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Make a slice of toast with Ezekiel bread of I want that toast smell and consistency That bread is pretty awesome. Having a way to have a BLT on toast made me happy! Or a skillet toasted Swiss and pastrami I'm thinking that may be dinner!!!

Yep Carb bloat may be discouraging, making people feel they have failed. They didn't. That's just how the science works It takes a minute to get back into a keto state so be patient. All is not lost! Just keep on and it will work!

Having a closer to empty stomach helps me. Knowing stress levels impact sleep is another thing too. Too hard of diet and or exercise will raise stress related hormone levels and mess up sleep. Training too hard causes poor sleep for some I have always liked pink Himalayan salt for the great electrolytes! Used that before…

I just like a hot batch with some good Epsom Salts mix I will just call it a healthy thing instead of an indulgent time! Thanks !

I'm in the "off season" training mode even though it is not winter. Lol! I just don't have any more long triathlons I want to do. It is time to work on one specific thing now. Swimming!! I like how swimming is exercise but relaxing. I love zero impact too. I love how our group shares people living the life they wanted,…

I have gotten into those zero calorie noodles, shiritake root. Some grilled chicken and stir fry veggies, a moderately lower calorie ginger sauce added, a little teriyaki, and it tastes good and is really just chicken and the little bit of ginger sauce calories. A bit of salt and filing. Seems to work. Coffee is always…

Eating too many calories will stall any diet plan Thinking we can eat low carb and too many calories is a myth. You can gain weight on low carb! I take time off weight loss for maintenance and stay low carb. When trying to add muscle weight I will gain weight on low carb. Calories yo!! They still count!!

Food is fuel There is the filled feeling you get with fibrous foods and fats, but it is just fuel. Carbs are energy fuel. Some carbs have a high glycemic index, very sugar insulin spike type. They are not bad at all... but they are fuel for intense work! If you are not doing that sort of exercise there is no need for that…

I have drank diet drinks on and off, drank coffee with stevia or Splenda, water as main drink for a while, drank sugar jacked Gatorade as a sports drink during long exercise sessions None of it seemed to matter. Eating sweet tasting things when inactive seemed to make me hungry. So my take on artificial sweeteners and…

Ran the Peachtree Roadrace today Ate no carby breakfast and didn't eat any sugary sports packs during the race. It felt like any other workout

Fibrous veggie carbs actually help my Low carb lifestyle work If I cut back on fibrous carbs my higher protein and fat diet stalls. If I hit a plateau, it is almost always related to having cut back on veggies

A big deal for me was doing IronMan Chatt 70.3 in May. I wanted to survive the swim of 1.2 miles and then have fun on the bike and save enough for the half marathon run at the end. It was cool to run my fastest mile coming across the finish line! But with every victory is that look back at what to improve. I can out of it…

MFP (most of it) is fairly useless for any level headed discussion of nutrition The CICO fanatics that talk as if balanced nutrition does not matter have seemingly taken over most of MFP. Eat all doughnuts as long as you don't go over your calories. This is the only place I hear such craziness blathered on about in the…

If you eat a bunch of carbs your weight will whoosh back up. The myth of losing tons of fat easily on low carb is fed by those glycogen water losses! We don't burn 7 pounds of fat off in a week when starting on low car just like we dint add 24,500 calories worth of fat when we eat 200 carbs! I love low carb, but in the…

I have been on this three years and went from a couch potato type 2 diabetic to having done an Iron Man 70.3 and having a new circle of fitness friends. The last part is key in my opinion. You know what to do and have the tools to do it. Sustaining it is where success comes from! Getting new friends and a new lifestyle…

Do you have mitochondrial toxicity? How is it established one has it?

It is primarily a heart and circulatory supplement Helps lower blood pressure

My doctor believed in low carb and also reversing type 2 diabetes. He helped me do it I live carb. Have for years. I just did the IronMan 70.3 in Chattanooga last weekend. Low carb did not hurt me. Unless people have a vested interest they usually don't get Low Carb. We can be successful without their approval !

I love cheeses of all stripes! I do have to be mindful of how easy it is to snack down 1000 calories of cheese. Cheese is like mixed nuts... so yummy and healthy, but in the proper amounts! Why is it that the stuff that is best isn't like the high fiber veggies we can eat all We want!!!!

If you can exercise and burn off those net carbs it will not impact your blood glucose level compared to letting normal non-exercise body functions burn off the carbs Carbs are just high octane fuel for your engine, or muscles. Some jogging or cycling buns off carbs. It is good to have the option of once in a while just…

The above advice has to be taken considering I am a pretty highly trained person. People toss around terms that they are a fairly serious athelete. I think I am in that category and only for context of this post do I mention it This was a couple Saturdays ago. I had a big bowl of steel cut oatmeal before the long ride…

I checked when I woke up and was at 88 if I remember right I had my breakfast and got on the treadmill 20 minutes later or so After the treadmill I checked in within 5 minutes Even after eating it but with some exercise my BG was a few points lower It is one of the only foods that has carbs that I can eat pre workout and…

Steel cut oatmeal is a completely different beast than the processed stuff that is crushed into a morsel of what it once was Sure cut does hit your blood sugar differently, for me, and I use a glucometer to check how foods react. Quest bars hit my blood sugar faster than Steve cut oatmeal. With some coconut oil it slows it…

MFP exercise calculator is wildly high!! I would gain if I ate half what it says. Garmin is lower, so is strava, and Training Peaks too I would eat back no more than 1/3 I exercise lots and sometimes very intensely. Getting adequate calories matters so I don't bonk on a long ride and run. If you want to have a better idea…

It has been a few years of enjoying being fit by exercise and a lower carb diet. I became more active and made those activities part of my normal life. Enjoying life is fun in and of itself. Doing so by being more active perpetuates success. I would like to live to enjoy many more decades of fun life! Seeing people with so…

In the first few weeks of a low carb diet you will burn off lots of glycogen. Glycogen is sugar water basically. As you burn that off you lose lots of water weight. That glycogen and water is not fat being lost. You may lose some fat, but low carb start up is mostly water and glycogen weight loss. Going up on calories you…

If you do just a little exercise it will have the net effect of. It taking in those carbs. I take in some carbs during exercise and it does not effect me. Fibrous carbs from veggies land in your system a bit differently than sugar. So all carbs are not metabolically equal. But at the end of the day, burn more than you take…

Used this type of zero calorie noodles

This stuff comes in rice or noodle form It is really good! Briefly sautee and done. It has changed the way I eat! I can have stir fry with rice now.