Posts by singpraisetojesus

Yes.  I get mine at my local, hometown health food store.  They usually have it available in several different forms and brands. 

And Amen!

Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to respond to me.

morninggirl, thanks for the book recommendations.  I will check them out.  

Molly, Don is taking pills and insulin right now.  I don't know if that will change when he has been eating properly for a while or not.  They told him 4-5 servings of carbs for main meals and 1-2 servings for a snack.   I found a guide on the Eating Well website that explains how many grams of carbs equals a serving and that has been helpful.  I have been using the CC food logs and analysis to track his meals every day.  It sure is a wonderful tool!  Molly, I saw you on the CCC postings.  The next time you are there, would you please tell everyone that I would like them to be praying for Don, for healing for his foot and for his whole body?  I have not had the time to get there to ask.  Thanks!

nsgardener, thanks for the site info.  I started eating myself according to the GI a long time ago, so I am familiar with that and am implementing what I know into Don's diet.  He teases me that now he is eating like I eat!  Also, I am very familiar with a good scale.  That is one of the tools that I used over the past two years to lose all of the weight that I did.  I agree about the packaging, weighing everything is the key!  My sister (not by birth) was diagnosed as diabetic a few years ago and has encouraged me to include some of Don's favorites in his diet once in a while.  She says that it has been much easier for her to eat a little something that she loves once in a while rather than to totally abstain.  I agree with that and am doing my best.  Right now we are concentrating on getting Don's carbs right, his fiber up and leaving his fat intake pretty much alone for now.  I know we will need to tweak that later.  I am Don's dietitian right now until we can get signed up for the classes.  His first appointment with his new primary care physician is on the 30th of December and we will ask him to prescribe the classes.  By grandmother (age 92)  has been diabetic for 23 years and she highly recommended the classes, too.  I know we will learn a lot.  In the meantime, I am getting as much information as I can from as many sources as I can and running them by Grandma and my sister since they take very good care of themselves and their diabetes. I know we can get through this initial panic and learn to live well in spite of this disease.  

Thank you all for sharing with me.  I really appreciate all of you taking the time to do this.  Please feel free to pass along any helpful information that you can think of.  You may message me or post it here.  Thanks again!

♥ Peggy ♫ 

Thanks, Molly!  While we were out hunting today, I remembered that the mushrooms were called Shitake.  Glad to hear about the noodles.  Now I will give them a try!  Thanks again. 

Jackson James weighed in at 10# even and was 21 1'2" long.  A big boy, but not as big as his brother was (Elijah was 11#7oz!).  The birth went very smoothly and seemingly very quickly.  Jackson has eaten his fill three times already and seems to enjoy looking around with his eyes wide open when he is not sucking on his fingers.  He is very alert and not fussy at all.  The midwives were just great!  They even did up the laundry and the dishes, even folding the laundry that was already in the dryer.  These were really some down-to-earth gals and very efficient and thorough.  They documented everything very faithfully and seemed much more competent than Michelle's first midwife was.  All in all, tonight went just as you would want a home birth to go. 

It was a real pleasure to watch another grandchild be born.  Praise God that He allowed me to be here for this and that He made things go so smoothly.  I praise Him for everything, all that I am, all that He has given me, all that He has for me in the future. 

Thank you all for praying.

♥ Peggy <*)))><{ ♥

Hello, Everyone!

Well, here is the good news/bad news from my scale.  It read 151# this morning, which is 11 pounds of where I originally got to after being on Calorie Count.  135# was my original goal, but I think this (now) older body looks just great at 140# and that wasn't too hard to maintain until I started making poor food choices.  Yesterday went well for me food-wise and I am thinking today will, also, even with company being here.  They are bringing KFC for lunch, so I figured that in to my calories for the day and called it good.  Sure doesn't take very much of that to get the fat levels up! I don't know when I will be able to get on here today, but I will try and get back tomorrow and Monday from my daughters computer.  I will be staying at her place Sunday night to get ready for a double baby shower at her home Monday night.  I will try and check in from there.

So, is today the start of the 11# loss challenge?  It is for me!  I am planning to keep my calorie intake to right around 1900 calories and let things happen from there.  I will have plenty of exercise today because the girls will want to ride the horses, etc.  We might even float the river which means I get to row (I float in a pontoon boat.  Fun!) quite a bit.  Great for the arms and the pecs!  

Please pray for my poor finger!  I snapped the middle finger on my left hand yesterday when we were putting up our tree ring seat.  I caught my finger in one of the slats and it went "snap" and hurt.  Now it hurts more, with some bruising just above the fingernail.  I don't think it is broken, but it sure is sore whenever I bump it the direction that I originally injured it!  It hasn't interfered with my ability to type, so am hoping I can still play the keyboard as normal.  Will try that next.  I will hang around this post for a little bit while I eat my breakfast, then I don't know how often I will get back to it.

Thanks for the wonderful welcome yesterday.  I am planning to be a more regular visitor here, not just a lurker! LOL

♥ Peggy <*)))><{ ♥  

Another thing that I wanted to mention.  My family has been very supportive of my weight loss journey.  It's kind of funny.  Both my daughters have had over-weight issues in the past.  We have all three pretty much conquered them, but all using different methods.  My youngest daughter began her weight loss journey years ago.  The eye-opener for her was that you could eat just until you were full, then not eat again until you felt true hunger.  When she was very careful to follow this way of eating, she was at her lowest weight, around 140#.  She's pregnant now, so we have to cut her a little slack!  She was able to lose the 60# pounds she needed to over the course of a year by eating this way, and has been able to keep it off pretty much until she got pregnant.  My oldest daughter was an over-weight child all of her life and became even more over-weight as an adult.  Two children and a husband later, she decided to do something about it.  She began eating almost exclusively low-calorie foods.  She ate lots of different salads and mostly veggies, both cooked or raw.  She would also eat meats, fish and chicken for protein.  She avoided almost all grains, especially refined ones.  She lost over 110# this way, then became pregnant.  This is the first pregnancy that she began at an almost healthy weight.  I think she was down to 165# when she got pregnant.  Then I started counting calories, eating as healthfully as I could, and here we all three are today.  Funny how each of us took a different path, but all ended up losing our excess weight.  BTW, yes, this means that we have two more grandbabies on the way!  Michelle (my oldest daughter) is due the third week of September and Valerie (the younger) is due the third week of October.  Yes, they were trying to get pregnant around the same time.  I'm glad they spread it out because I can't be two places at once! This is Michelle's third child and Val's first.  This will be the fifth and sixth grandchildren for us.

V, I like that "Life Swap" idea. 

Angel, about the good carb vs. bad carb thing.  I really didn't go by any of that kind of thing other than whatever carbs I did choose, they had to "pay off" by having lots of fiber content.  My average fiber content in my daily diet is right around 35-40g a day.  Today I am somewhere around 60+!  I'll tell you what, if you keep your fiber level up there, you will almost always earn an A for the day on your analysis! LOL  Kind of cheating, but that's what the numbers say!   

Ah, Dances, I have to say that chips and ice cream are my two biggest downfalls!  I need to remember to ask the Lord for help BEFORE I consume them, not after!  I do eat potatoes, though.  I especially like little red potatoes.

I have to give God all the credit for my weight loss!  I committed my eating to Him quite a while before He actually enabled me to walk in that.  The desire to lose the excess weight was there, but it took a while for me to give it all over to Him.  He was working in my heart the whole time, though, and I was finally able to see what my responsibility was in all of this.  I started of exercising portion control, really reading labels and using a food scale.  About a month and a half later I found Calorie Count and the rest is history.  He really changed my attitude about food.  Food is fuel, not entertainment, or comfort, or whatever, etc.  Jesus takes good care of me when I let Him.

Great!  I eat three larger meals a day, with at least two snack times.  I make it a point to never go more than three hours without eating.  I have never really been hungry this whole time except when I was late eating a planned meal.  I make it a point to always plan my meals at least the morning of it not the night before and carry a cooler with my food in it whenever I leave home.  This way I never had the excuse of not having anything healthy to eat.  Saved me more than a few times!  If I go the the trouble of planning and making up my food ahead of time, I am for sure going to eat it!  Also, I drink, on the average, about a gallon of water a day.  We have great well water where we live, so I feel good about doing that.  Water is my main beverage.  I drink a couple of 16oz cups of green tea a day, too, or take green tea capsules when I am out and about. 

 OK, confession time! Almost every day in the past year and a half, I have put a 24oz Pepsi in my calorie log for the day!  If I ever want to get really healthy with what I am eating, that would probably be the last thing to go.  Working on that!

In the recent past, I was walking 4 miles a day.  I had a treadmill for the bad weather days, but that was boring!  I still did it, though.  Now I have an elliptical, and that is a lot better.  A lot more variation in the workouts.  I work while I watch TV.  In the summer, I am busy around the yard, doing some heavy-duty gardening, riding horses, riding motorcycles, all kinds of thing.  I don't really have a formal exercise program when the weather is this good!  We are usually outside every day doing something active.  During the winter months I am more inclined to schedule cardio and weight-training workouts.