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I'm trying for 40 for January. I am returning from an injury and pneumonia, so I will be taking it slooooow.
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Yes. It makes me want to shower seven times a day. Plus sometimes I get migraines.
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I'm breaking my resolutions down into bite-sized pieces this year. In January, I obviously want to get back on my eating plan. All the holiday carbs made me feel awful! I also resolve to do my PT exercises twice daily, meditate or sit quietly for 5 minutes each day, and record a daily gratitude.
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Thank you for all your support! And for bikini kitty! Made my day.
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I did a project with my daughter for her high school wellness class where she had to design an eating plan based on USDA guidelines. She had a hard time working all the grains into the diet. She finally had the poor hypothetical person eating toast for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, bread with dinner, pasta salad for a…
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Fudgsicles! One is something like 40 calories.
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Wow! That is so cool! Congratulations! And kudos to your doctor for recognizing a solution for you.
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Three small meals and 2-3 snacks. Meals are around 300-500 calories, snacks around 100. I have breakfast around 6:30 (smoothie), small snack at 10 (cheese), lunch around 11:30-12 (corn tortilla with turkey and avocado), snack around 2 (almonds), sometimes another little snack around 3 (FF cottage cheese) if I plan to run…
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Day 2. Felt like garbage and had a migraine for a week. So awful {shudder}.
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Giant spinach salad with avocado. Top with parm, chia seeds, and a little oil and vinegar. Sometimes bacon too!
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Welcome! I was stuck in the same 5-10 lb weight range for 4 years using CICO. Finally, mainly out of desperation and just feeling awful, I started a reduced-carb plan in August, and immediately shattered that plateau (12 lbs down, 5 inches from waist as of today (happy dance)). I think you will like it here and will have…
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Hi, @luvsunshine1. It might be the sweetener in the yogurt. A lot of manufacturers have recently (it seems) switched over to using sucralose as a sweetener. Sucralose is chlorinated sugar (yep, chlorine) and it gives me migraines big time. It seems to be the latest go-to sweetener, so now I have to check all the labels.…
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Sucralose is made from chlorinated sugar, which IMO sounds nasty. It gives me migraines, so apparently my body agrees. However, it appears to be the new "it" sweetener - so many of the foods that used to eat have switched to sucralose. Some have sugar and sucralose (what's the point in that?)! I have to read all the labels…
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I have been staying between 75-100g per day, losing weight, and feeling good (other than this cold I caught!).
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@kcrozell I am from outside Nashville as well. Looks like we'll see a taste of fall this weekend!
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I have been doing LCHF for a couple of weeks now. I am around 50-60 net carbs per day (I was previously getting around 60% of my calories from carbs). I dropped 5 lbs in 5 days (likely water weight) when I started. I seem to have stalled a bit here at the end of week two, but I feel better overall so I am going to…
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Welcome! There are other newbies (like me) on here as well, so you are not alone!
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OP - I have had some of the same issues during my first couple of weeks doing lower carb. I have found that they are slowly going away as my body adjusts to the new regime. I am also wearing a HM to keep my HR in the aerobic zone while I run, to further "encourage" my body to use fat for fuel. I was pleasantly surprised on…
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OP - I have been reducing carbs for only a couple of weeks, but I am already noticing that I just can't eat as much. I am not sure if this is because I can't or don't want to. Example - we had something for dinner over the weekend that was a standard pre-diet, low-carb item, and I couldn't finish the previously "normal for…
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Between 125 and 140. I am 46. This puts me in the "sweating a bit but not panting" zone.
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@Dragonwolf Thank you for the information. I do long distance runs because I like running long distances - all that quiet time, mmmmm. HIIT (which I weirdly enjoy) will not productive to building my aerobic base, as it easily gets me into the anaerobic zone, which of course is the point. I will likely slowly add interval…
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Sugar is in everything. I gave up refined sugar for Lent a couple of years ago. I couldn't eat 95% of the stuff in the grocery store anymore. That's when I learned how to "shop the perimeter", you know, where all the non-processed, healthy stuff is.
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@wabmester Thank you for the link! Powering myself on fat is what I am hoping for, so it's good to know that others successfully achieve that. @mwyvr It looks like my new way of thinking is on track with yours. I recently realized that in spite of the fact that I run long distances, I never lose fat. I did a little…
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I don't know if this helps, but you could try a non-meat alternative. I do a chocolate peanut butter smoothie (chocolate whey protein powder, full fat peanut butter and yogurt, almond milk). It's yummy, full of protein and good fat. It is a bit higher in carbs because of the whey powder (16g), but it keeps me going easily…
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This is me too. I go through about an avocado a day.
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I tolerate aspartame fairly well, but sucralose gives me migraines. I have to check labels now, since a lot of products are switching to sucralose as a sweetener. Sucralose is chlorinated sugar (as in swimming pool chorine - ick!), which probably explains why it affects me that way! Sugar alcohols cause ... GI distress ...…
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People have a knee-jerk reaction to anything that contradicts their comfortably held beliefs. I'm sure there were people who just did NOT believe the world was round, even after people sailed around it. "Nope! Uh-uh! It's flat! Lalalala! I can't hear you!"
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Most people need more than 1200 a day if they are sedentary, unless you are under 5 feet tall and already light. If you are running you need way more calories than that or you will lose muscle mass. You will feel constantly tired and sluggish, be starving all the time, and end up get injured or giving up. Never, ever eat…
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Chocolate milk is a GREAT snack after a workout. It has the right balance of carbs and proteins, and it satiates hunger as well. I am a runner, and that is my preferred refueling drink. There are even some runs that I have only been able to get through because I knew chocolate milk was at the end!
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I have tried motivating myself with "thinner me" clothes and it didn't work. HOWEVER, I have NO problem rewarding myself with "thinner me" clothes as I slim down!.
