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I’m 72 and have had two knee replacement over the past 2 1/2 years. I’ve gained 30 pounds in three years due to arthritis and post surgical restrictions on activity. When I was 30, after my first child was born, I went on what was then called “the drinking man’s diet”. It was actually the keto diet, complete with urine…

I recently read an online article about how to get started on the ketogenic diet. It said thete’s a thing called “keto flu” that happens if you don’t get enough fluids and salt. It also recommended beef or chicken broth.

Unsweetened shredded coconut is a fabulous way to get more fiber. You can sprinkle it on cereal, mix it into a dish of summer squash, or sprinkle it onto fresh fruit on salad.

I'm actually going to pack low carb wraps (to substitute for bread on restaurant sandwiches) and a bunch of zip lock snack bags in my suitcase when we go to another conference next week. However, I found one suggestion in the book that appears to have backfired. I ordered a bunch of those ZZ Scandinavian Flatbread packs…

I think a lot of it has to do with the processed food industry. The advertising they do is a big part of it, but I also think it's addictive. If a person who has only eaten home grown, home cooked food all his life eats a Starbucks brownie or a packaged chocolate chip cookie he's probably going to want another one. And…

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Marie, this is such a good discussion! Thank you for pointing me to it with your message earlier today. I bought Then Thin Commandments for Kindle and spent most of the day reading the first half. Some of it was stuff I had learned before, some of it was stuff that I've been thinking about, and some of it was altogether…

MrsMartin61, I'm jealous! I always thought when I grew up I would live in the country with lots of horses, but that didn't quite work out

Phoebe, your Sonny could be a twin brother to my Tang.

I lost less than a pound in September. I wasn't being good with my diet the last half of the month, and I stopped taking the green coffee bean extract the last half of the month. But I realized something else. Green coffee bean extract is supposed to make you burn fat faster. Alcohol makes you burn fat slower. For this…

I got an initial increase in weekly weight loss when I started, but my weight loss progress went back to normal after the first week.

Just finished reading all these posts. I did a lot of online research on this last week, and there are some negative people posting nonsense here. Just Google it, folks, before you shoot your mouths off. Here's what I found from reading independent web sites that are NOT promoting the product. 1. One "dose" (size of dose…

Awwwwwwwww :love: Poodles are the best! I've started taking Sasha with me on Wednesdays when I babysit my 3 month old granddaughter. When I sit down and put granddaughter Andie in my lap, Sasha starts licking Andie's feet and carefully works her way up, cleaning Andie's legs, hands, arms, and ears. And Andie loves it!

Auntiebk Barbara, I'm with you on the struggle with wine! My doctor says a glass each night is good for my prediabetes, because it lowers blood sugar, and it's the best pain killer I've found for my various arthritic ailments. And my husband is a wine connoisseur! But as Barbiecat has said many times, it's empty calories.…

My goal for August was to get my mojo back. I think I succeeded. My goals. for September are: - lose 1/2 pound per week - do 90 minutes per day of cardio - do muscle building routine and stretching routine at least 4 days per week

I just found this group. I've been dieting for about 18 months (started well before I joined MFP). Altogether I lost 30 pounds, which was half of my long term goal, but I hit a wall, not only in terms of weight loss but also in terms of motivation. At that point I was consuming 1200 net calories per day and not losing…

I just found this group. I've been dieting for about 18 months (started well before I joined MFP). Altogether I lost 30 pounds, which was half of my long term goal, but I hit a wall, not only in terms of weight loss but also in terms of motivation. I found a large number of people who were posting that when you hit a…

Just checking in before taking my lunch hour. Don't have time to make replies, but wanted to say thanks Sundance and others. Yes, we can persevere! My foot problem is much improved this week thanks to the inserts from the podiatrist. Slow and steady wins the race. Have managed to stay almost under my goal this week. Only…

I just posted this in the diabetics forum, and then I saw Walker54's post here and thought maybe I would post this here also. I'm also feeling very discouraged at the moment. I haven't been active on MFP lately, because I've been a complete sloth about my program. I think I've hit a point of diet-and-logging fatigue. I've…

I completely flopped in terms of all my goals for July. And I gained another pound. Now 6 pounds over my lowest weight back in March. So for August, I need to do two very basic things. First, I need to heal my foot injuries (now seeing a podiatrist), and second, I need to get my motivation back. My psyche seems to be in…

Well, I hit a wall after a year of dieting (started dieting before I joined MFP). So I upped my calories and went on maintenance for a while. After a month on maintenance I began gaining weight. After two months, I started gaining faster. This morning I hit +5 pounds since going on maintenance, so I really don't buy the…

Congratulations on being able to walk now, Nancy! Slow and steady wins the race. May was another month of maintaining for me. Gotta say I feel about 500% better since increasing my carbs a bit. Just hope my next set of blood sugar tests don't indicate that I've got to go back to 30 net grams of carbs per meal. My goals for…

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Great discussions for you here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/581521-women-ages-50-for-may-2012

That's marvelous! Thanks for posting! Just for today, I will tolerate being a little hungrier than I did yesterday.

Hello all. I've been an avid reader of this thread for six months or more, but I only post infrequently. I still work about 35 hours a week, and I don't ever seem to find the time to post responses to everyone as many people do here. Just want to say this is a geat group of women, and I get a huge boost of motivation from…

April didn't quite work out as I had planned. It was a frustrating month where even when I met all my goals for exercise and diet, I just wasn't losing anymore, and worse, I was feeling depressed and struggling with cravings for foods I shouldn't eat, especially chocolate pastries and wine. I started doing searches on…

I've been dieting for over a year. I was losing slowly but consistently until a couple of months ago. I stopped losing, i felt depressed, and I was craving food I shouldn't eat. Well, I've seen lots of posts here about the need to eat more and give your metabolism a chance to reset if it's gone into "starvation adaptation…

The Merry Month of May! Let's not follow the song and throw self-control away!

Hope you feel better soon. I had pneumonia a year ago, and it took me three months to get over it. It's harder when we're older. To use a laptop with a stationary bike, I bought one of these from amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001M04RBK/ref=oh_o02_s00_i00_details I figured out how to assemble it, but then I…