If anyone has access to the latest Time magazine (June 23, 2014) the cover article "Eat butter" makes some very interesting points!

Thanks Tony! I'll take whatever comes with the weight loss; I know it'll slow down. I'm hoping to start working out too. I want to run/jog a zombie 5K the end of August.

Lol I do now, sorry! My tablet tends to be wonky. Think maybe I'll be able to send him a FTS book and he'll read it? Guessing his cardiologists may have other plans though. They usually do.

I'm going in Friday for fasting cholesterol and blood sugar / a1c. I wanted a starting point so I know what improvements I make. My 50 year old uncle goes in tomorrow for a quadruple bypass!!! He fell over while jogging and his fiancé did cpr for 10 minutes til ems got there. He's been in the icu for a week and in an induced coma. Very scary and very eye opening!!

I use chia all the time! I've created a hot cereal by combining a few different recipes. It's ground flax, almond flour,  protein powder, chia seeds and cinnamon,  vanilla and ginger. My protein is chocolate so that's the flavor right now.  Mine comes out at 6gm net carbs (my current protein is a little higher in carbs than I'd like) for 1/2 cup mixed with 1 cup of 0 carb almond milk. Just heat it, let it sit and there ya go!  Super filling! I just make up a big container of the mix and keep it in the fridge.
  I also make chia "pudding". You just mix a few tbsp with milk of choice and flavorings of choice, let it sit (I've found overnight is best) and voila! Chia "pudding"!
  For you yuck texture people - you can grind it down too! It still works and absorbs liquids.

Wow!!  Y'all make me feel so strong!  I too am incredibly grateful to have an amazing man who met me at my heaviest and loved me regardless. He's seen me at my heaviest, at my lightest, at my least healthy and most healthy.  And ultimately, he's supported me no matter what.  I've seen the prejudice that we get as heavy women.  The one that stuck in my head...when I was at my lightest many years ago (and bulimic fyi) I was a fabulous 145, size 10.  Some guys I worked with were in the breakroom laughing at personal ads in the newspaper.  The one they pointed out was a 5'4" (my height) 145#; comment being wow what a cow!  Needless to say, I stood up and asked them if I looked like a cow (knowing that 2 of them had been flirting with me for months)...Of course the answer was no and then I informed them that I was those numbers as well and they could never be so lucky to find a woman who looked that good!!  They were umm... very quiet after that lol    I think truly, there's such a dismorphic concept of weight too - all women must weigh under 125 or they must be fat!  All men must weigh 180... I'm not sure where these concepts come from.  But I'm glad we are here to say I weight more than that and I'm sexy!!!

Wow Umpa, I'd love to find some smaller ones!  Around here they range around the size of medicine balls lol!     A machete might come in handy come to think of it!  I only seem to be able to find the smaller ones in the winter time.  Oh well, like Andrea said - great workout!