September 14, 2010

Been a long time since I have blogged. I have started on a diet again and this is the second day. I weighed yesterday morning and I weighed 197 pounds. This morning I weighed 195.6. I am not going to weigh again until next Tuesday. That will be hard for me. June, Phyllis, James, Jennifer and Jon are all dieting and so is Mary in Floriday. Mary is doing the Joy Journey and the rest of us are doing something different. I am just cutting back and trying to eat sensible. I am trying not to go over the calorie allowance from Biggest Loser which is 7 times your weight. That gives you the number of calories you need per day. Today I could have 1369 calories. I have only had about a thousand. I didn't eat breakfast and I went to McDonalds for lunch and had a grilled chicken wrap and salad and for dinner I went to O'Charleys with June and Phyllis and June and I split a steak and baked potato and we each had a salad. I drank water and did not eat roll. June didn't either. I am going to try again. I have failed so many times it is scary to start again. But if I don't try I certainly won't do anything. Tomorrow will be hard because I am going to the Red Lobster with the gals from Hillcrest.I also had a peach today. More later.

March 15, 2010 - Monday

Back again. Haven't blogged since January. I have been really, really busy with the Cooks 50th and the Chesney's 25th Anniverseries. But now it is time to get back on track with Sue. I didn't weigh this morning but I will in the morning. Acutally I haven't weighed in a couple of weeks. My blood sugar is up from all of this eating I have been doing so I am going to try to get back on track with checking that. This morning it was 139 which is wayyyyyyyyyyy to high for a fasting BS. But I ate a good breakfast: 2 boiled egg whites, 2 slices bacon, 1/2 piece toast with butter, 6 slices kiwi fruit, diet coke. At 12:30 I took my BS again and it was 108 and I ate 9 club crackers and cup of chicken salad, 1/2 cup fresh pinapple, diet coke. So I will take it again at 2:30 I am suppose to take it twice a day. Once before I eat and 2 hours later. But I like to take it when I wake up to see what it is fasting. I am suppose to take it at different times like breakfast, lunch and supper. So today I am going to count the one I do for lunch. I do not want to go on medication. And if I watch what I eat I won't have to. But it is so hard especially when I go out so much.

I forgot to say I went to the doctor on Feb. 9th and my AIC was 6.3 which was up from last time. He also gave me a goal weight for TOPS and it was for 165. So I will see in the morning how much I have to lose to meet that goal. He said if I met it and that wasn't enough he would give me another goal. You have to have a goal weight at TOPS in order to be in contest etc.

I have been busy today washing all of the tablecloths we used on Saturday. I only wash 4 at a time so I had about 5 washers full.

I will post what my BS is after I take it again.

Ok my BS was 123 which was very good.

For supper I had some brocolli cheese soup, 2 pieces of grilled chicken and greenbeans, roll. Diet coke.

I have done real good today now if I can just make it until bedtime without eathing anything else. I hope my fasting BS will be better in the morning.

I have now washed 22 tablecloths and have 12 of them dried and folded.

January 5, 2010

Today is clear liquid day and guess what James is doing? Cooking beans and making the whole house smell like food. He is also going to make some barbacue.

I was down this morning to 180.25 and my BS was 101. Guess I will sit around and read today and start the prep for my test tomorrow.

So far I am sipping on a caffine free diet coke and sipping on a cup of beef bullion. I have made myself two cups of lemon jello that I will have later today. Probably more beef bullion for supper. Not going to be a fun day.

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.