I'm dealing with but I won't help her by not taking care of myself. rant over

[Wannabehealthy]

Originally Posted by pattygirl63

I think the key is eating healthier foods and eat less of it.

Bingo! I think that's EXACTLY it, Trish! That's what I'm trying to do as long as I can keep my internal glutton under control. LOL

I ended up eating too many carbs yesterday. It was 4:30 by the time we took DGS to meet his Dad so DH wanted Wendys. I ended up getting a chicken sandwich and a frosty, which I just can't pass up. I planned on eating the chicken without the bun, but ended up eating the bun. I took my regular dose of Glimiperide. I was afraid to check BS at bedtime and didn't want to take any more Glimiperide. During the night BS was 109 and this morning it was 113. I haven't had reading like that since 2008. LOL Once I am comfortable that FBG is below 150 I will stop the middle of the night testing. That is only necessary if I take Glimiperide after dinner.

I typed a long post about our day with DGS and lost it. To make a long story short, it was not a good day. The dog wouldn't stop barking and growling. He stopped doing that when the parents are here but wouldn't stop yesterday for some reason. DGS was not doing anything but sitting on the couch. He usually barks if he runs around. Then DGS seemed mopey. He eats more like his parents now and didn't want any of the things we offered him for lunch. He wanted to go out for Mexican, and we don't do Mexican, or go out for lunch. He settled for leftover pizza. The alternative to coming here was to go to daycare and his friends would have been there, too, but I think his parents wanted to save some $$$. Next time I will encourage her to let him go to daycare. They both make good money and can afford it.

Our schools rarely close for snow unless it's a foot or more. At best, they have a 2 hour delay to give the municipalities time to clear the roads. Our roads are clear now but more snow is coming today /tomorrow. DGS said the school was closed for parent/teacher conferences. I don't think his parents went. He is on the honor roll, so I don't think they feel it's necessary to miss work to talk to the teacher. Or maybe his mother went. I just assumed she was going to work.

Trish, I feel like your Dad, that I need to keep my legs strong so I can get around, and he has a lot of years on me! I hope he does OK. Even so, I think he would find that assisted living is not so bad. He would still have a lot of his freedom and privacy. Hearing this makes me realize I need to keep up on my exercise.

I think that program you have with the electric company is great. We don't have that here. It wouldn't help me though. Our washer is electric but our dryer is natural gas. That reminds me I will have to do some today.

[Wannabehealthy]

Originally Posted by lotsakids

I had the highest fb this morning that I can remember at 139. I'm up 5 pounds and feeling gross. Going to see the doctor next week where I'm sure he won't be happy. I'm at that point of knowing what to do and not doing it, not caring. I've got to get back to doing the things I need to do. The guys were home for the super bowl and there was a lot of eating going on this weekend. 3 years ago I would not have touched any of it but its like I have given up.

We have a dx for my mom in law and its not good, I'm sure that's part of what I'm dealing with but I won't help her by not taking care of myself. rant over

Hi Donna. The line I highlighted above is what I have been going through, too. I know what to do, but can't get myself to stick to it. I have been doing well for the past week, but am reaching the two week mark when I usually fall off the wagon. I pray that we can all stick to it!! I only have DH to contend with but he doesn't eat like I need to. It's up to me to be diligent and it's hard when the other food is all around me.

139 would be a normal FBG for me. I am working toward getting it down, also.

I'm so sorry to hear that your MIL is not doing good. It does get very stressful when family members are sick. I will pray for her and for your family.

[pattygirl63]

Originally Posted by lotsakids

I had the highest fb this morning that I can remember at 139. I'm up 5 pounds and feeling gross. Going to see the doctor next week where I'm sure he won't be happy. I'm at that point of knowing what to do and not doing it, not caring. I've got to get back to doing the things I need to do. The guys were home for the super bowl and there was a lot of eating going on this weekend. 3 years ago I would not have touched any of it but its like I have given up.

We have a dx for my mom in law and its not good, I'm sure that's part of what I'm dealing with but I won't help her by not taking care of myself. rant over

Donna I've been going the same problems myself. So I know how you feel. I'm dealing with a 94 yr old Daddy who fell last Wednesday and thank God didn't break anything and all tests came out that he is fine. He is just sore and he isn't used to not being able to jump right back to doing what he needs to do. I don't remember my Daddy ever missing a day of work for illness although he said he did one time and he went to work when he was 13 yrs old.

My eating has been wild lately and I am not in shape to do all this like I was over a year ago when I moved here. I do know I don't want to feel like this any more and I too know what I need to do but haven't wanted to do it. I play all these games to try to get by with eating something I shouldn't be eating. I decided this morning that this has to STOP. I want my energy back. I DO NOT want to buy bigger clothes. I got rid of my bigger clothes. I've decided to go back to low carbing. Not sure which plan I will go by, but I am going to lower the carbs.

I pray we both can get back on track. It isn't easy when we have the stress. But we can do it we because our your MIL and my Daddy need us. I've thought the same thing you did. I'm no good to my Daddy if I have no energy plus at the same time I don't want my DH to feel neglected. He is a really big help to me and all I want to do when I'm home is sleep.

Good luck and you will be in my prayer and thoughts.

[pattygirl63]

Carol Sue I haven't eat at Wendy's in ages. I used to love to eat there because they had great salads and once in a while I would splurge and have their baked potato with cheese and broccoli when I wasn't low carbing. I don't think they make the potato broccoli cheese any more. I used to make one at home when I got hungry, but lower fat form. DH always liked their fish or chicken sandwiches.

Daddy is achy this morning and that concerns me with all the flu going around. I wish I could talk to DH daughter since she worked in orthopedics for 10 years. I don't know if that is from the fall or not. I'm glad we go to CHF clinic Thursday and will be able to see what his blood work shows. They do a thorough blood work when we go. He is doing better this morning because he had got up and brushed his teeth and taken the 2 pills he has to take to get going. One of those pills has something to do with getting his heart going and it always takes a while for him to get going these days. He does better in the afternoons. When we hung up, he was going to go put his cappacino on. He will drink an Ensure to take his pills. I told DH that I went to keep him supplied with the Ensure.

Well, I am going to ease myself back into low carb. I am back on CAD as of today and will keep doing it with IF. My fbs was 157 today because I ate less fiber and starchy carbs. I think I need some carbs because of all I'm going through right now, but not a lot. I know the weight and bs will come down this way plus I don't have time for low carb flu right now. I am looking at SB again, but just not sure I want to follow that one either. The nice thing about CAD is that I can have a starchy carb that I really want once a day. I need to use that RM to make things work for me.

Need to get busy. I took out a bone in pork chop I found and I'm going to have that with a couple of eggs and veggies for brunch. Eating that late because it will be late eating main meal today. DH wants BLT for main meal and I don't want that so I plan to make myself a ground beef stir-fry for me. Today just might end up being a no starchy food day no RM and a 5 or 6 hr window since I don't want to eat after 7 or 8.

Carol Sue I think you said once that your dog likes your DIL. Maybe he was looking for them. Pets are interesting. My niece found a lost dog one day. She brought it home and put it in their new puppy's cage while trying to find the owner through FB. The funny thing is that the new pup was very upset that the lost pup was in her space. They put her in with their other pup whom she loves, but didn't like having to share her space. It is so interesting to see how their personality comes out when something changes from what they are used to.

Have a good day.

[pattygirl63]

I have no idea why I ever do anything but CAD. I've got my plan for today on MFP and my calories are 1039 and I had to stretch to get that for today. My sodium is 1269 mg., total carbs 87 mostly from fruit and non-starchy veggies. In fact, the only starchy carb I will have today is 12 g from the crackers I like to eat with salads. I just might go ahead and eat the whole 4 oz beef patty I have thawing for the stir-fry which won't raise the carb count. Not sure.

Sodium will be a little higher because I woke up this morning around 4 am with Charlie horse in left leg and again at 8:30 am with one in the right leg. I will also drink plenty of water as well so hopefully ward those off. Calories still won't be much more than 1200 if it is.

[Wannabehealthy]

I have done well with food again today. DH made hard boiled eggs today instead of scrambled and I didn't feel like eating them so I put them in my beet juice for pickled eggs. Then I ate the leftover cabbage rolls. I thought they might be too old but DH said they should be OK. They tasted alright and I'm not sick. LOL For dinner I made hot sausage. It got done early, so we ate already. I usually eat two sausages, but I ate one on a bun and that's all I need. I didn't make any sides with it so I'm sure DH will be looking for something later on.

I just logged my food for yesterday and today. Yesterday I had 1691 calories, which is high for me and I don't usually lose weight over 1500. Today I have 860 so far. I don't feel hungry but it's early. I will eat something if I get hungry.

We have had more than one dog at a time in the past, but I think this dog would be very jealous if we got another one. He likes to lay up on the back of the couch. He won't go up there if someone is sitting on the couch unless it's me, so he might have been mad because DGS was sitting on the couch. He won't even jump up there if DH is sitting on the couch. For some reason he never barks or growls if my DIL is here. I don't know why. She doesn't pet him or anything, just ignores him. I don't think she is interested in dogs. They have one, but it is my step-son's hunting dog.