Hi Connie
that good blood sugar you must be doing something right .Mine was 170 this morning so that has come down a lot this week .but i want to bring it down to no more than 120 for the high .I got out and help my husband this moring .Got so tried i had to take a nap .i not used to that stuff any more .He cut logs for a living .
But the rest of my day went great .I hope to go to Church and a little while so that will get me out from the food :lol:
well have a great week and i'll be looking for your post ,:wave: :wave:
Foxy Lady

Hi Ladies...
 

May I join your little group? I am starting weight watchers on Monday and have already started counting points at home,thanks to my daughter in law. I have done everything else with no results so my new Dr wants me to try it. If it dosen't work for me then I will be giving up on trying to lose.

My sister diet a diabetic 3 years ago. So far I am able to keep my sugar down. Sometime it goes too low and I am searching for some sugar. I get very shaky with cold sweats when it is way to low.

I am enjoying reading your post so decided to butt in.:lol: I hope I can count on you ladies to encourage me and I will do the same for you.:)

Venetia

hi Venetia
I would love to have you join us . Weight watcher will work if your willing to stick to it . I keep a food Journal that help me a lot .no matter how small a bit it counts and it easy to for get if we don't write it down .it help also to say how your feeling that day .sometimes we can look back in see what has cause us to over eat by what has happen before .weighing your food is very important. there a lot of good ideals on this site and i been going through the recipes and ideals . if there anyway i can help you let me know i'll do what i can . I been trying to lose weight all my life it seem . i collect any thing i think mite help me reach and kept my goal . We can do this we must it mean life if your diebatic .
I'm so sorry about your sister ,I lost my mom and borther 1999 ,mom to diebates and my brother got hit by a car . I just lost it for awhile eat like crazy i wanted to die to i thought till i got so sick i felt like i was . then God open my eyes and let me see my husband and children needed me . so i started trying to loose weight .i had eat myself to 299 pounds that scared me . but thank the lord i'm down to 205 and on my weight to below 200 a weight i haven't seem and awhile . Good luck this week you can do it i know you can
Foxy Lady

FOXY LADY!!
 

Hello again..

I have been reading my last post and maybe have you confused. My sister died from diabetes. I have so far kept it away. I don't eat sugar but we both know that all carbs are bad for diabetes and you must watch what you eat. I loved Atkins diet but it did not work for me. Most people including my husband lost lots of pounds on it.

What other diet have you tried?

I went to your web site. It is really good. I can't seem to get the knack for it. What is your real name? Is it Linda as your WEB Site infers. hOw many children do you have and do you have any pictures to share?

Wishing you luck this week also.

Venetia:) :wave:

Hi Yes my name Linda , I been on a lot of diet, cabbage diet . old weight watcher when you ate so much tuna you thought you were one .I went 10 days one time without eating .sooner or later you got to eat and back come the weight . Low cal diet , slim fast , remenber the candy they had out to loose weight .diet pills .God i can't even think of all of them . I did the best on the one i had on my web site . but i reach a place where i wasn't doing any good got tried and started goofing up .if i would of held in there i'm sure i would of started losing again .my body was taking a rest .i had lost about a 100 pounds i think then .that before i put some back on .oh well here i go again .
you ask about my kids i have 3 ,2 girl and my son .Me and my husband been married 33 years . How about you do you have kids ? well i got a long trip tomorrow to take tomorrow about 6 hour worth .I got to get parts for my husband skitter . so he can kept working . I hope i do ok tomorrow it hard eating out .
Hey where is everyone at ? Hello out there .
you take care if i'm not to tried i'll get on when i get back but it mite be wendays before i can .Bye

Hello Linda,,
 

How was your trip. I hope you had a great day and were able to resist the food on the road. I know it is hard to diet away from home.

I had my first weight in Yesterday so now I am official WW. Thanks to my Daughter -in-law I had a head start and 3 three lbs gone but that dosen't count at the meeting. I am pleased so far and hope to get lots of support from you.:chin:

I have 5 children. I also have 9 granchildren. Mine are 3 girls and 2 boys and my granchildren are 7 boys and 2 girls. My youngest child is 32 and the oldest is 44. I got married when I was only 17 and 1 month.:shrug:

It's been a hard life and I have gone through 4 husbands and have been married to my 5th for 4 years now. He is real good to me.

We live in Fl and my husband is retired from the Army. Is your husband any where close to retirement? It is ok I guess but somtimes I wish he was going to work every day.:lol:

Well time for me to get off here. We have to go to Walmart for some milk. Time to make Yogurt again.

Your Web Site is so nice. Did anyone help you with it? Wonder if you could give me some pointers..:^:

Til next time,see ya,

Venetia

Hi Venetia and Linda
 

How are you ladies doing tonight? I'm working as usual.

The blood sugars have been good; the exercise needs to kick in.

Linda I hope you had a good trip and stayed healthy.

I am not married and have no children, but I was married at one time for a year; he wanted out one month after we were married, but I kept trying to hold it together. I don't know, we had money troubles - he had child support and a lot of debt. The last straw was when he wanted to take bankruptcy and I wouldn't. That was 15-16 years ago. I have stayed single ever since. I have steadily gained weight since that time. It took me a long time to stop feeling like a failure and worthless as a woman because I couldn't hold on to my man.

Sorry for unloading like this, it still bothers me after all these years.

I'll try to get back in here more often. You guys have a great rest of the evening.

Hello Dixie Darlin..
 

Trust me when I say that being single and having no children is not the worst thing in the world. It can save you a lot of problems.

Having an abusive man or one who molest you children is worse. You never know a man until you marry them and they seem to change after marriage.

If God had wanted you to have a husband and children you would have one. You have to forget the past and get yourself healthy for yourself.

Hopefully WW will help us all get to where we want to be. But no matter, you are not worthless. You are a creation of God and I'll bet you are beautiful. We're all beautiful!!!

Venetia:love:

Hello Venetia
 

Thanks for your kind words; they are very true. It doesn't bother me so much anymore, being divorced and all, especially when I hear about couples divorcing that have been married 10-20yrs. The world is changing so much; you don't know what to expect when you walk out your door. I'm glad I don't have to worry about a man coming home to tell me he has found someone else. I'm in a relationship but I do not plan to marry. We see each other on the weekends then he goes home for the week and that suits me just fine. I just don't have that much trust left for any man. I know I have been beating myself up for years and using food as my comfort. So having diabetes now is forcing me to change; I do not want to die young and I do not want to lose my legs, my kidneys or my eyesight. As you probably know, I work in a pathology laboratory and I see first hand what diabetes can do to you. Sometimes I want to eat all kinds of sugary things; I think the Glucophage is helping with my appetite, my doctor told me it would curb my appetite. I just don't want to start back overeating again if I ever stop the Glucophage. I don't think we should rely solely on the medication, we have to do our part to with diet and exercise. I've got to start exercising; I work nights and it is really hot and humid here in Tennessee in the summer so it will be hard to get out and walk everyday; I'm looking for a used treadmill that doesn't have a motor, but will buy new if I can't find used.

Linda, hope you are having a good evening.

I'll be checking back in here later. Gotta get to work.

:twirly: :twirly: :twirly:

Hello Connie....
 

:) You are so right about the world and how it is these days. Not really just these days either. Bad things have been going on for so many years and they have just started to come to the attention of the public.

When I got married the first time I was, as I said only 17. We were just children but did have 2 children then the marriage ended due to his love of other women.:(

The second time I was so crazy in love and had three more children. Not realizing that my husband was molesting my oldest daughter who was about ten.While I was working he was having his way with her. Another divorce and she never got over the abuse. She had a drug problem for a long time.:o Thank God she did get help and now she has two children of her own.

It was hard on me and the children but I always did the best I could and they knew I loved them and still do.

I am glad that you have someone in your life, but also think you are smart not to marry him.

My sister died from heart disease 3 years ago which was a result of her diabetes. That is my main reason to lose weight also. She was 60 when she died. The same age I am now.

I wish you luck and will be here for support if you need me,even to talk to.

For now though I have to run. I am making bread. I am always close to my computer as we are hooked up to broadband.

Talk to you later,
Venetia;)

Hey i'm back I lost my password and like never found it :dizzy: silly me .well how the week go girls .I been doing ok on eating but need to get moving my body if it ever quit raining :) I bet you all thought I got lost . it been so hot and muggy today .
I spend most of my day and prayer with the lord . But I hope to get back to walking .I think it gonna take something to get this weight moving off me . well i hope everyone had a good week so for .:wave: :wave:

Linda,

Great to see you back. I got worried about you.


Venetia:cool:

Hi Venetia and Linda.

This will be short; I'm about to take my lunch break.

I am very sad tonight and feel very lonely. I don't know why I don't fit in. Sometimes I feel like Im being punished for something. It's been a bad day and a bad weekend. Im trying not to overeat.

I could use some encouragement - help:cry: :cry:

Connie...
 

What's happened to make you so sad. Is there someone at work who is not pleasant to you.

You don't have to fit in with everyone. I consider you a good friend and I will be here if you need me. Don't let anyone tell you you are not special...because you are... You have a goal and a place in life just as everyone else does. Don't take things so hard.

Be happy!! God Loves You and so do I. Tell me what's wrong.

Love, Venetia

Hi Venetia and dixiedarlin
So glad to have you as friends ,I'm blessed to have friends . you Ladys or both special ,God make you and he don't make no mistakes . My brother used to tell me if you can bless one person your doing what God said to do .And your blessing me so count yourself special .I'm sorry your feeling down Dixiedarlin but we love you .I think we all get down at time ,but we got to pick our selves up and keep going . I found it help to have friend you can go to and know there not gonna judge you but incourage you to hang in there .I hope i said something here and my round about way to let you know i'm here for you and want to be that friend .I feel like that to alot that i don't fit in .but it come alot of time because i don't feel good about myself . I don't like being overweight .I feel good about my self when i'm doing good . I think sometime my life is ran by how I eat :( But i'm working to overcome that .
So today :s: I'm gonna start my walking again ,I also got to cut grass .I not much when it come to extercising but i feel if i want this weight off i got to get moving and keeping track of what I eat .we can do this Ladys ,Just remenber your special ,I think so and so dose God .with us in your connor how can you not feel loved :)