Unfortunately my Mom has been in the hospital this week, she spent several days admitted due to a gallbladder flare combined with a diverticulitis flare. She needed some antibiotics and fluids but is home now and doing much better. She is seeing a specialist next week to see what they recommend.
What's the most sad about it is the food they were feeding her while she was in the hospital. She was on a liquid diet for a couple days, and they knew she was previously a Type 2 diabetic and needed to be careful with her sugar. Despite all that they literally just have her sugar filled items to drink. They gave her a small cup of broth with each meal but then everything else they gave her was full sugar sodas, apple juice, puddings, ice cream etc. It was crazy!! Even after requesting that she has things with no sugar they still gave her the same foods but just switched to a 0 sugar soda. 🤬🤬
The hospital called her to check yesterday after she was home and asked what her sugar levels were. When she told them it was normal blood sugar the nurse was shocked. She said "normally people have high blood sugar when they leave the hospital!" 🤦🏼♀️ Yeah because of what you feed them! 🤬 It's maddening. They just wanted to pump her full of sugar and then give her insulin to bring it back down again, when she was in the hospital they even told her she NEEDED the sugar drinks to keep her sugar from going too low.
This is the type of thing that just makes me so angry, and breaks my heart. No matter how much we change our own diets, it's still people who are in the most serious situations that are still being given these terrible diets!! Have you ever experienced this at a hospital or seen this with a loved one?
I don't typically love cooking with cast iron, despite the excellent results they can bring. It's messy and smells up the house. Add to that, the one we have is super old and not very good. We were recently gifted a really good one from Lancaster Cast Iron so today I decided to give it a try. We have a side burner on our Weber so I could do it outside. I sous vide a steak, then seared it in tallow on the new pan. Man it was incredible. What a difference it made from our old one. Super easy clean up too. Below is the pan, of course I forgot to take a picture of the steak haha.
Do you love using cast iron? What are some favorites you make in them?
Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.
Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Monday!! We ended up having a really busy weekend, ending with a very late night last night. My sleep has been so good the last week, but last night it ended up being a very short night. As much as I have been focusing on sleep, sometimes you need to just enjoy a late night out with your husband. 🥰
How are you doing this morning? Excited for another Monday? We have 2 full weeks left in October, let's make them count! What is your non-negotiable for this week? Come hang out this evening on the Livestream if you can!
Good Evening Y'all!! I did good today even with going to see a doctor and physical therapist today. I got told no exercise except walking slowly on treadmill with no incline until the achilles tendonitis heals up. The doctor wants me to wear a boot. The physical therapist is concerned about me falling in the boot, because my balance is already messed up due to the CP. So the boot makes me way more unstable on my feet. That being said here's my stats for today. Still no dairy except butter and no eggs. Tomorrow will be 20 days without those things. BLESSINGS!!
Good Morning Y'all!! I didn’t post this weekend because I had a Life Relaunch event and it's just focus on it until it's over. I ate real good considering there was all kinds of snacks and sweets. Which I contributed to the sweets because I made a couple cakes for the two day event. I did eat 3 lifesaver mints and 6 altoids this weekend. But other than that I stayed on track. Here's my stats for both days. I'm tracking but I'm also eating intuitively. BLESSINGS!!
