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Are you sure you are measuring your food properly? When I started I thought I was eating only 1000 cals a day only to discover I was tracking tablespoons as teaspoons...don't judge me...

We are confusing the eat healthy with weight loss here. I do eat clean. No processed foods. But did that alone make me skinny? No. Do I believe I am healthier for it sure. And I hate when people make fats evil....no food is evil. Variety if your friend. Cutting fat from food make it taste like crap and it won't make you…

Keto can be hard to follow at first, but after a few months it becomes easier than any diet you can do imo because the foods are simple. Like bacon and eggs.. the hardest part is the keto flu thing. My advice would be get yourself a magnesium supplement, a potassium supplement, and salt all your food making sure you get…

That sounds about right is you're doing keto, otherwise I don't think you need to be so strict. And if you are doing keto then the only real numbers you have to meet everyday would be at or under the carb limit and meet the protein limit. The fat limit after that would be to just get the cals you need to not under eat. So,…

My mother is diabetic and has high blood pressure and I was told to feed her a high carb diet...I did what you did...high healthy fats low carb and her health improved. I think they got something wrong with their diet advice for sure. But as for getting someone to take meds they don't want to....it's frustrating and…

yea unfortunately you just have to loose more weight, or have surgery...ouch. But yeah you will loose it where your body says so you have to keep loosing. Wish I knew that years ago...all those sit-ups i didn't have to do...

Yea tomato sauce isn't good for keto. That being said, it's good that you are reading labels. They put sugar in many many foods now. I find cooking my own stuff from scratch is the best way to do keto. I can control what goes in it.

yes ...i take a potassium supplement a mg supplement and i make sure to salt all my food properly.

I just google keto recipes and sift through them. I try new ones often and some I hate some I love. The ones I keep are much better than anything I used to eat. https://www.ditchthecarbs.com/nut-free-keto-brownie/ these are really really good....

Puppies don't contain caffeine a known addictive drug... Yes it's classified as a drug. So yes soda CAN be addictive to some people. And yes you have to wean yourself off if cold turkey is too hard. Also, sugar can be addictive to SOME people as well. So, you may be in the unlucky few. You can replace soda with diet soda…

If you're cooking for yourself make sure you add salt. I went from processed foods to only home cooked foods and I made the mistake of not adding salt. They say eat less salt, not no salt. What happened is since i wasn't getting salt from store bought premade foods, I actually wasn't getting salt at all. I was very sick…

Also, you might be building muscle which would make is seem like you haven't lost weight. The scale isn't the only tool you should be using. Get a measuring tape and measure your body as well. If you're seeing inches come off but not seeing weight loss then you know your changing your body comp and what you see on the…

Here is how I see it. They are still debating if artificial sweeteners cause disease or weight gain. I originally decided years ago that diet soda was healthier than drinking reg soda. But over the years, even though I did loose weight while drinking the diet soda and dieting, I decided the unknown risks (if any) were not…

It's better to start out part-time and take more the next semester if you feel you can handle it, than to fail or drop out. That stays on your records forever. If you are not sure, start out slow and add more if you can do it. .

Low carb wraps and sandwich meats and cheeses. Makes fast lunches.

I wish the first time I had slimmed up I had your courage. I was shocked to see my body like that and I got so depressed I gained the weight back on purpose. I felt like such a failure because in my mind I was gonna have a perfect body after I lost the weight. I wish more people would show this side of weight loss. I might…

I don't tell anyone. I made that mistake once. While not everyone is judgmental or negative, a lot of people are even when they mean well. I was surrounded by many negative people that were not supportive of my new eating habits at all. I even had a bf once that would sabotage my food to keep me from loosing. Now, i don't…

I use midnight as my cut off for the next day. In your case, if i under ate today and ate at midnight, I would log it for today, but if i already hit my cals for the day and ate again, i would count it for tomorrow. It really doesn't matter unless it causes you to under or over eat, if that makes sense?

I was told to go low fat! and after a year and a half on that I started going nuts. On top of it, i had dry skin, and other issues. Also to stay low fat, and still eat snacks, I was eating those fake treats they make for dieters. All my food tasted like crap. I was so scared to eat any fats that it literally was making me…

Once a week I will have a day where I want to eat a house full of food, so what I do is i figure out what would be my maintenance calories for my current weight, and I allow myself to eat the extra calories up to maintenance. This way I figure at least I am not "over eating". And it resets me for the rest of the week. I…

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;( maybe ask the community for help? You are probably doing something wrong. What are you trying to achieve? And what have you been doing?

Good for you! If you have any questions, i'd love to help.

yup yup.

:( my mother tried that stuff. It just made her i'll. What it does is makes you have diarrhea and stomach pains if you eat high fat foods. It comes from the idea that fats make you fat. I don't recommend it. I personally eat a high fat diet and I loose very rapidly on keto. It's not the "diet" you eat that makes you loose…

NEW YORK 5'6" SW: 214 CW: 186 GW: 125 If your my twin and lost the weight, did you have a lot of sagging skin? I am worried about that.

For me keto makes me feel better and I don't feel hungry. So, in that sense it helps me lose weight, because I don't have cravings and i don't over eat. I also am allergic to a LOT of carbs including grains fruit n veg. So for me, this makes sense. Before I started, people told me i would die if I did keto, i would…

I don't understand how you think that 15 pounds in 1.5 months is slow?

And I am a fan of reducing added sugars myself. But by added sugars I mean cane sugar, corn syrup, etc. Not fruits. Although, if you are diabetic, then you may have to watch your fruit intake at times if your sugar is not regulated. Other than that idk why someone would tell you bananas are bad for you.

ask her if she needs and adult present. jk I am sorry i couldn't resist.