No real news here. FBS 146 and weight 220.2. My stomach was out of whack last night too so I ended trying to eat something to ease, but not much helped. I feel really dull today. Not sure what is going on. DH FBS is worse than ever and he won't believe that some of the things he is eating is causing it. Also he keeps forgetting to take the new GOLO pills. They can't help him if he doesn't take them. That bothers me, but I don't think that what is making me feel like I do. I'm wondering if maybe my low carb cooking didn't help him more than I thought it did. I may have to go back to it for him and just see. I am thinking more in line of CAD again for me as I think the way I ate on it was good for him as well. Still can have some of the healthy grains and have a plan. It also helped me stay with 5:19 IF. I make tomorrow a starting point for it and see how he and I do on it.

I've already had oats for breakfast so can't start CAD today so today I'm fixing leftover chilli for lunch for DH and I'm going to eat some of the lentil soup I made yesterday. I hope I can get over this horrible feeling and stomach issues I've been having.

Y'all have a great day.

We went out for dinner and I ordered a turkey chef salad. That is unusual, but this restaurant has it and it's fresh roasted turkey, shredded, on top of the salad. I got full really fast and had to bring half of it home. I don't know why. I had breakfast of a bacon and egg biscuit from McDonald's, no lunch, but 2 slices of cheese for a little snack around lunch time. I sure hope I get farther away from 200.

Trish, I don't know why your DH's FBG is so high. I get that occasionally, too, and it's usually from something I shouldn't have been eating. I hope he can bring it back down. Maybe he needs you to remind him to take the Golo. I hope your stomach feels better too.

The restaurant we went to is the one where the server passed away. They said she had had pneumonia and had stopped in on Friday to tell them she was coming back to work, but it never happened. She just passed in her sleep, so maybe she wasn't really over the pneumonia. So sad.

My DGS and his parents were here today for a while. He's growing up so fast and is on the honor roll at school. He's a good boy, and I hope he stays that way. You never know what they are going to do when they get out among their friends.

Have a good evening.

Carol Sue The turkey chef salad sounds good. I would enjoy something like that. When I first married DH, I ate a lot of chef salads when we ate out. Maybe that is why it was so easy to lose so much weight so quickly back then. Maybe I should start doing that again.

I am feeling better right now. I haven't had anything to eat since 5:30. I did have a salad and lentil soup for lunch. I wasn't in the mood for a salad, but had to make one for DH and decided that I needed to eat one. I took some of the lentils out of the soup and put them in the salad before heating up the soup.

DH decided to try taking the Victoza again. He is going to stop the farxiga and take the shot since he has it and see if it will bring it down. I told him he probably shouldn't take the GOLO pills with it but he wants to take them any way so I told him to be very careful and watch to be sure his bs doesn't go too low.

Speaking of going too low, it turns out the reason I was feeling so bad earlier when I wrote was that my blood sugar must have gone too low. I set for a while trying to wait out the feeling and when DH asked me what we were going to eat, I realized that I was beginning to feel better. When I checked my bs before lunch, it was 104 which made me realize that it must have gone too low and my liver had dumped some insulin and caused me to start feeling a little better. Funny thing is that it never occurred to me that my bs could have gone too low too fast. It had been 146 this morning and I'm not used to it going down that fast so I will have to watch that more myself.

I think I'm not getting my morning low FBS because if I sleep past 8:30, I miss the low. So I figure with it going so low before lunch then I think I'm actually doing ok.

Ŵt 197 FBG 117 .I think the reason my results are good is because i was so cold last night that I laid down all bundled up around 7 and fell asleep til 11 so no eating or drinking. I just took my meds and went to bed. I thought I would have trouble sleeping but I slept good again and feel so refreshed. I really hope I can stay on plan today.

Trish I think your blood sugar went down fast and that gave you the symptoms not a low. And your liver dumped glucose not insulin. Insulin comes from your pancreas when you eat.I know you know what you meant but I wouldnt want a lurker to misunderstand.

Since I feel so good today I want to get some cleaning done and clothes purged.I hope DH doesn't want me to go anywhere. I'm getting hungry and that's when my trouble starts. I hope the coffee and activity stops the hunger. I would love to continue this good fast a little longer.

I slept well again last night too. I am not weighing in for a few days, doing the maintenance thing to see how I do. I had bought some ice cream a few days ago. I wanted a tiny bit. However, it can't be in the house. I will ask DH to eat it out of my sight. Then maybe put it in the community freezer. He can have alcohol in the house and not drink. I have always told him that if he is struggling I will get rid of it, even pour it down the sink. So I think he will get the ice cream out. I am too addicted to have it around and just have a little now and then. Just not there yet, if ever.
Tonight I have the repeat sleep study. I will take a full benedryl (have just had 1/2 the last two nights. ) and hope to sleep decently. Otherwise things are good. Planning beef short ribs for supper tonight, I will have to look up recipes. Going for a walk soon. Its nice and cold here. But not expecting more snow.

Mad, I have never taken anything to help with sleep when I go for a sleep study. I should probably have asked about it, but I thought it would not give them a true picture. I have had 2 sleep studies and don't feel that I slept for either one.

DH wanted to buy Klondike bars (ice cream covered in chocolate shell) but we passed the store and didn't want to go back. They are my biggest weakness. I can pass up ice cream, but if he buys the Klondike bars I will eat 3 of them as soon as we bring them home. Blood sugar goes sky high.

Trish, I know that your DH is like mine, loving the carbs and I don't think I could get DH to stop or cut back because he does not feel they are bad for him. He gets a little belly but is not really overweight. But I think with your DH's blood sugar issues you should try to gently steer him away from some of the foods. Maybe you could just put more emphasis on the healthier foods and less on the carbs. Did he ever eat pork rinds? I wonder if that would be a snack item that would interest him in place of others. I buy them occasionally to try to get myself to stay away from the potato chips, but DH will dig into them, then keep saying how terrible they are. I tell him not to eat them if he doesn't like them, but he does anyway. He did the same thing when I bought pecans. He said he didn't like them, then started feeding them to the chipmunk out back. I guess if he didn't like them he figured he would get rid of them.

Yesterday, when we went out to eat, DH was ordering an Angus burger. If you don't order fries with it they give you potato chips, but if you order fries, they take away the chips. DH wanted fries but still wanted the chips so I ordered the fries with my salad so he could eat both them AND the chips. Their fries are called "pub fries" and have some type of coating on them. Not seasoning. I don't know what it is, but they are really good.

Fatmad Glad you are getting some good sleep at night. Ice cream isn't a problem for me. Once in a while I want the NSA ice cream bars DH buys but not everyday.

Carol Sue Yes I did mean glucose and thanks for correcting for the lurkers. I really think it came on because I drank a strong cup of oolong tea. I'm not sure what oolong tea does but it has turned so cold here so quickly for us that I needed something to help warm me up. I don't think it was a genuine hypoglycemia attack as much as it was just a quick change. I just set own and relaxed for a few minutes and actually wanted to go to sleep and probably would have if DH hadn't been so hungry.

DH FBs was 165 this morning although he says he isn't going to take the Victoza any more. He was up all night he was so miserable. I don't think he will have too as long as I cook like I was cooking before I decided to add more carbs to our eating plan and remembers to take the GOLO pills. It was working before. I have been trying to work in some of the processed type foods he likes into our woe and I will go back to eating them less often.

I'm back on CAD/IF this morning. He eats his cauliflower before bed and it actually is a low carb meal as long as he doesn't add any sweets to it. I know he is going to eat his snacks, but as long as they are minimal he shouldn't have any problem controlling his bs as long as I cook the healthier foods. I will do this to help him and of course it will help me as well.

FBS was back down to 131 and weight was up one lb to 221.2, but I weighed an hr earlier so no big deal. Since starting back on CAD/IF today I am going to make Monday's my WI day and try to get up at the same time each week. Hopefully this will keep me from going nuts on the weekend. I will get my grains etc at the CAD RM. I will also keep my eating hrs at 5 to 6 hrs giving me an 18 to 19 hr fast. This will also help get me through the holidays. I did CAD one time before during the holidays and actually lost weight so I'll see how things go this time.

Baby sister called me this morning and ready to talk. She and DH are doing very well and hope to be settled in here by the end of the year. We decided for all of us to do our own thing this year for Thanksgiving. Still don't know about getting Daddy to my nieces.

Y'all have a blessed day.

Trish, you should check the NSA ice cream bars. I checked the NSA Klondike bars and they have 7gm of sugar and 21 gm of carb. So much for a low carb treat!!

I used to eat a lot of cauliflower for dinner when I was single and lived alone. That was when it came in the frozen square boxes and I would eat a box a night. I was thin then and didn't have diabetes, but I didn't eat many carbs then either.

Carol Sue When we were living in SC, DH and I were in a Walmart buying what was supposed to be a low calorie ice cream and I decided to check the calories and compare it to a regular ice cream and was shocked to see that the regular was actually less calories and healthier than the diet. I probably should be more alert on these things more and more.

DH and I love Klondike and got on a Klondike ice cream kick at one time and we had to finally make the decision NOT to ever buy them again. We don't even look at them any more. I learned a lot of this when doing WW because they allowed and advertised certain foods that were supposed to be low calorie and healthier, but I found that if I checked the calories content that sometimes they were ridiculously high.

My first day back on CAD/IF has gone very well. I haven't had any problems staying OP. I told DS today that I didn't know why but I just don't want to do anything right now. She was surprised that I'm not exercising any more because she said I had been so faithful to it in the past. But when you don't feel like doing anything it is hard to make yourself do it. It is kind of a Catch 22 thing. So I finally did 20 minutes on the recumbent bike this evening. We had a terrible thunderstorm last night and it knocked out wifi off so I couldn't get on line. I wasn't sure how to reboost this system so I got down on the floor to try to figure it out because it is under a table. I had a very difficult time getting up but I was determined to figure out how to get up. I didn't want to sit on the floor till DH got up. It made me realize that I have got to get back to faithfully exercising.

So Day 1 is behind me. It is terribly cold here right now. We are going to go see Daddy tomorrow afternoon. I never talked to him because his phone must be turned off. We will visit a while tomorrow and then he has the Thanksgiving dinner at the facility tomorrow night with my baby sister and her DH.

Pipsicle I hope you are doing okay. Be patient with yourself as you have a lot on your plate right now which is very stressful. It is so difficult when our children are having problems. I hope you can get help for your DD.
Hope everyone has a nights rest good tonight.

Today I gathered up a lot of stuff for Goodwill. Clothes curtains and a bathroom rug. I can't wait to get rid of that stuff. I have more to go through. I used to switch curtains around to give the house a new look but no more. Its staying the way it is.

I am going to get back to exercising after TG. I have enough to do now.

Sleep study went well. I took a while to fall asleep without the CPAP on. It was a split study, checking both with/without CPAP. I put the CPAP on during the night, and fell asleep easily after that, and slept until 5. They start waking people between 530 and 6, so I stayed up and checked out. I may try for a nap today, still a little groggy. I have a counselling appointment this afternoon. I'd like to be alert for that. But after DH wakes up I will need a shower to get the sticky stuff out of my hair.
Carol: they sometimes recommend taking sleep aids, as its important to actually sleep for the test. If people have a lot of insomnia, the doctors usually prescribe something. The testing is about how your body and brain and breathing behave when you are asleep, so you need to sleep for it to be accurate.
DH and I spent quite a bit of time yesterday working in the basement storage room. We took a load to goodwill and have another ready to go today. Got a couple of other things re-organized, so I can quite understand being happy about getting rid of stuff once you are ready to let it go and you get it packed up. Feels like things are taking shape much better here. We want the younger DD to take away the rest of her things that she left here. One box though will not go to her new place. It seems to be a box of stuff from an old boyfriend. I think she meant to take it back to him, but didn't get the chance. The new fella will definitely not want to see or know about this box LOL. I realize I have very few pics and momentos of former beaux. DH isn't the jealous type, but I wouldn't rub it in his face.
Trish, finding the right balance for you can be very difficult. I hope this goes well for you.
The previous snow mostly melted away, but we got some fresh stuff overnight. Its just hovering around freezing, so I don't expect much accumulation this week, but most nights there will be a bit of snow.
Stay snug everyone.

Mad it wasn't necessarily insomnia that kept me from sleeping. Its being uncomfortable with all the stuff hooked up, being uncomfortable in a strange place and having to stay on my back. The first one was done at a different place and they let me sleep on my side and I did sleep a little there . Also I always go to the bathroom during the night so I had to call the girl in to unhook things so I could get up. Its just something I will never do again. I told them I was not going to sleep but they made me do it anyway. We are told to make our sleeping area comfortable but they expect you to sleep in such uncomfortable situations.

Wt 197 FBG 150. It was 120 at bedtime 112 at 4am. So a drink of water and a cough drop later it was 150. I think I have it figured out. The DP is when your liver dumps glucose to get your body ready to start your day. When you have diabetes, it sometimes dumps glucose when you don't need it, or dumps too much. If you eat in such a way to not have a lot of glucose to store, it won't be there for the liver to dump. The body will store whatever isn't used by the body, burned in the muscles, etc. So I need to eat less, especially less carbs, as my body is not using everything I'm putting in. Metformin is supposed to stop/slow down the release of glucose but I guess it can only be expected to do so much. I am at the max dose of Metformin.

I will try to sort more clothes today. I have a list for the store. I have to make an appt for the dog. DH wants to go for a haircut. Have to figure out what to make for supper. Have to go for bloodwork tomorrow for the doc on Monday. DH will complain asking why I keep going for bloodwork so much. Well I don't want to but I have to play the game so the doc will write new scripts. DH wants me to refuse like he does. Also PCP insists on checking lipids but I won't accept scripts from him for that because Cardiologist takes care of that It seems like a wasted test, but I refer to it when the Cardiologist suggests that I have it done. I like the cardiologist better than him but I need the PCP for diabetes meds.

I'm in a crappy mood today. I feel like I have to invite inlaws for TG and I want to stop doing that. I feel really rude not inviting them, but why do I have to do something year after year that I don't want to do? I realize I'm putting her in a position of not knowing if I'm going to invite them or not. I have reasons for this. I never know how I'm going to feel from one day to the next. What if I wake up Thanksgiving morning with a lot of pain and feeling terrible? Also, I never hear from them from one year to the next. They see my step-daughter once in a while, but otherwise, we never have any contact. And one year she sat on the couch after dinner and texted with her daugher all evening, ignoring me. She would gladly do it at her house but DH wouldn't go there.

The year that I had shingles, it developed on Tuesday and Thursday was Thanksgiving. It was too late to cancel, so I had to cook, serve and host for all the family in lots of pain and miserable. I'm just really mentally done with this, but on the other hand, I think to myself, "It's only one day." So I still don't know what I'm going to do. I have to decide soon. Maybe I'll ask DH what he thinks, and I'm pretty sure he's going to say Don't invite them. He got mad one year when she was really sick but came and coughed and sneezed all over everyone and everything. He thought she should have stayed home.

Is it January yet?

A quick check in. I don't know what was going on when DH FBS went so high. Maybe it was a fluke. It was 160 today. Maybe back to our old way of eating healthy is working. Or maybe it was just what he needed to think more about what he puts in his mouth. We all have to come to that realization. My FBS was 146, but no surprise since my weight was back down to 218.6 this morning. Quite a nice drop from the 221.2 yesterday.

A lot of walking today as we are going to see Daddy and then have to go to Sam's for tomatoes. I had planned to go to Walmart too because I need some shoes other than sandals and sneakers because I want to go visit a church Sunday. Actually my parents built the original church there, but it fell apart and changed it's name and the elder who still went there gave the church building and property to the preacher that is there now. I've been watching him on tv for about a year and decided that I want to go visit and see if he is as good in person as he appears on tv. He is a very humble man who leads his people instead of talking down to them. Any way, last spring DS gave me a bag of shoes and purses which some she had never worn. I decided this morning to check and see what is in there. I found 2 pair of shoes just like what I was wanting that can be worn to church. So I only had to go online and order some diabetic socks that look dress up to wear with them.

Back on CAD/IF is going good. I watched a girl on tv today talking about how to change things. She mentioned 21 days and DS had mentioned that the other day. So I've decided to stay OP for 21 days. Then I will set up another 21 days to change my habits into a lifestyle. Not sure what RM will be today since we will probably bring something home. I think a cheeseburger would probably be just as healthy as anything and I am getting so tired of chicken.

Carol Sue I understand where you are coming from about doing the TG dinner and having some people over. I used to go to DH#2 family for the holidays and wonder why I was even there especially when then DH didn't even really want to be there. I would look for him and find him asleep on his Grandmother's bad. Used to really upset me. However, we loved being with his Mother when she was there.

I actually am thinking about doing a Christmas party, but haven't talked to DH yet. Everyone could come and bring goodies to eat and visit and then everyone do their own thing on Christmas Day with their family. Haven't really decided that yet because I will have to get this house ready for that.

Trish, for anyone to be consistent for 21 days is a great accomplishment, here's to you!
Carol, funny that they made you sleep on your back, that isn't the point at anytime I have been there. No wonder. Yes, the wires and all do keep one awake for a while, I am sure that's why it took a while to fall to sleep. I started repeating my meditation in my head and that's what helped. I am not going to take any meds for sleep except the 2.5 mg of melatonin for then next weeks. Now the sleep study is done, so am I. I will go back to the CBT and meditation techniques. I actually had a brief nap this afternoon, as I was sleepy after the short night. I want to go out tonight for a while. Even if I don't go out, it will be nice to not feel so tired. I feel asleep during the yoga nidra meditation that I was listening to. Probably only 10 minutes or so, but that was refreshing, and maybe over time will help get me out of the thought that I can't nap or sleep during the day.
You also got it right on the DP, you phrased it beautifully. My only addition will be that storage of glucose in the liver is a long term thing, not short term. This is why Dr. Fung teaches that a higher overnight fasting BG that is high is a sign you are getting rid of stored glucose, and we need to do this to help get rid of it once and for all.
Some of the fasters on the FB page test BG several times during a longer fast, and will have normal BG which is fasting, all the time, except in the morning, when DP has kicked in. After a while, when the insulin resistance is resolving, it stops and comes down to normal, a sign they are losing the stored glucose at last.
I have been going over my WOE, and I think to go down the next level of weight, I will have to go to plain water fasts. I will have to give up the cream in my tea. The fat has helped me last through, but may be holding me back from getting the benefits of my fasts. SO I will cut back on caffeine in general for a day or two or will have one cup of plain tea in the morning, and fast after that. I may do that tomorrow, even if I don't fast the rest of the day, just to cut down and get used to the plain tea. I don't really like it that way, but I think it would be too hard to give up the caffeine completely, and that's the easiest for me, since I don't do coffee and diet cola or other sources of caffeine would not be ok either. I think I am ready for this step, at least mentally. I had to come to this myself, and I'm ready for it.
Have a good evening.

Mad, I'm glad to hear you say that you didn't think it was right that I HAD to sleep on my back. I feel that for the best results, I should sleep the way I sleep at home. This sleep study was done to see if my pressure needed to be adjusted, and I think they did raise it a tad. At home I am used to sleeping on the right side of the bed and DH on the left. One time on vacation we got into bed reversed, and it was uncomfortable for both of us and we had to switch. LOL The way both of the sleep studies were set up, the machine was on the left, so I had to sleep on the left. The room was very small and claustrophobic to me. Just not conducive to good sleep.

Trish, congratulations on the nice drop! I think there could be any number of things that made your DH's FBG spike. Probably nothing to worry about since it's back down again.

I know I mentioned to DH that I had to go for blood work tomorrow morning and that we could go to the Sr Breakfast Buffet afterwards if he wanted to. Now this evening he told me that his brother wants to come over in the morning to work on his truck in our garage since he doesn't have one. He said his brother will just have to wait until we get home. DH also wants to go to Goodwill and they don't open until 9. I want to go to the lab first thing when they open at 7 because I can't have any food or coffee before the bloodwork. I guess we will work it out somehow. Maybe by the time we eat it will be 9.

I wanted to buy some more frozen cauliflower today and everyone was out of it. Maybe there is another shortage. I have 1 bag downstairs and I don't know if I have any upstairs at all. DH told me to buy fresh, but I prefer the frozen. I can eat as much or little as I want. With fresh, I have to eat it all before it spoils. I got some frozen kale, too. I want to go back to eating it again. I read online that only 1/2 C is needed for the health benefits. Walmart doesn't seem to carry it anymore or maybe they were just out of it. I got it at the neighborhood grocery store. They are more expensive than Walmart so I only go there to get things I can't find at Walmart, or if I need one or two things in a hurry.

Trish, have you been able to use MFP lately? I went in this morning and entered my food from yesterday with no problems. The only response I got from MFP was an email apologizing for not getting back to me and asking if I was still having a problem or if it had been resolved. I replied that it is resolved, as it is for me.

Wt 196.5 FBG 160. I have NO CLUE how my weight went down. I had over 2100 calories yesterday!! Of course, that's using the numbers provided by MFP and I don't know if the calories in my home made food are the same as what they list.

I will be leaving soon for my blood work. I looked online and saw that Quest makes appointments, and if you walk in, you go behind all the appointments, so if I have to wait long I will probably leave and go to Excela. My insurance covers Quest 100% but I have a $25 copay at Excela. I never have to wait at Excela. I am used to fasting for a while in the morning, but I am dying for a cup of coffee!!

Slept fine last night. weight still under 160, so this is a 2MAD 4 days in a row without weight gain. I did see that I did ok while away that I didn't gain much, in spite of eating some desserts and having some drinks. This is more real everyday world life, and I am not gaining, so its nice to see maintenance work this way. I know 4 days isn't everything, but very different that how I have been eating the last 2 weeks, so its nice to see.
Today is my first day with nothing in my tea. I do not enjoy it like normal, so that will likely reduce my caffeine intake.
Having the cream or milk in it is likely enough to stimulate a little insulin release and I want to stop that. I really want to shed more fat and weight, and while I won't love it, I can do it. I can still have decaf tea with cream later in the day on days I am eating, so I am not giving it up altogether. I am planning OMAD today, just to mix it up a little.
I have also been doing better at not overeating when I do eat. Not so bloated and stuffed afterward.
More snow today, will go out to the trail and have a nice walk in a bit.
Hope everyone has a good day.

There was no wait at Quest. It was fast and the people were nice. They said they usually have a line of people waiting for them to open at 7AM and that is probably people who get their bloodwork done and then go to work. I went around 8. We went for breakfast then to Walmart, then Goodwill.

Glad to hear you are sleeping well, Mad, and doing well with your eating.

Weight 220.2 and FBS 145. I was up and slept very well and straight through, but only slept 6 hrs. So that may have something to do with the results. I woke up and ready to get up so I did the core exercises that I used to do before getting up and then got up.

We went to the new chicken place (for us) and DH must have really been hungry. They had a special on chicken tenders and he got that and coleslaw and gravy. The make the best yeast rolls that comes with it. As usual I was tired so I didn't add enough veggies. However, according to MFP my calories for yesterday was a little over 1400 calories and sodium was under 2000. So no swelling and didn't over eat. DH got way too much tenders and I may put some of them in the freezer for next week that he can have when I go for Daddy's 2 doctor's appointments. We will have some of it today, but I will eat a few of them and have a lot of veggies. My calories today will be 1287 and my carbs are under 100 and sodium is around 1300. Plus I did 32 minutes/3 miles on the recumbent bike. It will be a good day today.

I have a new Joyce Meyer's book that I got free for a gift I sent to TBN and I decided to get myself used to riding the bike again by reading a chapter a day. I was doing it to do 20 minutes. When the first chapter ended, I had done 24 minutes and was feeling pretty good so just went on to 30 minutes. I was so close to doing 3 miles that I just went on and did the 3 miles which came to 32 minutes. I will be doing great if I can get back to doing this at least 3 or 4 days a week. This is day 3 of my CAD/IF 2MAD. Today will be a 5 hr eating window.

When I listened to that young girl talking about how to succeed, I realized that I don't really set goals. I also have stopped doing some of the things I used to do that always helped me. I have let a lot of negative thinking creep into my life. DH Mother told us not to ever think of ourselves as being old. I am older, but I can choose to either be an old 75 yr old or an old 75 yr old. DS is bad about saying we are not young any more so we can't do what we used to. That may be right in some areas, but that doesn't mean I have to "act" or even "think" that way. She will call me and tell me how bad Daddy is sometimes and while isn't able to do as much as he used to, but when I see him or talk to him I usually find that he is not as bad as she tells me. I think I have allowed her attitude to become my attitude. I think the more I do what is right for me with my eating and exercise, the better I will feel and the healthier I will be. I think that our attitude is way more important than we realize.

Carol Sue Yes MFP seems to have resolved whatever their problem was and I'm having no problem tracking.

Fatmad You are doing great. It is nice when you can maintain in between your fasts. You have truly found your way.

Y'all have a good day.

I am doing my best to drink water today which isn't easy because it is cold outside and we keep the house around 69 to 70 degrees and when I drink the water, it makes me feel even colder. LOL
I have learned that water is also a key to staying satiated.

Trish, I don't drink enough water either. A few months ago I had a coupon for a free 6 pk of flavored sparkling water. When I first drank it I didn't like it. I thought it was like drinking Alka Seltzer, but I didn't want to waste it, and by the time I finished the last one I liked it. At that time, I was out of diet coke, so it was something to drink. The main thing I like about the diet coke is the fizz and this sparkling water has that. Now I got some diet coke on sale and am drinking it again, but I don't like it as much as I used to. So I might switch to this flavored sparkling water. I feel it's better for me, too.

I also found a box of tea bags I bought. It's salted caramel black tea. I just bought it and put it away without trying it, so that's something I can try in the evening. It will be nice on a cold night if I like it. If not, I'll give it away.

My foot has been hurting a little bit today. Not a severe pain, but noticeable. DH thinks it's from the diet coke since I haven't had any for about a month or so. I guess it's possible, but I had also backed off on taking my supplements because I didn't have any pain. I started back on them yesterday.

I can't wait to go to the doc's on Monday to find out the results of my blood work. I can't even remember what all he checked, but I'm mostly interested in my A1c. It was 7.4 last time and he said that was "acceptable." not good, but not bad. I was hoping it would go down below 7, and I hope it didn't go up because he will want to increase/add meds and I will refuse. I know I can lower it with stricter dietary changes, and I refuse to be adding more and more meds when there are natural ways to correct the problem. I know I sound like a broken record, but I don't want to give up. I want to get down to business from now until spring and be able to show a difference by then in my health. It is within my power to do it, it just means I have to be dedicated and do what needs to be done. I want to emerge like a healthy butterfly in the spring!!!

I do feel that I'm old. I can notice the changes in the past 2 years. I really wish I lived in a house without stairs. I'm already having problems with them, but DH tells me to keep doing them so I don't lose the ability. But I need to hold the handrails when I come up the stairs, and I can no longer come up the stairs carrying a laundry basket, because I am holding onto the hand rails. I don't feel that that is going to get better as time goes on, but get worse. I have to wash my clothes, and I have to bring them upstairs afterwards. Carrying groceries is a problem too, but I can put the bag over my arm as long as there's not a lot in the bag. If I have 6 bags, I will have to make 6 trips. I can change my attitude and say I am not old, but I still can't carry my laundry or groceries up the stairs.

Most of the time if we go out somewhere it's in a store and I use a cart, which acts like a walker. When we walk from the car to the store I either get a cart from the cart corral or I hold DH's arm. Recently he has been walking off way in front of me and I think he does that to make me walk alone. I do it, but feel unsteady. I have trouble getting out of a booth when we eat out. I notice so many things and it wasn't like this 2 years ago. I don't know if this would change if I start exercising regularly. I should have been doing it all along, but I used the pain as an excuse. Now I don't have that excuse anymore, it's just laziness. It's so much easier to just sit in a chair, but it's not good for me.

Wt 197 FBG 154 .DH always eats something at bedtime. Recently he's been making egg salad with freshly boiled eggs and I can't resist it...eating it with bread. Only way I can have good FBG is to not eat at night. I should save it for the next day but then it would not be warm. We love it warm.

DH being a carb lover scoffs at the idea of low carb. He says carbs will never make you fat because he has never been fat . I wish I could stick to it more firmly and show him. I could but I am so weak.

Carol: I will never shame you for caving to eating when your spouse is eating. I find it similarly difficult. I asked DH to stop and he agreed. If he goes out in the evening, he can do what he likes. For a year while he was struggling with not drinking, I had no alcohol in the house, and only drank if I was out without him. I still rarely drink at home. (although I could also say I rarely drink, it doesn't interest me much, my drug of choice is food). If I had a drink every evening in front of him, I think that would be difficult for him. So he accepts my request. I think maybe your DH could eat his snack in the kitchen. My DH is also not overweight, but has a small pot now that indicates visceral fat. (this can also be seen on ultrasound, if you think your DH has this, and needs to see it himself, mine just accepted my opinion.)
I need to do my bloodwork tomorrow morning too, as I have my doctor's appointment on Tuesday, and ultrasound on Monday. I look forward to my results.
I have been a bit erratic with my metformin, it makes me nauseous if I take it without food so I haven't taken it on fasting days. I figure that should not affect my results much though.
I hope to go the office for a bit today, depends on the weather.
Trish, hope things go ok with the CAD/IF (I think thats what you have gone back to?) and you get back to normal.
I am planning to fast today. I did the plain tea again. I do feel hungrier than usual today, (not yesterday though) without the creamier tea. But no caffeine withdrawal headaches this way at least. Bring on the water and some salt.

Weight is barely back under 220 at 219.6 but I will take it. FBS 141 so that is better. I am having terrible nausea in the evening. Having just water is not working. I ended up having some crackers to ease my stomach but it didn't help a lot, probably because I decided to have string cheese with it so the carby cracker wouldn't raise blood sugar. I ended up having to take Zantac before it went away. I'm not sure what is causing this.

I was reading on an IF for beginners group on FB who is for 16:8 IF people. They were complaining that the plan wasn't working for them because the either lost some weight but stopped losing or some were not losing at all. Then I read some of what people were doing on CAD group. People shared that all they did was change what/how they were eating to just shake things up a bit. Someone told how Dr. Fung says to fast longer for a day or 2 to shake things up a bit. One person said she didn't eat at the same time everyday because your body adjusts. I someone else said they counted their calories and someone mentioned not to eat the same amount everyday. I know I am bad about that. It seems if you do the same thing every day that your body gets used to it and adjusts. Made me think of you fatmad when you would throw in a meal of steel oats in the mix of your low carbing. Those one meal breaks you take are probably just enough to keep things shook up.

This morning I was hungry for oatmeal because I thought it might be easier on my tummy. At first, I reprimanded myself because that isn't CAD, but then I remembered what I had read. I even saw on CAD where someone said that she had switched her RM to a different meal and got things going again. Also CAD gives you permission to have your RM any time during the day as long as your other meals are low carb CM meals or snacks. Not healthy but I remember seeing Rachel Heller on tv tell a woman who had binged one night on cooking that it would have been okay for her to have that binge if everything else she had that day had been CM meals. She could have made that binge of cookies a RM. She didn't recommend doing it all the time, but I guess it would be a way to keep down the guilt and the bs spike to a minimal.

I had steel cut oats breakfast for a RM breakfast and I will have a lower carb lunch today as we are having fish. I'm not sure I am doing CAD/Calp at all. I think I mostly want to do 2MAD of fairly low carb for both those meals. I was reading some info on nutrition yesterday and how you know what you are deficient in by how you feel and I can see what few grains I do eat. Besides CAD rule is do not eat nuts and since I can't take magniseum supplements, I need to eat nuts. So I probably shouldn't say I am doing CAD. I'm actually doing more of a IF style of Mediterranean Diet 2MAD. Because I don't want to mislead any lurkers, I will no longer call it CAD.

Carol Sue I thought of you the other day. I saw an add some where about compression socks called DocSocs. I found them on Amazon, but haven't read the reviews on them yet. You might look at them. They seem to help people with foot pain and also people with tingling in the feet etc with circulation problems. I'm thinking about getting some and trying them because I have complained for years with doctors about how my feet feel sometimes. It isn't pain, but I knew my Mama had circulation problems and just recently learned from my Daddy that he does too. I take very good care of my feet like they tell us to do and I think having these would be very good as well. They seem to be good for plantars too from what the add said. Any way, I figure being compression socks and not coming all the way up my legs which is hard for me to wear high socks they might be worth trying. Plus I don't like socks that bind my toes and this leaves the toes free.

I got to get busy. I need to do my bike before I talk me out of it. LOL Y'all have a good day.

Mad, he does nothing to tempt me with the egg salad or anything else he's eating, except sometimes ask me if I want some. It's my job to say No. And eating in the kitchen would not help. I go into the kitchen and get it!! LOL I just need to make up my mind that I'm not going to eat after dinner and that's it. We have had the discussion before. He feels he should not have to do without something just because I can't have it, or stop eating at night because I don't want to. I agree that I need to be the one to not eat it, whatever it is.

DH also has belly fat. He knows it's there, but considers himself to be a healthy weight over all, comparing himself to other big fat guys he sees. The guys he goes to the car show with are all younger than he is, but much bigger, as in 300 lb range. They go to the eateries in the area and come back with big sandwiches, sodas, etc. DH eats nothing. Drinks water. They asked him how he stays so slim, but it's really obvious. He is not a big eater, but could live on doughnuts, cakes etc. If it was his option, he would never eat a vegetable again. He eats them because I prepare them. Sometimes he does not eat them. Depends on what they are.

Neither of us is much interested in alcohol. He buys a case of beer for Christmas, and it usually lasts until the next Christmas. LOL I have a glass of wine or beer a few times a year. His son and SIL don't like Coors Light so when they come to our house they usually bring their own beer.

Trish, I'm not sure I understand about socks that leave your toes free. I will look at DocSocs. I rarely wear socks. The ones I have bind my leg and leave indentations, but I won't buy the diabetic socks because I don't wear socks often enough. I wear some dress socks if I wear dressier shoes, or if I'm wearing regular sneakers, but I usually wear slip on sneakers with no socks. DH wears only diabetic socks even though he is not diabetic because socks leave an indentation on his leg, also. I have a couple pairs of compression knee highs, black and tan. I haven't worn them in years.

We have had the discussion before that your plan doesn't have to have a name. You can call it "CAD-like" or "South Beach-like" to mean that you are eating similar to those plans. I call my WOE low carb but I fall off plan almost every day, but it is my intention to eat low carb and IF. I am not a good example of how to diet. LOL

I don't know what to think of your nightly nausea. Maybe your body is just used to having food. Maybe a couple saltine crackers? I agree that our bodies become accustomed to receiving food at certain times and we should mix things up.

I looked at the DocSocs so I understand the toes being free. While looking I saw some that were called Plantar Fasciatis compression sleeves and had an arch support in them. I could use them when I wear my dressier shoes that don't have an arch support. I wear my slip on sneakers with a heel cushion containing an arch support, but my dressier casual shoes do not have an arch support and the heel cushion makes them too tight. I have come to the conclusion that my arches are what's causing my problem, and wearing shoes without an arch support aggravates it.

I found some kielbassa in the freezer so I am making pork and sauerkraut for dinner. I have 3 pork loin chops, 2 pieces of kielbassa and 2 hot dogs, with a qt jar of my step-son's home made sauerkrautm mixed with sliced onions. That will not all be eaten at dinner but I will eat some leftover tomorrow.

I am also going back to eating kale. I bought some frozen and have been reading about the difference between fresh and frozen. Not a lot of benefits are lost from freezing, but I will probably buy a bag of baby kale once in a while so I can add it to salads. Not only do I notice the difference in my nails, but I read that the vit K is helpful with calcium deposits in the arteries and heart valves, which is the problem with my bad valve. It is known to prevent the deposits, and might help clear them, too. So I feel it can't hurt me and might help. I also want to eat some sauerkraut more often, but it loses a lot of it's value when cooked. So I will buy some smaller cans of sauerkraut and keep it in a contain in the refrigerator.

My pain level is low today. I am back to taking my supplements. I took Tylenol at bedtime last night but don't do that every night. I don't want to start depending on it.

I looked up kale online and found that eating it raw can cause digestive problems for some people. It suggested eating it steamed. However, it also talked about some of the benefits and suggested eating it about 2x a week so I will do that. I've been eating it in my salad but still would love the benefits. She even said not to boil it unless you are going to drink the broth because it seems to be such a great cancer prevention food.

Carol Sue I know I don't have to name my plan. Eating healthy along with IF is really my main goal.


DS and I talked this morning and it looks like it will only be her, BIL, DH and me at her daughter's for Thanksgiving along with her DH. We can't take Daddy with us because none of us can get him in and out of the car. I text baby sister today to tell her that since he has 3 big boys there and they can probably get him that we would not be upset if they took him to their house. He would enjoy that better with all his little great grandchildren there. I imagine my nephew that I asked to get him will want to go to his Mama's if he isn't working and he will feel free to take him there.

This means there will just be 6 of us at my nieces so I'm not going to cook a ham. She is cooking a turkey and veggies and my BIL and DS are making stuffing and potatoes. So I will take the rolls and make the homemade cranberry sauce and will think about one other dish I can take, but not sure what. This will work out better for me since we have 2 doctor's appt. for Daddy this week and one is the afternoon before Thanksgiving.

I haven't ordered the compression sock because I only wear socks when the weather gets really cold and not sure if I would wear them otherwise. That is something I would have really think about.
I had already ordered the diabetic sock that I can wear with my dressier shoes when I go to church and I already have some regular diabetic socks to wear around the house during those extremely cold days. Otherwise I don't like to wear sock and wear nice flip flops that are comfortable to my feet that I alternate wearing around the house. So I won't be getting the compression ones for now.
I have a pair of socks I bought one time that fits really tight and I just don't like anything like that tight feeling around my feet. Strange person I am. LOL

Trish the baby kale is much like baby spinach. I like it in my salad but DH does not. When I cook ita med. I guess it's steamed. I saute onion in butter then add the kale with a couple tbs of water put a lid on until it wilts.I also like to crumble stone Feta cheese. It offsets the bitterness of the kale. If I have mushrooms I will slice them and saute with the onion.

My pork and sauerkraut was great!

I need to find a time to go to Target and see what they have in veggies and fruit. I usually go to HEB (local store), but they don't carry frozen kale and I'm surprised they don't carry baby kale. So I might need to make it a point to go to Target. Target is across the street from the local store, but I'm usually coming from seeing Daddy and rushing to get back home. It is just so easy to go where we get used to shopping because we learn the store. Thanks for the suggestion on the kale. I can also get the benefit of it by just adding it to an omelet on days I eat eggs.

I ate earlier so that I could go longer between my 2 meals and started feeling really rough by the time I got ready to cook so I checked it while feeling that way and bs was 103. I felt good about that and didn't do anything to stop it. I remember you mentioning on here Carol Sue that it is good if we don't do anything when it goes down. Since I new it wasn't a super low event, I decided to just go ahead and make our lunch. I changed the menu some because I think I've been making too much food. DH had his fish with salad and Great Northern beans and I had mine with salad and green beans. I did have a dark chocolate square and pecans. I went on MFP to make the changes from what I had planned on having and I had brought my calories down to below 1200. I hope by not eating any kale and being very careful that I won't have to have a snack. But at least I do have room for something if I have to eat. If I do, I'll just have string cheese again with a couple of saltine crackers.

Edited: Just wanted to share that I decided to have a snack around 6 to hopefully keep from having stomach problems. I have very tiny yellow potatos and cheese stick which brought my calories to 1287 calories. This way I could also take the 3rd GOLO pill as well as the 3rd berberine. Hopefully this will keep me from having the nausea.

Wt 197 FBG 104 It was in the 90s overnight. I'm pleased with that number. I ate some potato chips around 6:30 because DH was eating them, but I had nothing after that, not even to drink.

It sound like you had a very good food day, Trish. I think eventually you will not get that feeling with your lower blood sugar once your body adjusts. It is not really dangerously low unless it goes below 70 I believe. I don't think I would let mine get below 80 because of the Glimiperide, which could easily drive it lower, but without those type of meds, you should get a liver dump before it reaches that point.

The bad thing about not eating at night is I feel pretty hungry when I get up. I don't really want to get into the habit of eating this early. I want to extend my fast a little longer. Once I have a cup of coffee the hunger subsides for a while.

We have 2 Target stores within 20 miles, one within 5 miles, but neither of them have produce or meat, just regular grocery, frozen and dairy. They have frozen veggies, but just the basics. I have a hard time finding frozen kale. Walmart used to have it but this time they didn't. Either they stopped carrying it or were just out of it. The regular grocery 1 mile from our home has it but it doesn't seem that they have much of a turnover and the bags are sometimes frozen solid, like they're old. Better than nothing. Not all stores have the bags of baby kale either. I guess people around here don't like it much.

This morning we have to take the dog for his haircut. I really hate this. He fights it all the way. We stay there while they groom him because DH has to hold onto his head sometimes because he snaps at the groomer. I don't want him to bite her, although I think they do get bit from time to time. I just don't want it to be my dog doing the biting. I should have gotten a dog that sheds, instead of one that needs to be groomed, but all 6 of the dogs we've had had to be groomed. No shedders. I guess that's the type of dog we're attracted to. When we first got him we took him to the groomer we went to for years and she called us 5 minutes later to come get him because he was flipping out on her, barking and growling, snapping. When we got there to pick him up he was fine, but she refused to do him. She recommended the shop we go to now as they seem to be able to deal with problem dogs. The woman who does our dog seems like a very tough woman. Hard. I would hate to have her on my bad side. She and her husband are involved in the local shelter and also with animal rescue. They have gone to disaster areas and rescued dogs that have been separated from their owners. So I guess they really love animals, but people, not so much. LOL I can't wait until this is over and my dog will look so nice.....for a few months. Then we do it all over again in the spring.

Pat: Ginger tea might help with the nausea, instead of crackers. Peppermint tea is helpful as well.

Went for my blood work this morning, but it took about 15 minutes to clear off the car. When i got home did quite a bit of shovelling. Its still snowing a bit. Its not supposed to last too long, but I hope for a little ski this afternoon. we got about 4 inches total to judge by the snow on top of the hot tub.
I am excited about the a1c and I can check my results this afternoon, on line. Monday is the liver ultrasound and see the doctor on Tuesday. Really hoping for good results all around.
I don't know if we can load photos on here. I did a before and after for "facelift Friday" on the IDM facebook page, first time. Until I did the two photos, I really didn't realize that I had lost weight in the face too. I don't think I look younger, but I do look thinner.
If only I can break this plateau. I wound up doing OMAD yesterday, had supper with DH, so did a 23 hr fast. I plan 2MAD today, and maybe a fast or OMAD again tomorrow.
Carol; that fasting BG is terrific, you can be pleased with that. It makes a big difference for you not eating at night.
Trish, sounds like your plans for TG are coming together, and I hope your father can get out and see the grandkids that day. (or is that great-grandkids? must be)
Have a happy Friday friends.

Quick flyby. TG plans changed again. Baby sister text last night that her boys want to go to our nieces for TG so I am back to cooking a ham. Anyone have an idea of how to cook a ham. I forgot that DN hubby is allergic to pineapple. I've always used pineapple and cherries. I think there is an orange glaze that will do the same but have check out. Since we all eat in a way that fits Mediterranean diet, I will check o see what they recommend.

IdealProteinNewbie Thanks for the reminder of the ginger tea. The peppermint actually makes things worse for me.

FBS this morning is 135 and weight down to 217.8.

Headed out for busy Friday morning.

BBL

Trish, I buy a fully cooked whole ham and have the butcher cut it in half. I buy semi-boneless but you can get boneless or spiral sliced. If you google "how to bake a fully cooked ham" you will get a lot of instructions and/or videos on Youtube. I put a meat thermometer in it or you can use an instant read thermometer. I usually buy a jar of glaze from the store. They have them displayed around the hams.

I got a call from the doctor's office that my blood work was "acceptable." Last time, my A1c was 7.4 but that was after being in the hospital and having those horrible blood sugar spikes. This time it is down to 6.7. Yay. I wanted it below 7. I hope for it to go even lower next time. Last time my cholesterol was 124. I cut my dose of meds in half and now it is 159, which is still good. So I will continue the lower dose. She didn't mention other results so I will see them on Monday.

We got the dog groomed, and he was better than usual. I think he's getting used to her.

Now we're getting ready to go to the casino.

Mad, you can load a photo here if you click on the little envelope , but I don't know how to do it. I only know how to load pics if there is an option to browse on your computer, but this requires a URL, which I don't know how to do.

I had another really nice visit with my Daddy. Somehow he turns his phone off and we can't get him but I don't worry about him much any more when it happens because I know if anything was wrong they would call one of us girls. I couldn't call to ask him what he would want me to take him to eat, so I stopped by Long John Silvers and got him 2 pieces of fish and 3 shrimp with tartar sauce. It is amazing how his eating has changed now that he lives there and gets 3 meals a day. He doesn't et as much. He ate both fish and only 1 of the shrimp. I noticed he likes the crumbs and put them in the tartar sauce and at that. I stopped at a convenient store on the way and got him a Big Red drink which is his favorite. So he was happy.

I think I've mentioned before that Daddy was a minister. I've been reading and studying from the Jewish Torah I bought before we moved back to TX. It has a commentary type explanations at the bottom of the page to explain the scriptures like my new Amplified Bible does. As I read the Torah, I have a better understanding of what I know and learn from the Amplified Bible in the New Testament that I have learned throughout my life and why we believe some of the things we believe as Christians. As I learn some of these things, I discuss it with Daddy and I love how he loves discussing it with me. It has given us a new and closer relationship/connection than we haven't had in the past. He used to seem to resent anything I learned from someone other than him, but that has all changed. It is really nice.

I have decided that that I'm not going to make cranberry sauce to take to my nieces. I just don't have time to do all that right now. If TG was at the end of the month like it usually is, I could do more and might even have it here, but there is no time for that with having to make appointments with Daddy. So I'm just going to buy the canned Jellied type which I think that is what they all like. I'll make the homemade sauce for myself later. I did decide to make a German Chocolate cake and take it and I might pick up a few pies since baby sisters boys are going to be there. As much as I hate going to the store 2 or 3 days before TG, I am going to go by Walmart when I leave Daddy's CHF appointment Monday after noon and buy the ham, cranberry sauce and rolls. I will make the cake Tuesday and cook the ham TG morning.

fatmad I believe you are going to get great results from all your tests too. You have done so well.

Carol Sue Congratulations on the 6.7 A1c. I knew it was going to be good. My FBS is getting better but I read another article about the statins. I told my doctor last time I saw him that I would take it as long as it didn't affect my FBS. I am very much considering stopping the statin. I am still convinced that DH statin meds are the reason he is diabetic. In fact, the article I read said if your not diabetic and you take statins, you will become diabetic. So I do not plan to refill my statin again. I know the risks, but you know SC doc had me on fenofibrate and one day he said he didn't want me taking it any more. He said that he had me on it to prevent heart attacks and strokes, but they now think it causes them instead. I figure that if I can get my cholesterol down with the foods I eat and lower the A1c and lose the weight, my risks of heart attacks and stroke will be less. I am willing to take the chance rather than allow the diabetes to become worse. It is my choice and I don't think having a worse diabetes isn't worth the risk of taking the statin.

You have obviously found what works for you and I'm sure things will continue to improve.

Calories today were 1541 and high fat and carbs. I made homemade pizza. I didn't have the turkey sausage I usually have. I didn't know I was out of it. So I made it with 3 cheeses and loaded it with veggies besides the salad I had. Of course everything is estimated since I can't do it exact on MFP. I did get 20 minutes on the recumbent bike today. I've done 4 days exercise and I think I will take a break for the weekend as my leg gave way once before I left the house this morning. I didn't fall but it could have been a warning not to do too much to fast. I will probably cook fish again so we can have 2 servings of fish this week and that will offset the pizza meal. I am staying with the 6 to 8 hr eating window and the exercise so hopefully that will help.

Enjoyed my "night off" last evening with cheese and crackers, hard cider and some home made, relatively low sugar apple crisp. But that was the treat, and now I will be fasting today. DD is coming this afternoon and we have a concert tonight, nothing that needs to change me fasting.
Carol I am so glad you have got that a1c down to a reasonable level. Much better. Keep it up!
Trish, glad you enjoyed your visit with your father, and hope the TG plans work out well. These busy family gatherings can be fun, not just stressful, so I hope you all have a good week.

Step daughter texted me all excited about the clothes I gave her. Many of the tops still had tags on them, as I buy things without trying them on, and if they are tight, I keep them thinking I will lose weight instead of returning them. The jeans were too big for her, which I suspected they might, and too small for her friend, so she might find someone they fit or donate them. They were also brand new. I wish there was a place around here where you could donate clothes and they GIVE them to people who need them, instead of selling them. There are places like that in Pittsburgh but that's too far from us.

I am very happy that my A1c is below 7, and so is the doctor, but I still want it to go lower. I don't feel I have to have a 5, but a low 6 would be good. I had a 5 one time. I know I am still eating foods that spike my blood sugar, just not as much and not as often. There were a few years when I only allowed myself a DQ Cone once a year. This year I have done it about 10 times. Also, I'm eating the pancakes etc that DH makes, when I previously refused them. It's little things like that that are making the difference. To me, a treat means a couple times a year, not a couple times a month.

Trish, I can't remember when I started the statin, but I don't think it caused my diabetes, but it might have contributed. My diabetes was diagnosed at the same time as my heart surgery, but I already had heart disease before that and might have been taking the statin already. I read that it can raise blood sugar, but I think the rise is slight and the benefits of the statins are more important that a slight rise in blood sugar. I also take a BP med that raises blood sugar, but I think that is also a slight rise. I know I cannot blame my diabetes on either of these meds. I gained 80 lbs, eating way too much of whatever I wanted over a few years and not exercising. I saw it happening but didn't do anything to stop it. This is what caused my insulin resistance, which eventually led to full blown diabetes. The only think that's going to change this is for me to stop putting unneeded food in my mouth.

I'm not saying that everyone's situation is the same as mine. Your DH is not overweight, and your Diabetes is not as severe as mine, so statins could have contributed for both of you.

I used to make home made pizza when the kids were still here, often, on Saturdays. We never got take out pizza. I still have my big pizza pans I used. I sometimes used pizza crust mix or even frozen bread dough, and bought jarred sauce and shredded cheese. The only toppings I used were pepperoni and mushrooms. I stopped doing that after the kids moved out and DH started liking pizza shop pizza. I can't really eat the crust anymore as it's one of the worst things that spikes blood sugar for me. Into the high 200s!!! I eat it occasionally when DH gets it, but try to get something for myself that will satisfy me. I have to be really strong to resist things like pizza and ice cream.

Mad, I love cheese and crackers. I had to stop buying crackers because I was starting to eat them every night. I buy a box of Ritz around the holidays for cheese balls and spreads and when the box is gone I don't buy more until the next holiday. I do eat them at my DIL's. She is also big on cheese and crackers and always serves them as a snack when we are there. I do have a box of crackers she introduced me to but they are not open yet. They are very thin so not many carbs, but just something to put the cheese on.I know the minute I open them I will eat the whole box. LOL I have changed my eating a lot but still have far to go.

I also like hummus with celery sticks and pepper strips, but I never think to eat that. It's much healthier.