Breakfast: 1.5 - 3 oz Lunch: 3 - 5 oz Dinner: 4 - 6 oz (these are all non-nausea days. when I have chemo I don't eat much) If we eat more for lunch, the dinner has to be less.. basically a combination of 9 oz, we just have a choice of how we split it. On rare occasion we eat an ounce more, but that mostly happens when it's fish. Tina

MRIs. Ok, So I fell and busted my arse in my hubby's work parking lot the other day. I landed on my right knee and hand. DH insisted I go to the doc to have my knees checked out. They did x-rays..no broken bones, but my knee is catching very badly and giving out...usually means torn cartilage. I have been through this all before. My knees are awful! Doc has scheduled an MRI on both knees. My question is...are MRIs safe to get after surgery. I know only my knees will still be in the machine, but it makes me nervous with all those magnetic fields swarming around. I am going to call my surgeon. I hope my staples are titanium(non-metalic) and not steel...just wondered if anyone has had an MRI since surgery. -KT

Oops and I forgot (oh how could I forget....) CASHEWS!!!!!!

Congrats to you both... I just read a post on yahoo from a girl that had hers done 6 mos ago and she has gained 5 pounds. She admitted that she learned early on how to cheat with it and how to eat around it. I felt so bad for her. You could hear the despair in her words... Keep up the good work ... a loss is a loss is a loss... I don't care how you did or who you gave that pound to... its a goner!!! wanda

I'm not Jewish but my your passover meal sounded absolutely scrumptious... I hate to cook so I automatically admire anyone that can and does!!! You let us know when and where and I'll clear my calendar!!! (I'm fairly close to you as it is!) Now, quit beating yourself up over that 2 # gain... I think its our time frame... I was on a plateu for 7 weeks and I lost and regained the same friggin' 3 pounds that entire time... I could be at goal by now if it had been a consistent loss. But nooooooooo.... my body had to play games with my warped little head.... then BOOM dropped 5 pounds in 3 days... then back up 2 pounds... no cheating with carbs either... although that is a demon I have to fight every single day! Unfortunately, I don't dump. Dag nab it!!! I use my pouch as a tool and I refuse to deprive myself ... i eat making better choices now. If I want a choco chip cookie... I eat ONE... not the whole sleeve... (did you notice how the nabisco stocked dipped in sept and oct.... yep, that was me! hehehe) Anyway, use your tool... and enjoy your life... we can do both at the same time! have fun with your girls in the rain... you might want to find a place close to a Holiday Inn... just in case! Take pics... And I love the idea of no fluids after 4 pm... and no it would be no more child abuse than making you get up at 2 am would be elder abuse... huggles wanda