Weekly Chat 2/3 - 2/9
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I talked to the NP on the phone and email her the last few weeks food records. I have a plan . I have to admit having eaten low carb for quite a while kept the BG way down. I was kind of freaked to see it sky high. Obviously Fri- today high carb is too much for my system right now. She assured me I can tweak it with diet and not go back on yucky glucophage Whew!!!! Have no fear there is no getting rid of me
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We must have both been typing at the same time :)I have had this under control, for years with low carb ( just too much food obviously) so i was just astounded it was so high. The advice I got was to keep it low days until my numbers are normal again. I was only getting slight elevations with the alternating days. I think you are totally right to just keep the cals in the 1500 range.
LOL I will be my own experiment as usual. Carbs have always done better for me in the morning as far as BG goes. I am just flipping a bit going no no no because we will be leaving for the Bahamas soon. Thanks for the advice!0 -
Thanks JB - I used paul Newman Light italian dressing and had some grapes at lunch.0
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It's Wednesday morning... barely (11am here in Oregon), and I'm finally starting to get ready for the day. I stayed up late last night watching a movie with my DH. I have to say that "Dread" sucks... the original "Judge Dread" was way better. Same thing with the Total Recall movies. The original was so very much better than the 2nd one. At least the 2nd one with that had awesome special effects, so that almost made it worth watching. LOL Hey I love a good action/fantasy flick. These were not "good." LOL.
Any way I'm thrilled with how I feel this morning. Most of my body aches have gone away.. so I see a run in my near future. Even without exercising yesterday I am still down just slightly from where I was yesterday morning... and that was with drinking 100oz of water too! Wow. I'll do my official weigh in for the week on Saturday. I can't wait to see how close to my 2nd 10% goal I get (at this point I'm 1.2 lbs away!)
I hope you all have a great day!
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Mid-week for slingshot week & I'm slightly down on the scale. Hoping to see a loss for my official weigh in this weekend. But keeping in mind it is slingshot & I shouldn't expect it. I have been putting in a little more effort with the exercise tho. Since I already have dinner pre-cooked, my evening tonight is wide open, so I am fitting in a hike AND a 30 minute workout dvd. Usually I only have time for one or the other. And since tomorrow I have the day off work, I plan to double up then too.
I am pretty mad at myself this morning. I got to work & realized I forgot some key components to my lunch & snacks. My mid-morning snack I planned to eat some low fat wheat thins, salsa & 2 pickled eggs. Well - I forgot the wheat thins - the carb for that snack. And for lunch I planned to eat some left over pork roast stuffed into a multi-grain pita pocket with salsa, & carrot sticks. Well - I forgot the pita pocket!!! My carb for lunch!!! I'm so mad!!! Now I'm gonna have to miss my carb with 2 of my meals today!!! We have a cafeteria, but I doubt if there are many healthy options to replace what I forgot at home. Damn it.0 -
Well, the week is almost over! YAY! Today I am feeling very update/depressed/sleepy/moody. It definitely is bumming me out. :frown: I feel like I just want to go home and go to sleep and not wake up until tomorrow. Today is a low carb day and I have no clue what I am making for dinner. Hopefully tomorrow's weigh-in will lift my spirits. :indifferent:
I hope everyone has a good evening.
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Hi all!
It has been a good week, so my fingers are crossed for a decent WI tomorrow morning. I'm happy with 1+ pounds lost as I have about 15 to go and this is all about the journey, right? Regardless, I did my best and it is what it is! I feel good, I feel strong, I feel healthy!
I am very excited to read the actual hard-copy of Chris's book tonight. I have the electronic version on our Kindle, but I just think this will be easier and since I've been doing it for awhile, it will hopefully make more sense to me too -- and I hope to pick up some more tips.
We are expecting some major snow here -- in upstate NY -- tomorrow and Saturday. The kids are excited. LOL.
Have a great evening, everyone!
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Hi everyone! My issue seems to be leveling out a bit with dropping back from so many high carb days Whew! I didnt want to deal with that while getting ready to go away for 2 weeks. I've got to go have an early A1C which is pointless since I havent been carb cyling 12 weeks to see if it is affecting it. I told her they are not to call me but mail me a letter since I am leaving for vacation. I I think just to be on the safe side I will keep the carbs down while traveling and then get back to the rotation. I was great with that just not so many high days. Speaking of high days I forgot I was supposed to stay at 1500 today. Sheesh did I really forget I was supposed to eat more???. I will not be weighing until tom is gone unless I decide to be brave.
Sarah, I didn't care for the new movie as much either. My husband loved it! Glad your feeling less achey! I cant wait to hear how your weigh in goes!
Christine good luck at weigh in! We are expecting a bunch of snow this weekend. Bleech! It's good thee kid are excited.
JB that is exciting you are seeing a drop in the middle of slingshot!!!! Sorry to hear you forgot part of your meals. I dont think it will really mess anything up.
UnoDrea I hope you are feeling better and found something yummy for dinner! Maybe you need to treat yourself to a little pampering?0 -
Hi all!
I am down 1 pound this week, and am happy with that!
I also just received my hard-copy book in the mail and was doing some reading last night. Although, I had a general idea of how to do this program, it has been eye-opening for me. It will be interesting to implement some tweaks this week and see how it goes. I feel like I am getting a much better understanding with the hard-copy Choose to Lose book.
Fun Day today -- yay! Good day to do it too, as the kids are off of school due to a snow day. It is definitely coming down here. Will be curious to see how much we get by the time it is done tomorrow.
Have an awesome Friday, all!
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@WIChelle - Thanks! I actually got to feeing better. I think the weather was a HUGE part of my mood.
@Christine - That is an awesome loss! CONGRATS!
Well, today was my weigh-in day and I lost 4lbs! WOOOHOOO! Even though today was my weigh-in, my freeday is not until Sunday but I will be joining in some festivites on Saturday night. I haven't been out in over a month so I am really looking forward to dancing! Anyhow, I have to work my second job on Saturday and it tends to be a great workout because I am constantly moving. I look forward to hearing about everyone's weekend on Monday. I'm sure I will have stories.
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WTG Drea on the weigh in!! 4 lbs is awesome!
You too Christine! You should be proud of your pound! I know I was when I finally lost one in January!
Chelle, I'm glad that you are starting to get back on track on on blood glucose numbers!
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I was really starting to feel depressed.. Mostly because I haven't done much running lately, and I'm about 6 weeks away from my race. Even though I've put in some really good exercise in the last week or so, I was still feeling crappy about it.
Well, a good friend of mine who decided to do the race with me came over for a run today. I had a headache, and I feel like a sinus cold is coming on. I told her I wasn't sure what I'd be able to do... but let's at least go out for a run/walk. After we warmed up for about 5 minutes (I'm not for sure how long... I forgot to set my watch) we started running. In that first mile.. we ran/walked it in 9:40!!!
I broke my first 10 minute mile! Woot Woot!
Now, we slowed down quite a bit.. and I quit once I realized we had gone 30 minutes... but I'm thrilled! We did about 2.8 miles total in 32 minutes (not including the warm-up or cool-down). Once I got home and had a chance to digest the numbers, I got pissed. I ran/walked 2.8 miles in 32 minutes. I now wonder how long it would have taken to hit a full 5k. Crap!
Next time, I'm setting my phone for "distance" and not time... and we are going to see just how long that 5k is. :laugh:0 -
Yeah for Christine and UnoDrea!!!! WTG!!!!!!!!
Sarah woot woot on the running!!!!!!!!!!
I weighed in even though tom is here and I was only up .4 Not to bad! I leave for vacation soon so it was good too see i didnt have a big gain or anything to keep me motivated!0 -
Chelle... a 0.4 gain is almost nothing, especially for TOM. That is awesome! Have fun on your trip when you go!!!
Ladies.. I have excellent news to report. I finally feel like I'm off my "plateau!"
I weighed in at 216 last saturday... which was a gain of almost 4 pounds over from the last week... which put me back to a weight that was more than I was at on Thanksgiving. Today I posted a 5 pound loss.
Today I weigh 211!!!
Okay, so it's an odd number... and it is not even 50 pounds lost since june (only 49)... but it is exciting for me.
Why? Because it is my 2nd goal number!!!
My next major goal is 10% of my current weight (21 pounds), which will put me at 190.
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Great job on the loss, Sarah!
Good LC day today. Now that I really understand what I'm doing -- I feel like I had a truly GOOD low-carb day. And, am completely full. Already have my HC day planned out for tomorrow. Tomorrow is also a "rest day" from exercise. I kind of look forward to those and kind of not. LOL.
Just wanted to pop in with a quick hello! :flowerforyou:0 -
Just checking in. I'm on a weekend trip in north ga mountains just relaxing with my husband and daughter. Not really following the program but reading to try understanding. Last week I mess up badly. Congratulations to all of you following and getting good results.0
