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Help with on-plan veggies please!
Does anyone have any vegetable recipes that a picky 2 year old would enjoy? I try to cook healthy for my older son, but he simply refuses to eat most of what I make for him. I made all of his baby food, with all sorts of vegetables, and he inhaled them all until he was a year old. After moving him to regular food, though,…
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Low Carb While Breastfeeding
I'm sure there must be a thread already started about this. Can anyone direct me to good information about the low-carb lifestyle while breastfeeding?
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Low Carb Pizza Recipes?
Does anyone have a recipe they swear by? I've tried a cauliflower crust and an egg/cream cheese mixture crust. Both have been pretty soft. I'm looking for a recipe that makes the crust more stiff. Any ideas?
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Any suggestions?
For the last few months, my hip has been bothering me. It feels like there's a rubber band in my joint that's stretched and about to snap. Every now and then, it pops and hurts SO badly, like it had slipped out of the socket and popped itself back in. Then, yesterday, I fell off a chair while changing a light bulb, and…
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Weird hunger pangs
Has anyone else experienced this? Sometimes immediately after and/or less than an hour after eating, I get hunger pangs. I can literally feel the food that I just ate in my stomach, yet my stomach is growling and I feel ravenous. I eat high protein and fat and typically a lot of vegetables. I also usually get a gallon of…
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Best Quad Exercise?
What do you think the best quad exercise is? I was thinking lunges, but sometimes I feel those more in my hamstrings than my quads.
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Question About Hips
Hello! While checking my dead-lift form, I looked up and noticed that one of my hips sits quite a bit lower than the other. I've tried to adjust my stance to make them even, but I can't seem to. Is there any sort of training I can do to make them even?
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Pumpkin Delights
These little cakes/custard hybrids taste like HOME. Spicy pumpkin scent fills the air when they're baking. I'm still tweaking this recipe, so let me know if you have any ideas. One thought is perhaps double the amount of cream cheese and then make 18 of these little guys, so they have a more cheese-cakey taste. These come…
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Cinnamon Zebra Hot Chocolate
A local coffee shop makes an amazing zebra hot chocolate, which is chocolate mixed with white chocolate. But it comes in at over 600 calories for a small cup. Here's my take on it, with some added antioxidants in the form of cinnamon. Mmmmm... 1 T unsweetened cocoa powder 1 T sugar free white chocolate coffee syrup 1 t…
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Low-carb White Chocolate Strawberry Faux Ice Cream
1/2 cup nonfat Ricotta cheese 1 cup frozen strawberries 1/4 cup sugar-free Torani White Chocolate syrup Blend all ingredients. I use a Magic Bullet blender. It doesn't freeze well in my opinion. You can use whatever kind of fruit and flavored syrup you'd like. Today, I'll be freezing some apples & making it with sugar-free…
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Motivation Help?
Can anyone recommend a program or some reading materials that really helped rev you up? I've been so down in the dumps lately that I haven't been exercising because I just don't feel it. I've been dieting because it's easy for me, but not working out. Usually, I can read something and perk up. This month's Women's Health…
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A cheat day... Probably not a good idea.
So, I've always been a fan of having cheat, or "treat" days when working on losing weight. They help me from feeling deprived. Today was that day from me. I've been doing this way of eating for 3 months now without cheating. Thing is, I wasn't really craving anything, but I still ate food that was off-plan because I WANTED…
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Parmesan Kale Chips
INGREDIENTS 2 cups kale, no stems, pulled apart into "potato-chip-sized" pieces 1 tablespoon dried, grated Parmesan cheese 1 tablespoon olive oil DIRECTIONS 1) Preheat oven to 300. 2) Put kale leaves in bowl and pour olive oil over them. 3) Mix up so that all kale leaves are saturated. 4) Sprinkle Parmesan cheese over…
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Question about slipping out of ketosis
Fellow ketogenic dieters, I have a question for you. We all know that a certain amount of fruit and vegetables can be consumed while still remaining in ketosis. I've found that anything under 70 carbs keeps me in the zone (which totals to about 2 cups of veggies and 2 cups of fruit.) So, today, I found myself out of…
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Favorite Line From a Movie or TV Show
I'm bored at work. Help me stay awake! What are some of your favorites? Here's mine: OK, first off: a lion? Swimming in the ocean? Lions don't like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that would make sense. - The Other Guys
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Skin issues?
Has anyone experienced any skin problems after starting a ketogenic diet? I'm starting week 4 and it's going amazingly! I'm losing weight at a comfortable pace, and my energy levels are high. The only issue is that I'm breaking out all over! I've never had any sort of skin problems before this, and I haven't changed my…
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Food Porn
Ever just need to look at food porn? I'm torturing myself here! Breakfast Lunch Dinner Dessert Is there such a thing as healthy-food porn?
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Easy General Tso Baked Chicken
1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts 1 cup chicken broth (or microwave a bouillon cube for 2 minutes in a cup of water.) 1 1.25oz packet of General Tso Seasoning (I use the Sun Bird brand) *I don't own a skillet that is oven-proof, hence the extra step.* 1) Preheat oven to 375. Set casserole dish in oven to warm up a…
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Fiber?
Can anyone recommend a good fiber supplement? I find myself only getting around 10 grams per day.
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Butt-hurt?
I'm seeing "butt-hurt" being used all over the message boards. It makes me giggle when I read it. Where the heck did that term come from?! Also, when someone says something like "in," is that pretty much the same thing as "bump?" Any other acronyms, terms, or abbreviations commonly used on these boards that I should be…
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Ideas?
I have a very busy weekend fast approaching. Ever heard of Country Thunder? Well, I have two 12 hour days in a row dispatching from the mobile command center. They always cook amazing food that's completely out of my plan there. Any ideas of what I can pack that's on a no-carb plan and can hold up with just an ice pack?
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Strawberry Lemonade
Forgive me if someone else has come up with this and posted before me, but I was just it tinkering around in my kitchen and made this simple drink, which tastes better than the restaurant strawberry lemonades IMO: 8 ounces of water mixed with 1 packet of Crystal Light Lemonade 1/2 cup of frozen strawberries, or more to…
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Kinky Orange Jell-O Shots
I just invented these tonight after not being able to find a decent recipe for Jell-O shots using yummy Kinky Liqueur: DESCRIPTION: Have a little fun and still stay on track. Sugar free Jell-O, fresh squeezed orange juice, and Kinky Liqueur. For those who haven't tried it yet, Kinky Liqueur is premium vodka distilled 5…
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Question from a newbie
I've started a new program, which is overseen by nurses and a doctor, and I'm on day 2. My question is regarding my keto test. It's only been 1 full day, and I've tested positive for keto, medium colored pink. I was told to expect it to take 3 days. Is this safe, or am I doing something wrong?
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Heartrate Monitor
For anyone who hasn't tried one of these, my absolute favorite tool for my healthy lifestyle is my pink Polar heartrate monitor. It costs $100. It's a chest strap and a watch. You plug in your weight, date of birth, gender, and height. It logs your workout time and calories burned. It also shows the amount of time you…
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Favorite Fitness Gadgets?
For anyone who hasn't tried one of these, my absolute favorite tool for my healthy lifestyle is my pink Polar heartrate monitor. It costs $100. It's a chest strap and a watch. You plug in your weight, date of birth, gender, and height. It logs your workout time and calories burned. It also shows the amount of time you…
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Iron
I've read in a few different reports that my symptoms (fatigue, moodiness, always cold,) can be attributed to lack of iron. Women my age need 18mg of iron daily. You can get that from enriched cereals, I know, but I'm not a big cereal eater. I know that 3 cups of spinach per day equal 18mg of iron. I guess I could blend it…
