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When I first started working out and losing weight my period got weird, I was also under a huge amount of stress because my husband was in the hospital with Listeria poisoning. I went from normal 28 day cycles to 14 day cycles for two months, and am now back to 22-28 day cycles. Increased exercise, weight loss (even…

My 20 year reunion is in July. I wasn't fat in high school or at my ten year reunion and I refuse to be at my 20. Plus one of the evil cheerleaders (who I didn't have any comments made by) who obsessively picked on everyone who was even 5 pounds over what she thought they should be is now way overweight and obsessively…

It depends on which hypoglycemia you have, If you have reactive hypoglycemia your body over produces insulin (more common type). I have the other type where my body doesn't produce correct glucose amounts, while my insulin production is considered normal (or slightly below normal levels because I have less glucose in my…

I know nothing about PCOS, what I do know about is blood sugar and insulin issues (at least those that apply to my own hypoglycemia) however I just want to toss this little fact out there: One of the symptoms of undiagnosed diabetes is unexpected weight loss (type 1 ) or unexpected weight gain (type 2). Unexpected meaning…

I can get a pretty good idea about the intensity of my workout by how much I sweat (if and only if the temp in the gym is normal, the weekend the air wasn't working I sweated more but burned less according to my HRM) I swear a lot when working out and moderate to high intensity I can easily drop 1 1/4- 2 pounds of water…

Yes I knew I was overweight. My excuse: I was always very healthy and active until my ex hit me with a car and broke my hip and pelvis. It requires two surgeries to fix it, and I have a plate and 6 screws in my pelvis. I couldn't stand for 9 months, couldn't walk more than a step or two for the first 3-4 months after I…

[/quote] I was diagnosed hypoglycemic by my pcp and not referred to an endocrinologist or a dietician. I actually wasn't given a referral to my endo until eleven years after my diagnosis. I was just told to control it with a low glycemic diet and to eat sugar when i was low. It wasn't until I got older and was able to do…

I gain 2 pounds at ovulation (takes 2-3 days to drop back off), the day before my period I gain 7 pounds (every freaking month and always 7 pounds lately), it's gone by the day before my period ends. I've tried everything, lower sodium, more water, even Midol nothing changes it, so I've learned to just deal with it. This…

I got them through iTunes (though I also have a stack of cassettes, yes I'm old) here's a photo from my playlist (I have about 300). Military Cadence are the songs military members sing while running (usually during physical training).

For workouts I like old heavy metal (anthrax, Megadeath etc), 90's grunge (Nirvana, Pearl Jam), some newer stuff like Nickleback, One Rebublic, Hozier. For Running I run to military cadence songs

I don't close my diary out until I go to bed (often 1-2am) anything I eat before going to bed goes on that day, unless I have no calories left then it goes on the new day. (I usually have calories left because I don't generally eat back all of my exercise calories).

A friend of mine gained 20 pounds of water weight in the last 6 weeks of her pregnancy (she was in the hospital for the last 8 weeks due to severe complications and medical issues). Her doctor did prescribe "water pills" due to it and she quickly dropped the water weight, but still had the 15 pounds pregnancy weight to…

I have one for breakfast everyday and sometimes lunch. I use the GNC lean 25, add a cup of almond milk, a banana (sometimes frozen fruit depending on my morning glucose levels) ice and water. Food for several hours after I wake up makes me nauseous but if I don't eat my sugars are too low (thanks hypoglycemia). If my day…

I wish they would use almond milk as well! I can't drink soy and don't drink cows milk either. I've never tried coconut milk, but they don't offer it at my local Starbucks either.

At 6 foot 5 inches and 266 pounds your bmi is 31.54 (which is obese, thought not far from overweight which is a BMI of 29.99) In fact to react a healthy BMI your weight should be 210 pounds, which means losing another 56 pounds (based solely on bmi). You've lost 61 pounds in 9 weeks (that's 6.7 pounds per week), if you…

I like the GNC lean 25 (vanilla), I add a banana, 1 cup of almond milk, ice and water. (With the extras I add it runs about 330 calories), I do use it as a replacement for breakfast (real food makes me nauseous in the morning, but I have to eat because I'm hypoglycemic). After a long run or long day at the gym I will…

I have a Fitbit (got it as a gift) and use it solely for the challenges you can do with your friends. I personally wouldn't pay for one, but I also don't use all the features

I take hot baths with Epsom salts 1-2 times a week (sometimes more) because I have trauma induced arthritis (and a ton of surgical metal) that aches like a w*tch, especially in cold weather, and the baths help. I've been doing it for years, but have never seen it result in weight on the scale. If your feeling really…

No scale movement this week for me which could be the fact that I've switched up my weight lifting and increased the weight while dropping the reps. Then again so far I've had weeks where there is no scale movement then a drop the next week.

220.0 total stall for this week

I second this! If your really self abusing (in your case using food) please seek professional help. Very rarely can self harming (regardless of using food, drugs or cutting) be successfully treated and stopped without professional help. If you used it just as an expression and you are using it as a execuse or to be…

Headaches can also be caused by low blood sugar, low or high blood pressure, dehydration, not enough protein, caffeine withdrawals,etc. if the headache lasts for more than 48 hours go to your doctor. The C25K is an amazing program, I highly recommend it. However I would stick with walking until you discuss it with the…

There is a point. 1400 calories is too low for a man. He specifically said he wants to do it the right way and not have his body go after muscle (which it will), but this can be minimized by not having such a large deficit and lifting weights. By the way fat itself (be it dairy, beef or oil) is actually something your body…

I love doing cardio especially running. I get in the "zone" and honestly I totally lose track of time and usually end up with the machine stopping on me. My advice is find something you like to do that you won't feel bored doing.

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I'm always getting up at night, I rarely sleep more than 1-2 hrs at a time. However the only time I was a night eater is when I was nursing my kids and they would wake up at night to eat. Something about that 2:40-4am feeding would make me feel like I was starving! Back then I ate a lot of whole wheat peanut butter…

You should go whatever time works for you. Exercising before or after eating depends on the person. If I don't eat before my workouts suffer and I risk my sugars crashing. If my husband has more than toast with peanut butter or a protein bar he feels sick when working out.

Could be to little food like previous replies have said, could be pushing your muscles to hard, or it could be something else. For me one of the first signs that my blood sugars are dropping is I get tremors in my hands and arms. If I don't take care of it, that's quickly followed by feeling light headed, clammy, seeing…

For myself I don't really do cheat days. There are certain days like Thanksgiving, Christmas, my anniversary next month where I'm deliberately increasing my daily calories to maintanece plus exercise calories (though so far I haven't needed the exercise calories to stay on goal). If I have something else planned (like…

I buy the unsweetened original almond milk by blue diamond 30 calories, 45% calcium 1 gram protein and 0 sugar