January 4, 2010

Today I was down a pound. Now weigh 181.25. My BS was 95 which was good. I am suppose to start a low residue diet today so I am having 2 pieces of bacon and a piece of toast for breakfast and a diet coke. Tomorrow I have to have all liquids. I hope the bacon does not cause me any gout problems. More later. My BS two hours after breakfast was 119 which was excellent.

For supper I had a large baked potato with butter and chese on it. Now I am having a cup of green tea. That will be it for today. I was really hungry when I ate the potato. It tasted delicious. Feet have felt better today.

Janurary 3, 2010

I am facing the consequences of my bad eating yesterday. !. My BS was 119. That is about 20 points more than it should of been. 2. My weight was up 1/4 pound. So it is now 182.25. I am going to try to do better today.

I didn't eat breakfast because I knew we were going out for lunch. We went to the Cracker Barrell and I had 4 pieces of grilled chicken (160 calories), green beans (70 calories), Hash brown casserold (155 calories) And I also had two biscuits with butter and one of them had strawberry jelly. I took the insides out of one of the biscuits. I think calorie wise I am good on everything except I should of only ate one biscuit. Maybe half of one with my meal and the other half with the jelly. Also carb wise that would be the one thing I should of not had.

I will probably need to eat something very light for supper to be back on track.

The only other thing I ate today was 2 peanut butter and crackers out of a 6 pack and some diet coke so I could take my medicine. The Allpurniol is suppose to be taken with food.

January 2, 2010

This morning my BS was 91. That was great. I now weigh 182. I am going to TOPS this morning and weigh in. I probably wouldn't go if it wasn't the first Saturday in the new year because my foot is still hurting. James is going to take me. Then I am going to meet June and Donna at Applebees for lunch. That is all I am going to do today. I plan to go to church tomorrow so I need to stay off my foot as much as possible. I will write more when I get back.

Well I went with June and Donna for lunch. I did pretty good. I had a quesidella burger and I didn't eat but 1/4 of the tortilla shell that it is served in. I got steamed vegetables instead of the fries and I got a bowl of French Onion Soup. I also drank water.

Later James fixed soup and fried fish and he wanted me to eat some of the fish so I had 1 piece of fish and a bowl of beef cabbage soup. I drank a coke. So that was all good but later I got hungry and had 2 tablespoons of peanut butter on 2 slices of bread and that wasn't so good. But the worse thing I did was have a handful of candy corn. It was just like I had to have something sweet. It could of been worse but it also could of been much better.

Looking back here is what I should of done. 1. Not had the soup at Applesbees. 2. Only ate 1/2 the burger with the tortilla shell. (That would probably been better than eating all of the meat.) 3. I shouldn't of eat the fish (It was just one small piece) but should of ate the beef cabbage soup with 1 tablespoon peanut butter on 1 slice of bread. 4, Should not of eaten any of the candy corn. I need to get some low calorie sweet to eat when I really want something sweet badly.

But tomorrow is another day.

January 1, 2010

The past year has not been the best year. I have had lots of health problems. I had an AIC in May of 6.5 so I started losting weight and then my gout started. Now they say I have Neuropathy. I am on several medicatons now and life is just not so pleasant. I am going on Wednesday of next week for a colonoscopy and endoscopy which I am worried about. I am going to try to get my BS under complete control this year and lose some more weight. My BS this morning was 98 which is very good. I ate breakfast of l boiled egg, 1 slice toast with 1 tsp butter on it and 1 slice bacon and a diet coke. Two hours later my BS was 125 which was excellent. Then I had a Special K bar a couple hours later. It had 90 calories and 17 carbs. The big problem I have now is not only counting calories but watching carbs. Watching carbs is a lot harder than counting calories. My weight this mornign was 183.75. So I have really got to work at it. My feet are hurting so bad today that it is hard to walk. I am trying to stay off of my feet and not do a lot. The past two days I went out shopping and my feet are much worse. Wednesday I was out most of the day. And yesterday I was out about 4 hours. That is going to have to stop. I feel very pitiful limping when I go out. It is not something you can hide. I will write more after I eat supper. O.K. I have eaten supper and I had chicken in stir fry. 1 sugar free chocolate pudding, diet coke. I probably needed to have another carb with supper. My foot is still hurting and I have done nothing today but sit in the chair and play on the computer some. Maybe tomorrow will be better. I also had 1/2 apple before bedtime.

Sue's Weight

I don't know why I have always been so reluctant to post my weight. But I am going to do it now. I think it will help me to keep up with what I have lost in total. On January 15th 2007 I weighed 175.25 I had just been to Dr. Byrd and I note that there I weighed 177 which was down 11 pounds since my last visit in October. Then on January 1st 2008 I weighed 181.50. Then on January 1st 2009 I weighed 198.25. Today I weigh 184. So I have a lot of work to do. I would like to weigh about 155-160. I have started to TOPS so maybe that will help me. That is about 30 pounds that I need to lose. I also need to lose it slowly because now I am becoming so wrinkled when I lose. I would like to be at 175 when the new year starts so that is 9 pounds. That is what I am going to aim for. Wish me luck!!

August 2009

I didn't write about my trip to the doctor but after 3 months of watching what I ate my AIC was 5.6. Also I had lost 20 something pounds. I can't find my record from that date.

Doctors Report

Well, it has been a while since I wrote on my blog. Had a busy summer and likewise a busy fall. Today is November 9th and I had a doctors appointment this morning. I was pleased mostly with it. I had only gained 2 pounds in 3 months and that was good. My AIC was 5.8 which was up from 5.6 but still acceptable. My big problem is my cholesterol. I am going to put the results on my blog so I can keep up with them. My total cholesterol was 214 and should be <200,>40 and the (bad) was 115 and should be <100. Actually except for my triglycerides they aren't so bad. He wants me to get some Fisol ES and take for that. I am going to do that since it is an over the counter drug.