Carol Sue I wondered about the turkey bacon because the smell when it cooked reminded me of the first time I ever cooked turkey meat. Mama was living and gave us some ground turkey and it smelled just like bacon did when I cooked it. I threw the ground turkey away. When I've bought fresh ground turkey last year when doing WW, it didn't smell like that. So that could have been the problem. I was going to give it to BS but I think I will throw it out.

I'm glad you got your steak salad. Makes me want to go to TX Roadhouse and see if they have it here. I ate just 2 meals today and had a cup of NSA hot chocolate. I will probably have a cup of broth later if I get hungry. I bought another bigger carton of it today at the store.

I heard today that my son's wife has covid so they can't have her family in for Christmas. I don't know if my son has it or not. They both are fully vaccinated so makes you wonder, but I won't say anything. I'm tired of talking about it. How is your DGS feeling. DIL says it is like a bad cold. She is sicker of not being able to be with family than she is with having the virus. I guess I will call them tomorrow and check on them.

It feels good to have 2 successful days under my belt.

We are watching Christmas movies. DH has Rudolph on right now. I just looked over and he is watching it through closed eyes and wakes up long enough to fast forward past ads. Men got to love 'em. Bless their hearts.

Trish, vaccinated people can get Covid but won't be hospitalized. Its milder. They can also pass it to others.

The steak salad is not on the menu. The grilled chicken salad is, and they replace the chicken with steak. I get it with no French fries, no croutons, no bacon, and no cheese. So it has lettuce tomato and onion. I'm strange but I don't like those things in my salad. They also have a filet salad which has a better steak, but it has too many things in it that I don't want. I can eat just plain iceberg lettuce with ranch dressing. When I make a salad at home I add carrots, radishes, tomato and onion. Sometimes I will add Swiss cheese.

DH went to bed so I guess I will join him.

I got up too early. I read for awhile and now I'm going back to bed.

Wt at 5 am was up a bit to 189 point something. Too tired to remember.

Well, now step daughter is sick. She says its a sinus infection and thinks she should wait til Sunday to come over. I said wait til next year! I am not taking any chances!! I remember several years ago my Sister In Law came here and was very sick, coughing and sneezing. DH was so mad that she didn't stay home.

They are getting their new furnace on Wednesday.

I am late posting but looks like we are both kind of doing our own thing today. I got up and weighed at 7 am when I went to the bathroom and weight was 185 which I thought was pretty good since it was down .4 lbs. You know Fridays are my usual early WI day because I go to beauty shop. Later when I got up to stay up I weighed again and I was down another lb so today my weight was actually 184. Now I have to be sure to keep it coming down. I hope it will still be that low tomorrow on WI day.

I didn't eat any breakfast this morning. I got hungry last night and ate some crackers and cheese. So I will try to switch my 2 meals to dinner and supper or else I will have to just go for eating healthy intuitively and not worry too much about eating/fasting windows. I really do not want to eat just because it is time to eat.

Spent the morning looking at potato recipes. I found a southern potato recipe that has no milk in it. BS is lactose intolerant so that will be good for her. DH has wondered if we are but I hope we aren't. I will make my potato salad later today and make the deviled eggs tomorrow morning. I don't have a lot of room for both in my fridge and I think fresh made deviled eggs are better.

I made the diet cherry pie and it is in fridge for DH birthday. I am going to air fry cook filet mignon for his dinner with corn on the cob and salad.

Carol Sue I could eat anything with ranch dressing on it. LOL I used to love chef salads with everything in it before I married DH and would eat a few of them when we went out to eat. I've made them at home, but these days I am not only tired of them but just don't care to stand and cut up all the veggie etc to have one. When I go out to eat, I would rather eat something else. I eat salad everyday because of DH so when I go out to eat, I want something I don't cook at home.

Hope you got added rest that you needed. I hope your step daughter just has sinus infection, but she will have to wait and see. Isn't her son the one with covid?

Fatmad I was looking at recipes made with carbquick and saw recipes that are GF. Have you tried using it for some of your GF recipes? I am thinking about using it to make biscuits and I saw a recipe for dumplings made with it as well.

Merry Christmas eve.

Trish,,DGS is step son's child. Step daughter has no children. DH and I have agreed to stay away from all of then for at least 2 weeks. If step daughter wants to exchange gifts we can do it in the driveway but I think that is even risky.

We didn't feel like going out to eat so I had a salad and DH had grilled cheese. I didn't make anything yet for tomorrow. We like our potato salad warm. I want to make the corn souffle I didnt get to make for Thanksgiving. DH made a face when I told him but he likes corn so I think he will try it. I forget what all it has but its can of corn, can of cream corn, Jiffy corn bread mix, sour cream and I forget what else. Then you bake it. It is not really a souffle, just a casserole. My DIL brought it once for Thanksgiving.

I am ready to eat Christmas dinner now!

Good for you on the 184!

Carol Sue The corn souffle sounds good. DH might like that since he likes corn. Sometimes I take a can of whole kernel corn and a can of cream corn and mix them for dinner. I haven't done that in a long time.

I didn't get anything cooked for tomorrow either. I will do it tomorrow. I finally found my rubbermaid container to take my deviled eggs in. Funny story about heated potato salad. My son called me one Thanksgiving and said, "Mama, everybody laughs at me because I have to heat my potato salad in the microwave before eating it. But you always served your potato salad hot". I told him the reason I always made hot potato salad was because his daddy wanted potatoes at every meal. I got tired of whipped potatoes all the time so every once in a while I would decide to turn it into a potato salad and since it was fresh it was hot. I had no idea that my kids just thought potato salad had to be heated. LOL Honestly, I like mine the same way. Years later I saw a recipe for a German potato salad that is served hot.

I'm looking forward to going to eat dinner at my baby sister's because I want some dressing and BIL makes cornbread dressing so I don't have to make any to tempt me with left overs. I can eat what I want come home and be done with it.

I had a 6 hr eating window today with a meal and a snack.

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

My potato salad isn't hot. The potatoes are still warm when I make it so its warm, as compared to refrigerated. If I'm taking it somewhere I refrigerate it because most people like it cold. That's funny that your son microwaves it. Kids always want things the way their mother made it. I've had German potato salad but I don't like it because of the vinegary sauce. I don't think DH would eat it.

I almost ruined the corn. I had it in the baking dish all ready to go into the oven and it looked too thick. I checked the recipe and I forgot to put the eggs in! I beat the eggs in a measuring cup and stirred them into the batter right in the baking dish. Im so glad i realised it before baking it. I think it needs something, maybe some green chilies.

The ham is in the oven. Potatoes for potato salad are cooling, eggs for potato salad are cooling and corn is ready for the oven when the ham comes out. Now for a cup of coffee in my recliner!

I have a question. Corn bread isn't a big thing up north but I know some like it sweet and some like it savory. Which do you like?

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The ham and potato salad are done and the corn casserole is in the oven. I read another recipe that had sugar in it so I sprinkled some sugar on top and stirred it in. I don't know what it's going to be like! I'm not going to eat until 3 because DH made scrambled eggs and sausage at 10:30. I will enjoy my food better if I'm hungry.

We got a,call from DGS thanking us for the gift. He doesn't feel well. They should have him isolated in his room but I don't think they do.

Carol Sue I learned a lot of my cooking from watching Mama. She didn't teach us to cook. I guess it was just easier for her to do it herself. I learned a lot about cooking from Homemaking classes, an aunt and then I learned a lot when I married DH#2 because his Grandmother taught me how to cook a lot of things. I never had sugar in my cornbread and never heard of any one using it until started buying the packets that you just add milk and eggs and cook. There is one brand that is sweet and I like it but won't eat it because of my blood sugar. In fact, when I got my first WW cookbook, I was shocked to see all the recipes that had sugar in them which we never did in our family. I never added sugar to tomato sauce based foods and couldn't imagine sugar in spaghetti.

I do put sweetener in my corn on the cob while cooking because one of DH SIL learned from her MIL to add sugar to corn. I think he was from Tennessee and I figure it must be something they do in that part of the country.

I'm sorry your DGS isn't feeling well. I talked to my son and DIL this morning. She will be out of quarintine by NY so I told them to just celebrate with her family then. She was so hurt because they do all the cooking and everybody comes to their house for all holidays.

I tell you I don't think I could do a big meal any more. All I did was cook boiled eggs and made easy Kraft recipe for deviled eggs with their sandwich spread. Potato salad was a little more work since I decided to use the spuds. I leave the skin on our potatoes when I cook them for us but pealed them for the dinner. But they are all done and in fridge. If DH gets up early, we will go early so I can help DS with the cooking.

Weight this morning was 183.4. FBG was 105. Will be careful eating today but intend to enjoy the foods that I want to eat. The pecan pie shell with the cherry pie feeling that was made from a can of Lite cherry filling was good. Made me feel like I got a cherry pecan pie without having the sugary pecan pie. Not quite the same but okay.

Look forward to hearing how the corn casserole turns out.

Have a nice Christmas day.

DH ate some of the corn souffle and said its alright. I think its good but probably won't make it again. Its like cornbread with crunchy corn in it. My ham turned out excellent. Best ever. I will have to remember how I did it.

This is very odd. The 30 something couple next door are not married. They have a 2 year old boy. We haven't seen her in months but I am not outside much. I thought maybe she left him. DH saw him this morning and he said she just had a baby girl. I'm shocked. Maybe she stayed in, not wanting anyone to know she was pregnant.

We thoroughly enjoyed being with babysister and her family. We had a lot of fun things from the past with those who are no longer with us. We had so sugary desserts as well some diet and had fun laughing about Mama and her diet cakes and sliver cuts of food. Missed DS but glad she is with her DD.

I ate more than I should have but I only had the equivalent of one boiled egg with a little bit of deviled egg filling and a bite of the potato salad while making it this morning. Came home with left overs and some of the SF cake BS made. I won't eat anything else tonight. DH said he hoped our blood sugar can handle the sweets we ate. We had a bite of almost everything, but DH is better than me when it comes to stopping. I know he would have loved the PB Chocolate bombs my niece made but he didn't eat even a bite of it.

If y'all weren't that impressed with the corn souffle, I probably won't try it. DH probably wouldn't like it either.

I am going to have to be careful with the carbs the next few days because I am feeling like a nap. Late for one, but probably will have one any way.

Trish, my cookies are still in the freezer! I don't know when I will take them out. I don't want to pack them up for people until I'm ready to give them to them. Step daughter asked about them when she called today. We didn't have any sweets or dessert at all. I never think to make dessert! But I ate too much ham and corn souffle. It is half gone and I don't know if I will eat more tomorrow or throw it out. I think if you like cornbread you would like this. It is cheap and easy to make.

Horrible sleep. Got up at 4 am and read for awhile, then went back to bed until 9:45, sleeping much better for a few hours. When I came into the kitchen, DH had a plate of apricot cookies sitting on the counter. Last night after we were in bed he remembered they were in the freezer. I ate one and it tastes like it was just baked. I just never thought to get them out. Guess I'm not a sugar addict. I sure am eating a lot of ham, though. Low carb but lots of sodium. Can't help it. It is very lean and tasty. Not dry at all.

I should get weighed but its probably too late now. I'm probably retaining a lot of fluid.

My days are all mixed up. It feels like Monday.

Carol Sue My days are turned around too. Sorry you didn't sleep well to start with but was able to go back to sleep and get some sleep.

I did weigh this morning and weight only up 1 lb and FBG was 101 which is amazing with the carbs especially sweets. We did eat only one helping of the food and just tasted the sweets. We mostly ate the sugar substitute foods and the ones niece will be taking to her Mom's today had sugar in them but I only ate a bite of each one. Then when we came home we didn't eat anything else. Neither one of us ever got hungry. We did drink our coffee mine with the collagen. Then I made myself drink water to try to flush out the carbs. I am a little groggy today which means I had too many.

I have left over turkey, pork roast, dressing with giblet gravy and SF candy BS sent home with us so I think we will finish that off today. I may save the pork roast and have it tomorrow as pulled pork with SF BBQ sauce.

Trying just having Brunch scrambled eggs, bacon and 1 sl toast with collagen coffee and then have dinner around 3ish. I hope I can go the rest of the night without eating anything else. But will see how it goes. I was going to track on MFP but don't know how to track some foods so that makes it difficult.

Have a nice day.

Trish tracking on MFP is a guess at best unless it is restaurant food or processed food. It seems that everything I track has several listings, all different. If I don't know for sure I choose one in the middle as far as calorie count. Tracking "baked ham" there are many choices. It is hard because different ham could have different fat content which would make a big difference in calorie count. I guess this is why they say not to count calories. But it seems that you have to be aware at least. And they say not to let scale weight decide how well you're doing.

I decided not to weigh. I have not had a bowel movement but had all those potty issues. My body doesn't know what's going on.

DH fed ham to the dog and he was very sluggish last night. Lots of sleeping. I will cook some chicken for a treat for him. Boiled chicken is much better for him. Probably better for me, too, but we have ham twice a year and I'm going to enjoy it.

Same with your meal, Trish. You enjoyed a few special holiday treats,,now back to plan. Nothing wrong with that. Its not the same as a month long binge. I am proud of how I did. A few indulgences but I doubt if the scale is up more than a couple pounds if any. I will weigh for sure tomorrow.

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I finally had a bowel movement so i changed my mind and got weighed. Up 1 lb to 189.2. Not bad considering the sodium from the ham.

I'm very tired and hope I fall asleep and take a nap. I'm very thirsty and drinking a lot of water, once again, probably from the sodium.

I haven't decided if I'm going to track or not. I tried to track turkey. There were so many different counts that it was impossible to do so. Then I wanted to count the diet chocolate cake BS made but I don't know how or what she made. My nephew's wife is Chec and she made some really awesome sweets we tasted but no way would I know how to track them because I don't know the names. So I didn't even try to count yesterdays.

Carol Sue I love ham but they are always so high in sodium even if doing keto low carb. I would love to eat a lower carb diet but I just don't think my body likes keto at all.

I have a tendency to track on MFP because of tracking exercise and can have an easier way of tracking carbs and balancing of protein, carb and fat, but can't decide about that either. I have a little time between now and January 1 to decide. I am very happy with the fact that counting from December 1 to now I have only gained 5.4 lbs during the holidays. Now the main thing is that I want to get back on a good solid plan for Janurary 1 to losing again.