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Are you able to view now? The apply thing sucks, there were some low carb/main forum issues that caused some problems that caused that to be necessary for a little while. Anyway, I had a 7.5 A1C when I was first diagnosed diabetic. The last time I had it checked was over a year ago, it was 4.3, thanks entirely to strictly…

So an interesting thing here is that a lot of people find that they stall a bit (or sometimes a lot) when increasing the intensity of their exercise, but at the same time they will start losing inches faster and will look better. So there's a chance you could improve your activity level a bunch, lose weight a little slower…

I am not sure you would really expect to see a major increase in the amount of weight you lose by dropping your carbs from 50-60g a day to 20-30, unless 50-60g carbs were causing major cravings for you so that you were frequently slipping up, and a lower carb count helps you there. If you were successfully eating 50-60g…

Damn! I am glad you are ok! Some are, some are worse with no signs of changing any time soon, but I've been doing this for a pretty darn long time now, and I've dealt with lots of different kinds of stress over the last 18 months and this is the first serious slip I've had. I've been confident that once I could get back on…

5 good days, back to 262, so the water weight has mostly come off, I assume. This week will be no problem at all now I'm fairly certain. Next week travelling and being in an office for a week will be a test I imagine. I work from home, haven't done either of those things since I started keto, so that will be interesting.

Thanks for the replies. Yeah, the initial cheat was not an "oh, it's ok if its just this once" cheat, it was 100% a stress response to a situation w/ a couple family members that I found overwhelmingly anxiety-producing... combined w/ the fact that my weight had stalled for awhile, I had a brief response of "ah screw it,…

My HDL has been super stubborn too. The drop in Trigs and the continued awesomeness of the A1C makes me really happy to see, congrats! As much as I've worked to get off meds and figure out what I don't need to take, Vitamin D is one thing I continue to take without questioning it or worrying about it, seems like a lesser…

I use it, and unlike lots of kitchen things, it really takes up very little space and is not expensive compared to many other things you can get for the kitchen.

Congrats :)

That's a good one. I remember when I no longer had to ask for a table instead of a booth at local places, its a darn good feeling!

I cook my eggs in coconut oil every morning and I put a spoonful in the green tea that I make almost every day.

I work from home and getting up to make a snack is one of the things I do most days to take a little break from my work and to get out of my chair and get moving around at least a little. Almonds or Pork Rinds for me are the easiest answers. A no-effort step up from that is to grab a couple slices of salami and cheese.…

Oh man this topic made me go check my BMI, I'm 5 pounds away from being under 30. My initial goal weight would put my BMI at 26.8. I think I'll probably aim to lose a little more from that goal weight now that I've gotten closer to it, but a BMI of 25 or less has never been part of my goal in any way.

I use lite salt for the potassium, chicken broth for the sodium, and take a magnesium supplement. The chicken broth tastes like chicken noodle soup without the noodles, which is a taste i really like, so i never tried the pickles that others like :)

I'll second or third or fourth by now the low carber forum mentioned above. There are a LOT of us over there limiting our carbs to 20-30g a day or less and finding all kinds of benefits from doing so, one of the most obvious being blood sugar control without the need for any meds. Some common issues are that on low carb…

I've seen loose skin come up a number of times in reddit progresspics and fitness type subs, the prevailing wisdom always seems the same, there's no evidence at all that any sort of home remedy/lotion/anything will make a darn bit of difference, how your body handles it is mostly based on age (younger is better) and luck…

Personally I had what I would call an addiction to sugary sodas, I used to drink Dr Pepper all day long and almost no water... for years. Along with an awful diet that included a lot of poor fast food loaded with carbs. I found I had to break the soda habit by itself, without worrying about anything else I ate. It took me…

Its definitely not anything to worry about :) The recommendation of 20-25g net carbs for keto is because that amount is guarenteed to get basically everyone into ketosis, and to kill carb cravings, and to get yourself off to a good start, etc. Many people eventually adjust that number up a bit and find that they can stay…

My goal is to meditate 5 days a week. I was doing that daily earlier in the year and the benefits are pretty clear, I have more patience, less anxiety (or a better handle on anxiety at least). For low carb related things, it seems to put me in a better mindset to more easily resist cravings, though I don't usually have a…

6'4/38/M Highest Weight 360 Started Keto 1/10/14: 323 Current: 250 Goal: 220? (will re-evaluate at 220, wouldnt be surprised if 205-210 ends up being it) Great overall, but I've been hanging out around 250 for way too long now.

I had low testosterone before I started keto, so yeah, things improved for me for sure.

I've always done net carbs, whether I'm aiming for high fiber or low (currently low/not aiming for any fiber necessarily). There are some replacement foods (tortillas usually) with absurd fiber counts. I don't trust those, so I don't eat them. But for chia seeds, and real veggies, I'm counting net carbs with stuff like…

I made a post earlier on this page, a very long one, on all of the steps I took, with a huge amount of help from my pelvic floor physical therapist, to fix probles I'd had my entire adult life in this arena, but I was still getting 25g+ fiber a day, in part b/c it was working, in part because while I was in physical…

Ahh, I gotcha :) Interstitial Cystitis is one of those things that I heard a lot about as well while I was going through my issues, as far as "well some of your symptoms match IC, so you might try these things, but I don't think that's what you have", in the end it turns out I don't have IC. I did a lot of reading on it…

Weight loss is at least 90% diet. But many of us here that started out sedentary realized that we had more energy on low carb and a desire to improve health in general after some weight started falling off, so a lot of exercise eventually comes from those things :) But diet for the scale, exercise when you're ready for all…

I didn't realize it was considered gender specific (or necessarily prostate related). My urologist, and later Pelvic Floor physical therapist both recommended cutting out caffeine to me, describing it as a "bladder irritant" in some people. It wasn't for me, at least in small doses. Back when I was drinking 5-10 Dr…

YMMV, but I've always been taught feet straight forward or with a very slight angle. The bigger angle in your image I've associated with sumo squats which use a somewhat exaggerated stance width and have different mechanics as a result (http://www.livestrong.com/article/437557-sumo-squat-vs-regular-squat/ being the first…

6'4/M/38 y/o Starting Weight: 323 on 1/10/14 Current Weight: 247 I was at my worst actually 360, lost some weight before low carb, but found low carb to be so so much better for me. NSV's: I'm diabetic, low carb (~20g net carbs for me) has all of my measurements of blood sugar control perfect all the time without even…

If your electrolytes are good you may not have major keto flu issues, so that alone isn't something to necessarily worry about, but yeah, share the diary and you'll get lots of help :)

I like the way my eggs taste in coconut oil more than butter, I also put some in my tea, a mini-bulletproof tea I guess.