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That scale. Blessing and Curse.
It can be very discouraging when you suddenly jump up 3 Lbs and then .5 the next day. It doesn't really mater to my lizard brain that I dropped 21 LBS in 17 days. A lot of that was water weight due to a medication change. I'm sure the upswing was just my body adding some water weight/waste weight back and it will start to…
Keeping your metabolism from tanking.
A great article. Any thoughts on it. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/6-mistakes-that-slow-metabolism#TOC_TITLE_HDR_8
Life is about prizes for the games you play
Joe here, I'm somewhere between 1 day and 21 months from retirement. Back about a year ago I started doing all these flow charts and theory crafting. On thing that has to be done is weight lose. I met this great lady and we hit it off. She is 5'4 115 lbs I am (was) 6'3 390. She wasn't too pushy about it but lets face it…
Cooking off a sauce
I cooked up meals and was trying to figure out how to log them. Part of one of them is to use a base of soy and oyster sauce. You then cook off most of the liquid. I went to make the recipe in the log and it was like 4000 sodium per serving. LOL. How much of that do you think gets cooked off is you cook it until it the…
Getting past a Plateau / Stall
I've seen a lot of posts that are "why did the scale stop moving" https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/weight-loss/in-depth/weight-loss-plateau/art-20044615
Eating 1500 to 1800 Calories
I've been at this for 2 months and a I feel great. I'm only tired when I dont sleep enough. I started at 386 (scale) one July 4 and now Sept 7 i'm at 348. I'm thinking 19 Lbs a month is no safe. Some of it is probably a change in medication though that removed edema from both of my legs. I can now see the veins in the top…
Joe from FLorida
Hi, I'm 53 and I'm going to retire soon. All of my health markers are good except I was 390 Pounds. I've been saying for a while that I need to be near my optimal weight for retirement so I can get the most out of it and live to make my retirement system pay out for a long time. So here I am 2 months in 41 Lbs down mostly…