Susanna10

Went to Las Vegas for the weekend and gained 5 lbs. I just lost 3 lbs. before I went. Hope everyone is doing better than me!!!!

mateoh

I have been very good with my diet but the scale is not budging. I wouldn't feel so bad about it if I was cheating but I didn't even eat the birthday cupcake that one of my young nurses, ( aka, hospital daughters) brought me on Tuesday. I brought it home for my husband and my mom to share. Oh well, I am not going to throw in the towel. At least I have lost 4 pounds this month and the scale is not moving up.
Irishrose, is your daughter home yet? I am glad that you encouraged your daughter to stay one more day. Sometimes we see our patients being rushed home only to come right back again. I went back to work on Monday and worked three days in a row. My right knee is not too happy today, so I went back to icing and taking it easy today.
My baby girl (19) is home for the weekend from the University of Dayton and I am very happy to have her here. I do miss her terribly but she is enjoying college.
I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter Weekend.

Pam H

Hubby gets back tonight. So much easier to eat better when he is gone. I really feel that he tries to sabotage my diet.

irishrose

mateoh, no, she didn't stay the next day. She's home with her oldest daughter staying with her and the younger one available, too. Each one went to joint camp with her for one session so they'd know how to help her. Her next younger sister will be here Sunday to spend a week with her. C has had two successful knee replacements so that's not all bad. They shared a bedroom for many years as children - until they were teenagers - so they enjoy a chance to stay together. They are crazy together, but laughter is good medicine, so that's to the good. I will the runner. C is recovering from extensive foot surgery, but that's going well this time, too. The house will have C's knee wheely thing and K's walker. Good thing it's one level with a very open floor plan. Rehab unit??

Wow, I had a meeting today, then a massage therapy session which is a combo of working on my torn rotator cuff and myofascial work for the fibromyalgia. I stayed awake long enough to get my GS home from the Y and then slept for nearly 5 hours. What did you do to me, Jason? Of course, a six hour quilting session yesterday didn't help. The members of the worship committee at church must not be quilters and not understand how many hours in a handmade quilt. I finally have one other sewer there which helped (not her fault this was her first session - her MIL was very ill and has now passed). She built a pretty back while a worked on the front. It's not symmetrical, so it's a trip. Luckily, I had a ripper on board - she won't sew, but she does a good job unsewing. Also a presser.

I don't think I had a meal today - just many snacks. Maybe I had better start using myfitnesspal tomorrow. If you have to record it, you eat better. Have you ever checked the carbs on bottled smoothies? Odwalla Mango Tango fruit smoothie with no sugar or sugar substitute has 64 gram of carbs. I will use the ones I purchased recently up slowly and take them off my future lists. Half a bottle will be plenty of carbs for one meal.

I had a long phone call with my ortho's PA today. I agreed to let him clip the Achilles tendon when he rebuilds the front of my foot in June. I'm confident he knows what he's doing, I just had some questions as that part came as a surprise. Now to get the house and garden done so I can be a lady of leisure this summer. The section of the kitchen that needs a second coat was hard on my shoulder, but it has to be done, so there's nothing to do but do it. I found out my friend who works for me is no painter. I had to do the ceiling myself after he tried twice. Wallpapering the soffits with fabric is going to be interesting, too. I will call John for a lot of outside work, but in my experience men are not good weeders - can't tell the difference between a baby flower and a weed.

Time to go sort a cardboard box of sewing 'stuff' that was pushed into another room when we were rushing to put the new floor in. I hate cardboard - it looks like moving day. That's one thing I can do before I go sleep some more. I can't walk the dogs at midnight. Living one block from the Manistee Nat'l Forest means I share my land with bears, coyotes and such. I walked the furgirls about 9:30 last night and something had Lily on high alert. She kept looking toward the woods. Yes, I have met a bear and a coyote - on separate occasions, of course.

Have a good night, y'all.

meanmom

I am off of work today and Monday. My new stove finally arrived this morning. I fought with Samsung for months over the new stove I bought from them not working correctly. They kept telling me it was set to factory specs. It was like the whole thing wasn't getting enough gas. I had repairmen here 7 times. 3 different companies sent by Samsung. I have found that repairmen seen to know a little bit about a lot of different things but none of them seem to be experts on anything. I was told by several people (not the repair guys) that it sounded like I had a bad oriface down inside the stove. They all ignored it and just adjusted the flame height on the burners. The new stove seems so much better. Lowes ended up taking care of it since Samsung didn't seem to honor their warranty.
Easter dinner has been switched to my house this year. My sister was going to do it but her mother in law passed away in Florida. They are having the funeral in Ohio so they are working on that. SHe has been running back and forth to Florida for the last 2 months. A 12 hour drive. The family took turns. Her SIL who was supposed to help with the funeral things had her FIL pass away on Wednesday so she needs help. I told her I would take care of all of the stuff and set up her house for the get together after the funeral. She has tons to do.
My sewing machine is headed to the shop today. I am so sad. They said it would take 2 to 3 weeks. I am having withdrawal symptoms already:-(

lauriejo

I could not do a year of no sugar. Since I was forced to give up all the foods I love when I went gluten free, I absolutely refuse to give up my Pepsi. A girl needs at least one vice! Now it might be interesting to try to cut down on all the other added sugars, and I already try to avoid all artificial sweetners.

I think I would be hesitant too about letting a doc clip a tendon, that sounds pretty scary. Sometimes it is so hard to trust the doctors. Usually it is the right thing to do, but I have regretted it a couple of times. I do have to say that the times I've really regretted trusting the doctor over my own instincts were when I was young and my parents had the final say. They believed that doctors could do no wrong. I have changed docs more than once when it didn't "feel right". It is so important to ask questions, and make them explain everything until you are sure you are doing the right thing. It's your body after all!

meanmom I think manufacturer's are penny wise and pound foolish, as grandma used to say. It would have been cheaper for them to replace the stove when the first repair didn't work instead of repeated service calls! It also might have saved them a customer since I don't think my next stove will be a Samsung! Do you have a backup sewing machine to help with the withdrawal symptoms? I know my 401 is my favorite, but if necessary I do have others I can use. I just realized I never got your address! I have the FQs all picked out, and kept wondering why they were sitting on my desk lol.

My weight went the wrong direction this month. Apparently the two weeks of tossing my cookies last month resulted in only a temporary weight loss. Sigh, I have gained back five of those pounds. Still less than the first of the year, so that is good.

irishrose

I trust this doctor completely. We have been together trying to keep me walking since 1993. I just was taken by surprise and needed more info before I agreed to any tendon clipping. Speaking of those feet, they are very sore today and I still have to get the dogs out.

My weight isn't going down at any great speed - it's down one, up two, etc. I have not been to Dairy Queen since it reopened for the season so that's a plus. Now to get back on track eating regular meals.

mateoh

Hi ALL,
I have been using My Fitness Pal this month and it does keep me accountable. I also can record meals on my phone if i am not home on the computer so there is no excuse for me not to keep track. I started printing out my daily logs so that I can easily see if I slip up somewhere. The scale finally went down a half a pound today. I will be glad to go see my endocrinologist in May. He lowered my dose of Synthroid the last time i went in, but I am starting to feel cold all of the time, much like I felt right after having my Thyroid removed 4 years ago.
Irishrose, I am glad that you are so comfortable with your Ortho surgeon. I think that is very important. That is how I feel about the Ortho Surgeon treating me. I know he gives me all of the information I need to have and does not mind me coming back with questions.
I am determined to stay away from all of the Easter treats! Happy weekend everyone.

meanmom

I totally trust my Ortho too. I had major rotator cuff repair 2 years ago and from what I have heard my recovery was easy. I only needed the major pain meds 2 days. I have pretty much total range of motion. My ortho teases me that if I would keep up the PT I could be a pitcher on a baseball team. My knee has been bothering me quite a bit this past week. I might have to consider replacement this summer. I was hoping to wait a while longer.
THe weather here is beautiful this weekend. I decided that it was too pretty out to bake a ham for Easter. I went out this afternoon and bought a couple of racks of ribs and will BBQ them. I picked up my GS yesterday afternoon. He has been bugging me to spend the night. He is 3 1/2. We made most of the food for the Easter dinner tomorrow. He loves to cook. My kitchen is a mess but we had lots of fun. He wanted to stay again tonight but I needed to get more done. He also played with his 2 uncles. They found a box turtle today and they played with it. He also played video games with them. They gave him a controller that didn't work. He cried when I took him home. I will have to do it again sometime soon.
My baby graduates from college next weekend.

CindyA

I have been sick this week, but unfortunately no weight loss accompanying it. Hope I start feeling better soon.


Pam, thanks for the article on leaving out sugar. That is very interesting. I would love to try it and see if I have more energy. I've always felt that I never had enough energy for my age, wonder if it's just who I am, my eating habits, or something medical (thyroid?, blood pressure?).