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Me too! I was reading up on Butter Bob's website about inflammation, insulin resistance, and intermittent fasting. Going to clean up my diet, cut out the nuts, already cut out all aspartame a few days ago, and stick with protein, non-starchy veg, and fat for awhile and see if that gets things cleared up and the scale…

This is my first real food intolerance then... All the others are true allergies that show up consistently on allergy testing and cause hives, chest pain, swelling, and/or severe stomach pain... I'm 99% sure it's the nuts. Especially the almond butter. Doesn't surprise me as I only recently reintroduced them in the past…

No acid reflux... It's all lower bowel/intestinal, and bloating, which is why I didn't think it was a food intolerance but I'm also super inflamed this week so can't hurt simplifying my diet and cutting out the nuts. I have oral allergy syndrome and the pollen/mold spore count is shifting with the seasons which may have…

So... not feeling any better after cutting out the aspartame... I was so completely backed up that I broke down and drank some smooth move tea last night before bed... Things finally started to move this morning... and the scale was still up 1.7 lbs this week. :neutral: Now I have diarrhea... *sigh I just can't handle this…

I ate under 30 net carbs everyday, drank at least 9 cups of water everyday, exercised 4 out of 7 days... and gained 1.7 lbs this week. :neutral: I'm also very inflamed in my neck, shoulders, lower back and hips... very constipated, fighting a virus, and had terrible insomnia all week. It'll come off eventually, but not…

Took me a minute... LOL

I have yet to try BPC... it just doesn't appeal to me... maybe in the winter when I need something more warming, but right now I prefer to eat my fat.

I walk 5-6 days a week for 15-20 minutes each time (2000-2500 steps/day). It's all I can manage with my back and hip issues so far, but I figure if I keep doing it everyday eventually it has to get easier... right? LOL

WOW!! Two people with 30 lb losses!! Great job!! :smiley: May onederland come quickly for you both!

That's the one I use...

I just emailed my SIL and asked her too. Don't know why I didn't think of that before. LOL Too obvious???

My SIL is a traditional chinese medicine doctor and she did a customized plan each for me, the hubs, and my son (who has tons of allergies and asthma) using our saliva samples and our history (long questionnaire). It was HARD, but I didn't cheat once on her regime of diet and supplements (she'll work around any dietary…

I rarely have heartburn... Maybe once every three or four months and it's short lived, thankfully. To give a brief history... 10 years ago I switched from a junk food/fast food binge eating disorder diet with severe digestive issues & pain from undiagnosed allergies, to eating organic whole foods intuitively, and have been…

Food allergies... I have oral allergy syndrome and multiple food allergies but this is a totally different feeling to an allergic reaction. This is more intestinal/bowel bloating & discomfort, related to loose bowel movements or lack thereof. Allergies hit me long before they get there and aren't just bowel related... I…

I had a binge eating disorder for 17 years. My purge of choice was super strict restrictive diets, eating as little as I could get away with without starving... then binging once I'd lost 10-15 lbs, regaining it all, rinse, repeat. After I turned 30 it was really out of control, and when someone had the courage to look me…

macadamia nuts mixed with pepper jack moon cheese is the bomb... just an fyi... ;) Only 2 net carbs for 35 g of macadamias too...

I would... just not the whole bag...

I went on a 9 day vacation last fall (first one longer than a long weekend in 8 years... downside to self employment!) and went hog wild, was eating wheat (which I'm very allergic to) and came home to a 20 lb gain. I laughed (ha ha ha) and told myself it was just water retention... no WAY that was real weight... well it…

Wanted to update that I lost 3 lbs after my first week of not logging! YES! :smiley:

Cool! Thanks... Now I'll be more motivated to try new recipes and keep posting. :smiley:

Thanks! You just made my day! :smiley:

As a newb doing this for the first time, understanding everything is my main goal... LOL My whole issue is I don't HAVE a standard, I don't know enough to judge, it's all a great big sea of different approaches, so if I never question anything that seems weird I'm going to end up unintentionally sabotaging my goals... Of…

This is my personal blog... have at her! :smiley: https://anewlifeatforty.wordpress.com/2016/07/30/cream-cheese-crepes-recipe/

@sarahthes That looks really familiar... is that by Riverbend in Calgary???

Today I posted these pics of the taco salad I had for dinner and the keto crepes I had for lunch on my FB page and everyone was drooling over the pics... Total net carbs for these two very filling delicious meals was 24. I'll take this way of eating and feeling THIS great over crap carbs ANY day! s

I watch a couple channels of people who have lost of a lot of weight and then they go on to compete in physique type competitions, and the contrast between the cutting before a competition and then the bingeing afterwards makes me cringe so hard. :neutral:

Me too! Haha!! CANADIANS UNITE!! LOL

@Sunny_Bunny_ I live with two skinny fit (never been fat) sugar fiends who miss me eating sugar with them... I think it's so silly, I still have "treats" like SF jello with whipped cream, or Lily's milk chocolate, I just don't feel the need to eat all that other crap anymore. We are going camping at the end of the month…

I have resting "please let me help you" face... People are constantly asking me to help them with stuff when I'm out and about. LOL

Ahhh... Yeah, maybe... I have SO much MORE energy eating keto though... My husband has been feeling down about some family stuff and yesterday I dropped by work to see him and his energy had visibly bottomed out. He was yawning and struggling to stake away between clients... I was asking if I should go get him a snack to…