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Feel free to add me :) I"m due 9/7/14 VERY unexpectedly with my 6th! I lost 50 pounds in 2013 and still have 50 to go and I understand your concerns. I have gestational diabetes 5 times and I want to avoid those complications as much as possible. So I plan to just keep eating clean and low-er carb (not necessarily low…

I have 5 children. We were told it would be hard for us to ever have children...so each one is a gift to us. I enjoy pregnancy. I enjoy parenting. I enjoy my kids. My "parts" are still in tact. In fact, my husband and I have been married for over 13 years (together for 17) and we still enjoy "relations" with each other. I…

I was exactly right about my size... now, if only that size was smaller! :tongue:

I highly recommend strength training. I had 100 pounds to lose too. While the scale doesn't move as fast at first, your body composition can change drastically making you look much thinner than someone the same weight as you with less muscle mass. The goal is fat loss, not just weight loss. Adding lean muscle or…

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^this. I don't think you are eating nearly enough for all that you are doing. Have you calculated your BMR? 1500 just doesn't seem high enough for all the energy that you are putting in.

I totally understand your joy! I am prediabetic also. Congrats!

I also eat low carb/high fat...was diagnosed with PCOS many moons ago, lost my right ovary to a 2 liter cyst in 2008. I don't take BCP, and I don't take meds. I'm able to regulate my blood sugar through my diet and exercise, and my cycles are now semi-regular at about 38 days long. Ketogenic dieting is the ONLY thing that…

well, you have to continually be resetting your calorie goals as you lose weight, and most likely, it's not that eating at a calorie deficit doesn't work, it's just that the deficit shrinks as you get closer to goal, so people get frustrated because progress seems slower or they have to work in more exercise. For others,…

Have you checked out the group Eat more to weigh less here on MFP? Lots of great stories there. Give me a few months and I'll be able to tell you my results, but I'm enjoying every single one of my 2,000 calories and losing weight ;)

Mock me all you want, I don't care. I'm sure you also know that while protein is insulinogenic (whey protein being the most), they don't spike blood sugar, and it also triggers the release of glucagon to facilitate absorption of amino acids, which carb rich foods do not. My point is that adequate protein intake, seems to…

I am much further from my goal than you, but I can totally relate to your anxiety. For years, I've tried 1200 calorie diets, kicking myself in the butt to kill myself with cardio, only to get fatter because I get so hungry I can't function anymore. I broke my metabolism, ended up insulin resistant (making it even HARDER to…

Insulin drives fat. Carbs drive insulin. How well your body uptakes insulin will determine how many carbs your body can process before you either have to a)burn the excess or b) store the excess glucose as fat. That's why some people (like me) have to eat low carb, and others can get away with more. Low carb is not a fad…

anyone can add me :) I'm 60f/30p/10c roughly with my macros for insulin resistance and PCOS. My carbs come from veggies mainly. Open diary, and while I'm not a 100% clean eater, I don't think I do that badly ;) I'm just a normal working mom of 5 who slowly got fat through pregnancies and not understanding how fat works…

wrong. Hydrogenated saturated fats - trans fats - and saturated fats from corn, soy, as well as from cows fed corn and soy, are the bad fats. Grass fed meat has the perfect Omega 3:6 ratio. Vegetable oils are all very high in omega 6 as well. Fats from whole food sources come in the correct ratios, where manufactured fats…

This +1,000 I'll even go farther than this. Calculate your BMR and TDEE. Also calculate your body fat and determine your lean mass. Personally, I eat at least my BMR in calories daily + exercise calories if I'm hungry, but ultimately above BMR and Less than TDEE...of these calories, I eat 1 g of protein for every pound of…

You need a new doctor. I'm insulin resistant with PCOS and a 60% fat and low carb diet is the only thing that will help you lose weight. You are sabotaging any efforts at weight loss since you are continually flooding your body with insulin and excess sugar. PLEASE. I am not a troll or lying to you. Research High fat low…

You don't care about nutritional value, but won't use sprays? Get over the crap you've been told about fat. Coconut oil, and all healthy fats, are not the devil. I put coconut oil in my coffee, cook with it, get 60% of my calories from fat, and am losing about 3 pounds per week. Insulin. Insulin is what drives fat gain and…

Hi all! I have PCOS & Insulin Resistance and am following a low carb (>65g)/high (cleaner) fat/mod protein (1g per LBM) eating style. I also incorporate intermittent fasting (16/8) and I eat to BMR + some exercise calories if I'm hungry & I exercise daily. This isn't really a diet for me so much as a necessity, but I have…

bumping for when I need it! This is so encouraging for someone like me who has finally learned that eating enough calories and moving my body more can actually work. (amazing, i know).

hahaha! I can totally appreciate this! Awesome :drinker:

Ok, the fitbit products are not HRM's. It does track your exertion through your SPEED. It categorizes time as sedentary/lightly active/moderately active/very active. The fitbits exist to help you gauge how active you are and encourage you to be more so outside of Zumba. If you want to workout within target heart ranges or…

You actually an swim with in a flex and I do it all the time - it's just not proven to be accurate at logging swimming activity. You can't go scuba diving in it though. We emailed FitBit specifically to ask them. It's water resistant to 20 meters. I own a FLEX which I bought after several months of use with a ONE. I love…

Not weird at all :) I have a headache and a smile right now myself :) we can do this! Day 3 here we come...

Oh Yay! I'm totally in. I was slipping back into some bad habits and I need to refocus :) So far, so good...the raging headache is back - which means I'm doing something right :)

i think it depends on your geographical location somewhat. I would avoid the "grain finished" since the point is to get "grass fed" as economically as possible. It doesn't take long on grain to ruin the Omega 6:3 ratio. I can get 100% grass fed from farms locally for about $3.75/lb hanging weight for a 1/2 cow. But $5/lb…

:happy: +1 !!! IF has made a huge difference for me :happy:

PCOS often goes hand in hand with insulin resistance which can make it easy to store fat, and hard to get it off. We tend to carry all of our weight in the belly section which jacks with the pancreas even more. Intermittent fasting has a lot of general health benefits, but is especially helpful for me since it reduces my…

I don't think anyone is trying to get up in arms. I am simply suggesting that your beliefs about calories need further research. That has nothing to do with Paleo or the defense of it - Paleo is a way of eating clean healthy foods. How you tweak it to reach your personal goals is up to you. Take the documentary Fat Head…

Reading Why We Get Fat changed my life and how I look at weight loss. I don't care how much his name is debated. In fact, the fact that his name is SO debated lends to the idea that he might be on to something, and who stands to gain/lose from that might be more interesting... ETA: I wasn't losing weight on any calorie…