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Meds will help, the right dose of thyroid meds can be life changing. However, your thyroid being out of whack doesn’t mean the scale won’t budge, it just means you have to eat slightly less than other people to see a difference. Low thyroid doesn’t change your metabolism that much, studies have found it’s like, ten…

I’m kind of weirded out by this study because it finds the exact opposite of every other study ever - which have consistently found that exercise increases metabolism temporarily even after the exercise is complete. I need to know more about their methodology and what they measured before I have an opinion.

As a type 2 I’m very interested in this aspect of your husband’s experience. Would you feel comfortable sharing his blood work numbers and how they change as he loses weight and changes his lifestyle?

OP: I like your attitude towards your future goals, but don’t forget to celebrate the goal you reached, even if it turned out not to be your final goal. You did a thing! You set a goal, you made a plan, and you saw it through. You know now that you can do whatever you decide to do because you are awesome!

The thing is, if you reach your goal weight and go right back to the way you used to eat, you will gain the weight right back, because that’s how you gained it in the first place! Not everyone is “on a diet” but everyone HAS a diet. Every person has to eat the right amount of food to sustain their body appropriately at a…

Supposedly a long run today but we got a little bit Ida’d at the halfway point so we called it a day. What’s left of Ida isn’t supposed to get here until late Monday but we are already getting crazy gusting winds and specks of thunderstorm. Started out super hot and humid as usual, blinding sunlight, (I think husband said…

I still get suggested to follow Dennis (keeprunningfatboy) who died three years ago. It’s honestly a little disturbing sometimes.

Your mom sure has had a rough year, goodness. I’m sorry for your loss.

My understanding based on current studies is that being vaccinated reduced the likelihood of being infected with Delta, compared to having had an earlier variant. Also, fully vaxxed people can pass on the virus, but are less likely to, especially if they are asymptomatic. The belief at the moment is that breakthrough…

That’s my favorite spider! That’s some kind of Argiope, colloquially known as “writing spiders” because of the zig zag stays at the center of their webs. We used to get them in the hayloft at the barn where I grew up, and the older kids would tell the younger ones that if the spider sees your teeth, it will write your name…

I hope your neighbor is going to be okay! Yes, this is a great technology! I bought this watch for my mom when she started getting dotty, and it was set to notify me and 911 if she fell, but for some reason every time she fell it didn’t go off - she seems to have decided to store her pen under her watch band or something?…

I’m going to buck the trend and say there’s nothing wrong with doing it this way. However you get to a calorie deficit is fine as long as you’re happy. In a perfect world you might plan ahead to run because you knew you were going to eat more, but that sort of planning will come with time as you get used to how much you…

Speaking of going back to virtual races, I just learned that my September race which was going to be my first in person race since Covid has been indefinitely postponed. Since my husband and I had already discussed that we needed to go virtual with it due to high caseload, and we weren’t properly trained anyway due to the…

My husband absolutely loses his tiny mind any time the scale goes up due to water weight. I can say, “You literally just now told me your quads are so sore you can barely walk, of course you have water retention,” or, “You told me last night when we ate all that sushi that the soy was gonna make you gain water weight,” and…

My husband’s stepbrother and his wife both have Covid. They live in Florida and are the sort of people who wouldn’t get vaxxed for political reasons. My cancer survivor FIL who lives in the same town and has been avoiding them because of their refusal to get vaxxed says he is now trying really hard not to say I told you…

Hot again. Heat index was 112 when we set out and dropped to only 104 by the time we finished! 5 miles trails. Needed someplace shady because of the heat so we went to WC Johnson which is all woods. Doing the same trudge around the loop we have done so often seemed really boring so we did one of the primitive trails first,…

I think I would lose my tiny mind stopping a run at 3.07! The OCD would just kill me.

Do remember that heavier people get higher burns. Since he’s a man and overweight he is burning more than you for the same activity. I actually use the outlandish MFP estimates and successfully maintain that way. However, I also have myself set to sedentary, which isn’t necessarily true, so probably the underestimate from…

Since you’re lacto, whey protein is a good option for you. Also low fat cheeses such as ricotta and cottage cheese, and Greek yogurt. While it’s possible to get plenty of protein on a vegan diet, dairy makes it much easier since even protein dense plant sources are half carbs. When in doubt, grab some cottage cheese and…

A scuppernong is a bronze-colored variety of muscadine. Unfortunately all the ones I saw on the path had been split open and eaten by birds! This is a little early for them, usually we get them in September.

Another hot one! This heat alert is supposed to last all week. No idea what the local station said at the time but my Strava dealy says heat index was 105. We got out a little earlier but it didn’t make much difference - heat index was 101 at sunset last night and didn’t go down much overnight. So, I have a race in two…

@julieannegannon Add me to the dynamic stretching / brisk walking group. I stretch particular muscles I have had trouble with, especially rocker squats which stretch calves, shins, feet. No plantar fasciitis or shin splints since I started rocker squats. I also brisk walk about half a mile to let my cardiovascular system…

@quilteryoyo TNcare is a sin and a shame and that’s all I have to say about that. You have my sympathy. Love my state but wish it would get a different attitude towards all aspects of health. @CMorning99 I had missed the first post about your cat. I’m so sorry and hope the time he has left is good. I recently decided to…

It depends a lot on what’s in your sauce. I’m a diabetic and a large amount of sugar-heavy sauce will spike my blood glucose. If it’s mainly mustard or vinegar based, it’s not a problem. I usually just guess.

My mom’s friend who said she would only take it after it had been fully approved now says she is planning to get the Johnson & Johnson, which is… still not approved. However she also says she will “get around to it eventually,” so I’m not holding my breath. Anyway the fact that she is now fine with the J&J when for months…

Is there still such a thing as a psy d degree? That’s where you go from a masters in psych. It lets you become a clinical psychologist without requiring an actual MD like a psychiatrist. (Full disclosure, has a masters in psych which is why I went into art as a profession - the degree it turns out is not edible and I…

BTW when I see someone barely logging anything I usually assume they aren’t logging properly, not that they aren’t eating. I guess if the person were skinny I might think they were anorexic but the only people on my feed logging 1100 calories are the same ones posting about how they never lose any weight for the past three…

Hey, whatever works, works. I do the opposite, I’m in maintenance but have myself set to lose .5 a week because I know I am sloppy with my logging. I could weigh and measure more strictly, or I could give myself a couple hundred calories of wiggle room and know from weighing myself that it’s coming out about right over…

Yeah, metabolic confusion is not a thing. Hey, that’s actually good news, now you don’t need to pay for it! All weight loss works by creating a caloric deficit. Obviously this is easier when you are more active, but even sedentary people can do it by eating less. Injuries suck, and trying to lose weight while injured…

It’s all context. As a type 2, there’s no real difference between dates and candy in how they affect my glucose, but when running a half marathon I eat candy and I need to! Incidentally, I can eat potatoes until they come out my ears without a spike, and some diabetics have a real problem with them. Since each diabetic has…