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Still happy to report . . . no clue! Other than being 'mindful' of carbohydrates (but not avoiding them), I just try to eat a balanced meal. For me, this is important. If I start counting calories (or even grams of macronutrients), my experience is that I quickly become frustrated and bored with the whole thing. It's quite…

Whoops I just read your answer to that question in another thread -- no eating from Thursday evening until Saturday noon, most impressive!! Did you ease into that, or just do it? And how does it feel?

@brendagaudette , when you say water fasts on Friday, you mean you eat nothing at all? I'm considering water (and coffee, yes coffee) fasts on Fridays this Lent, and I'm curious how it goes.

My supplements are a multi-vitamin (for men over 50), fish oil, cinnamon, D3, and probably one soak in an epsom salts bath once a week for magnesium (I read the same thing as @evp_nz). Now let me say this: you have to be careful where you buy supplements. I bought D3 supplements and from Walmart, took them daily, and guess…

Down 5 lbs this week after last week's 'blah' week! Total weight loss is 24.3 lbs over the past 8 weeks. No severe adjustments to the plan, just concentrated on getting back on track, continuing my elliptical workouts and walking. The only change I made may have been mental . . . to try to calm myself before meals, slow…

Hi @deborahbarnes904 and @Buds200 !!! Welcome aboard! Start your own discussion thread so we can join in your progress. I have learned from pretty much everybody here.

My Feb goal: Do Not Eat King Cake! It's Mardi Gras season in Louisiana.

wow a LOT of info here! Thanks for posting.

Thanks @blambo61 , @brendagaudette , and @Abm4n !

Isn't it wonderful to be presented with a surprise mystery that is GOOD for a change?

Tougher week! Gained 0.5 pound, for total weight loss of 19.25 lbs since 12/30/17. Was quite tired and had low energy most of this week, unlike the prior weeks. For now, I'm assuming this is just a 'thing' and will push through it. Broke the fast yesterday, co-workers wanted to go out for lunch and had been planning this a…

You look like a whole new person!

A good time to look back at the progress you've made so far. Hold on to the discipline, maybe binge-watch more of Joe's videos. You got this. It's only a bad 1.5 weeks, you are in this for the long haul.

Awesome!

Wow, this is really something. You deserve to let yourself go. Once a day. ;)

How have you been doing? It's been a while.

Yes, it does indeed have its place.

Wow!!!!! What a transformation!

Day 1-3 are difficult, no doubt. It gets better and more natural after that. That's out there waiting for you!

Don't beat yourself up. To make mistakes makes you human. C'mon human, you'll do it tomorrow. Get a good night's rest and you'll be fine. We are in this for the long haul.

Here is the difference for me, you can see the daily fluctuations vs. weekly. Weekly shows progress, daily is kind of a 'head game'.

Good movie news AND a splurge day??? Woohoo!!!

"Honest" photos of me are usually shockingly negative motivation ;)

I found OMAD first, Fung next, reading his book now. I'll be the first to admit, my caffeine monster is walkin' and talkin' right now. I'll work on that later. B)

@abnersutton Awesome progress Abner!! @EVP_NZ Welcome aboard Erin! I think you'll find OMAD simple and effective, and will like this group. Good luck!!!

Impressive to put on that much muscle while losing weight! Where do you go to get your Inbody measurements?

Back on the zones, it's a continuum, right? Both benefit the heart & circulatory system, both burn fat, to varying degrees. But the fitness industry had to hype it up somehow so they could sell more stuff . . . Everything I know about heart rate zones I learned from reading this guy: Covert Bailey The Ultimate Fit or Fat

As you should! It shows terrific progress!

I would follow Joe's advice on exercise as he lays out in his videos. As someone here shared "the gym is for fitness, and the kitchen is for weight loss". Whatever you do, or don't do, keep it relaxing and stay relaxed about it. This is for life. Remember, stress produces cortisol, and that's a weight-gain hormone.

There's a lot to be said about "fat burning" vs. "cardio" zones, and I'm neither an expert nor very experienced at providing fitness advice for others, but I wouldn't take the names of the zones that literally. Suffice to say that "fat burningzone" is 50 to 70% of max heart rate, and 70-85% of max heart rate is the "cardio…