Trish, I tried to get on Dr Berry's website instead of watching videos but my tablet is warning that his site is not protected. I prefer to read rather than watching videos.

Stayed up playing a stupid game on pc. I had another 8 hr eating window successfully. Got hungry once but didn't want to mess things up. Shooting for a FBG reading under 100.

Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms out there.

Happy Mother's Day!

I had another sleepless night. Up at 4:30 again. I'm going to forgo the magnesium tonight and try taking it in the morning. I read an article about other people having insomnia from magnesium even though its supposed to help sleep. And I might cut back to 1 capsule too. I hate to lose the energy I get from it. I keep forgetting my camomile tea.

Trish, good for you for working through your hunger. I used to stay up late playing casino games that DH bought on CD. I eventually got over that. Today is going to be a candy day. I'm making brownies and pizza for steps assuming they are coming. I havent heard from them yet but they always stop over. Its Mother's day, I shouldn't have to cook. They are lucky I cleaned for them. :lol: Last night I hollared at DH for putting something on my dining room table! ;) I want to keep it cleaned off now so some habits will need to be broken.

I haven't weighed yet. Its too early. I will post it later. My scale records my weight on an app and saves it. I don't know what would happen if I weighed more than once a day. Probably the second weight would replace the first. I don't think it would save both.

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186.4. So down .6
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Happy Mother's Day Everybody!!

I've heard from the 2 kids and DH DIL this morning. Didn't get to talk to DS because I was talking his sister when he called. I'm sure he will call again later if hee can. I tried to call him back as he asked, but didn't get him. His DMIL is having health problems and having surgery next Thursday so he I understand if he can't call back.

I slept late so my weight probably isn't correct and I missed my lower FBG. Weight was up .4 lb so not really a gain anyway.

I cut my carbs back down today to under 50 grams total. Today calories will be 1070 and total carb 41 with fiber 8 so net carbs is 33 grams. I think I can do this and still have a few things I like. I hated doing it but I ditched the few bananas I had. I will switch to a form of low carb, but not keto. I had a jar of Extra Virgin organic coconut oil so even enjoyed a cup of bullet coffee this morning. It was really good. I had eggs scrambled in coconut oil and Canadian bacon with mozz cheese. Actually satisfied.

My food plan is going to become my own version similar to CAD because I will have carbs at main meal but lower carbs at brunch and supper in order to keep total carbs at or below 50 grams. I want to do this the rest of this month.

Carol Sue, sorry the magnesium is keeping you awake. I wish it would give me energy. I would take it in the mornings if I thought it would.

We aren't doing anything special today. It will be a day like all the others. We will have eggs for dinner. DH has told me the foods he doesn't like and I told him that I have no idea what to cook anymore. I am about to come to the place of telling to eat whatever he wants and I will do the same. He is like your DH. He would be happy with nothing but CB and fries. His other go to meal would be KFC. I'm sure it is a phase for us as we both get tired of certain foods. I could live on eggs and bacon (Canadian or regular) for breakfast and beef steaks or pork chops etc with a good salad for dinner choices and nothing else right now. I'm tired of fish and chicken and need a break from them. I'm sure this will pass in time.

Both my step children stopped over at lunchtime. I cooked the pizza and sent all the brownies home with them. I ate a half of a brownie because it was the first one taken out of the pan and it broke apart. Their spouses and dgs didn't come and that's ok. DIL spent the day with dgs and her mother, as her parent were flying out tonight to see a daughter out of state. Step daughters DH stayed home to get started on his garden since it was such a nice day.

ITrish, I'm glad you have your food plan worked out. I try to work around what DH likes. We do well with that. Many times I cook potatoes for whim and just eat extra vegetables

Some people online were talking about meat loaf and that's something I haven't made for a while. I want to do it before the weather gets too hot.

I have noticed another improvement from taking magnesium so I definitely want to continue it but NOT tonight. I'm hoping to sleep. I had energy today
even though I didn't sleep again. DH even commented on how much I was doing and he told me the house looks nice.

Tomorrow is our 41st wedding anniversary. We have nothing special planned.





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I finally got a message from DH DD. She is so sweet and I truly miss her. Would love to live close to her bu not in So. FL.

Happy 41st Anniversary Carol Sue.

My eating was fine. I didn't have the shake but still low carbish day within 8 hr eating window.

I'm not going to drink my tea or taking anything because I don't want to sleep late tomorrow. Hope you and I both can sleep.

After 2 nights of less than 4 hours sleep, I slept last night! The way Fitbit does it, it tells you the time you went to sleep then when you woke up, then the time you were actually asleep and time awake. I fell asleep at 11:30 and got up at 8:30 which is 9 hours but they said I was awake for 1.5 hours. I only remember getting up twice for the bathroom but they add in times you might be awake rolling over. Actual sleep time was 7.5 hours. I took tart berry and benedryl. No magnesium. I did have some foot/leg cramps. I don't know why but I think magnesium is supposed to take care of that. So I'm not sure it was the magnesium keeping me up. I will take 1 when I take my meds.

I ate a lot of carbs yesterday with the pizza so I'm not looking forward to the scale. I want to do very low carb today to catch up then get back on plan of less than 50 grams.

May 1. 186.6
May 2. 186.2
May 3. 185.2
May 4 184.0
May 5 185.2
May 6. 187.0
May 7. 187.0
May 8 186.4
May 9 185.6.

How did I get a drop with eating pizza!! I hope it doesn't show up tomorrowl

Carol Sue, Glad you got a good nights sleep. I slept very well without anything but my 2 Tylenols I take at night. I woke up at 6:30 and went to potty and came back rested a bit while praying and meditating. Did my core exercises before getting up around 7:30 so I could do my other exercises. I plan to do my exercises MWF and I want to add the recumbent to my routine today. Was going to do it last sweek but didn't.

I laid in bed and thought about what Dr. Berry said about inflammation and cutting out grains and sugar. That sugar means I have to give up some of the fruit I like. So I will have to stick to low carb friendly berries. I don't know if I will give up the grains completely because I eat pizza on a whole grain pizza dough. But that is only once a week so maybe I can get by with it then. I will work to keep carbs around 50 most days but there will be those days when I can only try to keep them low under 75 g would be good on those days.

Weight was 184 today so I guess it was right yesterday. FBG was 103 the same as yesterday which isn't bad but I want it to be under 100. I thought it interesting that the weight and FBG was the same 2 days in a row. I hope that is a good sign that something good is going on.

Have a great day everybody.

Trish, did you ever try Fathead Pizza dough? DH wouldn't eat it or I would try it. Lots of people make it and like it.

https://www.recipe-diaries.com/fat-h...-recipes-15396

I think we are going to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. I will either get a steak or a steak salad.

Thanks Carol Sue. I don't think DH would eat it either and not sure it is worth making just for me,but might. I copied it just in case/

Tracked my meal for today on MFP and approximate calories 1281 total carbs 51 minus 8 fibers net carbs 41 g. Had to take out my fruit for the day. Shooting for only 2 meals today. However, macros are balanced as they should be.

Enjoy your anniversary dinner at TX Roadhouse. We need to go there again and see if their steaks are good. Hard to find a good steak these days.

I fell asleep in my recliner at 7 pm and slept until 10 pm, went right to bed until 6:30 this morning. What's up with that? I often fall asleep for an hour or so, but 3 hours? Lights were on, tv was on and DH was watching the whole time. I don't know what's wrong with me.

The scale is up to 186.6. This is after coffee and a McDonalds Egg McMuffin. I forgot to weigh first, but I think the carbs caught up with me.

The steak in my steak salad was perfect. I got it medium well because I didn't want it medium in a salad. The salad was so big I could only eat half of it. But it was good so I brought it home and ate it later.

I think I might try the fat head pizza someday even if DH won't eat it. It,seems very easy to make.

Trish, I think if you like fruit you should eat some. It would be different if it was something like cookies or cake. Fruit has nutrients and fiber, not empty calories. That's how I look at it. But I'm not losing as well as you are so maybe my advice isn't good. I probably allow too many foods that I should be limiting. I have been eating too early due to DH feeding me. I don't know what I'm going to do about that. I can't say no once the food is sitting in front of me. Why can't he just worry about his own food.

Carol Sue, I have watched videos of people making those almond pizza dough and they freeze what they don't use to make another one at another time. I actually thought of that when I saw this recipe you sent me. We eat the small personal size pizzas so my thought was to make up the pizza dough and divide it into 4 balls and wrap with cling wrap and freeze 3 of them.

Sorry DH keeps feeding you. I guess you need to see if you can work around it. Not easy I know. Finish your day with some sort of OP treat to train yourself not to eat anything else. I have done that and so far it is working. I do end up eating something within an 8 hr eating window, but at least I'm limiting my food to that time. WL maybe slow but I'm not really gaining.

We ended up going to all 3 stores and I saw a place on the way to Sam's where we could drive through a car wash so we didn't have to go across town to get it done. DH had planned to skip Walmart until he remembered that he had to return the old tractor battery to Walmart when he bought the new one. He found out they would give him $12 for it. So we ended up with KFC chicken after all. I got chicken tenders and they were pretty good. Total carbs are 103 with net 95 grams for today but calories are less than 1300. So I consider that a good deal although macros are not balanced especially with all the walking in 3 stores.

Weight was 182.8 this morning which I don't trust until I see it longer, but it was nice to see. The amazing thing is my FBG has been 103 for about 4 days in a row now. I like seeing that even though it isn't in the 90s yet.

Well, I am going to take a nap. I have found that when I overdo the carbs even if they are low, I have to take a nap. I wonder if that is why you are napping too. It crossed my mind that this might be a good time to exercise, but not enough for me to test it right now. Maybe I will experiment with that thought next time.s
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If I was just counting calories, I had a great day even better than yesterdays, but since I'm counting carbs too, carbs were a little higher than yesterday. Net was under 100 g. I would say over all that it was still a good day.

Diabetes is, of course, a terrible disease. How many specialists have done research on the internal disease to learn more about it. I myself was in search of a good clinic that would help me at least a little bit. And after meeting Dr. Lindsay Clark when I was treated in California, I realized that a lot depends not only on the doctor, but also on myself. Of course her clinic made it a lot easier for me, but you have to break down the barriers in our brain and treat yourself intensively. After all, diabetes can have unfortunate consequences.

Welcome Maxxx17. Thanks for the insight.

I slept pretty good last night. I contribute that to no eating after dinner and taking 1 Tylenol and 2 Benedryl. Either that's the right combination for me or it was a fluke. Time will tell.

Scale read 186.0. It was bouncing in the 185s until it stopped so I expect to be 185 tomorrow if I behave. Down .6 but I keep reminding myself that I'm still working on recycled pounds until I get to 179, which was my lowest weight in 20 some years. I expect to get there and lower.

I passed on an early breakfast this morning because he ASKED before he cooked. He's been getting up really early lately so eating earlier. He usually gets up at 9 and eats around 10, but now its been 8 or even earlier. That screws me up all day. I know I have to be strong and refuse food I should not be eating. Its a very difficult task for a compulsive overeater. I think this is controllable but never cureable. I will forever have to be on my toes.

Trish, I seem to get really sleepy after dinner even if its not a high carb meal. It was terrible yesterday but I did not eat excessive carbs and I checked blood sugar and it was 127. That's a great after-meal reading. I have found that I sleep much better at night if blood sugar is low and stomach is empty. I was never really a night eater because I heard that you won't get a good nights sleep if your body is busy digesting food. Here's the thing. If I nap from having a full stomach then why does a full stomach interfere with my sleep at night? The only difference I've noticed is I fall asleep after dinner, but don't stay asleep. Everywhere I've looked says that falling asleep after dinner is due to high carb but that's not always the case with me. I think its from being too full. Another thing about going to bed with an empty stomach. I've heard that you body releases growth hormone during sleep and that helps with weight loss. (Funny that GROWTH hormone does not make you grow!). It won't release growth hormone if its digesting food. I need to read more about growth hormone.

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I ended up eating a BLT with egg for lunch/brunch. Fewer eggs than I usually eat but 2 slices of Sara Lee bread. I tracked my planned food for the rest of the day and it comes to 970 calories and 45 grams of carb. I am happy with that. If I eat more I will track it. If not I will add in something for 30 calories so MFP will accept it.

Now that I've eaten I want more. That's how my compulsive over eating works. I have to fight it and it will eventually go away. I can do it. Its not hunger, just "want.". I have to think " I won't get sick or die if I don't eat more and food IS available if I really need it."

I was reading about sleep after eating. Its post prandial somulence or food coma and happens to many. There's a list of things to resolve it like eating smaller meals and moving, exercise. Various causes.

I'm learning many things. For me eating has to be controlled and analyzed. I can't just eat like a normal person does.


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HI everyone: still at 158 but feeling good.
DH and Buddy went to open up the cottage, I am to follow Saturday if all goes well. He got the water line in, but the water pump is not working right. If he can't get the plumbing specialists out in the next couple of days. (difficult time, everyone has them busy opening up cottages etc, before our long weekend on the 21st. ) he will come home and I will cancel my ferry booking.
It is sure quiet here without them. Unlike other times, I don't feel down the way I did in the fall when they were gone. I got a lot done yesterday after they left. In fact, after the morning news, I turned off the TV and did not have it on again. I went to bed a bit early, and read there instead of on the couch or the easy chair, and then went to sleep. I slept 9+ hours. Longest I have slept in ages. I actually felt rested. I have been out and about but did not yet go for a walk. I will do so in a bit, just waiting on a couple of call backs form things calls and outings this morning. Got things straightened out for the order for the new counters. Bought some pet supplies for Buddy, but DH didn't tell me we needed dog food. He filled the food bin and took it to the cottage, but he emptied the bag. I bought a new dog food bin for here so we don't have to take up car space and the bag was empty! BOO. well, its not like I won't go out again in the next few days. Easy enough to pick some up.
I did OMAD yesterday and plan to fast tonight. I stuck to plan with my OMAD yesterday, eating a nice big greek salad, and just blueberries and cream for dessert.
Have a lovely day, the weather here is wonderful