Carol Sue I actually thought I had posted yesterday. I'vw been sleeping a lot after I had the infusion. Not sure why this time.
I was 156.4 lbs this morning. Just can't get under 155 lbs. Really need to eat only 2 meals a day. I feel like I'm eating too much.
I'm glad you got your machine. Did you get to use it today? I hope so. I didn't do all mine today but decided to save the bike to do tomorrow. I need a short nap. Catch you tomorrow and hope I will feel better then.
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I. saw your post last night and was happy to see you are ok. Getting extra sleep is a good thing sometimes. Your body needs it.
I slept ok. Didn't get to sleep until 2am. DH's hip has been hurting where he broke it a few years ago. But he never goes back to get it checked so there's nothing I can do but worry. I think he did something to it when he was putting the exercise machine together. He won't take Tylenol Arthritis which might help but he says its not Arthritis. Its just a stronger formula, nothing special.
I did not get a chance to use my stepper yesterday. I usually exercise awhile watching my soaps but we were out. After that I was tired. I don't usually exercise on weekends but I might today. I like to watch tv while I exercise but I only get 2 stations on that tv and there's nothing on on weekends. I sure do have a list of excuses don't I? There's an old saying " If you want to do something you will find a way. If not you will find an excuse.". I know from past experience that once I get started I will feel so much better and it will become a lifestyle change like it has for you. You are doing great! I hope to do some exercise today and/or tomorrow.
Today the scale is back down to 173.0. Almost made it to 172. I know I am eating too much. I have to be "on a diet" mentally in diet mode to lose. I don't usually follow a plan, but I eat low carb and do IF with a <6 eating window. I have not been doing those things or even thinking about weight loss. I've been eating whatever is in front of me available. I've been eating candy that DH buys. I have to stop that even for my diabetes. Luckily the only cake he has been buying is Hostess Twinkies and I never liked them. I guess if I was really desperate for a sweet snack I would eat one but I dont. They don't even tempt me. The apples I bought went bad, and so did the avacados. I buy them in an attempt to eat healthier but it doesn't work. I intended to make myself eat one a day but I guess its just not my choice of what to eat. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. So I think if I can just get back to eating more vegetables I will improve.
I am reading a very interesting book. You might like it Trish. It is bites Licks and Tastes. It's written by a woman who was a WW leader. It was very interesting. I liked one story. Her son was gaining weight and she wanted to help him lose. While she was getting dinner ready she would set out a pitcher of water, with some fruits and vegetables. Her son would have some while waiting for dinner to be ready. By starting with water and fresh fruit and vegetables her son ate less dinner and more fiber and lost weight. When it happened with her daughter her daughter was inactive. She got her involved in activities she enjoyed,like ice skating. It was interesting about at work WW programs and It was also interesting how WW closed things down when they stopped having in person meetings. I really think you would enjoy this book Trish after doing WW for so long and being so successful with it. It is free on Amazon.
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I want to discuss a,syndrome I have and have had for years. Its,similar to "Last Supper" when you eat a huge meal because you know you're starting a new diet. I have this thing when I have to finish eating all the ice cream for example so it won't be around to call my name. In this instance it doesn't work because then DH buys more ice cream. He hardly eats any of it. He likes vanilla but buys chocolate because he knows I won't eat vanilla. Its one thing that he's doing this to me,but my problem is that I eat it so it will be gone but in 2 days its back. If I would leave the last portion in the freezer he would not buy more. But I cant.
I didn't exercise. I'm not in tune to it because I'm stressed about DHs hip. I hope it doesn't hurt tonight. He says its ok now. He went to the store to play the lottery. He wants to go to the local casino but I said no because of his pain in his hip. Tomorrow is Super Bowl so he should not want to go. Wednesday is Valentine's Day but I don't want to go on Valentines day. I hate it!
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Carol Sue I actually slept all day yesterday. I think I may have had a touch of a UTI and really wonder why they didn't catch it with my 24 hr urine test. I never had any pain or fever, I did sweat something off yesterday and last night. I think I'm over it because I feel better today.
DH suggested last night that I go back to drinking a cup of coffee to help me stay awake. I did have a cup that I drank during my phone visit with DS. He has only one day off each Sunday so we talk on Sunday morning. This the son who came for Thanksgiving. When I married DH and moved to FL my kids didn't have anything to do with me for years. I'm the only parent who is left he has as his Dad and birth Mother have both passed away. So when I got sick, he and his wife both changed. Now he texts me everyday except for Sunday when we talk.
Yesterday I only had a protein shake and a serving of chicken noodle soup with crackers and a cup of milk. This morning the scale read154.6 lbs but of course that won't be there tomorrow. However, I hope the 155 lbs will be back in the next few days.
I've decided to exercise Mon-Fri and take the weekend off. I think another problem I had was pushing the exercise too much as I was pushing myself to do a count of 40 instead of the 30. Even when I didn't think I could make it, I would push and do it any way. Once I went back to 30 count, it was easier. I am going to try to work myself into either 2MAD of 2MAD and a snack. That is questionable as I may have to eat 5 or 6 small meals that are more like mini-snacks because I'm back to feeling too full.
I pray your DH hip isn't bad again. He needs to have it checked out but we know how is about that. I also hope he won't want to go to casino on Valentines Day.
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I am a little worried about you Trish. There's a reason that you are sleeping so much,plus feeling too full. I hope you are ok. You probably need to increase your exercise more slowly. Or maybe break it up between morning and afternoon doing 2 sets instead of all in one.
I'm very tired again today. I slept a little better but I know I'm overeating. Especially carbs. Today I'm cooking NY strip steak which are small. DH wants mashed potatoes and broccoli. I'm not really hungry because I ate so much today. . But I will eat then fast for overnight. It is all nutritious food.
Awhile back I bought Armour beef stew instead of Dinty Moore.because it was a little cheaper. It didn't have any meat in it. I emailed the company and they sent me a coupon, but I didn't want to buy it again. DH bought it recently and he had it for lunch and no meat! So we will never buy buy it again. Dinty Moore has lots of meat. Sometimes we get Aldi's beef stew and it has meat in it. But we don't go there much anymore. Just when I need certain things. We buy Armour chili and its fine but not the beef stew.
Time to cook the steak!
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Dinner was good. My steak had a bit of gristle but I always give DH the good one so he doesn't complain. I ate too much again!
Im glad your son is talking to you again. I know you are not his bio mom but he is maybe a nephew that you raised. I don't remember the details you told me long ago.
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I've had a good day but a lot of gas this evening. I think I'm going to work at eating less gas producing foods, but will have to see if I can figure out what is causing it. I don't think I've even had a nap today. If I did wasn't long. I did drink a cup of coffee for breakfast.
My DS who is close to me and stays in touch is a step-son I raised. The mother of the 3 children I call mine just walked away from their life. She walked back in 10 years later and they tried to have a relationship with them, but when they didn't do things she wanted them to do, she cut them off even when she died she left them nothing and gave everything to her step son. I'm sure that hurt them tremendously. I've just tried to be there fpr them and love them no matter what the way a Mother should. I heard this son tell her when she called him when she came back. He said, "We can be friends but I don't need a Mom because I have a Mom who loved me when I wasn't worth loving." It is so nice to have him back in my life. He was a kid who was always getting in to trouble, but he has become a precious good hearted man.
My calories will be a little over 1000 calories for today.
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Trish, I've had gas recently but don't know what causes it. I hope you figure it out.
I. Get along well with my step children but don't know how it would be if DH passed away before me. They rarely come to see him but they call often.
Im tired and ready to go to bed but I will wait til DH goes. He has to go back to the doctors tomorrow. He is taking our blood pressure machine to check against theirs because his was very high at his appointment but it is good on our machine at home.
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Slept well last night.
Scale at 173 again. I hope it goes down from here and not up.
Did you watch the Super Bowl? We did. I didn't care who won but I'm happy for the Kansas City Chiefs! It was a very close game, 2 good teams. I went to bed before it was over but I was watching tv and checked the score now and then. Then DH came to bed and told me who won.
Trish, I was reading about feeling full. One reason can be Gastroparesis, which is when your stomach doesn't empty as it should. It has several causes. One cause of this can be Chemotherapy treatment. So that might be why you have this. This might be why many cancer patients lose an excessive amount of weight. I think you are losing normally,but not excessively. And you seem to be eating well enough to get your required nutrients.
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Carol Sue Yes we watched the Super Bowl. We didn't really care who won, but DS said he was San Francisco because he was always for the underdog. However, I thought it turned out to be a good game because it was not a runaway game by the Chiefs.
What did the doc say about your DH bp and his hip? I hope everything will be okay.
I've had another good day. Actually I am also making sure that I get enough sleep by getting up closer to 9:30 each morning. I read this morning about what happens if you are taking too much magnesium and a lot of what I am feeling is listed from getting too much magnesium. In fact, I am amazed at how many things are caused by magnesium even feeling too full. You know I took prescription magnesium when I came out of the hospital when I had the stroke. I finished the prescription and went back to the one DH and I take. Now I will stop taking it just to see if that is the problem.
No I'm not losing quickly. I seem to be staying around 155 and bounce between 155 to 157 which makes wonder if my weight is where it is going to be. I guess we will see. I figure I could live with that if I had to.
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I used to take magnesium glycinate but stopped because I read about the danger of too much. I never took the full dose though. Two tablets is one dose but I only took 1 tablet at bedtime.I don't eat much magnesium in my diet. Im just afraid of it.
I would be very happily to weigh 155!! But I need to do the work to get there.
DH did not get his hip checked but now that its feeling better I might talk him into getting it checked.
They compared our blood pressure monitor to theirs. His blood pressure was too high on both. He showed the nurse the reading on our machine from this morning where it was good at home. They concluded that our machine is the same as theirs and his blood pressure just spikes at the doctors. So they told him to continue checking at home and if its good to just continue what he's doing.
I ate too much again today. I don't know what's wrong with me!!
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Morningg. Scale went to 175 this AM. I didn't like that so I got off and back on again and it went to 173, my special magic weight number. Haha ha.
My scale measures BMI,body fat, lean, body water and other things. My body water is always low. Even before I took the fluid pills. It also tells me my metabolic age is 85. I don't know why but that doesn't sound good to me!
This morning I ate pancakes for Shrove Tuesday. I don't think I've had pancakes since last Shrove Tuesday. I eat 2 pancakes with a fried egg on top of each. DH made the pancakes and I cooked the eggs. It's hard to have 2 people cooking in my little kitchen. He's always in the way! So begins Lent. We only forgo meat on Fridays, and on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. My religious upbringing didn't observe fasting for Lent but I do it for DH.as its his religious observance. One year I gave up carbs for Lent and lost 11 lbs. I can't do that now. It would be too hard to give them up completely living with DH. I guess I could try, and do it the best I can.
We had no rain or snow overnight but the rest of PA got severe weather including a tornado in the Philadelphia,area. On the radio they said if you are traveling east today you will run into bad weather and roads.
We are not going to the casino tomorrow because we are going today. We never go on Tuesday but I guess there's a first time for everything.
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Well, today has been a good day, but a busy one. It has taken me a good month and a half but I have finally all the things I wanted to do at the beginning of the year. Most of my bills are on auto pay. I love having everything paid before it is actually due. I've also been spending the last few days to find myself a new wig but I want the length to be around my neck just above my shoulder and closer to the color my hair has grown out to be now. I have a hair appointment Friday to see my beautician. I will have help me decide on a color then.
Now new goals. I want to work on my house and try to get it organized again before it gets too bad. I'm beginning to care about keeping my house clean like I did before I got sick. We have even made a choice as to where we want to go to church. I wrote a letter and DH mailed it today to the Pastir we watch in tv and told him we want to join his church when I am able to come back. We have been there before I got sick but didn't get to do that before I got sick. I honestly am beginning to fill that good again.
I am going to check into eating small meals because my stomach feels so much better when I eat very small amounts of food at a time. Weight was 155.2 this morning.
Carol Sue I never took more than 1 magnesium at a time and then only at bedtime. When I had the stroke, I found out they gave it to in IVs. That was when I realized that was why spent most of my time in the bathroom. Then when they released me from the hospital they sent me home with a prescription of it. I finished taking the prescription and went back to using the one DH and I use. Now I am not using it at all and not sure that I will ever go back to using it. I didn't sleep as well last night as I did with it, but I can always get sleeping pills if I need them, but I hope that I won't have to.
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I took that magnesium last night but didn't sleep any better . maybe its old and expired.
DH hit a jackpot today at the casino! Finally! $1100. Plus he didn't lose any of the money he took with him. I'm glad he finally won. Maybe he will want to go on Tuesday now.
I'm so glad you're feeling better about getting your house organized now. Thats a good sign.
My tooth that needs a crown is starting to bother me so I will have to get that fixed. I think I'm allowed to have dental work by now but I will check with the cardiologist. It doesn't actually hurt, yet, but feels uncomfortable. I wish my old dentist was still around but he moved to Florida.
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I took Tylenol. Slept good and woke up with no pain.
The pain showed up on the scale. 175. I really overate yesterday. I thought going to the casino would make up for it because I rarely eat there but it didn't help.
I wanted rotisserie chicken today but then I remembered we don't eat meat on Ash Wednesday. Step daughter brought me 2 heads of cabbage that someone gave her so I made Halushki, (cabbage and noodles,) and DH got fish sandwiches from Arbys. The sandwiches were 2 for $6 and the cabbage was free, so cheap dinner today.
I think I forgot to take a fluid pill today but I did take the second one at 5 pm.
Today DH got another call from someone claiming to be his grandson saying he had been in a car accident. This is the second one. The person calls him grandpa but our grandson calls him Pap Pap. Step son always called him Pappy so that's where grandson got it. DH played. along with it and eventually just hangs up.
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