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Still 179 this morning. Even though I died not take a fluid pill yesterday. I was still peeing alot.

Trish,there area lot of people on Twitter who have healed from doing carnivore. I believe it can be healing if done properly. Even very low carb can heal some conditions. There's no proof that doing carnivore is what caused the healing but the healing came after doing the new diet for an extended period of time. I think following this plan x can only improve your health and have benefits. I commend you for being able to follow thru with it. I don't think I could. Maybe if I lived alone.

I have had psoriasis for 25+ years. I never took meds for it but tried many creams that didn't really help. Getting a tan would help but it needed to be done continuously. I started taking Vit D because that's what you get from the sun. Hi figured I was low in Vit D because I dont spend much time in the sun. after a year of taking it I read that Vit K2 had to be taken with it to make the body use the Vit D. So I added Vit K2. And it wasn't long before the psoriasis went away. I still have a bit on my right elbow, and some on my scalp. But on my legs, back and belly its gone.There is nothing online that says Vit D helps psoriasis,but it does say the sun can help. I don't know anything else that could have helped. That is my own experience with a medical condition. I was never tested to see if my rash was psoriasis. They do a biopsy. But my PCP said it looked like psoriasis.

Yesterday when we came home from Walmart,I tripped walking into the garage. The other car was in the garage so I held onto the trunk to keep myself from falling. I really thought I was going down, but I didnt. DH got mad, but I told him I have trouble with balance when walking. I usually hold onto his arm. In the house I hold onto furniture. At the casino I hold onto machines and chairs as I walk by. I would really like to take my walker but DH does not want me to. Maybe when I start exercising regularly my balance will improve.

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Im making vegetable soup but DH threw away the piece of cabbage I was saving for it. He can't say "Do you want this cabbage?". I didnt ask him to go to the store but he offered, so I will have cabbage for my soup. Yay!

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Carol Sue I'm sorry you tripped but so glad you didn't fall.

I don't know if I have to do Carnivore or just a really good healthy Keto plan. I will probably work myself into doing the Carnivore Health Plan by starting it on the day after my next infusion. I want to have most of that 3 weeks free of a lot of things I don't want to have to do during that time. I ended up ordering a new ketone monitor so I can track my ketones each day. I definitely want to do the 31 or 32 day carnivore and ease into a Keto woe. I want to be able to do Keto and do it so that I can know how many carbs I can eat and stay in ketosis.

I've been kind of tired today. I got up early so I could start the 24 hr urine test since I have to be through with it when we leave in the morning to go for my lab tests at oncology. I pray all the tests will work out good so I can start back on the chemo that was working so well. I will sleep later Tuesday and Wednesday. Could take a nap right now, but I want to be able to sleep good tonight so I can get up early for lab tomorrow.

We ate almost all the roast today. DH said he will eat it tomorrow if I don't want it. The way I feel right now I won't want anything else today.

Hope everyone has a nice day.

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We went to the casino again today and didn't win,so we broke our lucky streak. I want to cut back but you know how that goes.

I want to fast until dinner tomorrow. We had the soup before we left for the casino around 3 pm. I need to do some fasting to get my blood sugar down to lower my A1c for October. The soup was good but I didnt put any salt in it at all because of the bullion cubes I used. Also,the vegetables were canned so had sodium. So it needs a bit of salt. I put meat in it this time which I dont always do. I hope to give some to step daughter tomorrow.

I also pray all your tests go well so you can return to your treatment.

I forgot to tell you. On Saturday I wasn't hungry for dinner so DH said he was going to go get something for his dinner. He came back with ice cream and a lemon mirangue pie. And that's what he ate for dinner. Men!

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Good sleep lastnight. I took Tylenol and benedryl. Scale was 180. I didn't take a fluid pill because I didn't want to browsing all night. Many times my swelling in my feet and ankles goes down overnight since my legs are elevated. Im not taking Lasix for the swelling in my feet,thats just an indication that I'm retaining fluid.. Im actually taking it for fluid around my heart and lungs. I haven't been taking it every day and I'm only taking half. I still get let cramps when I take it.

Today is Wal-Mart and Goodwill day,even though we went to Wal-Mart on Saturday. There are still a few things I want to get. I told DH I dont want breakfast but he always wants to go to Bob Evans on Monday. I would like to fast until dinner to get my blood sugar down.

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I just screwed up my fast. At Wal-Mart I bought snack mix, with popcorn,little pretzels and reeces pieces drizzled with milk and white chocolate, and I opened it on the way home to try it. Iforgot about my fast. Unfortunately it was pretty good and I couldn't stop eating it. I bought the stuff to make tacos so that's dinner today.

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Lab done and 24 hr urine test delivered. There wasn't anything we actually needed enough to go to the store today and we were both tired so we came straight home and DH went back to bed.

Weight this morning is back down to 153.8 after just 3 days on my weight loss plan. This is what my weight was on July 1st. Hopefully I will be able to start losing some new lbs now. DH had planned to get fried chicken, but it was too early so I came home and took salmon fillets out for dinner. My FBG was 121 this morning, but I believe that is because I ate when I wasn't hungry. I was so satisfied after dinner and could have made it a OMAD, but I had read that it is important to eat at least 2 and preferably 3 meals. I've decided this is from radical carnivore eaters and is not what I need to be doing and since I see some people saying eat only if hungry and stop when satisfied... more of a IE woe and that is how I will be doing this. I will also be eating some veggies. I made myself eat the 2nd meal and I was miserable; so I won't be doing that again.

I found out that Dr. Cywes is or was a bariatric doctor and he helps people like my DS who takes the shots to lose weight and keep it off even if they stop the shots when they lose weight. I think his woe is more of a keto type maybe even ketovore and he says that the carbs in low carb veggies used on a keto/low carb woe of 20 or less does not have to be counted in the 20 grams. I will do my Keto plan the way he suggests.

I also found some places on line that helps you eat keto and also has recipes that I can make. I won't use a lot of them because some people use foods I don't consider keto or carnivore but there were some really good ideas as well. As I become more keto, I might add some of the types of food but not at the beginning.

Enjoy your day out and I hope you can eat more of the foods and way you want to eat. I need to exercise today too, but haven't yet. May do a minimal HIIT types for legs and vibration machine.

Have a great day everybody.

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Had a good day although I never did al the exercises today. I will do them tomorrow and shoot for doing 3 or 4 days this week. I slept a lot because I was up so early.

The salmon was a little dry and I suddenly realized today that I don't really like fish anymore. I think I've only been eating it because they say we should have fish at least 2 days a week. I did a good 2 meal keto woe today. This is day 4 and I will shoot to continue eating this way.

I hope your day was good Carol Sue.

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Weight bumped back to 155.4 lbs probably the 153.8 was from potty issues. Just wish I could see it more and continue to lose weight. I had to talk to the finance lady at oncology about an issue I needed to know what to do about because I was charged for a treatment they hadn't included in my payment plan and she looks awesome. She has really lost weight since I saw her last. She had breast cancer before I met her and she is cancer free. I did notice that she has lost it everywhere but her stomach which makes me wonder if I will ever lose that even with the Ketovore plan. If I do I do and if not it will be whatever it will be. I just would like to weigh small enough not to be considered overweight anymore.

Have my plan on MFP for today and after finished, I went back to see how many carbs I'm eating that is not considered lower carb and I am actually having only 13 carbs today, but MFP shows my net carbs are 20 today. So I'm good there. My FBG is low again, but it won't be when I get back on treatment. Not sure why it is low because I am eating more salt. Maybe I need to stop the Lasix because I know Dr. Atkins always said do not take fluid pills when doing low carb. So I will watch to see what I need to do.

Carol Sue Hope you are doing well today.

Have a good day everybody.

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Trish,I think the salt will increase weight but not blood sugar. Thou probably should not take Lasix if eating low carb because low carb reduces your fluid. You don't want to become dehydrated. In the past,before I started fluid pills, twice when I went to the ER they said I was dehydrated and put me on IV fluids. I never asked why I was dehydrated. I recently learned that G makes you pee a lot and should not be used with Lasix,but I do. Thats probably why I pee my pants but now I only take half and not every day.I only take it when my foot gets puffy and its only my right foot. In the hospital my calves looked like tooth picks . I guess they have a reason for having me on such a high dose but it seems to me to be too high a dose.I'm no doctor but I'm going by my volume of output. I was put on it because of CHF but the doctor told me that the new heart valve corrected the heart failure. I have not had any breathing difficulties.

DH took vegetable soup and Italian bread to step daughters work for her lunch. She loved it. He also gave her A jar to take home for her hubby. I had some for lunch, too. I just can't resume my fasting. There is too much food here to eat with the vegetable soup and the food we bought yesterday. I am making the tacos for dinner today but I will only eat one. I have to get this blood sugar down. I recently read an old book called "the Starvation treatment of Diabetes.". Its how they used to put diabetics on a fast til their blood sugar came down,then gradually gave them food until they were able to control their blood sugar. I think fasting will bring my blood sugar down if I do it EOD or OMAD. The more I read about the injections the more I don't want them. I would love to get the benefits but not the side effects. I know I am eating sugar that I should not be eating. I have to put a stop to that now! I've become too relaxed in my eating. I know better.

I dont think I will ever get below the overweight range. I am still in the obese range now. I just checked online. I have to lose 16 lbs to 164 to be overweight.

I have to lose 44 lbs to be in the normal weight range at 136. Thats,A good goal for me. Tough but not impossible.

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Carol Sue I personally prefer lowcarb/keto woe and I do like doing an IE/IF version of it. I read in one of the books I read to keep a record of how you feel when you eat certain foods to see what your body tolerates etc. This morning I wanted breakfast which I should have eaten. Instead, I decided to put a few blueberries in my Magic bullet glass and add a Premier Protein shake with some ice and make a breakfast shake. I felt totally bloated. My exercise has helped get rid of some of it, but I don't think I will make one again. I might try drinking just the protein shake but not with the added ice and fruit because I think it made it too airish. I really would like to go back to eating breakfast in the morning and have main meal at 3ish and eat nothing else afterwards. But then that does away with the IE effect of eating.

I read in the Carnivore book today that you can read and get so much info that it becomes a stressful thing for you and you defeat your purpose. (My paraphrase) I think I've done that. I think I need to do what it says and just take what applies to me and go with doing as it works for me.

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I agree that you can get too much information. Do what works for you!. 💕. I think you should decide each day if you want breakfast. If not, eat it for supper.

DH wants to go to the casino but I said No,so he says he will go on Friday. The ride home is so hard on me. I am totally beat the next day. I do like when I can sit and read, and sitting in the car riding home should not matter, but something makes me so tired the next day.

I ordered a 12 inch chain saw for DH. It came and was too heavy to hold with one hand. We took hit back to Walmart and they took it off my credit card. Then I ordered a smaller one. It came,and it is fine. Today, the 12 inch was delivered again. Apparently, when Wal-Mart accepted the return, the box had the original shipping label and got sent out again. DH says he is keeping it. I don't think that's right because I was not charged for it again but he does what he wants. I believe in Karma and this will come back to bite him somehow. I just hope it doesn't bite me!! A similar thing happened with a coffee maker. I reported that it never came so they sent another one. We eventually got both of them. I reported the duplicate and they told me to keep it. It was cheap,but this chain saw is $100.

Sleep was good after I took Benadryl and Tylenol. Scale was up to 183. I didn't expect that but I dont think fluid pill gives true weight. I only v take it if my foot is swollen. Blood sugar is almost the same as weight. I have to stop buying junk food.

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Carol Sue I wouldn't want to keep the saw I got money back on either, but that is me. Looks like you are going to the casino either today or Friday. Sorry. It is good that you can read though.

Glad you are getting good sleep. I am getting that too but I think it is the diet and exercise. The only thing I take when I go to bed is magnesium and my bp meds. Plus I go to bed as soon as I get sleepy these days which can be anytime between 12 and 1 am. I wake up at around 7 to 7:30 am but I don't get up until after 8 am unless I have an appointment. I usually lay there and just pray before I get up.

I decided that I want to eat breakfast/brunch and dinner so I can do 2MAD and fast 19 hrs. So I had eggs, bacon and 1/2 avocado this morning for brunch. We are having steak and I will have my salad, broccoli/cauliflower combo and since I like a dessert I will finish it off with carb smart ice cream so I can keep net carbs low. Hopefully I will be able to stay in ketosis. I got my monitor and I am barely in ketosis this morning at .06 but I am happy that I am. Hope I can make it through the evening not eating. I will have a long fast if I can because I don't eat when I'm going to the doctor. My appointment is at 11 am, no infusion planned and I don't want one until after my dental appointment Monday morning. We will go shopping for groceries and pick up prescriptions after doc's appt.

Funny thing is I got the monitor and put the batteries in and turned it on and it wouldn't work. I got so frustrated thinking it was no good. Come to find out I had one of the batteries in backwards. It had springs on both sides which I thought the went in opposite each other but no, they fit in the same direction. I hope that will help me stay on keto and also learn how many carbs my body will tolerate and me stay in ketosis.

Got results of lab and kidneys still having numbers borderline high and off. Some improvement but still off. I am almost through reading the carnivore book and I think I'm eating too much protein and not enough fat. When I've had potty issues it is when I eat too much fat and when constipated not eating enough and possibly eating too much protein. So I think I need to get that more balanced the right way. I do need to eat a little more fat than protein ratio.

Well electricity went off and my tv doesn't work even though power came back on. It has happened everyday about this time for a week. Not sure why. I have to wait till DH gets up to turn it back on because I can't get on my hands and knees to flip the switch for it to come back on.

Still have my HIIT exercises to do so I guess I better get to it.

Have a nice day.

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Trish, what HIIT exercises do you do?

I didn't make anything for dinner because I though DH would want to go out,but he is in there napping. He will get up hungry. I don't know what I want but I'm hungry. At this point I will eat anything,but maybe I should just fast. We just can't get our interests to jive.

DH sometimes has to "reset" our tv but I dont know what he does. If it happens when he's not here I'm sunk. The same with the smoke detector when we are cooking. He takes it down but I can't reach it. I open and close the cellar door like a fan to get it to shut off.

Im watching Fox News and our country is in a total shambles!.Yikes!

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Carol Sue I use a rubber ribbon and sit in my recliner and lift my legs and do circles etc. I do some I saw online and then add a few I just made up on my own. With my recumbent bike, vibration machine, squats etc and the HIIT exercises, I end up with right at 40 to 45 minutes total for the day.

I got the results of all my lab tests and the 24 hr test as well and although there are still some things that needs to improve on my blood work, the urine test came back down to 1260 from 2400 in May which I think means I can go back on the chemo medication I was taking every 3 weeks. If I can still get my teeth done Monday and have an infusion tomorrow, I will do it. I could go get the infusion Monday afternoon after I have my teeth fixed as for as that goes.

Just heard from my DGS and he wants to bring his boys and come see me this weekend. He is bad about saying he is coming over and then gets busy and doesn't show up. I hope he will come.

I did the 2 meals today and got the macros as they should be. I am doing net carbs and my calories were 1003 mg and net carbs of 19. My fast will probably be at least 24 hrs because I don't eat before I go to the doctor plus I have read on and in Keto for Cancer that chemo is easier on the body if you fast. Tomorrow probably won't be a keto day because we eat takeout when we go out and I make that a cheat day.

BTW I agree things are really going crazy in the country. All we can do is pray for God to help us.

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Doctor's appointment went very well. He said I'm doing fine. He wants me to wait another week before doing infusion because he wanted me to wait 3 weeks after last eye surgery. So will start infusions again next Thursday morning and will do them on every 21 days on Thursdays.

He did approve of me dieting as long as I eat healthy. He said eat plenty of protein, less carbs and enough fiber. I told him I thought of cutting back on protein, but he said the protein in my blood work isn't from the digestive system and he says we have to eat enough protein satisfies hunger in order to lose weight. He may be right. I felt like I was getting good advice at the point so I never mentioned what I read about fat.

Walked at the local grocery store and got what I could. I have more things I want to get after my dental appointment Monday when we go to Walmart.

I got up this morning and had a FB message from my Baby sister that her precious DIL passed away last night. The sad thing is that she could have gone to the doctor and gotten a blood thinner and she would have probably lived, because she had been feeling bad. She had a clot in her leg and it went to her heart and killed her. We are all shocked so devastated. She was only 52 years old. She kept telling BS that she was tired and her leg hurts. She and my nephew had been married 30 years. They had 6 children between them and about 17 grandchildren. So so sad. She will be greatly missed. It is just nice we are on the same page.

Hope there was a good reason you haven't written today. Hope you are having a great day. Did y'all try the casino today?