LauraDotts Member

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Non Scale Victory

Use the quick tools and "copy from date".

Awesome indeed.

Well, I went over my numbers last night. We ended up at a chinese buffet for dinner last night. Yikes! I did the best I could and still eat.

It would be the huge serving of brown whole grain rice.

Drink some bouillon.

I am usually not hungry unless it is meal time. But, sometimes I just have a hungry day. When that happens I throw the calorie goal out the window and eat more food -- low carb of course. I'll make bacon and eggs, eat some left over meat, pepperoni (LOL), whatever.

For constipation you can add a fiber supplement to your diet. You can also check out the thread on Muffin in a Minute. I've been eating one of those a day and have eliminated a fiber supplement.

You may want to start testing after meals again to be sure that you have not become more carb sensitive.

I know it's scary because it goes against everything you've been indoctrinated into believing about weight loss. Keep your calorie goal at the amount that MFP chose for you. Try not to go under.

How often do you check your BG? Do you check after meals? Are you on medication? You can check your meter with the control solution. Make sure your meter is coded correctly to the strips. But, it's not unusual to jump like that.

You're not eating enough calories. You're hungry because your body needs more food. You do not have to be that low calorie when you are low carb. Raise your calories to at least between 1200 and 1300. (What is the calorie goal MFP set for you? Stick with that.) If you find after eating more calories that you are still…

You probably want to ask this question in the Low Carb group. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/411-low-carber-daily-forum-the-group-

I highly recommend reading The Zone. Barry Sears does an exceptional job of explaining how the body uses carbs, fats and protein. His info on the relationship between high carb diets and disease is very eye opening. He's not a medical doctor but a micro-biologist. His professional focus has been creating drugs that carry…

Calories: 1250 carbs: 16 grams 5% fat: 83 grams 35% protein 109 grams 60% It's very low carbs but I'm also under doctor's supervision and controlling diabetes without meds. And, quite frankly, it's where I physically feel the best.

Be sure to tell the doctor's office that you tested positive for pregnancy. You need to get the Implanon removed as soon as possible.

Have you ever read "The Zone" diet? In it the author (Barry Sears) asks the question, "How do you fatten cattle?" Answer, "Feed them grain."

I'll have to get a picture. LOL!! I remember getting mad at the documentary "Super Size Me". Yes, eating nothing but McD's raised his cholesterol and triglycerides. But they automatically blamed the fat content instead of the massive amounts of carbohydrates and sugar.

Looking at your profile I see that your goal is to lose 15 pounds and tone up after having had a baby. You probably won't see much change in inches just by losing the 15 pounds. You will need to do strength training and/or body sculpting to get the results you want.

Knowing the glycemic index is helpful. I eat to my glucometer. That's how I know that no fruit can be in my diet right now. Tomato spikes my BG. Berries spike it. I can't really cheat even a little bit because if it spikes high it can take days of eating perfect to get it to stay down again. If I go over 60 carbs in a day…

Some people just don't get that sugar is sugar is sugar no matter its source. I won't tell them I had a delicious snack last night of bacon wrapped in lettuce with mayo. Yum.

Or their eyesight. My husband's nephew has lost his eyesight due to juvenile diabetes. I won't even begin to list the other major physical issues he is dealing with due to diabetes. He is 28 years old. We will be fortunate if he is still with us at 30. I know that Juvenile diabetes is a whole different ballgame than type 2…

There is no fix for a ruptured disc other than surgery. It is outrageous that insurance companies make people suffer for months in excruciating pain jumping through hoops of alternative procedures before approving surgery. Microsurgery removes the pieces of bone that are pushing on the nerves and you will wake up with…

A positive pregnancy test is a positive pregnancy. Get to a doctor immediately.

I've been making the original cinnamon one. I like it for breakfast. I made a chocolate one at a friend's house to show her. She liked it but we both agreed it was not chocolaty enough and needed a bit more splenda. One way to boast the flavor of chocolate is to add vanilla. I have lost my can of cocoa. I will have to…

Great pictures. Congratulations.

I love Alton Brown. I'll have to look up those episodes on the internet.

...<warning: rant ahead> I have seen too many diabetics just managing the symptoms with medication while eating whatever they want or fooling themselves that their diet is fine because they are staying within the guidelines of their diabetic diet. All the while the amount of medication they need to take goes up and up and…

That has been my question ever since I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Fortunately, my doctor, who diagnosed me, "prescribed" the South Beach diet and told me NOT to go on a "diabetic" diet as his experience with his patients was that diabetic diets just increased their need for more and more medication. Later, when…