Scale this morning, 177. Down from 178. I just keep bouncing between 177-178. I feel thin but the scale doesn't reflect a whoosh.

With me, its not so much the junk. But DH eats a lot of starchy carbs like potatoes and noodles in the form of Pasta Roni Fettichini Alfredo. He eats that for lunch and there's always leftovers. I like it,but should not be eating it. He eats a lot of salty snacks He never ate tortilla chips. I started buying them to eat with hummus. He started eating them and likes them,but doesn't like the low salt ones that I buy to watch my sodium. So I have to buy 2 bags,his salty ones and my low salt. When his are gone he eats mine,but complains that they have no salt. They are lightly salted. Then when his blood pressure goes up he complains about that. I don't like pretzels and potato chips anymore, thank God. But the tortilla chips have me hooked.

DH has a phone but he does not text. His phone is a flip phone. He likes that. But every time my phone dings he runs and gets it to see who it is. Good thing I don't have a boyfriend. Ha ha. It is often his daughter, telling me something to tell him. He thinks texting is stupid,but thats because he does not know how. Step daughter uses voice to text. When I take a while to respond she keeps texting again and again. I am old and slow.

Step daughter is cooking for Easter but is not making ham. DH wants ham so I will cook a ham for us. She is cooking a rib roast which DH won't eat so he doesn't want to go. In order to get him to go I will have to cook our food that he will eat and take it with us. I would rather just stay home. Her husband has trouble eating ham because of his gout, so I understand. But she knows her Dad is a picky eater. He wants the traditional holiday food he grew up with. DIL and DGS are going to FL over Easter weekend. Her friend has a son the same age and she got hotel rooms for the weekend. I don't know what step son will do. He might go to his sisters. Or he might cook. He is a good cook. Im not sure what day they are coming home.

Trish,I don't think you would have to do high protein to do low carb. Just avoid starchy carbs. Eat a lot of vegetables. Even though they are carbs they do not have the same effect. Also, I don't know if eating protein causes protein in the urine. But I understand your concern.

We don't do anything special for Easter. I would love to be able to go to church, but not sure I will be able too. I'll just have to see how things will go. For now that is my next big goal to accomplish is to be able to attend church on a regular basis.

Eating was fairly good today and I am trying not to eat anything else today. I had brunch and dinner. DH wants me to go to the store with him tomorrow. He says that I need to start getting out and going with him because I've started staying home too much again. He is right. I need to go to the store with him once a week and treat that time at the store walking around the store as just a different way of exercising than the way I exercise when I do it at home. So perhaps I need to see it the same way I do when I have a doctor's appointment or an infusion.

I am eating foods I shouldn't be eating, but I need to just get it out of my system rather than treat it as a no-no. I find when I crave something that I do better to treat it like something I can grow tired of instead of looking at it as something I can never have again. It will finally take it's place as something I can have any time, but I just don't want it right now. Another thing I am trying to do is stay hydrated. I am hoping that the protein in the urine was just the fact that I wasn't drinking enough water. Next Monday morning I have a fasting Lab and a C T Scan. I hope to come through the Lab with everything normal. I need to get myself back to setting and working toward goals. I have also learned that I do better if I have goals to work towards as they seem to keep me on track a lot better.

Have a nice evening.

I was surprised and happy to see the scale did not say 177 or 178. It said 176. Finally a new number. The biggest surprise is what I ate yesterday. We went to Walmart and Goodwill,but didn't go for dinner. DH usually wants to. But he just stopped at McDonalds for a cheeseburger and fries. He asked if I wanted anything but since I don't like McDonalds I got a milkshake! Very nutritious dinner. When I got home I ate a donut. So a milkshake and a donut, and the scale went down! Actually, I had 2 bowel movements overnight and I think that's why my weight went down in spite of my high sugar meal.

Today is laundry day. DH is,washing our blue jeans. I also need to wash my tops, towels, sheets and whites. It might not all get done today. We bought laundry soap yesterday. I like to use powder. Its very hard to find powder laundry soap. I will check at Dollar General. DH buys big jugs of liquid soap. He puts it on the shelf above the washer. You turn the knob and the soap goes right into the washer. Its a great idea! But for my tops I like powdered laundry soap. I don't know why. I guess I'm just old fashioned. Its what my mother used.

Trish, do you know how long you will continue to have your treatments? Are you considered to be in maintenance now?

I had terrible foot and leg cramps overnight. I bought some stuff to use on it but it didn't work as well as the cream I had. I can't get the cream anymore. My chest also hurts. It feels like I pulled a muscle,not like heart pain. I don't remember doing anything to cause it. I was also having pain in my right groin, but that seems to be gone. I guess when you get old you get all kinds of pain. I think the foot and calf cramps is,caused by the fluid pill. Lasix. I used to take some salt before bed to prevent that. Last night was the worst I've ever had. I had trouble walking to the bathroom. I might go back to salt before bed. I don't want another night like that! Maybe I should go back to taking magnesium.

Carol Sue I'm sorry you had so much pain last night. I don't have leg cramps any more. Sometimes it feels like I'm going to have them, but it goes away. Sure hope they don't come back.

My weight is back up to 160 lbs this morning. I definitely need to get on a diet plan or go back to IF to get this weight going back down. I definitely don't want to gain all that weight back. On that note, I have no idea what we are eating today. We got in the car and the battery was dead so DH is charging it now. The battery is fairly new, but he says something causes the GPS to come on during the night and drains the battery. He will go to the store tomorrow. I wanted to go this time but I won't go tomorrow.

DH is in the kitchen and has decided we are having chili. I ought to go make some noodles but I won't. I'll just have crackers, cheese and onions mixed in it.

I am considered on Maintenance now. No one knows how long it will last. From what I understand it will continue until I either am cancer free or leave this world. I have a C T Scan next Monday and would love for it to show I am cancer free.

Well, I fell asleep writing this so I guess I better close off. Hope we both do better with our eating today. Have a good day. Hope you feel better as the day goes by.

I dont know if I will feel like weighing tomorrow because I over ate again. I just have an unbelievable appetite anymore. I think the Lasix is causing it. Thats really the only thing that has changed. I dont want to see a higher number. It depresses me and then I over eat when I'm depressed. I had 1400+ calories and 150 carbs. My carbs,should be under 75!

Trish, I pray that your scan shows the cancer is gone. You have been thru enough! You need to get back to a normal life.

I took Tylenol and my chest stopped hurting,but its coming back. DH thinks maybe I have a cold in my chest. Its just a weird pain, that hurts when I take a deep breath. I might be retaining fluid in my chest. That means a trip to the hospital. DH wants me to go to the ER and get it checked but I'm afraid they will admit me, but I will go if it gets worse. Maybe a god nights sleep with no leg cramps will help.

Scale was 176 again today. Maybe I can get down to 175 tomorrow! I slept ok with no pain. I tool an extra fluid pill yesterday in case my chest pain was fluid retention around my heart or lungs. I noticed that after I took my bra off to go to bed I didn't get any pain. Maybe my bras are too tight due to my recent weight gain. And I had no foot/leg cramps.

I hope I don't have anywhere to go today.

Carol Sue I hope you will be able to reach your goal of 175 tomorrow. Strange you are finding your bras being to tight and I am finding mine too loose. I thinking I'm going to have to purchase some smaller ones.

My weight was up to 161 this morning. So I am back to being more careful of what and how much I eat. I need to get back OP. I did end up going to the store with DH today. I walked at the store for probably about 30 minutes and came home and did 30 minutes of my regular exercises.

It has been a pretty good day. I hope you have a good nights sleep and feel better tomorrow.

The scale is still at 176. It was a dream to think it would go to 175, but I'm glad it didn't go up. I know I cannot lose a pound a day as it went down a pound the day before. I am going to try to set small goals like that more often. I don't usually set weight goals. I just want to weigh less as time goes on. Less than I did yesterday. But I am going to set goals with actual numbers. I will set a goal to weigh 175 by Sunday. I need to have goals that are doable rather than impossible. I just hate when I set a goal then don't reach it. It makes me feel like a failure.

I used to post in a group "Lose a pound a week.". That should be very doable,but I could not do it. It was vert frustrating to not have a loss week after week.

I just ate my eggs for the morning. DH just cooked them without me knowing and served them to me. I was going to cook them myself but he did it first. He used to ask what kind of eggs I wanted but now he always cooks over easy. If I catch him beforehand I sometimes have him cook scrambled,but over easy are my favorite. He makes the best scrambled eggs.very fluffy

My weight was 163 this morning so I am back on MFP counting calories. I'm not following a diet plan as I just decided to keep my calories between 1200 to 1400 calories. They have pushed me to eat and now I've got to eat and work at losing weight at the same time. I want to eat what I like and enjoy it but I want to do it within an 8 hr IF eating window. So this is my goal.

This morning I had a homemade egg Mcmuffin. Used half a slice ham, a slice mozzarella cheese and one egg and it was delicious. DH bought a beautiful salmon fillet from Sam's that turned out to be 2 and I will get 4 meals out of it. We are having salmon for dinner today. Of course, we will have our salad and not sure what veggie as of yet. I've got my exercises done for today. Now to make this a Day #1 OP.

Trish, I didn't realize you started eating salmon. How do you prepare it?

I'm finished eating for today. I had 1300+ calories but 131 grams of carb. I have still not cut back on carbs. Its early so if I get hungry I will cook some carrots. I wanted them today but cooked other things and now I'm no longer hungry. . I wanted spaghetti but DH did not. So I ate Ramen Noodles without the soup. I just put parmesan cheese on it. It satisfied my craving for pasta.

My bras are not actually too small. I wore them when I weighed 190 lbs. But when I have one on it pushes in such a,way that I feel the pain in my chest. I feel it certain ways I move, also and when I take a deep breath. But not when I'm not wearing the bra. I haven't felt the pain much today,but I'm not wearing a bra. L

I think I'm tired because I'm anemic or have low Vit B12. Taking Metformin long term can lower B12. Low B12 can cause fatigue and loss of energy. I take the highest dose of Metformin allowed and have taken it for 15+ years.

Carol Sue The salmon turned out much better than the last time I cooked it. I started cooking it in boiling water for a few minutes on each side and then drained off the water and wiped down the pan and added enough butter plus onion and garlic and seasoned the 2 pieces of salmon and added it to the butter mixture and added lemon juice to the butter sauce for flavor after browning on each side. Could have been cooked just a minute or 2 less. It was very good. DH liked the fat left on the salmon and cooked crisp, but I didn't eat the fat. I think that now that I have figured out how to cook it, I will get better at it the more I cook it. I watched a woman cook salmon on FB, but then she cooked more than I do.

I ended up eating around 1500 calories. I will do better. I definitely can't eat fruit anymore. It just tears up my stomach. The potty issues are terrible. I told DH that I might as well go on low carb/keto, but still not ready to do it. However, if I'm going to continue eating the foods I want, I think I will have to cut my calories back and possibly do a shorter eating window... more like a 4 to 6 hr eating window. I will decide after my next infusion; especially the labs at oncology.

Trish I don't cook salmon anymore because DH doesn't like the way I cook it. I cook it on my grill pan with olive oil spray and s&p. He likes it the way they cook it at Texas Roadhouse and Rodneys. They grill it but I don't know how they grill it. I like theirs and mine,but they turn out different. . Yours sounds good the way you cooked it.

​I m not weighing today. I don't know why. Don't want to see a bad number. I know I'm still eating too many carbs. I'm having bowel pain like I had before I had my bowel surgery. I hope I don't have to go through that again! Yikes! Online it says to fast, or have a liquid diet. I am trying to eat lightly,low fiber. I'm allowed eggs on low fiber. It didn't hurt yesterday or today. So maybe its healing. I feel like I'm falling apart. My chest pain stopped. Something is wrong with my Fitbit so it didn't register my sleep score. Overnight it was not registering my heart rate and its not showing results on the app except to say I slept for 6.5 hours. Its not showing details like I usually get. I had a hard time falling asleep but then slept til 11:00 am.

Carol Sue I am so sorry you are not feeling up to par. I actually know how it feels not to feel great some days, but I have decided it doesn't matter how I feel. I just need to do my best to live each day as best as I can. I decided to go ahead and do my exercises and do something worthwhile each and every day. It actually makes me feel good to feel like I've done something even when I didn't feel good. In fact, I usually find that it makes me feel better knowing I have accomplished something. But then that is just me. You are still healing from your surgery. I'm sorry about your Fitbit not working. Isn't it new? Can you replace it? I hope you feel better soon.

My weight was the same today as yesterday. I hope that means the gains have stopped and I will be able to start losing weight again after my next infusion. This gives me time to figure out just how I want to eat. DH had the leftover chili and I had a Spaghetti and Meatballs frozen dinner and a salad. I don't know how many calories I had. Maybe around 1500. I'll get there. Right now I'm trying to get the goodies eaten and or thrown out. I'm just trying to eat only as much as I need to eat each day.

Hope you feel better tomorrow.

We went to the casino and it wasn't pretty. Im going to start refusing to go. I'll see how that works out.

I don't think my tiredness is from my surgery. I should have recovered from that a long time ago. I think its low Vit B12. I've been reading about it and talked to a friend about it. I don't know what um going to do about it. Metformin lowers the absorption of it, so maybe taking it wouldn't help. I know they have shots for it as my sister in law takes them. She needs it because she had weight loss surgery and that also lowers the absorption. It must be an important nutrient.

I understand how you feel about accomplishing things every day. You have a good system going for you. I will get there some day.

Scale back up to 177 this morning. Sleep was pretty good. I got my Fitbit working again. Somehow the heart rate sensor got turned off. This is the old one. I switch around because the bands are different colors. Silly, I know.

Eggs are a good source of B12 so maybe I'm not low. I'm going to supplement anyway and see what happens.

PA is no longer mailing registration renewals for cars, so you have to check to see when it expires and then renew online or at the DMV. Step daughter was stopped yesterday and given a warning. I will have DH check ours. She also had a burned out headlight. Its hard to know that because you are usually in your car when the lights are on. They did not get a citation. Maybe because her DH is fire chief.