7/12

Swipey the Libre sensor said 7.2 ➡️ this morning - still in the green and a restless night because my knees were painful as heck after two rounds of golf in the weekend.
Reaction to a more carby than usual supper having not eaten since the morning, and a cherry wheat beer so I can't say I am shocked at the number, but I set my Libre to a normal person's range and so long as I am in the green for my average daily patterns, then that is all good in the diabetes hood.

Exercise: ✅ I made myself do the treadmill sessions as my knees benefited from the magic properties of neoprene soft supports when I got back from golf, and overnight.
Logging: ✅ Coming in <100g of carbs for today.

Happy Monday (Twistin' my melon man...) to you all....

Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »

baconslave wrote: »

lemurcat2 wrote: »

Ugh, I forgot one can't edit in groups -- "through the night," not "though the nice." ;-)

I brought this up to Alex in the end of Oct as the #1 improvement in Groups function. I don't know what they did to it to make it not edit...but I often post before coffee so I need that functionality back.

You CAN edit your post within 1 hour after posting. You have to click on the date/time in the lower left of your comment box.... then a little "settings" wheel appears in the upper right corner of your post box. If you click on it, then the box re-opens and you can edit it. I've done this before from my laptop, but never tried it from the phone.

Wow, I had no idea. Thanks so much! Game-changer. ;-)

@lemurcat2 Happy Birthday!

12/4-12/6
Carbs and cal within limits
30 Strength and 30 min on bike trainer Fri
30 min walking Sat
90 min bowling last night

Back to work after 10 days off in a row. Took me a while to go through email and remember where I left off on my project before Thanksgiving.

Winter dryness is creeping in. My skin feels so rough and eyes are sorta itchy. Time for ltion and eye drops

Okay. Apparently I'm unable to be successful with two simultaneous goals, so I've chosen to zero in on food since I do believe that, for me, weight loss happens primarily in the kitchen.
So far so good.
After the first self sabotage weekend, i've settled in to an excellent stride with the food program. I got a food order in with a few more varieties of meals and am doing well with that. I was lucky, because they forgot the free samples this time, so no issues there!
Still avoiding the scale, but I know that my midsection is smaller. Not sure whether weighing is helpful or hurtful at this time, but sooner or later, I'll bite the bullet and get an actual number. For now, feeling smaller feels good.
Awesome.

Checking in. Saturday I was over carbs but I made some good choices in terms of picking and choosing which things I’d like to indulge in as opposed to my usual eat-all-the-things. I also planned beforehand to prep a plate of fresh veggies for my munchiest time of day so that was a win.
Sunday was awesome in terms of carbs and calories though I’m not really trying to limit cals. Logging everything for data purposes with carbs the only limit.
Monday ain’t over yet but so far so good

Another good day for me, though a bit more fatigued than yesterday. Still got just under 7000 steps though, including a gentle afternoon stroll. Food all on point and three for three this week on daily deficit goal.

Thanks so much for the birthday wishes!

Yesterday (12/7):

(1) Logged and under goal -- check, cals were okay even with the praline cookie I'd been saving for my birthday.
(2) Eat 80ish g net carbs and at least 85 g protein -- close, bit high on carbs (87 net) but not much, protein was at 98.
(3) Over 10K steps and all rings closed -- check.
(4) Did planned workout -- check (30 min bike trainer, plus 45 min evening walk (partially to scope out the place I'm planning to get a tree from tonight).
(5) Morning meditation/evening journal -- check.

Excited, since the furnace guy is here, so at some point my basement and 1st floor heat should be restored. My sister is coming over tonight for dinner and to help decorate the tree. We are ordering food from this Persian place that has options that fit my plan (so long as I don't go nuts on pita or rice -- I probably won't have pita and only a little rice), but I will plan lunch with this in mind, also.

12/7
Calories- pretty good day in managing calories. Work was busy so that added a level of distraction but I did have a snack mid afternoon that I didn’t really need. At least I kept it small.

Carbs/protein- good day on protein but the carbs were on the high side. Ideally I would shoot for about half of what I had. Still no aching joints afterwards so that is a bonus.

Now to complain a bit...my Apple Watch is starting to seem off with pace, distance and calorie burn in the last week or so. I know there is a level of inaccuracies with these devices but I still find the swings annoying. I’m also feeling like there are days where a calorie goal of 1500 is low for me so I’m going to recalculate using a few calculators to see where on average I fall to lose. I’ve definitely gotten in better shape in the last year so losing is much harder. Or maybe I just need to be comfortable with less food which also is a struggle. Things to consider...

Sounds like a good plan, Mrs_Hoffer!

Yesterday (12/8):

(1) Logged and under goal -- I didn't log. For various reasons relating to having to change where I was getting the tree -- church lot had sold out, first Home Depot was picked over, second was good -- as well as the furnace guy being there later than anticipated, we started our evening festivities later than expected. I still ate (mostly) as planned and so I think I was in cals, but I was tired by the time I had a chance to log and it would have been a rough estimate anyway, so I didn't bother. Not too worried about this, as I lost a lot of weight before despite occasional restaurant or potluck meals where I didn't log or estimated a round 1000.

(2) Eat 80ish g net carbs and at least 85 g protein -- since I didn't log, I don't know, but I expect I was around that on carbs and over on protein (which is good), since I ate a low carb and cal lunch to prepare, and both meals had a good amount of protein.

(3) Over 10K steps and all rings closed -- check, even though I didn't get my planned run in. I was at 13K around 7 pm when, for some reason, the watch decided to run out of batteries earlier than usual. After that there were a good many more steps related to the tree and decorating generally.

(4) Did planned workout -- part of it. I did my 60 mins of strength training and stretching, but for various reasons did not manage to go out for my 30 min run. I am not worried about this as my exercise goals are for the week and yesterday was unpleasantly cold (due to wind), while today and tomorrow will be nice. So I'll do yesterday's run today and then keep the one planned for tomorrow in place. The weather wasn't the reason I didn't manage the run, but probably played a factor in why I put it off and put myself in a situation where I couldn't fit it in, so I have to work on that. The weather is going to get a lot worse as winter goes on.

(5) Morning meditation/evening journal -- check.

12/8
Calorie deficit- ate more at a maintenance level but could have a small deficit based on activity. Would have been better had the Saboteur not struck which lead me to want and partake in additional sweets, much to my stomach’s chagrin.

Carbs/ protein- good protein day over 100g and ok on carbs. Still a work in progress.

12/9
Calorie deficit- yep, a small one!

Carbs/protein- good on both counts. Now to make it a trend!

Yesterday (12/9):

(1) Logged and under goal -- check.

(2) Eat 80ish g net carbs and at least 85 g protein -- about 90 g net carbs (finishing leftovers from the dinner the day before) and 100 g protein.

(3) Over 10K steps and all rings closed -- check, hit 14K steps.

(4) Did planned workout -- yes, 30 min run (32 min, since I mistimed when I'd get back to my place) and 15 min on the bike trainer. Gorgeous weather (nearly 50, sun) -- it's supposed to be similar today, and if so I'll try to get in an additional walk after my run.

(5) Morning meditation/evening journal -- check.