8/15/25 - Meals

Hope you enjoy the meal out. Sorry about the diagnosis...I wish I had known at the pre-diabetes stage, now I have a sucky pancreas. Hoping drinking more water helps things. I had some chicken, then pizza for meal 2 and then some tots when my husband and Eli had a burger for dinner...was too full from the pizza still to have a burger too.

If you have a kidneys problem stop eating protein bars, those are bad for the kidneys. I am sure that modifying your diet a bit would help your kidneys a lot.

I have closely followed someone with kidney issues It is good that you get a kidney profile done - it is just a blood test and then followi diet recommendations .

I hope you enjoy your restaurant visit. I like to go out for a meal at least once or twice a month. I have favourite places where I can guarantee a decent meal. I also give new places “a go” but I am often disappointed. Since the pandemic, hospitality has gone to the dogs. I don’t know what Terminix is, but I wouldn’t pay $60 a month for service I wasn’t happy with. I do pay an extortionate amount in council tax, but I have to pay that by law, unfortunately.

I hope that you totally enjoy your meal out together. Have you ever checked to see if you can get any of your favorite seafoods at the grocery store to prepare at home? I love breaded shrimp, and I buy it and we have it once a week. it does up quite nicely in the air fryer oven. Just a suggestion. Last night I split up a large sirloin steak and we had that and mushrooms and potatoes and a garden salad for supper.

Did you sign a contract with Terminex? If so, get it out and go over the fine print. If you terminate a contract, there may be a clause that you have to pay anyway. Increasing your water intake will help, but in all honesty one of the reasons your A1C is climbing and you are pre-diabetic is more than likely excessive carbs and sugars, not lack of water. Ditch the chips and the Little Debbie's...they are so, so processed and simply loaded with all things nasty for a body to process. Consider them a big treat if you can't give them up. Maybe once a week, but not every day. Maybe have a piece of fresh fruit for a snack instead of the muffins...while I agree the muffins are delicious, they are loaded up with sugars. Kidney tests are essential if you are pre-diabetic. You do NOT want kidney failure, EVER.

Increasing the water intake is essential, you’re right. I also hadn’t realized it’s been a year since you’ve been to a restaurant. That will be very nice for you. Especially since it’s Red Lobster! I had a helping of a really good casserole, and an orange. The casserole had steak, cheese, hash browns…it was so good!

I had lunch with my niece…at Chuy’s. Chicken taco salad for me. Dinner was a Boca burger and potatoes O’Brien and applesauce and a fiber bar and yogurt! Please go to the nephrologist. I’ve already lost two friends this year with kidney failure as a contributing factor.

I went to a nephrologist and have regretted it ever since. The doctor told me that since I wasn't experiencing any pain from eating lots of red meat, I really didn't need to take allopurinol but he prescribed it anyway... I really wish I hadn't started taking it. NOW, if I don't take allopurinol, I can start getting gout symptoms at times. I drink plenty of water but won't give up meat. If you don't have pain in your toes or the middle of your feet, just drink plenty of water and you should be fine. If you ever start taking allopurinol, you can't quit taking it. (Gout is arthritis from eating too much red meats. It's caused by uric acid building up in your blood and forming crystals that settle into the joints in your toes/feet and make toes and feet ache and hard to walk without pain.) Unless you've seen signs of termites, you should only call pest control if you start seeing signs of mice or roaches in/around your house. Those payments every month are a "guarantee" that whatever pest control you use will check for pest damage and they say you won't have to pay as much if they do find termites. It's just a way to trap you into paying them when you don't need them. (At our last house, I called pest control every time people moved into the other half of the duplex. Invariably, new people brought mice or roaches with them and the pests came to our side of the duplex. We never saw any signs of pests after one treatment...) I hope you and cousin #3 have a great time at Red Lobster on Tuesday. I don't remember what I ate except for the dinner I posted about here on myLot.

If you have a problem they should come. That's not right

I think many of us don't drink as much water as we should.

That'll be great. Hope you have a great meal and great time, as I am sure you will. My mom's twin sister came into town yesterday so last night the whole fam gathered up at my sister and brother-in-law's place and he cooked up hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill and there was a delicious homemade deviled eggs potato salad served up on the side. Good times and good eats!

Everything you ate sounds good except the stuffed cabbage and protein bar. As Courtney mentioned I had a burger and tots for dinner. I am sorry to hear you are pre-diabetic, not fun dealing with those kinds of health issues. Enjoy your outing though. P.S. Terminix is definitely ripping you off, I'd drop them like a hot potato.