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No log all other fluids in MFP, simply they have calories, fats and other things that need to be accounted for. MFP works best when you are 100% honest and track everything you eat and drink. Water is water. YOu will be surprised when you start adding in all these little things like I was. Wow that much sugar, or sodium!
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Eat your MFP calories, and spread out meals you should have dinner. If you don't eat enough your body will try to store fat so you don't starve and weight will not go away. Exercise, add some exercise if only walking every day. Saw your bio you are in CA too, take advantage of our weather and just walk. I started with 20…
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HMR = Heart Rate Monitor I have a Polar brand, kind a cool watch with a chest strap that measures your heart rate. Strap on before you go to the gym, or exercise and see how many calories you really burn. What I found was most interesting is the after burn coming back from the gym. I work out with a personal trainer 3x per…
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Walk, take a walk outside get some fresh air and meet your neighbors. I started with 15 minute and now do 1hour 7 days per week after dinner. My doctor has been telling me for years just walk 30min everyday, and have ignored him until now. I was really surprised on how many calories I can burn walking, then I can eat more…
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Are you logging all your food in MFP? I made similar big changes and cut out all the obvious bad choices, but when I became 100% transparent with myself and joined MFP and recorded everything that went in my mouth is where the consistent drops in weight came. I though oh Subway for lunch was OK, until I looked at the…
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I love gadgets too, that is a lot of money for a bunch of toys you get with your phones. I went with the Polar FT80 with a real heart rate strap, and it syncs with most of the equipment at the gym. And is pretty hard core on your weight training and tracking. Polar make some for a lot less money that I believe are much…
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Questions 1,2,3 will be setup for by MFP after you enter all your weight, age, level of activity and set your goals on how much you want to lose per week. MFP will also give you the protein %, fat % and carb % for everything you eat and give you all the stats at the end of the day. Then if you keep your food intake at the…
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Colitis ruled my life for about 10 years, yes that disease sucks. Found the trigger was red meat & stress. Lots of supplements, acupuncture for stress and now 5 years free. I just got too cocky with my diabetes because I was taking supplements, but was not testing and got a rude awakening. Found this crazy supplement and…
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Benfotiamine & Alpha-Lipoic Acid have been proven to prevent cell damage due to diabetes. Together shown to help stop diabetic Neuropathy. I forget to put ALA in my original list. I use Doctors Best brand and get them both from Amazon. Anything that can help with cell absorption and help prevent or reverse the damage from…
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I work with a naturopathic doctor and have been taking the following for diabetes: Chromium picolinate Bitter Melon Gymnema Sylvestre Vanadyl Sulfate GlycoTrol Benefotiamine They all have benefits for diabetes long term, but I can't really say they have made significant changes in my fasting sugars. I started taking a new…
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Arbonne Essentials - Vanilla Protein Shake Mix is the best tasting protein shake I have ever tried. They are not cheap but taste awesome, and 20gm vegan protein with 15carbs. I blend with ice & taste like a real milk shake, I can hide all kinds of other supplements meal replacement powers, super greens, etc and still…
