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I believe that both WW and MFP are tools for the journey, with the ultimate goal of learning about your body, how it responds, what it needs. What about logging on MFP as you do WW to learn what your calories and macros are and how they correlate with a loss or gain on the scale? This way you can get away from depending on…

The primary differences (as I have read through websites and books on both) is that paleo is stricter....no dairy, no grains, small amount of fruit and lower fat meats. Primal puts dairy in the optional category, and places no restrictions on the fatty content of meat. Paleo would also strongly encourage a person to…

Excellent explanation SmoothP!! Couldn't have stated it better. At first it can be dfficult to think that eating so much fat for fat loss is workable, but that's only because we've been brainwashed by the media to think fat is bad. Healthy fat is actually required to burn fat. Right on with how to figure both protein and…

Saturday's Carrot Cake IceCream came and went with no struggle at all! Well, I was tempted to lick my fingers when I was serving it, but didn't! Woot! Another young man who came is lactose intolerant, so he wasn't having it either....we both enjoyed our berries with unsweetened coconut and a bit of crumbled bacon on top!…

Okay, have my first major challenge tomorrow during our whole30. Hubz is making homemade carrot cake ice cream tomorrow....his daugher, who has been away for a year will be over and they both adore ice cream! My plan is have a bowl of berries sprinkled with coconut and bacon instead. Crossing fingers for the best! No wait,…

Haha, as it turns out, I have It Starts With Food sitting right here! I'm in!

Would love to join you all! I love the paleo lifestyle and eating plan, and it would be great to have buddies to work it out with! Can you explain a bit more about what Whole 30 is? How does it differ from paleo? Thanks!!!

Cutting all sugar IS possible!! The ketogenic diets I've looked at are used quite successfully to treat epilepsy and to heal cancer!! Don't label me a looney on this one until you've read the research. Sugar IS the devil, folks, no doubt about it. The ketogenic diet is not a zero carb diet, but the carbs you consume are…

I disagree. I worked with a nutritionist who had me on what was basically the zone diet. I followed it strictly, checked in with her a couple times a week and did strength and cardio training, and after 8 weeks I hadn't lost an ounce. There were hormones at play and some other issues going on in my body that needed…

Weight Watchers has helped a lot of people, though I'm not sure what their stats are for permanent weight loss. My suggestion would be to do some studying on your own...become a detective of your own body and what it needs. There is simply no out-of-the-box programs that are going to work for everyone long term, at some…

Yeah, it's Thursday, and just like any other non-fun day we will celebrate love in non-food ways, still enjoy a bacon truffle or two, AND log it! There will always be a holiday, a birthday, or just a bad day that beckons us to throw discipline to the wind and have a momentary lapse of reason...it's just a bad idea that I…

I can recommend a couple of good protein powders for you: the Vemma Bod_e Shake, endorsed by Chris Powell, is a really balanced, all natural choice. Sweetened with stevia, it'll give you 15g protein, 24g carbs and 5g of fiber, the perfect hi carb breakfast that carb cycling recommends. It has your vitamins and minerals in…

How low in carbs are you ladies going? I've been testing out the carb cycling idea, and my carbs on low carb days run around 80-90 which is largely from veggies and whatever's in my protein shake in the morning (I add a banana). What do you consider low carbs? I've always heard that 80 g a day seems optimal for weight…

Hi Mandy, I'll never forget what a trainer told me years ago when I was sort of whining about what an awful day I just had and that I almost skipped the gym. She said that exercising after a long, hard day is like applying salve to the wound....and she is so right!! It relieves stress, works out the kinks from sitting or…

I'm a little late to the party, but I'll share what a trainer at the gym told me and you can decide what to do with it! I told him I was doing carb cycling and what it was, and also said that the first couple of weeks I had some good losses but then it tapered way off and I even went up in weight and asked him what he…

Hi guys, checking in and have some interesting results to share. Last week on both Wednesday and Thursday (2 LC days for me) I had spot on nutrition until dinner. Wednesday we were at an event where we were serving a meal, and tho we hadn't planned to eat there, that's what ended up happening. It was definitely a higher…

I do circuit training for upper body 3x a week, and 15-30 min eliptical 5x a week. Just returned to the gym at the beginning of January, and wonder why I ever left, love that place! I'm ready to be involved with a group of focused individuals!

The first month on CTL seems to have a pretty significant learning curve. For so long I've followed low carb plans, and to have a plan that actually allowed them/encouraged them seemed almost too good to be true. Not used to eating them, I believe I have gone overboard with them. The good thing tho is that at the end of…

What I do is drink 16 oz as soon as I get up. Then, 16 oz before each of the five meals and one before bed. That just leaves 16 oz for in between meals. :) Its almost all that I drink except for coffee in the morning. :)

OMG, I was SO crampy last night! That's another great thing about eating healthy, when we DON'T, we pay!! I'm with ya for next week. :)

I was scheduled to do sling shot week this week also, but I had a HORRIBLE weekend. We partied Sat night for hubz' birthday...all the foods we work so hard at NOT having in the house were all here!! Because of that, I'm moving my slingshot week to next week instead. I'm interested, too, to hear others who've done slingshot…

I have read that having fiber before bed helps with sleep....how was your sleep last night?

The sleep issue happens for me in the middle of the night....don't have any trouble getting to sleep. I suspect either my blood sugar is dropping too low and/or cortisol is shooting up. Have been told eating fiber before bed helps this problem, so searching for CTL ways to get that in. All in all, no diet will work long…

Yeah, I think the biggest thing I've had to change with carb cycling is preparation, thinking ahead! Have never been much for that, live my life quite spontaneously. It works for me in other areas of my life, but not my diet....gotta plan and think ahead!

I do log my free day....and really, it's for the same reason I log the other days. I want an objective record of my food intake so when something's working (or not working) I can go back and find out why. Logging the free (or as I like to call it guilt-free!) day is really good to just see and know calories, fat, carbs,…

I REALLY hope you aren't getting sick! The flu this year is BAD. And, thanks for the feedback about logging meals in the morning. I agree, it seems to solidify my plan by logging it ahead of time. :)

Trying out logging my meals for the day in the morning. Does anyone else do this? Of course, if there's any deviation, I'd go back to edit at the end of the day. This seems like a good strategy, wondering if anyone else does this.

I totally agree about being organized...it feels SO good to have the menu planned out and all the groceries in the house for the week. Makes sticking to the plan so much more likely!

You've got yourself a deal!!

We use Vemma's Chocolate Ice Cream Flavor protein powder and love it. It's good whirled in the blender with or without ice (i freeze my leftover coffee into cubes and add that to my protein drink) or it's really good just mixed into my morning coffee. I can hook you up, I'm a distributor since I use so many of their…