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Nope. 2% milk and splenda. My husband calls it "polluted" and I couldn't care less.

Lebkuchen. I will cross state lines for lebkuchen, so either I can't have it in the house, or I give it to my husband to dole out to me, or I just admit Christmas is here and I won't be sticking strictly to my daily routine. (I can ignore a lot of other things, but Contessa lebkuchen is not one of them.)

What would you say to your best friend? Or yourself, at a younger age? Would you be kinder to either of them?

Try logging the way you usually eat, making sure you log everything, and checking that the nutritional information is correct. Do that for a few days, notice where the calories are highest, and then begin scaling back the things that are too high-calorie for what they give you nutritionally. And what @BarbaraHelen2013 said…

Sory, but Go_Deskercise is not right. KETO diet is different. it does not work for caloric deficit. You, actually, can overeat your daily allotment. Of course you can. You can overeat your "daily allotment" on any diet. Keto acts on hormonal level. Keto diet keeps your insulin hormone level at minimum, and by doing it…

Welcome!

I want to thank @tinaBawesome for starting this thread. "Eating to the meter" is a new one on me and something I'm very glad to learn about. Also joined the Type 2 Diabetes Support Group today. Looking forward to better BG!

I'm Ann-Marie. I was diagnosed T2 in . . . 2015? 2016? Somewhere in there. The doctor who diagnosed me was a sweet man, but simply told me I was diabetic and put me on Metformin. I was left to find out what I needed to know by myself, and because I was terrified of the whole idea of diabetes, I ignored it for as long as…

Thanks, everyone. I'll make sure to correct the portion size/weight when I put it in my food diary. Actually, since they list the ingredients on the label, I can make a torte like this at home and know exactly how to count calories & nutrition.

And while you're checking calories, don't just rely on the calorie count alone. There are at least two entries where the calorie count is (as far as I could tell) accurate, but there are no nutrient counts given at all. 66 calories (for one slice of a particular bread, I think it was), but no carbs, no fat, no protein, no…

I was just checking out the different nutrition panels for Cheerios varieties a couple of days ago. Original Cheerios is 1.5g sugar per cup; Multi-Grain is 6.5g per cup. And those are the lowest-sugar kinds! The others run anywhere from 9g to 12.5g per cup.

No, you don't have to go low carb unless you want to eat that way. Definitely talk to your doctor, but continuing to lose weight, exercising reasonably and eating a healthy diet will have a good effect on your A1c and just about everything else. Don't let this scare you; just look at it as a wake-up call. Best of luck to…

Very excited! One week after planting, I have little sprouts of eggplant (Ping tung and Astrakom), peppers (Ajvarski, jalapeno, Anaheim and poblano), and tomatoes (Brandywine, pink bumblebee and Principe Borghese). All of them leapt up in a hurry except the Astrakom and the Anaheim, which are moseying to the surface. I…

That's kind of a sweeping statement.

OP hasn't logged on for a couple of years. I don't think you're going to get a response from her.

Yes, the deficit is included. You should be eating your full 1640 goal, plus about half of your exercise calories. Going under your goal isn't going to do you any favors in the long run.

When I rely too long on just one way of measuring my success with this -- usually the scale -- eventually the daily ups and downs of the numbers start to affect my confidence. Then I find myself exactly where you are, and frustration leads directly to resentful snacking. I do better when I can concentrate on things I have…

Then I'm one of those clowns, too -- a repeat offender, honestly. There are a lot of us out here. You're not alone! Beating yourself up about it doesn't burn any calories, so maybe give that a miss. Welcome back, and all good wishes!

Hello . . . how great to find this thread! This will be our third spring in this house, and second vegetable garden. Still expanding & improving the raised beds in the back yard -- that's normal, right? This year we're putting a fence around the whole bed area because the Hounds of Doom think it's a playground. We…

Rec for The Great Unpleasantness. I shall have to purloin this locution.

I've had a small (7-cup) KitchenAid for 25 years now and I use it all the time. It doesn't have a big footprint (and I have a very small kitchen, too). They also make a 3.5 cup food chopper. All the KitchenAid models have a sealed outer casing, so they don't get gunk in and around the buttons, and the motor on mine is…

Once a week, and track it on Happy Scale. No matter how much I'd like to feel differently, too many measurements make me anxious. edited for clarity

Do you mean, after you've lost a certain amount of weight, will MFP adjust your calories downwards to fit? I've haven't had that happen for myself, although I think I heard that MFP is supposed to do so. I go in and adjust my numbers after 5-7 pounds lost, and re-enter the new numbers myself. You'll probably want to do…

I've never wanted to cry on the scale -- but I've been furious at it and have wanted to take it out with a sledgehammer, more than a few times. Maybe it would work better for you to put your focus on something else. We really can't directly control the number on the scale, but there are other things that we can. Kimny72…

Pineapple and grapefruit sounds fabulous! I'm so jealous it's not sold in the US! I'm Team Diet Mountain Dew myself (basically citrus), but I'd love to try Diet Lilt sometime.

I recently spent 10 days in the hospital with a whacking great case of cellulitis in my right leg. I have been on close personal terms with five or six intravenous antibiotics plus two more orals; prednisone to handle the ugly red rash that two of the antibiotics gave me; plus a couple of painkillers. They had me on an ADA…

I don't know the restaurant, but do they have an online menu you can check before you go? Edited to add: Okay, I googled them. If it's Aladdin's Eatery, then they do have an online menu with nutrition information.

I think that like "normal weight" is a range, so is activity. There are times when I feel like being up and doing, and times when my metabolism might be 95% slug. I'll never be a high-NEAT, hummingbird type person, and if I sit for too long I get antsy and twitchy, so the extreme ends of the spectrum are not in my range,…

Sometimes it seems like the world just conspires against us, doesn't it? ;)

Thaddeus, wondering WHEN I will get done with my work and take him out already!