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Daily Post (Friday) Day/Goals:Up nearly 3lb over last weeks weigh in, with less than 24 hrs to go, pretty dissapointed as I've not had a lazy week or eaten over budget. Consistent 1600cal days with one 1800 day early in the week. All of which should be way under the BMR of a guy my size. I suppose my body is handling an…

@jennfalzon1979 I can't offer solutions, but I sure can appreciate the frustration of a stall. Perhaps a little intermittent fasting would shake your system into action. My only other suggestion is a little counter intuitive. I broke my last stall by upping my daily calories by 100 for a week, then dropping them again. But…

Aww dangitt, I just went to post my Wed check in and Here's my Tues checkin sitting here unposted. :/ Daily Post (Tuesday) Day/Goals:Just resting up. Calories: Yes. Exercise: Just a bit. Water Intake: Reasonable. Daily Post (Wednesday) Day/Goals:Keeping busy around the house. Hate dressings that stick. Calories: Yes.…

You're right.. Eating less than you want day after day and not getting your reward is super frustrating. But you have to give yourself a bit of credit too.. You are here and you are losing, even if it's not the pace you would like. Take heart in the fact that you're moving in the right direction and see about dialing in…

@tinak33 I am definitely going to use that :) @mexiconona Welcome back. That ship looks really nice. And a general warning to all, I'm stuck here for a few days. Will try to not spam the chat too badly. :*

Your spring is my Autumn and it's my favorite time of the year. It brings with it pleasant temps and the promise of slightly cooler months ahead. Being subtropical, we don't really have 4 distinct seasons, just nice weather most of the year with 2 really hot months and 2 chilly to cold months. that being said, I can't wait…

Hmm, well I'm taking a long distance guess here. But with new plugs and coils, if you still don't have strong spark, check your earth wires. They will be chunky wires or braids that earth your engine to the chassis. There are probably several of them and can corrode or break in older vehicles. lack of a good earth will…

Thanks all for the concern about my finger, I think it's fair to say that my dreams of becoming a world famous pianist and hand model are properly dead. And if I thought it was hard to find properly fitting gloves before, it won't be any easier. But it really could have been catastrauphically worse. It will be a bit…

You're going great, I hope I'm losing at that rate when I get near to 200. Have an awesome April.

Ok so not my best start to a week or month. I managed to get bitten by a power tool. It could have been a whole lot worse but still ranks right up there on the ouchies scale. So many nerve endings in fingers. I'll just show a picture of the glove and your imaginations can fill in the blanks. I promise it's not as bad as it…

Congrats to all, some great losses in there. Have a great April.

Hi team, I'm Bryce from East coast Australia. I joined the Slimsons last October at 307lb and I'm now 248.6lb My goal is to get under 200 just as soon as I reasonably can. Not sure how often I will be around the internet this month, but I'll always say hi when I can. Good to see some of our established crew and a warm…

It's a long black coffee that you put in a blender with a tablespoon of MCT oil. (refined coconut and palm) And two tablespoons of grass fed unsalted butter. Then blend up until it reaches a latte consistency. That one I took a picture of sat for a bit before I grabbed my phone. It did have a nice fluffy froth on top to…

Hey, just a quick followup on this topic. I've had a chance to do both an end of busy day test and a fresh in the morning one. I'm reading that a healthy "in keto" range is from 1.5-3mmol/L My late in the day test came in at 2.1 and my fresh in the morning test just read 2.4 So I'm pretty happy with those numbers. So, now…

Daily Post (Friday) Day/Goals:Tried my first bulletproof coffee today. Turned out pretty good. I think I probably prefer my usual creamy cuppa, but will definitely add the occasional BPC to my world. Calories: Yes. Exercise: Yes. Water Intake: Good With the msg vs tag thing.. I burned out really badly on the msging.. I…

It's going great thanks. Not as much vertical progress as I would like, but the site prep is all but done and my pile of locally sourced and recycled lumber is on target. I've diverted funds and time over the last couple of months into renovating a light truck that will be invaluable for moving the last heavy lumber to the…

Haha... I was halfway through typing a reply when I saw the AB0215 had replied to topic message.. I'm just going to add a couple of things to that. I took a run up at keto.. I was eating upwards of 100-150g of carbs per day last year and so I started weening myself off them. Slashed the portions of pasta, bread, crackers…

I consider myself lucky to have never felt the need for sweetener in coffee. But I do like creamy coffee so my go to brew for a while now is about half the milk I used to have replaced by thickened cream. I allow myself no more than 3 per day and accept that they are one of my main sources of carb. Just today I bought the…

Daily Post (Thursday) Day/Goals:Back to the lumber today. Calories: Yes. Exercise: Yes. Would have been more if rain hadn't interrupted play. Water Intake: Good I bought a new toy. The pee based keto strips have been disturbingly showing trace or no signs of ketones for months now. Which is not uncommon in a keto adapted…

Wow, nice loss @crazedknight you've had an awesome month.

I just love 16:8. And if it's wrong I don't want to be right. Just today I was sharing with friends how much more I'm enjoying food because of it. Personally, eating throughout the day leads me to experience increased hunger throughout the day, and IF feels like what my body actually wants, so it's all win for me. I've no…

Clocking in earlier than usual today.. Had a huge day, it's 10:30pm and I'm just now able to sit and rest. Boy will I sleep well tonight. Each dot is an hour.. Daily Post (Wednesday) Day/Goals:Last day of working on my little red truck down in the valley. Brutally hot day and there was nothing for it but to just work hard…

Just to add more data to what has already been posted. I had T2db on the run by dropping under 100g carb a day. Since then I dropped my intake further to 20-40g daily to pursue a keto diet.

Daily Post (Tuesday) Day/Goals:It's my mission to fix my slipping sleep patterns. I've steadily been falling into late night routines again and it plays havoc with my eating discipline. Track: Yes. Calories: Yes. Exercise: Yes. Helping grandfather with garden. Water Intake: Ample

@lucysteen5 it seems counterintuitive to eat more, but what you're trying to do is function at an optimal level, not simply starve yourself thin. Think about eating the best amount, rather than the least. Either way, as said above, tomorrow is a new day, just press on and chalk today up to experience.

Like @CSARdiver I think a good cook is the one who understands the chemistry of cooking. They are the ones who make recipes. That's not to say anyone who enjoys cooking can't make really yummy food. Even by luck or trial and error. Personally I reckon I'm an ok cook and the worlds luckiest baker.

Couple of ways, there is the free range thing where farmer has chooks in big trailer mounted coop and moves them from field to field. (Chickens put themselves away at night, which is handy) There are some market gardening styles whereby you feed any withered leaves or discards of your vegetable crops to the chooks, and…

@143tobe I can't believe it's been 10 days already. Welcome back and congrats on the only 2lb... not a big price to pay for a fun holiday. And welcome back @IanMoone30. You folks have me thinking about a holiday too.. lol. @AB0215 I've got a shortlist of recipes I need to try now, but I'll be back for more soon :)

I used to do quite a bit of baking.. Just went back through my pics and apparently the last thing I baked was Dec 2016. YinYang cookies for my TaiChi club end of year party. So thanks heaps for the recipe, will definitely make. And cheers for the general encouragement. It's been wierdly frustrating losing weight from…

Hi dragon, I am/was T2db and though I don't really need to test any more I still do out of interest. I just had a quick look at my fasting (morning) reading and it is 80. According to the literature I was given upon diagnosis, That would be at the lower end of the ideal range. That being 72-106 for a fasting reading. And…