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The biggest motivator ever (not low carb related per se)
Dear Lane Bryant, Your clothes suck so hard. They are so cheaply made, the seams are sewn so poorly they pretty much just unravel. One of my biggest motivations to lose weight is so I can wear NORMAL sizes and get the heck out of your terribly made but incredibly expensive garbage clothing once and for all. GAH. It's the…
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Cheeeeese Dip
So last night I made an 'on the fly' low carb cheese dip and it came out just... fantastic. It would be great to take in a slow cooker or something like that to all those cookouts and get-togethers coming up as a vegetable dip or a pretty much anything dip. I was dipping fresh broccoli in it, and also put it on my burger…
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Headaches
Has anyone had any experiences with raging headaches while on low carb? Monday the 6th, I woke up with a sharp headache that just didn't go away. It ended up mostly lurking above my left eye and was especially bad between 2 and 3 in the afternoon. Aleve, Advil, Tylenol, NOTHING touched it. Finally I went to the doctor last…
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Things that make you go Woooo!!!
So this weekend I had three things that made me go WOOOOO! Firstly, I've lost enough weight that I've gotten my mobility back which enabled me to walk home from a friends house (about a mile) which isn't fantastic, but it's better then the 'I can hardly walk a block' of where I was before. Secondly, after a weekend of…
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Bruises
So I weigh a lot. And lately I've been noticing a day or two after I jog, I get really massive bruises all around my knees. Not sure if I'm sleep walking into things, just paying that little attention to what I'm walking into, or if those bruises are actually jogging related. Anyone else ever have this happen to them? I…
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Eating healthy costs more
You know one of the things that everyone always says is 'eating healthy costs more' and then they point to the price of lean ground meat as compared to the more fatty stuff, and say look! Lean meat is almost a whole dollar higher per pound then the fattier stuff! I can't afford that! I propose to you that in fact, the two…
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GMO Food Products
I think that we are being done a great dis-service by companies like Monsanto and the other big seed producers. They are doing research that has interesting implications for farmers, but I think potentially devastating consequences long term for the environment and our health. The latest I read today: Monsanto has…
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New Food Guidelines
http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ So here's our new food guidelines. Say goodbye to the old, flawed, food pyramid. What do you think of the new 'plate'? I think it's a definite upgrade, I like the focus on fruits and vegetables instead of the base being grains, but I guess I wish that they had flipped the protein and the grain…
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For all the foodies.....
Hey guys. Someone posted a recipe online for chocolate dipped kiwi on a stick. Which caused me to think of the pineapple I have at home, white chocolate, macadamia nuts, and coconut... on a stick. Does anyone know of any reason why white chocolate would not set around pineapple? I know pineapple tends to be a juicier…
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What in the world is up with....
All the stinking McDonald's threads today? Do people think because the news feed is down that whatever calories they eat just don't count!? LOL.
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Possibly very strange question here.
When I was a little kid, my Grandma wouldn't let me have anything to drink until I finished my dinner because she wanted me to fill up on food, not milk or water, or use the water to 'wash down' the food (no matter how much I didn't like it!). I have also heard from dieters that alternating bites of food with sips of water…
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Why can I not remember this!?
Ok. So. I know in the past I figured out how to reset my macros levels so that I was eat 40/30/30 carbs/fat/protein. But for the life of me this morning (I suppose my brain is rebelling at being awake at 6:45 on a Saturday) I can NOT remember how to do this anymore. Someone help!
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Need some advice
Ok so this weekend we are going to be on the road, visiting the bf's daughter. It's a five hour drive there and a five hour drive back. Normally, when we go down there and I'm on a diet, it really falls apart over these weekends, but I don't want to spend another week recovering from a bad weekend. Anyone have any tips on…
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What do you consider a bad day?
Just wondering the general opinions on the board here. What do you consider a failed day? If I look at my food intake, and I made it in under calorie allotments, but didn't eat any vegetables or fruits, and ate kind of a lot of junk food, I consider that a bad day, regardless of if I stayed under my calories or not. Do you…
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Stress
So lovely to have a stressful day at work. Came home and just had that feeling that I wanted to eat and eat and eat until I burst. Instead I'm posting here. How do you all deal with emotional eating?
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Looking for people to walk the walk with
Ok maybe that's a little corny. But really, I've been tracking on here for a grand total of 5 days, and I just love reading all your posts and stories, all of your successes and failures. I've got a long LOOOONG way to go, and I'd love to have some more friends on the website to share all the ups and downs with! Hope to…
