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Join me! for Water Fast to start on 5 January
Hallo everybody I dont want to experience detox symptoms nor keto flu while on waterfast, since I indulged in the holiday season on caffeine, sugars and starches. So therefore Im restarting my intermittent fasting this week which I interrupted beginning december so I could enjoy my summer vacation. I am very experienced…
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Set Your Diet To Easy Mode With This Keto Cookbook
Hey Guys! I've just found this new keto cookbook, and i LOVE it! Every (370) recipes comes with macros and nutritional informations. Also, i never knew desserts can be this good. Take a look http://tastyketo.com/keto-cookbook/
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Low blood sugar - what's too low?
I had annual biometric screening at work today and was shocked by my blood sugar level. I knew it would be low and wanted it to be, but I was thinking in the low 3's would be awesome. I came in at 2.1. Shocking to me as I had previously been gestational diabetic and even after I had my daughter I played with the strips and…
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Water Fasting and Keto Recipe
If you are viewing this, it because you were interested in my water fasting program. As I said, I will give you some principles and you will have to decide whether you want to try this as an experiment to break your stall and/or "unintentional maintenance", or achieve faster weight loss. I outline this as a "recipe". As I…
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Just starting up again
Is anyone still active in this group? I was participating last year and seriously fell off the wagon. 60 lbs later, I am back. My only carbs are from a rice protein shake most mornings, less than 5g per serving. My fasting day is either Wednesday or Thursday. I just started back again this week and I had forgotten how…
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New here please help
I am very experienced with IF but would love your recipe and would love to learn your way of fasting. If this group is still active could you teach me? Please and thank you
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Fermented Food Research
I've spent a lot of time researching fermented foods, probiotics, prebiotics, gut flora, leaky gut, inflammation and its impact on diabetes, weight and health. It is a whole new world out there! The weirdest part of the whole thing about correcting your gut flora is that there are tons of people and research out there,…
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Probiotic Evaluation - Restora Rx
I developed a heat rash irritation/allergic response to tape resulting in a 5" square or so of irritated yeast rash this week. After visiting the doctor, she added Restora Rx as a sample to try for me. This is a probiotic with folic acid and lactobacillus casei (KE-99), 200 Billion CFU/g, and it looks like getting this…
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Carb count - should I include Fiber?
I have been reading a bit and following the Keto diet for a week now. I have tried to keep my carbs under 50 grams, and have not had a problem thus far. However I had read the other day that some subtract their fiber gram intake against their Carb gram intake, and am wondering if i should consider the same practice? Thanks
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How to Make Yogurt
I'm not an expert on this, but I did try it and it was the best yogurt I have ever eaten and so easy to do. Any deviation from my recipe below could cause different results. When I purchased the two items, it was after a lot of reading of dozens of reviews. Save yourself some time and purchase what I bought. Here is the…
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fasting and sleep
I got back to fasting on Tuesday after about a month off for Christmas which I failed epically by eating all round me: put on 14lbs so working at getting them back off by fasting 36 hours twice a week. It works great of course! My question to my knowledgeable MFP colleagues is: how do you counteract the hyper-alertness of…
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Post Your Results Here
Lets make this a group experiment. If you're brave enough to try my "program", please post your comments here. Let us know pertinent info, like how much you lost ~ or if you didn't lose any. Please include any deviation from the recipe. (I promise not to yell at you! :angry: ) And finally, IF you do lose, lets keep it fun.…
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How to Make Water Kefir
Water Kefir is a good tasting fruity carbonated beverage. The kefir grains are live cultures that grow and produce the carbon dioxide that gives the drink its sparkling taste. How to make water kefir: Buy water kefir grains. Put in large jar as per their instructions. I used brown sugar and molasses, as per the…
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Fasting and exercise
Does anyone exercise while fasting? Am contemplating doing day 1 of c25k again, it's brisk walking and 8 mins intermittent running, but I'm fasting today. Is it a really bad idea?
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Sunday's China Pics
OK, here's the pics from today, Sunday. I added some captions on the pics. Enjoy!
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Pics from China Trip #2
I don't want to post off-topic in the LCD & Keto group, but I can here! Some recent pics of my trip in china. I don't have time to comment, maybe later, or read my MFP wall.
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Fasting Methods
Hi, I thought I would let you know of some of the different Intermittent Fasting Methods that I have tried: Every Other Day diet by Dr Varady - Dr Varady is a respected researcher and author. Her method is to eat whatever you want one day and 500 calories on the alternative fast days. Her studies show that people usually…
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Let's Get Started, "The Recipe"
Ok, there are 20 people here now, so lets get started. I will write the full explanation and then summarize it at the end to a "post card" size. You know how long winded I am, but I have reasons for everything. If you don't know the underlying reason, you may wander or stray from the principle, and not achieve the same…
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Look at the Announcements Above
I made some announcements for the status of the Recipe and a post about the difference between IF and Water Fasting. Please read and comment if so desired... Thank you, Dan
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11 Myths About Fasting and Meal Frequency
I signed up to this guy named Kris Gunnars. He's promotes different regimes for different people. For example, paleo, LCHF/keto, Gluten free and I think low carb. He sent this out recently. 11 Myths About Fasting and Meal Frequency I am going to add some more like this when I get time. Enjoy, Dan
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We Need a Logo
Anybody got an idea for a logo image/pic for the group? How in the world would we make a logo that would embrace the two concepts? Dan
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Low Carb Pizza (Meatza)
I went to store and bought some ingredients to make a personal sized low carb Meatza. I wanted something simple, tasty and fast. DittoDan's Meatza Serving Size: 1 Ingredients: 1/4 cup Rao's Homemade Marinara Sauce 1 oz. Red Bell Peppers 1/2 cup (2 oz) Mozzarella Cheese 1/2 cup Jimmy Dean Fully Cooked Pork Sausage Crumbles…