kterri58 wrote: »

Hi everyone,
I started reading about this life style back in Nov 2014. I just turned 57 Saturday ,and have been doing LoCarb since Christmas 2014. I started out at 195 lbs and I'm at 179 lbs now. It has really slowed down. My husband & I have a small business & have worked together for the last 30+ years. He is very supportive and also tries to eat healthy & exercise. This weekend was tough as the weather changed. (-30° outside, burrr!) I have done well, have cut out all added sugar, flour from grains & been tracking on MyFitnessPal. My macros are set at C-10%, P-15% & F-75%. I am taking supplements: 400-500 mg Magnesium, Calcium-Magnesium & Potassium supplement, D3-5000, Omega-3 500mg, Turmeric, Psyllium Husk 500mg, Glucomannan 600 mg & also "Young Phorever" pH salts. I take a tbsp of coconut butter (home made) every morning. Constipation is not a problem any more. I was irregular the first month, but I seem to have adjusted. I'm not hungry & feel satisfied. I have no health issues except a horse riding accident 18 months ago (shattered tibula) My blood pressure is good (104/72 in am) I have been drinking lemon/lime water. Thought it would help to increase my water intake. Any ideas to get the scale moving again. I haven't gained any weight back. Do you think I am being too impatient.
TK
Oh, and I don't know if I'm doing this community thing correctly. I'm new at that also.

Sounds like you're doing fine! Welcome.
For me, I had to start paying attention to calories. Was just not losing after 6 weeks of careful adherence. Just back from a long family trip and scale looks to be edging down slightly after 2 weeks of limiting the calories. Make sure you are weighing and measuring food carefully; small variations can add up over a day if you are "eyeballing". Watch out for MFP user entered nutrition info-check the labels yourself (use barcode scanner if possible); there is A LOT of wrong info in the database.

Happy Dance...the scale is def moving downward after my 2 weeks of limiting calories within a LCHF framework. Down the last 3 mornings, average 1 pound loss over the last 10 days.

shadesofidaho wrote: »

@granny. Never Hate here. It is all information we need to consider. I will watch in a bit..

@sbom1 Way to go!! Honestly when I did this WOE for about 10 years people never even noticed I was not eating exactly as they were. It can be done even away from our own kitchens. Some times people give me a look when I eat the meat only out of a hamburger then slather a pile of mayo on it. LOL

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shadesofidaho wrote: »

OH I am 5'5" starting weight was 230 in August. I lost 14 pounds doing CICO then gained back 6. Gave up until November 28 at 222. Doctor appointment Dec 3 weight was 220 after only a few days on LCHF. Now not recorded 206.8 this AM.

Way to go!!

@pcfriend. Unfortunately with all my bouncing around the 206.8 bounced back to 210 and now back down to 209.4. this is why I stopped fighting adding all the fat to make my Flexible come within 2. In the last four days since I went back to just Atkins and not trying to mix Keto WOE with Atkins I am doing better. I am not having the HUGE weight fluctuation. Yesterday my weight was 209.6 and the day before 209.8. So it is slowly going down and not bouncing up. I hope this trend continues I am going to stick with the old version of Atkins.I also noticed he mentions many times to count NET carbs. I am sticking with a carb is a carb .

I think I am solving the constipation by taking the fiber in the morning I actually forgot about taking it yesterday. It adds 4 carbs to my day so I have to remember to allow for that. But I do not have that much trouble staying under the 20 carbs even with the fiber. There is a sugar free version I just have not found it in the store yet. My biggest carb allotment is in vegetables.

The only thing I am really craving now is crunch. So I am adding the pork skins. Actually pork skins along with scrambled eggs changes the blah taste of eggs.

Just listened to the podcast and I never did stop my dairy. I do not have osteoporosis. I did have it checked a couple years ago and at my weight just walking around is weight bearing exercise that is supposed to help keep your bones strong. Scary about the inflamation because the psoriasis flair I was dealing with was ALL inflammation and to think this last flair lasted over three years. My poor heart.

I did start taking a little bit of calcium because it is with the magnesium I started taking again to see if it would help the constipation. It did not work for me. but now the fiber has so I am good on that. I will continue to take the cal-mag at night. I need to keep it at least 4 hours from my thyroid and the only way I can remember it morning and night pills. Nothing in between because I will always forget.

I always new it was easyier for most men to lose their excess weight than women. Sigh.

I do take some vitamins and make sure they are at least 4 hours apart from my thyroid. I have hubby wake me just enough to eat my thyroid pill as soon as he gets up. He gets up at 6 I get up at 8. I usually get the main vitamins (Prenatal, Biotin 5000, vit D 3000) down by 10. I also take Hawthorn and Shitake mushroom. If I do not get my vitamins down before noon I can not sleep that night so if I miss them before that I skip them as sleeping is more important to me than missing one day of vitamins. But a few times I have missed a few days in a row and I do start to feel it.

Again no more weight loss this AM but no more gain either and I take this as a good sign. At least I am not having to lose the same 2 or 3 pounds over and over to get lower.

pcfrend wrote: »

Just my thoughts for the day.


So I will continue to eat LC - less than 30 (not net 30 - real 30) and stay close to 1200 - 1300 calories. I probably shouldn't say that too loud but I can't be help think that caloric intake does matter. I know that many would disagree and some day I may be the same.

You're safe to say it here but watch out for posting on some threads even here on the safe LCHF/Keto boards. There are a few who are firmly entrenched in the calories don't matter based on their own experience.

Hello all, I just found this group on MFP and thought I would fit well in here since I am 56 years young and have been LC (basically) since 2003. I'm 5'4" and currently 167 lbs., with a goal weight of 130. Back in '03, like many posts I've read the weight came off effortlessly eating LC. In the past 3 months, I've been experimenting with LCHF/Keto but haven't found that it is helping to take the weight off any quicker. For me, I've decided it's age because I'm not doing anything else differently since I took that 45lbs off back in '03. I had managed to keep the 45 lbs. off for five years, then I gained some, lost some, yo-yo, etc. With how hard it is to get this off this time my hope is that I will never be in this situation again once I get it off.

I did just try something starting yesterday that I'll share because it got me off my stall. I had an all liquid protein shake day and this morning was down 3 lbs. Now maybe this will come right back on, I don't know since I just did this yesterday. Today I'm doing two meal replacements with protein drink (30g protein, 1carb per serving) and will have a LCHF dinner tonight. I'll see what tomorrow brings.

I saw some posts about high BP. I too had this issue at times. I found that supplementing with potassium and magnesium brought my BP down within a couple days. In fact I had to have a life insurance exam last year and my BP was up around 155/92. Within a week of eating LC and taking potassium/magnesium and garlic supplements it was down to 127/70. This may not work for everyone but thought I'd share what worked for me.

I apologize if I've repeated some info on high BP, etc., I tried to read all the posts to catch up but may have missed some things. I'm looking forward to learning new ideas of how to keep the scale moving downwards :-).