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The A1C test is  broken!   I came in at 5.7 and read the above. This is consistent with the glucose reading which was very close to pre diabetes at 96.   Going on a protein diet beginning immediately. Bought some Equate generic for Pure Proteinshakes last week and have tons of protein bars.   This sucks given my activity level and weight.   But it's fixable,

 The scale is broken!   LOL.   up 2 pounds overnight.   had to put in new batteries and have been wondering if it's been weighing low for a while. Noticed my black joggers were tight at the waist last few weeks.   my waist has always been disproportionately large, kinda tube like torso thing going on, sad.   I need one of those Gone With The Wind corsets.

The A1C test kit is arriving Thursday.  I'm modifying my diet to a protein keto thing to reduce that glucose number.   Saw some day old keto bread at Walmart, very pricey.   then remembered when Donkey told me Aldi's had the same thing for a few bucks. And they did!   thanks again, Donk.   I bought it in the past, but momentarily forgot.  

Thanks for the welcome back and all your comments! I wanted to individually comment back,but I couldnt log in all day. Usually my laptop remembers my login, but it wasnt working all the sudden. Finally got around to fixing it. No time to write my daily intake, but I did keep track on My Fitness Pal. Did really good today - around 1200 calories. I think I am going to kick it into high gear. I'll try to repeat today's meals because I had no hunger, felt really satiated all day. I will write more tomorrow! I spend very little time at a computer which can make it difficult to write my entries, but I'm going to make a concerted effort.

 I don't know what happened, but I lost my post.  Crystal said it all except she left out our dinner plans for a rotisserie chicken, plain baked potato and broccoli.   We are trying to run/walk more.

 My mom gave us this toaster like thing that makes two grilled sandwiches at one time, so Taylor and I each had one for breakfast.   The diet bread was gone and the rye had over a hundred calories per slice, so guess each sandwich was close to 400.   We work in the same office and are bringing Lien Cuisine chicken and potatoes bowls in.   I think they are around 300.   There's a old lady in the office who complains constantly about microwave food odors and doesn't want anyone using it. But the boss said to ignore her.   haha 

 
It took me forever to find my password and login. It is the wierd capital letter password they assigned me and impossible to remember.   I changed it to a simple one the wife has except I added an exclamation point to the end.   I want to make my username short too.   I asked the webmaster and thye said I had to get a new account.   I think I will.   It's not like I have a fifty year history here.   I am walking more on the treadmill in short times like 5 minutes.   I was hoping to get a doctors excuse to stay off it, buy he said the more the better.   sometimes I hate that doctor.   But I am still under 200, just barley.   We like the new air fryer and will be trying steaks tonight.  

 Tues 9-27-22 7:30am:

Took a while to finally fall asleep but I did it. 8 solid hours and woke up naturally on my own 10 min before my alarm again. I think that's one of the signs I am doing better... not sleeping 10-12h at a stretch, finding a natural rhythm.

Sugar was high overnight as expected. My appetite is starting to settle down, so maybe that will get better this week. 

Weight was 246.8 again. Ugh. No wonder I feel so fat.

Sort of looking forward to taking care of my friend's spastic corgi. It will be good to have a pup around to walk. Not sure how that will work with my cat... the way my room is set up there's no place to feed her up off the floor... her bed is under my bed and it is totally accessible to a little dog. There's also no way for her to get to the litter box unassaulted. I think I'll just keep them separate and reduce stress on her. It's only a few days.
 

   I tried the air fryer and love it.  I kept it simple with the chicken in breadcrumbs. The old man wants me to try steak, TBones. I think I will and go real slow so they don't overcook. He likes them rare. I plan to slice and bake potatoes. We had a great exercise group at the church. It was too rainy to walk, so our yoga leader had us doing stretches. Almost everyone could do some, even two elderly ladies in wheelchairs. We are thinking about getting some dumbbells, the small ones.  

Right now, today, I kind of feel like what Inner Peace wrote in her last entry.  I'm not really working an effective weight-loss strategy right now.  So I feel like, What's the point of posting here?  What good does it do to post failure after failure, night after night. 

Yoga was an interesting mix.  I was so tight in my shoulders and hips.  Some of even the easiest moves felt stiff and difficult.  I was also feeling very emotional during my session.  Teacher says that this is quite common, especially with grief, that during yoga, authentic feelings come up to the surface.  I suppose that this would even apply to joy and contentment, too, not just negative feelings.  Alls I know is that it really all does need to come up and out for me to move forward.

Needless to say, after yoga, I was not able to resist diving into some sugary foods to console my broken heart.  Woke up this morning feeling kind of out of sorts, which comes from ingesting too many calories right before going to bed.  

Which brings me back to the beginning of my post.  What is the point of posting here?  At least right now, I don't see it.

Tomorrow I go back to work.  As emotional as my time off has been, I can't say I'm looking forward to returning to the trainwreck that awaits me.

So many fresh faces here! How nice is that!? I needed a little break to regroup. I did three meals for a while and that worked wonderfully… Until it didn't. Huge binge last night. Think I'll get back to posting my food here as much as possible.  

breakfast was overnight oats 100 spoon almond butter 100

lunch was a borrowed idea from Jacky :) huge salad 130 more overnight oats (kids don't like this one I made prob bc I poured way too much chia and flax in it) 150 

snack banana/ pb, 1/2 egg 200, crackers 100

sub total 780

gummy vits 30 frozen fries 150 few bites sandwich 100 salad 30 chicken leg 150 smoothie 50

Digestive biscuits & David's cinnamon tea 200 mocha 150 

crackers etc 100

Total 1740

Time to move on, DD.  I've met my diet goal and it's not easy being a second rate actor, very time consuming.  Thanks for asking me to drop by,ddwebmaster,  and good luck to all you little ddwebmasters.   The best to you all.   

A friend suggested this forum.   She said it helped her years ago and the webmaster asked her to consider reactivating her membership.   She has stage 4 cancer now and maybe a year left, at best.  She requested I not mention her name. She said she's tired of people feeling sorry for her, that she's lived a long good life and her journey is winding up.  
I desperately need to lose some weight, a lot of weight.   I am even thinking of gastric bypass surgery, but that's scary, so here I go again, trying harder. My whole family needs to lose weight.  My husband is close to 300 pounds and our teenage girl is nearing the 200 mark.   Our eating patterns are terrible.   Things have to change, a lot.  We are going to start by cutting out fast and regular restaurant food and plan on something fun to do with all the money we will save.   it's a lot.   I'm too embarrassed to say.  

 Hi Everyone,

Its been a VERY long time.  I need somewhere to be accountable to write not only what I eat but also help with my mindful practice of eating.  My goal is to loosly count calories and I need to lose weight, but also keep a record of how I feel when I eat certain foods.  I'm trying to figure out what is filling and keeps me full and what give me energy.  Anything that makes me have an energy crash has no place in my diet!   

B:  Trader joes Egg Frittata with Cauliflower and swiss cheese (11AM)  270 calories.  I was STARVING when I ate this and it did a good job filling me up.

L:  Blaze pizza.  I created my own pizza.  Added a ton of veggies and vegan chorizo.  Did the nutrition calculator and it came out to 150 calories per slice.  I ate 4 slices and saved 2.  So I'm at 600 calories for lunch.

Total for Day so far:  870

Goal for day:  2000-2300 calories

Sep 21 - gym workout 1 hour

Sep 22 - coaching 1 hour

Sep 25 - trail maintenance and hike, total 4 hours

Sep 26 - coaching 1 hour

Starting off a new week and starting to get back into routine since Covid. Feels good to be able to move more easily and not be winded so often.

Breakfast was toast and coffee this morning. I made a big pot of quinoa salad (chickpeas, bell pepper, onion, feta cheese, tomatoes) and i'll be working on this at lunchtime. If I remember to take frozen chicken out, that's what we'll have for supper! And I have an orange and protein bar as possible snacks for the afternoon.

I am trying to get my recerts done for my personal training certification. I have only a couple more weeks and have two workshops left to complete. They are virtual, which is great. I started one on the weekend, but only got about halfway done. Then i'll have to renew my CPR training, and i'll be good to go for another couple of years.

Sorry, quick post. Back to work!

I am having the worse allergies ever, not responding yet to antihistamines.   may have to take more.   Walmart has finally gotten in the latest omicron booster, so plan to get it and hoping there's no side effects.   Nothing major on the other four.   Didn't get much on the bike today.   Did lots of upper body dumbbell work yesterday while changing water in the two 125 gallon tanks in the kitchen.   Goes a lot slower than the tanks in the back of the house due to the hosing system.   Nothing to eat yet today and I am heating KFC sandwiches yelling out my name.  

Mon 9-26-22 7:30am:

Sleep headphones helped knock me out last night. I couldn't relax to the Get Sleepy podcast so I put on Big Sky on Hulu and listened to that with the eye mask on until I tuned out and passed out... Garmin says 10:30... so about an hour of insomnia which beats being up till midnight and having snacks. Win. Not enough REM and low Body Battery (50) but that's what I get for wearing myself out going to yoga in the park 2 days back to back. Which I really needed for mental health. I am so grateful to the caregiver support group ladies for showing up for me... I was in such a "wounded animal hiding in cave" place yesterday morning. Knowing I had to get up and meet one of them there was everything.

Week 2 of my big fitness push. Weighed in at 246 this morning. Up 3 lbs. Fasting sugar 262... suddenly shot up from 230 when my alarm went off. I immediately went to the kitchen and threw out the rest of the bag of chocolate clusters. It's the only thing left that could be driving up my sugar so high... I think I figured out the issue with my nutrition and sugar management last night but I need to get things under better control before I mess with it too much, other than throwing out that bag of treats. 

Monday start. I need to go for a walk this AM. Get off my butt.
 

I joined this forum right now with my roommate, Taylor.  Her breakfast was better than mine.   I think she clocked in at under 300, and I ate the leftover corned beet hash from dinner, a good 600.   I will go easier the rest of the day and feel stuffed now.   I would love to skip lunch, but shoved a few granola bars in my purse.   Exercise.   Ran a mile with Taylor.   We have dumbbells but are going to start looking for some used equipment like a stationary bike or treadmill.  

I heard about this site yesterday from a friend who heard about it from a friend.   I'm joining with my roommate, Crystal.   We are in a similar position, the desire to lose that last ten.  

Breakfast.   Two slices of toast with two thin pieces of Swiss cheese and a light Mayo.

Exercise.  Ran for 1/2 an hour, first thing in the morning before it rains or gets hot. 

Yesterday was one of the best gym experiences I've had.  When I went, later in the afternoon, the gym was almost empty.  LOVE IT.  Afterwards, I went into the steam room to just sit and think.  It was late enough in the day to take my evening shower, so I knocked that out of the way, and then I came home.

Had a nice dinner and watched the last episode of season 4 of Stranger Things.  Everything sounding good, right?  Yeah, except that after the show, after dinner, I just plummeted into another sugar dive.  UGH!!!! 

Today was a rough start, even though I have today and probably tomorrow off from work.  I did not want to get out of bed.  I was awake, but just stayed in bed for nearly 1.5 hours!  I guess that's allowed from time to time, right?  I'm probably being too hard on myself about that.

I had changed up my morning bike ride, and then I did leg weights.  I was surprised how achy my hips are, so today, even though I'm off, no gym.  I will take a shorter lunchtime walk (around my neighborhood loop), and then yoga tonight. I am hoping that with yoga tonight, I will not plunge into another sugar pit again.  I need to make the chocolate not so convenient and accessable.  I can do that.  And peanut butter is not an option.  That's my plan for tonight.

I do not have any other plans for myself today, on my day off, and maybe that's OK.

Guess what!   I am under 200 pounds for the first time in years.   My wife  is starving me and making me walk on a treadmill.   Help!   Call elder abuse!