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That was totally my impression too! Yikes! After posting this I went back on YT and good ol butter bob had posted a super timely video that basically set my mind at ease... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5S2J2-3ek&feature=share I just need to trust my instinct!

Another introvert here... Don't go! Tell OH (what does that stand for anyway?... my brain replaces it with "Other Human") to get his own friends. :P

The first month plus was salad and stir fry or stir fry and salad... I'm getting a little more adventurous 2.5 months in now as that got a bit boring... I fear I'm a life long foodie at heart...

This thread is making me drool... well, other than the poop talk... haha!! I just found a section at my local grocery store that has kimchi, real saurkraut and a couple other jars of stuff I didn't recognize... I bought the saurkraut and some 1 gram of carbs smokies to have this week... I think I might have to try a new…

I'm sure I will... came in at 1185 calories today and feeling completely full and satisfied...

Thanks! I was thinking of it as goal to get my calories up a little more...

I added butter, a T of sour cream and a piece of bacon to my dinner... Just thinking my cals were too low but you're all correct... If I'm not hungry I shouldn't worry about it...

The two foods I loath the most... *shudders LOL!!

I saw that tip somewhere and it didn't work for me!

I ran out of avocados!! I usually would add one to my lettuce wraps too... I have terrible luck with picking them... they are either hard as a rock or completely rotten. When I open one that is perfectly ripe the heavens open and the angels sing.

Scale was back down 2.1 lbs this morning from losing all that fluid yesterday, thankfully... Not back to feeling 100% normal again yet on the inflammation/bloating, but well on my way, feeling MUCH better than I was.... Today is day 3 of intermittent fasting. Been reading up on how it helps with inflammation and becoming…

Are we twins separated at birth?! I have oral allergy syndrome and have severe pollen/weed/tree/grass allergies that cause related food allergies different times of the year... Crazy stuff!

SERIOUSLY!!! LOL!!!

Ah, man... This was me a couple weeks ago... My husband counted 8 different kinds of fruit I had purchased over the course of a week and told me to STOP because there's no way he could eat it all himself. We froze a lot of it for him to have in smoothies, but I didn't realize I was buying so much fruit for him (I wasn't…

Emailed this brand and they confirmed their facility is peanut-free so gonna try it....http://www.omeganutrition.com/pumpkin-seed-butter-12-oz-org-napsb012

Barney Butter is peanut-free. And SO delicious. Want to buy 4 new jars of crunchy almond butter off me? :neutral:

Maybe google natural diuretics?

I have a couple threads I started about what's going on, but basically I'm retaining water from electrolyte tablets I was taking, and inflamed/bloated from eating almond butter (at least that's what I suspect... could be the other nuts... now that I've eliminated them I'm feeling better just one day later!). I'm hyper…

It's the caffeine... Too hot today for coffee... plus all I have is decaf at home... What a pain to try to figure out the right combo!

I have a sunflower seed or pumpkin seed butter I can use... just not the same as my precious almond butter... LOL I'm allergic to soy, so a lot of the nut-free butters are off limits to me. SO glad to be feeling less bloated though!!

I'm not logging in MFP anymore. I weigh/measure anything that has carbs and just jot it down in a notes app to keep a running total of net carbs. I use an app called Nutrients or the package nutritional facts to calculate net carbs. MFP is just way too sketchy on stats... I did log what I ate yesterday in mynetdiary to…

I skipped the electrolyte tablet today (took one/day the last 4 days) and drinking diet coke for the diuretic affect... Feeling better already!

Wouldn't your body adapt though after the initial few weeks? Can you take it less frequently? I ask cause I'm wondering if I'm actually retaining water now...

I had the bloating long before the Nuun... But I'll keep that in mind.

I had a 1.7 lb gain last WI Wednesday, I guess due to the bowel/intestinal bloating, and inflammation in my back, hips, neck and shoulders... I've been drinking 9-12 cups of water, keeping my carbs around 30 net, and calories around 1500-1700/day... Stepped on the scale out of curiosity, and damn scale was up another 2 lbs…

I wish I could do that, but I'm dealing with an old injury in my SI joint, so no hills for me... Chiropractor is having me dial it back and do a short walk every other day to allow the inflammation to calm down. Also icing my hip and lower back too... Cleaning up my diet a bit and introducing intermittent fasting to see if…

I discovered an amazing ice cream recipe sort of by happy accident... I just posted it on my blog... It's SO creamy and rich... 0.5 cup is 7 net carbs and because it's so rich I don't think I could eat more than that in a sitting. https://anewlifeatforty.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/lchf-vanilla-cheese-cake-ice-cream-recipe/

This brings up an interesting point for me... how much is a "lot" and how much is a "little"? I average under 20 grams a day, and that's with eating a good size portion of veg at least twice a day...

I have my mom's old metal colander and I think of her every time I use it. Love that thing, dents included! As for the bacon grease... I bake my bacon on a pan too, pour it straight from the pan into a mason jar, then store in fridge. Can't be bothered to strain it, and there's not that much "bits" in it anyway... ;)

Interested in this too!