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i love the taste of strawberry slimfast! it's terrible stuff - so much simple sugars, it creates a HUGE spike in your blood sugar, which will then make a HUGE spike in insulin, which will set you on a glycemic roller coaster and cause you grief. that's probably the cause of the headaches. if you're going to do a meal…

no. would you ever sail a boat, alone, with no lifejacket and no real training (another guy set up the boat properly, it's your responsible to make it move).

so, i've managed to evaluate what i've been doing lately. my dietitian recommends not less than 1200, not more than 2100, calories per day. also 75 grams of protein per day. my MFP goal (right now, since i changed it) is 1440 calories per day and 90 grams of protein per day. i evaluated the past couple weeks. ON AVERAGE i…

have you read "thrive" by brendan brazier? i think that's his name. anyway, professional vegan athlete. my vegan cousin swears by him.

this. a few good farts and you'll "lose your belly".

few weeks. i guess that's not totally a big deal but i'd like to see a gradual (0.5 lbs at least) reduction every couple weeks, not regaining, which is happening at the moment for reasons unknown to me.

yes, whenever i'm cooking i ALWAYS ALWAYS use a scale if possible. like i said, not worried about sodium. that'll cause water fluctuations but not a steady pattern. also don't worry about weight gain if it's hormone related. i don't have PCOS (i have a single cyst on one ovary.. but it's a weird one and not pcos related)…

i easily drink 8-12 cups of water a day. i'm not at all worried about sodium because my body sheds sodium unusually quickly - i actually have to make sure i get ENOUGH sodium in summer. the butter example is just an example of how i think my husband really might be pulling numbers out of his *kitten* when he tells me what…

i've sort of had one - my sister is a personal trainer who lives on baffin island (far north) and i live smack in the middle of southern canada. so we don't meet in person often. she's been extremely helpful with a few trouble spots when we were at the gym together - i have gait issues - and when we're just in contact…

i'd go there in a heartbeat. i've been to several gyms in my time, and i've discovered i don't particularly care what the atmosphere is, i go there and work out. sure a few muscle bound jerks look at me funny, cause i'm morbidly obese, but i just do my wimpy little workout and then they either smile or ignore me and get…

how much weight is left for you to lose to get to a healthy BMI? i am going for the gastric sleeve sometime this year. i have changed my habits significantly but i'm totally stalled. i am still close to 100 lbs overweight. i chose the sleeve over the RNY because i wanted to leave my intestines intact, so my ability to…

winnipeg! no garmin. going to invest in a fitbit soon.

for those of you who already received it - did you order the black one or a different colour?

i had my last alcoholic beverage in november i think. i'm ordered off alcohol permanently (as per my dietitian) so yeah, going without should be pretty easy..i'm already doing it. that and no more soda. that was a little tougher.

this. there are 3 levels of corsetry: -costume corsets, to get the corset look without putting your body through stress. -mild waist training, which alters your shape while wearing the corset but if not worn your abdominal region returns to regular size (this is most common) -tightlacing, which will significantly alter…

i did once. the oh so fashionable copper hair didn't quite go with my natural colouring! i thought it was great for about a month.. then i wondered what the hell i was thinking!

5-7 lb fluctuation usually. i just ignore it and weigh in the following week instead.

i would weigh, measure, and track your intake very carefully so as not to over/underestimate your food. you don't have to eat back your activity allowance if you don't want to. some of us do have a slower metabolism, i'm someone who does, but for the most part the rules don't change. try to get a lot of nutritional bang…

yeah, i felt old when someone called me ma'am for the first time. i was over 30, what was i thinking? LOL. so out of touch. i remember another one. "shiny". meaning awesome, great, etc. said only in certain geeky circles.

oddly enough i'm the opposite! i'm a cascade pod girl - i use the mid-quality one, not the cheapest or the fanciest. i used to use finish and it usually cleaned the dishes fine but it left a terrible residue, you didn't want to drink out of the glasses after that. could be just the fact that i've got extremely hard water…

duck under your neighbor's desk instead.

how is that? i don't expect the surgery to do the work for me. i expect the surgery to take away hunger to an extent (which it will, because removing the fundus removes the major source of ghrelin) and makes it uncomfortable to eat too much (which, if you don't respect your limits as prescribed by your doctor, can result…

yup, put in all the calories. juicing has almost the same calories as the original food, and none of the fibre, so if you juice 2 oranges and an apple, you won't get much juice but you'll get 3 fruit's worth of calories. not saying there's anything wrong with juicing, just that yeah, for the size of the end product, it's…

how did you get so lucky? i so badly want one and they haven't published a release date.

LOL 100 lbs in 2 months isn't likely to be body fat. i lost more than 70 lbs in 2 weeks because of all the water i was holding on to. isn't it funny the way the post-pregnancy body works?

if it works for you, great! expect slow weight loss within a couple weeks, you're shedding water now. with all due respect to the poster above me, losing weight on chocolate and donuts isn't a particularly good idea. i haven't read dr.phil's book but i'm just going to assume he includes a lot of nutritious foods and…

yes, he is a doctor. he has a Ph.D in psychology. just like my friend has a PhD in english, he is Doctor Sinclair, PhD. both doctors, neither particularly qualified to write books on nutrition. but dr.phil is really entertaining. so is dr.oz. he's on my quack list right now.

i'm with you. there's a site called hillbillyhousewife and they had an "emergency menu" that was supposedly $45 when it was written. i went to my local cheapest grocer and priced it out at over $90. granted a little of that was inflation, but it just goes to show you, prices are really not anywhere near each other!

i'm so jealous! thanks for the review. do you know when it'll be released (or how i can get one asap)?

first, miralax is approved by doctors (my kid's pediatrician, 2 pediatricians i'm friends with, and an er doc i'm friends with) for long term use. you don't get addicted to it, you do take it long term too keep your bowel empty while it retrains itself to be properly responsive. DEFINITELY see your doctor about it, but in…