I am trying. Right now I am eating a lot of the frozen or canned fruit from last year, maybe not as good for me as fresh but I want to get most of it gone before this year's season. I have avoided most nuts since starting this diet, seem like a lot of calories for so little food, but will give them another look. Thanks Llama, transitioning to a more normal diet is hard, for me anyway.
Yeah, you are right of course. And losing slowly is ok for me right now.
Hey Vic, great to hear from you! And thanks for the kind words. I have a hard time thinking of myself as "doing great". It helps to hear it from someone else, someone who's opinion I trust, like you, makes it feel even better!
Truth... the lines between regulated, obsessive, and out of control are so thin they sometimes seem non-existent...
You have to change the record on this one Rob, because you have achieved what I would say millions probably struggle with. You must give yourself credit!!!
Thanks Llama, that is very true. I suspect I will always be a bit obsessive about tracking food and my diet, it seems the only way I can avoid weight gain.
Hey Emily, good to hear from you! Yeah, I guess you are right, but doing it doesn't feel like anything extraordinary, just what I do.
Thanks Cate, and I sure hope to continue, but I am well aware of my history. If I do continue it will be an anomaly for sure.
I appreciate it y'all and objectively I can see it, but what we feel is different. The last time I was anywhere near this weight I was a teenager, now I'm... well an old man. I keep expecting things to look and feel like they did back then I guess, and they just ain't going to. Guess I need to refocus and compare to where I was just 3 years ago, not 50.
Y'know that's not how that works... You still need the protein and you were trying to up your calories
That's 100% understandable. You could try comparing yourself to your peers as well. Any cousins/friends your age who are as fit as you are?
Ok, yesterday I went back to the low fat stuff.
Good idea. I have two brothers close to my age, one is and always has been slim and looks fit. He talks about exercise but I don't know what he does, doubt its in a gym. The other brother is closer to what I used to be, so maybe I have moved from one to the other. You can tell by looking at people if they are much overweight, a little harder to tell how fit they are.
Thanks Tru, nice to here from you, and your advice is always welcome. I think you know more about this than anyone I know. My trainer is very good, I like her, but she is very focused on muscle building. I would be happy to build muscles, but my first objective is getting into good physical condition, if muscle comes with that so much the better.
Covid? Whatever it is: steroids are basically a miracle cure for one-off rashes.
Because of course you did. Very true. Do you ever do things together where you'd notice? Like hike?
Thanks Llama, the doctor did not mention that, but an online search suggests it's possible. I will get a test. My "sun burn"
That was what the doctor said too, if it is it will be my first ever allergenic reaction to anything. Prednisone not doing much, but I only started yesterday. Not sure how long it is supposed to take.
Took 2 of the home tests tonight, both were negative...
The distribution is odd, everywhere the shirt I wore is covered with rash and a little beyond but not much. It was a older shirt, and no change in laundry detergent or anything to point at... a mystery.
It looks like general inflammation - like Rob said, a sunburn - which does sometimes happen to me with allergic reactions. But to have it almost exclusively under a shirt that's neither new nor washed differently is strange. The location would make sense for a heat rash, maybe, but those don't look as even. I'm stumped.
Should help within 48 hours, easily, and usually within 24.
Hasn't yet, if things don't get better soon I will return to the doctor.
with LaMa. Adding a bit more of the standard stuff sounds like a good idea. You'll still lose some more, but slowly.