Hiya,
just been reading through your thread - congrats on your progress so far! It's always a balancing act trying to find what works out best for you and your life and it sounds as though you've got your self sorted.
I just wanted to comment on your earlier posts about migranes. I know it's a bit late but I'll just add it in case you ever have the prob again. I've been having them for the last 18 years - total nightmare and they come in clusters ( sometimes back to back for over a week -grrr) anyway, to cut a long story short, going into ketosis has triggered a series a few times. Sometimes I find that if i can sense one coming on early enough and down a can or 2 of coke zero with a couple of those extra power pain reliever tabs (mixture of paracetamol, asprin and caffeine) it can stall it and limit it to what I would term a 'bad headache' rather than a full blown migrane.
Anyway, i'll stop rambling for now!
All the best with it
xx
Yeah I was very very severely affected by migraines for a long time, so I hear ya. It's an awful thing
I get the odd cluster headache on occassion. So very hard to explain it - not a migraine, but it feels like your brain is being physically drilled - and everything else in your body goes numb, almost like an out of body experience.
I get triggered very easily and was almost expecting it, unfortunately I was out of pills at the time!!! ARGH! So I got to the vomiting stage long before I got home from work... so that meant I had to suffer it all night. Yick. If I did TS again I would definitely be more prepared!!! Thanks for the advice!! xx
Sounds like you're feeling happier on simple solution which is great

And your goal to get to the 15's by September sounds achieveable, good luck
I am happier, a lot happier, but I flippin love the Exante shakes now! Even with normal food. I'm finding bread very hard to tolerate at the mo, which is good because I'm not eating a lot of it!!
Thanks to both of you for the lovely comments and helpfulness. I really feel that thanks to this place, and the lovely support, I'm slowly getting the right attitude which I never wanted in the past xxxx
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Today I had a (b) shakey and (L) a sandwich (bread, cottage cheese and corned beef with a dash of red sauce) before my personal training session today

because my session is earlier in the day, I might stick with a shake tonight to keep the carbs down to a minimum. And a wee bar as a treat woohoo
I've had cravings for the chocolate shakes all week XD