simplynaturalfarm Member

My husband does well on low carb - lost 36lbs since March. Me, I was strict with him for 5 weeks and didn't lose a pound - I didn't break the diet once (which is a first for me LOL). Talk about frustrating when my hubby is melting weight off! I switched it up to low carb with 20/40/40, 1300 per day maintenance and eating…

I have a sister and SIL on this diet and there are no diet pills and it is not simply low carb. But it is restrictive and hard and if headaches and fatigue are the only symptoms I would just start eating clean before going so restrictive. You might find that does it for you :) Otherwise going from eating sugar to cucumbers…

This is a hard one because gluten free can be so costly (we have a lot of them in my extended family). Don't do 100 calorie snacks? We don't buy any processed food anymore (made the change last year), so make all snacks and such and package ourselves. You save a good 75% that way. In re. to gluten free, instead of buying…

Same thing I eat every single day of the week... 1 strip homegrown/homecured bacon, 2 free range home grown eggs fried in previously mentioned bacon fat, 2 cups home ground roasted coffee with sinfully thick cream from our cow. . . mmm mm good! I like routine and if I break it to have toast or something else (which I don't…

Due to humane issues I also went vegetarian. Then I realized that there were other ways of doing it, so I went from making my own tofu (which is about as far from sustianability and humane/ethical growing as I could have gone) to raising my own because I knew how it was treated, I respected their lives, I raised them to…

Assuming you are for real (seeing as this is your first post and you have no information on MFP), you can not be going over on protein and fiber while eating under 1200 if you follow the macros MFP sets up. What do you have yours set to?

Out of curiosity, those who had 30,40. 80lbs creep back on - did you stop weighing yourself when you stopped logging? I c an't imagine any weight creeping on because i do weigh myself weekly LOL. That would help me stay on target - if I gained 2lbs in a week I would know to get back to logging to see where the hidden…

I would suggest if you are struggling with ethics of things, you spend a holiday in a farming community where soy, quinoa, and other high on the food chain vegan foods are produced. I have lived in deep deep farming country and worked for them for my whole life, and for ethical reasons I could never be a vegan.…

You are mighty close to your goal so it should take more, but ignore the MFP calculator that says you will be such and such in 5 weeks - it has lied to me consistently *G*. I was undereating and had a 5 week stall. I upped my calories and have been losing 2lbs per week, BUT I am 40lbs away from my goal.

maybe you stopped drinking breast milk at 6-8 months, but my kids would be nursing til 18 if they had the option and they sure as heck did not stop at 6-8 months. As far as sustainability I can certainly argue the validity of my grassfed low input raw dairy vs. anybody's almond or soy farmed drink with it's high inputs -…

You should tell my 3 year old weaned but nursing steers they they have "stopped drinking milk" from their Moms. . . . And how about the 3 pigs that figured out how to nurse off my BIL's Jersey and keep her dry, then she adopted them and would go after anybody who was too close to her pig babies. . . and the cats nursing…

;

I was gonna say this - LIKE!

It is because your idea of healthy is off. :) If you are craving greasy food, try more greasy food - have yourself a high protein high fat snack and skip the carbs - chicken fingers made from chicken and parmesan cheese dipped in ranch is delicious. Nice greasy hamburger minus the bun with cheese, acavado and bacon is a…

Is this for real?

I can feel for you - my hubby works 12 hour shifts but only 2 per week and he doesn't eat much at work - he doesn't like breakfast (or maybe I should say he doesn't bother unless I make it LOL), so he said during the day all he eats are his veggies with dip and boiled eggs or cheese.. Some days he eats 6 boiled eggs and…

I might suggest you go lighter on the nuts - I find that if I eat a couple oz of nuts that makes me full enough to happily skip a meal. Now if I don't need a meal that is one thing, but if you are trying to consume your calories, eating 2 cups of a nuts a day is very filling. :) I honestly can not imagine eating like that…

Hersheys . . . I wouldn't waste my taste buds on it.

I needed to tighten the waist on my Ergo carrier to carry my 19 month old on the walk yesterday! Scale and i are fighting these days, but I have stuck to good food choices for 8.5 weeks and it is a lifestyle change regardless of what the scale says!!!

that I stuck it out for 5 weeks while I plateaued and did not once break my healthy food choices!! I kept reminding myself that regardless of weight loss, this is a lifestyle choice, not a "lose weight and you can eat junk again"!

Sugar including HFCS White flour PUFAs processed anything storebought bread/grain products . . . is there anything left to ban at that point as most snack foods or unhealthy foods fall under one of those LOL Haagen daz. . . . my one treat that has things it shouldn't but if it is in the house I will eat it, so it is my…

He parked at the neighbor's driveway on his way home from work ( a 2.5 hour commute) because our 4 little girls had wanted to run down the road to meet him on the way and would be horribly disappointed if they couldn't. He loaded them all up including baby who was shrieking for him. Unloaded the car and he brought home…

I had an almost 5 week stall which was VERY hard for me as I was absolutely anal about my diet the entire 8 weeks and not seeing that scale move was hard. Thankfully i still stuck to it, because i was simply devoted to healthier eating, but I had lost 10lbs before that relatively quickly and i am no where near my weight…

can't even fathom high protein with low fat!!!

Why would I want to? I can eat more and weigh more with exercise plus look good and stay healthy

There is a good book out there called "the shallows" that talks about the changes in society and how they have affected us mentally and physically (right down to the printing of books and invention of clocks) And my DH is reading a book right now on social media - we keep saying we are gonna cancel this and that, but I…

My husband has one and that is one too many for me. His attention is always divided and the only way he doesn't have his ear cocked for it is if he knows it has been shut off. He has tried to get me one for years and while frugality arguments always win, I also tell him that there is no explanation for the dislike I have…

I think I might have been zero when I was born . . . ;) I was 117lbs when I was 18 and I am 5:4. I looked very thin in pictures and I still wore a size 10 (as a side when I unintentionally went from 125 down to 117 my uncle said, "Finally you look good!"). I am very curvy. At 22 I was 135 on the farm and looked very fit…

134lbs at 5:4 is not shabby - maybe you are closer to maint than you think?

Actually, Monkeybars was very UNconfusing and uncomplicated in re. to diet. And it works for men and women and I can say for my husband's family, their cholesterol and bp issues disappear on that diet. I eat that way and I have lost 10lbs in 2 weeks and I eat as much meat and low carb veg as I want. When I compare it to my…