Nov 19 - just another manic, moody Monday

[Anniesnan]

Morning everyone!

first time I heard that song - I thought the lyrics were

"Just an automatic Monday"

which usually describes my MOndays better than manic.

I added the moody in today, because I am NOT today, but usually am:rolleyes:

It's raining and cold and unlike almost everyone else I know, I like rain and cold. I think it stems back to gratitude and acceptance of your fate.
It is easier to be grateful for a warm roof over your head if it is wet and cold outside.

Today, I am going to try to be grateful (all this talk of Thanksgiving, I guess) for what I have and what I have done and will work on increasing my progress rather than moan about what I've done wrong.

Have a great day, everyone!

[hawk]

Hi Anniesnan, thanks for the reminder to be grateful.

Meds for congestion kept me awake all night. So I got up , am having coffee and made a salad with meat. Gus is eating what I did not finish.
G'man cleaned the chimney yesterday and put a fire in the woodstove. Nice. Warm floors. I am grateful for that.
I hope that sometime soon I can sleep today to make up for two nights of no sleep. I need to switch meds. The ones that dry up my chest keep me awake 24/7.

Our weekends are so busy that Monday is always a relief for me. I love it that I don't work on Monday.I am supposed to tomorrow. We'll see.Last night a week long fever finially broke but it took anti biotics.

I'll be on plan today. There's nothing else in the house!

[Missy]

Good Morning Girls! :D

[maxlharris]

Morning folks. Had a great on-plan weekend. Am planning on a great, on-plan week, until Thursday, when I'm gonna be responsible, but not necessarily on plan. But, that's Thursday. I can earn it by winning Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

I earned it on the bike today. It's time to go eat something besides my shake. Rock on.

[Bonnie]

Morning All,

I didn't know there was a morning in Monday. And it is a gray, drizzly Monday morning at that. Normally it is my late day at work, but I switched late days with a friend who needed tomorrow night. I have been on plan since discovering and banishing carb creep, but the weight remains. Hubby has lost 6 pounds since we tackled carb creep, but here I sit with no downward movement. I expect that I will suddenly lose on Wednesday, just to jump back up on Black Friday after Thanksgiving.

Bonnie

[Anniesnan]

Hawk -

hope you're feeling better soon!

I can't take most decongestants, either - I get wired and spacey, stuck cleaning the house:eek:

Got zillions accomplished this am at work - and came home ravenous.
I'm grilling some chicken breast as we speak - for a treat, I've added some onion:slywink:

[Claudette]

Hi, ya'll,

Busy day today. I am off Wednesday and of course, Thursday, then back again on Friday, as my colleague is off Thursday, Friday as she goes out out town.

We are totally on computer and the patient base system has been down for 2 hours. Back to paper, then when the system is up, we will have a deludge of notes to add.

I am on plan, losing inches, the scale hasn't moved down in a while, which is frustrating, but folks are telling me , "haven't you lost some weight?".

I am planning to be on plan Mon-Tues-Wed-Friday, will be good on Thursday, but might have a bite of this and that since some items are very seasonal.

Tonight, exercise tape, upper body toning tape.

Hawk, get to feeling better.

Bonnie, hang in there, females always lose slower than males. Just hang in there.

Have a great day, all.

[hawk]

Thanks :^)

I just down loaded 25 cheesecake recipies. I am to make a few for a friends 25th wedding anniversary. Raspberry liqueur cheesecake with modifacations is wonderful. Most of them can be modified to be PP worthy. I probably won't worry about it for the party. Pumpkin cheesecake is pretty easy to make with splenda and a nut crust. The carbs are certainly lower than pumpkin pie and there is almost no difference in the flavor.
My head is still majorly heavy.

I emailed photos I am working on to be enlarged and turned into black and white so I can see the color values better. I am working on a portrait of my grandsons. It's really turning out well.
I got about 3 hours sleep in this morning. I switched my decongestant. It does not work as well as the sudafed type.
I just hope I can work tomorrow.Doc is taking Wed. off so we switched the day I come in. It's cool. I do alot of the baking for the family party. Funny,,, I make all the things I don't eat. Since starting PP, I cannot eat pumpkin pie. The indegestion is too much to bear. Not a bad thing. It gets rid of the temptation.

[Rhyme'n Reason]

I'm back--survived the All-State choir weekend and then had a very busy day at church yesterday (sang in the a cappella group, taught a junior church lesson, led choir practice).

Today was all about getting reacquainted with my classroom after being gone on Friday. I managed to get all of my papers graded and recorded. Now I have some mid-range planning to do to get me through all of the Christmas program practices (when I have others babysitting my classes so I can direct the choir).

One question for all of you--do you find that you're more susceptible to the cold when you're on PP? I remember being that way the first time I did this and now again, I just can't get warm. I was just wondering if anyone knows of a physiological reason for this. It's only November and I'm about ready to hand in my resignation and head for the tropics. (well, it's not quite that bad, but you get the point).

Tomorrow is my doctor's appointment when I'll get the official scale reading for the last month. According to my scale, it looks good.

I'm still committed to an on-plan Thanksgiving. Then I won't have to worry about what the scale says afterward. I've given myself permission to go off-plan before and I didn't like the results. It seems to me that every time I do that, it's a little easier to go off whenever it seems convenient. But that's just me--I know others don't have quite the same mind-game problems I have.

Hawk, hope you can breathe better soon. Breathing is good.

[gitfiddle]

Hi, Y'all! It's darkening and very misty here this afternoon. I think they said rain tonight. Wouldn't be surprised.

My little trio was asked to play for a church luncheon today, and invited to have lunch with them. You guessed it--pasta and potatoes and every vegetable was in canned soup of some kind. I scraped the sauce off a meatball, politely selected a half deviled egg (when I could have eaten four!) and picked at some kind of slaw that definitely had sugar in it. It was enough to keep me going, though. Four hours later, I broke out some flax crackers and cheese. I didn't count the crackers, which means I ate too many. I think it was a comfort snack. It's been a very unsatisfying day.

Lynn, twenty-five recipes? :eek: I'm glad your fever finally broke.

Hang in there, Bonnie and Claudette. You'll get your woosh!

Ruth, I used to have beads of sweat on my face all summer and I don't have that any more--halleluia! I know some people are warmer than they used to be, but I'm colder. I grab an afghan before I sit in my chair. I'm comfortable wearing a suit jacket over a long-sleeved top in the office. All together, I like the change.

I'm also planning a PP Thanksgiving. It takes too long to straighten out after a "trip to the honey tree".

[Mitra]

Ruth, one possible reason for feeling the cold is not eating enough. Low thyroid is another. It may be nothing significant, but I'd check it out with the Dr on your visit tomorrow.

[Gaelen]

I switched my decongestant. It does not work as well as the sudafed type.

Hawk, because I live in the northeast in an area that has more rainy/cloudy days than Portland and only trails Seattle by a couple I am on maintenance decongestants for the duration (or until I move to Tuscon, according to my doc.)

I take Mucinex, which you can get over the counter...not the decongestant/expectorant, but the one labeled just 'expectorant.' It's timed release, and although the healing dose for major issues is two 600 mg. tabs twice a day (2400 mgs total), if I take one 600 mg tab every day, I am sinus/congestion issues free. If I am over-exposed to something (five days in hotels or at a dog show, for instance) I add another tab at night until I clear up. But most of the time I don't need to even do that. You might need to take the 2400mg dose for a week or two to clean things up, but then you can go down to the 600 mg maintenance dose and just stay there.

It doesn't dry me out to the point where I have issues being hydrated.
It doesn't give me headaches or keep me awake (pseudoephedrine products, like Sudafed, do).
It is stupidly expensive because the people who owned the generic license on the single active ingredient (Guifeniesan (sp)--the same stuff that is in plain old liquid Robitussin cough syrup, expectorant only) let their flipping license lapse. So 20 tabs, or 20 days for me, is about $10. To be congestion issues free and sinus headache free is, to me, completely worth it. Walmart has a generic version which is a lower dose per pill, but same active ingredient--that might be less expensive. I just stick with what works. I've been taking it (and the generic before Mucinex) for about 6 years now. I can't tell you what a relief it is.

I will check, but I think it's free of the dyes that you have problems with, too. You might want to ask your doc. If this is the one he switched you to, it does take a few days (or loading dose) before you really notice relief...but once you're at the loaded dose, it works a charm.

[hawk]

Carol..I picked a raspberry cheescake, a reeses peanut butter chocolate cheesecake, a banana cheese cake with cream de cacao, an apricot cheesecake. They all have alcahol in them. Make them extra good. And I am making two pumpkin pies. I may have a sliver of the apricot cheesecake on Thanksgiving.

Right now I still can't smell anything , so I have not been hungry. I ate another salad with meat and cheese on it today. The rest of the day has been slugging water.
I took advantage of the 50* day and took gus out and walked two miles around the track at the park. My chest hurts from breathing, but I am glad I got out. My husband called from work and was not real happy about it. He knows better than to hold me back.He said..:mad:."you just broke the 6 day fever last night!!! " so I was in the mood for a little fresh air and get the shakiness out of my legs.:rolleyes:

I am coughing up alot more stuff...I think its a good thing.:confused:

[Ottawa]

Total: 1796 IF: 19/5
Fat: 121
Carbs: 40 - 16 = 24 ECC
Fiber: 16
Protein: 155

3 protein cookies and PB on Flatbread for a late lunch. 2 chicken legs and some hame ham along with 2 cups of coleslaw (vinegar, two drops of liquid Sucralose, oil and 3 Tbs. mayo in about 8 cups of shredded cabbage and add Italian seasoning) for an early dinner with an Orange Mousse (http://www.lastoutpost.com/ProteinPower/Orange%20Mousse.JPG) for dessert.

The Mousse is made with 2 Orange Jell-O's (0 Carb) 2.5 cups of water, some lime juice and SweetZfree or other sweetener, a tray of ice cubes. mix and let set. Add orange zest, 1 cup of heavy cream, whipped mix together and top with a few raspberries. It make 8 servings as shown.

Total: 920
Fat: 89
Carbs: 19 -7 = 12
Fiber: 7
Protein: 18
1.5 ECC and 115 cals//serving (already included in above numbers)