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Puffy Under My Eyes, is it normal?
Just asking because I've taken diet breaks a few times before and never experienced this. Do your under eyes retain water if you eat significantly more carbs and less protien for a few days? Its not like I ate sugary pastries or such. It was just less protien, less dairy and nuts and a lot more of rice, fruit, and porridge…
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So, how many of you get 9 servings of fruit and vegetables a day?
I know when I heard the new advisory in UK to eat 9 servings a day I said I'd go for it. That was a few weeks ago. I worked up to it and have for the last week got consistently the 9 servings. It agrees with me and I have more energy. How about you?
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Hungry for life?
Sometimes it feels like I'm eating to live more fully. I don't feel hungry biologically, its an existential hunger to be more present to, real, fulfilled, and satisfied with my own existance. But not being able to attain that, I eat favorite foods instead. Anybody relate?
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Hungrier as you raise calories? Is it a thing?
I'm hungrier as I raise calories to maintenance level. I'm about 50 calories up from what I was doing most days and sometimes 100. I'm aiming for 1400, my mfp maintenance amount. Its making me so much hungrier. Seems impossible! Anybody else experienced MORE hunger as you moved into maintenance and increased calories?
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I think I expect ....
to get things from food that it was never meant to give. I notice that I use food to get comfort, detachment. Things like that. Food is just for health, nutrition and keeping my body going. But I try to make food do something else for me. I might even say I expect it to do spiritual things for me, to make me able to be…
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Cold and Flu, Do You Continue To Restrict Calories?
I have come down with a cold or flu bug. Just the typical, sore throat, sinus congestion, cough. So what do you do? I'm thinking of maybe going to maintenance calories. It could be the best thing for healing myself during this down time instead of eating less until I'm back to normal.
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Protien and muscles
While on a calorie restricted diet, does eating all protein macro advised on mfp save muscle loss? If not, what do you suggest?
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If You Ate Whatever you wanted, no excersize, what do you think would be your stable bmi/ weight?
As I see some MFP people maintain on well over 2000 calories, I am curious to know what you would guess your weight or bmi would get to and stabelize at if you left off counting and ate whatever you wanted naturally. Mine is around 27 - 28 bmi, I'm 65 years old and do some outdoor walks for groceries and such.
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So for those maintaining below 2000/day, is this a lifetime commitment?
I'm curious to know if those who maintain at lower than 2000 a day are happy with that and are you planning to continue it for life. If not what is your plan and do you think that low calorie maintenance will have an impact on you health?
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Keto sticks
Want to share some of the good stuff! I bought some Keto Sticks today and tested out in the middle dark pink square. I'm so exited. I started low carb eating last Friday and didnt know if I was in ketosis, or if this would even work for me, so this is fantastic, especially because most days I'm not eating under 20 carbs,…
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Ketone sticks
Hi Everybody, I have been doing the low carbs since last Friday and now one week later, bought the keto sticks, and Viola! I have reached ketosis! The tab was in the darkish pink area, so thank goodness I dont have to guess about it. I'm thrilled as I didnt know if this would work for me because i didnt start in the true…
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PB?
To eat peanut butter or not to eat peanut butter. That is the question. I noticed on the suggested foods in the info threads that other nuts were listed. But no nut butters, peanuts or peanut butter. How do you keto eaters feel about eating PB?
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Nibbling...
Yesterday, Sabturday, I willessly nibbled. Nuts were the main thing, brazils, walnuts, hazelnuts, only a few at a time, not many calorie wise, but it was the constant inability to say NO! I was getting more and more a feeling of complete lack of control and by the end of the day. a little bit panicked and depressed that I…
