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I've noticed that too! You can even buy a bag of kale chips in my local Coles now -- its $8, so I haven't bought them because expensive. But its crazy, a year ago we didn't even have a gluten-free section. Also I just bought a coffee from the cafe up the road. They made it on almond milk! <3 Amazing. Its the only cafe in…

haha, that ALWAYS gets in my head when I read the main board mantras.

OP - I think you must be measuring wrong. You wouldn't fit into AUS size 8 clothes if your waist were 33 inches. I wear a size 12 and my waist is about 31 inches atm.

If it makes you feel bloaty and crappy then its definitely worth getting rid of! It makes my stomach hurt, which feels like hunger pangs. So when I realised that was happening, it was really easy to cut out of my diet. But I've never been a huge soda-drinker anyway, maybe a few cans a week. Didn't even miss it! I hated…

Cool. I don't believe I have attempted to use my own experience as universal evidence, or told anyone they should do things my way. Just said that it works for me & I like it. I've then had people like yourself tell me that I'm wrong and pick fights about it. I could maybe understand this if I were endangering my health in…

no, but you see it in pretty much every 'healthy food' thread. The argument that there is no such thing as healthy food, people x and y eat piles of poptarts and still lose weight, etc etc. For some reason poptarts and pizza are the go-to examples. Now, because that guy flat out told me that eating paleo has nothing to do…

nope, because this happened:

I know, its a parody.

It sure is a shame that so many people here are solely interested in picking apart and trying to discredit something that other people find success with. 'You lost weight, cured what you thought were chronic ailments, and are completely happy with this lifestyle? NO U R WRONG EAT UR POPTARTS FFS'

A week of paleo-eating was enough to get my tastebuds working properly again. Green beans were suddenly delicious, the smell of things like store-bought taco seasoning or 2 min noodles was overwhelming and horrible. I tried to eat some Vege Chips (gluten free rice cracker type things) and the flavour on them was just too…

Sure, that's just a correlation that could easily be explained away. But for me personally, trying to reintroduce whole grains leads to feeling bloated and sluggish. Ditto for my partner and my friends who have tried paleo. So why would we continue eating something that makes us feel crap? The people who found it too hard…

try asparagus wrapped in proscuitto. DELICIOUS.

Being unprepared makes me more likely to reach for the bad stuff. If I forget to pack anything to snack on at work, I'm STARVING by about 11am and just have to grab 2 or 3 biscuits out of the jar when I make a cup of tea. Today I'm actually organised and have brought some mandarins and boiled eggs for snacks. Easy and…

That's silly, are you saying that people need to be on a diet of some form for their entire life? I dropped over 20kg when I was 17-18. I am 26 now. I admit that weight started creeping back on in the last year because of a lot of factors coming together (started sedentary desk job, moved in with people who fed me too much…

well, I'm glad that you plan to continue your journey. I'm sorry that you found my ~open questions~ negative. In turn, I dislike the phrase 'sweating for the wedding' and all the work out tops emblazoned with it (googled it). I dislike the mainstream wedding culture that makes women feel inadequate and that they must get…

I'm sorry but this really got under my skin. Do not assume you know what works for me without knowing anything about me. Just like I didn't come in here and say EVERYONE DO THIS just because I like it. I should be able to share my experience and opinion without you jumping in to tell me how very wrong I am. Also love how…

Haha, the main boards are a great example of 'group think' or mob mentality. Utterly predictable repetition of a few key phrases.

We tried making chicken kievs but it was a bit crap. I should have added some seasoning or something - and gone easy on the garlic! :ohwell: the crust itself was good though, just made with almond meal. We cooked them in the oven.

I really struggle with eggs of a morning. I can only handle them poached, anything else feels too heavy & greasy. How I wish I could stomach omelettes! It would make breakfast so easy. OP - eat more!

Body weight fluctuates all the time though. If anything, the fact it happened in 3 days almost surely points to something like water retention, rather than actually gaining 4lbs of fat. Can't comment on how you're eating as your diary isn't open. But unless you're devouring about 10x what you should be, I wouldn't sweat it.

Don't expect immediate results. If you've previously had a weird relationship with food (binging and fasting sporadically?) then it might be your body getting used to you eating in a regular, normal fashion. 4lbs is nothing to freak out about. Log your food, eat your exercise calories back, be sensible, and stop making…

go to a doctor to get tests done instead of diagnosing yourself! You haven't mentioned anything about painful periods, which I believe is one of the main symptoms? And 4 coarse hairs is not very many, if the rest are fine and blonde still. I don't know if that would even count as a sypmtom.

All I said initially was: "coffee is a bit of a diuretic, everyone is wrong for talking in absolutes on both sides of the argument. " maybe I should have paraphrased it to say 'both extremes of this argument are incorrect, the answer lies in between. Coffee is a diuretic, but the effects of 1-2 cups a day for a regular…

Agreed, so much about that quote makes me feel squicky.

I didn't imply anything. Maybe you're projecting, if you take offense to the questions I posted. I personally wouldn't want to peak on my wedding day (which is in March) - I want to keep getting fitter and slimmer after it too.

If you're weighing everything then you KNOW that its right. Why double it in your diary except to make it look to everyone else like you're consuming more than you actually are?

actually i was responding to the person who said "There are a lot of opinions here but the only one backing it up with scientific studies are the people saying coffee is not a diuretic. Nuf said. " so obviously this person is getting the message wrong. yes? yes.

I did it yesterday and now I'm sad because if I hadn't, I might have reached a new low! Instead i'm exactly the same weight I was when I last checked a few weeks ago.

what I've read says that regular drinkers get used to it, which is not the same as saying that there is no diuretic effect at all. finding something on google that supports your opinion =/= science

I have such mixed feelings about this. I really dislike how women have so much pressure to lose weight for their weddings. Some questions I think every bride-to-be should ask herself... Are you doing this because you want to make a healthy life change, or because the wedding industry complex tells you that you need to? Are…