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This morning I woke up with some pain, leg pain and some others, that I haven't had for the past week or so. My first thought was "Hmmm, what's this from?" Thinking about it I realized I had tomatoes in the sauce for the chicken cacciatore yesterday. The sauce was really good and I ate a lot of it. For the past 6 weeks I have been eating a lot of tomatoes from our garden, daily. During that time my leg pain was really bad. I was even eating an occasional tomato by itself, like you would eat an apple. Home grown are really tasty! Tomatoes are nighshades and can cause this in some people who are sensitive. Our garden is finished so we aren't getting any more. Before this, I had been buying 2 tomatoes each time I went to Walmart and we were eating them on sandwiches, and if you remember, I was having a slice or two with my eggs in the morning. I knew about this sensitivity, but didn't connect it to me. So I am going to be paying more attention.
Also, I have been overeating for the past 3-4 days, which has caused me to need more G, which is known to increase insulin and cause weight gain. This is probably being factored in with my weight gain the past few days. When I'm watching really well I need very little G, and some days none at all. So it seems I have more to be concerned about than weight gain from the dietary changes.
Well I am right with you two Carol Sue and Fatmad. I don't have any idea what my problem has been this week. I am used to eating a little off when going out to shop with DH but it has been worse the past few days with wanting to eat more this past week. If I wasn't counting pts, I would really be in trouble. Thank God for my Daily pts. I actually used all my roll over pts + 3 of my daily. Those extra pts allowed saved my tail.
Weight stayed pretty much the same as yesterday. Remember I only remembered 191.? so today was 191.8. So I am figuring they stayed the same. That in itself is a miracle to me because normally my weight would have gone up at least 1 or 2 lbs. So I think my body is really adjusting well to what I eat. So I choose to look at this as good things happening to my system.
Today I've decided not to worry too much about the IF part of my eating although I don't want to abandon it completely. Since I am not going any where much for 3 weeks, I decided to go back to my 10 hr eating window and eat breakfast around 10, lunch at 3ish and then have a small snack just prior to 8ish. My bs likes that routine and I do too. I got up and had scrambled 2 eggs scrambled with Mozz shredded cheese, pre-chopped Brussel sprouts and 2 sl Canadian bacon. That came to 2 pts. We will have pork chops, salad and I am having Normandy blend vegetables today and an ice cream for dessert and I'm using almond milk these days because it is 1 pt. I will have 12 pts left after lunch So not sure what I will have later. I need to work some walnuts into my eating plan so may have yogurt with nuts. May end up with some left over pts. I'm hoping I can get back down to at least 190 for my WI Thursday so that I don't have a gain.
Here's hopping we all have a successful and nice day. Praying for safety of all in the way of the storms.
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Yes, Trish I think these points are working well for you.
I put a roast in the pressure cooker. Half way through I will add potatoes and carrots. I didn't start it soon enough to do it in the slow cooker. DH is being patient with me cooking what I want. He won't tell me what he wants. As long as he gets potatoes he's usually happy.
My step daughter who lost her job because of covid 19 got called back. Same job, same pay and I think she keeps her years of service for vacations. It is a GM car dealership. Another dealership bought it. I don't know how this came about because they had told her the position was eliminated. But we are all glad.
Trish I love putting vegetables in my scrambled eggs.
Hi friends: glad to hear about your SD job Carol, that's happy news. Have been busy since getting home. Had a lovely visit with both DD, which is good because then the SHTF. A dear friend's husband drown while out picnicking, and one of younger DD friends died of an overdose. He was a troubled young man, we had him with us for Christmas a couple of years ago, because he was estranged from his family. He had substance abuse problems generally, so it is not surprising, but addiction is such a difficult disease, nothing you can do to help people, its all up to them, who are already struggling.
At least with diabetes and obesity, we can help people by serving healthy food when they visit etc.
Busy work day today.
I am at 158 today I plan to eat supper tonight and see where we go from there. Doesn't look like a busy weekend ahead, I have no one due to take care of at this point, so will just be helping out for everyone else.
Have a good day friends
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I am starting something new. It is still Intuitive Eating or Mindful Eating, eating when you are hungry, but you check blood sugar before you eat and it should be at or below your predetermined target. So both factors have to be there, hunger and blood sugar. This is called Data Driven Fasting. It is from Marty Kendall of Optimizing Nutrition. DR Fung made the comment that the idea is good but other things raise blood sugar besides what and when you ate, like hormones and stress. I'm thinking this might help me with the "stop when satisfied" part of IE. It is aimed at making you eat nutritious food and only as much as your body needs.
I want it to work so I will be hungry for dinner when DH is ready to eat, and to eat a,small enough dinner that I'm not overeating and hungry to eat the next day. I won't stop trying to find the answer to my eating issues.
Fatmad I am so sorry about the 2 deaths. So tragic and very hard on family and friends. Prayers going out for all involved.
Carol Sue Yes I forgot to say anything about your SD. What a nice surprise for her to get her job back. I love hearing of such good things like that happening.
We are the same weight right now. I was hoping for a few tenths down but it was a firm 191.8. I know that maintaining isn't a bad thing but I was hoping for it to at least be 190 when I weigh in tomorrow. Last week my weight was 190.2. So I don't know if it will get back to 190 or not.
I got the results of my lab work and he redid the whole thing. I was thrilled to see that my glucose was 93. It is amazing that my bs is actually normal now. My sodium was 135 and 136 is normal so it was close enough he isn't worrying about it. In fact, I figure that since all my numbers are normal now that maybe my weight is now adjusting to all the healthy readings and giving time the weight will come off. I see no reason to worry about it.
I read something the other day about Alkaline diet. I looked it up. I remember reading about that and asking SC doc about it and he wasn't impressed too much in the alkaline/acidic theories. Any way, from what I remember from years ago of reading and researching it, the theory is eating more fruit, veggies etc to balance out the ph in our bodies to balance it out so that we don't become so acidic since acidic body has more inflammation. I am hoping to get the inflammation in my body straightened out.
I like doing WW but now I am beginning to find myself eating to use up my pts so I'm not sure how that is working for me. I still have a little over 2 months to decide if I will stay with WW paying the money on for it and tracking. Might have to find all my materials or get the material I can get from Amazon to track it at home so I can just go back to eating only when hungry. I could switch back to the purple plan which I think the pts are only 19 and see how that works especially since I've learned that the way you do 0 pts is eat just the serving allowed and don't double them etc. 0 doesn't mean now pts. It means 0 pts for 1 serving. This way I wouldn't feel like I have to eat all the pts. I think on purple plan that I could do more of IE so that when I'm not hungry that I wouldn't feel like I have to eat to get rid of those pts. I think eating when to use pts is causing me to maintain rather than lose. Tomorrow starts a new week so I may switch to purple tomorrow and try it for a week or two and see how it affects things for me.
Y'all have a great day. Praying for the safety of all those who are facing Hurricane Laura. I've got kids hunkering down as it is aiming right at them.
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I think I understand Trish, just like people who make sure to eat a certain number of calories. Or they log their food before they eat and then eat everything. They don't know if they will be hungry enough to eat it all until they start eating. It works for some but not for me. When I did WW they told us to eat all the points but the ladies said they didn't always do that.
We might weigh the same but you started out higher than me, and you're losing so well!! We are different and will lose differently.
I have to get dinner ready and edit isn't working so I will post again. They are looking into the posting problems.
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I had a 6 hour eating window today with 2 meals. This works well for me. Breakfast was scrambled eggs at 10 am and dinner was spaghetti and meatballs at 4 pm. The spaghetti is not a great choice but it is quick and inexpensive so I make it about once a month.
I think back to my first diet when I was 21. My mother would not cook special food so I ate whatever she made one serving never any seconds. Nothing else the rest of the night. I didn't count calories or anything. I don't remember what I ate for breakfast or lunch. Second helping are hard for me to give up but I did it before and I know I can do it again. I'm going to lose weight if it kills me! It sure isn't easy!
Edit edit is working!! Maybe everything else is fixed, too!
Carol Sue We didn't usually have seconds at our evening meal when Mama cooked either. I think she just didn't think that way. So we didn't go back for them either. I still cook pretty much that way mainly because neither DH nor I care about going back for more. Now DH#2 was different and I tried to have seconds of veggies but meat was too expensive so I usually planned a serving for each one of us. However, no one went hungry.
I found a woman on youtube telling how to eat using WW purple plan and she eats pretty healthy. I will get 16 pts on the purple plan and realized that I could probably go back just 2 meals a day within 5 or 6 hrs. I am looking forward to eat. She was showing how to get your plant protein along with using eggs or other meat that are lower pts. Wish I could have found her when I was tried it before.
We both can do this Carol Sue and we will.
Edited: I went on YouTube to look at some other people and what they eat and noticed one lady ate only 7 pts in a day and another 13 pts in a day. So I like the fact that no one seems to worry about eating all the 16 pts on purple. I also found a lot of good ideas on how to eat using the 0 pts to bulk up etc.
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Down .6 today to 191.2. I am surprised after spaghetti for dinner. Blood sugar is high though. I slept poorly too. I blame that on the blood sugar.
BIL bought us some coffee because he had $$$ left over from his food stamps. It is not what we usually drink and not as good. I may put some of my SF creamer in it to disguise the taste.
I'm going to stop the MCT oil. I don't feel that it's doing anything. I had tomatoes in the chicken cacciatore and the spaghetti sauce and got leg pain both times so I think it goes away when I don't eat the tomatoes. The MCT oil didn't make it to away. I will keep what I have left in case I change my mind. I might notice a difference without it.
Trish, I think you could probably continue on with WW on your own and if you start to gain you could join again. It seems once you know what to eat and how much, what else can they do for you unless it's the accountability. You can decide.
We never received our income tax refund. Another thing I have to look into.
Carol Sue Great that you went down .2 this morning. I might have been able to do that if I had gone to the bathroom but of all the days not to, it had to be this morning on WI day. In fact, I saw my 191.8 and then got back on and the scale started going all over the place. But I counted the 191.8 since it has been that all week. I still haven't gotten that stimulus check they said I should have by the end of this month. Will see.
Well, I am switched to Purple. I do like this much better. One of the questions on Purple that people asked was can I eat too much on this plan. They said of course you might could since bananas are 0 pt you could eat 9 of them but why would you. LOL I find that it makes it easier for me to eat the healthy grains etc that gets lost in the other plans to keep the pts down. So this one not only makes it easier to do but I definitely get my fiber too. I really think it is just healthier all the way around for me. And as you said Carol Sue, I don't think I will have to stay on WW when my contract is up either.
In fact, I plan to do this plan in a way that maybe I can trick my body so it doesn't know we are dieting. I plan to change up my meals so that I have such a variety that it will think we are just eating normal. I've been getting a lot of good ideas on the Purple Youtube people sharing what they eat and I joined a 2 new groups on FB on WW Purple plan.
Weight this morning was 191.8 which was up 1.6 lbs from last week. FBG back down to 103. So that is good. I've got my food plan tracked for today and I had 1 pt for breakfast which was 9 pt steel cut oats, 0 pt Greek yogurt 0 pt banana and 1 pt chia seeds with cinnamon sprinkled on it. That will hold me good until lunch which will be steak, sweet potato nuked, salad and broccoli with a 1 pt dessert made with yogurt and instant Jello sugar free pudding mix. The whole meal will be 7 pts and I will have a small 0 pt snack of air-popped popcorn with butter flavored spray and a little salt on it for flavor. I will use only 8 pts for meals today and I will stay within my 8 hr eating window. I love using the buttered flavor spray because I use it on my nuked potatoes, corn and other veggies. This is a win win all the way around. I am also starting to drink green tea more lately.
Talked to my kids that were in the way of the hurricane but it missed them and they didn't even get rain. They all went to work this morning. I think the rain is even missing my daughter in Arkansas. Sure hope the people that are affected don't have a lot of damage. I hate those storms.
My first day back on Purple Plan has gone very well. I have used only 9 pts today which will leave me 8 pts. I will lose 4 and they will roll over 4. I have a 0 pt snack of air-popped popcorn planned if I needed it. I did a eat a 0 pt dinner of small baked red potato, FF sour cream and broccoli/cauliflower. It was just enough to satisfy me so that I am completely satisfied and I had my 9 pts meals within 10 hr window. So not really planning to eat a snack. I just plan it in case so if I do need it I won't be cheating because it is planned.
I made the best 1 pt dessert for lunch with about 1/2 c FF Greek yogurt, 2 T pistachio SF instant Jello pudding and spray whipped cream. The whipped cream was the 1 pt. It was a nice change from the diet ice cream.
Till tomorrow. Good night.
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DH had a good day at the casino again. No way I'll get him to quit the way this is going. As it ended up, I ate very little. I had eggs and zero carb toast at a late breakfast, then I didn't eat again until 8 pm when I had a hot dog at the casino. We were both very hungry but he was doing good and didn't want to stop. As it turned out, weight is down .8 to 190.6.
Trish, I love using that spray butter on some things, like on vegetables. I do like butter but try not to use a lot of it. I also like the spray whipped cream. I like to put it on SF jello. I buy the store brand but not the fat free or sugar free. It sounds like any of the WW plans would work well but it depends on the person's eating style. What I'm doing works for me IF I STICK TO IT. that's how it is with anything. That's why they say it has to become a lifestyle.
DH got up before me. He made pancakes because he wanted to eat before the workers came at 8 to work on our sewer vent. I want eggs and I would rather wait til they leave around noon. I don't know what they will do it if rains.
