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Grocery Lists - What do you buy for your high prot - Hi everyone! As you can see I am a long termer.  But I am cleaning up my diet to lose a little more baby weight/bounceback weight and improve my protein levels in my blood (...

long termer with pain radiating over entire abdome - i really need help.  I have this pain, like labor contractions stretching from below my breast bone down to almost my waist, all in the front of my body.  i have been bent over ...

Jay Robb protein powder alternative? - Hi everyone! I FINALLY found a powder protein I like, and it is Jay Robb.  The problem is that it is SO EXPENSIVE.  I want to say around $2.00/serving from my store.   Can an...

Very concerned about swelling - Hi all, Can someone please weigh in on what may be causing my tummy to swell and mainly my calves and feet (like sausages)?  I am not in the heat so it isn't heat swelling.  My ...

Vitalady's iron works and other lab results with ? - Hi everyone, I just got back my bloodwork from my hematologist and met with him. He only ran the stuff he looks for, plus b-12, folate and tsh. My iron is higher than it has...

Low Vitamin K - Last blood test from December 2011 shows my Vitamin K to be so low that it didn't even make the low end of the range.  The doctor at my "center of excellence" failed to mention thi...

help getting iron up the quickest - Hi please help me.  Had RNY 1/15/2007, I can tell my anemia is back with a vengeance.  I have a blood draw tomorrow or the next day.  Hematologist appt on Monday.  Never had iron i...

37 weeks, 50% effaced, dilated to 1 cm and he is a - Hey ladies!! What does this mean exactly?  The doc said baby is in my pelvis now since he is at -1....do you think he will come soon???

Desperate, ferritin of 5 and iron level of 71 - Hi ladies! Baby is due in 6 weeks, yay!  But my ferritin is only a 5 and iron is a 71 and of course I feel like death.  Last summer I was a ferritin of 2 and an iron of 21 so so...

Exercise after vaginal birth v. c section - hey ladies! just curious, how long after you have (1) a vaginal birth can you exercise or (2) a c-section can you exercise? something i have yet to ask my doctor but wonderin...

Tips to stop grazing - Ladies, I just need help/tips/encouragement/tricks of the trade to break a terrible grazing habit.  I know we are supposed to have 3 meals and 2 snacks but I get so hungry and w...

Restless Leg Syndrome, please help! - Hi ladies! I am suffering from a horrible bout of restless leg syndrome that I cannot shake.  I can't sit still for long, and it is waking me up all night.  I am getting so exha...

Need help interpreting lab results, think protein - Hi guys and gals! I just got some lab work back from my thyroid doctor and some of the numbers I know to monitor with RNY kinda gave me pause...mainly it seems my protein levels...

Starving at 26 weeks! - Is anyone else REALLY HUNGRY around this time??  I feel like I could eat all day and my tummy would still growl!  I just cannot get full :(

I hit a weight I never wanted to be again :( - I am officially 200.8 lbs, I am 25 weeks pregnant.  I began the pregnancy at 178, which was post holiday and post honeymoon weight gain reflection of about 20 lbs up from my lowest...

Had the nasty glucose drink test! - That was the grossest thing I have ever tasted in my life, I didn't want to take it but the doc was really unaware of gastric bypass, etc.  I took the test, got CRAZY weak the rest...