Why oh why did I ever say " I don't get constipated?"

Wt 182.5. No BS check yet.

LOL Carol: I am still wrestling with the constipation.
I bought some fibre capsules, and no change. I had a good BM on Tuesday, and a good "clean out" but haven't had a good BM since, and have been eating well.
Tuesday was 2MAD breakfast and lunch, then Wednesday OMAD evening, and 2MAD on Thursday and Friday. Lots of variety, more carbs including rice than I would usually eat. Thought that would help. Have taken senna twice now. A little crampy but thats all so far. Will take more senna today. I don't want to rely on laxatives.
In other news, still weighing in at 156. So no weight gain over that 3 days of meetings and out to supper last night with DD. I am really pleased that this is working so well for maintenance. I wanted 150 before Christmas, and looks like I will not get there, but will still keep aiming for that number for when I can do it. I will do 2MAD today, breakfast and lunch I think, and OMAD tomorrow for supper, so that fits a 24+ hour fast in there again like I did Tuesday to Wednesday. Then will fast on Monday for sure. I am working Monday, and fasting does go easier with all that busy-ness. Once I start back on Monday, I am working full time for a month while one of my partners is on holiday. I have several days off around new Years in there at least.
I some ways that all may be good for me to lose the weight. Like I say, keeping busy is easier for fasting.
Carol: I would not worry about viruses if your scan didn't show it, those messages are scams. There are pop-up blockers you can put on so you don't see those messages, but sometimes there are things you don't want to have blocked, so you have to be comfortable to turn it off and on.
Visit with DD was lovely. Her flight got in just after noon, and she checked into her hotel that I had booked for her. The hotels near the airport have a shuttle service so no problem getting there. She had a shower and unpacked/repacked her things, then we arrived and visited for a while. Had our little "Christmas" exchange of gifts, then went out for supper. She wanted to go Japanese so we found a nice sushi restaurant. Hence more rice for me than usual. By the end of the meal she was really getting sleepy. She had been travelling over 24 hrs at that point and only slept on planes, so we dropped her off at her hotel and said goodbye so she could sleep. She flies out this am. I likely won't see her until the end of March at the earliest. Not sure she will stay in the current job for longer than her 1 year contract. Little things are bothering her, and she may want to take other work for variety, so we will see. She is mostly happy with her travelling life still though. I miss her like crazy, but she is really good about regular calls (Skype and whatsapp are wonderful that way) so thats actually more contact than when she was married and lived just 2 hours away, but we only saw her monthly.
Trish, nothing like a good confab with your sisters to make your day. My mother and her sisters were good friends as adults and I know my remaining auntie really misses Mum and her other sister who have passed. Friends are wonderful, but not quite the same.
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Mad, I have an ad blocker. Not sure if that's the same as a pop-up blocker. I don't know how I got it or how to turn it off/on. But I often get messages saying that to continue on a website I need to turn off my ad blocker and I just leave the site. Not much that I do online is that important.

So far I haven't seen anything last night or this morning. I just want my computer to continue working. It's a source of relaxation and entertainment for me.

DH got a terrible room mate yesterday. 96 years old. Just keeps hollering things. Help me. Call my daughter and tell her to bring my shoes. Where are my clothes? Where am I? Somebody tell me where I am. He keeps opening every dresser and closet looking for his clothes. He keeps getting out of bed and walking out into the hallway. They bring him back and tell him to get back in bed. As soon as they leave, he's back out there again. Gets around well for 96. I doubt if DH got any sleep last night. This situation should not be. Often he can hear yelling coming from other rooms but with it right in his room it's going to be hard to handle. This is all very hard and stressful. DH is not getting any rehab since they don't do it over the weekend and he has to listen to this for how long. And when he does come home, there will still be a long haul to recovery, and other stressors. I'm trying to just take it day by day and praying a lot.

Mad I found some measurements from Mar 2017 and my waist was 46 at around 206 lbs. Remember, my waist is bigger compared to the rest of me due to the abdominal surgery I had in 2011. It measures 42.25 today, so I have lost some inches over the past couple years.

I just got that malicious pop up again, so I guess I do have a problem.

Carol Sue I'm not sure about the pop ups you are getting. I don't accept anything from Microsoft too much unless DH is up to approve of it. There are a lot of thing people do on line that I don't do. DH has some sort of blocker on our pc and when I get a message to take the blocker off, I don't go there either. We have PC Matic and it seems to stop all those things as well as whatever else DH has on ours. I try to run a scan on my pc each week to keep it cleaned out. Hopefully all those precautions keeps us from getting viruses. Haven't had any problems in a long time. We learned the hard way years ago not to accept every warning that comes up on our pc. We only take the updates that we are supposed to get and even then we care careful. Years ago when we had Norton's, DH got a warning from some place claiming to be from Norton and DH got a virus. Never used it again. Finally went to PC Matic and no problems since then.

Congratulations on the new low on the weight and lower waistline. I will check measurements January 1st. Sorry about DH's new roommate. If it gets to be too much you might request a move. Hopefully he will settle down after a day or two. I pray things get better.

fatmad It is really is nice that your DD was able to fly in for a nice visit and present exchange.

I have decided not to average weight. My WI is on Saturday and I want to keep that. My weight this morning was actually 217.8 so I got t keep the low for this past week which gave me a 3.2 weight loss for this past week. That is so encouraging. FBS was 156. It seems to be in the 150s lately which seems to be the norm these days.

We had a lot of fun visiting with my sisters and their hubbies yesterday and had a nice steak dinner to celebrate 2 of the hubbies birthdays. The next birthday celebration is baby sister in May so it was decided that we could get together to go out maybe once a month "just because". I still have the brisket in the freezer that DBIL cooked and brought me so I told them we could get together at our house next time and have that. BS said something about us getting together on the 20th but I don't know what she was talking about but I know she wants us to get together more often. This will give me an excuse to get my house clean and keep it clean; believe me that is exercise in itself for this gal. LOL

I came home and had a snack while watching a movie last night and figured I had probably blown my diet for the week, but as I shared my weight earlier; it turned out fine. I am so grateful. I probably had the snack around 8ish. So I had a very long eating window, but they were spread way far apart. I remember others on one of the FB IF groups that some who have days like that every now and then.

I am fasting this morning until around 3 pm. I am so thankful for the one day I had the OMAD with the 22 to 23 hr fast. I am not doing CAD at all now. I didn't intend to change what I'm doing, but I seem to have just progressed into IF only. I like being able to work in some long fast and some shorter, but always some fasting has caused the automatic change. I am mostly going by the way I feel as to real hunger. I wasn't hungry this morning so waiting for true hunger. I am aiming for a 19 hr fast today. Even if I work in a snack later tonight, I still could work towards a minimum of a 5:19 IF. If I can get used to doing this the way I am doing now, I will be eating the way I did when DH and hopefully it will just automatically become a lifestyle again. Just taking it One Day at a Time.

Y'all all have a great day.

Trish, I feel good that the full scan I did did not come up with anything and if I continue to have problems I will get the computer checked out after the holidays. When I read online about the Microsoft scam, someone had instructions on what to do about it. I'm not good at things like that but I might look at it another time and see if it looks like something I could do.

I paid all the bills I had on hand this morning so if I lose the computer completely at least that's taken care of. I can pay the rest by mail when they come if I have to. That's my main concern, and keeping up with my friends is second. Sorry. LOL

DH had a very good day today. He is able to get out of bed himself and go to the bathroom. I am nearby just in case, but I don't think I could stop him if he started to fall, but he needs to do it by himself eventually, and he did well every day today. I've been taking clean clothes for him each day. Shirt and underwear, and together we've been doing the sponge bath. I can notice how much stronger he is getting...almost back to normal except he gets some pain, and tires easily. Every day it's better.

The daughter of the elderly gentleman came today. He is hard of hearing and that's why he yells so loud, but I did hear him tell his daughter that he didn't want to disturb DH, so that's good that he has good intentions. Apparently he was in the hospital in Pittsburgh for something then transferred here to get him walking better again, so he was NOT supposed to be getting out of bed like he did last night, and DH told his daughter about it. Maybe things will be better tonight. I hope DH is able to sleep. I feel very bad for the elderly man. He kept saying he thinks they put him here to die and he would rather go home to die. Every once in a while he would start crying and say he thinks he's going to die. It seems he has his own place, but maybe has someone who comes in to take care of him. 96 is awfully old to still be living alone. You know that, Trish, with your Dad.

Trish you are doing very well with your eating plan. It's OK if you don't do CAD every day, but there still might be days when your meals tend to follow the CAD plan. I am still having eggs for breakfast but for lunch I take a banana with me, and eat part of DH's lunch. It's pretty good and he only eats about half, so I sneak a few bites and that holds me pretty good. Sometimes I have some veggies at night for dinner.

I found a couple containers in the refrigerator that contained some old leftovers, so I threw those out. I also found some old veggies in the veggie drawer.

I came home and washed a load of clothes and now will dry them and try to lie down for a nap. DH will call me later on.

Carol Sue I am so glad your DH is getting stronger. That is good news. I know when my previous DH was sick, I was younger and cold let him lean on my shoulders to walk to and from bathroom. He was a tall heavier man than DH I have now. I can do that this DH so there is no way I could do it for previous one. I tried getting DH to bed one night when we lived in SC because he had taken a sleeping pill. He never knew it and the next day I told him that I would never try it again and I never have. He is smaller but he is like dead weight when he is asleep from his sleeping pills. I think this doctor put him on something milder, but I still would never try it again.

I am so sorry for the 96 yr old man and his daughter. It is just so hard to go through these things. Daddy says little things even now about the fact that he should not have let the heart doc make him go to the nursing home. He still thinks we just stuck him out there and he could have stayed in his apartment. DS and her Hubby decided today that they are going to tell him about the car he was driving. It needed so much work on it that DS traded it for DBIL to have a pickup. They decided to tell him that if he is ever able to get out and drive again that they will get him another car. I haven't heard from her yet to see how that went. I think they were going out there today. Of course, at this point we know he will never get out of there on his own. So sad. We see him forgetting more and more. He kept telling us something about the man who comes out to see him each week when we were waiting to go into the meeting Thursday. He was talking about a man who has been his friend for over 17 years and he couldn't remember his name.

I hope the scan took care of you pc. And I hope you can get a little nap before your DH calls you later, especially if he calls during the night.

Edited because I forgot to share with y'all that I got a text from DD of DGS that lived with DH and me in SC while going to college in Rock Hill. We were able to watch him walk across the stage to receive his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. It was so neat to see his graduation on YouTube. We are so proud of him. It took him a long time to get through, but he made it.

Trish : that's so great to see the young one's graduate and accomplish their dreams. how lovely. And I'm glad you had a nice family dinner and are making plans for more. This is the good life to look forward to.
Carol: DH is really getting better, hope his roommate will settle in soon and DH can sleep better. He is really coming along. He will make it home soon and all the travel will settle down. I expect the stairs will be lots for him and driving too, so You will still do the errands without him for a while, but I bet that doesn't seem so daunting now.
I fasted until 3 pm, but then binged on sweets, so didn't do so well. I think supper last night was too many carbs and not enough fat, so that the fasting was too hard, and I got carb cravings. SO I had a high fat supper just now, and will OMAD tomorrow. We are eating with friends, she is doing Keto, I am bringing the salad, so that should be fine.
Pretty tired already for some reason. so is DH, so early to bed for us.

Trish, I remember when DGS was living with you going to school. Glad to hear he graduated and can now get on with his life.

DH just called and said the old man got out of bed by himself again and was hanging onto DH's walker asking him where the bathroom is. DH was afraid he was going to pull the walker over so he was holding onto the other side of the walker. I understand that he doesn't want the guy to fall, but I told him he is supposed to be healing and is not responsible for the other patient. After that his chest hurt and that might have been the strain of trying to hold the walker up. I think they should be watching the man closer. They just tell him not to get out of bed by himself and he doesn't listen. I think if he falls and gets hurt the facility will be responsible. It seems that they just put people in any open bed, not taking into consideration what type of care they need. At first they used to tell DH not to get out of bed without help, but when you ring for someone, it takes too long for them to come and he can't wait. He is doing much better doing it on his own now. Seeing how well he is doing today tells me that he is healing very quickly all of a sudden. I think it will be at least a month before he can walk without the walker, and even longer before he can drive. I am just looking forward to our lives getting back the way they were. I do not do well under stress, and this has been a very stressful time for us. I am starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Praise the Lord for prayers answered.

I napped when I came home so I might not sleep well tonight. I will take some Tylenol if I can't sleep. I feel much better after the nap.

I didn't weigh today. I still haven't had another BM. Good clean out last Tuesday and very little since. These fibre capsules are doing nothing, and neither is the senna. Time to get serious. I have a few cramps, not terribly uncomfortable but bad enough. I want to go, but no.
I plan to wait until supper to eat, but did accidentally taste some almond butter. That was when I pulled the spoon out of the jar and licked it clean before putting it in the dishwater. Old habits. Not thinking. Likely not harmful but still, fasting is fasting. At least it was high fat. LOL

Carol: not sure what to say about DH room conditions. Sounds like this nursing home does everything. Its not just for rehab, although they may do rehab for a variety of conditions. For many people, confusion and seeming dementia are a reaction to something. Happens post surgery, or after a stroke etc, and does get better. But the lack of timely response is troubling for DHs room mate. I would suggest he ring every time but its hard not to feel some responsibility for others, that just makes him a good human being, IMHO.

Trish: hope you can find a way to stick to CAD, and your eating plan that works.
Have a good day friends

Weight was down .4 lb this morning to 217.4 and FBS was 149. That is very good. I had breakfast this morning at 10:30ish and will have main meal around 3:30ish and go for a 5 hr eating window today. Reading on one of the FB IF groups someone asked how many carbs people eat and it varies from person to person. One said 50 g and another ate a lot and another one said that they didn't count, but tried to eat whole grains and stay away from sweets as much as possible. I guess that is kind of what I basically try to do. I basically want to do at least the 2MAD right now because I remember Dr. Fung explaining why it is best not to do OMAD because of the body getting used to it and you will stop losing.

I did get hungry last night and was craving the rest of the beef roast I cooked a few weeks ago. Imagine. LOL I took it out of the freezer and heated it up in microwave and ate about half of it since there was too much to eat at one time. I can have the other as a snack if/when I need it. The nice thing is that since I fasted until 3 yesterday and I ate the roast before 8, I still ate it within a 5 hr window. I've been giving in to what I actually crave lately and it seems to be working for me and not against me. I've come to believe that it is best to give in if it is really a strong craving. I had been craving it for about 2 or 3 days. I believe by doing this that it will take away the feeling that I am on a diet which I want to get out of the diet mode of thinking. I want this to become a way of life for me. I really helps to go on FB and read how people use IF to make it fit their lifestyle. DS said to me yesterday that she was shocked at how fast our BS ate her food. She actually devoured it and she and my DH got through before anyone else. I told DS that was because I think BS starves herself all day and eats only that one meal. I said something to BS about this would be it for me for the rest of the night and she said it would be for her too. I also know that she had only had 1 cup of coffee with me at the beauty shop that morning. I do not want to have to do that. I would rather eat 2 or 3 meals or meal/snack/ combo within an IF eating window and be able to slow down and enjoy what I eat. She really shouldn't have to starve on a keto eating plan. DS is on that Victoza and it keeps her feeling full all the time so she doesn't eat much these days either. Strange how our bodies work because she doesn't lose fast either and she is on that shot. According to her doctor's scales at the clinic we go to, she had only lost 2 lbs in 3 months, but her FBS is good.

Carol Sue I have a prescription that is due for me to get, but I really don't want to go to Walmart either until after Christmas but may have too. It is one I can take every other to 3 days, but I'm thinking that I just might have one for DH that can't wait. I will know when I do our meds later today. If I have to order any of his, I will just order them and if I don't then I will wait.

I'm sorry your DH had such a problem with the roommate. I don't think he should have to deal with that and I agree with fatmad that he needs to buzz for a nurse. Of course, I know sometimes especially on weekend it takes a long time to get them to answer. DH can only be responsible for himself right now so calling for the help is the best way to help both of them at this time. I pray things will get better there or that he improves so quickly that he can home by the weekend before Christmas.

fatmad So sorry the fiber supplement isn't working. The doctor had DH take Miralax. He gets the store brand. He always tells me I should take it, but I find that I don't have a problem most of the time although I have days when I go a lot and then I may have a few days when I don't go so much, but it does seem to work out. I've learned not to worry about it. My Mama and Grandma gave me so much stuff from the time I was born to make me go that I don't think my body knew how to go on its own. Then I got into a deal where I used colonic methods at home and I read how that weakens the muscles so I worked to get myself to going naturally with eating a little more fibrous foods. It took a while but it works. I do seem to only be able to handle just so much fiber foods and when I go over is when I usually have problems that feels like I'm going to much. I've learned to count those times a blessing rather than a problem since they usually will only last a day or two at the most. That is one reason I like to keep a little bit of grains and fruit in my diet plan. I hope you can get this resolved soon as I know how it can be uncomfortable.

I couldn't get Daddy today or yesterday. I don't know if DS and DBIL didn't go out yesterday or if he is upset about them trading off his car and doesn't want to talk, but his phone doesn't ring. It goes straight to voicemail. Sometimes we think he may do it on purpose cause it happens so often. He fusses about nobody calling him but I tell him they couldn't get him if they did.

I have a good week of no where I have to go except we will go see Daddy and go by the store. The rest of the month will be that way so I will have be able to spend the next 2 weeks with clean eating by eating at home.

Trish I don't think I could do OMAD continuously but occasionally along with 2MAD. Right now I am doing breakfast and a small lunch then fasting til morning or veggies at dinner. Lost 11 lbs in 3 weeks. I usually get a good drop starting out then it slows. I don't have a specific goal. Just don't want to regain what I lost.

I have not been taking my water pill. I checked BP this morning and the weight loss has helped drop BP. That's what the water pill was supposed to do so I don't think I need it.

I wanted DH to take Miralax when he had problems with the shingles but he refused. So I added it when I made his jello and it helped. I never told him I did that..DIL used to put it in DGS water. He eats balanced meals now so he doesn't need it. His Dad got a deer so he's looking forward to deer steak.

Mad I hope something helps you. Are you exercising? Walking usually brings it on for me.

Thanks all, finally evacuated. Feeling better. Its a relief for sure. I have not found miralax, (or restoralax or clearlax) to be very helpful. they all seem to take bit too long to really work. And I am not sure what is driving this constipation. It wasn't happening until recently, and I have not changed how I am eating.
I will keep taking the fibre supplements for now and see where that gets me.
enjoyed a lovely concert tonight and supper with friends. She is vegetarian unable to eat meat, (gets very sick, maybe had a bite from that tick that causes people to get sick from meat?) but is now doing restricted feeding times, gluten free and lower carb. So we all enjoyed a good supper together. I brought my red cabbage salad with the pecans and blue cheese and we all enjoyed that. SO the timing of my gut reacting was not great. I had two bathroom trips there, and one during the concert intermission. Made sure I had an aisle seat during the concert incase things went off and quick, but it all worked out ok.
Trish: Dr. Fung, and others who are advocates of TRE (time restricted eating) do NOT recommend doing OMAD regularly as this becomes a low calorie diet, which they do not advocate because it reduce basal metabolic rate. They would recommend alternating 2MAD and OMAD or even mixing it up so we do not do anything too regularly, so that we keep the body guessing when it comes to weight loss.
Plan for tomorrow is to fast and see where I get. I have been eating more carbs than usual, kind of got onto the carb cycle at the meetings, and I'm having difficulty getting back to LCHF. I will make a plan for Tuesday perhaps and have a day off from food completely tomorrow. Hope that with the bm today will make me feel normal again.
night night

Wt 182 FGB 151 Higher FBG is probably due to third meal I had yesterday...grilled cheese sandwich. It was made with my 35 cal bread but still more carbs than I've been eating. Also, I haven't been to the restroom yet this morning. Weight is slowing, but I expected that after the initial loss.

The lowest I've been in recent years was 181 in 2011 after my bowel surgery. I gradually gained that back over time. If I get below that I will be at my lowest since 217 in 2008. I am hoping not to regain this time. I know it will be hard, but after the past few weeks I'm finding out just what "hard" is.

Last night I knew DH would watch the Steeler game. That's one good way for him to pass the time. I expected him to call me after it was over but he did not. I thought he might be sleeping. A couple hours passed. I started to panic, thinking something bad happened. I don't usually call him because I don't want to wake him if he's getting some sleep. Finally I was too worried so I called him, and he didn't answer his phone. I was getting ready to call the facility and ask if he was OK when he called back. He had been in the bathroom when I called. I breathed a sign of relief. He didn't really explain why he didn't call but I think he was starting to have some pain and was waiting for it to be time for another pain pill. He gets upset when he has pain and that's when he doesn't feel like talking to anyone.

Not much else to report so far today.