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So good to read inspirational posts like yours! Congratulations

Done too! Good challenge

London add me too :-)

Big difference!!! Congratulations

If you are on Facebook check Adriana Miranda in her 60's and for me I role model of where I want to be in her age :-)

. That would do too :-)

I want to forget...or maybe born again in a different family

Following this. I've started 3 months ago and I was really strict. 1200 calories and not eating back any of my exercises calories. I've had a crazy weekend starting Friday evening and I'm up 8.8lbs this morning. I felt awful!

I take my hats off to anyone with a six pack all the hard work and discipline. For attraction and dating I prefer bigger guys. In the success stories here, I usually find the before picture more attractive than after for the guys :-).

May Heather recover. You are all in my prayers sending you wishes for health and strength through this difficult time.

Thank you! Yes protein I'm going for 1g per body weight so it's good. Then fats. I was really hungry yesterday and I just ate as much as I felt. Today I couldn't and I think it's all about my body balancing as I learned here. I'm really glad this group exists :-)

Well done!!! Looking so good!

Even your skin has improved! And by your smile I can tell your mood has too! Well done!

@kyucifer very good ideas and nice to know the hunger goes away for other people too. I'm happy with that, as I used to binge eat in the past. So gong to a party and not eating the whole place is a nice feeling. And yes I've already started implementing some changes after reading the comments here :-). Thank you

Wow!!! Congratulations Chris! You definitely got a new lease in life! All your hard work has paid off! Well done

London :-).

Mirena drove me mad. I was bloated, mood swings, tearfulness you name it. I had it taken off in three months. But I have friends who swear by it and lost weight on it.

@Dragonwolf wow! Thank you so much for such a comprehensive reply! Lots of good info there that I had no idea of. Now feeling that buying the sticks were a waste :-). As I have no medical reason to be on ketosis, I'll leave it as it is then. Thanks again :-)

@kpk54 yes I do know I'm not eating enough, and I asked the question here because I know this can be a result from keto eating. I'm not eating this little on purpose. I love my food!! I've been vegan and vegetarian for most of my life mainly eating bread and carbs, so I think my body is adapting to this amount of protein.…

@Catawampous yes these last days my hunger hasn't come back yet. But I'm adding sodium and see how it goes. Thank you for replying

@RalfLott protein I'm aiming at 1g per kilo of body weight. But yes it seems my sodium was off as someone pointed out. Bouillon yesterday less thirsty today! Ahah I do want to be hungry again but I'll go with the flow and just accept at this point I'm not, really forcing myself to eat makes me nauseous. And I used to stuff…

I'll check with my GP what he tested me for. I'm not sure, I know it was blood sugar. But yesterday I had some bouillon and my thirsty is better today! In the past more salt would make me thirstier it seems it was what I was lacking!

Thank you @cstehansen I was taking a multivitamin it finished so I'll buy another. I'm 19kbs away from goal, so hopefully my hunger will come back. That's good to know that after all this time you still get days that you can't eat. I'll trust the process :-).

Thanks @Steph_Maks weight loss wise I have no complaints at all. I'll try upping my sodium but my food is really salty already. So yes my net calories are quite low. Yesterday I ate 840 and exercise expenditure 1227. Someone here mentioned heavy cream and peanut butter that's easy to eat more of :-).

Thank you Liz! Weight loss I'm really pleased just don't want to damage myself eating so little. So yes makes sense that my body is using its own fat even though the ketosis sticks do not show I'm in ketosis. I'll add some more salt to my diet then. I've been tested for diabetes and it's clear. Must be the electrolytes…

Thank you for your reply. Fine then I do 30g without subtracting so I should be on ketosis even though the sticks do not show it. I do a fair amount of exercise. 15.000 steps a day plus 6 gym classes, plus 3 yoga sessions. My target is 1200 but for instance in the two last days I have eaten 715 and 840 calories. I don't…

What an amazing achievement!!! Well done

Look at you!!! So much happier in the second pic! Well done!

So good to read this today. I don't take my pictures often and dodge them as often as I can. I know how daunting it is to post publically. I did it and felt kind of good. You look great in both pictures, in the second one you're shining with happiness! Well done!

TOM? 5 pounds for me from one day to the other.