HI MELODY!!!!!

Please check out my 3 new baby steps...they are posted on the weight loss support forum!!!
Thank you so much for the advise and encouragement....I was able to manage the 3 baby steps and will continue with them and add three more this week!! I love the baby step idea..it seems to be working for me!!
I can eat popcorn without my sugar going crazy!! I think I am going to check out the popcorn idea!
Thank you again Melody!!!

Dorrie:

If Popcorn does not raise your sugar, I'd go for it.

I have a rule that I don't eat ANYTHING after 7 p.m. Works for me. This will NOT work for ALL OTHER diabetics. Most have to eat a bit of something before they retire at night.

But for me, it works just fine, so I'm sticking to it. Alan, on the other hand, has to snack so the popcorn thing is just dandy for him.

A long time ago, when he and I went to see a nutritionist for HIM (after his stent), we needed to find a good eating plan. When the nutritionist found out that I was the cook in the house and also a diabetic, she addressed all her counseling to ME because, after all, I'm the cook in the house, right?

She then gave me a list of foods that were on a glycemic index. I had never really known about glycemic indexes.

I laughed when I read the two foods that were HIGHEST on the glycemic index. One was Popcorn, and the other was Alan's favorite thing to snack on of all time RICE CAKES (God I hate these things, they taste like styrofoam)

But they now have cheddar, and chocolate and various other flavors.

But there was a circle around the Rice Cakes and it said 'NOT FOR DIABETICS.

Thank goodness I hate these things.

So here's to a successful weight loss.

By the way, did you get to see Oprah yesterday. She ran a repeat show of DRAMATIC weight loss stories.

Oh my god, some lady lost 530 lbs. Good Lord. Without any surgery.

Just dieting. I gather she had to have a lot of skin removed.

Hey, she looked great and many of the people got to go off ALL their meds.

Wouldn't that be a kicker? If someday I get to go off of my Lantus.

I can only try to achieve my weight loss to it's ultimate goal. I'm not going to beat myself up over it.

I've lost most of it. I'm 60. And if I hit 61 and weight what I want, I'll take a photo wearing something foxy. (Not frisky), but foxy!!! lol lol lol

Heheheheh Foxy Mel!

I was very good today food wise!
Hope everyone is doing well.

Hi Foxy Mel!!!!!!...Hi Shelley!!!
Hope you are doing well!!
I am hanging in there! The water thing has not been good. I manage a bottle a day and will try harder tomorrow...I have been in bed by 11pm....10:15 last night!! I have NOT touched chocolate!!of any sort!!!!!
Still on 1 sweetner....no red meat but the salad everyday I have been slacking on!! I weighed myself yesterday but the scale was no different...4 pounds still.
I am now down to 1/3 of the dose of effexor...I have much more energy!! I have started reading a bit more so that I don't smoke as much...its working too!!!
Over all baby steps are working Mel!! I surely would have given up if I tried all these things at once!!!

Baby Steps. One step at a time.

I'm very lucky. I don't smoke, never have. I DO come from a whole FAMILY who smoked.

My mother was one of ten children. EVERYBODY SMOKED. My father smoked.

So weekends at my house, was coffee and cake get togethers, and everybody lighting up. And we played a game called Contract Gin. Everybody smoked then too!!

I will always wonder why I never smoked.

I do however have the lungs of a smoker. I was told this YEARS ago by a doctor who listened to my chest. She told me 'how long have you been smoking??"

I just looked at her and said "I don't smoke".

She said 'oh you grew up in a household where everybody smoked"??and I said: "how do you know that'?

She replied "I can hear it". But that was YEARS ago.

I've been away from smokers since I'm 24 and my parents moved to Florida. No one has smoked in my home. My landlord knows to put out his cigs before he comes in.

I know it's a VERY hard addiction to over come.

I give people BIG KUDOS when they quit.

So just keep doing BABY STEPS.

You'll get there.

Melody

It is amazing how much easier it is to make little changes Mel!! Thank you so much for your posts and your wisdom and encouragement!!
I mentioned on the weight loss forum that I like the idea that "I" can decide what I want to change....if I feel like tackling something big one week I can...if I am not ready for that there are plenty of other things I can work on! I think that the change in my meds and the extra sleep I am getting has helped me to want to keep at it as well!!!
I just feel wonderful!!!!!!!

Ugh I was bad today.

Bad with water and bad with food. Had a quesadilla for lunch and went to the movies and had popcorn again.

But I was good with my metformin and have been all week.

Ok only healthy good food tomorrow

Hi, It's friday morning. Just woke up early.

I like to make changes to myself all the time. Never could do THAT before. I guess I was just not ready to do this.

This week I cut out my, well let's call it my SOUP THING.

Every few days, I would walk around the corner and order Won Ton Egg Drop Mix, and a vegetable Egg Roll!!!

Now I didn't do this every day, but I did it a few times a week. I usually have grilled chicken over bright greens for lunch, but I like to change it every few days. So I really enjoy my Soup and Veggie Egg Roll for lunch.

It really didn't have a big impact on my sugar, BUT, if you really think about it, WHAT DO THEY PUT IN THAT SOUP??

I watched them while they made it once. I said to myself 'do you really want all that stuff in your body". They had the fried wontons, of course, then they beat up an egg, then they take their utensils and they have at least 5 big bowls of SOMETHING!!! (One was sugar, I asked them).

Then they put it all together in a chinese soup container, and give it to you with a bag of noodles. Then I would get a veggie egg roll (which, again, is fried).

So I simply decided "Hey, you are so strict with everything else you put in your body, why on earth are you putting ALL THAT other nonsense in your body?" So I went to the fish market and bought a piece of turbot fillet and had THAT for lunch instead.

It really does change the routine when you make fish for lunch instead of simply going around the corner and getting the soup and an egg roll.

I had simply gotten into the habit of doing that. Well guess what, I changed one more bad habit.

Been doing this for about 4 days now. Some days I have my grilled chicken, some days I have fish. I'm going to add some new stuff to my menu.

I might have a low-carb, low fat wrap with sliced Boars Head turkey, and add some greens to that salad.

It's all about habits that we have established. It's extremely hard to break these, I know.

But I think of it as a challenge.

Like we said ....BABY STEPS.

Now I also say "BABY CHALLENGES". lol

P.S. Just took my sugar reading. It was 109. I almost fell on the floor.

Hi Gals!!! Mel..I just love these baby steps!!
Last night I did not go to bed on time....now I am dragging by butt and wishing I had of! I am going to take some melatonin tonight to reset my clock!
It is hot here today and very humid...makes me even more sluggish. I did get some sun today for a while...nice change from chores! I think that one of my next baby steps will be taking my sugar regularly!!
Shelley....I have a thing with water too

HeyAll!!! Nothing too great to report....a blah day so far for me...I will pop back later!!!