[pattygirl63]

Well, baby sister changed her plans again. They are not going to be with us. 2 of her boys and their family can't be there and they decided not to come. I think they are going to be with her DH family which they haven't seen in years. I told DS that I am not going to buy a ham and fix it for just us because I don't want to cook a big ham and bring it home for left overs. So I will get a couple of cans of cranberry sauce and rolls and take those. DH and I will stay a couple of hours and come home. DS will take food to Daddy because we will not be able to get him and bring him to be with us. Baby sister's son who is able to get Daddy is in Boston and no one has heard from him. Of course, I'm sure if he gets back and is in town that he will go get him, but he does all the sound for plays and concerts etc all over the country and I figure working on a holiday probably is big bucks so he will work if he can. He is in business for himself and is building a reputation for himself and won't turn down a good job.

I told DS that I would not get my feelings hurt if they decided they wanted to take the food and go to her be with her son and grandson up by Ft. Worth since he and his wife just divorced a month ago, but she says they won't be going that day. I hope everything is settled now because I get tired of going back and forth on things.

Not much going on here today. FBS was 139 and weight fluctuating so usually a good sign. I that I wanted to visit a church tomorrow but realized tonight that I'm not ready to do that yet so I am not going. The new church is in the building that my Daddy and Mama helped build for the church we had there. Once our original pastor died, my experiences there were emotionally pleasant when another minister and my Daddy started running everything. So as much as I like the minister I watch on tv, I'm not sure how I will feel going there. DS tells me it isn't anything like it was then and they have remodeled it so it doesn't even look the same. I will probably go eventually when it feels right, but not yet.

Eating has been good although I seem to be doing 8:16 IF right now. It seems like I need to eat that way right now.

Hope everyone has had a good Saturday.

[Wannabehealthy]

Trish, I hope this Thanksgiving decision is final for you now. So much back-and-forth indecision!! I know DH and I want to just spend the rest of our holidays here at home, and if we are alone, so be it. Step-daughter will always come here except for a few times of going to her sister-in-law's. She never likes to go to her in-laws and that has caused arguments between her and her DH. They go once in a while. I always told her that is her family now too and she should spend time with them. Her MIL and FIL have both passed on. He has 2 step brothers that he never sees, and his sister who lives nearby.

I did very well with my food today. For dinner, DH wanted a Subway sandwich. We split it, but I threw away my bun. I made a bed of lettuce and onion and chopped up the meat and cheese from the sandwich and it was delicious! Like a really great chef salad. Right now my blood sugar is 87. I know that is VERY GOOD, but I am concerned because I took my Glimiperide at dinner and now I'm afraid it will go too low overnight. I am going to eat 2 snack size Kit Kat bars before I go to bed. I will be afraid to go to sleep for fear of getting a hypo in my sleep.

I am making pumpkin pies on Wednesday. On Thursday I will have turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, a vegetable, crescent rolls, and maybe yams. My step-daughter and her DH like them with brown sugar and cinnamon. I don't know if DH will eat them or not, but I won't. I won't eat that much sugar and I prefer them baked. I might not make them at all. I have a can of jellied cranberry sauce, too. That's what my family prefers as that is what they have had all their life and it's not Thanksgiving without it. I made a home made cranberry sauce once and no one liked it and they missed the canned. It's going to be a quiet day here, and that's just fine with me.

I will keep some leftover turkey for DH and I, and send everything else home with my step-daughter. They have no qualms about eating leftovers. DH will eat leftover turkey one day, that's it. DH wants a pumpkin roll, too. I will make it if I can get the Philly Cream Cheese. He won't eat leftovers, but he will eat sweets until the cows come home. Moooooo!!

[Wannabehealthy]

Wt 196.5 FBG 113 This was around 7 AM. I guess I didn't do any harm eating the Kit Kat. I probably would have gone too low overnight without it. It's very hard to know how much Glimiperide to take when I am eating VLC. I want to get back to LC and want to eliminate any Low Carb Flu I might have before Thanksgiving. I don't really get it because I rarely eat high carb, just higher than it should be by letting the carbs creep in. I estimate that I eat about 100 gm of carb a day, when I would like it to be around 50. I am also not doing IF right now. If I get hungry I eat, but it's something low carb. Yesterday when I got hungry I ate a leftover pork chop that was in the refrigerator. My plan for Thanksgiving is to eat Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and a veggie, which might be green beans. I usually serve corn when my DGS is here because he loves corn, so I know he will be eating something. I hope to only eat one serving and then leave the table. I can always have some leftovers later if I get hungry. Heaven knows I'm going to have a lot leftover!!

I will be back later, when everyone else shows up.

[fatmad]

Remember Carol, if you are low carb also to get as much fat in as you can tolerate. Dressings, melted butter etc. Not more than you like, but maybe more than you are used to thinking of, makes you satisfied and keeps you from getting hungry. Maybe do half doses of glimperide if you are doing low carb? otherwise you may undo the good you have done eating the kit kat bars. LOL.
Trish, all the indecision must make for a more stressful holiday, but plans change with the times. I had planned on fasting yesterday, then in the afternoon we got a big surprise. Oldest DD (the traveller, that we saw in Scotland last month) came home for a visit. Younger DD picked her up at the airport and brought her over laughing about tricking us into thinking it was just a visit from younger DD. So funny. So we stayed in and had a lovely supper here, grilled steaks and made yummy veggies etc. It was a perfect LCHF meal for me, except I had a small glass of red wine. Weight and measures staying steady, so I am going to try fasting on and off again this week and see if I can get this stubborn fat and weight down after hovering here for almost 2 months. I am not taking the cream in my tea in the morning, (and sure not enjoying the tea much). So just plain water fasts, and some plain tea. Will keep having the salt and magnesium to tide me over while fasting. I hope to do two days and eat on Tuesday. I am supposed to be fasting for the ultrasound tomorrow anyhow.
Older DD is in Toronto for a couple of days, and then we will see her again Tuesday night for supper before dropping her at the airport. In about a month, she will be back for a day as she returns from her holiday. She gets lots of holiday time with this job, (2 months a year) and had some time banked, which is why she had 2 weeks of holidays in October when we travelled in Scotland together, and has another month now. When she is off again in June she plans a longer trip home. She looks great and feels good. We were laughing about BMI charts. She is at her highest weight ever, but is VERY slim, but very muscular because of her work. BMI charts are just not accurate for muscular people. and of course we all know muscle is heavier than fat.
So that was great excitement this weekend. Pretty great.
Have a great Sunday, and don't get too stressed as you prepare for TG

[pattygirl63]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone. There is always a silver lining. LOL!! Thank God.

Turns out there will only be 7 of us for Thanksgiving dinner at my nieces. Her MIL is coming in to be with us and we really like her. She is a sweetheart. Niece is cooking the turkey and broccoli rice casserole and 2 pies. Her Daddy is making the dressing and something else but I can't remember right now. I am taking a veggie tray, cranberry sauce and rolls. DS & BIL will take goodies to Daddy later that day and baby sister told DS they will go see him that day. Since I will see him Wednesday at the doctor's appointment and I also go on Friday, I don't think I will go that day. Dallas will be playing later that day and he will be watching that so DH and I will just come home and watch the game here since DS and her family don't care about football. So looks like it will turn into a nice day for us after all and I am so glad that it is settled for this year. Hopefully I will plan on doing it here next year. I just needed the break this year.

I am fasting today till lunch and then I am going to try to fast until DH can eat out of it while I'm gone. I want to try to do 1 or 2 fasting days each week if I can. I've just got to try and fast as long as I can. My beautician told me about one of her customers who is looking and feeling better and she does 1 or 2 24 hr fasts a week. I want to try that.

You guys are doing so much better than me right now, but I hope to change that now that the stress of this holiday is over. Will be difficult to get much exercise in this week but will do the best I can I know that exercise is good at getting stress under control.

Not much else going on right now. I will be glad when this holiday is over. Not planning anything big at Christmas because everybody does their own thing. May do something with DS and BIL as it will just be the 4 of us.

I will probably eat just a spoonful of each food and very small slices of whatever desserts DN makes. This time of the year would be a great time to get back to a CAD/CALP way of eating with a LC for CM and RM with carbs. I'm hoping having 2 days of 1MAD will help me get back to that.

fatmad What a nice surprise to have your DD with you a few days. Glad y'all are having some time together again.

Carol Sue Your bs is really good. Sounds like you are really going to be busy cooking the next few days. Take care of that foot friend.

Y'all have a great day.

[Wannabehealthy]

I really had a lot of pain overnight but it went away, without any pain meds. I don't understand it. I have a lot of energy today and got a lot done. I actually changed the bed sheets by myself. Usually I get DH to help me put the fitted sheet on. So I washed them and the tablecloth for my dining room table. It was washed from the last time I used it but I wanted it freshened up.

Mad, I have a pill cutter and I have always cut my Glimiperide, sometimes in half and sometimes in fourths, depending on my blood sugar before the meal and what I will be eating. I just misjudged yesterday and had to cover with the Kit Kat. It's not something I do on a regular basis. I don't even like Kit Kat, but it's what DH had on hand.

Trish, remember, my blood sugar is with taking the Glimiperide. They would not be that low without it. I want off it so badly, but will continue to use it to keep things under control until it improves naturally. I am determinded to do this. Because my A1c came down, I know I can get it lower. I am really hungry today. I have eaten much more than I normally do, but not having the carbs is making me hungry. I eat what fat I can. I use butter for cooking and for on veggies, dressing on salad, but I have never been one to like a lot of dressing. I like to be able to taste the veggies. Sometimes when I'm cooking, I will cut off pieces of butter and snack on it, I like it that much! I wish I liked avocados more because they are a good source of fat, but I can only eat a little bit then I get tired of it quickly.

My step son and his family are coming on Christmas, and my step-daughter will too. I don't know if I will invite anyone else. Too soon to decide. Christmas is more casual for us. I bake a ham, make potato salad, and just have finger food snacks with it, and people eat when they want to, not a sit-down dinner. I would really like to just continue to just have my step-children on holidays and let the others do their own thing. My BIL who lives alone will not come to our house anymore because of the dog. We usually fix a plate for him and step-daughter drops it off on the way home. He is really not big on holidays. He said he went through the motions for his mother's sake, but it doesn't mean much to him otherwise. My other BIL is now living with his woman friend and her family has big holiday events, so I don't invite him anymore either.

Time to go check the dryer.

[Wannabehealthy]

I am holding my breath, wanting to do the happy dance. I'm not sure how insurance works, but I had previously figured out that I was going to go into the Coverage Gap for the new meds for my heart. I just went online and ordered my Dec rx and it went through at $39. I hope that's the final price. I think I have one other rx that will be running out before the end of the year but they are much less expensive meds. If the doc keeps me on this next year I won't be so lucky because I didn't start this until May. Normally you take it for 1 year after a stent, but the doc said he would like me to continue taking it. There is a less expensive med I could take but they say this new one works better. I guess when it's your heart, you want the best! LOL

I had a really good salad for dinner tonight. It had chicken and hard cooked eggs in it. Very satisfying, and shouldn't spike my blood sugar. I did not take Glimiperide, just Metformin. I'm still hungry. I still think that is because of the lack of carbs and in a few days that feeling should subside.

[fatmad]

went to bed with a headache, took a tylenol and was able to sleep, I don't know why that was, but I had to stay fasted. Its back mildly this morning, but I have to wait to drink. I will get a tea afterward, and drink water there as soon as the tech allows. Definitely feeling dry this morning. If its not too much, I will stay fasted into tomorrow, but I will see how it goes. Have a good day, as I go off in the dark. February and the lighter mornings will be welcome soon enough!

[Wannabehealthy]

Good morning. FBG was 147. Did not weigh, and already ate. FBG is due to the fact that I'm guessing at how much Glimiperide I should take. Still getting DP. I'm not concerned, because I know that overall, I'm doing better.

I have decided to get some sausage and make a small casserole of sausage/cornbread dressing. I am going to use a cornbread stuffing mix similar to Stove Top that I bought at Aldi's. I might be the only one who will eat it, but since I am going to go back to Low Carb on Friday, I want to have a lot of different foods I enjoy on Thursday. I hope to only eat one plateful of food without going back for second helpings, but yet tasting everything I like. I don't want to feel stuffed after the meal is over, and I don't want to continue to sit there picking. I want to eat my meal, and then be finished. Best laid plans....... I can follow the rules of CALP, have a balanced meal and not go over the 1 hour time limit.

I didn't sleep well. My nose was stuffed up and I felt like I couldn't breathe, even though the Cpap was blowing air into my nose. I feel very sleepy right now. I have to go to the doc's this afternoon. I really don't want to go because I was going just to get my lab results and they already called with that info. I'm hoping to get a copy of it, though.

I had scrambled eggs this morning already. DH makes it when he's hungry, and sometimes he gets hungry early. I don't know what we're going to have for dinner. I have to go for ground beef as I'm completely out, so maybe we will just make hamburgers.

[pattygirl63]

fatmad Sorry you are having a headache. Is it caused from something you may have had before starting your fast? Sometimes that can happen. I hope it lets up as your day goes by.

Carol Sue I like to do the CAD/CALP RM on holidays too. I used to do that when I was doing strict low carb. I will be doing that TG too.

Pipsicle I hope you are doing okay. Hope you can check in soon just to let us know how you are.

Going by my weight I was last Monday when I went on the 21 day thing, I have lost 1.9 lbs this week. FBS was 139.

I decided to average it out as CAD teaches to do. In fact, I've pretty much decided to follow a modified CAD plan. I say modified because I like the low carb brunch and then having a RM which includes some carbs eaten within 1 hr time period. However, I say also say modified because I saw where someone told another person on the FB CAD group that we CAD doesn't count carbs so it isn't a low carb plan. I absolutely hate when someone does that to another person especially if that person is doing well. Except for the latest book the Hellers' wrote teaching their people to switch and eat a huge breakfast, they haven't really updated their plan to fit any of the new research we have learned about veggies we thought low carbers could not eat because of the carb count that are allowed now that they learned about the GL. Foods that were not allowed on the GI list is allowed now. For example, carrots.

I remember when a lot of CAD/CALPers would purchase the pre-packages of salad and decided not to worry about the carrots grated into it. I buy Green Giants Riced Cauliflower Medley frozen and it has little green peas in it, but I use it in my omelets so if I went 100% according to the outdated books, it is not technically a CM food. So that is why I have decided that I'm going to keep a modified form of a CM meal once a day with some veggies not allowed in the books, but are still low carb and then I will have a 1 hr timed RM. My RM usually only takes about 35 minutes as it doesn't mean you have to eat for an hour. LOL!!! This will work great with me trying to eat within a 4 to 6 hr window which usually is determined by what we are doing that day. But it is a great way to do IF. Also I want to build my bones up so I want to keep the dairy in my diet and a modified CAD will allow me to do that as well.

I am not going to use MFP any more because I can't figure all the calories etc because I will soon be making winter foods that takes too long to estimate. I have the sheet DH made for his 1st wife that I modified for what I want to put on it to keep a daily journal of the foods that I eat. Since I seldom eat even a 1000 calories most days, I won't be feeling like I have to eat something else that I really don't want just to get my calories in. I think I will be freer. I did do 20 minutes on the bike today and will work to do a minimum of 4 days a week on it. My goal is to be able to do more later, but I am going to settle with this for now. This I can do and make into a lifestyle because it is so easy and I don't really have to think about food all the time. My first 7 days were not perfect every day, but I've got 7 behind me and well on my way into my 2nd.

Breakfast was an egg/cheese omelet with bacon and riced cauliflower medley and coffee. Had it a little later this morning because I have to go meet Daddy and DS at CHF appointment. I hope they will switch him to every other month pretty soon. Then I am going to go to HEB and get a few groceries including the items I'm taking to my nieces TG day. I could wait and go Wednesday when we leave Daddy neurology appt. but don't want to fight all the last minute shoppers the day before turkey day.

Have a good day everyone.

[Wannabehealthy]

Trish, I went to get the ground meat today and bought the rest of the things I need for TG. I think I have everything, and anything I don't have, we don't need! There is going to be a lot of food for 4 people but I know Step-daughter will be taking a lot of it home with her.

I think you are doing very well with your eating. I just watched part of the iThrive Series. They are showing it over again. This was my favorite episode. It was a psychologist talking about eating, etc. He said you don't have to be perfect, you just have to be good most of the time. If you try to be perfect you put too much pressure on yourself and that will cause you to fail.

My doctor appointment was not good. My blood pressure was high and he is adding another med. I said I was not going to let him do that but it's a water pill so I will accept that. I still have the Lasix that the cardiologist gave me to take "when needed" but I don't take it because I don't like the way it makes me feel. I think the one the PCP ordered is milder. Also, he didn't mention my triglycerides but I noticed they are even higher than they were last time. I really need to get them down. He wants me to come back for bloodwork again in Feb so I am going to do that instead of going to the cardiologist, and in the meantime work very hard toward lowering triglycerides. I read that low carb and exercise will lower it. I sure hope so!!

I had more carbs today so FBG might be up tomorrow, but in 3 more days I start my plan to go and stay low carb. Wish me luck!!

DH wanted hamburgers for dinner with the new meat I bought. I cooked a piece of liver for me. When I was cleaning out my freezer I found these 2 slices of liver I had from the last time I bought it so that was fine for me. DH will no longer eat it. I had a salad with it.

[pattygirl63]

Doing my version of CAD went very well today privately journaling on my own rather than tracking on MFP. It is nice not having to worry about whether I ate enough calories or not. I did have 2 meals one low carb and one with carbs and it worked out to be about a 6 hr window. So day 1 of 2nd week went well.

DH had soup which he likes when he has to fix his own food. I had some leftover lentil soup I made a while back that I unfroze, with a soup. The place in the little town north of here now puts their link sausage in the grocery stores and now has to put a label on it and it has less than 400 grams of sodium which is much lower than the others so I bought one and cut a serving up in the lentils when I heated them up. Then I made a salad with crackers and had 1 oz nuts and a 85% dark chocolate square for dessert. Tomorrow I will have a more balanced meal.

Daddy's appointment went very well. We don't go back until January 8th. After we have his appointment Wednesday with the neurologist we shouldn't have anything else this year. I have no appointments except beauty shop next month. It should give me a month to really get my eating under better control. I might even try some stricter low carbing for a week or so. We will see.

Carol Sue I'm sorry your appointment wasn't as good as you wanted and bp and triglycerides are up. I am hoping mine will be lower when I go for blood work in January although I don't know if he does a complete blood work this time or not. I think he just does that once a year.

I went to the store and got the stuff I need for Thursday and I felt the same way when I left that if I forgot anything then we don't need it. It was so crowded that I sure wouldn't want to be going there on Wednesday. I hoped I wouldn't have to go to the store on Friday when I go to beauty shop and go see Daddy but I realized when I got home that I may have to go get some milk. However, being black Friday maybe it won't be bad cause everybody will be at the department stores.

I was shocked today that Daddy's bs was only 130 with all the sweets he eats. It has been running in the 140s before now. But then his blood work is never fasting so I really wonder about how accurate some of that is.

Headed to bed.

[fatmad]

HI Friends: A little disappointment: when i got to the hospital for my ultrasound yesterday, turned out we got the date wrong. I am sure when the RN at the docs office called she said the 19th, but it turned out to be the 15th. I have rebooked to the 30th now, so it will still get done before the holiday silly season gets going. I will finish my fast today. I stayed fasted through a long workday. Not sure I was well hydrated, but I felt ok. Weight is about 157, but I will regain a pound or two when I start eating. I am sort of starting now, I put some cream in my tea. AHHH, I like it soooo much better. This will be a treat I won't repeat though. I have a bunch of appointments today, then supper with DD who will be flying out after her quick visit. Even though its an unexpected pleasure, I wish I could keep her longer. But she is going to have a great holiday. Diving in Mozambique and a safari in South Africa. Just love it.
In the gear up to TG, things must be getting hectic for you all. Here, people have already started things for Christmas. I guess we just start a little sooner than you, since you have TG in there beforehand.
Carol, I think the plans to go lower carb will work for you, and if you can put some IF in there a few days a week, so much the better.
Starting today, I think I need before and after pics too, I want to walk daily and do some yoga daily, and see the difference at Christmas. Maybe some hand weights while watching TV. With all the joint and muscle problems I have had, I am much weaker than I like. I need to regain more strength, now that I am lighter that will be easier.
Have a good day friend.s

[Wannabehealthy]

Wt 196.5 FBG 120 Both satisfactory.

I have to tell you about my night. I haven't been getting enough sleep lately. Wake up around 3 and can't fall back to sleep. I'm OK with that occasionally but it has been several nights in a row. So I decided to take a Benadryl. Also, I was really cold and put a long sleeve shirt under my nightgown. I wear summer nightgowns all year round but just put something under it if I'm cold in the winter. So I went to sleep rather quickly. I woke up in the middle of the night with a charley horse. I don't even know what time it was. I felt so groggy I could barely sit up, and the only way to soothe the cramp is to stand up, but I could barely stand up. Then I realized I had to go to the bathroom. I was clinging to the dresser to walk, and the sink to get to the toilet. I kept falling asleep on the toilet. I knew I couldn't do that because if I fell off I could hit my head on the tub. My cramp was still hurting, but I kept rubbing it and pushing my leg down on the floor as well as I could from a sitting position. Finally I got back up and the leg felt better. I managed to get back into the bedroom and I think I fell back into a deep sleep the minute I got into bed, and I woke up in the same positon at 6:40. I am no longer groggy, but I don't think I will do that again. If I need to catch up on sleep, I will take the Benedryl in the afternoon and take a nap when DH is up and about. And at best, I think it will be half a Benedryl. I have never really liked to take anything for sleep because I always think if there is an emergency during the night I won't be able to function. Sometimes Tylenol will help me sleep without grogginess, but I don't want to take Tylenol every night.

I have been getting these Charley Horses nightly for a while now. I used to get them and I can't remember how I got them to stop. Some people say to take Magnesium but I am not one to take supplements if I don't know if I am low on that particular item. It could be that I'm not drinking enough water because I tend to not drink it when I'm so cold in the winter. Maybe I will up my water. I was also eating a small banana each day and that helped, but now that I'm eating low carb I have stopped the banana. Maybe I need to start eating them again.

Trish, I have everything I need for the holiday, but now my new prescription is ready at Walmart so I have to go to pick it up. While I'm there, I might as well get a few other things that are getting low. I hate to completely run out of anything. I finished off the lettuce yesterday and I like to have it on hand because if I get hungry, a salad is a nice light healthy snack. And I am on a kick where I like to put swiss cheese in my salad now, and I am out of that. I want to go to the store early before it gets too crowded. I hope everyone else sleeps in late. LOL

[pattygirl63]

Carol Sue I don't take Benadryl much any more. I do still take Tylenol some nights, but I am sleeping so sound and so well that I really don't need it. I slept late this morning although I hate staying in bed so long because my FBS is always up a little because I am checking later in the morning so I miss my low. However when it gets as cold as it was last night in the low 30s it makes it so easy to stay under the covers. LOL.

I am sorry about the charlie horse, that is the only thing I dread when I think about low carbing. Are you eating enough sodium? It is my understanding from the Atkin's diet that is usually the cause. I also eat 1/2 a banana everyday because I think is important for me to have the potassium. That also makes it difficult for me to do VLC. I want to continue my 21 days on the semi-CAD plan to see how it works for me so I won't change anything much at this time.

In fact, I've got my plan ready for today. I did do 20 minutes on my bike this morning. Since I've changed WI day to Monday, I plan to maybe skip the bike tomorrow and do it again on TG morning before we go to my nieces. Since I the rolls will have to be cooked at her house I will have time and then I'll do the 4th day Saturday. I bought turkey sausage and link sausage which is made a few miles north of us when I went to the store yesterday so change up my omelets each day so I won't be tempted to eat toast. I had a turkey sausage omelet this morning. We will have pork chops I found in the freezer this morning with a salad and veggie. My starch carb is my crackers I like with the salad and I eat 85% dark chocolate (yuck) and 1 oz of nuts for dessert.

Next week I want to go to the store and get some zucchini. I started to get it yesterday but didn't want to take the time to get it and I really don't want to go to the store Friday. I will go by the store when I leave the beauty shop and if they aren't real busy I might change my mind.

I better get busy around here. DH is going to get hungry in a few minutes so I better get busy making our salad.