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It's sweetpotato season here now and I love how simple it is to put them in the oven, bake and eat them up. I like how filling they are, just with salt, pepper and a little peanut butter melted and mashed in with a fork. I'm getting more minimalist by the year!

In a month and a half I will be out of the 60's. Good to see you here and doing so well.

There are some ways of practicing IF that I would find it hard to imagine someone eating enough within their eating window to gain weight. An example would be someone who only eats during a four hour window every 24 hours. Sticking to that, I myself can't imagine being able to eat enough in four hours to gain weight, even…

I knew that, was just confirming my own agreement ;)

@paperpudding The guidlines make sense.

I was an outlier when I was younger. I had high muscle mass and low body fat. Now, much older, I don't worry if I am at the top of my bmi range, even though I surely wouldn't be called an outlier anymore. The overweight bmi has been shown to be ok for people over 65, I think it is 65, because they survive health crisis…

@SarahAnne3958 You are not alone! The only time in my life I weighed into the 'overweight' range was in menopause and in pregnancy. Never doubt the efficacy of hormonal imbalance to throw things out of kilter. Saying that, I was able to lose that weight after menopause symptoms settled down and keep in the 'healthy bmi…

At 12:00 I had a 125 gram yogurt with organic 1 T. raw cacao stirred in.

LOL :D

Over 16,000 steps.

Weight gain is caused by over-eating too much food.

I got to a point when I was restricting my calorie intake to 1200 that nothing really satisfied the hunger I had. Since I was at a healthy bmi I stopped dieting and went to maintenance and tbh, if I'm eating a balanced diet (getting the macros mfp sets me) with good food, I don't get cravings at maintenance levels of…

I retain water through the day. It is worse if the weather is hot. I wake up thinner looking than when I go to bed at night.

@lemurcat2 Yes, I think so too. I like to enjoy meals. Its like my mother and grandmother used to say, "No, you can't have that now, it'll spoil your supper." Its still true for me, snacking spoils my next meal, which I look forward to. Since I have to prepare, cook and clean up the dishes after, I do like to make the meal…

Congratulations on this success in your health and wellness. I like your reference to lent fasting, it makes sense to me. For me, staying to three meals a day and no snacks was helpful when I was younger. I did that along with adding in walking rather than taking the car during the work week and kept my weight in the…

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My calorie suggested amount by mfp is around 2000 a day. I was eating mostly fish, vegetables, yogurt and fruit for my meals. I wasn't making my 2000 so I added in peanuts, a healthy snack and I ate about 800 calories a day in peanuts actually. Its important to eat how you want to. Recently I started eating at night too. I…

Super some of you shared the no hair loss experiences. There is so much blame out there for LC/keto ways of eating for problems with falling out hair. Thanks.:)

Me too!

I eat two mid to smallish meals a day. It works out to be a late mid day meal and our evening meal, which is finished before 7:00. I get hungry sometimes, that passes and I'm not snacking or night eating at all anymore. Eating like this made losing those bad habits really easy. I feel good fasting on water from 17 to 19…

Right, I see what you mean! Thanks for the quote, I think I assumed comlex carbs wouldn't be the same for problems with water retention.

Giving up cheese was the worst part of it evidently.

Ya, going vegetarian had the same effect on my husband -- fast lowering of cholesterol levels, basically within 4 or 5 months.

Well, ya, you are correct! :)

It makes life simple for me. We eat dinner and supper between 1:00 and 7:00. Some days its as late as 2:00 for dinner. I like to have finished eating a few hours before bedtime. That means finishing supper by 7:00 usually. The first few days of fasting were hard, it gets easier. It's helped me to quit a bad habit of…

I haven't been even slightly successful at intuitive eating for the last 25 years. All homecooked meals, rarely eat away from home. We cook together, so if someone wants food that the other doesn't it works out ok. For example; I don't eat pasta and bread, so I eat more vegetables. We have a flexible schedule, dinner is…

@lemurcat2, hi, I'm not sure if you meant everybody spends the same amount of time eating, or that we spend the same amount of time eating as we do when we are not eating. I think I might disagree with both though. :( sorry. Well in mycase I can say there have been times I spent a lot of time during the day eating, more…

I think the people with the most significant longevity are somewhere in Japan eating a lot of sweet potatoes and a high high amount of carbohydrate. I haven't found the scientific evidence that points to a high fat, high protien diet as a good way to eat over a full lifetime. Nor is a very high carbohydrate diet been…

I'm most interested in my resting HR and as long as it stays around 60 to 65 bpm as it has for two years I know I'm ok. If I were more athletic it might be of value though.

I live in France, people eat an amazing amount of full fat, fatty foods. Longevity is very high here! I don't advocate high fat eating, but I disagree with @nighthawk584 that a high fat way of eating is "horrible"!