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I walked the dog by the pond and got rocks to paint, h drove.

I am REALLY surprised by the new hair growth. I have always had extremely thick hair all my life but the past couple of years I found it strange to be able to see my scalp. I thought the thinning of hair was just a part of getting older.

The biggest change to my food has been the total elimination of stevia and Diet Pepsi in the last 53 days. I didn't eat much sugar or flour so it doesn't seem such a big thing to eliminate. But the artificial sweeteners were included in almost everything. I usually drank at least one 44 oz DPepsi a day and used Stevia in all my other drinks (coffee, tea, etc) and food.

The other changes to my diet have been in amounts (less of everything except having more of vegetables). I don't eat processed food just because it is very hard to find it with no sugar, sweetener, and flour in the ingredient list. Most everything I eat is a single ingredient and in its basic form. I always choose organic when it is available but don't stress about it if not available.

I'm going to ask my OA group if anyone else has experienced new hair growth.

LM - the other thing that would have changed would be less preservatives and flavouring agents in most processed foods. WTG on all the changes you have made.

That would be motivating to me to diet based on getting more hair! I've always had thick hair, but it's not quite as thick as it was. I'm not seeing my scalp, but its limper iykwim. Something to think about.

I'd gained a few pounds last month during the days I was in jury duty. All these days later trying to get that off and get some momentum going again. Yesterday I dragged out an old diet plan I used once that worked a bit and tried to use it. A real pain. I'm going to try another few days then I'll abandon that plan for another that worked better. Oh well, at least I'm not giving up.

I have a specific reason to be doing this and I have a good amount of time to do it. That's a good thing.

Todays exercise oportunities were shopping & 3 shorter walks.

Just giving a big THUMBS UP for this face mask.
I haven't used a face mask in a long time so maybe any face mask would have worked okay. I just know this one has made a big difference in my face skin tone. I had tiny bumps on my face that wouldn't go away. I don't know what they were - not pimples. ANYway, after a couple times using this mask, they are gone. It could be my imagination but it seems like my skin tone is tighter and I have fewer wrinkles now too.

It takes very little of this product so I expect it will last me for years.

Fri. I did a long walk w ddog. She packed a 3' stick home.

Sat. I did 30 on the stat bike early bc of rain. Did 3 shorter walks later with umbrella.

I've been reading about substituting chia seed gel for oil or butter in baked goods. I tried using 1 1/2 tablespoons of chia seed gel to replace the one or two teaspoons of oil in the One Minute Muffin recipe. It tasted the same if not better. I used a little sugar free raspberry jam on the muffin. Next time I will probably just add some blueberries.