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Hard boiled egg and three apple/maple chicken sausage links, it was.....ok.

I don't know that there is an easy answer to that. I can tell you only what I have discovered. The less carbs I eat, the less carbs I want. The cravings go away the lower carb I go, the "cut off" number for me being somewhere around 30g total. I imagine this varies in specifics from person to person, but seems to be a…

I get them. I kind of equate them to the sugar cravings I used to get. Brain says "well, we aren't getting the sugar rush... But we still want the rush....let's workout!" Except today....today we have a migraine and my brain just says "$%# you"

Thank you. It's so hard to find a balance. The impulse to compare myself to others who do not have to deal with what I do is strong, so I push myself a lot. I don't want to be one of those people that uses their illness as an excuse for things (except saying no to smokey bars LOL..happy to use it as an excuse then). I just…

Heh....my thread has been hijacked. @mpantsari To give you some background on my situation in regards to cortisol etc... I have LAMs disease, which is an autoimmune disease that only effects women of childbearing age and is quite rare (lymphangeoliomyomatosis). I also have pulmonary hypertension. I am on Prednisone,…

@sljohnson1207 that could very well be the case

But I thought you set your activity level without consideration for formal exercise? See...this is where I get confused. I do get at least 5-6 sometimes 7 hours of exercise a week, consistently.

I am still not sure this is a good idea. I am no longer going to log exercise calories and just eat the daily allowance regardless of burn. That's how it works, right?

Yes! Some days I am not very hungry at all...and others, well... Don't get between me and my hamburger! So, going to watch the carbs, cause I have been creepin..but add 300 cal to my daily total, to see if that helps.

Nice! Very nice! Adorable little one too : )

Awesome job, SuperMom!!! This is the best I've heard in awhile!

Oh....hmm...yeah, that does not sound...right, LOL.

I finally have a progress photo. Still have a long way to go...but at least I can see a bit of difference.

I have a condition called hypokalemia, chronic low potassium. The symptoms you are describing could be potassium deficiency but probably not, do you get tingling in your hands and face, or muscle cramps/charlie horse? Weakness bordering on paralysis in your extremities? Those are signs of a bad deficiency. The tingling and…

@jasonraygagnon I know. It was scary, my hair started to fall out. I am under a lot of pressure to lose weight by the transplant center, so I went a little nuts. I am trying to do this the right way now!!

@MikeDee_ny I weigh weekly, sometimes bi-weekly (if it's that ToM, I just call that week f*%$ed and move on) ..... I am coming off of several months of very low calorie dieting, like 800 cal a day stupidity, so maybe my metabolism is trying to catch up? I have no idea anymore. I do love the lifting, and have seen positive…

Ohhh....I have been wanting to eat all of the things today.....now I want those too!

Do you have a crock pot/slow cooker? http://www.food.com/recipe/good-low-carb-slow-cooked-short-ribs-153188

I am on twelve different meds including Aldactone and Tekturna... And I take potassium supplements, lots of them. Unfortunately, I have to due to hyperaldosteronism (fancy way of saying my hormones cause my kidneys to kick out too much potassium). Anyway, potassium is nothing to play around with on either end of the…

I wish I had some advice, and I do agree with you that starvation mode is *kitten*. But maybe...just maybe....1280 is not enough to eat? I am 5'10" and I have been eating 1350 a day and until recently not eating back any exercise calories. Before that I was even worse, I would eat approx 800-900 a day. Total, not net. Now,…

OMG...I just laughed so hard I think I hurt something

I do weigh my food, even condiments, unless it is a packaged thing I can scan the barcode on, like a quest bar or something. I do see *some* scale movement, and downward direction, just not as much as I want. I also see and feel definition where there wasn't any, and looser pants even right out of the dryer! So I guess…

I have it set to 1.5lb a week loss. I am female, 207lbs. Been seeing visual changes for the better, not much scale movement.

Question about eating enough, as the above poster mentioned. At 5'10" with about 50ish pounds to lose, lifting 3x a week and cardio 4 times a week....desk job otherwise, should I be eating more than 1350 calories? All calculators say yes, by way more, but MFP gave the 1350 number. I do eat back some exercise cals, but…

I actually have a progress pic comparison for the first time! Also today, I got to rack the (gasp) 45 pound plates!!!! Have never been able to play with those before! @shadow2soul GO YOU! I was just able to bump up to 40lbs and I felt all badass even though I know that's nothing compared to most people LOL

Oh wow! I was going to make burgers for dinner anyway...now I have some awesome ideas! Thanks!!!

I count both carbs and calories. I focus heavily on both. This has become a slight problem in my case, as I have increased my workouts significantly yet am afraid to adjust any of my macros or calories. I have yet to find what works for me yet. My weight loss has stalled, I lost two pounds after the initial water loss of…

If you cook your own *kitten* meals often then continue to *kitten* do so and quit bitching about it in here. No has gotten your point because other than the fact that you are ungrateful, you haven't *kitten* made one.

I put my chicken in a plastic bag and beat the hell out of it with my rolling pin...not professional, but it works LOL Oh, edit to actually answer the OP: cut into bite sized pieces, coat in egg then coat in grated parm (I mixed in some grated mozzarella too) then pan fry in about 1/2 inch of oil to make chicken "nuggets"…

I can't even do the bar on some things (bench press) but I am ok with that for now, I guess. I just downloaded the app so I am looking forward to making that happen real soon!!!!