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The water recommendation was originally from all sources, including food, so I personally don't worry too much about hitting whatever goal. However, it can often be useful to work on just drinking more water than you currently do. I found it helps to keep a water bottle around, so you can make it a sort of mindless action…

That's a really good reason to give it a try, because LCHF can really help keeping the snack monster at bay. :smile: Check out the Launch Pad if you haven't already. There's a lot of good info there. For the 30 second crash course: * Avoid sugar from all sources (including fruit) and non-sugar sweeteners (especially in the…

I'm not sure anything "with quinoa" can be considered keto. Drop the quinoa, though, and it's perfectly keto. And it's really as simple as that. Try not to overthink it. Meat + non-starchy vegetables = keto.

I mix them, actually. I don't like the texture of raw egg yolk directly. It's like egg nog coffee! :yum:

If you thought butter sounded awful and was surprised, you should try egg yolks. :lol:

Lunch meats and cheeses are a good travel food (provided you have a cooler or access to a fridge within a couple of hours). Little known facts about restaurants: Burger joints won't blink at asking for lettuce-wrapped. Places like 5 Guys or Whataburger will also wrap them well, generally. Sub places (Subway, Jersey Mike's,…

:heart: carnivore for similar reasons. :) That's a shame about the dairy.

Also, if fat isn't satiating, that might be more reason to eat it, because you can eat more of it.

Girl, you are smokin'! :heart: Can you do dairy? I've seen some carnivores use milk to help keep weight on. Might be something to try. Another option is to trust the "process" of carnivore and see where it leads you, provided you still have the energy and strength to do what you need and want, and especially if you feel…

The "kickstart" is water weight. When people use keto as a fad diet (go on for a month or two, lose 10lbs, go back to previous diet), they often "gain everything back" because "everything" was mostly water weight to begin with. After that initial 10lbs or so, it's no longer water weight and you're losing weight just like…

Humans are opportunistic omnivores. By definition, we have no one "balanced diet that humans are designed to consume." This is easily illustrated by the vast differences in traditional diets ranging from heavily starch and fruit based in the tropics to almost entirely meat based in the Arctic, and everything in between,…

Here are a couple of recipes that are hits in my house: Easy Rosemary Chicken and Gravy 1 tbsp butter 4 pieces of boneless chicken (eg - breasts, thighs, etc; I use breast, but should work with any) 8 oz bone broth/chicken stock 1 tbsp arrowroot powder or thickener of choice onion powder ground rosemary salt white pepper…

I don't know that I sweat any more or less than before, but I have noticed that I run hotter in general when I stick to very low carb. I had a body temperature of 97.5 since I was a teenager, and after dropping my carbs, it went up to 98.6 or so, and I need the ambient temperature lower to sleep better (my ideal is…

If you haven't joined them already, there are a couple of groups dedicated to it and have a ton of information: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1143-keto

My husband asked what we'd need to do to make larger batches so he could have it available as leftovers, so it can't be too bad! :lol:

It's only been three weeks, total, with only one week of a "stall," and you're still down a net of 7 pounds in three weeks, or an average of 2.3lbs per week so far. It's way too soon to consider it a stall of any sort.

I'm a cyster, too, and like Goat said, it's pretty typical. In my experience, the scale is even more finicky for us. I've had times where my weight would do this, even in the best of times: Week 0: Down 5-6lbs Week 1: Up 1-2lbs Week 2: No change Week 3: No change Week 4: Down 5-6lbs The key is to average it out over a…

I highly recommend checking out Dr. Peter Attia's stuff. He's got a whole series on cholesterol, as well as a bunch of information on how the whole "saturated fat is bad" narrative came to be. Here are a couple places to start: https://vimeo.com/45485034…

To note: I'm the maintainer for the Calorie Hiding Script and Percentages and Pie Charts Script. I've since quit using them, myself, but if anyone wants to use them and runs into trouble (MFP has changed a fair bit since I last did anything with them) feel free to drop me a line or submit an issue in the Github project -…

Lol, as a former marketing agency drone, I must say, you're giving them way too much credit by thinking they did field surveys and whatnot. It's pretty much standard operating procedure to see just how out there a marketing gimmick can get and still get away with it.

Re: strawberries - grow your own! They're really easy to grow and you can grow them in containers and do fantastically well grown vertically (look up "strawberry towers" and you'll see what I mean). When grown at home, especially, they really don't need pesticides or fertilizers or anything like that, just some sun and…

The amount needed for PCOS treatment is measured in grams, so it's arguably more about treating a deficiency than maintaining a reasonable level, but once you get out of "deficient," maintaining the levels with food is certainly something to consider. The important ones for treating PCOS, specifically are myo-inositol and…

I highly recommend checking out Inositol (myo-inositol is the most easily available and works by itself in sufficient quantities, though if you can get your hands on d-chiro-inositol, a blend with a little of it and less myo-inositol than if it were by itself, is awesome) for balancing hormones in PCOS. Inositol is a…

First, it's okay to be over some days and under others. What matters is that it averages out over time. So if you feel like you're force-feeding yourself to get to 1400 most days, then 1 or 2 days, you're really hungry and you eat even 2000 calories, you're still coming out on track. To cut the carb cravings, eat more fat,…

While I question the wisdom of 1100 calories (I'd definitely cross-check with a couple of different calculators to make sure that's sufficient and not too aggressive for you), the "some days over, some days under" is perfectly fine and normal. Our bodies naturally go through phases of hunger/not hunger. What matters is the…

You might find this thread interesting: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10257118/sodium-blood-pressure-and-the-russian-nephrologist/p1 There are also several threads in the Launch Pad on sodium in general, and a handful on sodium as it relates to blood pressure.

In the sticky section, above the regular discussions is the Launch Pad: I highly recommend perusing it, because there's a ton of collected information. Specifically, what you'll want are: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10107242/the-skinny-on-fat-silencing-your-fear-of-dietary-fats?new=1…

Does anyone else read this in an Australian accent? I could do without the outer border, but find the rest of it funny (though to be fair, I'd find it get old pretty quickly, but good for a short chuckle). Much better executed than the "mom jeans" plate, for sure.

Not a stall. 10lbs in 5 weeks still comes out to 2lbs per week. As weird as it might sound, watch the averages. As long as you're averaging about what your deficit says it should be (which is usually 1lb per week), you're fine.

I'm surprised no one else caught this. You're 2 weeks in and you've lost 1.5lbs. That's .75lb per week. That's not "not losing." That's just about on track, given the very short timeframe. Yes, some people lose more, but that's not everyone. Some people even actually don't lose (as in, the scale goes literally nowhere) in…