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Can diabetes really be prevented with diet, exercise and a normal BMI - despite family history?
My mother is diabetic and my father is borderline (pre-diabetic). Both became quite sedentary after they retired from their comparatively active jobs (agronomists, walking up and down green-house alleys a good part of the day). My mother acquired diabetes a few years after that. My father just plain sits on the couch and…
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Can stress/anxiety mess with my blood glucose despite low carb and exercise?
As I mentioned here before, both of my parents are diabetic (well...one is actually more like pre-diabetic but very close to diabetes). At 43, I am not diagnosed with either diabetes or pre-diabetes... but based on my home glucose meters, I am terrified that I may have to add "yet" to this statement at some point. My…
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Recommendation for a good but inexpensive pedometer?
I think I am so far from the recommended 10,000 steps a day, it's not at all funny. Most of my steps probably come from the hour of exercise I try to squeeze in most days - but the rest of the day? I add probably very little. I need a pedometer to keep me aware - but I do not want to spend much. I don't want any extra fun…
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The 10,000 steps!
So I finally got the memo about the proverbial 10,000 steps daily minimum. I'm probably a Johnny come lately to the proverb - but better later than never. I estimate that I get most of my steps during my hour of exercise. The rest of the day, the steps are not many - that I know for sure. I have never used a pedometer (…
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The body-face dilemma after 40
I know you guys love motivation and success stories on this forum but I'm not a success story ( just yet). More like a mess story. To make a long story very short, last year I lost 30 lbs with the initial 10 lbs dropped unintentionally as a result of a pneumonia bout and another health scare which sent me into a pretty…
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After 40...what's with the choice between face and body?!!!
Well...between some hypochondria episodes and just changing eating habits over the past two years, my weight loss journey has been going quite well. In the process I discovered I must have a pretty darn good metabolism since I used to eat industrial quantities of food and had only become overweight, never obese; and once I…
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42 yo mom with finally normal BMI....but "squishy" :-)
Over the past 2 years, since I turned 40 (now 42), I have lost about 30 lbs. During this time I put some weight back on and then lost it again plus some more. Trouble is much of this weight loss was unintentional, as a result of some health scares ( I suffer form health anxiety and any small issue is "guilty" and…
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Lost weight the "un-orthodox way" but need to keep it down
As I mentioned in my re-introduction post, I am returning on these forums 2 years after I last posted here. In the meantime, I experienced some weight gain at first and then lost it all plus some more due to some hypochondria/huge health anxiety and depression episodes. The joy of entering 40's, I guess... For a while, I…
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Returning on these forums...
I guess this is just a re-introduction as I am returning on these forums after about 2 years. In the meantime, I advanced nicely into my 40's...42 presently, added more hypochondria panic attacks, put some weight back on but then lost it plus some more due to the aforementioned hypochondria episodes, the most recent having…
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Could I possibly be allergic to gluten?...
I went on a relatively low calorie diet for about three months (1200-1400 or so) and lost about 30 lbs - until I recently decided to give it a break since many people were telling me I eat too little and that this is why my weight loss had stalled. I also read weight loss stalling can be "fixed" by going on a "break"…
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Frustrated, even furious
I began a relatively dramatic lifestyle change back in May after a health scare (a small fibroid). After a couple of years of serious stress and stress-based over-eating, my weight had reached an all-time high at 194 lbs for 5'7". Since May I lost about about 29 lbs mainly by eating nice and "clean" (cooked from scratch,…
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30 lbs, close to ideal weight, maintaining easily
This may not qualify as am authentic "success story" as I believe success means weight kept off for years in a row...but I am 100% confident that anyone could keep the weight off as long as they continue to follow this "diet" forever (note "diet" in quotation marks. Below is some text that I cut and pasted from another…
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Nothing like a good ol' health scare to motivate you...
Just wanted to say Hello and present my story. I am a 40 yo mother of two small children (5 and 7) who has been having weight-related issues since turning 15. I was a perfectly normal, well-proportioned child before that time, raised on super high-quality, 100% organic foods (which at that time, in that place, was simply…
