Hi Ladies,

Yes the bananas are high in sugar. I'm suppose to have a small one and to eat them with a protein either an hour before i work out or after i work out. The LBS can go into type 2 diatibies so i'm doing just what the doc said hopefully it stays were it is!
Right now I'm doing good and the scale is starting to move downward. Very slowly but at least its going down. I have to eat so much each day that its so hard to find the things that are right for the LBS. I dont want anything that will trigger the LBS. So I stay away from processed sugar. I get mine from fresh fruits and veggies.
I thougth I would miss my decaf coffee but I've gotten past it now and dont miss it. I feel so much better without it. the slight amount of caffeine that is in decaf would trigger an episode of LBS.
Carbs argggg only the good ones for me,. so no white potatoes only sweet potatoes. I'm liking them more and more. I only have about one a week. No spagahetti unless its whole wheat nd it does not taste the same so i dont' bother.Its another life change for me but i' mnot complaining I'm feeling good and healthy. its been almost a year since it hit and taken this long to get to semi normal.
How ar you doing marilyn?

I have heard about folks talking about the bullet blender for shakes. The only thing
I would do is kill the milk in the shakes. it ads a lot more calories then we need & might
(at least for me) will kick that carb monster again.  You know that bananas are very
high in sugar as well, don't you. They do have a lot of potassium, but, the down side is
the sugar content in them. Being diabetic, I only eat them once in awhile. will shoot
my sugars out of whack in a hurry. Marilyn C (Bearlady)

Thanks Pammie for the all the info, I'm going to try the egg white omlette. I have never tried the Lara bar and I'm going to try them too.
I have tried a Philly swrill frozen bar that sugar and fat free and only has 14 calories , they are very good.
Since Monday I have felt so much better. I know it is because I'm not eating sugar . I don't know why I do that to myself. Eating sugar is sooooooooooooooooo bad for me. I've been a diabetic for over 25 years and I know what it does to me.  It's not like a diabetic can't have sugar, It's the carbs that we have to watch, but when I eat something with lots of sugar in it, like a donut or candy, I just go crazy, I just eat it till I'm sick. Last week end Charles bought half of a black walnut pound case at a fund raiser we were having in our community. It did not have iceing on it. Sat. we ate half of it and Sunday I went to Publix and bought cream cheese icing and put on it and we ate the rest of it!!  My husband is 6'4" and weighs about 240, and he does not have high blood pressure or diabetes. He will eat what ever I do that is healthy. But if I go crazy like I did last week end  , he'll help me eat everything in the house !!  So when I'm bad, I am killing him , too.
I hope you've had a great 4th of July.

I love your stories about your husband charles. He sounds like such a sweetheart!
I didn't call anyone bac****il late in the day. I wanted to do what I wanted to do and I didn't want to talk to anyone that might want me to do something else! How totally selfish!!!
but it felt great.
Cell phones are a wonder and can be such a help especailly in emergencies. the down side is that people know you usually have it with you and figure why isn't she answering the phone? well if it was a house phone and i wasn't home i wouldn't be able to answr it now would i? so just becvasue i have a phone with me doesn't mean that I'mnot busy and can not talk. I refuse to be one of those rude people who yak yak yak in line at grocery stores just because they feel they need or have to answer the cell each and every time it rings. Plus i do not want to hear about their personal lives and i sure as hell do not want to share mine! thats why we call it personal right?
Ayways I had a great day. I slept late, took my shower late. ate breakfast late. played on the computer and relaxed. then my daughter an i went to a local mall. I needed to get my youngest son a birthday gift. the baby is going to be 30 this week! we are tyring to plan a surprise party for him.
then i got home stopped at the market and played with my animal babies. I also went to the 645 pm movie to see transformers. it was very good. all during this time i have 5 phone calls. after i got out of the theatre i called the boyfriend back the rest of my friends i didn't think would want me to callthem after 10pm so i'll catch up with them today.
i did not feel guilty at all. there are times that i've contacted my friends and for some reason maybe they needed a alone time they didn't answer so can i!
ahhhh today is another relaxing day. tonight is fireworks i'm going with the boyfriend then tomnorrow is cleaning & laundry day!
this week at work will be crazy cause the next week I am off. i'm going to finally finish my upstairs bathroom, go to the beach and relax. i've also got a day put aside for my oldest son and his wife we are going to the mystic seaport and another day is put aside for my daughter. i'm sure by the end of the week i will be very ready to go back to work!

Next time you have a day offf, don't tell anybody!! Just stay in the house and don't come out!! I'm like a hermit, when I'm at home in the summer I stay up late, like till 2 of 3 A.M. then I sleep till 10 or 11, then I get up and Charles and I go some where.He goes to bed about 9 and gets up at 4:45 year round. He doesn't have chickens now , so he could sleep, but he'll still get up early and go to a little cafe in a town 4 miles away and eat breakfast with his buddies. When I work , he follows ,me to school and makes sure I get inside ( I'm the first one to get to school and I go in the back door and he's afraid something will get me!! ) then he goes ane eats with his buddies.
Your doing great with your diet!  Keep up the good work.  Judy