I really like the app too so thank you so much for letting me know about it. It really is motivating seeing all the information. Guess I should have looked at it before I ate the darn pizza.


I know it's okay once in awhile Gina....LOLOL....but I just started Friday or Saturday. I'll do better tomorrow. Also...I found a bigger purse that I just fell in love with. I got it for 1/2 price so I only paid $15.00 for it. My IPad fits in it just right now if I'm at a restaurant...I can check it!!

That is GREAT! I carry a backpack purse and my iPad will fit into it also. I love having it with me when I'm out and about. I have Lose It on my iPhone so when I'm at a restaurant, I can look up things also. It really helps.

What kind of purse, Janet? Did you get a Vera Bradley?

If you watch calories, and spread it out over a week, you can make up for those extra pizza calories more or less over 7 days, Janet.

Gina, I was eating honey roasted cashews by the handful, until I read the Caloric content! Sad!!!

My summer friends are up for the summer! I didn't realize it was so late im June! I am so glad they are here. Now, I have to work in seeing Jessie and enjoying being with my friends. She is very understanding, and knows that I love the pool and wait for summer all year, but she isn't feeling well. I didn't go to her yesterday because all of them had a sore throat kind of thing.

She has not been feeling well from her MS for about 4 months now. She is tired, has pain, has been dropping things, and her cognition (which I don't mention to her) has been off. I am praying that it passes quickly.

Send her your prayers please.

Judy, I'm sorry that Jessie's MS is flaring up again. I'll be praying for her. That has to be so difficult to watch as her mother.

I've been doing really good with my Atkins but still I'm not seeing any progress!! Hopefully it's just going to take awhile to get going!! Keep your fingers crossed for me!!!

My blood sugar is still high but I'm having a few low ones too. You'd think that with very few carbs that my blood sugar would be very low!! Oh well.....the doctor will be checking it all out next week.

Thanks Diana! It is very hard to watch because we don't know if this is just a flare up, or if it won't go away this time. MS seems to have its' own mind! She has bounced back from other flare ups, but there is no guarantee. If I think about it, I get so scared. I cannot imagine how she feels!

I think you need to take a week or so to see some weight change on the Adkins. It sounds good that your sugar has gone down at times!

MS is a very unpredictable disease, it advances a lot in some people and not so much in others. The uncertainty must be maddening.

I'm still doing well on my diet. I had 3.5 oz. of steak tonight, but I budgeted for it so I didn't go over. I had grilled okra and steamed squash with it, so that helped me to not go over my calorie allotment. Gary bought these steaks one day he went shopping. He was so proud of himself, they looked like REALLY good steaks (and they were). I didn't have the heart to tell him I really shouldn't eat it - so I was just very very careful today before dinner.

I still get hungry sometimes, but either I fight it or eat some sort of snack. I'm feeling A LOT better, so I think I can keep it up. The really hard part will be next week in Oklahoma. Gary's sisters try to outdo each other in cooking, particularly snacks and desserts. Plus we will go out to eat A LOT. I hope I can keep it together for 7 days!!!!! :o

I didn't use all my calories today....after I went to the Dr., got my meds...I slept all afternoon and evening. I thought I'd check here before I conk out for the night. He put me on Flexeril and Prednisone. Hopefully it will work...I've taken one dose of each and so far nothing has changed...just very sleepy. It takes time.

I was suppose to go to the eye dr. at Wal Mart but had to cancel because of the drugs. Thought it best if I wait another week or two.

I'm sorry Jessie hasn't been feeling well...of course I'll keep her in my prayers. It has to be hard for you watching your daughter suffer at times. It would be scary wondering if it was a flare up or worse.

The purse I got was from Target....I love Vera Bradley, but just wanted a change. I ended up buying two purses...lol. They have such a big selection at the store in Lafayette.

Diana, if I remember right it was slow going the first week and then bam!!! The weight started falling off when I was on South Beach Diet. It's similiar to Atkins. I'm able to lose weight easily and fast at first....I always feel so good about it, but my plateaus are long and tedious and then I lose the ambition. So I end up gaining it all back plus.

I just checked my upper post and it says posted at 7:57 PM, but it's 9:59...hmmmm have to check this out.

MS is terrifying, especially when there are grandchildren too. Thank goodness for delusion and denial! And, antidepressants. I have learned to force myself to live in the present and to enjoy what there is right now. I also make myself put the worry in the back of my mind. Lately, I have been hearing how MS is a progressive disease though. I really don't want to hear about this!

Janet, how long are you on the prednisone for? What did the doctor say is wrong anyway?

He thinks it could be a a nerve that's causing all the problem. Don't know if you all remember but in the fall of 2008 the stupid school nurse gave me my flu shot too low in my arm and caused me all kinds of pain.

Well I think on last Mon. or Tues. When I helped Mom off the floor I must have done something to make it flare up. My neck isn't hurting now so don't think the stiff neck caused it, but my shoulder and especially my arm whre the shot was given. The bump is still there too and is so painful. If the pain hasn't lightened up by this afternoon, I'm calling my Dr. Again because he is out on Wednesdays.

I do remember that! It took a long time to get better, right? Has it bothered you before this time?

I'm down to 130.5 pounds and I am seriously thinking about starting the transition phase of this diet. I have started having an extra bar every day. I started getting hungry again, and I didn't want to stress my body out anymore.

It had bothered me before but just a tiny bit and didn't last long. This time it's awful.

I'm not doing well watching what I eat. I did drop 2 lbs, but can't it back with the pizza. I'm just really stressed right now because of the pain and my other pain (Mom)...lol. She's trying to make it a contest on who feels the worst I think. I'll keep trying and not give up. Ricky did say he would start walking with me, but have to feel better first.

Congratulations on doing so well Judy....good job. Geeee...I weigh over 100 lbs more than most of you!

Janet, I'm sorry that your arm is bothering you again. I'd ask the doctor about your shot area......I had a tetanus shot once that did that......made a knot in my arm and it took a long time for it to go away but it eventually did. You've had yours for a long time though so it probably needs looked at.

Judy, you're doing great on your diet!!! I'm really encouraged on mine because I have friends that are doing it and have done really well. They've been helping a lot on what to eat and what not to eat. I weighed yesterday at the doctor's office and I had lost a pound........BUT I had also taken my shoes off!!!!! Oh well!!!!

I had another test yesterday and should get a call either today or tomorrow on the results. I think that this one is going to show some problems.......we'll see, I guess!!!

Glen knows that I've been going in for tests but I haven't been telling him everything that I've found out. He's really bad at talking to everyone and I'm just not ready for him to start talking about me with everyone about my health. He doesn't see a problem with it but it bothers me. There's just some things that don't need to be talked about with everyone!!! I just keep telling him that it's blood sugar and cholesterol problems but it's actually a little more than that. I'm not worrying too much about it yet.......at least until the doctor says that I need to. I'm trying to lose weight and follow what she's saying for now. Getting old sucks!!!!!!!!!

Gayle, take your own snacks with you. Take some dip and veggies and some diet bars or something that you can eat and not feel guilty about. A dip that I like is a package of Knorr soup mix (or Lipton vegetable soup mix) mixed with 1 cup of mayonaise and 1 cup of sour cream. This is great with veggies or especially with pretzels!!! You can use the fat free or light stuff for this too. A week is a long time to try to do good though!!! Good luck!!!!

Diana, I hope everything gets better!!! And thanks for the tips about what to do and eat this week. I'm going to try to do just what you suggested, take along foods that I know I can eat. I was going to take my 90 calorie rice krispy bars and I will, but I think I'll go to the store and look for more "packable" things I can take with me. Good idea!!! And I KNOW I can't be good the WHOLE week, but I'd like to minimize the damage.

I'm glad that I could be of help. Just make sure that you take enough to last you the whole week......or plan on going to the store to stock back up while you're there. You'll do fine!!!

When are you leaving to go to Oklahoma?

I'll be able to go to the store when I run low on something so that is NICE! We are leaving tomorrow - I have to go to work for a meeting in the morning and then we will leave, probably about 11:00.

It really is hard to watch what you eat when you are away. Taking snacks is a great idea! But, don't forget to enjoy yourself! You can be really careful when you come back.

Have a safe trip! I'm sure you will be taking your iPad, so you can let us know how much fun you are having, Gayle!

Diana, losing 1 pound is good! They say that a weight loss of 1 to 2 pounds/week is the healthiest. I hope your test results come back good!

Drive careful, Gayle!!!!

We'll see about the one pound........as I said......I took my shoes off when I weighed so that's probably the pound that I lost!!!! LOL I'm sure that I'm going to start losing soon. I've been doing really good on this diet.....better than I thought I would. I need to get a little exercise in and I will when everything gets settled down here.

You all are doing really great....I'm so thrilled for you. You're right Diana....getting old does suck and it sucks worse when you're like me.....100 lbs over normal. Wow....how did I let this happen....oh I know....I love to eat!

Have a safe trip Gayle and thank you so much for all your support. Hope you have a wonderful time.

I know exactly how it happens.......you and I weigh about the same. I am excited about this diet though!!! Maybe it's something that you could do too. It's basically very very low carbs. I get 20 a day but I'm not sure that I use all of them and I'm not hungry. I can eat quite a lot.....it just has to have low or no carbs. I had already cut out chips and potatoes and not much bread because of my diabetes so the transition to this has been pretty easy for the most part.

This is going to sound weird but I had two eggs for breakfast yesterday......ate half of a steak with a large salad for lunch......snacked on a package of bacon and finished the rest of it for supper with a large salad. I also had sugar-free jello. I can have cheese as well. Atkins has bars and shakes that are really pretty good so they help with the sweet fix. There's no measuring or counting calories......just watching carbs.....very easy. It's lots of protein and certain veggies!!

The plan says that it actually helps with lowering cholesteroland blood pressure:warning:.....that's hard to believe but we'll see. My blood sugar is doing so much better for the last couple of days.

This is a diet that I think that I can stay on for life......btw....I'm down 3 or 4 pounds this morning!!!!!! :cheer:

Count that pound! I doubt if your shoes weigh a whole pound. I move my scale around until I find the spot on the floor where it registers the lowest weight! Anyway, you have a positive attitude, which is so important!

Wahoo Diane!!!!!:):):)

Way to go Diana....I'm so happy for you. What you mentioned you hate....would have me starving. I did the SB diet and the lbs fell off, but if you don't stay on it, the weight all comes back. Way too easy to go back to the old ways of eating. I don't see a whole lot of difference between count carbs or counting calories....I still have to count..lol. Right now...during all this mess I'm living through....not sure I could do any weight loss program....in due time......in due time.

So far I've lost about 5 pounds. I'm glad to finally start seeing some results so I think that I'm not going to be weighing every day. Just knowing that what I'm doing is working is good for me.......I'm very excited about it.......staying off the scales will be hard!!!

Also the pond is finally warm enough so I'll be swimming a lot more!!! So excited about that......except for the snake we saw in the pond!!! YUCK!!!! Hopefully Mollee will find it......She's a snake killing dog!!!!

That is wonderful Diana. I've always tried to just weigh once a week at the same time wearing pretty much the same thing. It's hard though...I want to lose every day and it's just not always possible. Sounds like you're doing everything right...I'm so proud of you.

Ok.....I was wrong!!! I couldn't stay off of the scales!!!! I lost another 3 or 4 pounds over the weekend!!! Yooo Hooo!!!! That makes about 8 or 9 pounds!!! I sure hope the doctor's scales read that much......I guess we'll see soon!!!

Congratulations Diana!!!

How wonderful that you have lost so much!!! You must be feeling so proud!

If the doctor's scale doesn't agree with yours, ignore it! I never pay attention to any scale but mine!

I can't wait to see how much your sugar went down, your blood pressure, and whatever else the doc is watching!!!

My blood pressure is good because I take several medicines for that but hopefully I can get off of some of the meds when I lose weight.

My blood sugar test will be in another three months and I expect there will be a BIG change in it!!!!

You are doing so well!!!! Keep it up girlfriend!

Okay...been looking at the Atkins Diet & thinking about it. Tell me what book you have Diana, I checked on Amazon and there are quite a few. I know the author has to be Atkins...lolol.

I have two books......one I bought at a garage sale.....

Amazon
Then I bought the new one at Wal-mart......

Amazon
There's also a LOT of information on their website and a forum to talk to others.

Amy's started the diet lately and she had a really hard time with craving carbs but she said that yesterday the cravings were a lot better. I know that you have to stay on Induction for two weeks where you can only have 20 carbs and they are limited to certain foods but after that you can move on to Phase two.

I have a couple of friends that have been doing this for awhile so I've been picking their brain about what they can eat and didn't eat. Shani snacks on bacon all day and she's lost over 30 pounds and is almost to her goal. Her husband has lost over 40!!!!

I found a 110 calorie bar that I really like. Skinny Cow. There is a chocolate and a peanut butter chocolate. They are new I think. Skinny Cow has had ice cream sandwiches for a long time, but not bars. The bars are really more like a candy bar, so they aren't real filling but there are times when I just crave something that TASTES GOOD! These fit the bill. The only place I can find them are Walgreens Pharmacy.

I also like the 100 calorie Lance toasty peanut butter cracker sandwiches. It's perfect for my sweet/salty craving.

I did well at the lake for the first 3 days, then I began to lose some control and eat things I shouldn't - like homemade ice cream. OH MY! Gary's uncle makes the BEST ice cream and I had to eat some. I got back in control the minute I got on the road home. WHEW! Sometimes when I'm dieting, and I get out of control, I can't get back in. But I'm doing really well. I didn't gain or lose while I was gone!

Skinny Cow sandwiches! Yummy! I never had the new ones. Good for you that you started up again on the way home. Except for this diet that I am on, I only do portion control when I'm away. Come on...homemade ice cream! Life is just too short to give up something like that!

Yeah, but 4 cups of ice cream over 3 days, that's a bit much. I try to do portion control, but I just couldn't with that one. I would like to have had only 1/2 cup on two occasions.

Oh well, what's done is done and you're back on track now!!! Ice cream sounds so good that I'm not sure I would do very well if it were in front of me either.......especially if it had homemade chocolate on it!!! Yummmmmm........

Well.....I weighed the other day at the doctor's office and I've only lost 3 pounds. Bummer!! Oh well.....at least the scales are moving the right way!!! I think that I may have lost a couple of more but it's hard to tell because Glen and Dae Lynn keep resetting the scales on zero!!!! So I'm not sure where I'm at. I don't know why the scales dipped so far down on the one day.....maybe it was water weight.

Amy and Dae Lynn have decided to join me so now it's a lot easier. We're all looking for recipes and snacks and so it's exciting to see what one of us is going to come up with!!!

It is rare that my weight on my scale is the same as on the doctor's scale. Even weight loss is different. I only go by one scale (mine). Even if it is off, weight loss is going to be right.

Why are Glen and Dae Lynn changing the scale? Take it in your room, and tell them to buy their own scale! Tell them Judy said!

I'm so far off the diet wagon that I can barely see it in the distance. lol I guess at the moment I just don't want it bad enough or it would be happening. I do think that once I get my "happy" back it will be much easier. I'm so thrilled for all of you that are accomplishing weight loss, no matter how big or small.

I've lost 6 pounds and I'm happy with that. I have 14 more to go and they won't be easy, but for some reason I am motivated.

Janet, you'll get there. You just have so much going on right now but knowing you.....once you set your mind to something you get it done!!

Gayle.....6 pounds!!!! Woo Hoo!!! :cheer: That's great!!!

I went to the doctor this morning but I was still only down 3 pounds. Oh well.....I'll take it!!! My scale shows a little more than that but I do weigh first thing in the morning with my clothes off so that could be a couple of pounds difference.

I talked the doctor out of adding meds and changing things for a while. I really think that this diet is going to help in all of the other areas.

BTW.....I found out that I have "fatty" liver and a fatty cyst on my kidneys. Neither are things to worry much about as long as I lose weight.

Judy.....I may put a sign on my scales---"You'll have to deal with Judy if you adjust these scales again!!!!"