Healthy eating is the best remedy for diabetes.

We watched the fireworks, now I’m tired and ready for bed. My foot didn’t hurt at all today so hopefully the bacon isn’t the cause.

No one did fireworks in the neighborhood this year. Probably because it is too dry here. I'm sure they had them downtown as they do every year, but no private displays.

Calories were a little over 1400 and net carbs a little over 100 and sodium was high but it always is when we have hot dogs. Didn't have enough protein but it was a holiday and tomorrow I will get back on track. Drinking my chamomile so I can go to bed and go to sleep.

Good night.

I don’t feel fat but I’m afraid to get on the scale. I don’t know why. I weigh what I weigh whether I see the number or not. I will probably weigh because I’m curious. It’s only going to change things in my mind.

I still don’t have pain. I don’t know if I will eat bacon today or not. I do want to eat less to try to make up for the past couple days.

something is wrong with our home phone. Caller ID shows that his brother is trying to call us but the phone is not ringing and when we pick it up no one is there and no dial tone. He just talked to his brother at 9 am and all was fine.

Carol Sue, I understand not wanting to get on the scale. I wish I hadn't. My weight was up to 184.4, but then as you said, with the way we ate the past few days, I shouldn't be surprised. I had way too much sodium and calories for 2 days in a row and amazingly no potty this mornng which doesn't help with the weigh in. So it is what it is and it is not a disaster as long as I get back on track today.

We aren't going to the store today because we went Saturday. So no takeout this week so should be fairly easy to get to business. We will have cod fish today. And I do need to stop worrying about reaching a set number of protein and just eat healthy and keep calories rather low.

Busy morning getting busy and got most of my exercise done already.

Hope your phone starts working. We keep our house phone unplugged unless I get a call from DD or DGS saying they are going to call. Then we plug it in so DH and I can talk to the at the same time. If it wasn't for those calls from out of state kids that we talk to togethe, we would have it disconnected.

Have a good day.

DH found out that the downstairs phone got bumped and it was off the hook. All good now.

I did get on the scale and I’m up 2.8 lb to 188.0. I decided to face the music since I intentionally overate over the holiday. I’ve been peeing all day so maybe I’m losing retained fluid. That would be nice. TMI

Trish I think if you just make sure to have protein at every meal you will be all set.

I was getting sleepy but I’m perking up now. I think it has something to do with blood sugar. I’m watching it more closely now. I think DH is bringing something from Arby’s.

I've had a good day... calories less than 1300 and healthy. Drinking my chamomile tea so I can go to bed. Slept really good last night.

Today I’m at 186, down 2 of the 2.8 lbs I gained over the 4th. I am thrilled that my body recovered so nicely. I wonder if that’s a sign that I’m healthier. I hope so. I ate well. I had 1200 calls with 60 carbs.

Im really hungry this morning, though. I might eat early.

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Carol Sue, congratulations on the 2 lb loss. My weight stayed the same. I think I'm in a rut.

Busy morning as I had to find a new eye doctor that is covered with our insurance. It was difficult to change but at least I was able to get us appointments with the doctor that I wanted. It is closer. What I need to do now is look for a dentist. Going to a new dentist is not my favorite thing to do but it needs to be done. We both know we need a couple of teeth filled.

I was going to stop dieting and eat more mindfully but you know we get in the habit of dieting. I had breakfast so the thing I need to do is go back to 4 to 6 hr eating window and stop eating at night. But will I do it. I can only say that I will try.

Well, I’m just tried of eating because someone else is hungry. I don’t know what else to say. If I tried to get DH to eat something when he didn’t want to he wouldn’t eat it come he’ll or high water. So why am I expected to do it?

Trish, what is dieting? I’m told that dieting doesn’t work. I think it’s natural to eat when we are hungry and stop when no longer hungry. The definition of dieting online says “restricting your eating to smaller potions of certain foods for the purpose of weight loss.” Look back to when you were gaining weight. What did you do that caused the weight gain? For me, I ate when and what I wanted but I also ate when DH wanted. I have made changes sucssfully that have resulted in loss. I feel that I have to compromise and sometimes eat when he wants but why doesn’t he change to eat when I want? At best, he should be willing to eat on his terms and let me do the same. I don’t care if he eats 50 times a day!

the reason I am on this rampage is because my weight is up 1.2 lbs, then we went out for a breakfast I didn’t want. I ordered eggs and sausage to do the least bit of damage as it being low carb. Another thing that makes me mad is when I say “no bread” they question me “No Bread?.” I want to scream at them! It’s hard enough for me to say it, without them questioning my choice . I want to tell them they can have my bread. I’ve talked to 2 of the servers at Bob Evans. They both said they don’t eat breakfast. I want to say “Doesn’t your husband MAKE you eat it?” But DH would get mad. You are so lucky that your DH sleeps later.

Enough of my ranting!

I know how you feel with this up down up down pattern. But we have dropped weight well and we will drop more. We just need to be patient.

Maybe it would help if you stopped planning your meals. When you plan you eat what you planned. Try eating when you’re hungry then track what you ate. You already know what foods are good and which ones are not. Look at your totals and see how it’s different from when you plan. It might end up being similar.

Carol Sue, I know how you feel. I used to feel that way with DH#2. I didn't have to eat when he ate but I was planning and eating 3 meals a day then I ate too. When he became disabled and home all the time, he would help me cook breakfast. I didn't start losing weight again until he died. Eating wasn't all that important to me then because I was working and usually kept a few veggies and a store bought roasted chicken in the fridge and just ate a little off it once a day. I actually got back into eating 3 meals a day when I started WW again years ago. I could probably do good on WW but DH doesn't like it when I buy the lowfat milk and the Light salad dressings. He will say he will eat them but then he fusses about the taste of the dressings and won't drink FF milk and will only cut back to the 2%. So I just try to go by the calories of regular foods now.

I filled a quiz type thing on a FB keto diet. I didn't join it, but just wanted to see what it showed me. They sent me to TDEE to see how many caloreis I should eat. They show my maintenance calories should be 2110. I had read on another FB group that to lose weight we should cut back 200 to 300 calories a day. That is what my doctor here and in SC told me. But 1800 calories sounds too high to me. I wonder if what I've read is true that we cut our calories back too much and mess up our system so that we don't lose weight.

They show moderte carb 30% protein, 25% fat and 35% carbs, lower carb 40% protein, 40% fat and 20% carbs. Higher carb 30% protein, 20% fat and 50% carbs.

I didn't eat breakfast today. I didn't even plan on it. I've decided that if I want it I will eat it. DH wants pizza today so I saved my calories our pizza dinner. I don't know if this will be a one meal day or two. I don't want to make plans a head of time. I want to get back to my version or way of doing IF/IE combo. I've done 3 days of exercise this week and not sure if I'm through with formal exercise for the week or not. I am going to take all of this ODAT.

Weight back down to 182.2. Carol Sue, we will figure this out and we will do it.

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I am so pleased to say that I actually had only one meal today. Don't know if I will do it again, but I made it today. Just taking this One Day at a Time.

Trish, when the kids were still here I ate breakfast and then lunch at work. I cooked dinner for DH and the kids then sat down to read the paper while they ate. They both moved out the same year and then DH wanted me to eat dinner with him and we started eating out a couple days a week. I was adding 700+ calories per day to my diet! This is when I gained 80 lbs! Now I’m struggling to get it back off. DH has gained weight too but he won’t admit it.

Scale is still at 187.2. I am sad, but it’s my own fault. I am the one putting food in my mouth when not hungry. I seem to think that’s ok. It’s not ok.

I woke up once to go to the bathroom around 3 am. I took a half Benadryl and went back to sleep until 7:30. I felt rested but was falling asleep by 9 am. I am going to try to move more. Not so much sitting.

Carol Sue, I know that I have to plan and cook one meal each day. I don't have to make any planned eating other than that one meal. So I have decided that I am going to do my best not to plan any other meals or snacks but to just wait until I am hungry before eating again. By the time I eat today I will have a 24 hr fast behind me. I am not following anyone's diet plan. I am doing Intermittent Fasting with Intuitive Eating period. No other plan.

Since following diet plans, I have trained myselt to eat 2 or 3 meals and or 1 snack per whatever diet I was on. I don't like eating that way because I have eat whether I was hungry or not. I believe that when I do that I have trained myself to not only gain weight, but food has become the center of my life and now I have become a slave to some diet or other. I will not continue going down that path. I had a doctor tell me to stop dieting because "diets don't work". I thought he was crazy, but now I believe he was right. I love low carb woe, but not enough to make it a lifestyle, because I also love a baked potato or a slice of MG bread once in a while so I know my woe has to include both. I still think that all this can work and I can lose weight Intuitively. Maybe not the way some people think of Intuitive Eating, but the way I grew up eating was Intuitive eating and I didn't gain weight eating that way.

Weight down .2 lbs. Very slow but I will gladly take slow and easy weight loss believing it lasts better than fast weightloss. I'm not sure I am going to keep a WI day. I think I will take that one day at a time just as I am taking my woe. I want to lose all the pressure and guilt that goes with it. FBG was 97. So far this month I've had only one day that it was 101. My goal is to have all my FBG reading under 100. I've got a good start.

Have a good day.

Trish your post was how I feel most of the time. I still haven’t stopped eating whenever. Not waiting til hungry. I will work on that.

The reason diets don’t work is because they end, and you regain. It has to be the way you are going to eat the rest of your life. What we feel Is “weight loss mentality” which most people call “diet mentality.” I think what we feel is different because we will eat this way for life. Whatever we lose will stay gone because we have changed the way we eat.

Good for you on the 24 hour fast. I need to get back to that.

Carol Sue, I agree. I really think I'm going to do better with this. I ate 1259 calories today. Don't remember the carbs. Not sure exactly what my eating window was but I think it was between 5 and 6 hrs because I only ate when hungry. My fast ended up being more of a 22 hr fast. Sodium was a little high but overall, I consider this a good eating day.

Weight stayed the same 182 lbs. I kind of hope this freer woe is going to work this way for me. I don't mind losing and staying at one weight for a few days because I think this means my body is adjusting to it instead of bouncing around so much. However, time will tell how it will work out for me. My FBG was 93 this morning which is very good too.

Carol Sue I know y'all eat out a lot, but I seem to remember a weight loss diet that used to be on 3fc a few years ago in which a doctor evidently designed for people who didn't cook. It was popular for a while and I think his name was Anderson, but not sure. Maybe you could check that out. I remember it because I used it when DH DD and her family lived with us. I used those cheap tv dinners and I would add broccoli or some other veggie to it and I did lose weight using it. Just a thought.

Hope everybody has a nice day. Ours aren't too bad but really hot in 3 digits this year keeps us in the house most days unless we have to get out. Today is supposed to be the highest I ever remember it being even in the Heart of TX... 107. I never thought I would see it this high.