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I don't know where you get this from but it's a crock. I have blood work showing different members of my home highly allergic to gluten years ago. At one point the inflammation it was causing my son almost killed him. That said, a whole lot of work healing the guts in this house and we can eat gluten with no problems now.…

Uh, untrue. Barley, spelt, kamut, triticale, and rye also all have gluten. Many many pre-packaged spices add gluten ingredients that aren't wheat.

People like to throw around "lactose intolerant" when they have issues with dairy. The problem is being lactose intolerant means you actually lack or have little of the enzyme lactase that helps digest the lactose in dairy products. A very large number of people that declare they can't handle lactose actually can't handle…

If you can be satiated at 1370 with the activity level you are currently at, I would override MFP numbers, set your goal at 1370, mark your actual exercise as "1" calorie, and not eat back any exercise calories. I moved from using MFP numbers to using TDEE-20% to determine my calorie level and after fighting the same pound…

For those of you that are emotional eaters, I highly recommend the book The Beck Solution. Someone posted it here a long time ago and I got it. It is not a diet. It is cognitive behavioral therapy to unlearn being an emotional eater. It is an excellent book, very very helpful, and honestly, until you deal with why you…

Yep, this. It can go either way in terms of discomfort.

Don't know what to tell you OP, but this same thing happens to me. If I get stuck for weeks on end I will blow through my calorie limit for a day and within 48hrs I will usually dump several pounds off. Don't know if it's holding water or what, but I get the same whoosh effect after doing this once in awhile.

Oh goodness, yes! When our family moved from SAD (standard american diet) to a whole foods, organic diet our bodies went through a lot of changes! If my crew gets a fair amount of preservatives or processed foods they do not feel well. At.all. We eat 90% whole foods and organic at home so that 10% of the time we don't have…

You do not have to work out to lose weight. 90% of weight loss happens in the kitchen. Weigh and measure everything and you will still lose if you follow calories in/calories out. For the addiction part, I highly recommend the book The Beck Diet Solution as she addresses how to change this mind set and it is very effective.

This was the issue I was having with exercise. Using TDEE allows me to just track my exercise and not worry about "eating back calories" or having to figure out how much I should or shouldn't eat back. If exercise calories are there, I justify eating them. Much better for me just having it worked into my regular day of…

I started at 1200, went to 1300, then 1400 then 1500. I recalculated using TDEE-20% and am at 1700 cals (TDEE calcs put me just over 1800 to lose). I'm doing really well on 1700. I struggled at the lower cals. I'm having no struggle now and I'm losing consistently. I got stuck going up and down a pound for 6 weeks. So for…

This explanation was so incredibly helpful! I have been stuck gaining and losing the same pound for 6 weeks. I redid my calories using TDEE - 20% and it actually increased my daily caloric intake by 200+ cals (I didn't take the entire increase). I set my intake at 1700 instead of the 1800+ it was allotting me. I ate like…

All of this ^^^^^^^^. Functional medicine says go off of how you feel and presenting symptoms. If you feel fine and you have no other symptoms, you're probably fine. While they say 1.5 should be the max, that will depend on the person. What yours has increased is so slight it wouldn't concern me unless you were having…

Sure. This company is one that many of the very high end supplement companies use and just relabel the supplement with their expensive label brand. For the most part, I trust their stuff. http://www.vitacost.com/now-selenium NOW brand has two different labels but they are both basically orange and white. These are 200mcg…

I have been there. And it did take time. It took about 2 weeks for me to start feeling human and about 4 weeks for my thyroid hormones to come up high enough for me to start noticing a difference weight loss wise. The thing is, that isn't going to happen for you until you are on the right dosage and right blend of T3 and…

I mentioned this on the other thread you had about your thyroid but it probably got lost in the mix. Nonetheless, if your doctor won't do this over the phone you'll have to make some eating adjustments until you can get this fixed. Your dose of levoxy is actually fairly low but I suspect the issue is t4 to t3 conversion…

First off, a tsh of 5.8 is horrible. Most functional medicine doctors will tell you that a person will not feel good with a tsh over 1.5 much less be able to lose weight at a decent rate. Second, synthroid is not effective for a lot of people bc it only addresses t4. The problem is if your body is not efficient at…

Walking and weight lifting are my hands down favorites. My treadmill is my backup. I have an elliptical but I always end up going back to the treadmill if I can't workout outside.

CVS is my original pharmacy too and I'm glad I went back to them. I guess there's a reason Costco can sell theirs so cheap. My sister is a nurse and said they only have to have 70% of actual medication in the pill for it to be considered "equivalent" to the name brand. So cheaper brands tend to use less actual med.

Got my new phent today. No reaction and the suppressed appetite has returned. Glory! I'm so glad to be back on this brand again.

When I had major leg and ankle surgery I actually lost 20#'s while still eating at maintenance calories. A nurse practitioner friend told me it's because when your body is going through major healing that it requires and burns a lot of calories. I literally sat on my butt, on a couch for 9 months, and lost 20#'s. Once I…

Sorry you're seeing the same thing I did @Nancyh59. It is frustrating!! The good news for me is my doctor had no issue with calling in the script to my old pharmacy. I told her I was having an allergic reaction to the filler in the Costco brand and she said, "yep, that happens." She also told me to tell my regular pharmacy…

Since we don't do doctors much, we self treat kidney stones and gallstones at home. We use a product called Stonebreaker by HerbPharm. Dosing is 30 drops in 1/2 cup of purple grape juice, taken twice a day for 10 days. It will break down the stones and you pass them pretty much without pain at that point. My husband has…

Understand that I'm not saying not to listen to your doctor. What I'm saying is educate yourself to such an extent that you can have an intelligent conversation with your doctor regarding your thyroid. If my doctor and I disagree on dosage I have enough knowledge to discuss why I want my meds set at a certain point.…

This thinking is not going to serve you well. You need to really educate yourself on the thyroid, how it functions, things that help it work better, etc. You are your own best advocate. My doctor does not dictate how much thyroid meds I am on - I do. I tell her what I'm taking, she does not tell me. Only you can feel…

T3 and T4 will not tell you anything. You need TSH, Free T3 and Free T4. If you're on synthroid it's VERY possible that your body does not convert T4 to T3 well (inactive hormone to active hormone). I am one of those that does not. I have to take selenium every day to help this process. If I don't, even taking armour…

I've been on this new stuff (KVK is the manufacturer) for two weeks. Since the beginning it has not suppressed my appetite at all. I have struggled the last two weeks to stay at maintenance for me. The other stuff NEVER constipated me, this stuff did right off the bat. The other stuff didn't make my hands shake hardly at…

Yeah. 30 Days will go fast. Definitely not worth the $5! :#

Hi Nancy, I would avoid Costco if I were you. I went there for a refill b/c my doctor recommended it cost wise. Unfortunately, it is the brand that someone on this forum said doesn't work for them. I am also finding it does not work near as well as the brand I was using from my old pharmacy. :-( I also have side effects on…

[So because one study was flawed you dismiss the notion that we should study things before we believe them to be true? Out of curiosity if you dismiss studies as possibly being biased or flawed, where do you get your information from which to make informed decisions? I'm sorry but it is perfectly reasonable to expect…