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I agree on the "new members" reading thing. Got your intent. But, to do it, you have to move, move, move. Thank goodness most of our loads have to be tarped. I have to lug those tarps (three of them) 75 feet to the back of the trailer, get them on top of loads 13' 6" tall, drop them, then pull bungie cords to tighten them…

Yes. Following low carb high fat. I was on injections for diabetes and opted to go off my injections altogether and decrease my oral meds to half or less. I have no choice but to keep my carbs below the 30 net grams else have high blood sugars. So, I am in this with you. Sending a friends request, as I have few LCHF…

I can assure you I did lose 43 pounds since May 1 of this year. My WW scale shows that I gained just a little over 3 pounds lean mass. I bike over 100 miles per week at 14 - 16 mph all over the country. Currently working on training in the mountains and hills of Colorado and Washington (area). Last week, I biked from…

I am sure it is different for everyone.....but for me.....I have quite a bit of extra, extra strong coffee through out the day, and I add sweetener (stevia drops with toffee fragrance) and a tablespoon of heavy cream. I have it hot in the morning and on ice during the day. I find it works like a diuretic for me, and the…

I am extremely low carb and high fat. I eat about 70 - 90 grams of protein each day, exercise or not, and my scale measures fat, lean mass, water, etc....I have gained just over three pounds of muscle in my 93 days of dieting and have lost 43 pounds in the same amount of time. So, don't worry so much. Also, try eggs as a…

Me too. T2 Diabetic and was just put on Low Carb High Fat diet. I found the weight is just flying off. 40 pounds in 11 weeks. Have another 70+ to go. I bicycle at least an hour 5 to 6 days a week at 14-16 mph. Mostly, I have lost size, as the bike tends to tone you up real fast (core and legs, upper arms). The cravings…

Don't pay much attention to most of these posters with heir negative comments and remarks. When my doctor put me on the Low Carb High Fat Diet, most of my friends called my doctor a quack and told me I was going to kill myself with the fat intake (heart disease, cholesterol, etc...). Well, after about a month and a half of…

Well, of course I have to pipe in. First, all she is really doing, is a type of LCHF diet transition. I am on the LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) diet for nearly 90 days. It is the first "diet" that I have ever been able to go so long without "cheating". I say diet and cheating, but really this is a lifestyle I am able to…

I am a truck driver, too. I used to wear the BodyBugg and it calculated the vibration as steps. I talked with their people, who talked to some other people,...and yada yada....and it was determined that the calorie burn driving a big rig is about 76 calories an hour over your resting metabolic burn rate. They were able to…

This simply is not true, and I wish you would do your REAL research before you say that the body does not run efficiently on pure fat. I am on a low carb high fat diet. An astonishingly large amount of my calories come from fat and I try diligently to keep my net carbs right at 20 g. I just finished a 30.2 mile ride at…

Hey, girl. I started with just over 100 pounds to lose. I have dropped 32 pounds in just 59 days. So, I am one third of the way and it has been only two months. I know I won't be able to keep that pace up, but it was a great start. I am going from almost 279 pounds to 165 pounds. I work out hard. This past weekend I rode…

I have a friend of mine that desperately wants to lose weight. She has over 100 pounds to lose, and we are fitness pals. She can come up with more excuses not to exercise in one conversation than one could sit down and think of in a years time. Finally, I told her that her excuses, her reasons, her problems in…

I get the "picking" at stuff while at work...especially a restaurant. May I suggest keeping some kind of nuts or pepitas in your pocket and "picking" at that...or some other food that you can work into your logging and account for at the beginning of the day? Also, how about keeping some gum in your mouth. You are less…

I love when I buy something and the label shows "0 sugars" and then you read the ingredients and it shows "sugar" as the actual third ingredient in the product. Now, I know they are allowed to put "0 sugar" if there is actually less than 1 gram of sugar (even if it is 0.99 grams). But, as a diabetic, eat 10 servings of…

Have two blown out knees. ACL and torn meniscus. I ride bike. No harm to my knees and I have gotten to love it so much I hardly can let a day go without riding. If I miss a day, I get really down. The endorphins are awesome. Plus, I get to sit on my butt and exercise and lose weight. Started with a cheap Target bicycle and…

Don't know much about the HCG diet, but have done some reading on it. Seems to me that you could have lost the 36 pounds you talk about by just simply eating a well balanced diet and doing a lot of extra exercise. You could have also done a "fat fast" and dropped a significant amount of weight. I dropped 20 pounds in 10…

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Yes, I agree with this poster. For "chips", slice veggies very thin, a light spray coating of olive oil, a little salt, and in a dehydrator or oven, and you can make no guilt "veggie chips". Gives you the crunch and salt of chips without the calories. Lets face it, real chips really don't have much taste other than the…

YES! YES! YES! YES! I had the same problem. I am T2 diabetic and the doctor figured out that my absolutely ravenous eating....and I mean ravenous, as no matter how hard I tried to ignore it or drink water, I HAD TO EAT!! It was my blood sugar dropping very low in the middle of the sleep cycle. I was instructed to eat…

BTW...since I went on LCHF, I have been taken off my injections completely, and my oral meds have been cut in half and my sugar levels are way down.

PCOS over years, Type II diabetic. Obese. I was just put on LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) diet by endocrinologist. At first, I thought he was crazy. I am currently on 30 grams (gross carbs) and no more than 20 grams (net carbs). I was on injections and oral meds. Very insulin resistant. It has been 42 days since I started…

MFP calculates it for me. I use a stop watch on my bike odometer to count the time cycling. I also use a cycling website that has a calculator based on your speed, time, and weight. Both are within 25 calories of each other (the two sites, that is). www.bicycling.com says 75 minutes at 16 - 20 mph at my weight is 1735…

Generally 60 - 75 minutes cycling at 16-18 mph, current weight is 254. Please tell me what that burns according to your figures. Please. Thanks.

So, please let me ask all of you. My calories that I can eat each day, is 1900. I am very active all day and I cycle, and I can exercise and burn up to 2500 calories a day in addition. Are you saying that I should be eating the 1900 calories and whatever I exercise, in order to retain my muscle and burn fat? That would be…

For every website you proposed, I could throw several at you that would be in disagreement. There are clear studies showing that vegans are NOT the only groups that had normal BMI. Follow that fact that there are at least five people I know that are LCHF, meat based, and have normal to just below normal BMI's. We will…

Socalmom asks a great question that I'd like an expert to pipe in on too. I am in training for a cross country bicycle ride (Cali to Maine) and I ride six days out of the week. I wonder if that is too much. In the month of May, I rode 271 miles. I always try to take Sunday off (church and all) and I do get some knee pain,…

First, I noticed your web site reference and the ".gov" at the end....so I did not even bother to go and look at it. ".gov" has done a wonderful job of suggesting that I should continue to follow the low-fat diet I had been on for years. On that low-fat diet, I blossomed up to 328 pounds, had gestational diabetes, and now…

Just read an article about the "metagenic diet"....here is the warnings: causes sensitivity to cold, dry skin, temporary rash, fatigue, diarrhea, constipation, muscle cramps, halitosis, irritability, menstrual disturbances, temporary hair loss..... designed by a company called "healthy transformation", they suggest the use…

Hi, Severe PCOS, was able to have one child at age 19. Diagnosed at age 25. 49 years old now. Fertility treatments all failed, even shots. Severe hormonal imbalances because of the PCOS......BUT NO TROUBLE LOSING WEIGHT ON A LCHF (LOW CARB HIGH FAT) DIET.....which the doctors don't tell you about because they got this…

I am a truck driver, so I am traveling every day. I feel your despair when trying to eat healthy on the road. But, I have it handled now. Perhaps I can help you.....AND I WILL ABSOLUTELY MAKE YOU ACCOUNTABLE.....If you are honest in your posts and replies. Make sure to have messages turned on so that it goes directly to…