HuskerJulie413 Member

Sure I'll buy them all.

I don't have anything to trade but I may be interested in buying them. What would be the price?

I started June 15, 2015.

I prefer the puddings as shakes too but I still will drink the Pineapple-Apricot and Mocha beverages. I ALWAYS blend all of the drinks with ice in the blender.

Down 81 pounds now! I am using 2 meal replacements most days and then eating a low carb real food meal and a snack. Sometimes 3 shakes and a real food snack. I love being in ketosis!

Try putting some poultry seasoning in the cream of chicken soup. I also put a tsp of bacon grease in mine. Yum, Yum. It's so much better and only about 40 extra calories. It hasn't affected my weight loss and my lab results are perfect. Our bodies are fat burning machines while we are in ketosis and the extra calories keep…

You are doing great Lisa and great advice for everyone! It takes the body only a few days to get into ketosis when you get your carbs below 50 but to have your body really adapted to metabolizing stored fat as fuel takes a few weeks. Keep up your salt intake at the beginning and it will really help. Throughout the program…

I faithfully use MFP everyday to track my carbs so I stay in nutritional ketosis and fat burning mode! :) Since MFP doesn't like anyone to go below 1000 calories I set mine to 1050. It also helps me keep track of how much water I've drank.

Welcome to the newer members! Keep up the good work! I've been on the program with some tweaks of my own since June 15th. I'm down 80 pounds! I lost 20 pounds/month for 2 months, then about 10/month since then. I have 2-3 shakes and a low carb real food meal and a snack. I always drink my water. I try to stay around 1050…

I get scolded too but I can still use the diary. Maybe I don't completely understand what you are describing?

Hello everyone! I haven't checked in for so long I'm sorry. I am recording my intake on MFP every day but then forget to check messages on the group here. I'm now down 74 pounds. I started June 15. I have another 50 or 60 to go! For Thanksgiving I had a pineapple apricot shake for breakfast. Then made the pumpkin pie meal…

Lisa... happy belated birthday first of all. :) Comments from your cheat post: More important than the shakes and calories we get from them it's the number of carb grams being less than 40-50grsms that keeps us in ketosis. Your doctor was mad because you didn't get enough protein from your shakes and had too many carbs. If…

We don't do ketosis testing at our clinic either.

Another link that was interesting talking about ketosis. http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2012/07/09/low-carb-ketosis-not-necessarily/ The optimal blood ketone level to be most efficient in fat burning is between 0.5 and 3.0 mM. If it's less you may still be in ketosis but you won't be losing weight as easily. If you…

How did she test you? Blood or urine? If it was urine than there are reasons why you can test negative. Blood is the most accurate. Here are some questions and answers that explain it better than I can! I'm following my diet strictly; why won't my strips turn purple? Ketones will spill into the urine ONLY when there is…

How are you doing Kate?

That's great Lisa! I enjoyed wearing a 14/16 dress size to my niece's wedding this past weekend. My other niece was married three years ago and I wore a 3X dress to her wedding!

I was just thinking about my goal weight today. We had a wedding in the family this weekend and a lot of people ask me how much more I wanted to lose. I've been overweight so long I don't really know how I'll feel at the smaller weights. It would be emotionally nice to wear a medium like Lisa has expressed and not a large,…

No numbness from me. I can relate to a lot of what you said in your last message. Keep up the good work!

I'm now down 63 pounds since June 15th!

That's a great report Lisa! Keep it up!

That's awesome Lisa!

I just remembered something. Some people when they count carbs subtract the fiber grams for a net carb because fiber is not absorbed. They also subtract sugar alcohols because it has been shown that sugar alcohols don't raise insulin and you can stay in ketosis. So if you look at most gums the carbs are from the sugar…

Lisa you are 20% to your goal already! You are inspiring too! It's rewarding to have loose clothing!

You can have gum but you have to count the carbs from the label. I enjoy a stick now and then.

mhmatzke....Welcome to the group! That would have been a tough time to start last time. You will do much better this time around!

Carb cravings are why I'm afraid of adding too many carbs later. Would they support you eating a low carb meal and staying in ketosis? You could have 2 shakes and 20-30 real food carbs. There are low carb nut flour bread recipes out there on the internet/Pinterest. My monthly labs and EKGs have been great too so hopefully…

Thanks Lisa!

I agree Lisa. This time is the only time I have felt like I can keep the weight off and so I am not going to save my larger clothes! In the past I went off and on diets and didn't have the confidence to keep the weight off.

It is nice when people start noticing!