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Pipsicle, I think the coffee concentrate is a good idea for someone who travels or doesn't drink a lot of coffee. Does it need to be refrigerated? How long does it last without spoiling? We drink coffee by the potfuls. I can go without it if need be but DH cannot.
I think it's a good idea to make small changes. I am working on doing the same thing. We get into habits for no reason and then find they are not really beneficial to us.
Congratulations on the job extension. That's one place where a contract really comes in handy. You know you are employed for the next year.
Mad, I thought you were home already. I must have misunderstood.
I went to bed at 1 am and went right to sleep and then I woke up and was ready to get up at 8 am. I seem to do well on 7 hrs or sleep and am going to do my best to keep that schedule. I have about 2 weeks that I don't have to be anywhere and even when I go see Daddy I will be going in the afternoon so it will be easy to keep up with this schedule. I am going to spend this next 2 weeks on getting myself into a good healthy routine of eating, exercise etc.
I got the probiotic I read about on Amazon that was 5 stars with no complaints. It said give it 2 to 4 weeks to see if you feel better. I started the boiled egg in vinegar today and will let you know if that helps with bs etc. I went to the store and got foods that have the magnesium and I also picked a couple more enzyme fruits that are so good for digestion. I was surprised to see that avocado is actually on both lists. Perhaps that is why it works more like a laxative when I eat it everyday. I might could eat less of it each day but then the problem with that is that it ruins on me so fast. So I will try just using the other foods that I like. I don't like all those on the lists.
Mad So sorry to her about the weather turning so bad. I forgot about the hurricanes going to Europe. I hope the weather gets better for y'all. I wasn't clear on how long your trip was going to be either. I think you said, but I have forgot.
I agree with you about the grains. I don't think I am going to need it if any as long as I am getting a lot of what I get from the fiber etc by eating fibrous fruit and then a small amount of nuts. It is really strange how I am handling these fruits and especially the nuts. We are always told to be careful with the nuts because they are high calorie. I notice that eating them on a low carb type plan, I cannot eat a lot of it in one sitting like I used to. I take it out and then sometimes I end up putting some of it back into the can. I think it just be the healthy fat in them are satiating. I'm not cutting out all foods, but I am finding that some of the foods I used to love just don't taste as good any more.
I don't like almonds for a snack but I can use it as a batter on chicken or fish and get it that way so DH and I will get the benefit of it. Also, babysister and I used to grind a little bit of oats into powder and add it to the almond flower which is helpful since almonds are so expensive.
Pipsicle What a blessing to know that your job has been extended into next year. So many people lose jobs at the end of the year which I always feel is so sad especially for people with families to feed and care for. That is one problem you don't have to worry about.
I think I do better when I have goals too. So congratulations for using them to gear you toward success.
Carol Sue I don't think my Daddy really is aiming things at me as much as he is using me for his soundboard when things don't go like he wants. Maybe the fact that I go 2 or 3 days a week makes it harder on my sisters, I don't know. My personality is just so different from them. Both of them suffer with depression and other emotional problems. I have a tendency toward those things, but I just refuse to let them rule my life.
I learned years ago that I don't have to allow things around me dictate how I am going to act or respond. I do catch myself falling into those feelings sometimes, but I don't living there. I grew up feeling not good enough and like a dummy because of people around me. I realized later that those people didn't feel good about themselves and couldn't make me feel good about me because they didn't have it to give me. In my early 30s, I learned that I could improve myself and my attitudes. When I took my kids to the library to read for the summer programs, I would look for self help books to help me improve me. Once I started reading self-help books that I wasn't dumb and I could learn. I even went back to college for a while and enjoyed it. I feel like I only get one life and I am going to do my best to be who I want to be. The only place I have had difficulty with is the weight and I refuse to give up on that one.
I hope you can find the answer concerning you foot issue. Again, I don't think you should let it go too long.
I looked back on my weight at the beginning of October and my weight has bounced but is the same as Oct. 1. My FBS is up though. My beautician who does low carb told me there is a low carb plan where you eat fruit, but no grains. I took the grains out of my plan today and will be researching a plan keeping my fruit no grains.
well, as its DD who is the coffee drinker, not me, I don't know what she would find acceptable. I remember my aunt and her neighbours making the coffee concentrate when we visited them in South America. It was their version of instant coffee, just add boiling water and stir. But I also think it is up to DD to plan. Was the only day it happened, but we saw the grumpy side of our daughter, for sure. DH and I are doing our preliminary packing so that we are only using one small case for the next couple of days and have the souvenirs all packed up safely in the big suitcase.
I am making plans for fasting when I get home. For sure Monday when we travel, and Tuesday on my way to the conference, which starts Wednesday morning. that gives me 60 hours or so if I go from Sunday night to Wednesday am, maybe more like 65 with the time change. I expect to have major carb cravings after eating this way. I have stuck to 2MAD but with alcohol and these yummy gluten free baked goods, I am sure I will have a lot of work to do to get back to my new normal.
Sigh.
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Trish, I am sleeping longer too. I still wake up in the middle of the night and sometimes have trouble going back to sleep, but once I do I sleep til 8 or 9. I never did that before. I used to get up early and read or get online. I am not reading anything right now. I have tons of books to read. My friend gives me her books when she finishes with them and I have a couple bags of them in the exercise room. One day I went through them and donated the ones that didn't seem to interest me. I could never read all those books in my lifetime. I have a few free books on my Kindle, and I like to read them when I'm out somewhere and take my Kindle in my purse.
Today I want to go through my bills and make sure they are all caught up, and ready to be paid on SS day. Then I want to put my summer clothes away and go through all my clothes and take out some that I need to donate. I have a lot that I just don't wear for whatever reason. I will keep only what I love. I am not longer buying clothes. There's nowhere to put them.
I used to work with a woman who donated her clothes at the end of every season and bought new ones the next year. She was very into fashion and would never wear last year's clothes. It would be great to be the recipient of her barely worn cast offs. I could never afford to do that. I have black and navy blue pants and capris that are very old. Each season they go with so many different tops and never look the same twice. I would be very happy to have to donate them all because they are TOO BIG!!
Trish, you should not let your sisters intimidate you about visiting your father. You should go when you want to and let them go when they want to or when they can. You are the one who has to live with yourself after he is gone and you want to be able to feel that you have done all you can. You are a good daughter and I'm sure your Dad realizes that. Spend as much time with him as you like.
I appreciate the concern about my foot pain. I am not ready to do anything about it just yet, until I feel that the pain is following a specific pattern. I think I'm just discussing it to make conversation.
Carol Sue I missed your good weight loss and fbs. You have got your plan working for you. I know you will go have your foot seen when you feel it is time. I do the same thing with my health too. I figure I can try to figure it out in a natural way first, but if I can't take care of it on my own then that is what my doctor is there for. So I definitely understand.
I'm not really intimidated by my sisters. I know if DS who is in charge of Daddy's medical care would be going to see him more if she was able. Right now she is just so stressed out with her DH 2nd shoulder surgery, still waiting for results of just one more test they are doing on her DD and then her DS divorce etc. She does have problems with stress. She finally told me this morning that she is having a lot of aches and pains almost like the flu, but she said she will see if that subsides once her Hubby gets past the surgery. In fact, she told me today that she appreciates what I do to help with Daddy.
As for as my baby sister, she is just spoiled plus she has a huge family just with all her 5 boys and I figure she is spending time with them when she is in town. They still are settled yet and I don't talk to her enough to know what they are doing. So I'm fine with them. I just wish Daddy could be more settled.
I think Daddy was a person who picked his responsibilities as much as he could. My Mama took a lot of the pressure off of him so he could just do what he wanted. Most of his worries he created on his own because Mama tried to make his life easy. He was a person who wanted to be on the go and do just what he wanted to do when he wanted. Now he has no choices and no one to take the pressures for him and he can't get up and go. Actually, DS and I think he is doing better than we ever thought that he would.
He isn't going to be to happy with me this week because we are having storms today and this week. I probably will only go to see him Wednesday and Friday afternoon this next week because those are the only 2 days when aren't supposed to have storms. We are under a tornado watch until 6pm today. We sure need the rain because we are in a deficit.
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Trish: we all do what we can, when we can. I saw my dear Dad much more than my sister, but it is me who has been over-grieving and needing counselling. Perhaps because i was so close to him. I was so much the caregiver for my parents, I feel at a loss sometimes. It became part of my identity. Even though I am feeling more ready to retire, I consider my identity closely associated with my career. We have only been legally in the health system for 25 years, so we had to fight for our registration, so losing that will be hard.
I think caring for people is a big part of your life, and part of your identity too. Scaling back needs to be on your terms. Things are much better for your father, and for you and your sister, now that he is cared for in the home. At his age, his own daughters are senior citizens too, and full time caregiving should not be on the agenda. You will continue to see him as often as you both need and can do. Thats a gift to be able to love him in these late years.
Carol: have fun going through things you don't want. I really enjoyed going through my clothes. Glad I didn't get rid of some that were too small, but was happy to give up those that were too big. I will need a couple of new things for winter, but seem to be ok for fall and the "shoulder" season. But I think I will only get one or two things at a time as needed, I don't want to waste a lot of money on things that will be too big next season, (if Im lucky and can stick to plan)
I really hope you can get a handle on the pain. When it was keeping me awake so much, it was awful, and affected everything. I don't know what I or doctors will be able to do for the pain and the problems. I always wonder why a particular part of the body gets attacked. For you it seems to be knees and below. For me its hands, and often upper body, like my shoulder bursitis, my arm injury, tendonitis in my forearms. ugh.
Last full day in Scotland today. If I were younger, I would try to convince DH to move here. Just love the friendly people, and the landscape. Housing prices are reasonable too.
But I will be really glad to get home. Hallowe'en is coming, and I look forward to all the activities with the children that comes with that. As DH reminds me, I would miss the little girls too much.
DD will be going to the Caribbean with the ship shortly after this trip. It will be an intense work period for her, so I don't think DH and I will visit there when she is there. They will head back to Europe in February to get to the next phase, so maybe Spring in Paris would work.
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Mad, my pain has been mostly in my wrist this week and now I have a twinge in the left wrist, too. I haven't had the ankle pain for several days, but a touch of pain under my heel, like plantar fasciatis. The knees have been fine for weeks, since I started taking the Hyaluronic Acid. That was a life saver. Last year, all my pain disappeared mid November, so it would be nice if it did that again. It's easier for me to tolerate the pain in my hands, but when it effects my feet and legs to the point that I am unable to walk, it becomes disabling. You need to walk for most everything you do, or resort to a wheelchair. I talk to other women on another forum who have similar pain to mine. They have doctored repeatedly, had shots, follow elimination diets, etc, with no real relief. The only difference between them and me is they have been diagnosed. Given a cause for their pain. But they are not receiving long term relief. I don't understand why people today are having so much unexplained pain. Maybe older people had it in the past, but just considered it part of ageing and didn't complain about it, so we didn't realize it.
Trish, I think if my pain was continuously in my foot or ankle I would see a need to consult a doctor. But I could make an appointment next week with a foot doctor and have the foot be fine by the time I got there. The pain would be in my hand by then. It's just unpredictable. I feel it would be very difficult to diagnose since the pain moves all over the place. And a diagnosis does not mean it will go away. I'm just taking things day by day.
I think a lot of men are like your Dad...the woman takes care of everything and they grow to expect that. Then when they are alone the can't really cope. My DH is very much like that. I hope to think that he would change his ways if something happened to me.
I was 11 when my Dad passed away and 34 when my mother passed away. My Dad was 60 and my mother 64. So I cannot really relate to what the 2 of you had/have with aging parents. You have had your parents in your life for a much longer time, but I think the longer you have them, the harder it is when you lose them. I met and married DH around the time of my mother's passing and it was as if he took over being my family, since my parents were both gone.
So as for the subject of weight and blood sugar, my weight is going back down again, but I wish I hadn't had that uptick. And blood sugar is not bad, but I know if I would eat lighter at dinner FBG would be lower. When I was eating a big salad every night for dinner my FBG was below 120, which is great for me.
I finished all my laundry yesterday and have the clothes all ready to put away and purge. I am really looking forward to this. DH will be watching the football game, so that gives me 4 free hours to do this. I have collected some empty boxes in my exercise room to pack the clothes for donation and I have space bags for the ones to be stored until next year. I'm looking forward to this and I'm all ready.
Carol Sue Thanks for the link. It confirms my decision for today. I had already decided to go back to 5/19 IF. My weight is bouncing up threatening higher and my FBS was 184. Obviously I am getting back into old habits again and have got to stop. I am so mad at myself for allowing this to happen, but will just shake it off and move on. I know better not to let it get me down or derail me. The article actually confirms all the good things I have heard about fasting before. I don't know what my doctor would say, but I won't be discussing it with him. He doesn't seem to care as long as I keep it down. Of course I want to do more than just keep it down. I do know one thing, I am looking at is the statin I take. I take it faithfully, but if I can't get this under control while taking it, I most definitely will stop taking it. I told him that I would take it as long as it doesn't interfere with me controlling my bs. I know that diabetes causes a lot of the health problems he is trying to prevent, so why would I take a medication that is going to cause my bs to go up.
Your weight is coming down. Maybe slow, but it is moving. You are making progress. I'm glad the Hyaluronic Acid is helping ease the pain. Years ago I had a problem with the plantar fasciitis on the bottom of my right foot. This is going to sound crazy but a friend told me to stand on the edge of a door facing and move up and down a few times and it would go away. It is amazing but it works every time. I usually only have to do it once. I don't know why it works unless it stretches it out or what. All I know is it absolutely works. Sometime I can tell that one is going to try to come on me and can do the exercise and stop it from ever happening. LOL!!!
Mad Thank you so very much for the encouraging words and you are so right about my personality. In fact, I always have taken care of someone. DS and I used to be the ones to go stay with our grandmother when she was older so we never had to put her in a nursing home. They were so terrible in those days. When I married 1st husband he was a paraplegic and I took care of him until he died. Then when I married DH#2 I not only raised his 3 children, but I baby sat taking care of other people kids as well as taking care of his daughter who was a burn victim. I took helped Daddy care for my Mama till she died, then Hubby #2 mother and then DH mother. Along the way I either took care of nieces, nephews, grandchildren and even worked as a caregiver in nursing homes as well as being sent to care for patients in their homes. When Daddy got sick, I told DH that I couldn't let DS carry this by herself. She isn't in the greatest health herself another reason it is so important for me to take care of myself.
I actually got to wondering one day what I was going to do when Daddy passes away. My life is so wrapped around him and what is going on with him. I usually call him 2x a day, but I have gotten to where I have cut back to 1 some days. I do think about this a lot and know I need to make a life for DH and me without having
to do what everybody else wants or needs me to do.
I'm glad you have had a good visit with your DD. It is neat that you can look forward to seeing her again in the spring. I would so love to be able to go see DH DD now that she and I are so close. I text her everyday and she answers when she can. She really is very sweet in spite of the problems we had in the past. We have grown way past all of that. My sisters have their kids and I have really thought about moving back to FL closer to her and her family someday if we possibly can swing it. It is just a thought, but everyone needs something to look forward to.
Y'all have a great day.
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Trish, I never discuss my diet with my doctors. They don't ask, I don't say. One time my doctor asked how I got my triglycerides down. I told him I cut out carbs and exercised. He didn't criticize me for the low carb, but told me I should have lost weight. Even with low carb, I have to cut calories way back.
I get angry with myself, too, for letting my WOE go by the wayside. It sure doesn't take long for the weight to pop back on compared to the struggle to get it off.
I was surprised in that article that it said the 5 fasting days should be 800-1100 calories. Even JUDDD DD is lower than that. I find it so hard to believe that this plan will allow the beta cells to repair. I know that the longer you are diabetic the worse the damage is. Maybe this works for pre-diabetes or someone who was recently diagnosed, but I wonder about someone who has been diabetic for a long time. It's been 10 years for me. When I had my bowel surgery, I was on a complete fast for 6 days. It did not "cure" my diabetes. I will have to look into this further. There must be more to it.
I went back and made a correction on my FBS for this morning. It was 184 not 189, but it was still too high. I guess I do need the oats with the eggs for breakfast. I actually made my breakfast similar to what they gave me in the hospital. I made myself a fruit cup with yogurt, 2 scrambled eggs (didn't use any oil just spray), 1 slice bacon and coffee. I did add 1 tsp of chia seeds. I was surprised that almost 5 hrs later before I had lunch that my bs reading was down to 110.
When I eat low carb no oats or if I eat oats w/o eggs, my bs reading before lunch 5 hrs later is in the 120s. So going by my FBS & 5 hr later reading before dinner, I will stay on the breakfast combo I had in the hospital. I am going to do my best not to eat anything else today and see what happens with the FBS tomorrow. I want to do this 2MAD for these next 2 weeks and see how I progress. If I can just do this for the rest of the year then maybe it will become habit. Then next year I can see how I'm doing and try for a few OMADs thrown in there from time to time say once or twice a week if needed.
Carol Sue The article actually made me think of JUDDD. My problem when I tried to do JUDDD, I couldn't be as consistent with the down days like they suggested. That is why I went to the 5:19 IF ratio. Hopefully I can get back to that.
I've been going through the WW book and typing out a list of the Simply Filling foods that are allowed to be eaten without counting points. I figure this will give me a list of allowable foods that I like that are lower calorie/carb etc. I am not going to follow the diet because I don't do FF dairy except in my yogurt. Otherwise, I use low fat dairy. Also I do try to eat some good oils. I have a tendency to get stuck with the same veggies etc all the time, so hopefully this will give me idea for having a little more of a variety.
I cooked tilapia today and remembered that beans are a good diabetic friendly side. So we had that along with our salads plus I opened a can of fruit cocktail and light cool whip mixed in for a dessert feeling. I forgot that a serving of beans can make fill you up. I'm still feeling full from lunch. I'm drinking water as my main liquid so hoping that will help me make it tonight.
I saw on FB that my step-sister passed away Tuesday. She is the one who use to threaten my Daddy and tried to get her Mother to leave him. She must have been sick although no one said how she died. I'm sorry she died. I remember when she was a sweetheart. I think the heartaches she had and then turning to drugs and alcohol is what changed her when she became an enemy to Daddy.
I recently on FB I friended a cousin of my Daddy's who lives somewhere around Dallas. She has a business and still works part time from what I have heard. I have heard of her all my life, but don't remember ever meeting her. The amazing thing is that she is the same age as Daddy and turned 95 two days ago. She had pictures of herself on FB today celebrating with her family and she is gorgeous. She has no wrinkles. All that family has amazing complexions. I remember standing at my grandfather's casket with another one of Daddy's cousins we were close to and we said "I sure hope I got his genes and look as young as he does at 77". Everybody is shocked when they learn Daddy is 95. I surely do hope I have their good genes. I don't have a lot of wrinkles and hope I can ward off any others. LOL!!! I know vain, vain, vain.
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The high FBG was due to Pizza. I ordered wings for my dinner, but then I ate some of DH pizza. I don't know why I do that. I know better. And I don't even like the sauce on this pizza. I prefer the one he gets locally, it's a carry-out place, and for some reason, he wants to sit in a restaurant and be served. I would gladly serve him if he would eat at home!! LOL So now I know I have to make a concentrated effort to stay away from his pizza. I know why I ate it. When I came home, afterwards I checked my blood sugar and it was 117. Instead of thinking how good that was, I thought "I can eat a slice of pizza."
Yesterday I only ate 1 egg and 1 slice of toast along with the salmon. Around lunch time I ate a big salad, of just iceberg lettuce, swiss cheese and croutons with sweet and sour dressing. That has become my favorite at-home salad. I was very hungry by dinner time, which is what I want. Too many times I am eating dinner because DH want to, not because I'm hungry. I think without the Pizza my blood sugar and weight would have been better. (Make a note to myself.)
The 5:2 diet is very similar to JUDDD except JUDDD is every-other-day and 5:2 is just 2 DD per week. It can be whatever 2 days you want. A lot of people on the JUDDD forum do 4:3 having 3 DD. It's having the DD here and there that's important, not whether you are consistent. A DD can also be unplanned. It might be a day when you just aren't that hungry, or when you are busy and don't take the time to stop to eat. It has the same effect.
The plan they were talking about in the article I posted was 5 DD in a row, and doing that once a month.
I don't have very many relatives left. I have 5 cousins in DE but we don't keep in touch. A couple months ago I found my oldest cousin on Facebook and accidentally found out that her husband had passed away just a few days before. I think I was led there to find that out. I posted condolences online. We were never close because they lived out of state. I have another cousin who lives nearby but we only exchange Christmas cards. All my other cousins were older than me and all have passed. I don't keep in touch with their children, who are closer in age to me than they were. Somehow, with all my infirmities, I managed to live longer than so many of them. My DH says I go to the doctor for every little thing. I really don't, but I guess I go for the things that are important. This is how long God wants me to be here, for whatever his reason. I also think they did a lot of drinking and unhealthy eating. I know I weigh a lot more than I should, but because I'm always trying to lose weight, it makes me tend to eat healthier. Who knows what keeps us here.
My FBS was back down to 165 and weight back to 221.2. I ended up with 2M and 1S. In fact, I went over to eating within 9 hrs instead of 8.
I didn't eat until 1 today although I did try having a cup of coffee with butter in it this morning. I have a cousin on FB who has worked hard to keep her weight down. Her Mama and mine were sisters. He daughters have done really well keeping their weight off doing Shaklee shakes along with low carbing. She showed how to mix butter (a lot more than I used) in a cup of coffee and she said it was very tastie. It recommended drinking it only 3 days a week. I think I could do 3 days a week without having any potty issues so I'm going to be trying it. It is supposed to rev up the metabolism. I figure it can't hurt and it did help me get through the morning without eating any actual food. I know it isn't a real fast because of the calories in the butter, but at least it has no carbs. I'm hoping I can keep my food intake to within 6 or 7 hrs. I think the next time I do the butter coffee that I will wait till I break my fast. I did check my bs before I ate at 1 and it was 131. Not as low as usual, but if it keeps coming down and gets the weight and the FBS down then it will be a good thing.
I checked my sauerkraut and it is barely bubbly so when I go to the store, I will get a head of cabbage and make it with fresh cabbage and any other veggies I choose to put in it. I don't how many times the packaged stuff is rinsed and dried. I just might get 1 regular and 1 red heads of cabbage and put them in one of my crockpot and let it brew a week or two and get it going good and then put it in mason jars to continue to make while eating some of it each week and just keep some making all the time so I always have fresh probiotics at work all the time.
Also trying to get used to drinking at least a cup of green tea daily and without any sweetener. Not easy but I had it with my first meal which was more of a snack. It was a fruit cup with half serving of yogurt and 1 tsp chia seeds in it. Hopefully this will keep me from eating so much when I cook in a bit. I have chicken tenders in the crockpot cooking in a chicken gravy and I will make some brown rice, a tossed salad with oil and vinegar and I will have broccoli/cauliflower with a touch of butter and a little bit of the gravy on a slice of SLMG bread and on the rice. I hope this will be the only meal I have today, but if I get hungry later I will have an ounce of nuts.
I am not going to count the calories, but I am going to keep a journal of the foods I eat. I will try to get 20 minutes in on my bike sometime this afternoon. I get sleepy sometimes in the afternoon and my try doing the bike then as I read that you should take a walk or some sort of exercise when you get that lethargic feeling in the afternoon. I'm sleeping good at night of 7 hrs even though I do wake up and have to go potty but that is not happening as often as it did in the past. I hope that means that I'm on the right track to controlling my bs. I still need to finish my list of foods from WW SF plan, but I have enough on my list until I get back to it.
I am also making a list for each day of things I want to get done each day so that just maybe I can get organized.
Daddy sounded good this morning. Didn't seem to upset that I might not be coming out much this week. We are getting a lot of rain and the temperature has dropped a lot since yesterday. It was 43 degrees when I got up and not supposed to get above 68 this morning. All week is supposed to be like that. It has actually stirred up my allergies. So I'm taking the Zyrtec the doctor wanted me to take. It relaxes me but I only have to take 1 a day. Daddy told me one of the therapist told him the wind chill was 32. I don't think he will expect us to come out much when the weather is like this. I will have to go to the store in a few days and may go see him and go to the store over there. They do have better variety of fruit and veggies.
BIL shoulder surgery went very well. Doc said it was just like the other one was. He said they don't know why it happens, but they also don't know why that once this surgery is done that he should never have it happen again. One of those mysteries I guess. He is off work for 2 weeks unless he feels good enough to go back to work sooner. However, I think he will be out for a week. I'm not sure when his therapy starts. I'm just glad he got it done. I hope DS will feel less stressful now. Their DD who works at home, is staying with them for a few days to help them and will do her work from there.
Carol Sue Your family was kind of like DH. He is an only child of parents that were much older than most of the parents of the kids he went to school with. He grew up with cousins, but they don't ever invite him to anything which I assume is because he hasn't lived close to them in years. Then his first wife's family became his family and now my family has become his family. He is more of a loner. It took me a while, but I have finally learned to adjust to his ways and attitude. DS and I work very hard to make him feel included in everything even things that he probably doesn't always want to be part of. But we never want him to ever feel left out or like he has no one.
Guess I will go. I have a little time to get some more house work done and maybe get another item checked off on my to do list before lunch time.
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S/C/G: 217/176/142
Height: 5'2
I entered my food in MFP today just to see where I'm standing. It's hard,because I made stuffed peppers for dinner and I didn't take the time to enter my ingredients in and just picked one of the ones in their database. I made two peppers. For the filling, I used 2 3oz burger patties and a little less than 1/2 C of brown rice. Seasonings, sauteed green pepper, onion, celery and shredded carrot and that is split between the two peppers. I add a little tomato sauce to the filling then put the rest of the sauce in the bottom of the casserole to pour over the peppers when we eat them. So I really don't know how many calories, carbs, fat, fiber etc are in each one but I could probably figure it out if I had to know. I just picked one from their database. I came in around 1100 calories. I didn't eat dinner yet. It's all ready, but I will heat everything up and we will eat around 4:30. I don't want to continue to track my food. I just want to feel hungry when I eat, and not stuffed when I'm finished. I feel best doing that.
I bought some Sleepy Time Tea from Celestial. I drink a cup of that in the evening. It's supposed to help make you sleepy. Sometimes I add a green tea bag to it so I'm getting some green tea, too. It's not every night. I know I'm not drinking enough water, but I do drink some. Always black coffee in the morning. I eat my breakfast around 10-11 and dinner around 4. I try not to snack in the evening, but it still happens now and then.
Carol Sue The stuffed peppers sounds good. DH won't eat them so I don't make them. Hubby #2 would eat the filling but left the peppers so I would eat them. I don't know if DH would do that or not. I need to check as it would be a nice change and I could eat them. He isn't too big on meatloaf either because he likes his pretty plain and I want veggies in mine. However, I have actually mixed a plain meatloaf before and then divided it in half and added the celery etc that I wanted in mine and wrapped them separately in foil. I haven't done that in a while. Thanks for the idea.
I am really glad it is cold weather again. Our temps are supposed to get much above 60s this week so I'm going to cook some winter foods. I am looking forward to some stews, chili etc. I don't like chili the way DH makes it but it is going to be so cool tomorrow that it might be on the menu tomorrow. Even a small pot of spaghetti might be good. I don't make spaghetti very often so not sure about that. I have to really be in the mood for it before I do make it. I'm looking forward to a soup or stew and I really look forward to chicken and dumplins. I've always thought DH Mother's recipe for noodles could be used in a smaller batch to make some wonderful tasting dumplings.
As far as eating, I love cooking during the winter time.
I have some Sleepytime tea too. I haven't used it in a while. I drank the green tea today and I don't think I'll do that again when I drink the butter coffee. Let's just say the combo works great as a laxative for me. LOL
I'm not sure that my system can even take the bullet coffee with any oil very often, but is nice for helping me when I need it.
I'm hoping I won't be eating any more today which will make my eating window a 5 hr window between 1 and 5 pm. I did write everything down. Maybe I should check in MFP to see how I did, but I don't trust me. It might make me think I can eat something else. I might put it in tomorrow so I can see how I did when it can't screw up today because it will be over. LOL
