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GOALS Keto and IF Lots of cardio! Take hormones like I'm supposed to This is my third round. Lost 5 lbs in round 1, but wobbled up and down in round 2, because of an error with a soda (thought it was diet and wasn't) on keto. Obviously lead to food cravings, several days of higher calorie intakes, and water retention. I…

GOALS Keto and IF Lots of cardio! Take hormones like I'm supposed to This is my third round. Lost 5 lbs in round 1, but wobbled up and down in round 2, because of an error with a soda (thought it was diet and wasn't) on keto. Obviously lead to food cravings, several days of higher calorie intakes, and water retention. I…

GOALS Keto and IF Lots of cardio! Take hormones like I'm supposed to This is my third round. Lost 5 lbs in round 1, but wobbled up and down in round 2, because of an error with a soda (thought it was diet and wasn't) on keto. Obviously lead to food cravings, several days of higher calorie intakes, and water retention. I…

GOALS Keto on! Explore a couple of vegan keto recipes Complete Stage 1 of Shed & Shred 4+ days/ week Take my hormone/ bc pills like it's my religion lol During Round 1, went from 245-240ish. I use an analogue scale, so exact numbers aren't available. I have suffered with eating disorders so pulling my hair out over less…

Days before today under the spoiler 12/12 239/240 Thank you to everyone for all of the hugs yesterday. I know it's just a little button, but it was so nice just knowing that many people saw it and understood. Like a tiny internet pat on the back. Today I'm trying to get back into things, but I'm having some female issues.…

I actually did find a keto bread that's great! It's made almost entirely of flax and egg. Of course, you have to be into the taste of flax, and not everyone is into it, but for me, definitely a "better than nothing" situation. I did totally find the same thing about the few keto breads I've made in the past few weeks. An…

12/11 My dad coded at the hospital today. Before you guys get all, "I'm so sorry", this was an abusive man who was responsible for much of the psychological damage that drove me to twenty years of depression and a few other mental disorders (dissociative) which it has taken me into my 30's to get enough education about, to…

12/10 241 What the deuce? I wrote this whole big long post yesterday, and it isn't here. I'm a little upset. Also upset about teetering back at 241ish, but this is why I don't go on the stupid dramatic roller coaster of weighing every single day. It's just not healthy for my emotional state. I can't imagine constantly…

Under the Spoiler is Days Before Today 12/07 AaaaaaaaAAAAA. I was doing great today, and then I was in a hurry. I grabbed, at a gas station, what I thought was a diet soda. But my hand went slightly to one side and got the wrong one. I ended up having about 8 oz of regular soda, while doing keto. Dammit. But I did Shed &…

I don't know what's been said, I'm not reading 15 pages but... "Starvation Mode" AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGH. Do your research, people. This is not a real thing the way most people on these forums talk about it. At WORST, you can curb your base metabolism down by about 12% with dieting, and that's on the extreme end. Unless…

Under the Spoiler is Days Before Today 12/06 I weighed myself this morning after a lot of night time bathroom trips again. More water weight coming off. I'm not posting a new weight until day 5, though. Been a bit of an emotional day. I probably won't go on a prolonged blah blah about my food, because it's 4PM and I…

Most veggies have extremely low net carbs. Just make sure that's where most of your carbs come from (and not say, keto bread replacements) and you'll be fine. You should be getting probably at least 8 oz of veggies a day. If not more. I had this issue my first week, figuring that out. It did NOT feel good. Hahahaha.

Fathead dough can be rolled extra thin for crackers.

Except that you forget the human aspect: None of us here are in a metabolic ward having our meals handed to us and controlled by someone else. Keto keeps you full and reduces hunger hormones over the long term. Calorie restriction becomes far easier. But you have to eat enough dietary fat to feel satiated, too. For me, I…

Under the Spoiler is Days Before Today 12/05 I bought a new Jillian Michaels video on amazon today (Banish Fat, something something, it's the top result on Amazon if you punch in her name), because I just could not even touch Shed & Shred this morning. I thought, maybe it's because my legs don't wanna do these EXACT moves…

GOALS Keto on! Explore a couple of vegan keto recipes Complete Stage 1 of Shed & Shred 4+ days/ week Take my hormone/ bc pills like it's my religion lol During Round 1, went from 245-240ish. I use an analogue scale, so exact numbers aren't available. I have suffered with eating disorders so pulling my hair out over less…

11/24: 245 11/28: 243 12/02: 240-239* 12/03: 240 Maybe it's not entirely water? My weight drop has persisted for two days now. Then again, no... the peeing. LOL. But I guess it's water that wants to stay gone. But I have noticed I have a tendency to lose more weight than most calculators say I should, often. (If I'm not at…

Only weighing on days 1, 5, and 10. 11/24: 245 11/28: 243 12/02: 240-239* 12/03: (final weight) I weighed myself after having to get up to pee about five times night before last, and wondering what that was all about. Suspected I had a "woosh", if you will, and sure enough did. I sure the heck haven't lost 2-3 lbs of fat…

Coke. It's like drinking a bottle of acid. More so than any other cola/ soda, other than maybe Pepsi. But I've never liked Pepsi anyway.

What you're saying is true, but your body also converts sugar into fats. If that weren't true, what you're suggesting is that someone could eat 3000 calories every day of pure carbohydrates and never gain any fat weight, because it would be capped at whatever your liver can store and what's in your muscles. Which is BS. I…

@tiabirdie56 Babe you have to get your sleep to conquer those pretzels. I've read this book about willpower.. I forget the title, but it's written by a lady who does nothing but study willpower and what works. She's a professor at... I think Harvard? I'd have to go find the book. But it says not getting rest and sleep is…

Only weighing on days 1, 5, and 10. 11/24: 245 11/28: 243 12/03: (final weight) Today was an okay day. Didn't do cardio, there was no time, sadly. But I was so sore this morning, that's probably for the best. Muscles need to recuperate to get stronger, yeah? I ate keto food, too. Still don't have the keto smells, so I'm…

I went today, downtown, to the hotel me and boyfriend will be staying. I wanted to check out the inside, because he'll be getting in at 11, and checkin time is 3. They said they could do an early check-in, but I wanted to double check that we'd be comfortable if they screwed that up, or if there's a wait for housekeeping.…

Only weighing on days 1, 5, and 10. 11/24: 245 11/28: 243 12/03: (final weight) Glad today to see a couple of pounds have come off. I only made it through half an hour of cardio today, due to interruptions from roommates and family, but that half hour was the full first section of Jillian Michael's extreme shed and shred.…

11/24: 245 11/28: --- 12/03: (final weight) I'm formally announcing that I won't be taking my weight every single day. I feel like the first, fifth, and tenth day are enough for me. Change isn't overnight and watching little fluctuations feels unneccessary. Right now, I don't think my weight has changed any, but I'm…

Just wanting to do a check-in. Got my hour of cardio today, but it was really hard. I like this thread and hope everyone's doing well, or just coming back to say hi, and stuff. You know, years ago when I had my most success at lowering my weight, I was on Calorie Count. But over the years they changed how their community…

Did badly the past few, Thanksgiving leftovers, but stayed active. But I did some meal prep this evening so things should be doing better soon! Confirmed travel plans with the boyfriend today, so that felt good regardless. :)

Updated my weight for the pre-challenge today. Did 55 minutes of cardio. Close enough. XD I'm actually down 5 lbs since I last weighed. I guess the cardio I was doing even without diet was paying off quite a bit! :) I'm sorry I'm going to have to be updating these this way, I guess I need more posts or something to be able…

I'm in for this. Hello. I'm 37, female, from USA. Going to meet my long distance beau of a few months (though we've been talking for a year this month) in January, so very motivated. We're both out of shape/ overweight and both working on it, so this is more about fitness than weight drops. We're hoping for a Jan. 4-6…