I've lost 96lbs and right now I'm slightly tipsy ask me anything

[LynneSin]

3 Lagunitas and waiting for Iron & Wine with Ben Bridwell to come on stage. Hit me up with your questions.

[Kali]

1. wow! congrats!

any tips or tricks? I have been swimming 90 minutes to two hours almost daily for a couple of months and I feel a hell of a lot better but not losing much.

[LynneSin]

3. Read labels! No more High Fructose Corn Syrup

its in everything even Ketchup

[Kali]

5. yeah, I already don't eat much processed crap

when I do garbage, I just go for it and hit a drive-through. at home we eat mostly real food. just too much of it, I am afraid.

but freaking good for you, I am very impressed with anybody making that kind of change! that is some hard work. EXCELLENT job!

[Major Nikon]

16. Exercise is great, especially cardio

It can greatly increase your overall health, but it's not really a great solution for weight loss simply because of the amount of effort you need in order to burn off calories. It is effective in keeping the weight off.

[rurallib]

19. didn't the industry change the name so we couldn't do that so easily

I think they changed the name to "fructose" only and something else similarly misleading.
Think it happened @ 6 months ago so it may be working through the system yet.

here you go - last winter:

http://naturalsociety.com/watch-corporations-renamed-high-fructose-corn-syrup/
http://naturalsociety.com/newly-renamed-high-fructose-corn-syrup-contains-toxic-mercury/

[LynneSin]

26. Oh I know about that and I look for that too

In general I stopped using ketchup although I keep a bottle of organic ketchup in the fridge if someone needs it. That uses just regular cane sugar.

[DebJ]

25. Last week my sister used her excess tomatoes from her garden to make her own ketchup.

It was really good! I didn't see her make it because I was out at the nursing home visiting our parents,
but she made 5 pints in the course of an afternoon.

[Le Taz Hot]

33. I usually make my own stocks and can them

(I can everything that isn't nailed down) and at one point I ran out of veggie stock so I had to go buy commercial. The VEGGIE STOCK had HFCS! Now, I've made hundreds of jars of all kinds of stock and I've never used HFCS. Hell, it doesn't even have sugar or salt.

btw, congrats! I'm trying to lose 70 myself. 15 down, 55 more to go.

[Trajan]

2. Congratulations ... Crazy Coincidence

I've also lost 96 lbs ... Hoping to hit -100 within a week ...

Good for you ... I know it feels good!

[LynneSin]

4. I plan to do 110 by September 18

Robert Plant concert in NYC!

[Kali]

6. wow conrats to you too!

good job!

[Initech]

7. Nice! I'm starting a diet and hope to get there eventually.

Of course spending a week in London which I will be doing in less than a month, certainly won't help things.

[fizzgig]

8. well done!

i need to shed 25 or 30 and the husband needs to drop even more. we already skip a lot of processed foods, but still order out too much during the week when i'm too tired to cook when i get home.

[malthaussen]

9. Congratulations!

That kind of weight loss shows rare persistance. I'm impressed.

-- Mal

[PassingFair]

10. You're so much easier to knock over now!

How many calories in a Lagunita?

[LynneSin]

12. Who knows I probably pissed them all away

I drank them early in the night then watched the concert. You couldn't have alcohol on the GA section of the floor and I was right up front by the stage. I have great video of when they sang 'The General Specific'

[Blue_Tires]

11. I figured you more for a Joey Bada$$ kind of woman

why didn't you go see THAT show?

[Phentex]

13. That is...

amazing! Whoo hoo!!!!

No questions, just

[mrmpa]

14. Congrats.................

I lost 104 lbs. Just gained 7, so I'm at a 97 lb. loss. But the 7 will come off in the next few weeks. I don't panic over it.

[RebelOne]

15. My daughter lost 200 pounds.

But she had gastric bypass surgery. That was several years ago, but she is packing back on the weight. I hate to see it, but she is a junk food eater such as MacDonald's, Burger King, etc.

[LynneSin]

21. I used Qsymia which really modified my eating habits

I haven't touched fast food since last August outside of salads from Saladworks and Panera. And I read labels like crazy to make sure that their isn't high fructose corn syrup in it. My biggest worry was that I would get this weight off but not change the eating habit so I have been working hard on the eating and exercise in hopes to change those so that the weight will stay off.

And one day at a time.

Maybe she can try something like that to help with the eating. She has an addiction and I know what food addiction is like.

[RebelOne]

23. Thanks. I will her about Qsymia. n/t

[GoneOffShore]

17. Congratulations!

And are you going to see Melody Gardot when she comes to Philly?

[LynneSin]

22. Hadn't thought of it. I have tickets for Jesus and Mary Chain when they are in town on Sept 23

But the big concert is Robert Plant in NYC

[GoneOffShore]

24. Sounds good.

Here's a link to Gardot's website http://melodygardot.co.uk

She's going to be at the Merriam.

Her show last year there was amazing. And as she is from Philly, the audience was very warm and welcoming.

[smirkymonkey]

18. Wow! Great Job!

I finally got a computer with a g-damn working keyboard so now I can do things besides just +1000!

Congrats!

[Xipe Totec]

20. Lagunitas... Nice choice! Enjoy!

I'm having some Four Corners - El Chingón.

Oh, forgot to ask something....

What was your inspiration (fro losing 96 lbs.)?

[graywarrior]

27. w00t!

[KatyaR]

28. Congratulations! You're amazing.

I've lost 70 pounds in the last year. Unfortunately, the last month or so has been a real bitch, and I've gained back 5+ pounds. Trying to stop eating all the junk I have stress eating has been difficult, but I'm sticking to it. No way am I going back--not ever.

Enjoy your new self! You have definitely earned it!

[Ilios Meows]

29. Congratulations!

That is quite an achievement. I hear you about HFCS-it is the devil. Now they're hiding it in American food by calling it 'fructose'. I noticed it on the labels when I visited the States a few weeks back.

[LynneSin]

30. What's good is I know the culprits

and I stick with the products I already know do not use them. I shop trader Joes and Giant Foods has a great, affordable organic food line.

[taterguy]

31. What's your favorite place to visit in the great state of North Carolina?

[LynneSin]

32. Favorite place would be my first place visited and that was Kitty Hawk

it was a family trip I did with my father and my uncle and his family. Unfortunately my uncle passed away probably when I was 10 and my father when I was 13. So that trip to Kitty Hawk was one of my very happy memories of life because of my dad and my favorite uncle. I remember flying kites there and having a great time with my cousins. I'd like to go back there sometime.