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egg on toast? Sardines on toast, cheese on toast... (spot the theme) omelet? Oats are so good for you, but maybe go half and half with milk if you're not intolerant. It's not that they're 'so high in carbs' it's more that all they are is carbs. There's nothing else there. Have them if you like them, but then also something…

The thing about stew, if we haul ourselves back in time, is that people put in: 1. what they had around the place 2. what they liked. That's all you need to do. Make your own thing, with the foods you like. A standard beef stew would involve onions, but your onion powder would be fine. If you don't like lots of carb in…

I am in theory not supposed to be on breakfasts as I'm supposed to be eating between about 2pm and 8 pm.. but life is for living, and it's just not meant to be that intense, so sometimes I'll have a couple of cheese wedges. I often turn to cheese in a crisis! Or I might have a tin of tuna or sardines. Or half a packet of…

You may need to switch your babybel from lite to full fat, any milk products should be full fat, bacon has fat and pretty much no carbs, remember that avocado, with 13g carb, has 10g fibre (indigestable) so that's only 3 g carbs in reality. Good quality sausages have no carbs but have fat. I think people turn to bacon…

Last weekend I clipped my toenails standing on the back porch. Just... bent down and there I was! right up against them! No contortions, no gymnastics. No lifting of leg on one side onto chair. Just... swoop! clip! Done! oyezzzz

Just to pop this in there just in case, but as we age we run the risk of becoming more and more insulin resistant. If one doesn't operate optimally, which many do of course, then one's on a pathway from normal through prediabetic through to diabetes. This is why keto is so popular with older people - it's popular with…

Sardines. I have rediscovered them after my daughter brought some home. The ones in fresh water are moister; the ones in soya oil, apart from the ick of the soya oil, are drier somehow. Very good source of Omega 3.

If you eat at a deficit to what you need, you have to lose fat. But that isn't always the same as losing weight. You might fluctuate 5 lb of water during the menstrual cycle, you might fluctuate 5 lb after a heavy workout (muscles retaining water to help heal). Our water ups and downs can mask our fat ups and downs. Trust…

Technically the difference between teh two statements is simple: a calorie is a unit of energy. Fat is a type of energy. So yes, you burn calories. Where you are getting the calories from is either fat (small stores in the cells, topped up from adipose) or glucose (small stores in the cells, topped up via insulin process)…

Has this exercise plan happened recently? I can gain 3 kg just from upsetting my muscles, every autumn I'd go out on the orchard and work 8 hr days climbing ladders, pruning, thinning, dealing with irrigation. I'd stay the same weight despite very high activity levels. At the end of the winter season when I stopped the…

I think exercise is good, but for weight loss it's overrated; the main calorie spend a day is on your metabolism, it's depressing how few calories you actually use on exercise, and as you get thinner and smaller and more efficient, that just shrinks more and more. I have 3 suggestions. 1. have you re-evaluated your calorie…

I'm not able to comply, being 5'5" but - age plays a part. Young people need more calories than old. so are you able to change your survey to allow people to state their age? Cheers, bridget.

I am philosophically inclined to think that after 100,000 yrs of evolution, if our body is making us do something - there's a reason. We don't always know the reason, but there will be one. So... bingeing. on what? On carbs/sugars? That can be a rollercoaster of scoff to raise energy, have insulin steal it all away, scoff…

God save us, they're feeding you pills for sciatica. Sciatica happens when your vertebrae get knocked out of alignment, often by exercise, and a nerve in the spine is pinched. There's more than one nerve that can be pinched, and a chiropractor will ask you where the sciatica ends before shoving your spine back into place.…

The question is entertaining: kind of like the fat kid stuck in the cave entrance and the tide is rising, you can't get him out but you do have some dynamite. Do you blow him up and save everyone else, or do you all drown? :D bit brutal... but one of those philosophy 104 questions we all got asked. I think there are a lot…

Point taken, but - I often eat 1000 calories a day (high fat, just don't get that hungry). MFP has its obligations to follow the received wisdom but possibly if someone's got cancer, which is often linked to overweight, then losing weight may be a higher priority and short term potential to lose nutrients may be something…

I'm eating mostly between the hrs of 2pm and 6pm, with the odd tin of sardines/tuna outside those hours, and i'm noticing huge improvement in my general state of wellbeing, and so far have lost about 13 kg. I lost the first 10kg very quickly - I thought maybe glycogen and water? and have slowed my descent enormously,…

I'm on 1310 and it's over the minimum 1200 so it won't do you any harm... but please also note that when your lifestyle changes you can retain water (in muscles from walking) or food in your gut from eating more fibre, and these can hide fat loss from you and make you feel you are not losing 'weight'. I say you, I really…

the nausea and shakiness were certainly what I was experiencing when I had more carbs in my diet. I would eat carbs, have energy, and then in a couple of hours be nauseous, would literally grind to a halt. had headaches, etc. Had to have more carbs. That rollercoaster is how addictions work. I think I was certainly carb…

What does 'binge' mean? I am on IF and I can't put enough food in my stomach to constitute a calorie blowout; I'm full by 800 calories or so and I'm eating high fat. Fill your house with good, delicious food. Become a gourmet, not a gormand. strawberries. Blueberries. Gelato. salami. a nice brie. Avocado. Delicious stuff…

You can only point your body in one direction at a time, either forwards or backwards. If you point your body forwards, then yesterday is gone. Start today today. Forget yesterday. Live today. :) Have your full calorie amount. (a reason besides my philosophy for this, is that if you undereat today you'll probably blow it…

as you get older you need fewer calories to survive. less repair etc. you might have to lower your daily calorie intake? have you done a review of your necessary calories for maintenance? When you change your age in the calculator the calories go down... :(

There's a saying from someone (no idea who) about 'what other people think of you is none of your business.' In your 20s you're often very anxious about the good opinion of others, and can have sleepless nights suffering. I know I did. I had raging anxiety and didn't even know what that was. Now I'm an old lady, better…

muscle doesn't get lost out of proportion. your body is constantly increasing and reducing muscle dependent upon whether you need it or not. It balances the machinery required to act against the object to be acted upon. It's just a standard efficiency. I don't think it's worth worrying about.

It's all maths. If you are short enough, skinny enough, then there will be a level of shortness and skinnyness at which 1200 calories is maintenance. If you fill in the questions about your height, starting weight, and level of fitness, then the maths will tell you what you will lose. You really cannot fight the laws of…

Hey S Murray, you sound like me. one amazing thing I have done for myself, is I just get my own food. I get what I eat, anyone else in my life can feed themselves. It surprised me how much of my eating came from feeding others; and how tired I was feeding others. I'm diabetic, and gone low carb, so that means high fat…

My guess is that you have reduced carbs without increasing fats. So basically, my daily allowance is 1300 calories, but I expect to get over half of those from fat, and ony 200 cals from carbs, being 50g carb. Not always exactly that, but near as dammit. This means I have to eat the skin off my chicken eat the fat off my…

are you hungry? are you able to open your diary? I found cardio makes me carry water, maybe 2kg (4 1/2 lb) What do your measurements say? Don't be discouraged - there are so many fluctuations in a woman's weight based on water retention and menstrual periods and you name it - weight is less useful than measurements. I have…

I can't find the original post by Tsazani. Which is a shame, because sucrose and hfcs, in the quantities the western world consumes it in, IS toxic. It is very toxic. Fructose is a 5 sided molecule, that your body cannot metabolise properly and that your brain can't see. It has to be dealt with in the liver, and creates a…

This is an important comment, because insulin resistance isn't cured by adding more insulin. I'm using a freestyle libre lately, to measure my blood sugars, and it has led me to get lower and lower carb in my diet, because that way my blood sugars don't go crazy. For instance, 1/2 tsp sugar will send me upwards of 11,…