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Congrats! Great progress :)
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You're set then :) Being perfect is impossible. Beating yourself up and being angry with yourself will just make it tougher, though. If you're able to let go of that stuff even a little bit it can really make a difference. Make good decisions with carbs today and you'll be right back on track. Note the cravings you had…
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I get the tub in the middle (the $14.98 one) in kirkor's picture, but at BJ's its only $11 or so.
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Peak performance drops during the first few weeks of keto, its unavoidable and I am not sure TKD at that point will fix it. This performance returns once fully adapted, sometime during the second month for most people. Searching through the forums here on MFP is pointless (unless you see something scrolling through recent…
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The reason you may see different recommendations for the amount of carbs is that everyone's tolerance for carbs and ketosis is different. 20 or 25g net carbs/day is guaranteed to get you there if you do that consistently. So its a good starting recommendation. Once keto adapted, and once you're comfortable with what you're…
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Second the question about how long you've been doing keto for. You really want to be 1000% sure you're keto adapted before messing with this. I'd also recommend having a really solid baseline with your workouts of at least another month, ideally a few more months, after being keto adapted and just working out on SKD to…
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The answer to this saddens me a bit. I'm 38, I got over 300 pounds in my early 20s and stayed there until I was 37. Tons of diets, tons of attempts, tons of failures. Diabetes runs in my family, I kept thinking "I still have time" to lose the weight and try to stave off diabetes. Then I became diabetic. I still didn't…
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No comments on the content other than to say hang in there. But I have to point out how hilarious the language filter is here. The main forum page isn't censored, I see the F-word, I see it in the URL, but on this page even in the post title its censored. So many technical things about the forums here are just hilariously…
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If you have lots of bouts with hypoglycemia then maybe I'd worry about this, but not necessarily by eating more carbs or anything. If you aren't having tons of low blood sugars but instead are just managing things very well and are keeping things steady, I would ignore this completely. I'm diabetic, my last A1C was 4.3. I…
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I would be out on this one, but would watch with interest. I did a similar experiment last year while trying to figure out what I thought were digestive issues and was completely miserable and quit a week before I intended. Digestive issue since resolved, so I'll leave this to ya'll!
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Well then! :)
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4/1 weight: 250.2 4/8 weight: 248.0 (-2.2) 4/15 weight: 247.6 (-2.6 total, -0.4 last week) So after 1 week I posted that I was 100% sure the number was BS and a one day blip b/c of a crazy up and down week. But I actually did start doing better this week with some of my goals to eat out less and to splurge a bit less. I'm…
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It's stickied, for me it shows up in the "announcements" section above the main posts.
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Thanks for those who said nice things about this one last week :) Followup, I DID IT. She's seeing someone (or used that as an excuse to say no, but I'm ok either way, all good). But I'm gonna go ahead and call finding the guts to follow through and ask another NSV. Also, holy crap its been a really long time since I've…
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Huh, that is awesome! I have rosacea as well, but keto has not helped it in the slightest sadly.
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Liberally salting everything (and eating bacon daily! and whatever sodium is in meats I suppose) is usually enough for me. Whenever I feel crappy though the first thing I do is heat up a cup of chicken broth (make sure you don't get the low-sodium kind) and dump some extra salt in it and drink that.
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I believe its regional, but every Kroger near me (I live in North Carolina, kroger is common in mid-atlantic/southeast i think?) has a section with almond flour and other things like it. None of the other standard grocers in my area carry it. Figuring this out saves me a 1 hr+ trip to whole foods as well. I don't do a ton…
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The lipoprotein NMR is the one that i get, insurance covers it the same as the standard cholesterol test for me, so that's just the standard thing I get now 2-3 times a year.
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I won't describe anything I do as a mantra, but I have a completely different mindset about weight loss and about my health that has developed over the last 15 months or so that I've never had during all of my other failed attempts. Simply put, I am so much more calm, accepting, and gentle with myself about this whole…
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Here's a NSV from a bit of a different angle... in a class Monday night (I'm 38/divorced, this is a night class w/ a bunch of adults) I had a nice conversation with an attractive woman and started thinking about asking her out. Haven't done it yet, the final class is next Monday, might do it then (or might not, social…
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My old eating habits: Suicidal. Eating fast food 7-10 times a week, drinking more soda than water for at least a full decade, going through periods where 90% of what I drank was regular, sugary sodas. Trying to make tons of changes that wouldn't work, at my worst points telling myself "you won't live past 50 this way,…
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This was the biggest thing for me. For years I would try to cut sodas and start some kind of diet all at the same time, but my soda addiction was feeding into everything else on its own. I couldnt' change the sodas and the eating together, it was just impossible for me. Eventually, I committed to cutting out soda, I made…
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The generic "ground beef in a tube" like: is frequently lower than 80/20, I think the one they use at the warehouse store I shop at is 73/27. I'm still wary of it, it just seems... cheap, maybe that's just pre-keto me hanging on to old notions, I'm not sure.
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The nearest chipotle is about a half hour from me, but for the past few months I've had a few appointments pretty close to it 1-3 times a week, if I'm out there in the afternoon I almost always skip the bacon and eggs for breakfast and just get a steak salad instead. Same thing you ordered, it sounds like, but I also get…
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I agree with this thought of yours. I'm just one guy, but I can say that on full keto (20g carbs or less a day, strictly adhered to for months or years), I am highly unlikely to ever register a blood sugar over 110 at any time. Some meals keep me under 100 even after eating. A1C's that are so low the testing machine in the…
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4/1 weight: 250.2 4/8 weight: 248.0 (-2.2) Uhhhhhh. Yeah, that won't last. 5 pound variance during the week, saw 253 one day on the scale too. I was already not counting, but hoping to use this for some accountability to break out of a long period where I've hovered just above/below 250. I had a couple good days, but…
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I second the low carb group. The first thing I'd ask here though is when you reduce carbs do you increase your calories in some other way (preferably fat, which I know can be scary)? Lowering carbs will typically reduce cravings, though perhaps not initially. If you change the way you get your calories it may take a little…
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I second the low carb group. The first thing I'd ask here though is when you reduce carbs do you increase your calories in some other way (preferably fat, which I know can be scary)? Lowering carbs will typically reduce cravings, though perhaps not initially. If you change the way you get your calories it may take a little…
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No experience myself, but I'll point you to: http://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/29demp/crohns_disease_experimenting/ http://www.reddit.com/r/keto/search?q=crohns&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all hopefully you can find some information there to help!
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Second the low carb forum (http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group), great group of folks there, very active and supportive. I've lost 75 pounds on a ketogenic diet, very strict low carb in the last 14 months, my last two A1C's were 4.6 and 4.3 I think? The last time I saw my…
