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Roasted chick pea - After reading all the chick pea chatter I roasted a can and dusted,it with cinnamon and stevia.  Just dumped the roasted peas into a heavy duty baggie with the cinnamon and stev...

Pumpkin soup -    Just warm grated onions in olive oil, then mix in pumpkin puree, chicken broth, spices and a little cream until it simmers. That's it! If you don't want to use cream, fee...

Testing - Just a test

Dessert - Well dessert is 1/2 a chocolate protein bar with a hot cup of decaf tea heavily laced with Miralax!  Can't decide if I blame bariatric surgery or old age.  Probably a little of ...

Vitamin A and Biotin - On my spread sheet vitalady says vitamin a should be between 60 and 80.  Mine is 43 so I think I need a little supplement.  I saw my surgeon Monday and he was unconcerned.  What...

Iron - My iron is 70 and my ferritin is 143.  At the 3 month labs my ferritin was 167 so going down.  If I bump up my supplement can I give myself too much.  Is it stored in the fat an...

Thyroid question - My dietitian suggested I have my thyroid rechecked as thyroid problems can slow weight loss.  So I retested with my 6 month labs. It came back 3.8 which Quest says is in range. ...

PTH comfusion - My PTH came back 24 from my 6 month labs.  Quest says their parameters are from 20 to 40.  The Internet says 10 to 65.  So is my PTH ok?  I guess it is low for either gauge but ...

Flu shot - I have gotten flu shots as long as flu shots have been around.  I had RNY  the end of January.  I had my flu shot Friday.  3 minutes after the shot I felt flushed, blurry vision...

Support group topic on how to prevent plateaus/sta - I had my surgery at Methodist hospital in Houston.  They have a very active Weight Management Program with a support group that meets the last Tuesday of each month.  It meets t...

I can't seem to post my lab results - Well I don't know just what I am doing wrong but I am doing something wrong.  I have 3 pages of labs saved to the desktop in a PDF format.  The surgeon's office emailed them to ...

Vitamin D - Well long before surgery my vitamin D was discovered to be 15.   Yikes....so my PCP told me to take 1,000/day to boost it.  I did and got,it,up to 43 right before surgery.  I ke...

Colace vs Simply Right - I have finally decided I need to purchase some of these.  I cannot tell if they are capsules or gel caps.  The simply right said "gel filled" capsules.  Can we take these. I rea...

One a day vitamin??? -   I was told this is once a day.  It is available from amazon.  Is it really a one a day vitamin?  If you go to amazon and click on it you can view the nutrition info. And i...

Kind of OT - another knee question - I have two very bad knees which give me a lot of pain daily..  Arthritis, bone on bone and apparently a ton of bone spurs according to the xrays done by the last ortho doc.  I h...

Suckers sugar free apricot preserves - What are the thoughts on using this.  I have a chicken breast recipe that calls for this and mayo, onion soup mix and a little Russian dressing.  It says Splenda on the label in...

Spinach cheese chicken bake - I am making this today.  Sounds pretty good.  I am adding chicken breast pre cooked strips from Costco for more protein and not bacon like the other person suggests.  I wonder w...

Protein shake samples - What is the best place to order some samples of the syntrax protein power for shakes.  interested in the cappucino but don't want to buy the big 2 lb. tub till I taste it.

A weird NSV - This is my first time to report a NSV.  But.....this morning I went with my husband for us both to have annual eye exams.  On the way to the Tahoe he called me a "scrawney littl...

Crustless Tomato Ricotta Pie - 15 ozs part skim ricotta 4 large eggs 1/4 cup Romano cheese 1/2 tsp salt ... 1/8 tsp pepper 1/4 cup low fat milk 1 tbs cornstarch 1/2 cup fresh basil cho...

Egg casserole - http://lulumusing.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/img_0728.jpg This looked so good and sounded so good.  Just trying to pass it along. 1 pkg spinach 8 eggs 1 1/2 cup...

avatar resizing assistance please - I know this has been answered many times but how do you resize a picture to make it your avatar.  I want to finally download a picture from my "big" computer into the avatar spo...

OT - cellulitis - Has anyone had this. My husband was diagnosed with it yesterday and it is a new thing for us. I can't imagine how he got this nasty thing. It is his right leg. He is at the dia...

On CNN this morning - interesting - 'Drastically overweight' lawyer drops 160 lbs http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/31/health/hughes-weight-loss-surgery/index.html