Doing the WW P+ had helped me stay OP until today, however, I've been off plan today. I'm going back OP tomorrow. We did get our snow tonight so no church services tomorrow. 11:23 pm and the kids are out playing in snow and have made 2 little snowmen. Thankful that I got the snow I prayed for so that the FL grandkids could see and play in snow for the 1st time in their lives. They are having a blast. We are enjoying having them here.

Mad I think our little 8 mo old grandson has given me his cold. Taking meds to try to knock it out before it gets a good hold on me. Glad you are getting over yours.

Ruthie, Lindyloo and others

Good morning. I'm up more than a pound - I can blame some of it on salt but ... The good news is, no sweets and the BGL is stable. Back to healthy eating ... after lunch at my son's house today.

Haha, the holidays make it so hard to eat healthy. Seeing as I am the only vegetarian and diabetic in the family, it can definitely pose more of a challenge! But I did my best and the fact that I have so many limitations on what I eat may have actually helped a little... though the number of family get-togethers yet to attend may negate my attempts to be good. XD did everyone have an enjoyable holiday? Or is anyone still celebrating?

Good Morning Chickies

I had a good Christmas day and just made it an off day. Way too many carbs plus 8 mo old grandson is croupy and I got whatever it is he has and couldn't sleep very well last night. So the combination of too many carbs, stress of getting sick and not able to sleep and then waiting too long to check FBS, it was 182. I don't remember my FBS ever being that high. I am definitely back OP this morning. Had my steel cut oats with blueberries and lite Activia. Think I will be eating soup today. I'm supposed to have bloodwork in the morning, but it has been snowing since around 8ish last night and supposed to have flurries into the night tonight. Docs office won't be open in the morning so will have to make another appt when they open. Y'all have a great day today and stay warm.

Did get called to work at 530 am, a healthy baby girl. threw me off for the day. had a couple of eggs for breakfast, and made soup for lunch, but did have some carbs with the soup. I have these yummy Mary's crackers, no wheat in them, its brown rice and quinoa with flax and sesame seeds. Then had a little nap.
Oh, yes the holidays are hard. I have cheated more this week than in months. I did better at hallowe'en. Oh well. just need to get back on plan and don't let it bug me. I know more than anything that its the giving up when we go off plan that makes the biggest "failure" for dieters in general . So I won't give up, just plug away and get back on. Vacation starts tomorrow, planning to be nicely active while off call, and that should help in general. have a good day everyone.

Mad I agree that the key is NOT to give up. I have been back OP today which was easy since I didn't feel so great all day with this virus or whatever it is. I didn't get all my points, but I'm not worried about it right now. The main thing is I'm eating healthy. Enjoy your vacation. You've done great being OP and I know you will be successful getting back OP.

Forgot to mention earlier that today was WI on online WW and I was down half a pound for the week. So that is a good thing.

Later...

Amazingly enough my FBGL has stayed within a reasonable range lately depite multiple transgressions.

Today I tackle the four pounds I've gained this month and get hem outta here with six of their buddies. I've decided to focus on losing that amount of weight instead of the whole 50+ pounds to get into the 140's. Christmas has been a killer and it's certainly not over yet. I wish I could do Atkins or go on a daylight hour fast but that darn diabetes won't let me.

Breakfast today will be my usual and it'll be dinner at noon when my company arrives - beef and veggie stew is on the menu with bread for them and a fruit dessert. If they bring me candy, I'll pitch it after they leave. Salad and hard boiled eggs will be tonight's supper.

My house is "purged" of all salty snacks and sugar goodies. It sure isn't hard to get back into the bad snacking habit! Now to find my WATP tapes and renew my gym membership.

Ruth Good for you getting back on plan and for getting the salty and sugary stuff out of the house!!! You have your plan and I know you will do well. Beef and veggie soup sounds good. DH and I are alike in a lot of ways, but I like chunks of beef in my stew and he likes the beef in shreds. Oh well, I guess I will learn to like it the way he does, besides on WW I won't be eating as much meat and the shredded meat will work well.

I knew DH kept trying to keep me from buying any cookbooks especially diabetic ones for the last few months. Now I know why. He got me 3 or 4 cookbooks for diabetics for Christmas. He also got me 2 exercise dvds for seniors. I'll try them out and get into a routine with them next week after our company leaves Saturday morning.

I had to get up early this morning and go get my blood drawn for bloodwork. Will get results next week when I see the doctor. I tell you I know this but another day of confirmation we have to get our rest. I checked FBS just before I left (with only about 5 hrs sleep) and it was 152 and checked when I got back and it was still up. I was so exhausted that I went back to bed for just about an hour and got up and checked it again because I had not eaten anything. It was back down to 127. It is amazing to me that just getting that small amount of added sleep made such a big difference. Checked my weight when I got up to stay up and it was back down where my 210. I would love to have a weight loss on Jan 1st but if I could end this year at 210, I will be happy.

Mad Hope you have a great vacation.

Y'all have great Monday.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL ... and a Happy New Year too!!!


RUTH ~ good for you for being RUTHLESS () ... I got DH to put all his leftover munchies in a very high cubby up by the roof; he can't access it without a step-ladder which I won't and don't use (too scary). I had my treats as snacks and tonight I just had steak & veggies for dinner to counteract the damage, so2speak.

We also were given way too much candy (chocolates and such) so I made up a tray of them and sent them along with a meat & cheese & olive tray to our SIL's Boxing Day party; and there guests ate it all up for us!

DH worked all evening last night and this afternoon fixing my music rack on my organ for me; it is finally fixed again (it had broke twice before), and he thinks it should be good for a long time this time (we hope). Our friend played some nice Christmas music for us on Christmas Day again and that was nice.

The only glitch this year was that DH was playing some Christmas music later on and somehow misplace one of my discs; we hope that we'll come across it sooner or later by accident -- so far all the searching has come up for naught. Sure hope it didn't get tossed or broken by accident.

You know, I bought and spent less this year (gave more to charity though); and people ate less than last year, so next year I will cut back even more. They ate more of the actual dinner this year though -- I made lots of veggies this year (some extra), trying to make the dinner more healthy and filling itself.

The weather has been much warmer with a bit of today too. We had a lovely celebration and we are/were very blessed again this year. I read some nice Christmas romances over the last two weeks in the evening before bed and that help me sleep better too. I hope you all had a nice celebration and will have a restful in-between-holidays week also.

Rosebud

Hi Rosebud Glad you had a great celebration.

Good morning all and nice to see our Rosebud popping in.

Today is my first "normal" food day and I'm sooo glad! I do have a foodie event tonight - a debriefing meeting re the Village celebrations - but will avoid the food by offering to pass it around. I'll take along diet gingerale to drink. My body is saying "enough" to holiday excesses.

My weight blipped up to 202 which was most discouraging. I hate seeing the 200's on my ticker so have made a new one. I'm working on personal renovation in one pound blocks now, ten pounds at a time. Call me a sissy but I need to be nicer to myself.

On we go, chickies.

Good morning Chickies, This will be a quick flyby.

Ruthie So sorry about the weight creeping up. I'm sure you'll get things going in the right direction soon.

I changed my ticker too since I've kept the recycled lb off. Now just to keep it off and get the scale going downward consistently. My FBS was up to 132 but I'm sure that is the Nyquil I took last night and this morning early. I will be glad when this cold goes away.

Have a good day!!!

Well, changing my ticker worked. I know the four pounds down is water weight from Christmas food transgressions but still is encouraging. I sat right in front of a huge plate of delicious smelling goodies for a two hour meeting yesterday and did not indulge. My resistance muscle is getting stronger.

Today is a day with no "foodie" events! I have a pot - more a vat! - of turkey stock on the go and will make and freeze some soup lunches for those cold and busy days when grabbing a hot dog or other sin would be too easy. I'm going to stall on my bloodwork until towards the end of January and see if being really pure affects the BP. Chol and HA1C. It should.

On we go, Chickies.

Hi everyone: just a quick hello. Finally managed to stay on plan yesterday. Started doing more sugars which kept me in line. The previous day fasting was 6.8, quite high for me, and reflected my lack of control. A better day yesterday, and slept well last night, so will stick to plan again today. That should do it. Glad to see we are all managing with our holiday appetites, no horrors, just little slips.
We have lovely guests to enjoy today, so will close now.

Good Morning Ladies. Glad to see we are doing well with out food plans.

Ruthie A BIG congratulations on your staring at goodies for 2 hrs and not taking a bite. One of those Victories to look back on "knowing you did it before then you can do it again". I like it when I give myself one of those.

Mad Enjoy your company.

WW is going to be good for me this time. I am slowly inching down on the scales. I would love to have a WW scale that gives numbers more accurately. I am lost another 1/2 lb, but 3fc doesn't do 1/2 so won't be able to show it on the ticker quite yet. I'm enjoying eating what I like and staying within required points although I have to say that I haven't eaten the required amount all this week. With this cold, I haven't felt like it. I just might start the new year with a weight loss.

Did y'all here that they are recalling our test strips for some of the monitors? I just got new ones so will have to check with the pharmacy today. I'm not sure what DH uses and will have to check his out as well. Say it gives a reading with not enough blook. I don't think I have had that problem as mine won't read when I don't have enough.

Have a great day everyone.