Thanks again for all the virtual hugs and comments about Tony. The way we look at it, is that it’s just another life adjustment – just like when I got diagnosed with diabetes, that wasn’t the end of my life, I just had to do things different than I was doing before and that’s how we’ll go forward.
I will always be the glass half full kind of person. I am actually looking forward to making low salt bread this weekend! Tony did a great job yesterday – I think he had about 1000 mg of sodium all day. He was going to add American cheese to his burger at lunch – um, not gonna happen. We get our American cheese from the deli, so it’s probably about twice as thick as processed Kraft cheese – that would be 800 mg of sodium per slice!
Tony bought me a giant container of strawberries from Sam’s club, and I’ve been trying to eat them up before they go bad. I haven’t had a breakfast parfait in a long time, and I had a plain Chobani in the fridge. I loves my Chobani, but the plain one is almost too tart for me. So I had the idea of mixing in one teaspoon of peanut butter to the yogurt before building my parfait – I have to say, this one is perfection – slightly sweet, but not overly sweet. The drizzle of caramel sauce was delicious. So delish and filling.
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Since I was gone the afternoon before, work was really busy. Before I knew it I looked up and it was 12:45. Dangit. I have to time my meals/insulin/working out and what normally works for me is working out between 12 and 1. I thought I might have lost my window, but when I checked my blood sugar it was 220 – perfect! Although dreary outside and overcast, I decided just to get my walking shoes on and walk 40 minutes around my office complex.
Ironically, I was listening to a song that really got my feet moving fast – have you heard this song before? Courtney, I am sure you have!
When I got back to work I ended up making more BBQ Chicken and Bean Tostadas for lunch – this time adding a bit more red cabbage to them. Um, so here’s the deal. While I was putting my parfait together I had regular blue corn tortillas in my bag. I wanted to see if I could put one in the toaster to make a crunchy tostada – because I thought the color when put together would have looked cool. So I put the corn tortilla in the toaster on the lowest setting, take my parfait back to my desk, when a few minutes later the smoke alarm goes off – dammit! I accidentally turned the toaster oven on the HIGHEST setting. Luckily the landlord of the building was able to call of the fire department – that would have been so embarrassing! Note to self: stay in the kitchen if you use the toaster!
That plate comes in at 532 calories, 29 protein, 60 carbs, 21 fat and 5 fiber. The squeeze of fresh lime over the top makes these!
I’ve had this polenta in the fridge for a while now. Tony wanted a salad with a side of pan fried polenta. Works for me! This is 4 servings – each serving is 310 mg of sodium.
I ended up pan frying Tony’s in a bit of olive oil, I did mine in Pam. We each had 4 thin slices. I topped Tony’s with a tablespoon of shredded Parmesan cheese for 75 more mg of sodium, and I added 3 slices of low sodium bacon to his chopped salad for another 210 – so not bad 595 grams of sodium for the whole meal, and up until dinner, he probably had about 500. There is even sodium in dried cereal – it’s everywhere!
Me? I defrosted 1/2 a cup of our Italian Sunday gravy that we made at Easter. It didn’t look like much, so I chopped up a cup of carrots, and chopped up a cup of baby spinach – amazing how far spinach wilts – it looked like so much when I added it to the pan! Then I topped each round of polenta with the meat sauce, and topped it with shredded Parmesan cheese – that whole plate comes in at 421 calories – nice! (shhh…don’t tell Tony but I added crushed red pepper to the gravy – makes it so much better with a bit of heat!)
After I cleaned the kitchen and started some laundry and let my dinner settle down, it was time for my date with Sean T. Last night was Rip’t Circuit – you needed a mat and hand weights – I used 3 pound weights.
My shoulders have been killing me lately. Super sore, I can’t seem to find a comfortable position to sleep in and have sometimes woken up in the middle of the night with shoulder pain. Lori thought it might be frozen shoulder, maybe from working out a lot, to not working out as much these last several months so that they are super stiff. I have to say that in just doing T-25 the last three days, my shoulder pain has reduced by at least 50%. And I slept through the night last night without waking up once! I think I am going to see if I have any shoulder exercises on the DVR from that Classical Stretch – all 13 episodes I DVR’d are still on there from 2010!
My aunt left me a message on Facebook – my Mom’s sister is 68 years old and kicked my butt in the steps department yesterday – way to go Aunt Martha!
Since my T-25 was more strength than cardio, I didn’t get as many steps as I thought I would, but I made my goal of 10,000:
Stats for the Day:
- 1530 calories (includes my coffee creamer and an ounce of nuts last night)
- 186 carbs, 78 protein, 55 fat and 17.2 fiber
- 40 minute walk at lunch
- 25 minute T-25
- average blood sugar – 132
I have a couple of errands to run for work this morning – locating a file at our storage unit and then doing a Sam’s Club run for the office – we only have THREE diet cokes left in the fridge and people will start freaking out if there aren’t more today! I used to drink diet Dr. Pepper all the time – now I maybe have a pop once or twice a month? Are you a Diet Coke or pop fan? Yes, it is Chicago, so I am saying POP not SODA. 
Make it a great day!
You and I are both Born shoe fans. I also found a pair of brown leather Born flip flops for $3.99 at Goodwill this winter. I told my hubby what a bargain they were, cuz these retail for $50. Those Born shoes last forever!
I’m a big water drinker. I have one cup of coffee a day except weekends and the remainder of the time water. If I’m sick, sore throat or something then I will have an occasional Coke. The amount of sodium in foods is off the charts. I guess they throw in extra for flavor and as a preservative. It is a shame cooking from scratch is so costly with high price of fresh fruits and veggies 🙁
Hey Biz!
That Trader Joe’s polenta is great if you slice it up and make it into mini pizzas, similar to what you made. For some reason I totally love it even though I’m not the hugest pizza fan.
Great job on the steps Biz!
No diet shit in my house for us! We don’t use diet products, only the real stuff. And it has to be Coca Cola. I don’t drink soda but R. does, 1 glas of Coca Cola every night. I only drink water, coffee, tea and wine 🙂
So glad to hear that you found out what was wrong with Tony and that it’s a do-able plan.
I actually don’t drink pop very often. Maybe once or twice a year? I’m more of a water or iced herbal tea drinker.
Everybody from Nebraska seems to call it “pop,” but for some strange reason I am the oddball who says “soda.” I have no idea where I picked that up. I enjoy a regular Coke or Dr. Pepper once or twice a week. Seeings as though I used to be thoroughly addicted to Diet Coke (I often drank nothing but DC and in extreme amounts), I can handle a couple of cans a week. There is also a micro-brewery around here that brews their own root beer – it’s amazing and I always buy a jug of it at our town festival each year.
Definitely diet Coke POP! And those tostadas look might fine. Plus it is always good to make sure everyone is awake! Keeps them on their toes!
I call it soda (even though I’m in IL). I only drink diet soda, and I’m trying to cut back because it’s all chemicals and can’t be that good for me. I never drink soda by itself, I prefer to drink water. I only drink soda with water or snacks. I like non-cola flavors such as Diet Dr. Pepper, and right now I have some Hansen’s Diet Black Cherry in the house. I’m okay with Diet Pepsi or Coke Zero when eating out – there usually isn’t much of a choice.
Good job on the exercise!!
A few things:
1. Thank you for sharing that song. I’m jamming to it in my office right now!
2. I used to drink Diet Dr Pepper once a day too. Now I have a POP once a month if that.
3. Yes, I said pop too.
I used to be a daily Diet Coke drinker. I stopped that at least 7 years ago when I eliminated the fake sugars. Now I have an occasional root beer if it’s worth it, but mostly water for me. I prefer to eat my calories, rather than drink them 🙂 From Milwaukee so I call it soda, but others in Wisco call it pop. Good job on the counting the sodium mgs. It’s so hard because it’s everywhere! There’s more sodium in a side portion of Panera baguette than in their bag of chips! UGH!
I LOVE diet coke but am only allowed to drink it while on vacation. That’s the rule I set for myself! 🙂
No, not a pop drinker here. (I’m from Chicago, people do look at me strangely when I say “POP”) I used to drink Dr Pepper was my fave.
We got off the “sugar” train a long time ago. When you look at the label on some pops there is 40+ grams of sugars in one can of pop…….4 grams = 1 sugar cube!!!! So that’s 10 sugar cubes per can of POP!!!! No wonder we’re a “fat nation” Maybe if we had not drank so much pop in our early years, I would not be diabetic and the husband would not be battling gout.
OOOOOH fire in the toaster-oven!!! I did that, while making tacos, I put the tortilla in the ovenette and was not watching them and they caught fire…..Smoke, fire…..pull the plug…scream!!! We closed the door of the toaster and the fire went out. JP put the toaster outside to cool down. Whew….close call!!! I thought I would have to get a new ovenette…..the tortillas were burnt to crisp, the ovenette cleaned up really well and I am still using it. Moral of the story, I watch my tortillas very carefully!!!
Yeah….have to watch all those hidden grams of sodium in our food….it’s everywhere and the sugars too!!!! Have a great day!!!
I grew up in south GA and called every brand a ‘coke’ so I guess it’s a southern thing. lol My Hubby is originally from IN and it’s pop to him. I’ve cut way back on my Diet Coke or Diet Dr. Pepper habit. Now that I’m back on WW it’s water, water, water and only a diet drink on the weekends. 😀
Looks like y’all got this sodium thing under control!! 😀
It’s Coke. Just Coke. all the Coke. Even if Diet Dr. Pepper, Diet Coke, Coke Zero – it is all Coke. HAhaha. Silly Southerners. I love hearing other people from up north say pop. =) UGH the shoulder thing sucks! I am having this too right now. Internet reading/research says I’ve got rotator cuff issues. Is that maybe what’s going on with yours too? Girl it is awful to wake up after sleeping ok all night and then you’ve got that shoulder pain. So sorry. I can’t make my arm go up or up and back. OUCH!
I do like an occasional diet soda – Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi (and it MUST be Pepsi) is my go to. The others I like are Diet Dr. Pepper and Fresca!
Check and see if your deli carries low sodium cheeses and have them slice it a bit thinner. Ours does and I hear people ordering them all the time. I will tell you from personal experience that low sodium cottage cheese SUCKS, so skip that lol!
I say soda, but I don’t drink it anymore – although my all-time favorite is an icy-cold root beer. I think I like sarsaparilla, too…but that could be the childhood memories of having it at a ghost town and not the actual drink, lol.
Oh and I regularly buy that 2-lb container of strawberries from Sam’s Club – love it, and I have no trouble getting it eaten before they go bad. 😉
Sounds like y’all are off to a great start on the sodium thing!!
So, in TX, we drink Coke – no matter what your drink is!! In college a guy gave me a hard time about saying Coke when I was actually having a Dr Pepper. I switched to soda and even though everyone in Kansas says pop, I still say soda. I used to have a Diet Coke every day but now I will go weeks without one!!
It sounds like you and Tony are doing a good job controlling the sodium intake. Yes, everything has sodium in it. Two years ago I had to stop drinking “dark pop” because I had renal failure – could drink the clear pop like 7 UP, Sprite, Sierra Mist. But found water was the best beverage. Diet Coke was my favorite. Keep up the good work. How long have you been a diabetic?
Hey Biz! Try the run keeper app next time you walk outside – it will keep track of your mileage (if you are not wearing your fitbit!)
I’m glad you’re able to keep things in check for Tony. It’s not easy tracking!
And I’m a Diet Coke fan 100%, ALWAYS and forever! 🙂
Great attitude about Tony’s situation! I hope he continues to improve. I’m diabetic also (med controlled) and you give me inspiration every day to get my rear in gear and get better control. Thanks so much for the motivation! You rock. 🙂
I’m a pop girl too and Diet Dr. Pepper is the best thing ever. LOVE it. I can also drink Diet Coke or Fresca, but Diet Pepsi? No thanks. Ick.