Carol Sue I hope that even though the day wasn't great at the casino, I'm brought home some of your money. I had a feeling that DH would want to go to the casino for your birthday, I hope you had a good birthday. I hope you get a good nights sleep.

I finally got a person online with the cellphone company that I could help me by answering my questions and setting DH and my 2 phones. We got his phone Friday and just now got someone who actually helped got my phone upgraded and added his to the original account.

I'm still working to get everything organized for this year which I hope we will have done by the end of this week. I used to do everything, but I think DH and I both enjoy doing and do better than the other. I notice that there are things he seems to like doing. So we are sharing chores and it really works and I enjoy not having to do especially with cooking. Maybe my diet will get better too.

Goodnight.

Even with no dinner the scale is still 174! Better luck tomorrow.

I want tocook a pork roast today. Pork is my new favorite meat. Its big so we will have a lot of leftovers.

Trish, I'm glad you are getting things organized and DH is helping. I need to do that too.

I hate setting up a new phone. I don't like my new one as much but LG doesn't make phones anymore. They were my favorite. This time I got a Motorola.

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I didn't take my pork roast out early enough for it to defrost so DH "made dinner." He went to the local grocery to play the lottery and bought a rotisserie chicken and 2 donuts. He stopped at Dollar General for ice cream. Came home and made home fries and I cooked broccoli. I will cook the pork roast on Saturday because DH will want fish tomorrow.

Carol Sue I always loved my LG phone and hated it when they quit making them. We are with Straight Talk from the when Walmart started offering them in SC. We have Samsung. I got mine free a few years back when they stopped LG and they said I had to upgrade, So that was easy to switch to new phone easily, We both have Samsung but different versions. I really think the woman I talked to didn't do her job helping setting up. When I would ask her what something meant she would just tell me to skip it for now then nothing would work after that. It finally activated but nothing would work on his and some things I couldn't do that I could before. The man got everything working now and I am trying to help DH learn how to do some things he can learn on his own.

I think pork meat is my favorite meat too. Our 21st anniversary is Saturday so I might cook a port roast. I've got both beef and pork.

Weight was down to 159.4 this morning and my FBG was 108, The strange thing is that this happens with me eating more carbs and less sodium but sodium not too low.

Got the house phone disconnected so I am almost done with this week except I forgot to do all my exercises yesterday. I still one more to do for today to get 60 minutes done today. I'll try to get everything else done tomorrow. I will try to get organized and check in earlier in the day.

Have a good nights sleep.

Trish, you are really doing great with your weight and exercise. Im impressed with your dedication to health.

DH uses Consumer Cellular for his phone and never wants to switch. He uses a flip phone and I dont think he could figure out a smart phone. He always gets mine screwed up and I have to fix it. I still have Tracfone and like it because it is so cheap. We still have a landline. It is cheap because it is tied in with our internet and tv cable. Most people call us on the landline.

I got a good nights sleep and feel good. Not hungry yet. Scale is down 1 lb to 173. I need to do better and get down lower. Its important to me. I need to eat more vegetables. I've slacked off. Im craving carrots but I want to get some full size carrots to cook with my roast. I usually use baby carrots. Dr Fuhrman says even though carrots are higher carb the fiber is more important. I don't get enough fiber. I also want to get more frozen peas. DH always likes canned but I like frozen. We watched a lady on tv cook fried green beans and I want to make them. DH said he would eat them. For some reason I usually cook broccoli but I need to eat different vegetables.

Here is the show where we saw the fried green beans. It also shows the recipe.

https://athome.ctvn.org/2024/01/25/arlene-makes-3-viewer-recipes-beef-noodle-casserole-peach-crisp-and-italian-green-beans/

Carol Sue My phone is a Tracfone, but I never figured out how to use it and ended up on google. By the time I realized I could have been used instead of google I was already on it. I don't know if DH could use it or not.

I didn't get everything done, but we got the cellphone working and learning how to use. Tried to find out when my next treatment is but I guess they were too busy to calll. Hopefully they will send me a message or email this week. Weight was down to 157.2 this morning. I'm trying to figure out what is causing me to have potty issues and I finally decided that I can't eat fruit. I can't prove it because I can't figure it out for sure but I think when I had potty issues back in SC and I thought it was caused by metformin, that maybe it wasn't the metformin. Maybe it was the fruit that I had added to my food plan back then. I'm going to give up fruit for a while. In fact, I've decided to do a fast with the church I watch on tv is going to do a fast I think in February. He is teaching his church on different ways to fast Biblically. One of the ways is the way some church's do by giving something for Lent. I'll come closer to doing it faithfully if I do it for Bible thing than a weight thing. So I will give up fruit during theif fast which I think is either for 21 or 28 days. I'll have to check that out.

I finally got all my exercises done about an hour ago. Those I refuse to let slide. I'm upset that I had at least 3 or 4 days I forgot to do all of them everyday. I still need to make a Anniversary card for DH. I'm not cooking tomorrow because DH bought steaks for to celebrate our 21 yrs together. I will go on our PCP portal and erase the home phone # and add DH cellphone. Check in how to setup a separate email address so I can learn how to use somethings on my Medicare Advantage plane.

Have a good nights sleep. I want to try to start checking in with you earlier every day.

Good night.

I was so tired last night. I went to bed early and didn't post. I think that was even before you posted,Trish. Anyway, we went to the old casino.. He wanted to go and the weather was nice. The temperature was in the 60s. The place was so crowded, I guess everyone wanted to go out with it so warm. DH didn't win but brought most of his money home. I enjoyed reading in the food court but I ate an order of fried rice and it must have had tons of sodium. I slept poorly, tossing and turning and my fingers are very swollen. Rings are tight. But the fried rice was very good! The Asian station is only open on Weekends and we rarely go on the weekend. Scale is back up to 174 in spite of taking my fluid pill. You take a chance and learn your lesson. I never make fried rice at home because DH doesn't eat it but it would be healthier. During the night when I didn't feel well I remembered my trips to the ER.But I didn't have any breathing problems like before.

I'm so glad you are staying in the 150s. I know how hard you worked for this, exercising and watching your diet. I know once the exercise becomes a habit like it has for you, you will do it regularly and it will become a permanent part of your life. Although it doesn't directly contribute to weight loss it contributes greatly to health and indirectly to weight.

I'm starting to get my energy back. I've gone back to taking the b complex vitamins I was taking before and maybe they are helping. I might have iron defiency anemia but I still don't want to eat a bunch of red meat. If I'm still low energy when I go back to the doctor in June I will discuss it with him. In the meantime I will do my best on my own. I know losing more weight will help. I did some leg exercises in the car on the long ride to the casino. I did a few arm exercises too but stopped because the people driving by probably thought something was wrong with me! :lol: I used to do that years ago and I even took my hand weights with me in the car.

Today I am finally cooking the pork roast. I bought a bag of big carrots to cook in with it instead of baby carrots. I know a carrot is a carrot but the roast will be cooking long enough to cook the big carrots. DH wants them, too. I was going to make rice pilaf too but after the fried rice issue last night I changed my mind. Maybe mashed potatoes or peeled potatoes in with the roast.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/stayi...ning-discovery

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...ing-phenomenon

Here are 2 articles I found about how exercise contributes to fat burning. White fat cells store fat while brown fat cells burn fat. Exercise causes our bodies to produce a hormone that changes white fat cells to brown fat cells. I hoe the links work. I often have trouble posting links.

Here's another article. From what I am reading here, this might be why I was xxx eating apples,daily a xxx while back.

https://cathe.com/5-scientifically-b...ate-brown-fat/

Hi everyone:
Carol: it was sunny and warm for awhile here yesterday, so I sat in the gazebo and people watched. Buddy was on a long line and sat out with me too.
After a while a friend came over to visit and we had a good gab.
Then DH finished his online meeting and came out, and we ate popsicles.
This is funny, because by warm I mean by January standards, so it was maybe 4 or 5 degrees, I think about 40 F. But in the sun it felt nice and warm, and we were dressed for the weather....
But I was pretty hungry yesterday, and today, not so much. I was going to go out to sing and play tonight, but I have been sneezing and sniffling all day.
Covid test is negative, but perhaps a cold is coming. My attitude now is to stay home and keep sniffles to myself, I don't want to share this with anyone!

Have a good weekend friends.

Fatmad I don't think I could sit outside today in 51 degree weather. In fact, I am sitting in the recliner wrapped up in my blanket. I pray you don't get a cold.

Carol Sue I am not surprised you were tired having gone to the casino twice this week. I'm you are showing signs of short times of energy. I am finding that I have energy when I get up and start my exercise. My strength is getting better as well, but I'm not at the place yet where the strength lasts much past noon, but I think the 2 or 3 days of potty issues. Plus my DS continues to remind me that my body is still healing from surgery. The same thing is true for you as well.

I remember a doctor I saw after the stroke told me that some time we have good and some time we get bac and enjoy the good we get. I use my energy I get during the mornings to get my exercises and other things I need to do before it runs out. Then I rest until I get some more energy. The exercise makes me feel better sp that is why I have started exercising 6 days and off one.

Weight was basically the same today which was up .4lbs, but that wasn't a gaiin. My calories today were 1208 and I'm finished eating within 5 hr eating window.

Have good weekend everybody.

Mad I understand how you feel that it is xxx warm for January. I didn't go out too day but DH said its cold, and by that he means it was 47F. Cold compared to 60. I saw the forecast and its mostly highs in the 40s with no precipitation.

Trish, I know I would feel much better if I got back to exercising but its just the first day is hard to start.

My pork was good but there is so much leftover. We will give some to step daughter to eat for her lunch but her husband has gout and can't eat pork. I don't understand how he eats kielbassi. I have gout but I take meds. He does not apparently. I don't know why he does not take meds. I might ask him.

I hope I sleep better tonight.

The scale is up to 176 this morning! Holy cow!! I better make some changes now! This is getting way out of hand! I didn't eat a lot of carbs yesterday and my pork was very lean. I don't know what the problem is. My rings are still a little tight so I guess I'm still retaining fluid even with taking the fluid pills. I don't think I had a lot of sodium, either.

Carol Sue I understand how hard it is to start exercising. I would not set out to do a lot of exercises in the beginning. I started doing what I could and sometimes it was only a few minutes and finally built to what I wanted to do. It took me a while to get to this place. You will do it and when you do just do as much as you can. Do Not Overdo it.

My weight was still157.6, but FBG was 109. I might have to give up the fruit or eat less of it. I will have to see how the tests I do shows. I saw a post by Dr. Gundry, I think it is his name, which I am sure is an ad but it is about Fasting along with other things. He mentioned everybody should fast 12 hrs between meals. I didn't watch it all but I will go back and see if I can watch all of it when I have time since I have come to believe I probably need to fast and learn what foods I should &should not eat.

I have to go for Lab draw tomorrow in the morning. Still don't know when I have infusion but probably Friday if they keep me on this schedule.

Have a great day everybody.

Trish, I would not want to fast 12 hours between meals. I like to do two meals with 4-6 hours between then overnight.

I have never been a big fruit eater. As a kid my mom bought oranges and bananas. Then as I got older she stopped buying them because money was scarce. DH likes fruit, like plums,,strawberries and bananas. He also likes grapes and raisins. I eat none of them except bananas. I would eat an orange if someone peeled it for me. I eat apples and bananas but often forget to buy them. Fruit is never my first choice. If I was told to stop eating fruit it would be easy.

DH wanted to go to Wal-Mart but I said no. He could have gone himself. Im tired and want to sit. He went out to play the lottery and was going to get fish sandwiches from Arbys. He came home without them and made La Choy chicken chow mein. I didn't want that but I ate some. My fingers are still swollen.

I hope your potty issues stopped. I have had them today so my swelling might go down. Many things can cause it. Sometimes it can be meds but mostly something you eat. I don't know what caused mine. They are mild.

Years back when I was exercising regularly I rarely missed and my blood work was great! That was in 2010. Then I had my bowel surgery and never got back to it regularly. I have done it sporadically since then. Many people say you do not have to exercise to lose weight and that's true. Weight loss happens in the kitchen. But I've recently been reading how exercise influences weight loss thru your hormones. And its important for health and fitness. Fitness happens in the gym. That does not mean you have to go to a gym to exercise. You can exercise throughout the day the way you do. I think that's best. Our bodies were made to move. And food is meant for fuel.

We have offered our weight station to son in law and he said yes he wants it. But he has to come to take it apart and haul it or I will sell it. I need that space so I can get the free step I want. I still can't make up my mind. If I get that I know I will get back to exercising. But I don't know if I want to spend that money. I don't NEED it. I have everything I NEED for exercise. But I did it at cardiac rehab and I liked it. It was my favorite! I'm not sure we will know how to put it together. I will pray about it and God will give me an answer.

Carol Sue I wouldn't want to do a 12 hr fast either. I really like doing 4 to 7 hr fasts and I just need to figure out whar hrs to do and what meals I want to eat and which foods I can tolerate and what foods I can't.

Today has been a fairly good day and the potty issues were a little better than yesterday. Got to go to bed soon so I can get up and get ready to go for Labs done and DH needs to go to Sam's on the way home. He wants Chinese so that will be our main meal tomorrow.

Good night.

The scale is back down to174 today so the 176 was fluid. One ring is still a bit tight. I don't usually wear it all the time. I usually just put it on when I get dressed up. But I don't want to take it off now because it is letting me know where my fluid stands. The other ring I wear all the time and its back to normal. My ankles never seem puffy to me but sometimes the doctors say they are.

My potty issues are gone. I hope yours are too. I also hope your labs go well and they schedule your infusion. I don't know what we are going to eat today but DH will be asking. On Monday we usually go to Wal-Mart and senior day at Goodwill. Maybe for dinner we can get the fish sandwiches that DH didn't get yesterday. They are very tasty for fast food fish. And its somtthing small for me to eat because I don't get fries with mine like DH does.