Weight back down to 168.4 lbs this morning. FBG was 115 but that is because we had pizza for dinner. I fasted until dinner because of my lab work and I was starving when I got home. BP was 111/60 so that was good. I did take 2 Lasix yesterday, but I won't do that everyday. DH and I talked about it and I could take it 3 days a week so I will do that. I woke up twice to go potty and almost didn't make it. I wear Walmart Depends and it is a good thing to wear them now that I sleep so sound. It is a shame that we end up being more like adult babies. I wonder what people did years ago when they didn't have some of the things we have. Sure makes me thank God that I live in these times.

I'm going to go back to calorie counting and keep my carbs moderate. I will make shrimp scampi and have it on whole grain linguini with my salad and I want to start making diet Jello for dessert. This morning I plan to have a one egg, sausage and cheese McMuffin on Multigrain muffin. I'll have a Protein shake for a snack or supper. I think I am going to try to start planning meals and cooking more. There are some things like steaks does better, but I will start cooking more balance meals for us.

Hope everybody has a good day today.

Weight down .6 lbs and FBG 113.

Carol Sue I hope you are okay.

Have a blessed Sunday everyone.

Sleep was good, but only 5.5 hours. I was up until 2 am reading. FBG is higher than I like, and the scale is at 178.0 but Im not sure if I weighed yesterday. I was down 1.2 lb in February. I need to lose more than that each month.

I started to post this morning but got distracted and forgot to finish.
I was going to make pork and sauerkraut but we went to Walmart and were too late coming home. Dh bought deli meat so we just ate sandwiches.

DH said I was too noisy when I came to bed last night, dropping things,etc. I woke him up. He is not usually asleep when I go in. I take supplements when I gobto bed and sometimes drop the bottles.

DH said he wants to go back to the other casino. We can do that once the weather warms up a bit and the snow and ice isnt an issue. We always did better there. Its just the long drive home on the interstate that is troublesome.

DH is a gambling addict. I got the bug for awhile too but now Im over it. Unfortunately I always won more than he did, I dont know why.

Im going to take my bedtime meds and go to bed.

Goodnight.






Listen to this. I texted with Barron Trump today. He is on Twitter. I posted some nice things about his parents so he sent me a message thanking me for the nice comments. He is ssuch a smart and handsome kid. We just had a short conversation.

Carol Sue So glad to see you. I was wondering if you were okay. I gained weight in February and need to change back to losing. I was back down to 167.8 this morning. I hope to keep going down. I saw something new online yesterday about something called MIND. It is a diet combo of Mediterranean and DASH. I think that is similar to the way I like to eat.

I think that is sweet that Barron answered you. I don't know if you ever watch Gutfield on FOX but we watch it and Kat Tempf who is on his show and she just had her baby boy a few days ago and found out 15 hrs before he was born that she has breast cancer. It is early stage so can be treated. I saw her on FB and said that her little "dude" probably saved her life. I wrote her and told her I was praying for her. Of course, all her fans are writing her.

I like that show too,

Im going to bed now.
Nite!

Well weight is bouncing around which can be good, but I will see. Weight was back up to 168.4 up .6 that I lost yesterday. Not sure what I eat matters as long as I stay within my calories. Today may be on the high end because we are going to the local store and McDs is next door so we will get CBs. The only problem I'm having eating this way is that my FBG is in the one teens. This morning it was 114. It is difficult to eat low carb with eggs being so expensive. I heard online they are trying to get them back down but they are having to work at stopping the bird flu from happening. I've also heard they don't have that problem in other countries so we need to do what they do to prevent it so we can get the prices back down.

Carol Sue Are y'all going to the casino today? We decided to go to the store today instead of tomorrow which I'm glad because we are supposed to have storms tomorrow. I'm wearing a sweat shirt today and Friday when I go for infusion, I will be able to wear a regular shirt because temps will be in the 80s.

Hope everybody has a good day.

Trish, when you think about it, eggs are not really expensive. They are just high compared to what they were before. At $5.99 per dozen, they are 50¢ Each. I dont think that is expensive when you consider the nutritional value. Thats how much Im paying at Walmart.and I don't know how much higher they will go. I think I would stop buying something else before I stopped buying eggs because of the price.

When gasoline goes up we have no other choice but to buy it. If you dont eat eggs what will you eat? I know you eat other things like yogurt, etc, but I do not. Another thing with eggs is the hens dont lay as many in the winter. They lay more in the summer so they reduce the price since they have so many.

My step daughter gets recipes off TikTok and Facebook. She made a new recipe and gave me some. It is similar to swiss steak. she gave me some and I ate half of it for lunch and will eat the rest for dinner. It is very good, but it upsets me that DH wont even try it. He is so strange about trying new foods. It wouldn't kill him to try a bite and tell his daughter, yes, its good. DH was mad because I got involved with paying the bills and never made the pork and sauerkraut I had planned for dinner. So he made a hamburger for himself the same thing he had yesterday. But I always tell people that he has a list of 5 meals that he will eat and you have to stick to that list. Not adventurous at all. I'm mad too, because I really am hungry for the pork and sauerkraut. Maybe tomorrow.

We usually go to Wal-Mart and Goodwill on Monday but we went yesterday. He hasnt mentioned senior day at Goodwill and I dont want to make him think about it. Part of me wants to go and part no.

I hope you figure out what is raising FBG. Mine is all over the place. It has only been improved lately because of the Allulose, and still not as good as yours.

I'm waiting until Wednesday to see if DH wants to go to the casino. I will tell him without a doubt I will only go 1 day, not again Friday. If the weather is good, we could go to the other casino which is better. I cant wait til summer!

Carol Sue You make sense about the eggs. I buy cage free eggs, but could go back to buying regular eggs which I noticed were a dollar less a dozen. That way I could continue eating my eggs. I still eat one each day anyway. I bought some low carb tortillas so I can have my favorite taquito for breakfast. In fact that is what I want for breakfast tomorrow morning. I honestly think I can continue eating more low carb with an occasional higher carb. We had McD CB and fried for dinner and we will get tacos on the way home Friday after my infusion. So today was fairly good.

The casino that is further from y'all is the one that has a place for you to sit and read, right? If I'm right I think you will enjoy that one better. Do they have food you can eat and stay OP as well?

I managed to stay awake so I will be able to sleep most of the night without any problems.

Goodnight.

Yes,the other casino is 1 hour away but has a big food court with a lot of empty tables. They dont have food that is OP but I can get several sandwiches and not eat the bread. But since Im trtying to do IF I will probably not eat there. Its really nice coming out of the new casino knowing we will be home in 20-25 minutes.

Not good sleep. Too much on my mind. Scale is down .2 which is a fluid drop. Blood sigar 121. That is actually still good for me. I have actually had some extremely high blood sugar readings. They say you should go to the ER, but they would probably just give me insulin and keep me for observation. I can get it back down in a few hours.

Weight was 170 and FBG 125. BP was good at 116/66. I cannot allow my weight and FBG continue to go up so I am going to continue eating the moderately low carbs I usually eat. I can do that and still use eggs. I love egg McMuffins and taquitos and I can easily eat these homemade. It one thing to eat a carby meal once in a while, but it is something I don't have to or need to eat much of or at all.

I will have more control of what we eat now that I am doing a lot of the cooking. We are having cod fish today and I plan to start using EVOO and ACV in my salads. That one is going to be difficult because I do love my Ranch dressing.

Sleep is so much better now that I stop eating earlier in the evening. I drink a protein shake in the evening but try not to drink much of anything after 7 or 8 pm. I also believe that my exercises are helping with my sleep as well.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Nothing much to report today. Everything is pretty much stable. No weight gain or loss just bouncing around a few tenths. BP is good and FBG was 116. I know that isn't really bad, but it has been better. Still waiting for the results of the 24 hr protein urine test, but everything else was about the same. However, my hemoglobin is actually normal. So that is pretty good.

Calories today will be less than 1100 and fiber is round what I can handle. A third of my exercises are done for today. One nice thing about going through this is that I have lab done once every 21 days so I can see if my woe is working for me or against me. I will start using that tool for my advantage.

Carol Sue I hope you are doing well. When do you meet your new doctor? I pray you get a good doctor.

My new insurance calls us all the time. They say they will take me off the list for calling so much but one of them told me that they will probably call just to be sure we are okay. I guess I should be glad they are that interested.

Have a good day everybody.

I used to get a lot of calls from insurance when I was going through medical issues. Maybec they do that when they see a lot of claims coming thru, and they may be checking to see if the claims are valid and not fraudulent. I'm suspicious of their motives.

We are going to the local casino today. We discussed it. Its closer but I've had trouble getting on their WIFI lately. Im out of data time. I can still read on my little Kindle.

My appointment with the new doctor is in April. I hope I like him. I didnt really like the old one but he was my doctor for 30 years and I was used to him. I really really like my cardiologist. He has my heart!❤

Nothing new here. Everything the same as yesterday. Not doing anything different today. I don't know if it is spring feeling or what, but I don't feel like exercising but will have to push myself to do it today. I have days like that from time to time. It is easy not to do anything on the weeks of infusion. Not sure why, so I have to make myself move more.

Carol Sue I hope y'all's time at the casino went well.

I got to make myself get busy. Have a great day everyone.

The casino went well. I was able to get online. DH came out $200 ahead. Just as we were leaving he found a slot machine ticket for $1080.00 that someone had lost. He thought he knew which guy lost it. He turned it in at the desk. Then he stopped the guy and told him. We knew how we would feel if we lost it. The guy wanted to give us money but we refused.

He wants to go again tomorrow to eat the fish dinner. I told him ok if he only spends $100 of the money he won on Wednesday. He really likes their fish and we split it.

I did not sleep well past 2 nights. I'm out of Benadryl and I guess I'm dependent on it now. I ended up taking a short nap this evening. Maybe I can buy some tomorrow.

The scale was up .6. today, the same .6 I lost the day before.

We had the pork and sauerkraut today, finally. It was good.

FBG back down to 108 and weight is staying the same and FBG was about the same. I've decided that maybe stable is good at my age. Headed out for appointment with NP and get infusion. Hope everybody has a good day.