Creekimp13

Nope...Sansa is the chick in Game of Thrones. LOL! Sensa! It was Sensa!

Nope..that's the menopause. LOL. I want to say Sansa?

Yikes. Ouch. Let us know what your doc says. So sorry!

I remember doing some weird powder that you were supposed to sprinkle on your food...there were different kinds for sweet stuff and savory stuff....and it was supposed to make you fill up faster and feel fuller? Does anyone know what the hell I'm talking about? LOLOLOL. I can't remember! You were supposed to lose 30 pounds in six months. The government got a big fraud settlement and paid the people who bought it....I got a settlement check in the mail like two years after I tried it.

HEY! I USE my copies of Sweatin to the Oldies! Like....last week! LOL:) Cardio dance routines never go outta style:)

Slendertone, Save Me!!!! Bahahaha!

Best to discuss this with your doc and have some tests done:) Could also be gallbladder if you still have yours.

LOL...I did grapefruit diet.

Oye. To each their own, my friend. Whatever:)

Fluff you are correct that Atkin's shitty cardiovascular problems were strongly influenced by his illness. But his diet sure as hell didn't help him. He still had heart attacks and couldn't breath....and it very well might have made his condition worse. We don't know. Looking in his arteries in an autopsy could have provided information about whether it did or not......but his family didn't allow that....so we'll never know.

Russel Wilder was on the ground floor and actually NAMED the ketogenic diet...the ketogenic diet....at Mayo clinic back in the early 1920's when they were using it to treat epilepsy. And yet...Mayo doesn't even leave epileptic kids on the diet for over two years today....because of enduring concerns about cardiovascular side effects. Not to say Mayo is the Know-all End-all of medical research. But they have a hell of a reputation.

And yet... https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/symptoms-causes/syc-20350800

Neither did the coroner:) LOL Fact: According to Atkin's health history...provided by his own doctors to the coroner.....he had a history of hypertension, heart attack and congestive heart failure.

These are fun....what the people with the longest longevity ate:) https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/what-world-s-oldest-people-eat-or-ate-every-day-slideshow

https://www.healthcentral.com/article/divorce-rate-after-bariatric-surgery-is-high-my-bariatric-life https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-obesity-surgery-relationships/weight-loss-surgery-tied-to-increases-in-divorces-marriages-idUSKCN1HA2G6 There's a reason bariatric surgery is often called "divorce surgery" It can make a good marriage better...but it can amplify problems in a troubled marriage. Can be a tough time for couples, for sure.

The Gazelle! Sounds fun, doesn't it? I mean...look at that guy smiling! I had one. God help me.

I ate the olestra fat free pringles. I loved them. I ate too many. And yes...I sharted in public, had to abandon my underpants in a grocery store feminine hygiene waste box....and never ate them again.

And I chased them down with some Garcinia Cambogia capsules:) My burps tasted like the rain forest.

Yes, I too, bought and ate a million Acai berries. LOL:)

I think all of us have probably done this walk of shame... bought the diet pill/product/supplement that didn't work. Or that special piece of exercise equipment that would change everything....and didn't. What's your confession?

LOL...why not?

I think we need a thread for all the bizarre diet/exercise products we've ever tried. I have a few embarrassing ones in my history, too. I think most of us do. Though, I never did buy a shake-weight! LOLOLOL

All we can do is pay our money, take our chances, and trust the sources that seem most reputable to us. Our ancestors, the great apes, are not meat eaters. They're fruit, plant fat, and vegetation eaters. Once in a while...they eat eggs, insects, an occasional meat meal (less than 3% of their diet) But mostly, they eat fruit, nuts, seeds, and tons of vegetation. And they get a ton of exercise and sleep. (And of course, FIRE and cooking marked a huge change in nutrition and gut lengths as early hominids needed less large intestine and more small intestine to get the most nutrition out of pre-broken down foods) Sorry about the anthropology rant. LOL. But I guess it is the rant board. Interestingly, the people on the planet who live the longest....eat the Mediterranean diet...which is nutritionally similar.....lots of plant fats, fruits and veggies, legumes, lower protein. They also get more exercise and sleep than the statistical norm. Diet will be controversial until the end of time. We all have our prejudices. I'm so far up the Mayo Clinic Diet's butt...I can take it's temperature. LOL. We all have our favorites. I know you're a Keto Disciple, Fluff, and I'm not trying to change you. If it works for you, awesome. To each, their own.

He didn't die of heart attack, he died of blood clot on his brain and surgical complications that might have been complicated by his circulatory issues. His cause of death was events resulting from blunt force trauma of hitting his head. The report from the New York Medical Examiner's office was factual. He did have a history of hypertension, heart attack and congestive heart failure. The report was made public illegally. But it's still factual information from the medical examiner taken from his medical records. Dude had clogged pipes and a bad heart....and his wife wanted to keep this quiet. I think that's incredibly dishonest. The family's claim that he gained 60 pounds of water weight in 9 days is also bogus...unless he was in renal failure, which would support the hypothesis of cardiovascular failure. And still.... 60 pounds???

People in the first three months after surgery....are gonna crush this thing. People who are significantly overweight are going to have more progress than people who are less overweight. I get what Matty is saying. What's the point of offering a "lets do our own program and cheer for each other challenge" at a site where that's essentially the whole point of the board? I think most of us are already doing that:) I do want to say, however, that I think your enthusiasm is wonderful and it's way cool that you're trying to motivate folks:)