That's great! It sounds like you have a workable plan now.

Yep! The info..just so much to wade through.

It is really important to utilize the team approach and OH members are literally the wide receivers of my team. They know what is going on, and are totally on the ball.

I am about to do my fantasy draft this weekend, cant you tell?

That incident sounds scary; so glad you're OK.

Thanks for the great info; hope it all works out for you.

You might want to look back at your Hypoglycemia post as none of what the NUT said matches what the OH folks told you. They were saying stay away from carbs, eat dense protein and eat every 3 hours. Don't be disappointed if you gain weight following the NUT'S plan. You should most definitely be measuring and watching your calories.

As for exercise I would bet you cash money it had nothing to do with your weight gain. I haven't been able to exercise for two months since I twisted my left knee and I have lost 4lbs. It came down to me watching what and how much I ate. Heck I went to three cookouts over those two months and I just made sure I was aware of what I was sticking in my mouth.

If you continue to not monitor how much you eat and continue to eat carbs, fruits, starches instead of dense protein you will gain weight.

I agree. And the nut wants me to eat protein forward. Vegetable.. Starch is ONLY if there is room left. All snacks are to be proteins.

I tried the eating for 30 minutes rule that she had today...and I wanted to be done at 20 minutes. I was getting that "No" feeling. It isnt that I feel full I just feel "No. Sick of this. Don't want more"

Tomorrow I will measure how much I do eat over the 30 minute period and compare to what I did pre-gain.

Thank you, Lady G - I thought I was in the Twilight Zone there, for a minute...

I was thinking...They said WHAT?????

You need good fat. A lot of it.

I only eat starched when I need to gain weight and I only eat no more than 1/2 serving at a time, with meal. That has a lot of proteins and fat.

I hope you got BS meter. When I was trying to mange my BS levels and hypoglycemia - I poked myself up to 10-15 times a day. to find out my body response to different foods - or lack off, time elapsing after meal, etc etc.

you are a scientist - you should be able to figure out the variables and adjust the plan. it is trial and errors. what work for someone - may not work for you. I am very sensitive to potatoes. 1/2 tsp may cause a RH even if I eat that with fat and proteins. EVERY TIME. But - I can have rice or quinoa- 1/2 serving and be fine. my fiend -she jokingly says that just looking at rice makes her BS drops.

Good luck.

You are so right about the variability. Last night I woke up with night sweats, took my bs and it was 143! This is after eating dinner.

Breakfast was 2 hard boiled eggs with everything but the bagel seasoning. Took my pre-lunch BS and it was 105. I would have expected lower given that my breakfast is hard boiled eggs.

The only thing that I could think bumped it up was an herbal tea. I read the ingredients and it has apple and peach juice concentrate in the tea bag BUT when you read the nutritional panel it says 0 g carbs and 0g sugars. How can you have a juice concentrate but NO carbs in there. I wish they would be honest and put something like 0.25 g or something like that.

Well getting ready to stab myself again. In light of elevated BS, I chose to have hushwee salad (ground beef, onion, cinnamon, tomatoe, cucucmber, lettuce and tzaki) instead of the protein shake. I had 3 frozen peach sliced in it for some flavor. I will save it for dinner before tae bo.

What pre lunch number were you hoping for? IMHO, as a Diabetic, and multiple decade nurse, 105 is fine as a fasting BS, much less a pre lunch reading...

Obviously there is something I'm not understanding