Hi Barb and Annie
I am up one pound this week. My son has an online baking bread class. This week was pumpkin bread and I ate a lot of it.
Barb I saw on your other post that your granddaughter was being bullied. That happened to my son in 2nd grade so I became a homeschool mom. We've been homeschooling with iLead Home Exploration program. They give funds for piano, art and other classes. He will be graduating highschool next month, he even started college 2 years early. He has High Functioning Autism. We did a lot of social skills classes.
My Vitamin D was low so I am on 3,000 IUs a day which is 3 gummies. My husband, daughter and son were tested low as well. We are all on supplements and get routine blood checks every 6 months to a year.
Vitamin D Deficiency is the cause of almost all illnesses and cancers.
I finally went to my TOPS meeting. I thought I gained 5 pounds but I only gained .6 !
Have you guys tried TOPS?
Annie I did the no coffee experiment too. I gained weight because I was eating more food for energy. Coffee suppresses my appetite too.
Good morning, it's been hot here and this morning it's already 85 degrees on the way to 95. I'm up .7 of a pound from last week, not good but I know why: we had a favorite dessert in the house, and I ate lots of it. (The surprise is that I didn't gain more.) I should be able to drop the dessert weight -- we went to the deli last night and bought a nice range of salads, the kind you can make a meal of like chopped broccoli salad with lemon, "Coastal kale," and a pickled beet salad. We're all fine to call that kind of thing dinner.
Glad you finally heard from the doc, Barb, but it doesn't sound like they jumped on anything and made changes. It does sound good that they will (finally) test your vitamin D level. What happens if it's low?
We had a Mother's Day brunch for my mom on Friday, since some family members couldn't be there on Sunday. I'm also going to drop by with flowers and a card for her today. It was the day after Mother's Day last year that she had a stroke. So much has happened since, including moving her and her husband into assisted care and then moving them again, selling their house after a lot of effort to get it salable, and getting her health into a stable state. The first place where they lived, she just got frailer and more ailing. By the time we got her to a different place and into hospice-level care, we thought we were looking at her having only weeks to live. But the new place, with its good food and better level of care due to her being hospice status, has helped her get a LOT better. Almost certainly rather than keeling over, she'll no longer qualify for hospice care in the next month or two, she's that much improved.
I did begin drinking coffee again, that experiment didn't do what I wanted it to do. Not that I missed it particularly, but being without caffeine didn't fix my other medical issue, and apparently there really is an appetite-suppressant action from coffee, at least for me. I was going slightly up in weight every day, and the only thing I could figure out is that I might possibly be eating more at each meal than usual. I'm not working out more or being more active than usual, so my appetite shouldn't have gone up, but by the evidence of the scale, it has. So, back on the caffeine, just limited to only one cup a day. I should be able to tell by the next weigh-in if eating the way I used to it is having an effect.
Hope everyone has a great week!