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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…

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.…

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…

Is anyone still interested in this group? I am newly diagosed and would love to find some people to talk with

Wow, spread sheets for everything! lol I am impressed. Good to see you Charlie! I would love to eat out more often (instead of doing dishes! lol) but I am afraid I would not have be able to stay within my calorie range if I did! That must take some serious discipline!

I read a great book this weekend - one of those that I got for a penny from the amazon booksellers (plus $4 shipping of course). It's called The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth. I always think I am pretty savvy about nutrition, but I got some information out of this one. In addition to the list and nutritional information…

Retire I did not see the information you mentioned about the potato starch. Thanks for posting it. I will go back and look for it! I am getting off to a sluggish start. I am doing ok calorie wise, but not eating as healthy as I should. Admittedly, my husband is a bad influence, but I can't use that as too much of an excuse…

http://freetheanimal.com/2013/12/resistant-primer-newbies.html I had posted this under articles. I think its the basics of the resistant starch information. I have the bob's potato starch and have been cooking and cooling potatoes and rice. I just went through a course of antibiotics for a respiratory infection though so…

My only concern is that your calorie level is so low. If you eat that few calories, your body will adjust to that level and you will never be able to eat more than that without gaining. Are you willing to spend your life on 1200 calories a day? As an alternative, I suggest checking out the group Eat More to Weigh Less. It…

I don't have kids, but was interested in this thread to see how much everyone is spending. I retired a year and a half ago, early, due to health problems. I took a 50k pay cut to do that, so needless to say it was like falling through the looking glass into a whole new reality! Gone are my trips to Whole Foods! lol (thats…

Loves what kind of nursing do you do? I was a home health nurse for many yearas

baby carrots and homemade ranch dressing with greek yogurt

Congrats Vicky! It's always wonderful to see someone make their goal!!! Good luck with maintaining!!!

New here also. Hello everyone. New to this group I mean, I have been on MFP for a year and struggled through some serious health problems on it, severe enough that I took an early retirement. It has been a battle, but things are getting really better now! Learning about clean eating at this point!

For me it changes monthly depending on other bills due. We're a family of 2 adults and 2 kids who eat like adults. The months that are tight I will spend around $500/ month and the months with extra cash I'll spend up to $900/month (salmon, nice steak, kelp noodles, plus extra basics to stock up etc). Not inc in this…

Jean, thanks for reminding me about saving meals! I had completely forgotten about that. Now that I am having to enter the recipes for what we are eating now, and looking for new ones, that will be a very handy tool. I have found in the past that once I start journaling consistently the rude reminder of how much I am…

Well these first couple of days have really shown me how long it has been since I did journal! I have spent the last two days adding recipes for the things we do eat regularly now, and I still have a ways to go with that. I know that getting back on the journaling wagon has a lot to do with having those things in the…

Very interesting! I have never tried the negative adjustment, but my curiosity is now aroused. I am going to try it and see how it goes.

There is a setting that I am wondering about in diary settings and I was wondering if any of you fitbit wearers use it. It has to do with negative calorie adjustments and I do not completely understand how this would effect the recording. Do any of you do this? Change Handling of Partner Adjustments If you have linked your…

ok, I am going to use this thread for the issue I am struggling with this morning. I do pretty well with my exercise. I do very well with eating healthy meals. The habit that I have not been able thus far to establish is recording my calories! I have seen so many of you lose huge amounts and I am willing to bet that every…

My name is Janet. I live in Panama City Fl. For years I said that when I retired I was going to paint! Well, last year I retired on my 62nd birthday due to a combination of health problems. I still have not painted because I have spent the year dealing with those problems. Right now, following a surgery (second surgery of…

Are you all doing the Bullet Proof diet or just the coffee? I have been experimenting with parts of it for the past week.

Love the tip about fitbit and AARP! I will have to try to connect. Ker, that is funny. Maybe it just had a day of shock and now it has adjusted lol

sharon I don't blame him! It's a known fact that little dogs melt in the rain! It has to be so because every little dog I have ever had has known about it! lol I love your pic of your dog. My little dog died last fathers day and I was supposed to be getting a puppy from a friend of mine who breeds my particular breed. I am…

bvifun I see that you suggested this thread be broken into monthly threads and I agree. It has gotten way too unwieldy. I will try to remember to start a new one on March 1st!!! I am grateful today that I am posting. I notice that as I am getting ready to focus on fitness one of my first steps is to start checking in…

Indiana congrats on crossing that border! That is a huge milestone! And I love that term Onederland! lol I hope this is the year that I get there myself! Grateful this morning that I FINALLY have my own computer back (it was a challenge, tried to set it up and could not, spent an hour with a guy down at Best Buy, had a…

Well I FINALLY have my computer back and set up my new fitbit. I have the One. Wow, was I in for a shock! When I used the fitbit previously I never used the sleep component, but my husband uses it and I was curious. I found out that I am having a LOT more restless time than I realized! My sleep is very inefficient, in fact…

I woke up early this morning and I am grateful for this time of silence in the house and hot coffee. I have not stopped in for a few days and I see so many amazing things in this list! Kudos to everyone for all the accomplishments! I think the fitbit is an amazing tool. And I am loving getting back to my yoga a little bit…

Just read an interesting tip, will find out of its true. For me one of the most difficult things to do is record what I eat every day. It just gets so darned boring! lol silly I know! And I know its a very effective tool! Anyway, an article said that if you record as little as 3 days a week it can result in weight loss so…

mx congratulations!! This really is a good program. Today I am grateful because my husbands computer desk finally arrived! Now we are waiting on the handyman to assemble it. Will be so good to have my own computer back! Its amazing how someone elses computer is just not the same lol