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The Crossroads

31 Thursday Oct 2019

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Diabetic

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Diabetes, diet, Dieting, Exercise, Food, Grazing, Guilt, Gym, Weight loss

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Decisions, decisions.  This weather we are having doesn’t seem to know where to go.  This morning we woke to 70-degree weather, now as I’m writing this it’s close to 40 degrees and dropping.  It will be a miracle if I don’t end up sick or worse, in the hospital.

Although it rained all day, I got to spend some time with one of my daughters. The other daughter decided she wanted to go to Chicago with her boyfriend.  Their flight kept getting delayed because of the weather in Chicago.  I think their trip had a five-hour delay in getting started because of it.

I was able to take my other daughter out to lunch and we got to spend some good quality time with each other. Time flies.  She and her sister are seniors this year in college. It’s hard to believe.  It seems just like yesterday we were taking them down there. They have both grown up to be responsible adults.

Being that the weather was bad and my daughter was home, I didn’t go to the gym as planned.  My daughter will be here until Sunday and I have somewhere to be both Friday afternoon and Saturday so it may be Monday before I get to back to the gym.

I am sticking to my diet but my problem is that I still have a snacking issue.  Late at night, I get hungry and I head to the kitchen.  Now, instead of eating a bag of chips or ice cream, I’ll fix me some cheese slices with a little bit of mayo on them.  It’s not really filling but it satisfies my grazing needs. But, I feel guilty for doing it.  I shouldn’t eat that late at night.

The good thing about all this dieting is that my blood sugar has dropped somewhat. It’s still got a long way to go but at least it’s going down.

 

Today’s Thoughts 3/22/2018

22 Thursday Mar 2018

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Cancer, Leukemia, Photography, Weight Loss

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A1c, Cancer, Diabetes, diet, Food, Meds, Sugar, Weightloss

My new CML meds have not arrived as promised.  They were supposed to have arrived on Tuesday but alas, not here yet.  My oncologist called this morning to see if I had started taken them yet.  He was not happy that they had not arrived.  He said that he was going to find out where my meds are at and let me know.

I’ve attempted to start dieting again.  It’s been a tough couple of days.  I’m doing the low carb diet.  I lost 60 lbs on it last time I was on it and I’ve still got that and many more to go.  I’m trying to limit my carbs to 35 a day.  Today and yesterday I have gone way over.  Today was better than yesterday and I’m hoping that tomorrow will be even better.  I want to get down to 255 by August 15th and I’m 276 now.  I don’t think I”ll have a problem reaching it if I can gain the willpower to stick with it.  In 2009, I weighed the most I’ve ever weighed. At 346, I came to the realization that I had to do something.  Especially since my doctor told me that I wouldn’t see my kids graduate college if I didn’t do something.

The other reason I’m on the low carb diet is that of my sugar.  My body can’t handle carbs.  I can drink a cup of milk and my sugar will jump from 159 to over 250.  I did well all day today until I got home.  I checked my sugar around 5:30pm and it was 185.  I had a cup of milk, exactly 1 cup, not a glass full, and when I checked it just now, 10:35pm, it was 325.  The last time I did the low carb diet I pretty much did away with carbs altogether.  I went from a 9.6 A1c to 6.7 A1c in six months.  Now that I’ve gotten off my diet, my sugar has gone out of control.

Tomorrow is another day!!

Another Visit Part 2

14 Sunday Aug 2016

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Cancer, Photography, Weight Loss

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Cooking, Cycling, Eating Healthy, Exercising, Food, Heart Healthy Meals, Hearth Cath, Weightloss

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I got to thinking on the way home from the hospital about just how serious this past visit to the hospital was.  It was just happenstance that they found the blockage and even more so the fluid in my lungs.  I was thinking just how bad I have felt the last few months and that it was the sole reason for me not exercising.  Now that I had all this stuff done I should feel well enough to start walking more and hopefully get on my bicycle soon.

Now comes the hard part.  Wife and I had a discussion about food choices and eating better.  The wife does most of the cooking in the house and she is a working girl too.  She comes home and feels like she’s got to cook something so it usually ends up with hamburger helper or chicken fingers.  Looks like I’ll be searching for heart healthy meals for us to get acquainted with.

All these changes won’t come overnight.  My wife and I have got to start eating better and exercising more if we want to live long enough to see our kids grow up and have families of their own.

 

 

Good Food

30 Saturday Jul 2016

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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Alabama, College, Food, Girls, Grill, Steaks, Supper, Twins, Weekend

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No matter how poorly I’ve felt the last few days I made myself go to the butcher shop and purchase some nice steaks and grill them for supper tonight.  I wouldn’t have done it for no other reason than for my girls last weekend before leaving for college later on this week.  I’m really going to miss them.

365 Day Photo Challenge 333/365 “Day 28”

28 Saturday Nov 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, diet, Food, Leftovers, neuropathy, Weight loss

After spending over an hour on my treadmill today I got another four miles in.  My right foot is not doing so good right now.  Looks like I’ll be doubling up on my neuropathy meds tonight to try and head the pain off for tomorrow.

I’m back on the diet today as well.  Actually, I did really well today with all the leftovers in the house.  Maybe I can concentrate on losing more weight without any holidays or birthday gatherings between now and Christmas.

365 Day Photo Challenge 332/365 “Day 27”

28 Saturday Nov 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, diet, Food, Overeating

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Happy the day after Thanksgiving.  I decided yesterday that with all this food around me that there was no way I was going to be able to resist and stay on my diet.  I was correct.  On both days I had every intentions to watch what I ate but it didn’t take long to realize that I was in trouble.  I should’ve known better than to diet around the holidays.  Anyway, there’s always tomorrow.

365 Day Photo Challenge 284/365 “Great Friends-Great Food”

10 Saturday Oct 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, Cookout, Desserts, Dutch Oven, Food, Out Door Cooking

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Three main dishes, two desserts and home made biscuits made for a long afternoon but it was worth every minute of it.  We had a great turn out with a lot of fun and fellowship.

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The main dishes included coca-cola chicken, easy bake pork chops and easy cheesy meat & potatoes.  The desserts were apple spice cobbler and regular apple cobbler.  If any of these recipes sound good to you and if you’d like to try them out give me a shout and I’ll send them to you.

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I’m exhausted so I’m calling it a night.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge Day Twelve “Corn Bread”

12 Monday Jan 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Uncategorized

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365 Photo Challenge, Appointment, Corn Bread, Doctor, Food, Photography, Skillet

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Can you tell that I’m board?  Now I’m down to taking pictures of my food.  I made some corn bread for dinner last night and I’ve always having trouble getting the corn bread out of the skillet whole.  Looks like I did a pretty good job of it last night.  It’s all gone now.

I get to get out tomorrow to go to the eye doctor so it looks like I’ll be going back to work on Wednesday.  I’ve really enjoyed being off and I’m really looking forward to retiring from my current employer even more.  Just three years and six months to go.

I promise that tomorrow’s picture will be something other than food or my cats.

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