neillc57 Member

Yes I did. I have also replace batteries. I haven't tried putting the contacts on my back.

I wasn't clear. I am saying when I got heavier I lost the problem. Now I am leaner again I got the problem back.

Some deserts have massive quantities of salt. I think it was Jell-O instant vanilla pudding I tried. I weighed three pounds heavier the next day from the water retention caused by eating one of those guys (the whole sachet). Like a gram and a half of sodium and of course it doesn't taste salty. After I lost a lot of weight…

I just found these things in QFC. Totally awesome. Better than the mission low carb Tortillas I was eating and 10 less calories while being heavier! They have cellulose in them which I use in my protein powder.

I am from Birmingham but have lived in the US for over 20 years. Coffee creamer can be a bunch of different things. They all just make your coffee white. The simplest is 'half and half' which is half cream half milk. Then you have various concoctions using non-dairy fats. The US has a lot of people who are lactose…

Feel free to ignore this as it's off topic. I was searching for low cal coffee creamer in the past and after trying different things I finally realized I just wanted something to take the bitter edge off the coffee. So I make up a solution of sucralose and add a bit of that to my coffee. I went from somebody who took it…

I do this too. Tried a bunch of veggie options. Really liked some spicy black bean burgers I had some time ago. I don't understand why they had so much fat in the beyond burger. I just stuck mine in a pan without oil (what I always try first) and it was swimming after a short time. They would get me to buy more given I…

I am not a vegetarian but I like eating new stuff so when I saw then after all the hype I tried them. I found them quite nice to eat. Very fatty though so not much good for diets. I wouldn't say it tasted like a burger. Maybe better in a bun. I just eat mine as it was after pan frying.

I am eating Rhubarb everyday currently. I just chop it up and microwave till it breaks up. Then sweeten with sucralose and erythritol. Tastes awesome. Had it yesterday with halo top as well and that was nice but a lot more calories. I tried baking an apple the same kind of way but it wasn't as good.

I thought the rules specifically allow ingredients to have lower calorie values if that's been shown via measurements. So for example Erythritol can be labeled as being low because it's excreted for the most part. When I lookup tapioca starch fiber separately it looks like it has 10kcal / 5g. So here:…

I think these are totally awesome.

A couple of people say their diaries are open but they are not. Was interested in looking at a low carb diary.

The fiberone products are too dangerous for me. I like the chewy oats and chocolate things. They are really nice. I eat 9 in one day and my whole insides poured out like sludge. At least I have a good estimate for gut contents weight from it.

Thyroid down regulation causes a slower heart rate.

It's possible it's just the new normal for me now. I hope not as I don't think I will get used to it.

So I came here to ask a very specific question. I wanted to know how long it took people to reverse the cold hands problem. I know others have it as I can see posts about it. I have scheduled a comprehensive thyroid test to get some data. I have listened to what you said. I have even looked at your food diary. You eat very…

I only have the cold hands problem. I don't even have cold feet or a cold body. Orthostatic hypo-tension and cramps were caused by BP meds (HCTZ). As soon as my doc took me off them I am 100% free of this. I haven't lost 220lbs. I have lost 90+. I exercised before I lost weight as well as while I did. I don't think I did…

For my weight loss I never went below 1800kcalc / day. My maintenance is 2500kcalcs. My first two weeks were at 90% of that. I eat close to 200g of net carbs some days. Hence the reason I am asking if others had this problem how long it took to resolve. I think I have been thinking it through all along. That's your trade…

Recomp is know to be rather slow in comparison to bulking. In the 4 weeks at maintenance I got some improvement in the gym so it's likely I got some by accident.

Maybe you missed that bit where I said 'I tried 4 weeks at maintenance calories (2 of those weeks with > 100g carbs/day) and the dry skin resolved itself. Not the hands.'.

Are you expecting a small weight loss? My digital scales have an annoying feature. If you step on them twice they give you the same answer. So if my weight change from day to day is small they will just display the same number till the difference gets big enough. If I pull out the batteries then I will see different…

I have had people tell me that diet soda just makes you eat more so I should avoid it. I also remember reading something similar to this. For me this stuff is amazing. I might drink 10+ cans a day. In a deficit after you finish a meal you might feel like you want to eat some more. Down a couple of cans of diet orange soda…

It's just an experiment. I love roasted peanuts but I also like the raw ones just not quite as much. Some people suggest they ended up preferring the raw ones after eating them for a bit as well. No matter what I am eating nuts every single day!

Well I am currently eating maintenance calories at close to 2500kcalc/day. On Saturday when I start the restriction again it will drop a little but not by much. I am hoping I don't have to go to 1800kcals/day where I ended up after 90+lbs lost. You maybe smaller than me etc.

I am not sure what you mean. Of course cooked foods have different profiles because they lose stuff like water. This is not the effect I am talking about. I am talking about how heating a food makes the calories more bioavailable. It's considered one of the milestones of human development that we learned how to get more…

Since peanut consumption has also had studies conclude that calories are excreted it hardly matters that the typical name given to them is not actually 100% correct.

Wow you guys are so quick to click on woo that you don't even check your preconceived notions. There are quite a number of studies looking at the apparent lack of calories extracted from nuts. There are even studies examining excretions to see what isn't digested. Here is one I just pulled up with a quick search:…

Cooking makes nutrients more available to the body. So for example the starch in a potato is not digestible except by gut bacteria. Cook it and the starch can be digested by the body. Some foods like beans have structures that prevent starches from getting digested by the body but ferment in the gut. Nuts may have a…

My own family (mother, sister and brother in law) are willing my failure. They skyped early in the morning and I was eating a huge bowl of vegetables, curry powder and a bit of beef. They asked what I was eating and I said 'curry'. They all started laughing. 'I thought you were on a diet?' quickly followed by 'How much…

Very helpfully thanks. I am a million miles from the first guy. I have more fat than the second guy I think as well. I was pretty much expecting to have to continue but wanted to make sure I am not missing something (like the skin thickness can't get small because of existing fat cells.