Carol, that's great news. So happy for you!
That's an amazing drop, and coupled with the weight drop, you are doing great.

DH is gone for a couple of days, so I am Fasting. Right now enjoying so plain chicken broth. Bought as NAS and added my own salt to make it just right.
Finally got results from. Gastric endoscopy and colonoscopy.
nothing, Nada, no answers. Just IBS be elimination. No explanation for the abdominal pain.
Some suggestions will go to my family doc for ways to help. He did encourage me to be freer with Tylenol, so I will do that, both for abdominal pain and my knee.
ordered more stuff for my trip.
Things are looking good.
Trish, sending healing vibes your way.

Mad, although in glad some serious issues were,ruled out with your abdominal pain, but something has to be causing it, don't you think? I hope you can find an answer somehow. I hope you do well with your fast.

Today is my doctors appointment and we will discus my lab work. My triglycerides are up and I don't know why. I don't want another med. He will be surprised to see my A1c. He listens to my heart and lungs and not much else.

Trish, prayers are coming your way. I am concerned, dear friend, and hope you are ok.

Doctors visit went well. Weight was up but I weigh early morning and my appointment was afternoon Blood pressure was up but he said he will see what happens next time. Didn't mention triglycerides and said glucose control is good.

So that's over until December. I will see what improvements I can make before then.

Hi Carol: I am down to 171 so pretty happy with that for now. I would like to be in the 160s when I leave.
I Too am concerned that we have not heard from Trish. I take it you do not have other ways to check in with her or her DH.
I am sure it would not occur to my DH to let people here know. Maybe on FB or something?
On advice from someone on my celiac site, I am looking into an allergic condition call MCAS . One of the treatments is ranitidine, an antacid. It seems to be helping a bit.
I will keep in touch

Mad, I too am very concerned for Trish. I hope she is ok and recovering. My husband would not think of or know how to contact online friends.

Yesterday at my house everyone got on my scale. I want to weigh what my 14 year old grandson weighs! 137. They all said my scale is wrong. I am very happy with it as my balance beam scale is only 1/2 lb different. I am 177.

My eating has really changed. I am eating a lot less by only eating when hungry, eating what I want, and stopping when hunger is gone. I hardly ever feel hunger and mostly eat twice a day, much smaller meals. The thing is, this is easy. I am not struggling with cravings. So many things I used to eat no longer appeal to me. I used to go to a restaurant and had difficulty choosing because there would be so many things on the menu that I wanted. Now there's only two that appeal to me. My appetite is gone for the others. I often would read about a disease and loss of appetite would be one of the symptoms. Right off I knew I didn't have it! I always had a ferocious appetite and loved most all foods. Not now. And when I do eat I eat small portions. I bring a lot home from restaurants. But I feel that I'm eating what my body needs, whereas I was overeating before.

My blood sugar is staying lower. Instead of 4 mg of Amaryl a day I am taking 2mg. 1 mg twice a day. If glucose is low at bedtime I eat a small snack to avoid a hypo. No more Dawn Phenominon. Fasting blood sugar is between 70-100. I've been diabetic since 2008 and never like this. I hope I don't have one of the diseases with loss of appetite. Amazingly, DH no longer says Do You Want Some every time he eats. Only occasionally. I am not eating low carb. Whatever I want, just smaller portions. I'm glad I am losing weight.

Remember when I told you my DIL has Parosmia, a syndrome that makes many foods smell and taste like garbage. She has had it for over a year. She can't eat meat, no tomatoes or tomato sauce, no mayonaise and others. Now she thinks she is gluten sensitive. She feels better eating less gluten but is going to get tested for celiac. Her sister has celiac disease. Most of her protein is from seafood. So seafood and vegetables. That's good food, but she can't eat with her family. My step son is big on grilling meat. He and grandson still eat that.

I guess everyone is different.

In the past few days I've been thinking about my reduced appetite. Years ago I heard that happens to the elderly. Sometimes they have to be reminded to eat. That might be what's happening to me, although I have a hard time thinking of myself as elderly. I ate more the past couple days and my weight is up. I cooked at home both days and I have a habit of going back for seconds rather than throw food away. I gave my leftover beef roast to step daughter. DH would not eat it leftover. I am trying to cook at home more often but it doesn't help me with weight. I find it hard to cook just for 2. DH has no problem throwing food away. Growing up his mother always over cooked and it was thrown away.

Trish, you are in my prayers as always.

Step daughter sad they ate the leftover roast beef for dinner tonight and it was amazing! I agree that its always better leftover but DH will not eat leftovers. He does not know what he's missing. It was a rump roast. I cut some slight slits in it and rubbed it well with garlic salt. I cut it in. 4 pieces and put it in the electric pressure cooker on high pressure with a cup of beef broth for 60 minutes. I let the steam out, added a bunch of baby carrots then set it for 25 more minutes on high again. Then I took the carrots out and salted them. The beef was falling apart so I rough shredded it. It was very easy and only took an hour and a half. It could be done in a slow cooker but would have taken much longer. We ate it with rice pilaf. I will make this again.

Hi, I am home for now, and finally able to get online again. Doing ok with fasting, today weighed in 171 without a fast.
I am feeling better with taking ranitidine daily with my other meds. (Zantac) I have also been taking a variety of antihistamines, this is all assuming MCAS may be a cause of the pain.
I don't feel like anxiety is a big issue for me, but I have been taking an antidepressant and stuff for sleep in that line already.
I have been avoiding newscasts, all the news about the sub search was quite anxiety provoking, and news from Russia and the Ukraine as well.
So I watch a bit in the mornings and then done.
I have a bad eczema that started last week, I was not sure if it was poison ivy at first. its behind one knee mainly, but when a little started behind the other knee, I was pretty sure it was eczema.
Its healing up now. I think the hot pools in Iceland should help that, very healing for eczema and psoriasis apparently. One more week and I will be there!
Trish, I hope you are doing better and slowly regaining strength. We are here for you.
Carol: you are doing well, and its really not long ago that you finally got into Onederland. You have done well when you regained a bit to get rid of that extra weight before it got out of hand, better than me last summer when I regained so much, struggling to lose it again.

Have a good day. Its raining a bit here.

Mad, Zantac has been banned in the US because of cancer causing issues. My friend who had treatment for colon cancer took it before. Just an FYI.

Good for you for staying at 171. Every milestone we reach is a reason for celebration. Our bodies fight us every step of the way. I get depressed at times like today when I'm up, back to 180, after 2 days of overeating. For some reason yesterday I was constantly eating carbs. Its possible that the first carbs I ate led to craving the others. When this happens I remind myself of how much I've lost, albeit slowly, without any major regain. I know my eating has changed in spite of the blip the past couple days. Nobody is perfect.

:hug: Trish.

I am back home after spendinng almost 3 weeks in there. I got an invection in my snall intestints. They threwe every kind of antibioitic at me and I came home with still on 2 x a day for 5 days.

They finally waighted me one day & and I weigh 180. Now I/ am home I can eating right for my bs they were always feeding me gobs of sugar and they geto up set when I didn't eat it. I drank my prlotien this morning.

Carol Sue and Fatmad You two are doing very well. Kind of slow but I willl get there.

Ha ve a nice weekend.

Trish, I am so happy to hear from you I want to cry, tears of joy! I pray that you are healing and get back to the old Trish. I hope that once you start eating healthy and moving around as well as you can you will feel better. I dont understand why hospitals feed you the way they do! Sometimes I think its to save money, not for healing.

Take care and get better! We can talk more later.

Hello again Trish, and welcome back. Don't worry about losing weight, just plan on eating healthy foods that make you feel well. Everything else can wait.
Carol: I too had a binge last night, that included eating toast and jam. For better or worse, I found a brand of ciabatta buns that are quite nice toasted. I had one last night, along with a few local strawberries. They were very ripe when I bought them, and needed to be eaten before they turned. So I finished those up too.
Not a huge binge.
I also had trouble sleeping, my feet had trouble with restlessness. I hope I can nap later today.
This week is all about getting ready, so I have to go by some dry bags. I am wondering if I can manage with a carry on instead of a checked bag. Air Iceland has different sizing for carry on than north american airlines, so I am not sure.

Have a good day, its really humid here.

Mad, I don't like watching the news either but DH has it on. The submarine, those people chose to go knowing there were risks. Its sad,but their choice. I don't understand a lot about Russia and Ukraine. I seem to block out things that are not happening in our country. We have our own issues, here.

Scale is back to 179 but I had potty issues overnight. I just don't want to see the 8 again!

My tablet was messed up but I did a soft reset and it seems ok. It started when it automatically started showing a video about a book club and it would not stop. I don't use Alexa but I said "Alexa stop" and it stopped. But nothing would work right after that. DH said "The Democrats did that!" The sad part is he was serious. 😅 I hope it stays,fixed.

Trish,I hope you got a good nights sleep. Its hard to sleep in the hospital. I'm sure DH is happy to have you home. I hope he is able to help you. Bless you both.

Thanks for the welcome back. I slept late and all I want to do is sleep today. I am still sleep[y, but I will rest up today and then try to get on a new routine to make my body stronge.

I met my new nurse yesterday and she had some interesting information. I may seek a different way than more chemotherapy that is not so hard on the body. I agree with her that my body needs to be rebuilt since it has been through so much It seems y'all are still following your own plans. The main thing I want to do is eat as healthy as possible. I found it interesting that she told me the worst thing to eat during chemotreatment is fruit. Can't remember what she said about veggies. Mainly her mother and aunt learned that alchelined body didn't cause cancer cells to grow as fast.

Have a nice day!!!
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I had 2 protein shakes and half steak and a smalll salad plus a serving of lime sherbert today. Nice day.

I didn't get on the scale today. I have not been weighing daily. We got up very early to go out for breakfast and to Wal-Mart because they are predicting a bad storm. Goodwill doesn't open til 10 so we didn't get to go there for senior discount day. If we don't get the storm we can go back down later.

Trish,I looked online and did not see anything to suggest not eating fruit during chemo. In fact, fruit was recommended but it said not to eat unwashed fruit. So that might be some new information. I agree you should get back to your healthy eating and moving around to get your strength back. This has been an ordeal.