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Breakthrough!
So excited here -- I've been doing keto for exactly two months now and this morning woke up to find the needle on the scales had finally moved...I lost 5# "overnight." (!) I am pleased beyond measure! I think I am dealing with a pretty fierce insulin resistance and that the addition of frequent (though not daily) 16:8…
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Crohn's/digestive issues? Check out the latest research...
https://clinicalnews.org/2017/06/24/coconut-oil-or-cocoa-butter-may-be-highly-beneficial-to-crohns-disease-sufferers/ As the article states, "This research was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health," so maybe the NIH is beginning to pay…
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Speaking of bacon, unsure how to measure
To keep my fat intake up (and because it's so yummy :smile: ), I usually scramble my eggs in all of the bacon fat left in the pan after I've cooked the strips. I was basing my macros for the bacon on the "per slice" grams on the package label, and thought that was that. Then it occurred to me that the per slice numbers…
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Crashed :(
Okay. This is going to be really hard to write because it means I'll be admitting to all of you who have been such encouraging cheerleaders that, IMMEDIATELY on the heels my earlier hardwon success, I've blown, blown, blown it big time. I'll spare you the ugly details except to say it was with two days of some ultra-high…
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Green smoothie ideas, please!
Since beginning keto, I've been trying to go for 7-10 c of leafy greens per day as some experts recommend, but haven't come anywhere close to that. Maybe 3 or 4 cups, rarely. My pain issues make chopping salads all day (or so it feels) too labor intensive and time consuming, so I'm trying to simplify with smoothies…
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Keto Newbie
Greetings All, I am a 62 y.o. female, 230 lbs and 5'5" tall. Multiple medical problems including metabolic syndrome and a complex polypain syndrome, all of which worsened last year when I had a devastating, prolonged (and still recovering) neuromuscular adverse reaction to a statin drug prescribed for high cholesterol,…
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MFP technical Q
Is there an easy way to search for a term within the discussions of this forum (as opposed to searching for the term across all of the MFP message boards)?
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Alcohol-based extracts?
Will a teaspoon of vanilla (or other) alcohol-based extract kick me out of keto? What are good alternatives?
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Keto Newbie
Greetings All, I am a 62 y.o. female, 230 lbs and 5'5" tall. Multiple medical problems including metabolic syndrome and a complex polypain syndrome, all of which worsened last year when I had a devastating, prolonged (and still recovering) neuromuscular adverse reaction to a statin drug prescribed for high cholesterol,…
