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how old is this. You need to update. The universities themselves need to update. The sugar myth is over, it's time for the scientists to catch up. Beware. I have a GP who in one sentence said fat is fine and in the next said eat lean chicken and remove the fat. She can't see the conflict but it's glaring. Offload the old…

there's only so far this site can go. Go find yourself a TDEE calculator online, and identify your maintenance calories. i'd recommend scooby fitness but he's retired. :( I am concerned that you have inputted data wrong, or else the calculations in this site are wrong. But your age will be a factor in the calculation, I…

your macros are wrong. If you're on keto your carbs should be your lowest macro and protein shouldn't be too far behind, as you cannot store protein and turn any excess into carbs thus increasing your carb intake. You can't go over on fat and still have carbs left. it's too hard... What macros have you set in your food…

I applaud you on the five minutes it took you to find this article and copy and paste it here. But I have to say it's horrifically wrong. Insulin resistance is caused by carbohydrate intolerance, full stop. It's 100% about the carbs. To say that it's not about the carbs, it's about the consequence of eating the carbs, is a…

I use natvia - granular stevia. It's good in my coffee and in desserts and does nothing to my guts. No strange aftertastes either.

best diets I've been on (losing 10kg or more) severe personal trauma - up to 12 kg in a week, easy The 'flatmate is in jail, get to smoke his giant bag of cabbage, & beef cup-a-soup circa 1990 - about 10kg The 'hot friend from auckland is coming to visit in a month' diet of circa 1992 - 2 squares chocolate, one orange, and…

Eat how you want to/need to eat, and your body will manage the rest. If you're eating less than you're using you'll lose weight. if you're using less than you're eating you'll gain weight. People finessing exactly when they eat I believe are finessing far too hard. Their body isn't magic. It can't disobey the laws of…

I get a lot of nausea and dizziness with the diabetes type 2 - if it's not normal for you I'd say get a covid test. And if it's not the covid, maybe eat a banana before working out? Could just be going low on sugar.

Carbs are bad if they make you insulin resistant. Insulin resistance is very bad. If your relationship with insulin is working, you have no reason to avoid carbs. Talk to your doctor if you would like more information.

Why are you trying to do this? My macros are 10:20:70 carb, protein & fat. :)

The best thing I did was get a freestyle libre glucometer. There will be other brands - but the point is you sort of bang it onto your arm, it sticks there for 2 weeks measuring your blood glucose. You use a little handheld - or your cellphone - to download up to 8 hrs of measurements, and can use it to plot graphs, see…

capsicum? tomatoes? Potatoes? That family? There are diets you can go on to find out what allergies/intolerances you might be having. Also: diet products? I find the diet Fanta sends me to the loo with raging diarrhoea, diet marshmallows give me gas... Some of those diet foods are really hard on the guts.

Go change your goals to maintenance, and see what your daily requirement for maintenance is. Then work out how fast you'll lose, or what you want to lose. 1lb fat is 3500 calories; people tend to split that into 7 to get 1lb loss per week, so that's 500 calorie deficit per day to lose 1lb per week. That may be too much…

Weight loss is an issue of physics: if you are consuming fewer calories than you are using you will lose fat. If you eat more calories and store them than you use, you will gain weight. People argue that it's easier to stay on a diet if you don't give yourself malnutrition - that may be so. Or that you should eat this or…

Oh dear, I feel your pain. In fact; I totally do. Every food item I use, I first take the actual packet to the computer and ensure the product is correctly entered. It's slow and painful but it gets quicker and quicker. You're at the OMFG who created this database phase; I remember that. :D one recipe at a time. :)

I buy 72% chocolate. It seems to solve the need, but isn't so thrilling that you eat the whole block. I started on 50% chocolate, that was gorgeous, so moved up to 62% chocolate. That took a little while to really like... then moved to 72% fruit & nut, or 72% mint - now I can take 72% chocolate plain. :smiley:

I couldn't find full fat sugar free fruit yoghurt. so I make my own with frozen blueberries, plain sugar free greek yogurt, and a 1/2 tsp of fake sugar. so good. It's my pudding and I look forward to it every day.

Healthy fats are natural fats that you would find around you 300 yrs ago. Unhealthy fats are manufactured oils, usually, eg rapeseed/ canola oil, 'salad' oil, soya oil, - stuff that comes out of a huge factory. Olive oil is just pressed from an olive. Coconut fat is just fat from a coconut. They are both safe. Margarine is…

Sweetheart. just settle. Everyone's a little high strung lately. We have to remember to be kind and let things go.

yes. And definitely, definitely farmed salmon. that's why they now tell you if fish you eat is farmed or wild caught. Basically, fish food for farmed fish contains a lot of soy, and the kind of protein chain created by the fish in his digestion is the kind of protein we as humans use as part of our immune response. So we…

No, but I have cut down from 6 tsp sugar to 1. Now I couldn't go back to 6. I don't know what I thought I was drinking. Start slow. Have 2 1/2 tablespoons per cup for a week. By the end of the week I defy you to notice. Then when you are totally normalised around 2 1/2 tbsp - move on to 2 tbsp. Sit there for a month. Or a…

Because you're on a diet, it's the dietary sugar you need to track (what you're eating) rather than 'added' sugar (where it's coming from). I mean, if you're over on sugar, you're over on sugar. Fructose from fruit is worse if anything, because it doesn't trigger insulin response, can't be read off your glucometer, and is…

If you are anaemic, a quick test is to pull down your lower eyelid and see if the flesh is pink-based or apricot-based. Theres a lot of clear-ish nothing colour anyway; but if what colour is there is apricot or orange, see the doctor, get a blood test. It should be pink, like the pink of healthy gums. Too much iron is very…

Gin lime & soda. Sugar free lime cordial I guess. Ick. Soda has no carbs anyway.

Paleo is cool right up until people want to eat raw chicken. At that point I suggest they cook it. Primitive man cooked meat because it made the nutrients more bioavailable. It vastly increased how much he/she got out of that meat. So I don't think you have to go full raw food to get paleo. Hunter-gatherer is probably good…

Luckily I don't know what this is; but from a low carb point of view, if it's sugar, find a sugar free version; and if it's fat from cream (ie natural fat, not some creepy test tube product), go hard and value that fat, and cut out something else. We need natural fat in our lives and giving it up is probably not good for…

Everyone with this Covid is having a really hard time of it, including the ppl who respond to your OP. :) We must be kind and overlook the multitudes who fail to see what we are saying, and just hone in on the ones that are. By the way: where I was coming from (I realise I didn't say) is that I had been on IF for a while,…

Hi there, I see only one post from the OP here, and very little information in it. Blood pressure is necessary to push blood around your body. If it's high, that is because there is something causing it to need to be high. Either you have lots of distance to push it (eg being really fat), or you have a lot of inflammation…

You're doing great. :D brilliant job. I think 10 more kg would be perfect. Or less - try 5 and see how you feel. As you get smaller, it takes smaller losses to make bigger changes. if you know what I mean. You're young so your skin will slowly shrink back down. Great to have done it while you still have a ton of collagen…

Hi Isabelle I had a little tanty and threw all my toys out of the cot, and went from low carb (30 - 50 a day) high fat to ALLLLL the carbs, toast, jam, cakes, a bag of licorice... you name it. I had all sorts of everything. I went on like this for a few days. I went up about 2kg in the first couple of days. I was angry…