Weight up to 181.8 but at least it wasn't as high as it was at 7 am yesterday morning. Could be meds too. I finally took a couple of DH tramadol because my back hurt so bad. It did let up some of the pain but I couldn't sleep so I got up to go pee around 4 am so took tart cherry extract. Don't know when I finally went to sleep because I couldn't get comfortable. When I woke up I made myself do the exercises I usually do in bed and while dressing. Came into kitchen and made a cup of tea and check bp and bs and put spaghetti together and into crockpot. By that time I was needing to sit down and realized either bs or bp had gone too low so had to sit long enough to let it pass. It has come back up but I just want to sleep. Remember I am the gal who doesn't like to take those kind of meds so rarely do take them. I always know they will probably make me feel this way the next day so I will probably sleep it off after dinner althought I really wanted to do the recumbant bike today as well. Just not sure I will be able to or even should.

Carol Sue I did our sheets and towels last night. DH helps me make the bed when I do them because I don't think I could do it by myself. My back was already hurting and do the laundry didn't help. Then we did the calendars we always make to send out to family with everybody's birthdates on them and standing so long to do it didn't help either. I actually did the sheets because I wanted DH to turn the mattress. But if I had thought about it I would have waited. But I am thank God it is all done.

I hope you can figure out what is causing your sleeplessness. You said you read the magnesium makes you dream. I notice I am remembering my dreams now that I take it again. DH DD who lived with us for a while has bought a town house and are have to be out of their apartment by January 27th. When I did sleep last night, I dreamed she and I were packing boxes for her move all night. Maybe all that work has made me tired today . LOL

I hope DH will eat the leftover coleslaw from KFC so I won't have to make a salad. But I will probably have to make it any way. I was going to eat breakfast but didn't feel like cooking so I've ended up with a 20 hr fast today. So I hope eating will help me feel better.

Trish, how many MG is your magnesium? Mine is 2 capsules totaling 420 MG and I only take 1, so 210. I don't know if I should take 2 or not.

We ate our spaghetti at 2:30 because DH was hungry. So I had 1200 calories in 5 hours. Not bad.

I can change our sheets myself but its hard, and I often get DH to help me. My shirts are dried and hung up. I want to see how long I can go without wearing the same top twice. I have SO many. I know I will have a ton of laundry to do when its over!!

Carol Sue My magnesium is 550 mg for 1 pill. I'm thinking I need to take it every other day. This one isn't supposed to cause potty issues.SLMG toast with g arlic butter. Later I had a cup of coffee with a couple pieces of chocolate within 4 hr eating window. I would be surprised if I even had 600 calories today.

I still need to do our meds & vitamins for next week but must wait until I am more rested and can think clearer. Hope I can do it tonight but may have to wait until tomorrow morning. I sure hope I can sleep good tonight and get up feeling human again tomorrow. At least I have one day with exercise this week and 2 or 3 to go.

Goodnight.

Trish, I purposely bought magnesium that requires 2 capsules so I could take a half dose per day. It gives me more bowel movements that are loose but not diarrhea. I read that you cannot get too much because your body will expel it. I don't think I need more than what I'm taking. When do you take yours? I take mine at bedtime but want to start taking it with food. I don't think it caused my sleep issues.

Who would be stupid enough to get on the scale the morning after eating spaghetti for dinner? The spaghetti was good but the results were not.

What did DH have to eat while you were eating so little? DH ate spaghetti but later on he cooked a big pan of fried potatoes. He has to have his potatoes every day.

I ended up doing a little bit of exercise yesterday while waiting for the dryer to stop. The recumbent bike and some squats. I cleaned out one kitchen cupboard and have a box to go to Goodwill. There are things I know I won't be using again. I have another cupboard to clean out. So 1 box of kitchen and 2 boxes of clothes out the door!

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I cooked a couple chicken drumsticks in my air fryer that I never use. They were great and really easy. I just added some garlic salt, pepper and paprika to a tbs of olive oil and coated them. 25 minutes later they were hot and crispy. DH will not eat chicken with a bone but I plan on doing that with chicken tenderloins.

I don't know what DH wants for dinner because he is going to be watching the game at 4. He hasn't mentioned anything yet.

Carol Sue DH and I only eat one meal together each day that I prepare fo us. Other than that, we kind of do our own thing. I did finally eat some fruit and he ate whatever he normally eats.

I take the magnesium in the evening sometime before going to bed. I don't know if this brand can be cut in half, but I do have a pill cutter so may try taking half a day. I get this one from Amazon because it isn't supposed to cause potty issues.

I feel much better today. I decided to switch back to brunch between 11:30 and noon and main meal around 3:30 and then have a snack so I can do a 5 or 6 eating window. I really miss my eggs. I'm not going to worry too much about the carbs because I want the healthy grains for a lot of reasons but will try not to eat a lot of them I may get that book out I bought called Low Carbing for Dummies. It is much like WW but you have to keep the carbs in check. It had a guide as to how many carbs were in certain things figured and she suggested eating no less than 3 carby grains but no more than 5 to lose weight. I will have DH make me a sheet to print out to track it starting in January.

Weight seems to be stuck at 181.8, but that seems to the way things work for me. Not sure if I should change anything or not. For now I am still using MFP and will the rest of the year. FBG was 99 this morning so that is good. Keeping an eye on the bp because I may have to stop the Lisinopril again. I was doing good with the lowest dose for a while, but now that it is built back up in my system, it is kind of low again. I could eat a little more sodium but really don't want to start playing with that because I think that is what caused Daddy so many problems. Doc did tell me if I really couldn't take it not to worry about it.

Have a good day everybody.

Trish, I wonder if you could cut the Lisinopril in half. Usually you can cut a pill if it's scored in the middle. You cannot cut them if they are time-released. You would have to look at your bottle. Why don't you want to take the whole thing? Mine are Magnesium Glycinate capsules and they are not supposed to cause potty issues. I got them from Amazon I think. I get some supplements from Walmart.com.

The only grains I eat are in the Sara Lee Delightful bread unless I make a mug muffin. I haven't done that for a while. I don't think I know what grains are. I just read what whole grains are and I rarely eat them.

We ate early again today then I fell asleep again. DH is yelling at the football game so I don't think I will sleep anymore.
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Carol Sue The Lisinopril is the lowest dose 2.5 mg and is very small pill already. Doctor told me that I might not be able to take it but wanted me to take it if at all possible. I took the 10 for a long time with no problem and then all of a sudden, I started getting really low readings. I thought I was going to be able to take the 2.5 until a few days ago the numbers were low again, but I decided not to stop it as of yet. The extra low day was when I had all that pain and took pain pills so could be related to that. I will just keep an eye on it for now. I just want to be careful because my Daddy had problems with BP going low and then high trying to control it. His half-sister had a problem very low BP. I don't know what my aunt did, but my parents said their decided years ago not to use the salt shaker. I don't know about Mama but I learned when I would go clean Daddy's apartment and even after he was at the nursing home, would buy big bags of chips and pig out on them.

Ended up with a 7 hr eating window because I wasn't watching the clock. Calories around 1300 for today.

Family calendar's we do every year are done and ready to mail so DH wants to go mail them tomorrow and go to Walmart. So we will go tomorrow instead of our usual Tuesday trip which means he will want KFC.

Trish, I guess I would stop the Lisinopril if BP is already low but there must be a reason why the doctor wants you to take it. I take 5 different pills for blood pressure and systolic is still high. Probably because of my valve.

I didn't sleep well again. I fell asleep for about an hour in the evening and I've been doing that daily. Its usually after dinner but I check blood sugar and its not unusually high. At night I wake up around 3 am and cannot fall back to sleep no matter what I do. Today I will try to get busy after dinner to keep from falling asleep. I also might try Benadryl when I can't fall back to sleep. I don't like to take anything because I don't want to be groggy. 1 MG of Melatonin made me feel like a drunk. Benadryl makes me sleepy but not groggy.

Today I want to take my boxes to Goodwill and return my library books. Nothing else that lanned.

Hi friends: have not weighed for a couple of days, ate both Saturday and Sunday. I had planned a fast on Sunday, but our friends who were supposed to come on Saturday evening came on Sunday instead. I served a charcuterie supper, so only had to put things out and cut up a couple of veggies for the hummus dip. Just cheese and cold cuts and olives, and the veggies and hummus and crackers. Also on the veggie tray I put some grapes and sections of clementine oranges, and squares of chocolate, so supper was very easy and dessert built in. There was very little left over when we were done. We played cards for a couple of hours and visited. All lovely.
Carol: I am sorry your sleep is so disturbed. Mine is doing better, but I still sometimes have trouble when I wake in the middle of the night to go to the washroom, and I can't get back to sleep. I have had better success lately, I think because I am not taking a lot of meds to GET to sleep in the first place. So I can take an herbal pill or even a bit of Gravol and I can get back to sleep for a couple of hours at least and do better.
Having to get up for a certain time tends to affect my sleep though, so I am a little worried about the days of meetings I have coming up. Hope that will go ok, and I am taking all my "crutches" with me.

I am planning to fast today AND tomorrow in preparation for the foodie experience that goes with this meeting. However, I am taking along quite a bit of my own food just in case.
After my experience of getting gluten-ed recently, I will be careful, although the place where we are meeting has always done well with my food intolerances.

I hope you are both well and stay that way. have a good week

Ok, I said I was going to make myself stay awake but I was watching Maury after dinner and the next thing I knew it was 2 HOURS later!! That makes me mad. I thought it would help me sleep better tonight. I go to bed early because DH flips channels all evening butt I guess I'll stay up later tonight.

We went to Bob Evans and took my boxes to Goodwill. Then to Walmart. Its never good to go there late. They were out of things. So we stopped at the local store which is more expensive but they had cucumbers tomatoes and onions. They never had self checkouts but now they do because they can't get cashiers. We like self.

Mad, your dinner with friends sounds like what I like to do for Christmas. No formal dinner. More snacky.

Fatmad Your dinner party sounds good. Baby sister and I were talking about doing something similar to that around Christmas time and make it a come and go kind of thing so we can see all the kids and they can be free ti have Christmas with their kids and family on Christmas.

Carol Sue The doctor wants me to take Lisinopril because he says they think it prevents heart attacks and strokes. In fact, our doc in SC had DH and me take fenofibrate (I think that is how you spell it) for almost 10 years for the same reason and then one day our SC doctor told us to stop taking it because they thought it was actually causing heart attacks and strokes.

I have not stopped taking Lisinopril as of yet because if it really does protect me from stroke and heart attacks I want to take it. This morning my bp was very good so if it continues like it is I can stay on it. You know I had decided to just keep an eye on it because I thought it might have been caused from taking the pain pills etc. I am very careful not to take them and especially not to over do them when I do. I was in such pain, I guess I wasn't careful enough. I'm just so thankful that I am feeling great today and have no problem with the Lisinopril. In fact, I slept great last night waking up to go potty only once and woke up back to myself and ready to get up.

Weight is pretty much stable and I’ve decided that from now until after Christmas to just try to maintain and not gain weight. Weight today was up .2 lbs which doesn’t have to mean a gain but I don’t want it to be one. I had lost weight by the end of the November but now have gained 2.4 lbs back. It is Christmas time and there are a few things I like to eat at Christmas time and I want to be able to eat them without over doing it. So if I give myself permission to, maybe I will be able to eat them sensibly.

Happy that after a single day of fasting I am back to 157. So if I can manage the fasting today I will be lower tomorrow when I go to this 2 days of meetings. So that will be eating Wednesday and Thursday, and I can fast on Friday so I hope not to go to far off the rails. I will have to get up early to do my walks as well, and no dog to encourage me to get up and walking.

Trish, I wonder if I won't need a BP pill at some point as well. I don't have any swelling, so I should not need a diuretic type. But my BP has been climbing and my diastolic was over 90 at last visit.
I am thinking of having DH help me take my BP and see how it is at home and with relaxation a few times to see how it is. the Lisinopril is an older drug. This is not a negative thing, since we know more about the actions and interactions of older drugs. It is quite a safe thing. I would agree with you, its possible that the pain meds lowered your pressures too much, not the lisinopril. You can check in with your physician about it.

I expect this month will be a challenging one for us and weight and eating issues will come up. Being more social after almost 2 years of semi-isolation, and the availability of special foods that will really tempt us, how could there not be challenges. My plan: enjoy some of it, and be ok with gaining a bit over the holidays if it happens. Keep active and fast between social stuff. Make sure there is always a veggie platter to enjoy. LOL

Carol: I wonder if overall you get enough sleep, but the odd hours bother you. I have found that my Valerian Complex helps the middle of night wake up. I have not needed it recently, but it was helpful a few weeks ago. I would be awake for about an hour, but with reading was able to get back to sleep, often on the couch or in the guest room though. I tend to get up so I don't disturb DH, he is a light sleeper. Hope you find something that helps, it can be frustrating.

Have a good day everyone.

I slept better last night and am happy about that. DH talked to the guy who installed our furnace. Our old one was 50 years old. This new one is high efficiency and dries the house out more. My body interprets it as the house being too hot, like I'm breathing hot dry air. We don't want to add a humidifier. I will work something out to add more humidity during sleep.

Mad, I agree that I am getting sleep even if its broken up. Even my Fitbit told me that my sleep is segmented. I really hate lying awake at 3 am so I get up and read. Its my quiet time while DH sleeps. Today I did some relaxation techniques and was able to fall back to sleep.

Ever since I first became weight conscious years ago I have gone out of my way to be sure I did not get holiday gain. It was like I challenged myself, and I often put forth an effort to lose a few. Mostly I knew when a food related get together was coming up and would fast beforehand to prepare so I could indulge a bit. Its easy now because DH is a sweet eater and mostly they don't bother me. We rarely socialize, so that's not an issue.

I think my biggest problem right now is not keeping my eating window closed after dinner, which for us is pretty early. I need to get back to that. 11-4 is the best schedule for me. I also sleep better when I go to bed hungry. So I have a plan, just need to follow it.

I didn't like where the scale was headed this morning so I jumped off before it registered to the app. If it doesn't register it didn't happen. Still below 190, barely.

Trish, I read about Lisinapril and understand how it protects. I'm glad DH takes it. I take 5 different BP meds, some of which didn't make a difference in my BP when I started taking them. But I'm told that they do different things and that is why they want me to continue with them all. When I was thin, 130 ish, I was told that my BP was low but not dangerously and that meant I would not have high BP when I aged. They were wrong, but I'm sure my weight gain has a lot to do with it. My systolic is high and diastolic is low. So if they give me something that lowers systolic, diastolic goes too low. I hate it. Losing weight would probably do much to fix this, a big reason to stick to plan, and I am sure the answer is to only eat when hungry and enough to relieve hunger. I need to continue to work toward that solution.

I am craving steak today, so it would be a good day for Texas Roadhouse. I would eat it more often if DH would.

I've been up since 6:45 and ready for a short nap before DH gets up. Pest control came early so I had to be up. Amazing thing is that I decided to weigh and weight was down to 181.2. I was so shocked that it was down instead of up or at least not 182 as it was yesterday. BP was 116/61 same as yesterday so everything is good. Even FBG was 99. g k

I was afraid that the combo of the Lasix and Lisinopril was going to be a problem but thank God it isn't. I am finding that I really need the Lasix more than I thought I did or would. The other night DH even felt of my legs and told me to be sure and take one. So I guess I have reached the age that I have to take it. I still have some of the feelings I had before in my feet but at least the Lasix makes bareable to where I mostly feel it at night when I go to bed and have them under cover.

Fatmad The IF is always so helpful to you and I'm sure when we all get passed this time of year that we will be able to get back on our individual plans more seriously. I think for me this has always been a time of year to enjoy certain goodies I eat that I don't eat at other times during the year. My problem this year is keeping it minimal to things that won't hurt DH since he is doing so well trying to get his FBG down. Hope your time at your 2 days meeting will be good.

Carol Sue When I was younger and went to diet doctors, the nurses were always amazed that my bp was so low for a woman who weighed what I did. They said most overweight women had higher. Also my previous MIL who worked for a diet doctor in CA when she and her DH lived there told me I would never be a diabetic because I was hypcgycemic. One day when I was having a terrible low because blood sugar had dropped so I had to eat, she was with me and said "Well, there is one thing you know, Pat, you will never be diabetic." Of course now we know that it is a precurser to diabetes and a warning to those who have it that they are prediabetic and they can prevent it or even slow it down from happening to them.

I have changed my hourse to eating around 11 to noon and then trying to stay within 7 or 8 hrs. I may have already told y'all that. I got my book Low Carbing for Dummies. I have another one for dummies on low glycemic plan. I am going to look at them both between now and January 1st and figure out how to use it along with my WWSF plan. I had DH run off enough sheets for me to track without having to count on MFP. I'm using the sheet he evidently had for wife #1 when she was diabetic. It is one sheet a day so I can keep up with everything. It will be up to me if I want to count cals, carbs or whatever or just keep up with meeting daily amounts of certain types of foods.

Have a nice day everybody and Mad have a safe trip.

Today DH decided he wanted to go to the casino because the Steelers are playing Thursday night and he wants to watch it, so we went and had a good night, finally after a few bad ones. We didn't stay as late so I'm not as tired as I usually am. We went to the old casino, not the one close to home. So we didn't go to Texas Roadhouse and I didn't get my steak.

I don't know if I have Low Carb for Dummies. I remember looking high and low for a Dummies book and finally found it but I forget which one. I donated a lot of my diet books and want to donate more of them. I don't refer to them much anymore since most of them are not something I will follow for life, however long that might be. I just can't stick to a plan like that. The books are just talk by up space in my spare room.

I didnt take a nap today so I might sleep good.