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Approaching 50, disabled and medicated -- seeking similar friends
Next month I'll be 49. I became disabled in March and had to leave my job while my medical team worked to get me well, but the medications I will be taking for the rest of my life sent me from 167 to 211 lbs and I just cannot bear to see that number go up again. Exercise is difficult for me and in some cases dangerous, but…
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Planned Days Off?
Just wondering, do any of you schedule a day each week when you don't diet? Or do you follow your plan every day? Some successful dieters say that a weekly day off can help people stick with a diet longer and help keep your body from getting too accustomed to a certain number of calories.
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1200 calories... very difficult
1200 calories a day seems to be very difficult for me to stick to. I'm trying my best, really I am, but here I am at 6 pm with only 219 calories left, and a raging appetite. Any tips or ideas how to overcome this ravenous feeling?
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Calorie cycling
Just wonder if anyone has experimented with cycling. For instance, if your daily calorie target is 1400, do you: Monday: 1300 Tuesday: 1400 Wed.: 1500 Thursday 1400 Friday: 1500 Saturday: 1300 Sunday: 1400 Some people say that kind of staggering it this way (not that rigidly, of course, but in general) helps out with…
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Iron
I haven't been tracking for long, but I notice that I am consistently coming in quite low on my daily recommendation for iron. I track iron because I am anemic. I can't absorb supplemental iron, so that kind of wrecks things for me, too. So today, I found out that Honey Nut Cheerios contain a lot of iron, and because I…
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Hi from North Carolina
im new here. Typing from an iPad, so pls overlook typos! :) Anyway, I just started counting calories today. I want to lose about 15--20 lbs the right way. Good to be here.
