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You have a number of options. If you want to eliminate certain things, you could do it slowly or quickly. You could decide not to quit anything but learn to have some or all of those foods in moderation. You could gradually switch to sugar free soda, no added sugar non-carbonated drinks, or drink less of the regular soda.…

That sounds about right.

A small halogen oven like a Flavorwave might be handy. I don't have a cooker and I use my halogen oven for making toast, grilling and roasting meat and vegetables, defrosting, cooking ready meals, and you can remove the cooking rack and use the bowl to make stews and chilli. Learn to use your microwave on it's different…

Why shouldn't adults use "tummy"? It's a cute word. I heard it comes from "tumescence', but I haven't looked up its etymology.

My clinical depression didn't start in my tummy. With the advent of atomic energy and the dropping of atomic bombs, every inch of soil on the planet now contains low levels of radiation. Organic food may be free of chemical pesticides, but it doesn't mean it's free of all chemicals. And I don't like eating caterpillars…

Traditional Black Forest gateau. It has a very thin pastry base, so I guess it qualifies as a cake tart. But I'm a fiend for a good cherry pie.

Over the years, I've found the opposite to be true. People twist themselves in knots of guilt about eating foods labelled 'crap' whether they're in a calorie deficit, deliberately undereating or even starving themselves, because they think they're 'cheating', being 'naughty', 'sinful' or 'bad' just by eating those things.…

I know McDonald's has an allergy book you can look through, which lists ingredients of all their items with their caloric values. Other restaurants may have something similar, so you could ask when you're there, and input manually in My Foods for future reference.

I'll do a quick stir fry, or get a ready meal that's fairly low in carbs, and steam some extra veg in the microwave to add to it, or just have a simple meal of meat or fish with veg and a bit of rice.

I had undiagnosed diabetes for over a year and it was hellish. I really wish I'd had my bloods done earlier. The earlier you can spot any potential issues, the sooner you can start to deal with them. Heart problems and strokes run in my family so I know the fear that comes with wondering if I'm next. My diabetes diagnosis…

Digital scales are pretty cheap in most supermarkets. It's not clear if you're talking about weighing food or weighing yourself. If weighing food, ounces are an Imperial measure. One ounce is traditionally 28 grams, and one Imperial pound is 16 ounces (448g). One Imperial kilo is 2.2 pounds (952g). In metric the equivalent…

20g seems very low even for keto. The UK limit for T2 diabetics on a low carb diet is 30g a day, and even thats's only for twelve weeks initially. If there's no medical reason for having only 20g a day maybe you could consider raising your carb intake slightly, which would naturally add a bit more fibre to your diet.

This thread is so liberating. It's actually made me feel better about eating and logging calorie dense foods. I still have some residual, ultimately useless guilt from decades of moral lecturing from all quarters about foods labelled junk, bad and lethal, which sometimes makes me embarrassed to log those things, but really…

The fact you're embarking on yet another fancily labelled eating regime suggests that you haven't yet accepted the fact that eating at a calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight. It doesn't much matter what you eat for weight loss, but having a diet higher in proteins, vegetables, fruit, wholegrains, beans pulses,…

Confessions. It's a Japanese revenge story. Was slated by critics but I found it incredible. The final scenes left me totally gobsmacked.

I lost my appetite for about a month the first time I went on a certain antidepressant. I couldn't stand the sight of food. Once my body had adjusted to the medication my appetite returned. If you're still experiencing no appetite in 4 to 6 weeks, go back to your doctor. You may just need to adjust your dose, or even the…

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The only change you'll see in three days is massive hunger which will probably lead to a huge binge. Also water is toxic and can actually kill you if too much is ingested in a short time. I would ask you to rethink this course of action. It won't teach you to eat properly, and any results will be so negligible that you may…

Cake and ice cream, and getting lost in the Marvel universe. Or binge watching Voltron.

You may be right. Bill Tilden won Wimbledon and he only ate steak and ice cream, apparently. He did die young, mind you. But the body needs fibre, too, and that comes from complex carbohydrates. Plus a carb free diet wouldn't be very interesting, unless you were Bill Tilden, or a hyena or something.

Hi, I'm T2, diagnosed around this time last year. I'm on Metformin and a statin for my cholesterol. I don't test my BG as I'm able to (finally) manage it through diet. I found it extremely difficult at first, as I had to cut out sugar and reduce carbs. I didn't have the first idea how to lose weight and I had almost zero…

We live in a society where the smaller you are, the more attention and approval you get, and even if you don't meet conventional standards of 'pretty' you're still treated as if you are, because we've equated 'thin' with 'attractive'. The bigger you are, the more you're invisible. If we lived in a society where being thin…

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I used to have a little nagging doubt that the numbers might be wrong, but my numbers fluctuated because I was being weighed on different scales in different rooms at the doctors. At home I took five readings in five different locations in the house so I could average the numbers out for a more accurate reading. I don't…

If you want to go to the gym you may have to take the plunge and walk there by yourself. You could start by walking a quarter of the way there, then halfway there, then three quarters there, until you get there. Unfortunately we can't always have people with us, and the more you go it alone the more normal it will become.…

Vitamins are pretty cheap to manufacture, so it would seem to me that you're most likely paying for the advertising, packaging, lab tests, capsule materials, office/warehouse space, labour, consultants, printing, the glass vial, and the cost of having it sent to you, than the actual vitamins themselves. You may as well go…

I don't think you need to worry. You'll likely continue to lose weight, it'll just be at a slower pace, and dropping your rate now might get you in the mindset of accepting and being comfortable with a slower rate of loss. You've been doing this for a long time, so you may have settled into a pattern of eating that's…

I think it depends. There are a lot of vegans on low incomes who make it work. But for some people, veganism isn't possible on a low income even if they want to be vegan, because they live in places where fresh, cheap food isn't readily available, there are no ready sources of protein that don't come from animals, they…

You could have your clothes taken in? Lots of cheap dressmakers/alteration services out there.

If a program like that had been available where I am, I would've jumped on it. I'm one of those people who for years had no clue about how or wherr to start weight loss, how to sustain it by eating differently, and who bought into the 'motivation/willpower' mantra-- I was discouraged because I had neither. It would've been…