Mon, Oct-23-17, 09:59
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Senior Member
Posts: 873
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Plan: general lc
Stats: 214/146/130
BF:
Progress: 81%
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I have a family member who needs double knee replacement and pain in her achilles tendon. At ~5'2, she's well over 300 pounds. Several months ago, when she asked about my weight loss, I told her about low carb and she told me there was no way she could do it. A couple of weeks ago, she was practically in tears talking to me about her situation. Although it's not my nature to give out unsolicited advice, I strongly suspect she's about to ask us for some money (once again) to subsidize her upcoming period of disability and so (rightly or wrongly), I felt entitled to voice my opinion. I told her sugar is a cause of inflammation and that she should cut it out and then cut back on bread and see if she doesn't experience reduced pain. The first thing she did was ask me about fruit. I told her berries were ok, but that she needed to forget about sugary fruit like bananas. She said, "well, I'll ask my doctor about it." I knew that meant she didn't want to do it and had no intention of doing it, as we both knew that her doc would tell her to go low fat, high carb.
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