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Sugar addiction isn't quick to leave. It takes a slow, long, healing process. The best I've found--what's worked for me--is the Radiant Recovery program. http://www.radiantrecovery.com/ It's a program for the long haul, that understands how some of us (me, for one) have to climb back on the wagon, over and over. It's…
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Put me on your list! I'm going for my SECOND one (every 5 years), on Friday. Gonna try drinking coconut water this time, and some stevia-sweetened NOT-Gatorade-type-stuff, since I'm sugar-sensitive. NOT looking forward to not eating. I really LIKE to eat: will miss my morning protein shake and lunch salad.
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I'm a lifetime WW member, which is only just, since I started doing it at age 18 or so, when the organization was barely a couple of years old. Sometimes--over these past 40 years--it's worked; sometimes not. The leader matters; the group matters; the meeting hours and location make a difference: it's pretty much like…
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Ohhh, dear me. There are actually genetic differences going on between those who can "just say no, tra la la" and those who become irrational due to low serotonin and sugar addiction. Will power!! I and others with my biochemistry have gritted our teeth against major addiction and its companion depressions and miseries,…
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We should start a Radiant Recovery group here on MFP, no? I've looked for one every now and then . . .
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We should start a Radiant Recovery group here on MFP, no? I've looked for one every now and then . . .
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You can certainly get this kind of squash in NY & MA, at least, and in FL, too: good ol' Whole Foods Mkt carries it, since it's a macrobiotic standard, and often farmers' markets have it too. It's sometimes called "buttercup." If you're going to eat the skin, try to buy organic.
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I've reached my goal, which is the top of the chart for my age group & BMI--I'm 58, and 5 feet tall, but have always been on the curvier side of things. Weight 128 was always fine with me: less was so hard to reach over this last decade. But it's been a year since I had major cancer surgery--bilateral mastectomy with…
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Yep! I'm a lifetime WW'er, currently needing to slim it back down to goal. I use all the tools I can, because I need all the help I can get. Been doing WW since I was 18; am now going on 58: I was around a year or two after it started. It works! MFP works, too! ANYTHING works, if YOU work. I've been working successfully…
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Oh, teri, menopause! I went through it on my own, a bit early, back in 2001. Then I found I had a genetic mutation for ovarian/breast cancer (after my mom died of it in '06). So out went the ovaries, just in case, and back came all the menopause symptoms, and I lived through it all again. THEN they actually found cancer &…
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Good morning, all--a happy new year post from mfp reminded me about the site, & here, as they say all the time somewhere or other, I am again. All surgeries are over and done with, hopefully, for a long long time, and I have two new breasts (made from the best cocoa butter money can buy); my tummy is unnaturally flat for a…
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ohhhh brother. Binging is binging. It could be brussels sprouts, it could be wood chips. It's the hand-to-mouth habit mindlessness that's the problem, not what's in the hand.
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Hey, gang. I've returned to MFP after a long hiatus. Lost 15 pounds here last summer, but bungee-jumped it right back on. Not the first time I've done that. Really need to drop about 16-20 lbs. One month ago, had major cancer surgery: double mastectomy & reconstruction. Feeling better every day, but the task of being…
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I'm just 5 feet tall; at age 55, I should be no heavier than 128. I'm 137 now, down from 152 since the start of June. I've reset my calorie count to 1100, but am still losing about .5 a week. This is just fine with me. I want it OFF for GOOD, not OFF NOW. I am willing to be patient. But friends, it's taken me 40 years to…
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bump--anybody else RR out there??
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Hi! I've discovered George's Shake and George's Restore on the food lists; is anyone else here following Kathleen des Maison's "Potatoes Not Prozac" or "Your Last Diet" on line or by book? I'm glad to meet you if you are! If you're working off a sugar sensitivity, well, she's the one who literally coined the term.
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Banks, you are a GEM. You hang in there. Jobs are like that. Great rant!!--sounds like the emotional workout alone burned off a few extra calories (it does, y'know!). Your posts on MFP are valuable to SO MANY people--and it sounds like you take your work just as seriously, with just as much intelligent attention. Far…
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Karen, thanks: I'd love to know if you discover anything.
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Hi, everyone! I'm new here, and wondering if anyone can explain the 24 grams of sugars that my diet plan suggests. It's hard in the summer to completely deny myself fresh fruit, but surely 2 servings a day is not too much. I eat no sugared foods; but the carrots, grape tomatoes, and beets add up very quickly, so that with…
