MissMaggieElizabeth Member

I have low thyroid and have lost 70 pounds now. It has been a little over a year since I started LCHF. I am Very LC under 5 a day. you just can never cheat or you are just cheating your self.

Singing my song sister. I even dropped to 10 carbs a day and lost a little more but the yoyo was making me nuts. I so get it. Finally I went to 5 gm carbs and most of that was from HWC , eggs and cheese and a little lettuce and I started dropping. I plan on upping the veggie carbs as soon as I get to goal. I dropped about…

Was great. I made home made pizza from the crust up for hubby and I had steak and broccoli on the grill and green salad. I also made deviled eggs and had one at lunch time.We had our thanksgiving dinner with out of state friends last month. They were here so I put on a big spread then. I remember I had a big plate of…

Crazy Guess this leaves subway out for me.

Thanks for the heads up on the Subway bowls. Were the carbs all in the meats or some in the veggies?

I am still 26 pounds from goal. I do not intend to ever go back to carbage. I would like to increase my carbs a bit using veggies. I can maintain forever how I am eating now but I do miss being able to eat my fresh grown veggies with out having to freak out about it having carbs. I am talking about the lower starch veggies…

I just cook two different meals for each of us. Many times we eat the same meat. My hubby does wonderful things for me in other areas of our relationship I feel the least I can do is cook good meals he wants for him. Let me tell you it is difficult to cook him waffles and raisin and french breads. Custards for desert and…

No time to read all the replies. I avoid a binge by never eating carb laden foods. If I am having a hungry day I grab chicken leg out of the fridge or hard boiled egg or cook up a hamburger patty. If you really are hungry you need to eat but do not mix up hunger and boredom or stress eating. Just keep quick to grab good…

I started a year ago today at about 20 carbs and weight loss was painfully slow, 21 pounds 4 months. Dropped to 10 carbs a day about March of 2015 and weight loss picked up but still felt so slow considering I had 90 to lose. Finally dropped to 5 carbs a day May of 2015. I have now lost 64 pounds. Doing really well. Some…

Congratulations!!! YES I know how you feel. I also wanted to hit that magical 45 pounds gone before I went back to the doctor after several months. It seemed to be the magical number and like you the scale hung at 44 day after day week or more. I did not make it until a few days after doctor day but I was shouting it to…

Thank you Ketogenicgurl and Baconslave. I guess I am not good at searching. I will explore the links you shared.

Good wishes on your surgery. I had surgery last summer and asked about the glucose/dextrose and the nurses said they do not use it in regular IV. They use saline solution. I did check the bag to be sure. LOL They were very nice and understanding and one of them had also lost 20 pounds doing LC so she totally got it.

My stomach started to flatten out when I had lost 45 to 50 pounds. It is a long way from flat. It is getting better. not sure it will ever be flat like when I was young again. It no longer bulges like a roll when I wear jeans. I still have 34 more pounds to go. Who knows how it will look when those pounds are gone.

I used paint and put my start now and goal. Adding I am 5' 5" I think this would make a difference in appearance. This was fun to do. Thanks for the link. And congratulations to you. You have really lost a lot of inches and pounds.

I made Kombucha for a few years. Was curious to try freezing the scoby. I was being over run by them. So I carefully wrapped it up and froze it. OF course I forgot to mark it. How could I forget what it was. Then one day I took out nice chicken breast for dinner and thawed it. Went to cut it to strips for stirfry. OOPS It…

I have found I do not eat nearly as much as I used to before going LCHF. Some times I have to kind of force myself because I know only two chicken legs in a day, one for lunch one for dinner coffee with cream for breakfast, is not really enough. I only mentally track carbs and not all my foods.Even so I know my calorie…

Got them. Thank you for the heads up.

HA I had an unusual NSV. Tonight I was walking up the hall wearing one of my long house dresses. Dogs were walking with me and the one dog stepped on my dress dragging on the floor. It did not used to be that long. Now it does have so much holding it out in front back and sides it has grown way too long. Another dress to…

I started 20 carbs then down to 10 and still bouncing up and down. Finally 5 carbs was the winner for me with continued loss. Very little bouncing up now. If so it is just tenths of a pound at a time not the two or three pounds I was bouncing up. so frustrating to have to keep losing the same dang pounds over and over.

Hello Scorpiotwin, I started about the same weight as you . I was 230. Today I finally hit 185. The last pound was a boogar to get shed. BUT when I was feeling very discouraged after 7 days no loss I measured my waist and had lost another 2 inches from it and also from my hip which includes my belly.HA my belly sags to my…

So today was doctor day on the above lab tests. He was actually very pleased. Felt testing the size of LDL is an expensive test and at this point my metabolic ratio is looking pretty good considering what it was last year. His earlier comments were made before he knew I had lost 44 pounds. And DANG that 45th pound is…

Found you all I think. Jane told me to see about joining. I am not here a lot. Very busy with work and yard. I am not 50 but I have gone through menopause. UGH. Weight loss is slow slow slow. About 5 pounds a month. It continues to go down so far. I am doing very low carb under 5 a day and usually keep calories in the 1100…

Showed my test results to eye doctor yesterday as she has been watching my weight drop right before her eyes in the three months I have been going to her. Told her what PCP said and she flat out said SCREW HIM. I am thrilled with these results. And just like you said Knit, when losing weight it skews the results and the…

Congratulations on the 36 pounds gone!!! It is about the same for me only the AS does not bother me but any other carb sends the cravings and stalls my weight loss. Even just one bite of some thing off plan. I always have to have the little tslk with myself. Is this bite really worth the next week of disappointment?

Wonderful!!! Non Scale Victory.

I am sticking with 5 carbs and under. Weight loss has been about 5 pounds a month. I do not do serious work outs. I do work very hard in my yard. Weight loss feels slow but it is consistent. When I was doing 20 and then down to 10 carbs a day I would lose and gain lose and gain. Dropped to 5 carbs and below and my weight…

Thank you KenSmith. That is very helpful.

44 Pounds is the same as an Elephants Heart.

Thanks for this. I need to ask him again to do this. He is a so by the number book kind of guy and he is so young to be so closed minded. Oh well. I guess if he refuses to do it it does not matter because I am NOT taking his statins. I can be just as stubborn. I am feeling fantastic. Most of my thyroid issues have…

Dang I do not see Edit. I just wanted to add I am under 5 carbs a day. So 99% of my foods are meat eggs fish butter.