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Good morning !! Well the pool is almost full! I am so excited, another rather sleepless night but on the upside, I don't find that I am any more tired during the day. Since this is unusual heat for where I live, no AC, only fans. I found myself sitting on the patio at 2AM looking at the almost full moon It was so peaceful and beautiful. I may try to figure out a slow setting on my camera and set a tripod up to try for a picture tonight Had a few dizzy spells yesterday not sure if it's the heat or what. Ate some blueberries and yogurt to up my blood sugars and carbs. Feel great this morning down another LB so we will see if it made a difference or if it was just the heat.
Hope to be having a few laps in the pool this afternoon, maybe it will tire me out more !! Have a wonderful day everyone !!

Any chance you've been sweating more than usual in the unusual heat? Pickles are our friends, if so!

We have some of your smoke from the forest fires in Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories @Kathie. It seems to be a bit better today. We first saw the haze 2 days ago on our way home from the beach, and had the advisory starting yesterday. The sun is having a hard time peeking through.

It's Canada Day tomorrow !!! I love Canada Day. I will likely walk to the park where they will have entertainment all day long on the outdoor stage. I wore my Team Canada Olympic T-shirt from the last winter Olympics today at work. Go Canada Go ! I couldn't fit into the shirt when I bought it, but it fits now ! If I can figure out how to get a picture I took with my phone into the computer, I'll try to post a picture.

@Janice. Actually had water bomber s loading every 9 mins at lake 10-15 miles away on Sun. Daughter is camping a ways north from us. Have to admit I'm a little worried. No cel service. Hopefully they have enough sense to get out if smoke is too bad.
No fireworks for us this year due to fire bans, but ball t'ment still on. Looking forward to a great day. Happy Canada Day everyone! (Say it now cause planning on being out all day tomorrow).

Hi everyone. Hope you are all well.
AT LAST!! Finally got some time to sit down and read everything and have the time to reply! Sorry if I'm long winded again.

@ May. Oh sweety so sorry to hear that you are being put through the wringer in so many ways! Is Coyotee's partner ok? You didnt say but I'm assuming they must be as you didnt say anything else. Glad to hear the in laws have bounced back again and everyone has given such good advice about dealing with parents/in laws etc that i cant really add anything! I have the advantage at the moment of having a huge distance between mum and I and it gives a false sense of security in that I actually want to go and see her then hubs reminds me that within an hour we will have said everything and the niggles will begin!! lol. Good to be reminded sometimes. I dont understand why your fil gave you the silent treatment??!! Surely he knows your situation but maybe he was just projecting?? If you are anything like me(LOLOL we know you are!) its the injustice of the situation and treatment that would really get to me. I cant stand injustice of any kind let alone directed at me!!! I think a lot of us with problem parents have to deal with the 'injustice' of their treatment towards us. Maybe we should start a support group..Problem Parents and injustice against kids!! lolol
NO RASPBERRIES OR STRAWBERRIES!! OMG! Thats sacrilage. I mean, we get everything here in Dubai, imported yes, but.....is it the OZ obsession with anything being imported that might introduce foreign bugs and disease?? As seen on Border Patrol (or something like that) about the customs etc at Oz airports!lol
Hopefully this week things have calmed down again and you are getting your sleep and nice routine back again.
I get the feeling you cant wait for your trip to the fairy tale cottage away from everything except 'the HUNK'. Not long to go now. Sooooo glad to see some movement on the scales for you again...please pass it on to me!!

@Karla, Janice and Ellen....soooo nice to see how positive you all are about gains and not losing and are concentrating on the health benefits you are seeing. You are all so amazing, maybe we should all write our journeys down and have them published! Be wonderful encouragement and support for others.

I have a question that I have been mulling over for those of you who have done ZC then had gains. While the ZC effect of losing is nice you have all added in carbs again and then had the gains. If this is changing from a diet into a lifestyle so it can be maintained is going ZC a wise thing to do as its obviously not sustainable and you would keep ending up in a cycle of lose on ZC, add in carbs and gain, struggle to lose agian. Personally I want to keep on keto but eating things I like within that so that dreadful feeling of deprivation that you get on other WOE doesnt crop up. Isnt there a danger of that going ZC???

I totally agree with Ellen....we must try and find a DR who is experienced on this woe but more importantly in weight loss in our age group! i have no idea where we would strat looking but maybe May's idea of asking Prof Tim Noakes is good and.....maybe we should all send in the same question...lol...will that get a response do you think on his podcast(what is a podcast??? )

@Deb(oxley) hi! another 58 year old. Whens your birthday? I used to be 5'9" but have shrunk(I claim under the weight,lol) to 5'8" If I weighed 152lbs I'd be ecstatic!!! I am about 202 and struggling to break through into the 100's. You must be skinny already!! Jealous!!

@ Faith....I agree with everyone else....ditch the carbs and go cold turkey! You sound like you are stuck on the 3 meal/2snack regime we have been fed for so long. Eat a very goof high fat and protein breakfast and you will find you dont even want a snack. You can use those calories for more satisfying main meals. I only eat twice a day main meal with the possibility of a snack available should i want it....or a low carb treat! It does get easier....we all promise!

@ Kathie....you are doing so well with all your prep. Can you please take some 'YOU' time. The last thing we want to hear is that you have had a Hashicrash the day after. Pace yourself and treat yourself with love or the crash may happen before!!! You are the link everyone is circulating around...look after it! Btw, love your suggestion of making goodies and sending them out.....dont think they would arrive in very good condition from here though,lol. If a letter takes 10+ to get anywhere what would raspberry cheesecake be like!! Eeeewwwww. Wish I could though!

@Cindy, I'm glad someon else mentioned about sweating etc. I was wondering if it was more likely your electrolyte balance than blood sugar. Take care all of you struggling in the heat. I know we have it here but at least we are equiped for it. Hows the poo? Are you enjoying it? We have a flat roof and hubby bought one of those pools with and external framwork and put it up there. Then we realised that even though the construction is concrete and rebar the weight of water in an 18ft pool thats 6 feet deep would be too juch so....i just gaze longingly at next doors pool which rarely gets used! What a waste!!


@ krazyforyou...lolol. I wish I fitted into a pint of ice cream! Glad your weight hasnt gone up from it anyway.

I expect by now you have realised that my darling husband has such faith in my ability to recreate anything in a low carb form ( I wish) that he thinks nothing is beyond me!11 hahahah. This week he asked for something with a flaky kind of pastry! I had to gently explain yet again that without gluten nothing becomes flaky....except me!! He is an ice cream lover and we used to eat it very frequently. I told him I had found recipes for low carn ice cream but that its just a lot of work with out and ice cream machine. His answer....we will buy one!!! Great except that in a country that never goes below 25C(77f) in the day and spends 6 months of the year at 40C+(104F) we cant find one!!! I cant believe it...none of the stores have one! Freezers full of ice creams in the supermarkets, gelato shops and Marble slab and frozen yoghurt stores everywhere but.....no ice cream machines! Mad!LOL. Needless to say he is very disappointed. Poor thing, heheh.

Take care all of you. Wish I could get online more but busy time here.

Oh, I forgot, I read yesterday that on thursday and friday this week 75,000 residents will leave for their summer break! They are warning everyone to get to the airports in good time. Then after another 2 weeks when Ramadan finishes the next lot will go and after that all the local citizens will go for their summer breaks! Not us!lol. We stay in the AC and go in winter to enjoy the frost and snow! Mad...maybe but the UK has 30C+ temps and no AC's! At least in winter you can dress up! At least the roads will be quieter!

I have a dumb question ! I was wondering about electrolytes also as @jane mentioned above. What does everyone drink to replenish them?? I have Mio sport but don't like the artificial sweeteners in them.

Oh Jane, I didn't recognize you, you look beautiful !

Hello dear ladies. I just finished reading the entire thread. It took me 3 days. I feel like I know all of you a little bit. I'm going to jump in into a couple of the questions that have been posed throughout the thread and with a little bit of introduction.

My name is Paula. I chose my username because my mother's name was Wilma. My nickname is always been Pebbles. The MDA part comes from the fact that I spent 4 years blogging on Mark's Daily Apple website and I wanted my friends there to be able to recognize me when they came here. 67 is my birth year. My birthday is August 25th. I my favorite food is probably steak or shrimp, or both together.

I am a wife and a mom of three sons. I am a high school Spanish and social studies teacher in New York State. My hobbies include geneology and local community musical theater. I am currently in the musical Carousel as an ensemble cast member and am playing the role of the "heavenly friend". This role is normally played by a man, but we do some strange things in the theater.

I am not quite 50. I'll be 48 this August but I do struggle. I think my struggles are a little bit different than yours. I am able to lose weight, the problem is keeping it off. I am in perimenopausal hormonal hell. I became primal/ paleo in the fall of 2010 and had great success but it is always been tempered by the fact that I have a binge eating disorder that flares periodically. Last June (2014)I hit an 80 pound loss and actually hit onederland for the first time in 20 plus years.

I immediately started to gain weight. I would have a few clean days then I would binge. I was able to keep it within a 20 pound range up until December 24th 2014. In the last 6 months I have gained 45 pounds. My binge eating disorder has many factors. Some of it is nutritional, some of it is habitual and some is emotional. I had studied binge eating extensively and have a lot of experience and knowledge to share with the group if anybody needs help in that arena.

I am currently doing a ketogenic experiment for the summer. I hope that very low carbohydrate eating will help cut my binges down. I am attempting to keep my carbohydrates under 20 grams most days but max 50 grams. I have experience doing low carb and ketogenic eating. Most of my primal weight loss was done under a hundred fifty grams of carb.I am following the clean food paleo guidelines. I am mostly dairy free, grain free, legume free, no processed foods, no sugar. I use stevia sometimes.

Here's the thing ladies. The reason that I want to join this group is for support.I have been obese since the age of 9. Both my parents were obese. In January 2010 I hit a high weight of 280 pounds. I found Paleolithic eating in the fall 2010. Unfortunately, the damage was already done. Just after I started eating primally, I had a health crisis. I nearly died from pulmonary emboli. Small blood clots traveled from my right leg in clusters through my heart into my lungs where they nearly stopped my breathing. The doctors at that time and my RN husband told me that I was lucky to have lived. My numbers and the cat scan of my lungs were the kind of things that they would see in an autopsy. I figure at this point I'm living on gifted time. I am an coumadin therapy for life to combat my clotting disorder.

About a year after my near death my mother died of ovarian cancer after a four year fight. She gained those four years through the supreme efforts of my husband and through working with me on a very low carb program. Due to the fact that my mother died of a female cancer my chances of getting a female cancer are greatly increased.

Even though I know the health cards are somewhat stacked against me, I still have been unable to permanently control my binge eating disorder or even stick to a healthy eating plan.
I am incredibly frustrated.

Thank you for reading. Sorry it is so long, but remember, I'm responding to 35 pages of posts. I even left some things out.lol

@Cindy, and anyone else with "keto flu"

I Ordered 1gram sodium chloride pills from Amazon. I take 1-2 a day to add to the salt I put on my food. This way I can avoid the msg etc. in most commercial bouillon. I do not always have time to make bone broth and it still needs to be salted. Table salt is only 60% sodium. The SC pills are just easier and pack a bigger salt punch. Most low carb experts say we need 3000-5000 mg of sodium while on this woe. I know, that level of sodium can be scary to think about. My personal experience is that the dizzyness, breathlessness and lethargy of keto flu is almost always tied to low sodium. I do, however, also supplement with 99 mg of Potassium and 400-800 mg of Magnesium citrate to keep a good electrolyte balance.

@jane and@pebbles, thank you both for your insights on this issue. I bought some lo-salt today which has a lot of potassium in it and will be seeing if that helps I didn't realize how much salt we needed on this woe !!