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We eat out a lot on the weekends, but I avoid fast food and was avoiding it prior to low carbing. Except for Five Guys and Chik-fil-A, they were my only exceptions. I noticed I always felt ick after eating anything at McDonald's, as in heart racing stomach ill and blood pressure going sky high. Wendy's was the only one…

Went on vacation, cheated only slightly on alcohol, didn't gain anything, came back and got right back on track with no problems. For me, that's a first! Also got my first how much weight have you lost question!

I lost 8 lbs my first two weeks, then saw 5 of those lbs come back, go away, come back, go away, etc for the next two. Then, the scale just started going down. In two weeks since I've dropped 7 more. Your body likely just needs time to adjust. :) I ditto ditching the scale too. Even when it wasn't going down, I noticed my…

You both look amazing! Well done. :smiley:

My cousin, my husbands bff, and my mother are all alcoholics. I'm a little hesitant to call my desire for sugar an addiction after seeing that kind of addiction up close and personally. My cousin will shake and sweat until he has just a sip of alcohol and can't function at all until then. I am never like that with sugar…

BROCCOLI! I seriously have a love affair with it. I'll eat it anyway it's put in front of me but prefer roasted with butter. Other than that, I love some summer squash. I boil it in a skillet with a little bit of onion until tender, then bake it for 30 minutes until it's a little brown on top. Adds a slightly different…

I drink green tea because I like it and sometimes use it in place of coffee. The studies I did read that focused on weight loss really weren't that impressive. At most, it might increase losses by 4% per year but you'd have to drink buckets a day to see that, if it even does at all. To me, that's not enough to justify it.

Congrats!!!! That's awesome!

Deviled eggs. But boy do they stink up the house and fridge....

I think the medical community is catching up bit by bit though. I couldn't get my husband to go back on LC no matter how I begged, pleaded, and showed him all the good things about it. It took his Dr. telling him if he wanted to live past his 40's he had to do something and that LC was his best bet. This after 5 years ago…

WW's online worked for me when I was just out of college, early 2000's. Lost 50 lbs in 4 months, went to a size 8.... I sort of ate what I wanted, counted points for it, and if I was over, worked out till I collapsed, all cardio. In the end, it just wasn't sustainable for me and I gained it all back and then some. I…

I tried the cabbage soup diet once.... Lost weight and lost my desire to eat cabbage for years. Plus it made your pee smell funky after a bit. Did some kind of low fat thing in the 90's when I was a teen that was pretty much eating nothing but beans, rice, and veggies. Lost weight, but nobody wanted to hang out with me…

Plexus Slim does not work. Co-worker used to sell it and at a moment of weakness took some free stuff home one night. It.... did nothing but taste sort of bad and gave me weird headaches. I didn't lose a single pound. Nope, give me my eggs and bacon and real food!

SkinnKerinny - I use this taco seasoning recipe. One batch does about 10 servings of 1lb hambuger meat, it comes out to 3carb or 1 net carb depending on how you count. No fillers, no added chemicals, all spices you mix yourself. I prefer it now to the packets and if I wasn't LC, I'd still used it.…

Last year the hubby and I went to Jamaica and I had bought some dresses a few months prior I had hoped to get into. Needless to say, I didn't get into all of them and one in particular was the bane of my existence. Well??? Tried that sucker on last night for my granddad's party and it fit perfectly! Take that scale!

I can't find full fat yogurt at all, greek or non. It's rather depressing as I loved greek yogurt. I've been to the Piggly Wiggly (don't laugh LOL, it's the local store), Wal Mart, WInn Dixie and Publix. Nada. I can however get breast with skin at the Pig so I am happy about that.

My husband's doctor put him on a low carb diet a month ago too, and from past experience I knew I had to find variety or there would be no end to the b*tching. I second and third and quadruple googling low carb recipes. Last time we did Atkins all I ate was chicken and broccoli too, and while miserable, I was determined to…

Our Mexican place has something called Pollo Loco - basically a chicken breast covered in queso cheese sauce with grilled seasonal veggies (summer squash, carrots, zucchini, and broccoli, I don't eat the carrots) smothered in butter. It's cheap, delicious and on plan. I either do that or the fajitas with no tortillas. My…

20-30g, most days under 20 though.

Grits....... My favorite breakfast was always grits, eggs over easy, and bacon, all mixed together with butter.... Minus the grits, I suppose I could still eat that. Grits just sort of made it special. My main kryptonite is cake, specifically the local bakers birthday cakes she makes. Granddad's 90th birthday is next week…

Yep, this is me. I initially lost 4 lbs, then those lbs came back for two weeks, then I dropped them plus 3, now I have the three back.... It's highly annoying, I concur. However, down almost a pants size and down a bra size for sure. I'm losing inches and I'm not weighing every day anymore. The scale lies! It's probably…

When I first started I had the longest period of my life. Seriously. 7 days, all heavy to the point I was changing products almost hourly, and then it just stopped. I'm praying this month is back to normal.

Well, I don't feel bad. I feel great in fact. I don't really know what's up with the numbers, and I've read the above links plus many people saying protein is turning to glucose. Cut back some today and I might just start IF again as that seemed to lower my food intake in general. I'm not eating over 1500 cals a day and…

I've lost a bra size and about to go down a pant size and haven't lost but 8lbs. I was getting bummed about that, but I'll take inches gone over a silly number any day of the week.

My hubby and I both agreed we'd stay 20g or less until we'd lost most of what we wanted to lose, then up the carbs a bit to start prepping for maintenance. Maintenance for us will be 100g a day or less, with the occasional piece of birthday cake and holiday fare, or in my case beer LOL. I won't say never, because that…

I find when I eat 20g or less carbs a day my calories stay around 1200-1500, sometimes less, which for me is calorie restriction. I'm not counting calories but after your body adapts to low carb you tend to eat less calories naturally. At least that is my experience.

I had the prime rib and lobster tail with steamed broccoli and a house salad. My dad wanted a bloomin' onion and thank god he didn't order it. I love those things, but most definitely NOT LC/keto. I could consume a half one by myself a month ago. But had prime rib leftover for breakfast, which was awesome. So they can keep…

My office stays cold so I end up drinking tea all day as I can't do coffee without sugar/creamer. More than one cup of java really over does it for me on calories for the day. I really like the Bigelow Blueberry with Acai green tea and the pomegranate one mentioned. I also really like the peach herbal tea they make.…

My husband and I passed up carrot cake, which is more a NSV for him as that's his favorite cake on the planet. I was so proud of him! He's down 40 lbs and can now where 1x/2x shirts again! I quit worrying about the number on the scale, finally. Today I noticed in the mirror I am starting to see my collar bones again and my…

Ate at Outback last night for dinner. On Sunday's they do this three course meal thing and you get dessert. I specifically asked the waitress if what I ordered came with dessert and she said no. WOOT! I think it surprised her LOL. Wrong.... Apparently it did. She came back later and said I was getting dessert but she could…