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I've recently lost 13kg and I wish I had done it in my forties. In my forties, when I sucked my double chin up, it shrivelled to fit. Now I just have wrinkles that stay there. The skin is now too stretched and too lacking in elasticity. Now is the best time to lose weight. Right Now. There will never be a better time. You…

low carb cereal is an oxymoron. Cereal is 100% carb. That's what cereal is. I guess what I was foolshly perhaps trying to say, was that drop the whole thing and turn the attention elsewhere, because then when one goes back off low carb, one has changed the way one eats. If we just look around for chemical versions of what…

I have a darling boyfriend who brings me gifts. He is diabetic type 2, as am I. And I'm constantly weirded out by his search for low carb carbs. He could bring me a cheese. he could bring me 72% chocolate. But he brings low carb carbs. Carb free carbs. Sugar free sugar. It's really weirding me out. I find it far easier to…

I had a headache for a day or two. you're in iso so can just sleep it off with luck. Drink lots of other things. I really enjoy water with a squirt of straight lime juice in it nowadays.

Statins only lower healthy (light) LDL, because they increase the number of receptors in the liver to park the LDL up, thus reducing the amount in the blood. But they can't park broken LDL (the heavy, dangerous LDL) so that continues to rampage around the body. In short: either get the doc to review the two different LDL's…

Tell us all what you are doing, and maybe we can see gaps in your understanding. :) I'm having a bad week this week so I feel your pain. Tracking, tracking, weighing, tracking and weighing are key. And hanging in on there. Lots of that too. xx all the best.

It's gorgeous. Well done! I hope you got an A.

The packet said it was a cooked weight, so when people add foods to MFP they put in the cooked calorie count. I grew up using dry weights too; easier, and then cooking it - but I think a lot of rice and pasta products are coming to us cooked now, so the idea of weighing cooked pasta and rice is no longer odd.

I remember in high school being taught that whereas meats provide complete proteins, ie easy one stop shop proteins, beans and other vegetables can provide partial proteins that our bodies can fit together to make complete proteins. I don't know a lot more than that; I know what it's like on a financial budget, but I do…

Hi there, You can always change your goals to more realistically match your desired macros. I am diabetic, so have chosen low carb as a safe way for me to look after my blood sugar. So to do this I sat around working out percentages till the machine said a number of carbs under 50g a day; then I worked out how much protein…

I want to thank you for this thread, because I was having a massive sad, having lost only 2kg in 3 weeks of about 1000 - 1400 calories a day intake. I was wondering what the point was. But I am diabetic, and this diet is controlling my blood sugar, so I'm kind of stuck; also whereas when I have a tanty and eat everything I…

I just found out that's over 5 litres or 25 cups. Diabeetus. Diabeetus, diabeetus, diabeetus. She says, fondly. I sure can drink that much if I don't take my diabetes meds, and eat things like fruit or drink too much milk (I love milk). My suggestion is go to the doctor and get yourself tested for diabetes mellitis. If you…

https://www.verywellfit.com/the-starch-solution-diet-4771538 this thing looks fine for people who aren't insulin resistant, and are maybe vegetarians. ? I love complex carbohydrates. Can't eat them on a high fat low carb diet - sadly, but don't mean I don't love them.

Don't let anyone get you down. I'm glad you like this carb diet. I don't know what it is, nor do I understand it, but if you're 54kg then go you. I too will one day be 54 kg. :D Hopefully while I am still alive....

For me, cheese. half of a double cream camembert is only about 200 calories. If you make it a main ingredient in a salad, or put it on those skinny little water crackers, you can have a luxurious indulgence that keeps you from feeling hungry for absolutely hours. I'm rude enough to just eat it on its own. :D

I was going to say never but then I realised I often buy a cooked sausage at the local lunch bar. Which is an absolute treat.

Yes I have type 2 diabetes and it's quite difficult, but nothing like as bad as type 1, which my nephew was diagnosed with at about 1 1/2. He has a machine in his back that reads his blood sugars, tells the mothership (daddy's cellphone) if he's going high or going low with an alarm, and then daddy can tell the machine to…

My experience is that white bread is like sugar, so it gets used up fast and I get a sugar low. But Vogels bread not so. I keep a loaf in the freezer and whenever I really can't get by without something, I grab a couple of slices, and have vogels toast with butter and peanut butter. The fat slows the carb absorption down,…

I can tell you how I quit, but I can't tell you what will work for you: After 20 yrs of failed attempts of all manner of kinds I made a bargain with myself. I did a deal. I said to myself: "I am going to only smoke herbal (ie nicotine free) cigarettes, I will have as many as I like. I will not quit smoking. I will quit…

Thanks so much Xellercin - this really speaks to me as an explanation. It puts the picture the other way up a bit, doesn't it. makes incredible sense. :)

I have a thing in my arm taking readings of blood sugar every 3 minutes, making line graphs, bar graphs, averages, you name it. I daren't cheat. The machine is watching.

Thanks, I think. I wasn't really attempting a philosophical discussion - more of a physiological one. I've struggled with hunger all my life, never been able to sustain a diet properly for more than a month before due to losing control. nvm.

:) go you! you're amazing! If I were to try to draw a graph of your bioactivity I'd have maybe 3 or 4 lines going across it, impacting on your total 'weight'. 1. Water. Exercise makes you keep water. So does auntie flo which has its own up and down cycle, and if you have recently increased your exercise, your muscles will…

This is a bit scary. It's an amphetamine-like substance to be taken only for a few weeks at a time before it loses its beneficial effects. You might find it's only having a placebo effect now, ie an emotional crutch (I don't mean that in an unkind way) and that when you go off it, you experience no change? How does your…

You will have very high maintenance calories because you're 6'4", and weigh 280lb. I just put that into an online calorie calculator and maintenance would be around 5000 calories a day for you with the extreme exercise you do. So if you wanted to lose, you'd still be able to eat 4000 calories a day. To me that's incredible…

Holy socks down teh jockstrap, batman! you're doing it! So am I, too! how amazing.

totally agree. So does water, for me. Or rather, it doesn't solve hunger... slightly different thought. If I'm hungry it will make the hunger worse. If you're hungry, check you're not eating empty calories maybe, and have more nutritionally dense foods. Some people say eat more protein, others eat more fibre. I say eat…

If you have had bariatric surgery, then depending on the surgery you got, you really need specialist advice on how to eat safely. I say that because the full bypass cuts off a foot or something of your small intestine and there will be things you cannot take out of the food you eat. I hear that stapling is less intrusive…

When you say you eat 75% of your recommended daily allowance, you mean recommended maintenance daily allowance, or the diet allowance the software gives you after you tell it how much weight you want to lose? Go through the process of setting your goals, so that you know a real number to aim for, and then eat it all. :) I…

I also have spent my life struggling with hunger, as in miserable, constant hunger. In recent times I have discovered high fat, low carb. Not high fat as in eat all the fat - but high fat as in within your calorie count, choose full fat foods. Eat things how nature put them together. So no, not margarine or canola oil or…