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I helped my boys make their gingerbread outhouse for a gingerbread house contest. I ate one jelly bean. One! Jelly beans were my candy of choise before going LCHF so this was big... and it didn't even taste very good. I have to admit I might have had a few more if it had.
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I don't think I've shared this here yet, as I've been absent a lot lately, but... my feet don't hurt anymore! I don't know what caused it or how it went away, but I'd had pins and needles and sharp shooting pain on my feet any time I stood up after sitting or lying down. It started during one of my pregnancies and didn't go away for over a year after my youngest was born. I literally hobbled around for the first few minutes after standing up almost every time. A couple months ago I realized it had gone away. No clue why, but I'm so grateful!16
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Most challenging RV trip to date...Manhattan KS to Philadelphia PA. 4 days on the road and still adhering to LCHF (albeit with a glass of wine or two at the end of a travel day). Everything has been frozen since Saturday, so I am using campground bathroom facilities, eating off of paper plates and today was the first day since Saturday that I have had a proper shower/leg shave. I am facing my most difficult leg tomorrow but it should be my last day on the road until after the new year. Wish me luck as I negotiate the PA Turnpike tomorrow in a MH with a toad. Thankfully...the next week is forecast to be above freezing so hopefully can get back to "normal" life in the RV.5
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I joined a karate class got my butt kicked on tje first class and went back for 2nd class and I can't wait till my third
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Most challenging RV trip to date...Manhattan KS to Philadelphia PA. 4 days on the road and still adhering to LCHF (albeit with a glass of wine or two at the end of a travel day). Everything has been frozen since Saturday, so I am using campground bathroom facilities, eating off of paper plates and today was the first day since Saturday that I have had a proper shower/leg shave. I am facing my most difficult leg tomorrow but it should be my last day on the road until after the new year. Wish me luck as I negotiate the PA Turnpike tomorrow in a MH with a toad. Thankfully...the next week is forecast to be above freezing so hopefully can get back to "normal" life in the RV.
So...I survived the PATP (barely...it was SCARY in a motorhome) and am settled in for the next 10 days...I actually put bright yellow "student driver" stickers on both my RV and my towed vehicle yesterday to encourage patience from other drivers. Unfortunately, now that things have thawed, I found that my water pump was damaged by the deep freeze. Hopefully, I can get repairs before I head back west on Jan 1...in the meantime, I use the park's restroom/showers/laundry and eat off of paper plates when I am not at my sister's place with family. I have tested the limits of both the RV and me and even though I have a few challenges ahead, I view this trip as a major success. You truly do not know what you are capable of until you try. I am capable of a lot (LCHF just one)!!5 -
@idocdlw , glad you made it through PA on that miserable road. I was raised north of PGH and had family in New Holland/Lancaster so had many trips back and forth with my parents or grandparents. I hated those tunnels! There were 7 of them years ago. Our favorite stop was always Breezewood. No matter the time of day, so much was opened even back in the 60's. And busy! I'm sure much has changed though in 50-55 years.
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Pictures count too, right? Someone may need to see what can be done! I'm amazed by what I see!
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Btw: the lady in my "before" (my grandmother who adopted my mother) pic showed me how to eat a sandwich with lettuce, instead of bread, when I was twelve years old. She never got to see the results of my low carb life, but I will never forget her attempt to help me then.6
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18 months down and holding steady between 165-168...but the big thing is that after two months of yoga I did a handstand and a full bridge! I'm 47...11
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@Karlottap Wow! You look amazing. Lovely. 1
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ambergem1969 wrote: »18 months down and holding steady between 165-168...but the big thing is that after two months of yoga I did a handstand and a full bridge! I'm 47...
That is something I have never been able to do. Balance is not my strong suit. That is impressive for anyone our age.0 -
@idocdlw I drove across Iowa on 12/25 EB and then back 12/26 WB. On 12/25, it was raining really heavily and a lot of drivers were going way too fast considering those conditions. Visibility was terrible in the spouts of heavy rain, so the drivers going 10-20 mph over the limit couldn't have possibly been prepared to react if something ahead of them were to happen.
On the way back, skies were clear, but Iowa drivers (yes, I'm one of those too) don't know how to manage speed within traffic. Everyone goes at their own pace and in their own lane without regard to anyone else. There is no such thing as traffic "flow" here.
I did see someone with a yellow "Student Driver" sticker with out-of-state plates and wondered if it was required in their home state. Here, those are only on actual vehicles used by official driving schools. When new drivers on learner's permits are driving with the appropriate licensed drivers, they don't have to label their vehicles.
I do road trips once or twice per year most years. Usually they are 7-10 days and range from 4K-8K miles round-trip. I've driven in 48 U.S. states. IMO, the state with the worst drivers is Michigan and the worst road to drive based on the road itself is hwy 160 over Wolf Creek Pass in Southern Colorado.1 -
Today we had a conference at work and I saw some people I hadn't seen in a while. One woman came up and said "You look amazing!! I can tell you've lost weight. I saw it the second I saw you."
YES!!! Still far from goal, but at least visible to others.15 -
My first NSV was a double whammy, a woman at work noticed that I'm looking slimmer (only 9kg /20 pounds down) & my towel closes when its wraped around me!14
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Its wonderful when others notice your hard work!! When the towel fits all the way around is a great inspiration! Congratulations to both of you!!0
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RowdysLady wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »I just recently finished up with my MBA...
Congrats! That's hard work and I know you are proud. Very nice!!
Well done @midwesterner85! I am a firm believer in education. It is something that no one can ever take from you. You should be quite proud of yourself.1 -
Although I have experienced a significant relapse on my program, I am noticing that I am sometimes able to turn to strategies other than eating to handle emotions. I don't always succeed at this point and even though i have experienced major setbacks since transitioning to maintenence I still find that I am aware enough to sometimes actually utilize a non food coping strategy. Not on a regular basis at all, but even sometimes is progress.
While I was successful at weightloss, maintenance is truly hard for me and my relapse is significant, but I always knew the real battle for me is in this stage. I'm trying to ramp up my determination factor a great deal more as I kind of dropped that ball in the euphoria of finally getting very thin.
Still, proud to be the owner of a few fledgling non food strategies. New Year's resolution is to build those strategies way up.
I relate to this so much! Weight loss is the easy part, in my opinion. The discipline of losing weight is easy for me. The reward is so tangible/great that I don't want to feel the disappointment of not losing pounds/inches.
Maintenance has proven to be my struggle as well. I do find it less difficult as I learn more about how my body works and how I feel now that I am more physical and I am seeing the fruits of my labor. I am proud to be the owner of my own "few fledgling non-food strategies".
I wish you all the best in this lifelong journey.2 -
My NSV today was arguing that you can eat too much fat with a lady in facebook land while trying to help someone that wasn't losing weight while drinking BPC and eating lots of added fat then having the creator of that page post a new blog supporting exactly what I was saying and doing so because of seeing so much talk about it on the FB page and sharing that very blog post with the fat obsessed lady and the discussion going completely silent...
Ahhhhhhh. That was nice.
I think I actually enjoyed it too much. I need to just keep my nose around here. You guys are the bomb!4 -
bump for the newbies (and everyone else) because it is important to see more than just the number on the scale0
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My tightest pair of pants feels a bit looser, and I think there is bit less fat is pooching over the top of the waist band. Not the biggest NSV, but its the little things that count!8
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I love hearing everyone's NSV! Great work everyone!
Kind of a weird NSV but I was talking with a friend about a local ski resort and saying how I might go snow tubing but I didn't have the balance to learn to ski at my age and she said surely I wasn't supposed to be skiing after brain surgery. She was right but the victory part was I had not even thought of it. My head rarely hurts anymore so for the first time in years protecting my brain was not even crossing my mind! The diet keeps my pain levels low enough that every once in awhile I forget I have RA and a brain issue!
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Energy is back! I do keto and when I'm off plan, I am the ultimate couch potato...when I'm in the keto zone I feel like a force of nature.
I love the feeling of having energy!!!!
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Bought new clothes in December, even though I told myself I didn't need them (and all my friends argue that I don't buy clothing enough, last time I bought anything was for my mom's wedding in August and before that...probably half a dozen years, at least). But everything I owned was literally hanging off my frame and some things, well...just fell right to the floor (so many pairs of pants on the ground!). I think sometimes it's good to get one or two new things because I decided even though I'm still a ways away from my next goal weight, it's good to look nice and feel nice.6
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Bought new clothes in December, even though I told myself I didn't need them (and all my friends argue that I don't buy clothing enough, last time I bought anything was for my mom's wedding in August and before that...probably half a dozen years, at least). But everything I owned was literally hanging off my frame and some things, well...just fell right to the floor (so many pairs of pants on the ground!). I think sometimes it's good to get one or two new things because I decided even though I'm still a ways away from my next goal weight, it's good to look nice and feel nice.
Reminds me of a song from a few years back....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoAMWnnz98w 2 -
I meant to link to that...and then someone called me and I forgot!1
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Back in October I went on a mission trip to Colombia and while there was talking to one of my pastors about this WOE. He had just finished doing whole 30 and I could tell he was a bit skeptical. However, one morning at breakfast, we were both sitting with one of the doctors who was there who was 100% on board not only with what I was doing but railing against how the medical community has not kept up with the science when it comes to nutrition.
The NSV is that pastor approached me to see if he could take me to lunch sometime next week so I could impart some of my "knowledge" about nutrition with him. He has seen me go from the guy who was hungry (or hangry) nearly 100% of the time to someone who sat with a group of people ravenously devouring dinner and not eating because I just wasn't hungry.
He has also seen that through this, my weight may not have changed or changed much, but my body composition has changed with BF% dropping pretty significantly. Results speak much louder than words from "experts" that clearly are not working.
I don't know that the establishment will embrace this in the next couple of decades, but it will have to do so if we keep growing it at the grass roots.11 -
Bought my first clothing in a size medium!!! Bought a pair of pajamas in medium. The top fits perfectly and the bottoms fit but are still a tad tight.13
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This evening my 6 year old had a nuclear meltdown in the parking lot of the restaurant we were about to eat in, and then another one at the table before we could order. My husband took him outside to talk him down and left me to order.I stayed on target (a Big Irish burger with no sauce or bun and Ceasar side salad with no croutons). As a stress/ emotional eater this is a HUGE NSV for me. A couple weeks ago I would have pigged down the carbiest dinner offering I could plus ordered cake or a milkshake.16
