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When I lost a large amount of weight it took about six months after the weight loss for it to hit my hair. It’s very normal to have slow growth and thinning following a large loss. Eventually it will go back to normal. I agree that being cold all the time sounds like a thyroid issue, but it’s also partly a result of having…

Re: UTIs - I haven’t had one since properly controlling my diabetes, used to get them constantly. You know diabetes mellitus literally means “honey pee” and Ancient Greek doctors used to diagnosis it by tasting the patient’s pee? Turns out bacteria like all that extra sugar too!

First make sure your thyroid is in range and properly treated. They have recently updated the recommendations and not all older doctors are on-board, so if yours is one who thinks tsh of 4-10 is good enough, you might have a conversation with him. Everything is easier when your meds are at the right level. Then reach down…

This, except that I would add get yourself a box, bench or chair of the right height and do box squats for a while. Almost always lack of depth is partly because you aren’t properly hinging backwards. Box squats teach you what reaching back with your butt and proper form feels like. Squatting rear end to ground and just…

In for July - my goal at the moment is just to keep running! Last month involved caretaking full time for my mom, getting her to and from an operation, so much stress that my husband had heart problems, and then someone plowing into the back end of my car. Praying that July is a little easier! I do expect it to be…

Finished up June with 5 miles of trail running plus a walk. Not too hot but very humid. My husband’s heart was fine although he got a little whiny about going longer than 5k. I told him if he needs to stop go ahead, but I am getting five miles, and he sucked it up and ran with me, and it was fine. That’s June for me and it…

@swenson19d that cat! You would think he would learn by now! I hope he’s okay, at this point I would be nervous about him developing a sensitivity. Well they are totaling my poor xterra. At least the blue book on it is high, although it will end up costing about half that again to replace it, plus costs for shipping…

What you need to do is buy a testing kit and test your sugar after meals until you learn how many carbs you can tolerate. Aim to keep your sugar under 140 at its peak, about 45 minutes after eating, and back to normal by two hours. Test after every new meal until you have an idea of how you react to different foods. Then…

I upped my calories when I reached goal, then coasted down a few pounds past goal before leveling out at what seems to be my happy weight, a few pounds lower than I had planned. After a few years I decided to set my calories permanently to lose half a pound a week, which allows me to make logging errors and still maintain.

I know several people who had it. Two of them had severe complications for almost a year and one nearly died. Severe complications are still common, look up the rates for your particular surgery. I would say about half of the people I know who had it gained the weight back in time through stretching their stomach. In…

I’ve told this story before but in my first 5k I was determined to beat a lady with a stroller. Little did I know she was a running coach who led a class on how to run with a stroller! Plus she was about a decade and a half younger. She became my secret nemesis and I did eventually beat her, two years later, at the same…

For me there’s not a divide between the two. I find it easier to stay within my calorie limit when I avoid quick carbs and processed foods. I’m not religious about it, although I do limit carbs to about 150 g daily because of my diabetes, but it’s much easier to eat a satisfying 500 calorie meal of fresh vegetables, fruit,…

Which means you beat all the other guys who didn’t even show up!

Oh man, I hope I’m still running sub 30 5ks at almost 80, what a hardcore dude! You did great, glad you had a good race! With real live people and everything! It gives me hope.

I’m a type 2 who went from BMI of 40 to 23, it can be done! It took me about a year and a half to lose 125 lbs. The good news is not only does losing that much usually help with PCOS symptoms, you will probably find your diabetes much improved, I always tell new people to start by logging everything accurately, weighing…

Good luck tomorrow @Tramboman ! Wasn’t going to run today because I was in a car wreck (details are in the nutrition support thread if you’re interested) and my knee got banged up, but decided to go out for a short one anyway because I ended up with a free hour. Midday and it was stinking hot, plus we were exploring a new…

The steroids will cause not only the high sugar (I am diabetic and when I had a single injection for a knee injury my usually well-controlled glucose levels went through the roof for a week) but also central fat gain, directly. There’s not much you can do other than what you’re already doing. If you can tolerate more heavy…

Btw I am working on getting my husband to check his arm out. It hit the window.felt mostly fine at the time but has since swollen and bruised and gotten painful over the distal humerus and it seems pretty likely there is a compression fracture in there. I am not running today because the dash hitting my knee has left it…

@shanaber oh, it was definitely heat stroke - heat index was 104 and the police kept us all waiting in the direct sunlight for over an hour while they checked registration, filed paperwork, and so on. I was trying my best to be civil the whole time while my husband was getting on my last nerve pacing and shouting and…

I feel like I shouldn’t even post because my life has gotten to the point of not being credible. But sometimes a picture says it all: Was he texting? How does one miss coming up on a big bright green xterra driving down a straight stretch of road in broad daylight and just plow right into the back of it? I dunno. I can’t…

So my mom needs to go clear out her lockbox because they are closing the branch. The key “has always been loose in the center compartment of my wallet in my purse” and of course is not to be found. I am just asking whhhyyyyyy why did it seem like a safe place to put a lockbox key in an open wallet that gets flipped upside…

5k from WC Johnson park to Cox park and back, then a walk along the boardwalk. Slow but my husband didn’t have to stop due to his heart! And the weather was perfect. Strava died at the beginning of our walk but I believe we went about 6 miles total. Now to slowly build back to our usual routine - he is gunshy about doing…

The recipe builder is how I log homemade Indian meals. If you are cooking for yourself, build a recipe and divide it into portions. If you make it the same way every time you can use the same recipe, or you can modify it. A lot of more common Indian foods like Saag Chicken have various entries in the database which can be…

So totally off topic but I found out I probably have a previously unknown half-uncle today. A lady contacted me through ancestry DNA because she was confused why she matches my family. Turns out my paternal grandfather (now deceased) went to high school with the person she believed was her paternal grandfather and lived…

I also think the dog post is brilliant! I have a few tricks for days when it all feels harder than usual. The other day it was singing a little song that went, “Jump out of bed and do it anyway, do it anyway, do it anyway… what else are you gonna do?” while getting ready for a morning run on not nearly enough sleep before…

Today was absolutely perfect weather and also a rest/lifting day. Oh well! Yesterday was our run day and it was extremely unpleasant - only 83 but with dew point of 78 which is officially “just skip it” weather according to the chart showing the effect of dew point on run speed. But my husband and I got out on trails and…

Very happy you are still on track and succeeding in your weight loss! Looking forward to many more posts about your successes.

One thing that’s important to realize is that you don’t really gain or lose a pound of fat a day, you are seeing shifts in water weight. To gain a pound of fat you would have to eat 3,500 calories over your maintenance calories, and you aren’t doing that. Unless you are doing massive amounts of exercise such as a marathon…

@WhatMeRunning Was it possibly a carpenter bee? Males are very territorial and will chase you a long way and fly at your face aggressively, even bonking you in the face, but they can’t sting. @polskagirl01 I went to the race organizer’s Facebook page and used Google translate to read the comments. So now I know how to say…

The best way to get more willpower is to make the right choices easy. Trying to do something hard that you don’t enjoy will always lead to failure in the long run. My suggestion is always to start by logging for a week or even two weeks without trying to change a thing. This will get you in the habit of measuring and…