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My husband ended up with a huge painful calcium-based kidney stone after a couple of decades of heavy drinking of Coca-Cola (2 liters per day!) due to the phosphoric acid binding to calcium. Calcium stones can't be broken up by lithotripsy, so they had to do surgery to go get them. He hasn't touched a Coke since!
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Bottled water tastes like plastic, so I don't drink it myself :-) That's because the plasticizers that keep the plastic pliable leach out into the water (I'm an engineer and studied plastics - plus nursed a cancer/bone marrow transplant patient back to health). Studies on water quality show that the cleanest water is…
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It takes me 10 minutes to cook some meat and heat up some frozen veggies. Much less time than going to the restaurant and waiting for my food to be ready. I find things like frozen veggies (green beans in particular) to be very filling, have lots of fiber, and be low in calories. Yesterday's lunch was a pile of green beans…
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Diet coke has no calories but it does have sodium. I would put it in as a regular food in case I need to look at my sodium intake more carefully (you would be surprised by what you find when you run reports on nutrition, especially when your weight gets "stuck.") That being said, a drink with sodium isn't exactly water,…
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Hit my March goal weight this morning! Woot! I would be happy to just maintain for another week and end solidly at 130 without rebounding, but I'll set a new March GW of 129.5. Sugar was my other problem - free chocolate at work almost constantly, and free beer every Thursday. Free lunch this Friday...
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I couldn't lose weight until I rearranged the content of my calories. 1200 cal/day of starchy stuff and absolutely nothing happens except that I get hypoglycemic and cranky - I'm 5'4" and got stuck at 155 a couple of years ago, despite calorie counting. I checked my diet and found out I was eating about 3X to 5X the sugar…
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So I'm also about 5'4" also and I got stuck 2 years ago at 155 after creeping up 20 lbs in 2 years after menopause. I lost almost nothing on a calorie-restricted diet - 1000-1200cal, counted carefully. I found that too much sugar, even if the calories are on target, killed all progress. I dropped about a 1/2 lb a week over…
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New CW:130.5 My desk job is the biggest problem. I wasn't moving! Fired up the fitness band.
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Age: 52 Ht: 5'4" HW: 159 LW: 127 CW: 133.5 GW: 120 Never quite got to my goal 2 years ago and stopped at 127; I used to be 5'5" but I'm not going to pretend anymore, lol. Fired up my account a week+ ago to support a friend who got gastric band surgery, and because my hubby gave me an unflattering opinion when shopping for…
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My disabled teen daughter's PT integrated planks in her core workout after she got "floppy" sitting in her wheelchair for several years. She highly recommended them. They look easy, but they actually work those muscles pretty hard, and my daughter got very good results.
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5'4" CW:134.5 GW:120 March GW: 130 Do it!
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I also have a busy work schedule, 3 kids (1 disabled) and a lot of food allergies. I hit up the Whole Foods frozen meal section to stock up on products like Amy's and Artisan Bistro meals. Both are low in "junk" and I find Artisan Bistro (Gluten Free!) to be a tasty, fast, low-effort and generally low calorie choice. I…
