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Definitely get a home BP monitor. I’m trying to ditch the meds too, I’m on two. I keep a log of my BP when I wake up before I take my morning pill, sometimes in the afternoon if I’m really dizzy, and then before I take my nighttime pill. I used to be 130/90 with both meds but now I find myself 110/80. I get dizzy easily…

I suggest the book The Cheese Trap if you’re serious about cutting cheese. I just finished it and it was 50% nonsense but 50% factual and eye opening.

Unless you have a dairy allergy, why would you think ice cream would make you feel sick?

One of the local supermarkets makes dinner for two to go and one night I picked up crab cakes with a yummy sauce, a roll, and asparagus. I couldn’t find a nutrition label so I looked it up on here and it said 600-something. I know the database here isn’t always accurate, but the portion was bordering on small so I thought…

BW:235 CW:205 GW: 135 I bought a pair of size 14 shorts at Target that I can only half zip. I’m looking forward to wearing them because I haven’t been a 14 in 10 years. I think I have 15 to 20 lbs to go for that. Then I have a doc apt end of August. He told me in Feb if I don’t lose weight he has to put me on a cholesterol…

I’m not aware of any pre-modern group of humans that ever went more than a day without eating. You’re making generalizations to excuse dangerous behavior.

I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about, but I think one should accept overweight people in that they are also HUMAN BEINGS who deserve just as much respect as the next guy. I want to also add that you can’t tell someone’s journey just by passing them on the street. Someone may be obese, but what if that person who…

I hear ya. I’m down 25lbs as of today and no one has noticed. My pants are looser but I can tell a good chunk of weight came off my boobs. They went south, if you know what I mean. Edited to add: I apologize for assuming your gender. You might not know what I mean.

This might explain why the more weight I loose the cleaner my house gets. I love it, I feel like I’m getting my whole life together.

I couldn’t splurge like that and still be on track, and I know i would feel guilty after. I planned to “cheat” on holidays when I started in February, but when Easter came I didn’t want to. Easter I counted calories best I could (ate out for brunch) and still ended up over by about 400. If I had let myself cheat like I’d…

That’s so exciting! Congrats!!

I have a sweet tooth too, especially for cake, and usually at night after dinner but before bed. I try to use sheer willpower but when that doesn’t work I have a Diet Coke and that usually works. On the odd occasion it doesn’t, I go upstairs to bed early and read. I’m distracted by the book and too lazy to go downstairs…

I had a dull headache for the first four weeks of my diet. I didn’t cut carbs or caffeine, all I did was cut portions but I went from an estimated 3500 cal per day to 1700 and that’s what I attributed the headache to. But you describe your headache as “raging” so I agree with the other internet strangers who don’t know…

I was diagnosed with PCOS in high school and my mother had it as well. I have read many books on it and various other sources that say it’s more difficult to lose weight with it, and for YEARS used that as an excuse to just eat whatever because I would be overweight anyway. Well, I was wrong. As long as you make sure your…

All the moms around here wear cute Lululemon and show off their buff arms. I don’t fit in any of their sizes but I’m going to! I want cute athleisure wear!