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Nope, not at all.
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I hope it was delicious -- I do love a good sticky toffee pudding. If you feel like going for a walk, that's great, but you don't have to use it to "make up" for a calorie overage. Log your calories and know that tomorrow's another day. Maybe plan a serving for another time -- then you can look forward to it and plan your…
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Hold out for one of their garage sales. I've seen some good hiking pants on sale but haven't bought any yet.
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From their website: At Naturally Savvy, our main focus is on eating organic, whole foods and learning how to integrate nutrition into our everyday living. We also love to discuss detoxification (how to detox), enemas (how to enema), nutritional supplements (which brands do we recommend), low blood sugar (also known as…
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First time I had KK I was living in Albuquerque and they got their very first KK shop in . . . I want to say 2002? 2003? Anyway, there was great hullabaloo about it and the lines when the "HOT" sign was on were horrific. I waited a couple of months for the noise to die down before I went for the first time. Gotta admit…
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The only time I've ever enjoyed a KK is when it is less than a minute off the conveyor belt. Other than that it's been a greasy flavorless lump to me. I'm from the NE (USA) and grew up with Dunkin so that's my idea of a donut. And those donuts are the reason I don't go into Dunkin any more -- the aroma of those donuts bids…
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The hamburger and fries I had today. We were out of town and planned to go to a place that makes really terrific burgers, and I logged my day around their bacon cheeseburger and onion rings. I'd been looking forward to this for three days! We were delayed in our errands, and by the time we got to the restaurant I was…
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Use the sweetener of your choice. I don't like the taste of stevia or monkfruit, either. I keep Splenda in the house, and use it in coffee and yogurt. There's an awful lot of controversy about every sweetener out there. Unless you're facedown in a bowl of your sweetener of choice, you really don't have anything to worry…
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I was just going to post that some busy genius would figure out a new healthy diet drink made from whey and create a new kombucha or something like that, but @ladyreva78 beat me to it. Gotta admire the Swiss!
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No. And I use them every day.
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Bananas are food -- not good, not bad, just food. If you like them in a smoothie, go for it. If you're dealing with a medical condition that requires you to pare down your sugars/carbs, then don't. I'm diabetic, and I eat bananas in oatmeal, smoothies and sometimes just straight up. Because I like bananas, and they fit my…
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Aha. I NEED this. Thanks!
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. . . what's a Pocket?
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Wow. You really have a lot coming down on you at one time. Some of what you're looking at right now is familiar, so I'll try to address what I recognize. See, I have about 70 - 80 pounds left to lose, and you'd think hey I've lost this much already it shouldn't be too bad right? Not at all. It gets harder as we go on, not…
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You are making me SO homesick
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I usually know how the day will go, and a lot of what I eat is pretty routine, so I pre-log quite a bit. But not everything is predictable and sometimes the day goes way off the rails, so I'm always aware that my plans may have to change.
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What else would it log? What I say, and to whom I say it? Where I go? And who would receive this information? And what would they do with it? Constructive paranoia FTW.
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Funny you should mention that. This is stolen brazenly from Aadam Ali's Physiqonomics page this morning. Being a very low-carb diet means that carb intake is restricted to 30-50g per day, eliminating pretty much every source of carbohydrate–yes, even fruit–besides vegetables. This super restrictive nature is where the…
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You "gave into temptation"? Does that mean that you don't allow yourself cookies on a regular basis? What if you planned a cookie into your daily calories? Make room for one, say, after dinner with a cup of tea? If it's built into your everyday routine, it won't be temptation any more and won't trigger an episode like…
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True for me too. When I weighed once a week, I got all anxious about whether I lost weight or not. Weighing every day, it's just a number, a data point on a graph. I use HappyScale, but both it and Libra do the job nicely. If you stay here long enough, you'll come to understand that weight loss isn't necessarily…
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Watch your calories. If you think it might be time for a formal diet break, take a look at Of refeeds and diet breaks. It's a huge thread, but there's a very good recap in the first post.
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This is one of those things that everyone has to figure out for themselves, because individuals can react differently to macro balances. You've been logging your food for a few weeks at least? Reset your macros to a higher carb level for two weeks, record as usual, and see how you feel. You might try a higher protein/lower…
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Bridget, thank you so much for posting this! I've been trying to re-figure my numbers and have run into the same confusion. Used the various calculators online to figure maintenance and was getting some pretty huge numbers, which caused me to chase my tail in WTF-land for a while. I found a pdf online of Lyle's Guide to…
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Perfectionism -- and its brother, fear -- have derailed more of us than chocolate, peanut butter and pizza combined. Flexible systems are stronger systems. Architects, historians, tennis racquet makers and politicians all understand this. So it behooves me to build flexibility into my own systems. I understand the need to…
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Unless you have a specific reason for scheduling your diet break for the end of the month, why not count the past five days as part of the break and carry on from there? Everything should balance out over the two weeks.
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It's called dawn phenomenon, and it's pretty common. If your BG is good for the rest of the day, you should be doing fine. You can have a protein & carb snack before bed if it worries you -- cheese on a cracker, maybe. If it keeps up, talk to your doctor and he/she may have more ideas.
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The issues for us as T2 are more than just weight gain. We also need to remember long-term damage like retinopathy, neuropathy, and more. Diabetes is systemic -- meaning it affects the whole body, and everything going on inside to keep us alive. We have to pay attention to a lot more than just the scale.
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Aha. Yes. MIT will be an excellent place to start out. Thanks very much!
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I'm looking for book or (online) course recommendations. And I'm requesting in this thread because I have a lot of faith in you who post regularly here. I've been searching for a basic human biology/nutrition book or class because I find myself at a loss trying to grok some of the more science-based comments and posts on…
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I don't know that there's anything in the way of energy/metabolism benefits. It's more of a personal choice. It's coffee-only for me before swimming; I just don't like having much in my stomach when working out.
