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They confirmed that my maintenance is just over 1600 calories a day right now. They recommended to step up the cardio and cycle the calories. So now on exercise days I eat about 1300 and on the rest days I go for a greater deficit. In any case it has worked and I've lost a two pounds over the last three weeks. The scale is…

I had a nasty surprise like that cut out of my quad and stopped all exercise basically. It took quite a while to heal and because of cut nerves there were a bunch of weird sensations/pain responses and tingling and such. I didn't want to mess with it. Onco surgeons are not too concerned with function, priority is to get it…

I use the Strong app, simple and effective for what I need

I weigh myself every morning on the same scale, in the same spot and under same conditions (after bathroom, naked) and then use the weekly average as my weight. Your weight is not static, it fluctuates all over the place based on a variety causes like sodium intake, exercise, amount of food or water intake, bowel uhm…

Yeah listem to your doctor. I know it sucks when plans get messed up, but as someone who went from shoulder impingement to two surgeries and a biceps tenodesis as well as two years of rehab all in all, I wouldn't risk it. Shoulders are not joints to mess with.

Thanks, that's the info I was looking for. I'll just reduce the calories by 40% or so from the uncooked packaging info.

Yeah I look at the info too, but it's for uncooked bacon. I don't eat the bacon grease, so I'm wondering how much is cooked off basically from the packaging info.

My lowest weigh in was in July though, so I've been waiting for that woosh for a long time. Cico has definitely worked for me until July, it was remarkably linear. Not day to day of course but averaged out it was pretty steady. I went with Alan Aragon's formula to add daily expenditure on top of the RMR to come up with a…

I had my RMR measured this morning in a health clinic. I just had to lie still for 30min and breathe into a tube. That was it.

Huh no idea, but it should be open now. So, I had my RMR tested this morning. I still need to go in for a consultation next week, but they measured my RMR at 1305. That seems depressingly low, especially with another 20lbs to lose and it'll be even lower. Online calculators put my maintenance at 1620 based on this RMR, so…

I have not. I mainly lift and do some cardio, but I've always been told I need to eat less and exercise is the gravy so to speak. It's been two and a half months though. Initially I told myself it's water weight, it's the exercise, it's that time if the month but I've actually weighed in at my lowest at the end of July. I…

Did you see any issues in my logging? I weigh every bite I eat religiously. This is the first time I've lost a significant amount of weight and I have been super careful to tighten my logging ever since I stopped losing.

Anyone else have any thoughts? I've opened the diary, but I'm really not too concerned with the logging. I lost just fine for 4 months, so I can't be totally off.

I looked at the chart again, and I am sure that I'm logging correctly and I haven't missed a single day. I weigh all solids, I measure liquids, I guesstimate high when eating out, I double check entries in the database and I don't eat back more than half my exercise calories ever. I've also recently seen a doctor for a…

Thanks, but if you read my post, you'll see that I've lost 30 pounds, I know how CICO works, the stall is recent.

Strong all the way for me

Seems to be the same for me now. Everything is more stable since I started to skip the carbs. Longterm I will likely do something like you, restrict carbs but not full keto. I also sleep better than I have in years. Wish I had known this 10 years ago when I was first diagnosed. Although I've probably read it before and…

I have PCOS as well. When I was first diagnosed I was put on metformin for IR, but I never felt good on it and eventually the doc and I decided it wasn't worth it. I've recently gone on keto as I've read so much about carbs, IR and keto and decided to give it a shot after a two months weight loss stall. So far I feel…

Hah learn something new every day. I guess I've never had proper balsamic then. :o Thanks for the infos everyone, we'll see how it goes!

Thank you so much, that's exactly the info I was looking for.

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate your inputs. I was concerned reading that in pcos too much protein can be converted to glucose to prevent ketosis, but I'm guessing 'too much' is way over what I would typically eat from your replies. I usually get over 100g, but 150g is a challenge, but I'll see how I go with keto. I…

Thanks to both of you! I'll check out the links. My goodness, I'm sitting here eating eggs cooked in butter with a healthy dose of smoked salt as well as bacon and I can't quite believe this is what I'm supposed to eat.

I bought some, but I felt okay this morning, so haven't tried yet. I read about reactive hypoglycemia last night and it mentioned how some people with pcos have issues for the liver to release glycogen first thing in the morning until cortisol is raised a bit. That seemed to sort of make sense. Once I get going one time I…

If it is hypoglycemia, then Gatorade would still be good though, right?

Thanks. That's something I certainly never considered, how hard did you have to exercise to get the symptoms?

Interesting, thanks for sharing! Correct me if I'm wrong but Gatorade wouldn't really affect BP, right? It addresses low blood sugar or an electrolyte imbalance? I'm really not a fan of those sweet drinks, but I'll buy some and give it a shot. Like you say that's easy enough to test. Thanks! I'm aiming for about 100g of…

I think I'm going to get a BP cuff and a glucose monitor and investigate this further myself. I've read a bit about keto and pcos, I think I might give that a shot down the line. Seems to help a lot of pcos people with wonky blood sugars and might be worth a shot.

Yeah, I hear you. There's days I just can't get going. Sometimes it lasts well into the afternoon like today and other days I feel ok by noon. I did ask for a referral back to the endo that initially prescribed the meds, but I've been told it'll be about a year before I get to see her (yay Canada... sigh). I feel like if I…

I'm on spironolactone which lowers BP. I never even thought about it but I usually take it before bed. I'm going to take it at lunch for a week and see if it makes a difference. What do you do on weekends? I feel like if I'm not going to work and get my body going I feel groggy half the day.

I have always had fairly low blood pressure and I'm taking spiro for pcos which also lowers it. She said that similar to getting up too fast, after sleeping all night it can take a while for the body to get going and BP to rise to normal levels. I have no idea though, from the Dr Google symptom list hypoglycemia sounds…