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66yo woman w/40+lbs to lose. Detoxed off all sugar & junk food & need friends with similiar goals.
I’m a 66yo woman, have been on MFP for many years. In 2012 I lost over 30lbs by dieting and working out for my youngest daughter’s wedding. I looked and felt fantastic. However, I gained it all back. Eating tons of sugar products and of junk food was my way of life for many years. I was so tired all the time and when I…
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Warning to Others - Drinking Too Much Water Can Be Deadly and this is real.
I'm telling you this as I sit feeling very scared right now. I found out yesterday I have water toxicity or hyponutremia and all because I was drinking too much water and could start having seizures at any minute. Background. Finally got motivated after gaining so much weight back the last few years and started the Sugar…
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"Water Toxicity" or "Hyponatremia". Drinking too much water can kill you!
I know we are constantly encouraged to increase our water intake, but I'm here to say it can be deadly to overdue water intake. Here's what happened. Am posting this as it might help somebody else. I started the "Sugar Smart Diet" July 10th and detoxed off all sugar. I only had to stop sugar of any type for 6 days,…
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Alta Users - Not counting steps accurately. Suggestions?
Got my Alta yesterday to replace my Charge and am so disappointed. It's not counting my steps accurately. I tried resetting it according it Fitbit's site suggestions, but still inaccurate. Finally put my Charge on next to it this afternoon to compare and yep. Extremely inaccurate. I'd say right now it's 2,000 steps behind…
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Not losing weight and very frustrated.
I started almost 3 weeks ago eating super healthy. I gave up sugar and now use Stevia which helps eliminates cravings. I'm eating more organic foods, like eggs and chicken breast, eating lots more veggies. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day. I do get a cheat day on Sundays so could have screwed it up that way by over…
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Shin Splints still going on.
Well my shin splints are still going on (since the middle of April). I bought new shoes thinking that would help, but they hurt even worse wearing them. Did a walk at the mall 4 days ago and could only do two laps because of the pain. I wore the new shoes again the next day and severe pain. Last night I switched back to my…
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Beyond Diet - End of Week Two
So here I am at the beginning of week three on the "Beyond Diet" diet. The diet claims you'll lose 5 to 10lbs after the two week induction period. Well after week one I lost 2lbs. I weighed myself yesterday (after two weeks) and had gained a lb back. I had followed it pretty much so was very disappointed. I also kept…
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Beyond Diet - Day 6
This is Day 6 of my new diet "Beyond Diet". I can't say I've lost weight, but have made major improvements in my diet. I've cut my coffee intake from 2 to 1 cup and no creamer. I cut out Diet Pepsi entirely, which was a biggie. Given up all sugar and junk food (a biggie). Increased my water to at least 8+ glasses a day…
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Stress Management Techniques?
I'm looking for ideas of what others do to help deal with stress. I was just told I have a possible serious eye disease "Central Serous Retinopathy" and it's caused by stress. I see a Retina Specialist this Friday to find out for sure. My weight also is causing me stress and I handle it by over eating. I have a broken…
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Weight gain cause by multiple medications?
I've only recently come back to MFP and am looking for others who are struggling to lose caused by weight gain from medications. I take 400mg of Seroquel to help me sleep. The Seroquel alters metabolism, causes tiredness and lack of motivation, making it difficult to exercise. I also take Lipitor which has also been shown…
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Sick cat question
This has nothing to do with fitness, well except the fitness and health of my cat. Gideon (my cat) is 10 years old. We've had him since he was only a few weeks old. My daughter rescued him half drowned and (according to her) premature. She moved out to go to college many years back and he's been my H and my cat ever since.…
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Bipolar and Struggling with sleep deprivation
Just thinking, since I'm existing on so few hours of sleep it hard to accomplish much. Anybody else here struggling with a mental illness, too many meds, sleep deprivation, but trying to diet and exercise. Failing misarably at the diet part and feeling so weak it's hard to do any lengthy period of aerobic exercise, which…
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Weight obsession, daughters, hypnosis.
I'm 63. Highest weight 194 back in 2003. 185 in 2011. Got down to 150 in Sept of 2012 for my youngest daughters wedding, but put 27 lbs back on. This past Jan. I weighed 177. Current weight 166. I see a therapist every few weeks and my trying to lose weight usually comes up in conversation. Basically it's about my…
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Christmas Surprise from Husband
Just had to share. I'm pretty hard to buy for. At my age if I need something during the year I'll usually just buy it. Well my H did surprise me and buy me a new IPhone for my Dec. birthday/Christmas so I wasn't expecting anything from him Christmas Eve, which is when we open presents with the kids and grandkids. Everyone…
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Can't stop binging. In desperate need of motivation.
Sorry this is so long, but I just needed to get this out of my system. I told my group I was coming back, but haven't since I can't stop this binge eating. I feel so disgusted with myself I want to vomit. Guess that works for some people, but I hate throwing up so don't know how they do it. I've been reading the message…
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Fibro Flare-Up and Workouts
Fibro getting the best of me. Been doing so good with my workouts and walks, but have been getting worse and worse the last two weeks.. First the shins were killing me, then my knees, shoulders and most of my joints. Our walk last night was grueling, like walking in quicksand. Usually I'm the one pushing my husband to keep…
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Scarry Workout
Had just started my workout with my trainer (Jeff) today. Did 3 set of crunches and he reached down, grabbed my left hand and pulled me up. I sat down for a min., opened my water and the bottle fell out of my left hand. I tried to pick it up and I couldn't grab it. My left hand had gone totally weak and numb. I picked up…
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HRM calories burned during high resting heart rate
Hope this isn't too confusing. I worked out this morning at the gym with my trainer for about an hour doing cardio, weights and strength trainingr. I'm 62 and in order to burn fat I'm supposed to increase my heart rate to 104 to 135, which I did. Right after the workout my HRM stated I'd burned a little under 500 calories.…
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Stress Eating over Lost Bracelet
I am sitting here feeling sick to my stomach. I have lost my white gold/diamond bracelet my husband gave me for my birthday last month. I told him the catch was defective, but he blew me off. I put it on today & went out to run errands before a therapy appt. At the doctor's office I sat down, took off my coat and noticed…
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Totally disgusted with myself!
Just returned from 6 days in Vegas. My eating has been so out of control to an extreme. I was down to a size 12 last Sept and they felt lose. I weighed 149, so proud to have lost so much weight for my daughter's wedding. I looked fabulous but just didn't appreciate it. Instead I was kicking myself over not having lost that…
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Mother of the Bride Letdown Weight Gain
10 days ago we had my daughter's beautiful wedding. I didn't quite reach my ultimate goal of 145, but was 4lbs away (149). I looked fantastic in my beautiful dress and somebody said I looked like a Greek Goddess. But starting at the rehearsal dinner I started eating and haven't stopped since. I got on the scale this…
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Mother of the Bride Transformation
Here are 3 pictures showing how far I've come. My youngest daughter is getting married September 2nd and my goal was to fit into my Mother of the Bride dress to show off how hard I've been working and of course to show off my figure. Hey "why not" at age 61? The 1st pic was taken with my middle daughter at my highest…
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Fibromyalgia and Exercise
I started to seriously working out a year ago, joined MFP in June and working with a personal trainer last September. Recently I have had no energy, am extremely tired all the time, sleeping 9 hours a night with a nap during the day. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia back in the mid 90’s and I spent many years very ill…
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Mother of the Bride pic
Sorry I can't figure out how to post my pictures. I used the code I thought was correct, but not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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Ripped in 30 versus 30 day shred
I've been following some of the posts regarding the "30 day shred" and decided to go get the DVD. All I could find was a Jillian DVD called "Ripped in 30". They sound the same. Is this the same DVD and if not is one better than the other?
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Mother's Day Fall Out
Oh how good I've been. Counting calories, working out religiously, eating well. Yesterday we had the family over. I measured out my ham portion, my scalloped potatoes and took a small portion of overnight salad, didn't even eat a roll. Then my husband brought out the stawberry whip cream cake. Since it was for Mother's Day…
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Back and moving forward
Hi, my name's is Mary. I started with "My Fitness Pal" last June I believe. Loved it. I was also working out and getting good results. From May to Oct I had lost about 20lbs. Then in Oct I was with my daughter having her baby for two weeks and in November my husband's back went out and he was totally incapacited. I gave up…
