Welcome home, Mad! I agree with you about sleeping in your own bed. It really does make a difference. We have had a queen for so long I can't even imagine us sleeping in a double. When we even see a double, it looks like an oversized single. LOL We would have a king if we could, but it would be a close fit in our bedroom. You have done well with your eating while traveling. It has become a way of life for you.

I did well until yesterday, then today is not well either. I am allowing sugar, which starts to become a mini-binge.

Liz, many people tend to go into hiding when they fall off the wagon, at a time when you need the support of the forum the most. I am lucky, if you want to look at it that way, because as a Mod, it's best if I'm here daily. I am a forum junky, so I'm usually here, good or bad. But on bad days, I tend to not discuss it. Close your eyes really tight and it DID NOT HAPPEN!! LOL The scale is also a problem for me. I only weigh under 2 circumstances....when I feel that I've lost, or when I feel that it's time to face the music and see how much damage I have done. I went through a stage when I weighed and tracked food/exercise daily. It had no effect, so I stopped doing it. I really hate tracking my food or even calories for that matter. It makes me feel as though my whole life evolves around what I'm eating or weighing and it usually doesn't make me happy. But if I didn't do forums or weigh at least occasionally, I would probably weigh a lot more than I do. I wish there were forums like this when I was in my gaining period. It might not have been such a disaster. Like you, my main concern is my blood sugar.

fatmad Welcome back home. I find it is always better to sleep in my own bed. DH and I have a king size bed and when traveling we always get 2 double beds. It just makes it easier to rest. You did great on your trip really but then you always do. You know we don't think about them cooking floured foods and non-floured foods being cooked in the same vat of oil. I think when I have issues from fried foods when out is caused by the type of oil they use or because it is old oil.

Carol Sue I agree that I can still do CAD if I want to. I'm just not really sure actual CAD is relevant any more. We have learned that some of the foods they don't allow at meals/snacks other than RM are as bad as they thought when they wrote those books. We have so much research has shown us for example such as tomatoes are not as bad for CMs as they thought. Carrots make a good snack especially if uncooked. Some of the vegetables they didn't allow because of the GI #s, are actually good for us according to the GL#s. I also believe that eating 2MAD or OMAD was probably what caused Rachel Heller to have such success losing weight because without knowing it she was doing IF. So I really think IF/IE is the best way to go for me.

Actually IF is what I ended up with yesterday. I had carbs at 2 meals yesterday which were about 5 hrs apart and I ate exactly what I wanted and had a 6 hr eating window. It was a very carby day, but today is another day. I didn't get nachos at the restaurant. They had free chips and very spicy dip which was too hot for DH so I ordered a cheese dip and just used the appetizer chips for dipping. Then I ordered a taco salad. I only ate half of the salad not any of the taco bowl and I brought the rest of it home. I'm making a meatloaf with veggies for lunch for DH and I will eat the left over salad. I will decide later if I will eat anything for dinner. I will allow IE to determine that.

Liz The way I used to decide whether I was hungry or not was by what I wanted to eat many times. There are times when you feel like you could eat everything in the house, but I noticed that I wasn't always hungry even then because I didn't know what I wanted. I just felt like I wanted something. One day when I was feeling that way, I heard myself say out loud "If you don't know what you want to eat, then you must not really be hungry" so I didn't eat anything. I think I will go back to making my decisions that way again.

The nice thing I learned about myself was with the IE/IF feeling, I ate as much of the chips and dip and the taco as I wanted. I stopped before full. We had cake which seems like a sponge cake with fruit and whipped cream icing. I had a slice which I had decided to share with DH but he didn't want any. I wanted to eat all of it, but I suddenly remembered reading in mindful eating source that said leave a little something on your plate to remind yourself you don't have to eat it all so I stopped eating leaving about 2 or 3 bites. So my eating day ended very well.

This morning weight was up only 2 lbs and my FBG before BPC was 147 which was lower than yesterday so I didn't do any harm to the bs. So all is good. Made my coffee with MCToil to help with my fast. We will eat around 3:30 and I haven't had anything to eat since we ate around 9 last night. I was miserable eating that lat as I never eat heavy that late at night and don't plan to do so again anytime soon.

Fatmad I make my fat bombs with coconut oil, pb and cocoa with sweetener. The recipe uses xylitol so I did too. I find it isn't as sweet but don't need it with the organic pb I use.

Good morning. Today is our 38 year anniversary. Nothing special going on. We don't do anything special. We are just an old married couple set in our ways. Know each other's good and bad side and we don't care.

​​​​​​Ii will be back later when I have more to say.

Have now had 2 good sleeps in a row, and that's feeling good. Did not get as much exercise as I should have yesterday, may go for a walk soon. Have lots to do today before going on call later.
Weight today 150.5
Don't know where that 148.5 came from on Tuesday night. Scale must have been acting up or something.
Still fasted, deciding whether to continue that today. I think I will try until tomorrow. Having a longer fast would be good to reset things. I am taking my probiotics after the loose BMs the other day after what I think was a wheat exposure. Hope I can "reset" my gut bacteria to some good stuff. That would be good.

The evidence keeps piling up that IF and EF are doing us good, more science on our side, and so are lab results, as well as BS when testing, thats great Trish.
I had my Dad go off Statins as well, the risks and benefits don't always seem to balance out. At his age, I didn't see any benefit.
He had heart failure not coronary heart disease. Just writing this makes me remember how much I miss him.
I hope things for your father go ok Trish, and that you don't let this confusion he has affect your memories of him. The two of you reconciled to a lot of things this year, and nothing should take away from that.

Have a lovely day friends, its sunny but cool here.

Carol Sue HAPPY 38th Anniversary. I hope y'all have a nice day. If you are like DH and me, we are just thankful we still have each other and just enjoy being together. I told DS the other day that I just realized Sunday that DH and I have been married 1/2 the amount of years we were married to our previous mates. Makes me wonder how the time went so fast.

Weight and FBG is about the same. It is acceptable to doc, although I want it better. So I guess I am doing ok. DH FBG is almost what mine is with his meds so something is working. I am staying mostly IF and not worrying a whole lot about anything just trying to stay as healthy eating as possible.

Fatmad I hate to say it but I think things are getting worse with Daddy. He asked me this morning where my step-mom was and wanted to know if she lives there with him because he didn't see her. I didn't know what to tell him because he knows his mind isn't right and I'm not sure what he can handle so I didn't tell him she had passed away a few years ago, I just told him that she didn't live there with him. He was upset that his great granddaughter had come to see him and he couldn't remember her name. She goes to see him a lot since she moved back here from CA. He said "I can't even remember my grandkids names". She had come to see him last night and went to eat breakfast with him this morning. He was upset when I told him today is her birthday and he couldn't give her anything for her birthday. I feel protective of him but can't do anything to help him. He is so ready to go and said that maybe he wouldn't be here much longer. I don't want to let him go, but I hate him living like this. I hope the weather is good enough in the morning for me to go see him. So I feel I need to just follow IF and eating as healthy as possible right now. DS son and grandson went with them to see Daddy Sunday and she said Daddy can't remember his name and calls him "that little boy". So not quite sure where things go from here. I told DS that we might should go see the neurologist again although we know they aren't going to do anything.

I started doing my part of cleaning this house getting ready for our company coming later this month. It is definitely called Exercise. DH has done a lot but there are some things I have to do but really can't do a lot until it gets closer to their visit. I will do a little of it everyday. I want to get everything that I can done this week end so I can rest up a bit just before they come. They want to go shopping at the Silos Monday the 20th. Chip and Joanna are so popular nationwide so it could take an hr just to get into one of the shops. I am so thankful that DH finally found his Mother's Hugo walker so I will use it so I can walk around there. I would just use the cane, but I know they are always so busy with lines that sometimes goes around the block. So better to be safe than sorry.

I ate the taco salad with out the taco bowl because it had gone too soft. So I stayed on plan yesterday. So I'm having no problem with IE/IF.

Pipscile, Liz and others

Have a nice day everyone.

Trish: it might help to contact your local Alzheimer's society. They cover all types of dementia.
There is no cure, no magic wand, but they will have advice on how to manage, what to say in tough situations, and how to accept this difficult condition in someone you care about. It will take as long as it takes, but there are sometimes blessings in the confusion.

I wound up eating some lunch, found my mood very low in spite of my nice walk. Its not the first time I have noticed that I get blue after about 40 or more hours of fasting.
And I feel better after eating. However, I also had some stuff to do working on Dad's estate, and that always is hard for me and leaves me shaken up. I don't know why that is, other things are so much better, but it's true. In any case, going to cook up some bacon for a nice wedge salad tonight. Have a good day friends

Sometimes I feel like it is my salad that causes me potty issues. I got in the habit of eating one from all those years of eating it on CAD. I just someone ask the if everybody at the 2 c salad before their RM on my FB CAD group. Many people said they didn't eat it at RM, but eat it for a CM. Some said they didn't eat it all the time and someone else said they don't eat one very often because it was too much food for her and another said that it gives her diarrhea. I do enjoy my salads most of the time, but it would be nice to be able to have it for a snack. It is really nice to see how others handle the salad on CAD. It also helps me for those days when I either can't get a salad or just don't want one.

Trish my friend who lost all that weight has a big salad every night for dinner. I think that's all she has but I'm not sure.and I am not sure what all She puts in it. She does not cook and lives alone so she has no one else to consider. She will be getting her A1c checked pretty soon. She does not test at home but today at the doctor her fasting was 74. I have a tendency to feel jealous of her weight loss and improvement in her diabetes but she is the one who just went through that horrible cancer treatment and has to worry about reaccurance so I realize I am lucky being me.

I'm not really sure what causes my potty issues and sometimes it is just loose. It seems that it is different things causing it.

Carol Sue I feel like I am pretty blessed for being as healthy as I am and am thankful for it. I wouldn't have to go through cancer either.

Well, I've made it tonight without eating after my small snack, but this was a night that I could have snacked all night. The only thing that saved me from snacking is that I don't buy anything for snacks any more. So I made it without going off plan.

Yes I agree you are very healthy. I come from a family with rampant heart disease and if it wasn't for new procedures and mess I would have died younger like they did.

I will try to fast longer today because it is Friday and I know DH will want to go out to eat. If I eat out things taste better if I amhungry.

good morning friends: still 150.5 today. Ate well yesterday, on plan. DH is gone all day, not sure if I will eat at lunch time. I had bought some yummy fish for supper when I went to the farmer's market yesterday. thats supper, and if I have lunch I will have the wedge salad, like last night. Still have some bacon for it.
Slept well again last night. DOn't know what's up with that, 3 good sleeps in a row, but I will take it. I didn't even hear DH get up and go to work.

Carol: I hope you go for a "nice" dinner, even if you are old married folks, having a little celebration when you go out it good for the soul.

Trish, I think the only way to know for sure about what is causing the potty issues is to do a proper elimination diet. Just reducing this here and that there for a few days doesn't always do it, my gluten intolerance a case in point. I had "gone off" wheat before, but not a proper gluten elimination, and that low FODMAP diet really showed the error of my ways. The good thing was that I thought I was mildly lactose intolerant, and I found out that was not true. so YAY for that. And found I was truly gluten intolerant, which I was reluctant to admit, but it has been a blessing to know. Figuring it all out is tedious. I also thought that greens like some salads were a problem, and again, not so. I feel pretty free now, when I have the runs, to know its a gluten exposure, and I can usually go back and say, yup, must have been there..... I was eating sweet potato fries the last night before we left BC, pretty sure that is the exposure. I will have to pretty much give up deep fried foods sadly. I do like fries from time to time.....

Liz: I hope you never feel judged here or anywhere on 3FC. We all fall off from time to time, and we are here to support, not judge. I hope we can do that for you, and all our friends here. Please keep coming, its nice to round out our numbers. !

Mad, we did not go out to eat yesterday. We stayed home and had hot dogs. DH had mentioned them in the past few days so I was craving them. So even though we did not go out for a "celebration," I had what I wanted and got to stay home and relax, and that's what's important.

Yesterday, I was reading something online about protein and it said that the elderly need to eat protein on a regular basis because they have a tendency to lose muscle as they age. I don't think I eat an excessive amount of protein but I will not be concerned about eating too much anymore. If anyone has lost muscle over the years, it is certainly me.

According to my Fitbit, I have been getting more than 7 hrs sleep per night not getting up until after 8AM. I still wake up during the night but am able to fall back to sleep. If I wake up around 5 I try not to become too awake so I can fall back to sleep. Also, my Fitbit tracks sleep stages and I am getting more deep sleep than before. I used to get less than an hour and now I am over an hour most night, but not all in one time frame. I just read that 1.2-1.8 is a good amount of deep sleep. Most nights I take Tylenol Arthritis and I think that helps me sleep. I don't know if that's good or bad but I know of other people who take things to help with sleep. I feel that sleep should come naturally, but if I have pain I have trouble sleeping. Also, I don't heve many things worrying me lately and worry is one of the things that disrupts my sleep.

Trish, one of the things I have been snacking on lately is DH's candy, but right now he does not have anything that appeals to me. He buys hard candy, and Werther's caramels. I can easily pass on them. I get weak when he buys chocolate which he hasn't bought for a while. If he does, I hope he keeps it out of my sight. I also snack on deli meat if we have it and cheese. DH likes swiss cheese but I prefer Mozzarella, so I will stop buying Mozzarella for now. I like swiss cheese on some sandwiches but would not eat it by itself as a snack. He also hasn't had any snack cakes or donuts for a while. I don't know if he did that intentionally or just didn't get them. He will occasionally cut back to lose a few pounds but he never talks about it. I just happen to notice he is not eating as much.

We have a list written up for Walmart but I told him I only want to go out once today so if he is going to want to go out for dinner we can go to Walmart at the same time. The less I walk around the better my feet feel, so I think it does me good to stay home more. I still haven't made my appointment with the doctor because I keep thinking my foot will stop hurting. It lets up for a few days, but then when I do a lot of walking it starts again, so I will make the appointment today. I don't have a copay for the PCP so it won't cost me anything but my time. I also have to make an appointment for the dog to get a hair cut. That is something I always postpone because he misbehaves with the groomer. It only takes an hour, but it seems a lot longer with him jumping around and snapping at her. I don't think she hurts him, but he doesn't like the sound of the shears, and doesn't like her touching his back legs. I wish he would get used to it. Our other dogs didn't mind it at all.

I am trying to drink more water to fight dehydration. It is keeping me in the bathroom. Lol. We are going to T X Roadhouse so that can be our anniversary celebration.

I will probably be back later.

We didn't go to TX Roadhouse. DH changed his mind and wanted to go to my favorite fish place. They get so crowded during Lent that we don't even try to go there. We can go to TX Roadhouse during the week when it's not so crowded.

It has been quite a day today. I got to the beauty shop and when DS was done she left because she had to go home for her and her DH to go leave for a 4 hour trip to her daughters. While beautician was washing my hair the girl who answers the phone came in to get the beautician to go out side with her. I heard her say my sisters name so with soap in my hair we all rain out to the parking lot and she was laying face down on the pavement. I called BIL and told him I would have the ambulance take her to the ER we always use. He was there when she got there. Beautician finished my hair and I went to the ER and spent the day there with her. Dr. said she might have a mild concussion but he didn't think so and nothing broken. He said what they thought was a brain bleed a couple of years ago they didn't think was a brain bleed because it had calcified. They think it was a calcification before and it hadn't changed. Neurosurgeon is going to look at it and see what he think because they have never seen it before. They think it is just calcium that has become like a bone. We are blessed that she isn't hurt. He put one stitch in her head and said she will be sore for a few days and sent her home. I don't think she will bruise like she did before. She might end up with a bruise on the right side of her forehead where the stitch is but I think the rest will be okay. It doesn't help that her asma has been acting up lately. She used the enhailer at the hospital and I told her she was using it wrong and I had DH tell her how to do it correctly so she can get better benefits from it. Remember he is a Respiratory Therapist. We aren't going to tell Daddy about it because there is no sense in worrying him.

I had gone and got DH so he that we could go get her car from the beauty shop and take it to the hospital. Then he drove BIL truck to their house so BIL could drive DS in her car. We got them settled in and then came home. We got McDs and I was just too tired from all the mental stress that I had no energy to even care about the bread so I added my veggies to the burger and ate the whole thing. I didn't realize how shook up I was at the beauty shop until I signed the phone to pay the beautician and my signature was crazy. I hold up pretty good because I know that I have to in a situation like that, but when I got home, I crashed.

Fatmad How does dementia work? Yesterday morning Daddy asked me where my step-mother was and if she was out there with him. I think I must have woke him up and as we talked he improved. Later when DS and baby sister talked to him he was fine. Is this a slow thing or what? I'm just not familiar with this because I've never experienced it before.

Thanks for the advice. So far my problem seems to be too much volume of raw veggies. After I saw how high volume raw veggies affected others, I realized that every time I have had problems it was with large quantities of salads etc. I don't seem to have the problem with most cooked as long as I don't over do it. I don't eat a lot of grain any more so not really sure about gluten.

Carol Sue I'm glad you got to go to your favorite fish place. That was nice. I'm sorry you are still having problems with your feet. I hope it gets better soon. I have been sleeping really good too. I think the fasting has helped me because my stomach isn't full or stuffed. I take 2 Tylenol and 1 Cherry Tart extract and I sleep like a log. I started taking it again to keep from waking up with aches and pains.

I didn't eat this morning and I ended up with about a 22 hr fast today before having the burger. My weight was back down to 213.4 this morning and FBG was 140. I ordered a different brand of berberine today and read how to take it and found that I've been taking it wrong so maybe it will work better when I take it correctly. I always took it before or with my meals 2x a day, but I read that it worked better with or after a meal. I also read that it can be taken up to 4x a day. I don't think I would take more than 2 or 3. My BS when I broke my fast before burger was 108 so can't complain about that.

I forgot to share the nice thing DH daughter and her DH and family did for me which was so uplifting with all I had gone through today. I got word that a package had been delivered on my front porch through UPS from Amazon. When I went out to get the package there was another floral package that had been delivered. The kids sent me a dozen of beautiful multi-colored roses for Mothers Day. I love roses and had told her that I used to get them for my Mama for no reason and that previous Hubby used to bring me one rose but I would never get roses or any flowers again because her Daddy just isn't into that kind of thing. I have had roses 3 times since I married her Daddy and they all have come from her. Such a sweetheart. I appreciate her so much.