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I eat 3 cloves of raw garlic if I feel a cold coming on: it kills viruses. Raw garlic is also known for stimulating hunger; I read one anecdotal incidence of weight loss with it. If you eat it in the evening and make all of your family eat it too then nobody in your home will notice the smell but pity the poor unexpected…

PS - I love over 50 friends with open food diaries.

hi I'm 61 years old and have lost 80#s in the last 8 years. unfortunately it was the same 20#s 4 times. I have resigned myself to having to track everything I eat for forever. I am finding that focusing on eating 100 grams of protein has been very helpful for me. it's nice to worry about getting more of something than…

the question is how much of this actually ends up in the gut and doesn't get destroyed in the stomach. [/quote] Eating/drinking Probiotics found in foods have much more likelihood of staying alive in your gut rather than a pill. Plus there are millions more of them than in pills. Eat resistant starches to keep good…

If you get it on tap from a local brewer, it has probably not been pasteurized $ should be loaded with probiotics.

Chicken curry lentil soup - 8 Ingredients 1 large, Onions - Raw 1 Potato small (1-3/4" to 2-1/2" dia), Potato - Flesh and skin, raw 2 cup(s), Water - Municipal 4 tbsp(s), Spices - Curry powder, ginger, salt, 2 cup(s), Lentils - Cooked, boiled, with salt 14 ounce, Skinless Chicken Leg Quarter 1 Cube, Chicken Bullion 0.50…

Cereal is the worst for long term satiety. 20-30 grams of protein at each meal helps me feel full. Plus I don't eat 15 hours from dinner to breakfast daily and then have 3 meals and maybe a snack in the 9 remaining hours. That also helps me feel full for my 1550 calories a day.

Good job!

Hi I just joined this group because I realized my diet is sort of Zone-like. (I'm probably 1/2 way between the Zone and Low Carb.) My goal is to eat 100 grams of protein a day - which is about 25% of my daily macros (at 1550 calories a day plus I count about 1/2 of my exercise calories). I don't do the block thing. My…

You can eat sauerkraut and drink Kombucha or fermented tea which is very low carb because the fermentation burns up the sugar. The sourer the kombucha, the less carbs it has. (I make my own with a grape culture.) Oh and natural apple cider vinegar with the "mother." I'm not keto though - just low carb <100.

You need to eat protein to protect your lean body mass and to build muscle. Increased protein consumption has also been shown in numerous studies to reduce appetite. When I hit my aim of 100 grams of protein a day, it is easier for me to keep within my 1500-1600 calorie goals. (My carbohydrate and fat gram goals are also…

It's weird because I am slowly getting back into low carb eating - averaging about 80 carbs a day/ 65 net and 1600 calories, but last night I terrible legs cramps. I thought I would have to be lower carb to get those (especially since some of those carbs were sugar). So I bought some magnesium, zinc, and potassium today -…

Maybe it's because it was a brief blurb instead of a full page article?

Thanks Sunny - They just removed the name of the magazine.

I'm trying to man up and just drink my coffee black - who needs an extra hundred (or two or three) calories everyday. If I have to have something in my coffee, I wait till my afternoon cup.

Spaghetti squash has the least flavor of any of the winter squashes. I'm low carb, so I like to fry my previous steamed winter squash in coconut butter and/or butter with onions and garlic like it is hash browns. If you want flavor go to sweat meat or another winter squash - however that is higher in carbs and calories.

The problem is the government gives money (subsidies) to the people who grow the ingredients for junk food - corn and corn syrup being one of the worst. Stop farm subsidies!

You can read The Potato Hack. The potato starch you buy is not considered as good as actually eating the potatoes.

I wonder if you get deals like this because you live in the cornbelt?

Hi Ellemarie - this isn't a very active group. We mostly hangout here http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group I am sort of moderately low car - about 100 grams a day. Most of the folks in the low carb groups eat 100% grain and sugar free.

I am constantly watched, followed, and harassed and none of my friends believe me, or will tell me why this is happening. My life is a living nightmare.

Raw collard greens are tough and barely edible.

Sorry previous guesses were very wrong (not 35), wrong (not married), and wrong (not a stay at home mother, but I do have grandchildren!)

Slimgirl - 35, married, stay at home mother

My favorite fast is The Every Other Day Diet by Dr Varady. She is the primary researcher that most other fast books reference. She suggests 500 calories on fast days and whatever you want on every other day. Dr Fung's fasting protocol is almost identical. Skip breakfast and lunch every other day and eat a small (about 500…

Exercise an hour or two before you break your fast (for under 24 hour fasts) because otherwise you will get too hungry. Personally I don't exercise during over 24 hour fasts (except maybe a slow walk) or for very low calorie diets because I don't have enough energy.

Go to your MFP homepage. Go to "Check-in," hit "edit." You can pick a date and put in whatever weight you want.

When I was dieting in March - eating about 1600-1800 calories a day - I averaged 100 grams of carbs a day. Very low calorie days were also very low carbs. Not much difference to now - but I am eating more fat and more protein and a little less carbs, 1600-1800 calories.

It does give an excellent analysis of combining fat and sugar - more addictive than heroin! Rats would rather eat cheesecake than anything else. I can relate.

I get terrible legs cramps from keto too, and I have been taking magnesium citrate for years. However, I've noticed if I take the magnesium in the evening instead of the morning, I do much better with the cramping.