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@swimmom_1 Just had my mind blown..... I had previously thought that your loss and that of Sharon´s was too fast and it would make you less likely to keep it off when you get to your goal. I am delighted that you apparently knew more than I did about the subject. The whole video is good but the part that blew my mind…

Currently reading the book ¨Fast. Feast. Repeat.¨ Really good book so far, just this morning saw several things I thought might be worth posting about various benefits of Intermittent Fasting, but this one stuck out for me: page 38 We now know that our gut microbiomes are an important part of our immune system´s function…

Oct 1 ✅ Exercise: weight lifting, 40 minutes of swimming ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked Passes used this month: 0 Goals: Do the above and continue to learn about MyFitnessPal and what sources of support here work best for me. If you are in another group that is helpful, I would appreciate knowing about it. Also would appreciate…

@cory17 My leaky gut and food sensitivities was diagnosed in 2001 by a ¨complementary physician¨ an M.D. who used holistic methods instead of only conventional ones. He did an extensive history with me and put me on some courses of anti-fungal medication, presribed a candida diet (low sugar, avoid processed foods) and…

@Ladybug8882021 I am a voracious reader and currently am experimenting with the approach of the last book I read, The Kubrow Keto Fusion Diet, while I am currently reading ¨Fast. Feast. Repeat..¨ The KKFD combines a 12 hour fasting window overnight, then an 8 hour Keto window then a 4 hour period where you can have some…

@swimmom_1 Way to go! Doesn´t seem to have slowed down.

Hello. I am new to the group. I am from Kansas. I have a long history of extreme ups and downs with my weight and last month I was at my highest weight ever. I am in the process of semi-retiring in order to focus on my health. I am back in a good, determined mindset and have been recording my food daily. I have about 100…

@swimmom_1 I am not surprised I could only do 6 minutes. I have 100 pounds yet to lose. For quite awhile I was obese and still relatively fit, but since the knee surgery and pandemic I have become morbidly obese and definitely not fit. Anything out of the water is still affected by that number of extra pounds. Today we did…

Thanks for the article. I am currently reading ¨The Diabetes Code¨ by Dr. Jason Fung. Although I am only in the part where he explains metabolism and insulin related things, my understanding is that he promote the fasting for two days a type of fasting for diabetics. My A1C was right below the cutoff for diabetes, so I am…

I am just starting working up to it, with a plan to try to get to 16/8 everyday. I had such a huge problem with night eating. For me, doing Time Restricted Eating (eating only between 7 am to 7 pm) is what I am working on now, with plans to gradually expanding the fasting window up to 16 hours daily.

Hi Cory! So glad you can join our very new group. Covid really has done a number on many of us. I was starting to get back into working out after having had knee surgery when we went into lock down. @swimmom_1 I did get to the gym today, worked out on weights and also tried the elliptical-- inspired by you. I only lasted 6…

@LeeH31 Thank you for that tip. I am so new to the community here I am not even sure how to follow a group. I did go to the page for that group and clicked the star at the top of the page. Is that how you follow a group? Or is there a better way?

Hi everyone. I´m Susan. I did not even realize MFP had forums until quite recently. I previously lost a lot of weight (twice) and gained it all back and then some. The second time around during weight loss, I told myself I would need to keep tracking my food for the rest of my life to make sure I didn´t gain it back again.…

I have struggled with feeling I have to eat at night and not being able to sleep until I do. I knew that functional medicine doctors often recommend trying to have a 12 hour window of not eating, but I just did not think I could do it. Then I was introduced to the concept of ¨metabolic inflexibility¨ and found articles…

@GaleHawkins Thank you for posting those. I am always fascinated by information on tlhe gut microbiome.

Thanks Nicole. I just went to check out Eat Like A Bear. One of her tenets, Intermittent Fasting is one of the things I have recently become interested in. I am a voracious reader and up until around 2012 I felt I was familiar with all the basics about weight loss approaches, but this seems to be something that was not…

That is impressive. In my best of times, the closest I ever got to that was a 90 minute tennis drill with some serious players--- I thought that workout that burned 900 calories was great. Probably it is the exercise keeping your weight loss from slowing down, don´t you think? With your story of your fracture and how far…

Glad you found us. I also feel really clumsy at this. Today I finally realized that there is a Groups tab when I have clicked on Community. For a while there I thought-- Oh no, I lost it. I will never find this group again! But I know that it will get to be an easy habit.

I really relate to this. I need too need friends that I feel comfortable with sharing these things. It´s great to see some introverts in online forums like this-- because you can take whatever time you need to reflect and respond when it suits you. Introverts often do very well in written type support groups like this so I…

I started my calorie goal high (1920 per day) just to try to start with baby steps, knowing that if I was able to succeed in my goal of getting back in the habit of consistently logging everything I ate, that I could get myself back on track. Last week I lowered the goal to 1500 because my weight loss was so tiny and I…

I am also figuring out how to navigate this thing! I was wanting to ask about privacy. Sharon, do you know if this group is set up so that only members can see the posts?

Hello. Thank you Sharon for starting this group. My name is Susan. I live in Kansas (middle of the US). I am 57 years old. I am a clinical social worker practicing psychotherapy who is in the process of either retiring or taking a sabbatical because I finally decided my work was interfering with my health and I had to get…

Good for you Sharon 7986! It is a huge accomplishment. This is my first attempt at posting here so I don´t really know how it works, but I would be interested in trying such a group. I also am in my 50s and need to lose almost half my body weight. I am at my highest weight ever. Once in my lifetime I lost 75 pounds, and…