Tera, sometimes it is good (IMO) to go a little higher than you wanted. The body knows best! Woot!

Thanks for kudos.

Marie, your count looks good, in my unsolicited opinion lol, esp. when recovering from surgery. The bod burns extra calories in healing, I think. Probably we have to give the bod what it says it needs.

Wootness! My week has been a series of unfortunate events, including but not limited to being stung by a centipede (no damage done lol) and having car trouble wherein I had to leave the car for the weekend, which is actually okay with me as everything I want is within walking distance.

So happy with cals today as have had a very damped down reaction to stress lately. I am not overeating (other than the pb pretzels and a little high yesterday), but really okay. Cals 1410, exercise: 75 minute walk.

Would be REALLY nice if the scale would cooperate again this week, would make me feel quite perky.

I would love me some perky scale reaction as well. Not happenin' today though. I must use this disappointment to strengthen my resolve.

Marie-Sorry you are not feeling well. Be good to yourself while you are healing. On the subject of husbands and calories-my husband is a problem for two reasons-he loves meat and starch, preferably cooked by a chef in a restaurant and I love to sit and drink wine and chat with him. I have been through this before-I just need to steer clear of the high calorie behavior for the time being. Easier said then done. Perhaps the two of us could find some better use of our time-hmmmm.

Am2-thank you for demonstrating proper dieting under duress. I agree you are due for an awesome scale reward.

Tera, here's to some perky & awesome scale rewards for both of us! Woot!

Lol, maybe there IS a better use of time than sitting with meat and starch in a restaurant.

Restaurants really a problem, though. One of the reasons I gained some weight in 2010 when I went back to work after being off with an injury for three months, was I started doing restaurant reviews, and I ate all the food instead of just tasting it.

With restaurants, as with processed food in packages, you just can't tell what is in it, even if they give you all the nutritional info. The cooks don't always use the recipes they are supposed to or adhere to amounts of ingredients, etc., etc.

Packaged food is the same. The law says they have to put the serving size on the package but it is legal (I think, caveat, no lawyer here) to exceed the listed serving size by under a certain percent. So if one eats a lot of that product, one could conceivably eat a lot more calories over time than they knew. I weigh the items I consume frequently, like RTD protein shakes and other things. I weigh each item with its package and then take it out of the package and weigh it and then adjust the calories for the true weight. I only have to do this once for each new item and then enter the real calorie count in My Net Diary.

I had a much harder time losing weight before I did this.

My weigh-in is tomorrow and it could go either way. I leave it up to fate lol.

Ending eating day at 1450. Exercise was a 165 minute walk and 15 min jog, plus a lot of housecleaning.

Well, the extra testing is helping me find out how bad things are! I know they weren't this bad before though so think my diabetes has progressed just recently just as the doc said it would. Darn! I SO didn't want him to be right!

It's strange....at home I have been eating 2 carb serv a meal and my bs has been very high. Today we ate lunch out ..and I had 3 1/2 carb serv (and one was a junky carb which I almost never have at home) and my bs was high but just a little. So I'm bewildered..

If this keeps up the he will want me on another med which I was hoping to avoid. My plan right now is to increase my fiber like I did when on MF and if that doesn't do it, the only other thing I know to do is to go to only 1 or maybe 1 1/2 carb serv a meal but I'm concerned about getting good enough nutrition that way. I am also going to try to up my protein...again, this is hard for me as I don't like to eat a lot of meat or eggs. I prefer to get my protein from milk but milk is a carb..

I've already cut out all but one (eve) snack a day. Sometimes my evening snack is only 1/2 carb. This is very hard for me as I'm a natural snacker...I don't eat big meals, I get full fast but like to eat often...so quite a step for me to take, but I've done it. If I'm busy enough it doesn't bother me too much but other times I get so hungry! At least everything tastes good when you're starving...

If the above steps don't do it or I don't feel I'm eating healthy enough I guess I'll have to give in and take another med.

Marie, sorry you had bad news today. Glad you didn't jump into a chocolate vat, but sorry the allergic reaction came up with the antibiotic. It is so nice that increased communication with your sister provided a bright spot.

The scale DID do a happy dance with me, down 1.6 and that is the third consecutive week I've lost! So I am EXTREMELY happy and am going to ATTACK diet & exercise this week as I DO NOT want a rebound next Sunday.

ITA with everything you say about it being too bad people blame weight problems solely on the individual. I take responsibility for my weight, as I do other areas of my life, but YES it is a LITTLE hard on us when they mislabel the contents of the food.

Which, again, is why I weigh every processed food product I use. I get incensed when I find the product is almost invariably off (some are spot on but that is the minority). One national brand of "fresh" cake products I have loved since my 20s seems somewhat benign for cake and is sold in limited quantities and actually does taste fresh. The company freezes it and it is thawed in the refrigerated section of convenience stores and some drugstores, etc. ... it has no nutritional label because it sold in a single serving. Once, long, long ago I called the company for the info and they gave it to me and tracking it for years that way and finding that online sources used the same info, I thought I was counting it correctly. When I started using My Net Diary's barcode scanner, I found that it was coming up as a cake sold in a restaurant chain that was different from the one I believed it to be. So I weighed two varieties of the cake and found it to be 60 calories over what the scanner said, what the online world said and what the lady on the phone had told me long ago.

I had been eating that cake for 30 years! I hate to think what 60 calories now and then over 30 years adds up.

Sorry, rant over.

Good night, all!

This weekend was nice and relaxing. I planned to go shopping both days but ended up just sticking around the house cleaning on Saturday and a bit of yard work on Sunday. I also made a large batch of homemade chili for supper and enough left over for a few suppers this week when my hubby is travelling. Total cals-1500 Ex-a leisurely walk around the neighborhood with my friend.

Marie-I hear you on the sad conversation with your child today. My dear son let me know about some problems in his life today and it threw both me and my husband for a loop although it shouldn't. My son always, always has to learn things the hard way and it is so frustrating. However, he is still young and hopefully can weather the storm and learn from his experiences.Glad to hear you got out for a walk with the "family" today.

Am2-thanks for the great information about restaurant and packaged food calories. That must of been a fun job why it lasted. I do my best to keep both restaurant outings and packaged food indulgences to a minimum.

Marie-Good luck figuring out how to eat to keep the diabetes in check. I understand it is a huge challenge. Have you considered reading Dr Mark Hymans books about "diabesity"? I find them very helpful for information about eating well even though I do not have diabetes.

Total cals-1920 Ex-60 min step class, 60 min yoga class. Calories were higher than I would have liked but it didn't feel that way when I ate them I have not been to a yoga class in a very long time. It felt good but it was difficult. I am sure it was good for me despite the pain.

Good morning, Marie and Tera! Just have time for a postie as the car dealership's shuttle is delayed in picking me up AGAIN! They have had my car since Friday & I am going nuts !

Yesterday ordered groceries online because I had no car and I DID order a piece of cake. Despite that calories for the day were okay at 1690. Exercise was a long walk!

Gotta go wait some more lol. Bye for now!

AM2-Way to go working the cake in successfully.

Marie-It is great you are feeling well enough to exercise. Be sure and take it easy though. Congrats on the ticker tick.

Todays cals-1625, Ex-60 min strength training at the Y. It certainly helps to have a family event to attend to in one week! I am trying to get in the right place to go dress shopping this weekend.

Today: 1295 calories and 7 carb serv. I only took my bs once today (as I've almost used up the first 25 strips of the increased order I received a few days ago...have to cut back for a while!) , and before dinner it was 153 which is high (should be no more than 140). So not really terrible but still high on only 2 carb serv a meal.

My hunger is easing a bit though...I think because I am upped my protein, fiber and fat. I think the fat esp helps. Of course, too much would be bad for diabetes too but I don't think I'm over the limits my dietician set and mostly it is healthy fat.

We are at Newport OR coast for a few days of crabbing. We got very few crabs and found out tonight it is because they dredged the river and apparently it affects where we are too. The weather is great though and we enjoy sitting out on the dock. We went into town for lunch ...a challenge for me but don't think I did too badly. And I walked quite a bit today.

Marie & Ama, i have been wondering about some of those nutrition labels too.

Marie, sorry about the bad news and your not feeling so well. You are still doing well on weight though. And yes, if necessary (and I think it is) I wlll accept another medication...I'm reluctant but not stupid.

BTW, while I'm here I an measuring my waist each day instead of weighing.

maryea-Your diet changes sound like they will be helpful. how nice you were able to enjoy some time on the lovely Oregon coast. Too bad about the crabs though.

Todays cals-1605 Exer-60 min step class at the Y. The scale is moving down ever so slowly but I am not changing the ticker until after the weekend-assuming I still have pounds lost to report of course.