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Good morning everyone! HAPPY NEW Year!! It's a new year and a new decade and I am making plans! I am mainly making plans because, well, that is what Capricorns do! We make plans for the year, plans for projects, and daily lists for the day. In fact, I make decorative pillows with quotes and one that sits in my office says…
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I also take magnesium, 250 mg in the evening. Fasting also tends to cause constipation and the magnesium helps me sleep as well. My husband is an insulin dependent diabetic and he started fasting with an 8 hour window almost two years ago. He has lost 80 lbs and gone from 150 units of insulin total for the day to 70. We…
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If I were post surgery I would probably eat in an 8 hour window if possible (no more than 8 hours - check out Delay, Don't Deny by Gin Stephens) and also make sure you get the protein. Exercise to your limitations! With my health issues I ride a roller coaster and the first thing I do when the worst seems to be passing is…
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Hi everyone. It has been a while since I stopped in, but I am still out here working on my health! It has now been 2 years and 3 months since I started intermittent fasting. I lost about 70 lbs on a 5 hour window, then switched to alternate day fasting when I hit a major plateau and the other day I passed the 100 lb mark.…
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Good morning everyone! I do still stop in once in a while! Yes, I have a plan on how to handle the holiday season! I am absolutely loving the Alternate Day Fasting. I am doing the plan where you eat whatever you want one day (ok, I limit mine to whatever I want in two meals (sometimes that even includes two desserts!). My…
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Just taking a very quick moment to say that this alternate day fasting is AWESOME! I eat whatever I want one day (you are supposed to eat 125 percent of what your body needs) and 500 calories the next day and I am breaking through plateaus I have had for years! As of this morning I have lost 82! Check out the every other…
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Ah, you do QiGong too? That's great! We don't have a class here. I bought a book by Ken Cohen and have been watching his videos on Youtube. Will probably watch a lot more videos on YouTube, but am not through with the book yet! Learning a lot of the energy part has been easy because of my years of Reiki, but of course the…
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Hello everyone. I have not stopped in lately because I have been super busy. But the weight loss is an ongoing goal. I recently had a huge flare with my rheumatoid arthritis, which has been diet controlled for several years now. That caused me to COMPLETELY revise my diet and go back on Paleo AIP (Paleo Autoimmune…
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Hi. My name is Janet. I am not actually starting with this group, I am returning to it. I am 67 years old, 5' tall and weigh 195 lbs. I started OMAD on September 1st of 2017 at 250 lbs. This was after a year and a half of Paleo AIP, which put my Rheumatoid Arthritis into remission, but only helped me to lose 13 lbs.…
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I have been stopping in a lot more lately as I struggle to get back on the intermittent fasting regularly. I am going through a spell where some days my appetite correction kicks right in (two days ago) and I only really want one meal and then follow it with a day like yesterday when I seem to be hungry all day long! I…
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Good morning everyone. Have not been on for a couple of months. This winter really knocked me for a loop as far as the intermittent fasting but it is FINALLY Spring in upstate NY!! I tweaked my fasting window and have now lost almost 5 lbs this month. (this is of the 8 that I gained after moving from Florida to upstate New…
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This is crazy and I personally believe I was given this challenge for a reason so I am not complaining. Last October I had rotator cuff surgery. Two weeks later I injured my right knee and they could not do anything due to the recent surgery. A few weeks later I injured the left knee and then developed what I believe was a…
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It's going to interesting this Spring because we are planning a return to my hometown in upstate NY and will be in a little village of about 4 thousand people and many of them I grew up with and have not seen for MANY years (I left there in 1984!) Needless to say, I want to go home looking as good as possible so I am…
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Today is grocery day so I am going to try to do some menu planning. Maybe if I do that I can do some journaling in advance and whip this problem I have with not completing the day!
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This morning I am grateful for a friend of a friend who happens to be a holistic vet. she explained some things to me about my dogs illness and has freed me from feeling the guilt I was going through about possibly giving up on him too soon. She told me that some of these new high powered antibiotics they are using simply…
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My biggest challenge is the journaling! I am doing a super entire house deep cleaning to start the new year and a lot of that has to do with the fact that grief fuels cleaning for some reason. Yesterday I finished my art studio and I hope that by the end of this week I will be back on a regular schedule and back to…
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I agree with not getting into politics but thanks for the inspiring kick in the pants. I actually will put pushing my elected representatives on my list of things to do for the year. Took down alll decorations and am in the midst of a massive house cleaning. After all of my sickness, basically all last year, things around…
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Thanks Joelle I know how important journaling is and don't know why I hate it so much because it is EFFECTIVE! I also know that it will get easier after I force myself to reshape my AIP meals to fit into the nutrient balance I know I need. We recently did battle with my husbands blood sugar levels (he started on Remicade…
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I am hoping that the new president does not sell out our social security to private brokers because that terrifies me. I also hope that they do not decrease our medicare. And last, my husband, and thousands of other people, have health problems that insurance companies would never insure. If Obamacare goes, I have no idea…
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Ok, so I screwed up. My mind is still in a fog. I posted new goals under December so I am going to copy and paste that here: starting the year I have several goals. I am planning to get back into my art and gardening to heal my grief. That does not have so much do to with my weight as my sanity. I met an artist the other…
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Well I am making it in here a couple of days late. I just spent two weeks driving hundreds of miles and spending thousands of dollars in an attempt to save my dogs life and in the end was not able to do so. So I enter the year in an intense state of grief. I also enter the year with determination to make positive changes…
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I am soooooooo grateful that my dog is back home and today, for the first time, he seems to be more like his normal self. He is finally eating (though I have to hand feed him. omg what bad habits he is developing) and he truly prefers to have me sleep in the recliner with him instead of going to bed! But he is home and he…
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For a week I have been dealing with a crisis that has completely thrown me off program. My dog just spent several days in a specialty hospital almost 3 hours away and nearly died. Now he is home and we are working on recovering for both of us!! For the remainder of the month my goals are to journal daily and get back into…
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sometimes I get nostalgic and miss snow, especially at this holiday time of year. Then I remember all of those years in upstate NY and I can't imagine actually putting up with it for a whole winter again. I have been out of the north since about 1985! Grateful today for finding this Younger Next year program. I am easily…
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Hi! It feels like coming home here! lol This time I hope I am ready for it and not just battling health problems! I moved from the Whole30 to Paelo AIP. It works best for my issues. I put the Charge 2 on for the first time today and walked at the mall. Going to take me a while to get up to my training heart rate, though I…
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Ok, well NOW I see why there was no December chat! I didn't know because I came here LAST!! I should have known that Joelle was completely on the ball, as usual, and there was a reason. lol Anyway, my bad if I have confused things and I apologize for that faux pas. I am grateful, omg so very grateful, to have found the…
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My December challenge is actually to get ready for my 2017 challenge! I just read this amazing book - Younger Next Year. The goal of the program is to decrease you physiological age by increasing your stamina/strength/endurance/balance with the specific program in the book. Basically, it requires you to do 45 minutes to an…
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As of today I am going to start cleaning out my old recipe file and moving my AIP recipes in here. The AIP diet is a healing diet, not a weight loss diet, and it contains a lot of healing fast so its going to be a bit of a trick to combine the two. I am also going to launch a search today to find my misplaced fitbit! I…
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Good morning everyone! Long time no chat! I have been on a very interesting journey. On May 13th I started the Paleo AIP diet and what a roller coaster that has been. It is based on a book called The Paleo Approach and the diet consists of Meat, Vegetables, and Fruit. That is it!!! Eventually you can begin to reintroduce…
