The one thing I loved about my LG phone was that I could erase one text but keep others to and from the same person. The Samsung I have now erases everything from a person that I text. I can't pick and choose what I want to keep. Pictures of DH DGS are gone. Took me forever to learn how to erase a call without erasing all of them. I hope the new one is better but not expecting it.
I watched a video of Dr. Westman where he talks about the book he co-authored The New Atkins for a New You. I will get that book out, which I have, and use it to do one of the stages of Atkins. He said you don't have to start with Induction. There are 4 stages and you can use one of the others. If I decide to do it, I will do it with IF. I am through eating today and I ate within 5 hrs. Now I will drink water to keep from eating anything else.
Carol Sue I didn't look but doesn't ICE have electrolytes?
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I made it. I ate only 2 meals and barely made it to 1000 calories. Carbs and protein were in good range. I also got my phone and working. Now to learn to get used to how it works.
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Weight down .6 lb to 162.4 lbs. and FBG back down to 106. BP is always good these days. Not much going on today. Still working on new phone trying figure out how to do some things. Not all my contacts moved over to new phone and I need to erase some that I don't use anymore.
Got most things done that I need to do before the kids come Sunday. I am down to the big job which is my kitchen. DH doesn't like dishes put in place, et. He has plates in drainboard all the time and other bowls, glasses etc that we use all the time out on the cabinet. If I was "the" cook, I would have everything in its place nice and neat. I will clean today and tomorrow and hopefully get everything in its place by Saturday so it will look nice on Sunday. Then we will go back to his way of doing things when it is just the 2 of us again.
My calories today will be around 1200 calorie day with a 2MAD. With the holiday eating, a 2MAD will work very well.
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I posted from the PC but itsnot here,but now i got in on the tablet, so i guess It fixed itself.
Now to get everything working on my phone.
We are going to the casino. I reminded him that he,said we wouldnt go until after Christmas and he didnt argue but I gave in. I will have to remind him if he does not win or at least take something home he wont have money to play the lottery until Tuesday, Social Security day. He likes to live dangerously. But I agreed to go so I would not have to eat dinner. He already had his McDonalds McDouble and fries on the way home from my haircut. I dont know if he can go the rest of the day without eating again. If we stop at DQ for ice cream which we usually do,I will be at 1100 calories but carbs will be high.
I really like my haircut and also Rustys. I'm not sure Rusty is happy. He's sleeping. That really tires him out.
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Carol Sue Glad you were able to get back on. Hope your trip to casino turns out good for y'all.
Weight down .2 lbs more to 162.2 FBG was high and even bp a little high but not too high. I've tracked brunch, dinner and a snack on MFP. Exercise is done today and I've almost got house ready for the kids to come Sunday. I will dust furniture tomorrow. Calories today will be barely over 1000.
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Finally, a good trip to the casino. DH won a jackpot for $1500 then won $1000 on another machine. Rhats food because we have $24 in our bank account.It was just a lucky day! I told DH we usually win when we really need the money. Tomorrow,we will go to the meat store to get our ham and some gtound beef amd some more margarine I need for baking cookirs. I have better luck using margarine in my cookies than butter because the cookies turn out softer,but i have to make sure I get the one with the highest fat content. My family likes them,thats what counts. Cookies arent ever cinsidered to be healthy.
Carol Sue I'm happy for y'all. Congratulations on a good casino day.
Today I've decided that I need to not worry too much about my woe until after Christmas day. Then I will get back OP. The main thing is to not gain too much weight. I still want to do low carb but think I will work to keep them between 50 to 70 grams. I hope that will take care of me having to take 40 mg of Lasix a day.
Weight up 1.2 lbs today, but FBG 108 and BP 117/61. So that is still good. I can't go to wild during the holiday because I have Lab draw Friday.
House is as clean as it is going to be and now I need to do the rest of my exercises.
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Went to Bob Evans for breakfast, ans some secret Santa picked up our check. That was nice.!
Then we went to Walmart then the meat store. I got everything we need for now. I didnt get weighed. The scale app still isnt right. Im still working on it.
I bought 1 bottle of Ice lemon lime flavor to try. I dont want to buy more until i know if I like it. I buy those flavor paks that I put in my bottled water so I will probably stick with them. They have artificial sweetener and electrolytes. The ICE has vitamins and antioxidents.
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The scale app is working so i can weigh but itsnot the way i want it. Ill continue trying. Im down .4 to 179. Not quite 180.
i woke up 3 times for the bathroom Tested blood sugar andit was 146 so I took 1/2 ofaGso it should be good by now.
The Steelers played yesterday andlost so he wont have that game to watch today but hewill watch whatever game is on today. The Steelers play again on Christmas here in Pittsburgh. As far as I know we are staying home alone so he can watch it here. If we go somewhere else he will be at their mercy. No one has invited us yet and I know he doesnt want to go. I dont want them all coming here,either. Im done with that.
I bought aham. I would. like to bake half and freeze half but its up to him. I also bought ,small turkey breast because I would like to cook that, too, to have something without a lot of sodium. He wants potato salad too, and I will cook a vegetable.
DH buys big jugs of liquid laundry soap and puts it on the shelf above the washer,so you just flip the lever and the soap runs down into the washer. I always used powdered detergent and still do when im doing laundry. I bought a new box at Walmart but when I got home i saw that the box I have is still full. So I have enough to last awhile. I dont remember buying it before. DH said he knew we had it but he didnt tell me. He doesnt like to use powder because you have to make sure it dissolves. I use it because my Mom used it. Tide has gotten so expensive so I buy Arm amd Hammer or Gain. I bought Gain this time and last time. It probably has the most loads for the money. I know you have front load, Trish, and have to use a certain kind. I have so much laundry downstairs waiting to be done!
I would like to go to Texas Roadhouse before Christmas since he has that extra money. Today would be nicesince theres no Steeler game.
Carol Sue Glad you are still under 180. I was still 163.4 this morning and count it a blessing. I don't know what the kids are bringing for dinner today so I can't plan. So I've just had my coffee and a protein shake this morning. Whatever they bring, I will try to eat sensibly. I will do the same thing when we go to baby sister's Christmas Day. I would love to have just one bite of pecan pie and will have what DH#2s grandmother and my mama called a "sliver". Just enough to get the taste. They say the 1st bite of something is the only bite that really tastes good. As for eating at home, DH will want his salad and not sure he will even want a veggie to go with the ham. I will cook that Tuesday morning so we can have it for his birthday. I used to make potato salad because his DD said her Mother made it for him cause it was his favorite. He said he didn't know where they got that idea because he doesn't care for it. He only likes French fries and will eat sweet potato fries once in a while.
We have decided to go to the store tomorrow. DH has meds to pick up at our local store close to us and we need to show them out new Part D cards for our meds next year. I'm going to be out of my flavored water. I don't know if they have the ones I have so I will get some of the ICE drinks in the flavors I will like. I want to get a graham cracker crust and a Jello pudding you cook to make a pie for DH birthday. I wanted to make a light fruit pie, but I didn't see any light pie fillings this year. DGDIL brought him a diet apple pie last year when they came for Thanksgiving, but I've never seen them here. I wouldn't go anywhere Christmas day, but I get disappointed that my family doesn't come to see us since I went through the heavy chemo drugs and couldn't be around people. Maybe if I go see all them at their Mother and Dad's, they will see that it is okay to be around me. I just hope I can get up the stairs into the mobile home they live in. I do miss them.
This will be a busy week. Store Monday, his birthday Tuesday, Christmas will go to both my sister's homes. Then I have to do the 24 hr urine test Thursday to take in and get my lab draw Friday. I don't want to have to go to the store Friday.
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DHs birthday is the 28th. His,family always,came on his birthday fpr their Christmas visit. Well,his mother did, so I would tell everyone else to come that day,too.
When Rusty got his hair cut she asked if he wanted a bandanna but DH said no. I wanted him to have one for Christmas. Today when I was cleaning, I found the one from last year,. DH,said, "Didnt you clean since last year?". So he will have a Bandanna for Chrristmas. He is still not back to normal since his haircut. DH said when she takes his leg to trim it he pulls away so he causes his injury. He doesnt like anyone to touch his legs.
Time with DGS, his wife and boys went great. The brought Chinese food. They brought a little bit of several different things and it was good. We really enjoyed it. He said the youngest one kept asking "when are we going to Nana's?" I told them that I loved that. I told them I wanted us together more often and DGS said that he would come every Sunday if we don't have anything to do. As he left, he said "We will do tacos next time". He completed things on my cellphone that I didn't know if I needed or not explaining what I did and didn't need and why.
I am tired not, but Cowboys game is starting. I hope I can stay awake to watch it. I will probably go to bed as soon as it is over since we need to go store when DH gets up tomorrow. Don't need much so we won't be gone long.
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yesterday the scale was 179, today its 177.6. So that's 1.4 loss. I'll take that! I was in the bathroom 3 times overnight, so that helped! Im glad its going back down,but it always bounces back up again after a fewdays.
We have a big pillow on the couch that Rusty lays on. I bought it for him at Goodwill. Im looking for another one we can out on the floor. Last night DH brought his pillow into the bedroom and he slept on it all night. Otherwise he goes under the bed and i want to break him of that habit. If the bed would fall down for some reason he would get killed. I dontwant him going under there. So im watching for a throw pillow at Goodwill thats big enough for him for the floor. You can buy them in the pet store but they are very expensive. Step son bought one for his dog and they got up one morning and the dog had ripped it apart and the filling was all over the house! I dont think Rusty would do that.I
We are going back to the casino but Im not sure when. They sent A birthday card to DH with a $25 coupon good for free play or food. Hes been wanting to eat there again. He doesnt know this came but I will tell him and let him choose when we use it. It expires Dec 31. I guess I will get one next month for my birthday, but maybe not because I dont gamble much anymore. If we go today then I wont get to go to Tx Roadhouse before Christmas.
I'm glad you had a nice visit with DGS and family. Nice that he brought food. It will be nice if they come once a week. You will get to see the little ones grow up. I used to make a snack when our kids came but its too hard having something that everyone will eat.Then we started ordering pizza but now step daughter cant eat it because of the cheese. After DIL had Covid there were many things she couldnt eat. she couldnt even stand the smell of some things cooking. She is starting to eat a few things now. So we just get the pizza most of the time. Or I could get deli meat and let them make sandwiches. When we go to their house they have a lot of good things but its often that DH wont eat it. I'm not picky,I'll eat anything. I wonder what makes some people picky eaters? There
have been times we went to Step sons and stopped on the way home to get DH something to eat. They eat completely different things than we eat.
I also have to go to Target to pay my credit card bill. We went once with a check but they no longer accept checks. They said cash or credit card. So I can pay my credit card bill with a different credit card? We can pay with cash now since he won that money, then Im going to cancel that card. I can use any credit card if we shop there again. I dont buy much there anymore.
Now we are going to Goodwill for senior discount day.
Carol Sue It will be nice for the kids to come over more often. He wants to bring the food which is nice at this time, but it is hard for me because I'm the one who always did the cooking. I want to learn to make some good desserts for DH and me as well for them. I got the little DGGS those candy cane shaped containers with kisses in them and the littlest had eaten half of them before he left the house. He obviously has mine and his grandfather's love for chocolate.
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I wanted to get back here earlier today but didn't make it. Our plans have changed for Christmas. Baby sister and her husband are going to their grandson's house for Christmas. They live in a mobile home and I'm not sure I can get up their steps so we are staying home. The book I want to give DS I will take to her after my lab draw Friday.
Going to bed soon. I can sleep late tomorrow since nothing is going on.
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We went to Texas Roadhouse. I intended to order either ribs or pork chop but I ordered salmon. It was very good. I don't cook it anymore because DH doesnt like the way I cook it.
I'm going to bake my ham tomorrow, and maybe the turkey breast on Christmas. The kids are coming on Saturday which is DHs birthda
DGS got a car for Christmas. Its a used Honda Accord. He has his learner's permit and will get his license soon.
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Scale is back up to 178.2. Must be a bit of fluid retention from the Texas Roadhouse rolls. My meal was a salmon salad so just salmon and lettuce. I was hungry again by bedtime but didnt eat anything. so I'm really hungry now, and my breakfast chef is still sleeping. I might have to cook it myself. I know how but hes better at it.
My weight will go up the next few days from eating ham,but at least I expect it.
Potatoes are on for potato salad and ham is ready to go in the oven.
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Carol Sue My weight is up too, but it is my fault. It was 165 this morning. FBG, BP was good so just too much eating. I need to stop having anything at night, but I need the protein to satisfy oncologist so need to get back to drinking the protein shake again. They've been advertising a new flavor on FB that I think I would love because I like mint chocolate candy. They have a Premiere has a chocolate mint protein shake. I hope Sam's has it so DH can get me a carton of it for me. I would love to do 2MAD, but will do 2MAD + a protein shake during the evening and eat within 8 hr IF woe.
My ham is in the oven and the diet chocolate pie is in the fridge. I couldn't find a sugar free package of pudding mix that you cook and we didn't want the sugar so I had to get the sf instant and put it in a graham cracker pie shell. I'm not sure it will last for long before it starts to liquify. When I make diet pudding for my desserts, it starts separating by day 3. But at least he will have it for his BD. Once I get my ham cooked we will eat it today and tomorrow and won't have to cook Christmas day. Don't know how healthy the ham is because I didn't pay attention and we got the spiral with brown sugar and DH got pineapple with heavy syrup. This is why I can't plan on doing a low, low carb woe. So maybe I need to learn to eat regular food and just eat less. I was really surprised at DH because he checks the sugar on labels, but with the fruit.
