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Returning tattoo the pool after decades...
Ordered a swim cap to fit over long hair. Bought goggles, fitted them with prescription lenses. As bracing myself to appear, in public, in a swim suit, still 40 pounds overweight, and age 52, with lipoedma legs. What should I tell myself, so I didn't chicken out?
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6 pounds on in 2 weeks!
After happily low- carbing for nearly two years, I've started regaining the 50 pounds I lost- first a long plateau, from November, I'm now putting it back on: 15 pounds so far, and no end in sight. I have a few health issues (low thyroid, lipo-lymphadedma,) that complicate matters, but I get hours of physical exercise…
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Fell off the wagon, need tips
After doing so well low-carbing for about 18 months, I've found myself eating just "just a wee bite" of high carb food, always sweet things, at least once a day, this past month. Now we're heading into Christmas, I'm really struggling to get out of this habit. Any one experience this situation?
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Low fat AND low carb?
My doctor wants me on a low fat diet after a lipid test showed I have high cholesterol. I lived on a low fat diet for a decade trying to keep my gallstones and my weight in check and it failed on both counts. I lost 50 pounds on low carb and I've kept it off (give or take a couple of pounds). I'm just not giving it up. Can…
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Coleslaw 5 days past its date
Ive just discovered that the coleslaw I ate earlier was last week's and not the one i just bought.this morning. Advice on the internet is wildly differing on whether I will die from this idiocy, or just suffer horribly for days. Does anyone here have experience of eating oldslaw?
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Gaining 1 pound a week!
I lost 50 pounds on low carb -not keto - and then stopted losing. I increases my exercise and cutback on portion sizes, eliminated the occasional cappuccinos I'd always had whole losing. Then I started gaining it back. A pound a week. Now gained 7 pounds. I do have hypothyroidism and lipo-lymphedema but I already had those…
