Oh wow, where is my fork??? That looks delicious!

Wade does most of the cooking since I can't stand for long enough to make a whole meal. He also gets his meal the way he likes it! We are such opposites too - I like my mac and cheese moist, he likes it dry. I like my fries crispy and brown, he likes his barely brown and soft! Same for tater tots. We haven't had any of those for awhile, but that's what came to mind. Mostly I make what I'm going to eat and he makes what he's going to eat. We do have some cubed steak in the crock pot for dinner tonight - yeah, left overs! I'll probably do some potatoes (from flakes, which we both actually like!).

Hope y'all have an awesome day.

There's a lot of candy in this conference room... and it's been calling to me. 😑

You're doing so well, Cindy! I wish I could do that many steps.

Connie, can you share your chicken recipe?

I had way too many treats this week. I didn't have any yesterday!

I woke with a monster headache this morning and am feeling twinges of pain again in my right temple, so I need to go ahead and take more medicine. It started last night but I thought I could sleep it away - nope! I need to stop it as soon as it starts!

Love y'all.

Here's how I finished up the week step-wise:
8/14 - 9,063
8/15 - 9,181
8/16 - 15,815
8/17 - 5,144 (I flew home today. Those steps are from walking to breakfast and in the airport.)

I'm really glad to be home. Looking forward to sleeping in my own bed

Well, I can tell I'm back home recuperating from that last work trip. I haven't gotten over 6,000 steps since the 16th. Roughly 5,200 on the 17th and just over 2,300 on the 18th. The next two days were in between. I came home weighing exactly the same as when I left. 😑

Since August 25th I've cut way back on added sugar. I'm not worrying about things with natural sugar - like fruit. But I'm not eating more than 15g of added sugar/day. I had a friend who had to do that because of blood sugar issues and she's lost at least 20 lbs. So I'm seeing if that will help me. I'm down to 1/2 t raw sugar in my coffee and I'm keeping it to no more than 3 cups/day. That's 6g right there. My Jif natural peanut butter has 4g of sugar in 2T and I only need 1 T on a slice of toast. (That reminds me - I need to remember to see how much sugar is in one slice of my gf bread.) Etc.

So far I'm down 2 lbs., but I'm not going to lie... it's challenging. I had to give up my favorite yogurt (Noosa) which has 35g of sugar (!) in the large cup. And some days I just want a cookie! I haven't given in yet. The real test will be when I leave for my first job out of town since starting down this limited sugar road. It's so much harder to eat healthy when I'm working out of town.

Cindy, when you start reading labels, there is so much sugar in almost everything! I used to drink coffee with lots of cream and sugar, then dropped sugar cold turkey to help with weight control years ago. I still use cream, just can't do it black, but I no longer crave sugar in it. I just enjoy the coffee taste, don't even want flavored creams.

Now that the evenings are getting cooler, I'm trying to get back to walking. Tonight I went out at dusk and it was so beautiful! I didn't walk fast or for very long, but it's a start. I loved seeing lights come on in houses and the faint mountain views. And toward the end, I met my neighbors out walking their dogs, so I slowed down and visited with them as they walked. Just a pleasant evening.

You're doing great, Cindy!
Mostly I use Stevia to sweeten things or drinks that have Stevia in them.

Wade and I watched part of a documentary on wheat last night. Wow. Wade and I are going to work on getting more fruits and veggies in our diet and lose some of the processed carbs or additions to our meals (creamed soups especially). You mentioned one time, Connie, that you make your own creamed soup, could you give me that recipe again? Oh my, we bought some kiwi yesterday and it wasn't the green one, but it was a yellow kiwi, much sweeter than the other kiwi, which I just couldn't eat because it was sour to me. This is really good! I have several bags of my puffed corn (processed food - ugh), but as we are going to work on getting that out of our diet and eating more healthful snacks. I just want to see how removing these things will help me since my lymphedema and lipedema have added to my weight, but there are at least 40 lbs I could lose that aren't from that! I just have to be dedicated and determined. I figured out a way to do the walking that won't take my step count too high - 200 steps every hour for eight hours of the day. The rest of my normal steps should keep me around 2500-3000 steps a day! Lord willing I will get stronger and be able to up that number. I will start (again) today and probably just do six hours or 1200 extra steps and see how my back feels!