I did well at the restaurant. Ate half of a grilled chicken sandwich and brought the rest home. If I don't eat it tomorrow Rusty will! I wanted to eat something Mexican for Cinco de Mayo so I got a frozen bean burrito at Walmart. I put half of it in the microwave but cooked it too long and it was pulverized so I will try again with the other half. DH doesn't do Mexican except tacos and I don't like tacos anymore. I used to love them. I don't know what happened to my tastes but I am becoming a picky eater.unfortunately it isn't doing anything for my weight. Lol. If I can continue with eating a small dinner things might improve. Just have to be mindful.

Fatmad Glad to hear from you. I'm sure your OMAD and 2MAD have kept you from any damage. Have a safe trip home.

Carol Sue Good for you doing so well at restaurant. I find I'm getting picky too but mostly because I find cutting out meals and most snacking helps me to be more picky even with healthy eating.

I ended up with just under 5 hr eating window. I like eating just 2MAD even when one is really a snack. I am not following CAD eating plan because some days like today I had nuts for my snack. They help with magnesium and keeping me regular. However, it did help me to have OMAD with small snack. Doing this the way I'm doing keeps me from thinking that I have to eat a lot of any one food. I just like the idea of it.

DH doesn't like Mexican food either. DS SIL graduates from junior college Tuesday. They give tickets out for graduation these days and they didn't get enough for us to go, but they are celebrating afterwards at a Mexican restaurant. I told my niece it will be so late that we probably won't eat but we will go and celebrate. I just might save my carbs for that night have some nachos. I love them but never get to eat them and I won't make them because I don't trust myself to just eat a serving. I'm not much on burritos.

This was a busy weekend. We were out of town to watch my daughter compete at the regional gymnastics competition. She placed for two events and I am so proud of her! Since we didn't get back in town until the afternoon, I'm not sure how the numbers look for this week. I have fallen off plan so things may bounce in the wrong direction.


Patty and Carol it sounds like you are getting into good patterns!

Mad- It is good to hear from you. We are going to BC this summer.

Liz- Welcome! I thought it is interesting that you mentioned "false hunger". I have struggled with that too but rarely hear it discussed.


My plan is IF/IR. The longest fast I tend to do is 16 hours but have done an occasional 24 hour fast. IR is for the insulin resistance diet. In a nutshell, carbs need to be balanced with proteins in a 2:1 ratio. The carbs in dairy, nuts, and (most) vegetables do not have to be balanced. I count fat as a neutral but I think the formal diet has a limit on fat. IR fits well with my personality. If I pick wisely, I can have milk and cookies. If I even think of dramatically cutting my calories, I'll over eat (sad but true). I have four daily mini goals set around basic self care (getting sunshine and exercise, avoiding sugared soda, and getting to bed at a reasonable time). I figure if I can do those consistently my health will improve (the big goal- part of which is weight loss). In addition, I am pre-diabetic and desperately want to back away from the edge of that cliff. I also want to lower my blood pressure. I do have a moderate goal of a calorie limit mixed in there and lower it a little bit about twice a month. It is likely not low enough yet because my weight is not moving down.


Hope everyone has a good week!

Goog to hear from you Mad. Sounds like you are enjoying your visit. Glad to hear your host is considerate of your dietary needs.

Popsicle congratulations to your DD on her gymnastic accomplishments. Just being able to do that impresses me. I was never very physical as a kid. No interest in sports activities. I liked things like reading. Still do.

You are becoming more aware of what you can and can't eat. That's a good place to be. I am working on that too. Eating a very small meal was a great NSV for me and one I want to continue. I used to do that and then eat my leftovers when I got home. Not this time!.

Trish hope you hang onto your weight loss this morning. I need to check mine too.
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Pipsicle Congratulations on your daughters gymnastics accomplishments. That is awesome. DH has a GD who was really good at gymnastics as well. I would have loved that when I was young and if they had offered it back then I would have done it. I was always doing stuff like that on my swing set. LOL Hopefully this will be a better week for you to be OP. We all have things that happen but we just keep at it.

Carol Sue Hope you are feeling well today.

I started out to do 15 minutes on the bike besides my warm ups in the morning while dressing but ended up doing 20 on the bike. Weight is up a bit but I'm sure it is the sodium on the nuts. I really need to figure out a way to stop night eating. Hopefully getting back to regular exercising will help with some of that.

I've decided to continue using the recumbent bike for my major exercise. DS and I were talking about how well I got around back when I did it. I've decided that my SC doctor had told me if I could do 30 minutes most days on the bike that he would be very happy with that. I would do more if I felt like it and it is my hope that the bike exercise will help me to at least get back to where I was. I'm slowly getting back into a routine again. I want to do 30 minutes on the bike 5 days a week. I did 15 Saturday and 20 today. So I have 3 more to go this week.

Daddy called me yesterday and left me a message that he was at "this place where I'm staying" and said his leg was hurting worse than before and he needed to go to the hospital. I called him back and asked if he had told the nurses. He had not because he wanted to call his "family" first. DS and her family had just been out there and did not tell them he was hurting although she asked him several times. DS called the nurse and she said he had not complained about anything to her. In fact he had not said anything to her at all. They gave him medicine and he got better. We have cardio appointment today with the new doctor. I couldn't get Daddy this morning so I guess he went to breakfast, he goes to dining room for meals now.

Not much going on here. Getting chicken on the way home after doctor's appointment so am fasting and would like to fast until then but we will see. I really need to be alert at the drs appt. He wasn't to happy with having to go so late in the day. I think Daddy knows his mind is not what it should be later in the day, but I think the doctor needs to know what is going on. I'm wondering about the blocked arteries. He was so scared yesterday that he was going to have another stroke.

Y'all have a great day.

Trish that reminds me of when DH called me to tell me he was having chest pains but he didn't tell the nurse. I can understand how scared your Dad is. No one really knows what thoughts are running through his mind. I hope he can be reassured.

You are doing well with your exercising. I should probably done some exercise today because my foot doesn't hurt. Most of the time if I walk it starts hurting again. I ate very light yesterday and didn't need G. I can't help believe that's connected. I ate some of DH's lunch today so I don't plan on eating dinner. DH will have to find something.

I just learned something. I lost my post but I tapped restore auto saved content and it all came back!!
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I did well with food again today but I am struggling to not eat this evening. DH brought chicken mcnuggets and I had 5 of them. Now I want to finish them but I am not hungry at all.I just want to eat. This am I had onion red pepper and mushroom in my scrambled eggs. So good but that is all the veggies I have had for 2 days so I will have to have some tomorrow.

I haven't had any foot pain all day and just achiness in my hands. I didn't leave the house so not much walking. It seems that less eating keeps the pain away. I didn't make my Dr appointment. Tomorrow.

Carol Sue I hope you can resist the rest of the nuggets. I know how it is when certain foods are calling our name. It makes it so difficult for us to resist and it is especially difficult for me when they call me in the evening. I am hoping I get keep from eating anything to night myself.

Well, I ate 3 beef sticks before going to Daddy's drs appointment. That held me pretty good. FBG was 145 and I checked bs before I ate and it and it was 123. Then when I got home to eat dinner it was 105. I didn't think yogurt was considered a CM/LC meal on CAD so I ate the beef sticks to be safe. They are processed but sure doesn't hurt my bs at all. A good substitute to hold me over when needed. I really do not want anything else to eat until tomorrow. I really hope I can fast until tomorrow at noon. I want to eat low carb and save my carbs for the celebration with my niece's Hubby tomorrow night. I hope to have some nachos while there.

The new cardiologist was nice enough but didn't do much and didn't have much to say. In fact, he spent so little time with us that DS and I both were disappointed. He checked his heart felt of the place on his leg that I didn't like and DS told him about Daddy's leg hurting him and his swelling. He said Daddy needs to be wearing compression stockings all the time and that he when he isn't eating that he needs to keep his legs elevated all the time. I didn't say anything but he just spent enough time to get paid. I think he figures he is 95 and in a nursing home so what do you expect. We have no future appointment we go back as needed. Of course it doesn't help that he tells us how bad his leg hurt, but when he talked to the doctor, he said that the his arm hurt but never mentioned the leg until we did.

I can't go see Daddy tomorrow because they are supposed to take the patients who want to go to Walmart if it isn't raining. We are supposed to have thunder storms for the next 3 days and I don't go out there when it rains. We are to have light rain Friday so I hope to be able to go see him and take him some ice cream. His mind is really getting bad. He kept asking why they didn't give him ice cream at the nursing home. He seems to have forgotten that they will gladly give it to him if he will ask for it. I have to wonder how much longer we will have him. I have prayed the Good Lord will have mercy and take him home before he completely loses his mind. It is so difficult watching him go through this and seem so confused about what is going on with him and why.

I truly am sorry to hear of your Dad's decline. I hope that he and you can find peace. It is sad. It would probably be to his advantage for him to wear compression stockings. I have some and they feel good but are hard to get on. Probably too small for me. I have a hard time getting them over my feet.

I did not eat the chicken mcnuggets but I did eat a roll up of deli turkey and mozzarella cheese. It bothered me that I did that when not hungry. My pain level is low a gain. I'm hoping it will continue if I keep my eating light. I feel so much better when I eat this way so I don't understand why I sometimes stuff myself. I guess it is just a habit that needs to be broken. I have to be very mindful at all times.

I got up and went to the store to get milk and a few things before my mammogram appointment. I've got that done for another year and then came home. I would have loved to have gone to see Daddy but it wasn't raining so I'm sure they went to Walmart. Tried to call him when I thought he would be back in his room from lunch, but it goes straight to his voicemail. DH and I might go by there this evening to turn on his phone while on the way to go meet Niece and her DH and their parents to celebrate his graduation. Will see. DS said that her DD is buying new phones for all of them so they might go out there themselves. No rain so far although it is supposed to be on the way. I always pray it doesn't rain on Tuesday so Daddy can go to Walmart. I won't go out there if it is raining. I do so hope I can go get him a burger and Wendy's chocolate frosty when I leave the beauty shop Friday.

Not much going on here. My weight was back down this morning so that is good. FBG was 151 which I'm sure is from the fried chicken, but not that high so I'm good. I'm still fasting as long as I can since I want to eat Mexican food tonight. We are meeting around 7:45pm which is late for us so I want to fast as long as I can. It would be nice if I could wait till we go out because that would be about a 26 hr fast because I ate so late yesterday. I will go as long as I can.

Carol Sue I don't buy sandwich meat for roll ups any more because they call me name. My Daddy always loved sandwiches and I do too. I ate a lot of roll ups when on Atkins although I couldn't have the bread, I made it up in roll ups. LOL I'm glad it works for you. It was still probably better than eating the nuggets. I personally didn't like the way I felt after eating the fried chicken yesterday because when I eat breaded fried foods, I become so lethargic and all I want to do is sleep. I've just about decided that it just isn't worth it.

I hope everyone is having a great day.

Trish we buy the deli meat in spurts every once in a while . it calls my name too. I am getting tired of cheese.

Carol Sue It just isn't easy to follow a plan with our DH. DH decided he wanted 1/2 the frozen Lasagna that I had in the freezer. I made us a salad and then decided I didn't want to waste the left over Lasagna so I took out about 1/3 of it which is still less than half, but now I will not be doing CAD today. I will just be doing IE/IF. So I guess I'm not really doing CAD after all. I will be doing a 5 to 6 hr eating window though depending on how quick the service is at the restaurant. I really wanted a plan, but I'm not sure I should worry about a plan... a diet plan isn't exactly IE is it?

I still can't get Daddy on the phone so I will dress in a few minutes and we will leave early enough to go by Nursing Facility and I can turn on Daddy's telephone on the way to the restaurant. It looks like we are going to get a lot of rain the next 3 days and I want to be able to keep in touch with him. DS and BIL are going to help DN and her DH move the furniture into their home this weekend. I don't know if I told you that when they got there 2 weeks ago to move in that they had bed bugs and had to have the house treated to get rid of them. So DS and BIL will leave Friday and be gone until sometime Sunday.

TRISH one day off plan doesn't mean you can't do CAD if you want to. I hope you had a nice evening with your family at the Mexican restaurant. You can be back on CAD todsy.

I finished off the deli turkey and won't be buying more for a while. I need to get back to eating more veggies. I also have to think of what to have for lunch on Sunday. Step children will be stopping over. DH usually wants barbecue sandwiches. That's easy.and fast.

I wonder where Liz is. Hope she is ok.

Good Morning all of you! I'm so sorry to be MIA, but will explain after answering your comments.

Thank you for the welcome, Fatmad. It's good to be here among like-minded individuals!

Carol, Thank you for the fasting tips. I agree and am now simply eating when hungry and not paying a whole lot of attention to the hour. I am trying to hold out as long as I can before eating, but not "fasting" completely within certain hour anymore. But I am waiting as long as I can. Like you, I have mouth hunger and can also "feel" physically hungry in as little as an hour after eating. It feels like real hunger, but must be mouth hunger. It's hard to tell the difference sometimes. So I am waiting a reasonable time between eating and looking for signs of real hunger.

Trish, I'm sorry the slaw recipe didn't work out. We love what we love! But I am glad you tried it. I love trying new recipes.

I also used to visit the IE thread on and off over the years. I have gone back and forth to IE over the years, but would get scared when I notice a little weight gain, then rush back to counting numbers again. No more of that.

One thing about message boards is there is usually someone there to tell you you're doing things the wrong way. Well, one way isn't right for everyone. We have the right to tweak things, if we so choose.

I tend to go MIA when I don't do so well, and with tracking everything I got overwhelmed and was craving carbs so bad that I went on yet another binge the other day. Afterward, I got totally fed up with myself and hid the scale and quit counting calories and carbs. But you know what? Since I put those scales away and quit counting I feel so relaxed about. I think from here on, I'm going to try to eat intuitively, while recognizing false hunger for what it is. In other words, wait for the growl, or other signs of true hunger.

One decision I've made is that if I never lose any weight, it's okay. My main goal from here out is to get my fasting BG numbers in the normal range. I couldn't believe I was at 102 this morning, so I'm getting there. But I don't plan to count macros to get there anymore. Doing so tends to make me want to binge, so I'm going to try my best to eat intuitively, and when it comes to eating bad carbs, do so reasonably.

I may not visit here everyday, but will check in from time to time to see how everyone is doing and update my BG number.

So glad to meet all of you, and thank you for the nice welcome!

Hi friends: home now and got to sleep well last night and work up before 8 am today. I also felt like I didn't really adjust to time changes in the west, so hope I can get back to normal here ok. At our hosts' place, the sun streamed in from these big, uncovered rake windows up at the top of the room, and it was hard to sleep past 7 am, but I didn't sleep great, so was tired a lot. We are spoiled by our big king bed, and both DH and I slept well last night back in our own bed. I always have at least queen beds, a double is too small for two of us, no matter what.

When we got home last night, we drove to Elora for our sing around group instead of coming home. We had a blast, it was very busy and crowded. Its in a creperie, and they make a lovely gluten-free buckwheat crepe, so I had that. Except it was very busy and took ages to come. SO I had a 24+ hr fast, but did eat supper.
When I got home I weighed before bed, it read 149! but this am it was 151. So not sure what was up with that. waist seems about 32.5 inches as before. will see how the week goes.
I am not sure about fasting today. I am going to a violin recital for my little girls, and there is a potluck afterward. It may be hard to resist eating in that setting. But since their grandparents will also be there, to help their mama, Perhaps I won't stay for the supper and stay fasted. Will try to figure out the day as we go.
I will say the IF really worked on my holiday. I did enjoy some desserts, didn't worry too much about carbs, had some alcoholic drinks some days etc. But no significant weight gain. I was not as active as I would have liked to be, (not the walking I did in Europe) but moved around a bit. I will go out for a good walk this afternoon when it warms up a bit. I miss the warm weather we had in BC
Pipsicle, where in BC are you going? what will you be doing and seeing? We are planning our next trip there, likely in the winter, when we will ski, but will also pop over to our friends' places and visit again. It was great to reconnect with those friends.

TMI: I am still having loose BMs. I think I am getting some gluten exposure in deep fryers, and will have to give up deep fried foods. I was careful with eating, and that seems to be the exposure. I should not be having fries anyhow.

Liz: welcome again and it seems like we are all on the same page with IF. I go quite low carb, not quite Keto, but pretty high fat. The fat keeps me satisfied and I can fast better when eating that way. Trish can't do Keto, the high fat doesn't agree with her, and I found I had to increase fat slowly, could not just jump into it. I have adjusted now and do better with the fat. Fat doesn't affect blood sugar so its a "safe" food for me, leaves me satisfied and not hungry.
For my 2MAD, I usually have one meal that is dairy, with more milk ingredients, and the other has meat. I am otherwise not very strict about tracking anything.
Trish: what are you putting in your fat bombs? This is a new thing for you and I am glad its helping you succeed in your IF.

Carol: I think you can manage your meals around your DH needs, but sticking to eating what you want and need will be the important thing. You can likely manage to eat 2MAD most days with him, and do your OMAD a couple of times a week for your 5:2. I agree that will work well for you. DOn't worry too much about calories etc. But work at avoiding snacking later so you don't undo all the good you did for yourself. This is a great way for you to manage, to fit your lifestyle so you can be more successful.

I will check in again tomorrow likely.
Have a great day friends.