Carol Sue That chicken and rice sounds good. I've got potatoes, but plan to use them with the beef roast I bought last week. I'm not sure DH would want to eat the chicken and rice.

I haven't checked my calories for today as of yet, but I was through eating around 5ish, but I will check it in a few moments.

The scale broke thru to 176. It has not been below 177 for a while now. I took 1/2 Lasix yesterday. I had a foot cramp during the night, though. It would only stop if I stood on it. Very annoying. This is going to be a topic at the cardiologist in June.

I don't know if DH is going to want the chicken and rice but I'm making it. He eats Rice A Roni if I make it and he eats rice if we have LaChoy Chow Mein. That doesn't have much chicken in it and I like to put extra in but DH will decide he wants it last minute so I started buying canned chicken to add to it instead of cooking fresh chicken. You seem to eat differently than we do and I know we would not eat some things that you do, and vice versa. DH doesn't seem to like southern style cooking. He doesn't like ribs, or any BarBQ. We have Smokey Bones here. that's the only BarBQ place in our area. We went there once. After he found out what it is he never wanted to go there. Step son and family like BarBQ. Somewhere near him there's an old black man who cooks BarBQ and sells it. Its not a restaurant. I'm not sure where he cooks and I doubt if he's legal. But step son will go there and get food for them. We have never gone to Cracker Barrel and there are probably very few things DH would eat there. I was there once for lunch when I worked near there. Its not real close for us. Probably 1/2 hour or more. I don't know why they don't put one near us. I would like it. I don't know why I didn't marry a guy who will eat anything and everything that's put in front of them. I know they are out there. DH and all his brothers are very picky eaters. DH always tells me "You will eat anything!" And that mostly true. I love to try things I've never had before.

DH is not coughing as much. Once I bought the cough and cold medicine and he ate the chicken soup I think that loosened the mucus up and he coughed it up. He said his chest hurts from coughing. His daughter calls a couple times a day to ask how hes doing. I don't think his son even knows he's sick. I think he's on his way to getting better. I have a bit of a runny nose,thats all so far. It will be a miracle if I don't get sick.

Carol Sue Congratulations on the 176 lbs. Mine is coming back down slowly but with my situation I think that is probably good. Ever since I learned that I was losing weight fast because I had cancer, I'm not trying to lose quickly. I just want to be losing and hope to start losing steadily as well as healthily.

My 1st 2 Hubbies would eat just about anything. DH #2 didn't like casseroles, but would eat them if he had to. DH I have now won't eat them either although he has eat them when his DD cooked them. I've just learned what he will and will not eat and work around it. However, there are a few things I cook any way and he will eat them because I give him no choice. I figure if I can change the way I eat to please him that he can endure a few of the things I like.

We had the roast for dinner and have just enough left over for a small meal tomorrow. I didn't eat breakfast this morning because I wasn't hungry this morning either. I had raw broccoli and cauliflower with ranch dressing for dip and a few mandarin oranges and a protein shake for a second meal around 6:30. I hope I can keep eating this way. I like eating the raw veggies but I probably won't buy them again because they ruin before I can eat all of them.

Scale back up to 177 but its .2 so less than a lb. Im ok.. I slept good. Not a long sleep but deep. Weird dream.

DH realizes that the cough and cold meds are spiking his BP. I could have bought the one that's ok for BP but I bought the one he wanted,as he would be angry if I didnt. So now I need to buy the other. He is doing well except still coughing up mucus that is tight in his chest. He probably needs to continue the cough meds but won't take this one now. He also does not drink enough water,than thins the mucus. We approach cold differently. I don't take meds except Tylenol because I'm afraid they will interact with my prescriptions. DH gets mad that I won't take anything but I feel safer. I just let it run its course. He is really a lot better.

I have a roast in the freezer but I don't know if its beef or pork. I want to cook it on Sunday. He already told step son we are not doing Mothers Day because of his cold. I don't like them to come here because I am expected to serve lunch and I should not have to do that on Mothers Day. It's also hard to have something everyone will like,,especially my DIL who cannot eat so many things. I think her mother is coming to their house and they sort of invited us. DH said no. The roast will be fine for the two of us.

Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary. 43 years. We got married in 1981 and bought this house and moved in. Married in May, moved in July. We moved 10 miles away. The other house was his house with his first wife. It would be a perfect house for us now. Smaller,with no stairs. But its in a high tax area. This is a better location for shopping . no restaurants in that town. Not even McDonalds. 3 pizza shops. This area has way too many pizza shops! There are many more restaurants here because of the turnpike interchange. People stop to eat. We used to have 3 -24 HR restaurants but the pandemic killed that. None are open past 7-8 PM except for fast food. . Restaurants have trouble getting employees,now. DH really prefers a sit down restaurant to take out. Some that we liked have closed and never reopened!

I do not like eating raw fresh vegetables. I mostly eat cooked because I like them soft. I think I'm also afraid I will break my teeth eating something hard. And i think cooked are easier to digest. Step daughter eats a lot of raw vegetables. They eat them every night while watching tv. The only raw veggie I eat is celery and cucumbers because they are not hard. I like them dipped in hummus.

Weight back down under 160. Thank God it was 158.4 lbs this morning. I ate my 2 fruits along with my Protein shake this morning. We are having the rest of the roast for dinner today. There isn't a lot of meat left and I will put it in my salad and let my salad be my meal. I think I will start having my breakfast food for supper each day and continue having my protein shake and fruit in the morning except for when I'm going somewhere. I won't take my Lasix in the morning when we go out either. I think all that weight I had was fluid. I will just take one Lasix when we go somewhere.

I'm making a list for the store tomorrow. DH told me yesterday that we need to go to the store on Thursday. Neither one of us like going on Fridays especially after my infusion because they are so crowded. He wants me to go even though I don't want to go so I guess I will go. There are a few things I want to look far so I will make t hat my exercise tomorrow. I would love to walk at Sam's but not sure if I will try it or not because I want to shop at the local store where DH has to pick up a prescription.

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If I continue to eat like I did today I will weigh 200 in no time at all! Lucky for me, DH got McDonald for his dinner so I can stop eating.

I forgot to take Lasix today so I will take 1/2 now. I have to figure out how to not get leg cramps. I always took potassium with Lasix in the past but this doctor didn't prescribe it. I didn't get a cramp until right before I got up today but I dread getting it tonight. I wish I could stop taking this. I don't want it for weight loss because I want fat loss, not fluid loss. Maybe I will skip it today. Or take 1/4. My ring is tight.

I had 1123 calories today but 128 carbs. Protein was low but sodium was too.

My favorite time to go to Wal-Mart is Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at 10am. They are stocked but not crowded. We have been going on Monday because of Senior Day at Goodwill. Sometimes Monday is not good because their stock is low after Saturday and Sunday. I don't know what days are good at the local store because I don't go there often. My favorite meat store is changing ownership. It was the current owner that was so good. He is retiring and corporate is taking over until they find anew franchisee. I hope their meat department doesn't change. They also had a great bakery, a bank,and a post office that people are hoping doesn't change. Having the post office is very convenient. You can buy stamps,mail packages without having to go into town for the big post office. When I go to the store I like to be in and right out. No delays.

Scales still 177. Good sleep,but DH coughed all night. He's mostly the same as yrsterday.

Busy morning. We went to the greenhouse to buy tomato plants. Can't plant them til the end of May,but have to get them while they still have a good selection. Then we went to a different restaurant for a quart of chicken noodle soup and a strawberry pie. That was our lunch. I can't decide which soup is best but DH and step daughter prefer Bob Evans. It is thicker and called Chicken and Noodles. This other one is more liquid and is a true soup. Both have good taste. Even the dog ate some and he loved it.

I took my roast out of the freezer to defrost for Sunday. It is a beef rump roast that I will cook in the pressure cooker with potatoes and big carrots. We haven had a beef roast for a while. I don't know what we will have today,maybe NY Strip steak.

Carol Sue I never liked taking fluid pills, especially Lasix and took very little of them over the years, but my oncologist explained to me that he wants me to take what I need because he doesn't want fluid building up around me organs and squeezing them. Once he explained all that to me, I understand why my Daddy and DH#2 had to tak Lasix. They both had CHF, but I don't and I assume that my doctor is trying to keep me from having it. I also take potassium on my own and even eat some foods with potassium in it. DH#2 had a doctor who kept a close watch on his potassium when he had to take a lot of Lasix. He didn't have him on that much Lasix all the time and there were a couple of times he had to go to the hospital to get some of the potassium down. When that doctor moved and we had a new doctor, he changed a lot of Hubbies meds put him on high amounts of Lasix, but didn't add any potassium. I always believed that DH died because the new doctor put him on too much Lasix but never put him back on potassium. The sad thing is that I could not talk DH#2 into going in to see the new doctor when he started feeling bad. I always thought he got tired of fighting him and wouldn't go to him when he got sick and within a few weeks he was gone. I've always wished I had put him on potassium myself. I didn't know the things about how to talk to doctors like I do now because I didn't work in medical field till after he died.

When I worked taking care of patients in their homes, I learned a lot. I had a patient who was falling all the time and my boss found out through pharnacy it was caused by a medication she was on. I even had a strong conversation with her son who was a doctor in another state and when he told me I had to give the medicine to his Mother, I told him, "If you insist that I give her this medicine, I will have no choice but to give it to her; however, I want you to understand that she will continue falling and I am not going to be responsible because I have told you how it affects her". He decided to take her off of the medicine and she had no more problems falling afterwards. In my opinion, you need to discuss this with your doctor because it is important.

Weight today is 157.6 lbs. and my FBG 103 and BP 111/65. Things are going great right now. I had the 350 calorie protein shake and my collagen coffee. We are going to the store so DH wants McDs CB. It is no problem because I'm doing 2 Protein Shakes and OMAD at least for a few days.

We went to Sam's and the local store. At least DH did. I stayed in the car and read. I had to go to the bathroom so told DH I didn't want to go into the local store because I didn't know where the bathroom is. I can't do stairs if it was up stairs.

DS drinks 2 Protein shakes each day. Her DD got her a new flavor at her their Sam's called Salted Caramel Popcorn Protein Shakes. I wanted to start drinking it at night but our Sam's didn't have it. Of course I was in the car so DH didn't get anything. I think as warm weather comes on that drinking 2 Protein Shakes and OMAD would be so much easier to do. I can have 1 or 2 fruits a day with the shakes. This way I won't have to heat the house up cooking more than once a day.

I took Lasix in the past and took Kdur with it, which is potassium. Then that cardiologist took me off Lasix except when needed. He said if I take the Lasix to take the potassium also. When I had my bowel surgery and I fasted for 5 days my potassium went low and they gave me an IV. I have an appointment with my PCP but have to call soon to make one with the cardiologist. I am on this fluid pill because of CHF but the cardiologist told me the new heart valve did a lot to correct the CHF. There is no cure, but this procedure changed things. So I'm not sure where I stand. I don't want to take potassium on my own without knowing if I'm low because too high is also bad.

I am feeling like I'm getting sick. Today my nose is runny more and I've had a headache off and on. I don't want to take any OTC cold or cough meds. I will take Tylenol.

I have to track my food for today to see where I stand.

Not good. Calories 1532, carbs 209, sodium 2300.

Carol Sue I hope you don't get sick.

I know we are at the age and in situations that we have to go by what our docs say. In the beginning when DH#2 first got sick we had a difficult time getting him to go to the hospital and when we finally talked him into going the dr said his body was so low on potassium that if we had not brought him in that he would have died during the night. Both my PCP and Oncologist knows everything I take even my supplements.

BTW I don't know if I told you or not but I am taking the low statin again. I was experiencing some pain around where I experienced the mild stroke. I wasn't sure what was causing it and decided to try taking the mild one again since I decided the almond milk was causing my stomach pain. So far I'm having no more pain and no stomach problems either.

I pray you feel better soon.

My husband had a horrible night. He has so much chest congestion. He is afraid to take anything because his blood pressure is up,even the stuff I got him that says its ok for high blood pressure. He was improving when he was taking the off cold/cough meds. So far I am ok,but its by the grace of God. I'm right there with him while he's coughing. His son is supposed to stop today to get his tomato plants we bought. So he will see how bad his Dad is. His daughter calls him and he tells her he's ok even though I tell her he's not. She is believing he's fine.

So if I'm not posting its because of him,not me,being sick. So far I'm just sniffly.

Checking in late today so just now seeing the info about your DH. I pray he will get better soon and you won't get sick. I will keep y'all in my prayers.

Nothing new happening here. Haven't been exercising like I should but keeping my calories between 1200 - 1300. I'm convinced the infusion medicine keeps my appetite under control.

Thank you for the prayers,Trish. We need them. DH seems to be a little better. We went to Wal-Mart yesterday and he came in. He went to bed at 8 pm but was watching tv. I stayed out here til 10. He slept and so did i. He's still coughing and congested. I'm not used to him being sick that long. .His colds usually run 3-4 days but this has been over a week now of bad congestion. He has probably lost weight. I am still ok,just a bit of congestion and runny nose.

I'M gaining any weight he's losing. Eating way too much. I like to keep calories at 1000-1100 and carbs around 59-60 but I've been at 1400. And 100+ carbs. Im starting to want to exercise. I've been reading about the dire consequences of too much sitting and want to move more. Im still a little tired but better. I have not been sleeping well since he's been sick and poor sleep leads to overeating for me. Lately everything has tasted good to me, plus my protein is way too low. I know what I'm doing wrong. And have to correct it before I see 181 and above. Stop this today Miss Carol!

I was looking at stats on my Fitbit today and I am burning more calories than I'm eating. Thats good,but there's more to weight loss than that. What and when you eat are important,too. And I did not take my fluid pill yesterday. I just don't like taking it when we are out. Then after 5 pm its too close to bed time. I will take1/2 today because my ring is tight.

Im glad your infusion is controlling your appetite. I didn't really think your cancer caused your weight loss because you were really watching you eating so well, and you had few periods of vomiting and potty issues. I haven't had potty issues for A shile. That might be why I'm gaining. I have been taking the potato starch again so my gut biome might be improving.

I've been cooking my own breakfast since DH has been sick. Its too much standing for him plus I don't want exposure to the germs. I only cook fried eggs because I can't scrambled eggs as well as he does. I don't know what we will be eating today. Maybe pork chops. And tomorrow I'm cooking the beef roast.

Carol Sue I am glad your DH is a little better and you aren't worse. Sorry about the weight gain, but I'm sure you will get things turned around. I'm sure some of your problem is due to worry about your DH. When he is better you will get things under control.

My weight and #s seem to be steady and that is good. I had breakfast and dinner today hoping to switch back to eating breakfast and dinner and no evening eating. Weight is 157.6 and I want to get down to 150 and hope 2MAD will help me get there. I got a beautiful purple flowering house plant from my son and his wife for Mother's Day. It was a nice surprise.

I need a nap. Hope you have a nice evening.

We went to Romney's today. Some friends of DHs were sitting next to us with adult children having a Mothers Day dinner. DH is Godfather to their daughter, and she payed for our dinner. That was very nice of her. She is step daughters age.

DH is still coughing and congested but feels better. He is going to want to go to the casino soon. Im feeling so so. If he mentions the casino I will say I'm sick. Ha ha. It won't be a complete lie.

I had 2 breakfasts today. I cooked eggs this morning. When DH got up he wanted eggs xxx so he cooked for me too. I ate them. Its just eggs. But the calories add up. I'm planning to start exercising on Monday. I have to plan it and its easier for me to do it because its like an appointment that I have to keep. The only thing that will stop me is if I'm sick.

He went to bed so I'm going to follow. I took Benadryl last night and that helped me sleep and I think I will take it again tonight.