No scale again today. DH had me out the door first thing. Once I eating won't weigh. I'm still not eating well. I don't know how to get back to it or to IF.

Mad, I'm glad you are doing so well with your swimming and the biking. I'm going to have the same problem with cardiac rehab starting at 8:30. They called today to confirm and the guy asked if the time was ok. That was my opportunity to change it. I do want to get it overwith early in the day but I don't know how long I'm going to want to do it at 8:30. I'm also not sure how many days a 1week or how many weeks I will be doing this. Not sure what I'm going to wear either. I want to wear capris but don't want to be changing clothes. I have some long pants to wear but it might get hot. I'll have to see how it goes tomorrow. When I went before it was summer so capris worked coming and going. our morning temps are in the 40s right now.

I felt better today. No chest pain.

Trish, I'm looking forward to hearing how your appointment went today. I hope it was good and you are happy with it. You have too much going on, I think.

Carol Sue My LDL and HDL were good the last time they were checked. Even having the stroke didn't make sense to me. That is why I think it was caused by the cancer medicine, but will never know.

Fatmad Thanks for the suggestion of measuring instead of weighing. I will remember that. Glad the exercise is helping and you had a go fasting day.

My appointment with the Vascular surgeon went very well. He said I had a very mild stroke and no one knows for sure as to why so I believe it probably was caused by the cancer medicine. I have <50% plaque which does not require having any surgery. He seems to think the aspirin will be fine during cancer treatment, but suggested that I get the approval of the oncologist as to whether to take a statin or not. He explained how the statin works so decided to email my oncologist and will go by what he says about adding the statin to my meds.

I've done half of my exercises and need to do the other half before it gets any later. The recumbent bike is all I have left to do.

Trish, I'm glad your stroke was mild. It doesn't sound like you have any lasting effects.

I'm curious to know what he said about how the statin works. I hope you don't have any more problems like that!

Carol Sue Vascular surgeon talked like the statin causes the plaque to soften up and therefore I assume from what he said that the body throws it off, So I'm not sure if I see it correctly but if I do, I would think it should keep me from even having any more plaque build up. Maybe Fatmad can explain it to me better. I don't plan to go back on it until this rash is gone. The thing I hate about taking it is that it makes me feel tired all the time. I might have to call my Primary care doctor and see if he might give me a different one that is a lower dose. The one the hospital put me on is a 20 mg but I think there is another brand that is 10 mg.

Oh I forgot to say that I got a text from Oncologist and he says I can take a statin with the cancer medicine I'm on so I may start taking it again the end of the week.

Hi friends: feeling a bit down today. I was fasting yesterday, and as you know I was plagued by sharp headaches for a while. I am sure it's caused by a supplement.
Not sure which. I stopped all the supplements for a couple of days and the headaches went away. I took them yesterday by accident and sure enough, got a sharp headache later. Was also feeling kind of woozy and dizzy. BG was 5.9 so I don't think it was the fasting, but I ate a bit in case. I was really careful and ate low carb. I had olives, some cheddar cheese, and a two egg omelette with mushrooms. SO plenty of fat, very few carbs. And not a lot of calories total.
Gained a pound since Sunday. very discouraging. Also waist measurement is back to 38, not the 37.5 inches I was a week ago.
The only good news was that my BG was 5.8 fasting this am, which is an improvement, its been over 6 the last while. (5.6 is 100 for reference) I will give it until I see the doc a week from tomorrow and see where I get. Hard to stay on plan like this.

Trish, I am glad you had such a good appointment with the vascular surgeon. Sounds like a good caregiver.
Carol: you and I are both struggling right now, so just sending good vibes.

Have a good day.

Cardiac rehab was just registration and a tour of the gym. Small compared to where they were before. I will go MWF @ 9:45. No exercising today except walking at Walmart afterwards.

I'm sorry you are struggling,Mad. Hope you see improvement soon. I hope you find which supplement is,causing the headaches. Can you Google for possible side effects?

I was 171.2 on their scaletoday. Thats what I expected. Weight and blood sugar are creeping up.

Carol Sue and Fatmad I am so sorry y'all are .struggling right now. I did have my struggles and still not 100% happy doing Heart Healthy DASH type diet because I was low carb minded for so very long. However, for now I know this way of eating is better for me after having even a mild stroke.

Carol Sue I hope you will enjoy going to the gym.

Fatmad I hope you will be able to find out which supplement is causing the headaches.

I thought about the statin and what it does and found something else about them online and decided that it probably would be wise to take the statin at least while I'm on cancer treatment. If statins soften the plaque keeping them from breaking off and causing a stroke and if the cancer meds is what caused plaque to break off and caused me to have the stroke which is a possibility then I believe it is just plain wise to take it if I can. I read it takes 90 days for it to start working. Either way I will give it a chance and pray I won't have any bad side effects. They say a lot of people have none. I'm not sure the rash was caused by the statin. Guess I will see because I decided to go back on it last night. It did help me sleep good except that I had potty issues all night, but it didn't come from the statin because I had the issues start not long after we got home from the doctor yesterday. Helped with the weight though as I'm back down to 159.4 where I was November 1st.

Have a good day everybody.

Trish i'm very glad you read about the statin and was able to make your own decision about it. If you have side effects you can always change your decision. I don't take my total mg I am prescribed. That's my decision.

We went to TX Roadhouse and I had fried catfish fried in cornmeal. I had it once before but didn't like it. Today I was in the mood to try it again and I liked it.

I. am on a baked sweet potato kick. I bought some and have been cooking them in the most crowave. They are the orange ones that they call yams around here. They are healthy but between them and the ice cream I'm gaining. The ice cream is gone for now.

Carol Sue There must be something in the yams that your body needs. I think the ice cream may just be a new habit although I guess there could be something in it you like.

I always like my fish fried with cornmeal but DH learned to panfry fish it with pam type spray without any breading at all. So now I just let him cook it. He has learned to cook fish and steak better than I do so from now that is his job.

I've been getting an upset stomach when I take my nighttime meds and have been eating crackers. So tonight DH scrambled a couple of eggs for me. I hope I won't have a problem with it tonight.

Goodnight.

I usually get a baked sweet potato with butter when we go to Texas Roadhouse. I think that's why I'm craving them. We don't go anywhere else that has them. I mentioned to DH that my mom never served sweet potatoes and I never ate them in my life until I met DH and went to his mothers at Thanksgiving. I don't like them the way they are served at Thanksgiving with brown sugar and marshmallows. I never served them that way when I hosted Thanksgiving although my family likes them that way. When my SIL started coming she used to make a sweet potato casserole and bring it every year. Now that her husband passed away she moved to GA with her daughter so I never see her. She is in town right now for work but I won't see her. I think the reason we don't see her is because my DH looks exactly like her deceased husband who was his brother. They looked identical. I think it bothers her to see him. Her grandchildren just stared at DH when they saw him at the funeral because he looked like their Pappy.

I only got 2.5 hrs sleep last night because DH didn't feel good. I see a nap in my future because I dont have anything to do today and I'm very tired.

DH is doing laundry. I feel guilty.

Cooking fish in cornmeal is a southern thing. In fact, we rarely ever have cornbread here up north. I never cook fish at all because DH won't eat it. He only likes batter fried fish. He will sometimes eat breaded but he would not even try my cornmeal catfish. He used to go fishing all the time but never even ate the fish he caught.

I was reading about sweet potatoes and it says you should not eat them every day because of the carbs but people crave them because of the nutrients and fiber. They are nutritionally similar to carrots and I crave carrots too! My brother in law who seems to live on sweets and junk food said I shouldn't buy baby carrots but should buy big carrots and cut them up. I buy the baby carrots because I'm too lazy to peel and cut them.

I got on the scale and weight is back down to 169. That 6 looks much better to me than the 7.

I am cutting back on the carbs I am eating too. I am actually thinking about getting on a lower carb plan after Thanksgiving. I really don't like taking so much Lasix to keep the fluid off. I'm beginning to look at keto in the future. There is a keto guide on FB that seems to even include sweet potatoes. It seems to be geared towards women. However it may cost money and I'm not sure I want buy another diet plan. I want to keep my carbs under 100 mg.

I finaly found my last lab results from September and all my numbers were perfect even the HDL was good because it was 5 pts above the low range so that still makes me believe that the mild stroke was caused by the chemo medicine. Therefore I also believe that it is wise to take the statin especially while on treatment. I just hope I can take it because I am not getting good sleep like I was before taking the statin. So I end up taking a nap during the day as well. I hope this will change when my body adjusts to it.

Carol Sue I have heard that baby carrots aren't good for us because they take bad carrots and cut them and clean them and call them baby carrots. As for not to eat the sweet potato everyday, I've heard it said we should eat a variety of differet kinds of food so our body doesn't get used to the same food all the time. I don't remember if there was a reason other than boredom. But I am more of a creature of habit so it doesn't bother me to eat pretty much the same food.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Yes, baby carrots are made from carrots that cannot be sold, like ones that are oddly shaped. I just got into the habit of buying them because they don't have to be peeled, and if I want carrots as a snack I can just grab 10 or so and boil them. I don't like them raw, just cooked. If I'm cooking a roast its easy to just grab a handful of baby carrots to add, no need to peel or cut. But I like carrots so much I am often tempted to buy a big bag of regular carrots. The carbs are the reason it said not to eat the sweet potatoes every day. The ones I buy are small, in a bag, from Walmart. I bought some from the grocery store that were sold loose and just picked out some of the smallest ones. I will get tired of eating them someday and move on to some other addiction! I'm out of ice cream right now. We buy it from Dollar General and haven't been there for a while.

I think the reason why they say we should not eat the same things every day is so we get a wide variety of nutrients. For a while, I was buying fresh vegetables that I had never eaten before just to see what they were like. Most of them I liked.

You said that one doctor said you had a full blown stroke not a mild one. But I think it was mild because it didn't leave you with any lasting effects. You just went back to the way you were.

I hope the statin isn't disrupting your sleep. Maybe its because you are eating with it. I always sleep better if I don't eat. I remember when I was eating one scrambled egg at bedtime and my morning blood sugar was much better. I was never told to eat with my statin.

This is funny. I just looked up if stations should be taken with or without food. It said most can be taken without food but the one I take should be taken with food. I never have and was never told that. I take Lovastatin. When I worked at the pharmacy I got into an argument with a pharmacist because he saw me eating a little cup of grapefruit. I looked up on the computer and it said with a statin you should not drink large amounts of grapefruit juice, like a quart or more. This was on the work computer that was for the pharmacists. Other places online do say no grapefruit with a statin. I don't eat grapefruit any more but what I was eating was a very small portion.

Down another pound today. 168. I have so far to go. I have lost 48 lbs and want to lose 28 more. I doubt if I will get to 140 but if that's my goal I will continue to work toward that and not regain. That's the plan!

I slept but not great sleep. I lost my mojo. I'm not sure why I was sleeping so much after I came home but maybe my body is feeling healed and doesn't want as much sleep now. It was great while it lasted.

DH says he feels better but I'm still worried about him. He wants to go to the casino but I'm afraid he will get sick there. I can't drive all that way in the dark.

I was reading about my statin. It said it causes disrupted sleep. I never thought about that. In the hospital they gave it to me earlier in the day. I got into the habit of taking it at night. I don't remember if I was told to. There is a list of 20 side effects, one of which is diarrhea.

Carol Sue I'm sorry your DH isn't feeling well. I'm not sure I would take a chance of going to the casino if I thought he might get sick, but then that is just me.

I guess they gave me my statin at night because they told me to take it at bedtime when I came home. I think diahrrea is one of the side effects of mine too. Mine is Atorvastatin. I think a problem with sleeping was one of the side effects too. I slept last night but woke up several times to go pee. My problem with that which is also a chemo treatment cause is feeling like I have to go more once I lay down which is something that seems to happen after the hysterectomy.

I saw an article on line telling the 0 pts foods of Weight Watchers. I might use that as a guideline to lose weight at least until after Thanksgiving weekend.

My nephew, babysister's baby boy, is getting married today at 1 pm. I'm so proud of that young man. He went into rehab to get his life together. He got his GED and got off drugs and now has a good job and found his sweetheart. The weather is rain all day and I wouldn't get out in this weather unless going to doctor or oncology for infusion, but he is one of those babies I took care of and even homeschooled him for a while. He had a difficult time learning and then we learned he is dexlesic (sp). A lot of my babysisters children and grandkids have that problem. They are having a dinner at a local restaurant tonight at 6 pm but we don't plan to go. I don't do good wearing shoes that long and they won't miss me. They had planned to go eat at Red Lobster, but 50 people are going and they couldn't accommadate that many people so they moved it to a different seafood place.

Hope everybody has a good day.

Trish, I'm sorry you can't attend your nephews wedding but you are with him in your thoughts and I feel he knows you love him and understands your situation.

DH wanted to go to the casino yesterday and I said no because neither of us got any sleep that night. He will ask every day until I go, and I don't want to go on the weekend. He doesn't listen to reason at all. He wants what he wants. I dont mind going because I have a lot to read.