Checking in. BGL 4.4 and weight down a smidge again so I guess I'm on my way. I even ate fish (!) last night along with yellow beans, chard and tomatoes. I'm back on my MWF gym schedule this morning and will NOT have toast or a muffin when we go out for coffee afterwards. My resistance muscle will also get a workout.

Bonnie, people usually just think about themselves. We just have to do the best we can.

have been sleeping better since getting home, but didn't exercise at all yesterday, not even a little walk, so have to stop this!
I am with you on pizza, for years I didn't eat it at all, I had worked making pizza as a teen and disliked it intensely. NOW, I am picky about it, but love a good slice. I think I mostly like melted cheese. Have been putting grated cheese on a low carb tortilla with veggies for topping and no sauce, and into the oven for a bit, makes a nice cheesey sandwich? roll-up? pizza with no sauce? whatever, I really like it.

Long office day today, and ww weigh in tonight. Must pack my lunch and get stuff ready for DH to put in oven tonight. Personals later

Yesterday was a strange day even with eating. Ended up too carby. Will be better today. DD and DSIL took the dog out last night in the rain and she fell down the stairs off the little sde porch. We all insisted she go get checked out especially since we knew she wouldn't be able to go to school. The school is very strict and she could be let go with out a good excuse for missing so I felt she needed something from the ER for proof and they do have insurance. Thank goodness nothing was broken or damaged... just going to be sore and wth her sensitive fair skin, she will probably have some bruises as well.

Remember I told y'all she was figuring out ways to do things for us. She isn't allowed to where acrylic nails in nursing school. She found out that Walmart carries the gel which she says is like what the professional nail shops use. She used to work in a nail salon doing all that stuff, but doesn't have her license any more so couldn't buy the stuff. Well, she started using the gel polish on her nails. So she did mine the other night and will teach me how to do it myself so I will be able to do them myself. That will save me about $20 or more a month.

Well, Jaxxson seems to need lots of playo time with Nannie this morning so will go and catch y'all later.

Rie my hubby is usually pretty good he usually makes sure where we go is suitable for me .Our uncles dont watch what they eat like I do I have seen his sugar levels and they range in the high 200's sometimes and I would go nuts if I had something like that. Plus I have been told that I need to lower my trg's. I have read that things I didnt even know could raise them so I have been trying to stay away from all them things too.

Does any one have a problem with brown rice or wheat breads? What are some of the things that you can eat and not have a problem with I have bought a loaf of the mulitgrain sara lee bread it is 45 cal for two slices of bread. I am getting boared with the foods I am eating I have to switch them up.

I better be going I will check back in with everyone later.

Interesting question that sets me to thinking about what was wrong with me yesterday. No I didn't. I ate a lot of stuff some good and some not so good and thanks to your queston I realize that I wasn't really hungry for anything in particular. The rule of Intuitive Eating is to eat only when you are truly hungry and then eat what you really are hungry for and then enjoy it. I don't think I was every really hungry; I ate just because I thought I needed to eat. So I'll have to watch that today. DD and DSIL were up so late at ER that I got up and took care of the baby so they could rest this morning. Made him cheese toast and yogurt and made myself the same thing just because I ddn't want to bother with what I really wanted. I must be more careful with that. I wanted low carb breakfast of eggs. Maybe I'll have that for lunch. Thanks... very helpful to me.

Trish: when you say the rule of intuitive eating is to eat when hungry then enjoy it, well, the problem for me is that I over eat if I get very hungry, and will make bad choices.
I am gonna do some true to atkins stuff for a while, weigh in last night was depressing, and up even higher, in spite of a week not being bad, but not carefullly tracking either. I DID get on the treadmill last night, and stayed on through a whole recorded tv show, (I think about 40 minutes, since I could skip commercials). There is usually just one primetime show a day I would watch, so that might be the way to do it. For some reason, I really have trouble with exercising first thing in the morning.
Bonnie: I do have trouble with bread in general. Helps if I have peanut butter on it, the fat slows down the carbs. Generally, sprouted grain bread is best for me, and I have had some luck with this "flatout" low carb tortilla style bread, using it for wraps and thin crust pizza style stuff. (sigh, no more for a bit now)
Rice is also out, spikes are as bad or worse than white bread, and yes, that is brown rice.
I am a little anxious about going to yoga right now, I am expecting a client who delivers very quickly and don't want to miss her. Hope she will go soon and I will relax about that.
Have a nice Thursday everyone.

Good morning! Down to 185.2 and a FBGL of 4.6(82.8) this morning so something is going well.

A good session at the gym yesterday - I guess all the walking I did when my company was here helped. No problem resisting the after gym coffee break as it was the gym's 7th anniversary and they supplied coffee and healthy muffins there. (I brought home my muffin and had it with my lunch salad.) More salad and leftover lasagna from the stash was supper.

A couple of days ago Rie suggested we start posting our daily menus. I'm following South Beach Phase II which I find really easy and it works for me but might not for people on Atkins. I'll start a thread and we can pick and choose ideas that suit our own programme.

My eating was better yesterday, but I must have gotten some salt in something as weight is up and some swelling ths morning. I've been off the Metformin and the Fenofibrate for a couple of months now. Since I wasn't sure which one was causing me all the cramps and I still have lots of Metformin and I'm not having any cramps any more, I think this is a good time to find out which one it was. So I started back on the Metformin yesterday. I'm cutting the 1000 mg in half and taking half in the morning and the other one in the evening. I'm getting back to eating low carb again too. I've thought about doing the Phase 2 of South Beach and will have to get the book out and see what it calls for. I can't remember what is on it. I'm not to sure what I will be able to do since DD seems to have lost their food stamps since oldest DGS lives at the college. She is appealing it, but we will have to help buy their food until it gets straightened out. Baby drinks soy milk and the girls regular milk and I notice they are out of cereal. But I fgure if I can eat eggs and fish especially tuna for my protein and throw in some veggies, I'll be okay.

DD went to school today. She has clinical on Wed and Thurs and thought she would be out at 1 and just text that she has to stay until 3. She's in pain from the fall and has a patient today that is shutting down. Sad experience. She'll be wiped out and very emotional when she gets home.

I'm going to go look at SBD. What I like about the SBD is the fruit allowed in Phase 2 and the fact I can eat nuts. I would really love to start losing again and get my fbs under control again. Just got to do it. I did do some exercise this morning. Mostly upper body. I also remembered today the Sit and get fit exercises that I used to do. I think I can even do those for the legs so I can get some motion going as well will help a lot.

Hope we all have a great day.

Ruthe After reading your SBD plan for yesterday, I got my Supercharged SBD book out and looked at the foods allowed. Didn't get to really look at meal plans in the book for Phase 2 until today, but I believe I can do this even or perhaps especially with having to help buy food for the kids. In fact, it s a good plan for all of us. I've got a big pot of beans cooking now. So I may join those of you on the SBD thread or at least be lurking.

DGS and I had oatmeal with blueberries and yogurt this morning. I like a lot of things about starting with Phase 1, but I think Phase 2 will be easer so I will be using it. I really do need the fiber. This will be day 2 on the plan because what I ate yesterday was SBD friendly. Weight was down a little from yesterday and so was fbs but I still can't take Metformin as it does some really crazy things to my system.

Hope everyone is doing well today.

Hi everyone: fbs down a smidge 5.3 today, but weight is back down to (recently revised) ticker. Ate well so far today, and went to yoga for an hour at noon hour, then went for lunch with a friend, and actually left some potatoes on the plate. (in fact I took the plate over to the counter to reduce temptation).
So have stayed pretty much on plan today. Gonna have salad and a small steak tail for supper in a bit.

Trish: you have to remember that you have to stay on the metformin for about a month before the digestive symptoms abate. Taking the smallish dose is a good idea to start though. If you really can't manage it, please talk with your doc about getting something else to manage your blood sugars. Hope you are feeling ok, and can plan to stick to your diet plan.

Ruth, I am glad you could manage to eat the fish, I do prefer it when someone else does the cooking, or I cook it outside on the grill. Hope you can keep up at the gym. I am really pleased that I have exercise twice in the last 3 days. Planning for tomorrow now.

Have a good day everyone.

Didn't make it to the gym yesterday as I was waiting for "digestive issues" to resolve themselves. No luck so it's Fibre1 and flax in the smoothie this morning! TMI, I know, but I'll need to use TNT soon. I didn't post a menu yesterday because I was all screwed up. Didn't eat much at all but BGL still 4.9 this morning.

When at the clinic yesterday for a meeting, I got a quickie HA1C done and it's back to 6.1. My diabetic nurse is still very pleased and said to eat more! Never had anyone say that to me but she's concerned about my very low readings over the past month or so. 2.3 FBGL is not good,even though I don't feel any differently.

Have to figure out today's menu and post it. See y'all later.

fbs was 5.7 again, although it wasn't a real fast since I had a small snack at 2 am. Was trying to get to sleep, and food sometimes helps with the insomnia. Weight is going down, even with modified low carb, so will continue on this trend. Although I had some potatoes, had no wheat except a little original fiber 1 with my morning yogurt.
Ruth, have you tried the new iogo yogurt? they use splenda, its low fat, but quite tasty and creamy like. also, you can always have some of the sugar free chocolate with maltilol to get things moving! as long as its not too painful. LOL
Have a good weekend friends.

Thanks everyone for the advice. I'm going to get my act together and get this weght moving and get things straightened out. I don't just get the leg cramps with the metformin, I get muscle cramps in other parts of my body as well. The other body side effects... feels like I'm have internal earthquakes. I have to sit very quitely until the feelings pass.

I know that I am one of those people who can do this with weight, but I guess I've been looking for an "easy" way without all the work. I am using South Beach phase 2 as a guide and counting calories at the same time. I read on the thread that Phase 1 is to get rid of cravings and I am not having cravings so feel starting with Phase 2 will be okay.

I felt sickly almost like a virus all day yesterday but decided that I needed to take laxative any way. I took 1 cascara in the morning and another later in the day. Should have either took 2 at once or maybe just one. I didn't sleep much from running to potty all night, but the swelling is gone this morning. Now to keep it off. The ticker is back to where it was a lb less. I will be posting food plan as well, but mine will be after what I ate rather than plan ahead.

Hubby is up and ready to eat so I need to fix what he wants and decide what I want. I'm kind of babying my tummy today... but OP. Oh, not only was my we down but my fbs was 109 and I had oatmeal yesterday. I can cut it to 1/3c instead of 1/2 and it works.

Have a great weekend.