Good sleep. 8 hours. Blood glucose 111. Scale down .6 to 177.4. When i went to bed my stomach hurt and i tried to go tovthe bathroom but could not. I woke up at 5 am and did,lots.So i feel much better today.

Carol Sue I'm glad you are feeling better and FBG and weight looking good too. I think my scales don't like the cold weather or they are old. I got on it and it said 164 and I thought "that can't be". I got back on and it was 162.8. Down .2 lbs so I took it. My FBG was 101 and bp 122/64/ So I'm doing good.

I'm late posting because DS and I talked for almost 2 hrs. He and I only talk on Sunday morning. DGS had wrote last night wanting to come over today, but I suggested they come sometime next weekend and I'm waiting to hear from him. I told him I didn't want the kids to have to bring their own food. I will cook for them and I plan to have some bags of goodies for them to take home. He is checking with his partner to see what day she plans to do something with her family and if she will be off work to be able to come with him. She is a RN. I think I will make spaghetti for them. It is easy and kids usually like it. I'll get some French toast to make garlic toast. I will either make some cookies or buy some made. Everything we have in the house is diet made with either a sweetener or sugar alcohol which not even I can eat without potty issues. I've been hungry for some sugar Christmas cookies. I could make some and eat a few and send most of the home with them. I have a recipe for keto Christmas cookies that I can make later for DH and me to eat. I don't eat sugar alcohols and he needs to stop eating them too.

I can't believe it is only 4:55 here and it is already getting dark. I like the longer days better than I do Daylight Savings time. I hear congress is thinking about getting rid of it and I hope they do. I'm sure there are people like DH who likes it, but I think longer daylight is safer for women and kids who have to be out later.

Trish, I think if they make a time change they want to eliminate Daylight Saving Time and I want them to make it permanent. That would make it stay daylight longer into the evening. When it gets dark early all I want to do is sleep. No one will ever agree on which it will be and we will just have to accept it. I think Daylight saving Time is the one you want, when it stays light longer into the evening.

I dont eat many artificial sweeteners at all except for diet coke and ginger ale and I know I cant have sugar alcohols. The only other thing I buy is sugar free cough drops because sometimes I fall asleep with one in my mouth and I think thats what rotted that tooth I had pulled last year. I dont want to lose any more. If i want candy or ice cream i eat regular.

The cookies I bake have sugar but I eat very few. They are for my family.

I did a 6 hr eating day.... Noon to 6 pm.

Yes the longer day light is what I like. Like you when it is dark so early, it makes me want to sleep and to me it seems like it takes forever to get to go to bed.

DS eats regular food with sugar. The only thing she uses sweeteners in is her diet drinks. I might try doing that. I know my woe wouldn't be keto or low carb, but maybe moderately low carb. I just don't want to get used to eating high carb and there are some carbs I will seldom eat if ever anymore. I actually like the way I feel eating less. I don't want to eat high sugar foods either.

I used to eat lower carb but got back to eating more and cant stop. well, im not really trying to stop.

DH wants me to make pumpkin pies but also wants to go to Goodwill. I dont know if my leg will let me do that much walking/standing.

Scale and blood sugar are up. I want to get back to exercising soon, too. Last night I had a dream that i was smoking. i quit in 1993. Thats 31 years ago, so what made me dream it now? I was with friends who were smoking. I dont think that friend ever smoked.

I dont think I will ever hear anymore about SIL in GA unless step daughter runs into her ex husband again. I got the impression that once he goes to his daughters in GA he will be staying there, but maybe he will come back.

DS is not diabetic, right? I want to eat less sugar . I did quit buying chocolate candy but i occasionally eat DHs candy. Yesterday I was craving cake and I ate a Twinkie. I dont even like Twinkies but that was the closest thing we had to cake. DH doesnt buy bakery foods anymore unless we go to the local store. He does not like Walmart bakery. I dont have much time left to bake for Christmas cookies but I will try.

DGScalledlast night. He rarely calls but I guess he missed us. He said Gran can see pretty good out of her eye. I dont know if she will still need surgery on her eye socket.

Nothing else new.

Carol Sue I am sorry your leg is still bothering you. I hope it gets better.

Weight down 1 lb to 161.8. FBG 101. I think bp was 114/65. Those #s are so much better than they used to be. So I don't want to make too many changes that might take me backwards. I found out that Allrecipes, I think it was, has a lot of keto recipes for cookies and brownies that DH likes. My problem is I'm not sure I can handle the almond flour plus it is expensive. They have so many recipes that I might be able to find some low calorie ones we could eat. I won't make cookies etc for GS and his boys. At this point I will just buy them already made. I will use some of the diet recipes to make DH and me not just for Christmas but throughout the year.

Don't know what we are eating today. DH was feeling bad when he went to bed. I think we are going to Sam's and the local store today because the guy comes to spray around our house tomorrow. If he feels like it, we will either have Chinese or KFC because that is what we usually get when we go there.

Yes DS has been diabetic and has to keep up with it, but I think hers is controlled as well. I think she is still taking the weight loss shot that helps her lose and control diabetes at the same time.

He is up. I will see what he wants to do and I need to change clothes and get ready to go if we are going.

Have a good day.

I think I have some almond flour that might be expired. I bought it a long time ago but never used it. We went to Goodwill and I bought plastic laundry baskets and plastic containers to put cookies in. DH wanted to buy a tv. He checked it and it worked but it didnt have a remote. He could have used a universal remote. But he didnt buy it. We dont really have a place for itas every room has a tv except the kitchen and barhroom. When i see something like that I always think he should buy it.

I think we are just eating sandwiches for dinner because I am baking pumpkin pies right now.

We ended up going to Walmart because can only get his cranberry juice there. He also alternates drinking beer and wine for his stomach. He has done that for years. Amazingly the night he drinks the beer instead of wine, his bs is less the next day. Any way the beer and wine is cheaper than at Sam's or the local store.

I got my ham and it is in the freezer. I think I am going to cook it when GS and his family comes next weekend. We will add corn, broccoli and I got a small package of rolls to go with it. I used to cook sweet potatoes with sugar and marshmallows on top, but we don't eat the sugar anymore. So we will have a semi-Christmas dinner with them and then go to my babysister's house for Christmas day. I was able to get the candy cane full of chocolate kiss candy. They used to be so much bigger when my kids were little. I also got a Walmart brand butter cookies in a Christmas tin container for them to take home. I also got me a container of them.

I thought I wouldn't have to go anywhere until we go to sisters Christmas day and DH says we will have to go again before Christmas. If I don't have anything I need to go for, I just might send him without me.

We did eat KFC today. So today was carby. I've decided to just count calories and keep carbs as low as possible since I have to keep taking 2 20 mg Lasix a day to keep fluid down in my stomach. I remember Dr. Atkins always said do not take fluid pills on low carb. I will still try to keep them balanced.

Have a good evening. Time to watch a Christmas movie. Looks like Scrooged is the movie right now. LOL

Trish, did you ever have Brunswick Stew? It says online that its an old southern comfort food. Step daughter made it and is bringing some for me tomorrow. Ive never had it. I dont know where she got the idea to make it.

What kind of beer and wine does DH drink? I love cranberry juice!

I made the first 2 pumpkin pies for us and they are good. Step daughter wants some so i will make hers tomorrow. After I made ours DH wanted me to make scalloped potatoes. So tonight was a very carby night.

I looked up why you cant take fluid pill on low carb. It says you need extra fluid on low carb because it can cause dehydration. So a fluid pill would make dehydration worse. That is probably why I was always dehydrated when i went to the ER because I was always following low carb diet.

Carol Sue DH drinks Keystone Light beer and Franzia White Zinfandel.

No I've never had Brunswick stew. I never ate stew until I married DH #2 and I learned a lot of cooking from his grandmother. They had come through the war with 2 little girls and talking to her about those years, I learned how to make a little bit of money go a long way. DH #2 told someone, that I could get more meals out of 1 chicken than anyone he had ever known. To this day I don't know what or how I did that. As for stew, I learned from his grandmother that once a week you cleaned out the refrigerator by taking all the leftovers from the previous week and throw it into a pot and make it into a stew. DH and I seldom have any leftovers unless we plan to have it like the amount of bbq we buy at one time.

I wish I had gotten a pie for dessert for when the kids come over. I could have gotten some sort of pie or even bought the crust and some kind of filling to make one. I was going to make a light fruit pie of some sort but DH didn't want it. I haven't entertained in so long and we are picky about our sides and I have forgotten what all to fix.

Well too many carbs yesterday and it showed on the scale and FBG. Weight back up to 163 lbs and FBG 115. That's because I ate at night. Carol Sue thanks for looking that up about the reason not to take fluid pills when eating low carb. That explains why my BUN/creatinine is always high. I read that it is high because you are dehydrated. I've just got to learn how to balance all this so I can keep my FBG low. I am thinking that if I could keep my carbs between 70 and 100 grams that maybe that would help keep bs down.

Got to get busy. I've got a house to clean up before the kids come over this weekend. I haven't had breakfast yet as I can't decide what I want if I even want it. Also got to get exercises done.

Have a good day.

I cannot drink White Zifandel. I get very hot and my face gets all red. Im fine with all other wines.

I dont make stew because DH only likes Dinty Moore. He says that stew meat has too much fat but thats not true if you trim it off. I recently bought stew beef to put in vegetable soup. I found out that step daughter got the recipe for Brunswick Stew from Tik Tok. Thats probably where she got the recipe for Eggplant Parm. She cooks dinner every night and probably needs new ideas. Her husbands mother didnt cook much so he loved coming to our house and eating our leftovers from dinner.

Today has not been my best eating day. I got very angry with our phone service and I ended up comfort eating afterwards. I've been with that company for over 10 yrs and they offered me a new phone for free to upgrade. I didn't need it but, I figured its free for a 5G so I ordered it and paid for the shipping and tax which I didn't have to do. Yesterday I checked on line and it said it was shipping. So I went on line today to see if it had shipped and my order# was invalid. I called and they couldn't find it. They didn't offer anyway to correct the error. So I'm not getting a phone. I can't believe that after being a faithful customer on autopay so they've never had a problem with us, they couldn't offer me any way to work out the problem. I asked if there was a way for me to send the copy of the receipt welcoming with all the info and he wasn't interested. I never get mad about anything like that but I was furious. I can't believe they could care less about taking care of a long time good customer. We will be looking for a different server.

Good news is I don't have to cook when DGS and his family come over Sunday. He wrote today and said they are bringing the meal because he said there is no way that I can get to know his mate if I'm stuck in the kitchen cooking. That will be nice. I will cook the ham for DH birthday Christmas eve. I think he wants to go to the store Monday so I'll get a pie crust and make DH a diet pie as he doesn't like cake. Then we will go to baby sister's Christmas and I want go by DS on the way home to take a book I ordered to her.

Well tomorrow is a new day and I will have to be good until Sunday.

Hope your day is going very well.
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Got an email from the cell phone server saying they gave the phone a new order # and it will be here tomorrow. Go figure. We will see if I get it. I wasn't ugly with the guy as I told him that I knew it wasn't his fault, but that it wasn't mine either. I just felt that there should be some way they could solve the problem. I guess someone figured it out.

Teish, I hope you get the phone. I think they record calls and when someone heard the problem wasnt resolved for you they acted accordingly.

My Tracfone service expires in a few days. I ordered a phone with service and have to set it up soon. When it came DH opened it toccharge it but im not sure what he did with the instructions and other paperwork. I hate getting used to a new phone. Ive had LG ohones for years but they dont make phones anymore. My last one was Motorola. DH talked me into ordering this Samsung and i hope I can figure it out.

I thought I posted already. FBG was up, 124, not too bad. Scale is up .2 This is typicalvfor me but with this pumpkin pie here its inevitable. I hope DH eats the rest. I slept good. I think the Benedryl helps.

We heard today that Janet doesnt need surgery. They think the bones will heal themselves. I hope so.

Today is a new day. I am back on plan which is a 2MAD within 4 or 5 hrs. I am blessed that my weight did not go up. It is still 163 lbs. with all the carbs I ate yesterday so I am getting my act together today. DH only eats 2MAD... no nighttime snacks. I am going to follow is example. I think this is the only way I can eat fairly normal, but moderate carb count and take 2 Lasix a day. I take 1 before brunch and take another one early enough to keep from having to pee all night. So I've decided to go with IF ratio of a 4 to 5 hr eating window. I enjoy my eggs bacon and 1 sl toast. This way I can keep it and whatever we want to eat for main meal without feeling I'm going to wreck my woe.

I bought a flavored water at Walmart called Clear American. It has 0 sugar, calories, caffeine and sodium. It gives me something to drink beside coffee and plain water that I like. The bottle is big and awkward for my hands but I will be buying more of it. Got to learn to stay hydrated. I'm not going to eat radical low carb. I really want to keep them between 70 to 100 grams but preferably 70 to 90 most of the tine.

Carol Sue I had a LG cell phone in the beginning and loved it. I was given a free Samsung when they stopped making LG. I used to love LG products and had a refrigerator that I loved , but was disappointed when I found that the quality was not as good as the one I had before. I have no idea if they build anything anymore. My Samsung was okay but I didn't like the way some things work now that is different. The free one coming today is a Samsung and I hope they have corrected some of those things.

I am glad to hear that Janet won't have to have surgery. I prayed she wouldn't have to. I pray she continues to heal nicely.

We are having tilapia today. I've got 2/3 of my exercises done so need to finish that up. I also need to do a little more cleaning. I want to get everything done so I don't have to do any cleaning done on Saturday. I want to be able to enjoy the kids.

Have a good day.

I rhink your plan sounds good. I cannot plan like you do. DH is too determined on what he wants to eat. I have to go along with him.

I might look at the drink your DS buys. I mostly just drink plain unflavored water. Im used to it as long as its very cold. I used to buy electrolyte water but I dont anymore.

I have so much to do, cleaning,baking, laundry, set up my new phone, get a haircut,dog haircut on Friday. I am not motivated to do any of it. I also have to buy a ham for Christmas and I have to go to the meat store to get the one I want. Their store brand hams are always good, and taste less salty than other hams, although I know they are probably the same hams but with the store label on it. But they were recommended to me and I like them and so did DH.

I had 3 LG phones until they stopped making them and i love my LG fridge. I got used tovthe Motorola and now i have to get used to the Samsung.