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Officially healthy based on a scale that isn't all - I have been measuring my bodyfat (using one of those fancy scales, probably not the most accurate but let's not get hung up on the details).  As of this morning my bodyfat is 29...

Really poor eating choices and then 5 days of gast - Five days ago I had a bad day and made some poor choices.  As in, a big ol' piece of coffee cake.  I know.  This has almost never happened to me but I just had a bad day and mad...

Do I have to fast for calcium labs? - My calcium was low at my six month mark so I am going in this week to have it re-tested.  anybody know if I have to fast for that test?

So fascinating! But fecal transplants? I'd rather - I have been reading lots about this topic including one study that suggested that 20% of the weight lost during rny surgery had to do with the microbes in our guts being changed...

At the risk of being a "negative nelly" I feel really strongly that I need...

natural treatments for marginal ulcer? - I have an asymptomatic marginal ulcer.  I am taking carafate and ppis to treat it.  I am just wondering about any additional natural treatments I could add.  Someone told me pro...

OT-looking for a mood disorders forum that doesn't - i have a friend with a mood disorder (bipolar), does anyone know of a good forum or place online where she can get some support.  i have been looking around but can't find a goo...

Oh for Heaven's sake! They weren't menstrual cram - I posted yesterday about these terrible cramps I was having, I thought they were period related because I had my period, go figure.  I finally called my midwife because they wer...

OT-Menstrual Cramps-Help!!!!! - I am surely dying.  Maybe an overstatement but this is BAD.  I have never really had terrible cramps before, I mean, here or there maybe but nothing unbearable and definitely no...

Holy Size Small Speedo!!!!!!!!!!! - I have been spending one or two Saturdays a month making the thrift store rounds to keep my ever changing body in cute clothes.  (Totally scored yesterday at the $8 a garbage ba...

clean eaters: anybody using the Vega shakes/bars? - Someone gave me one yesterday and even though the protein was a bit lower than I like in a bar (15grams) the ingredients make me want to sing for joy, vegan, whole food, gluten ...

Hey veterans: what do you know about WLS and long - So what are people noticing?  My understanding is that rapid weight loss and calorie restricted diets cause a slowing of metabolism.  Most recently this was in the news around t...

Hey veterans: what do you know about WLS and long - So what are people noticing?  My understanding is that rapid weight loss and calorie restricted diets cause a slowing of metabolism.  Most recently this was in the news around t...

I am so totally OVERWEIGHT!!!!!!!! - Woo hoo!!!!!!!!  Dropped into the overweight category on those ridiculous, inaccurate, terrible measures of health BMI charts today.  Despite my low regard for the charts it is ...

New goal: Join a hoop troop! - Okay, have you seen these women who do this sexy hula hoop dancing?  There were a bunch of them at my husband's work's holiday party (wild place to work obviously) and I just st...

Nope, not gonna let that happen - My mother is visiting, she is stressing me out.  I am about to serve dinner and my plan is to eat mindfully and not allow all her energy to invade my space.  Nope, that gonna le...

Headstand!!!!!! -  I did a headstand!  A real honest to goodness controlled yogic headstand.  Not very yogic of me to brag about it on OH but you can't get everything right.  But my 70-ish lbs li...

Re: the atkins bar question and soy protein isolat - I responded a few days ago to someone asking about Atkins bars and I can't find the post but my trainer pointed something out to me today, he said that bars or shakes that have ...

NSV: way TMI but I can't help it! - So, I am three months or so post op, and all of a sudden my weight loss is crazy dramatic.  It is weird (and wonderful).  People who haven't seen me for a week don't recognize m...

3 mo post op and weird belly button pain - so it is the weirdest thing, I feel this sharp pain deep in my belly button every so often.  It seems to happen more often when I am really active.  I don't notice any redness i...

oh holy dysfunctional families - My mother has just arrived, with cheesecake, cheeseball, butterhorns and enough stress to sink a ship.  I will not lose myself to this insanity!  No!!  I will not!  i will be sa...

oh such a bad bad day - What a difference 24 hours makes!  Let's hope it works that way in reverse too because I would hate to feel like this tomorrow.  It has been a terrible day emotionally, with foo...

3 month surgiversary, so grateful! - Three months ago I was walking the halls after surgery.  What a wild ride this has been!  I am feeling very grateful today.  I think this is the first Christmas I have ever spen...

Any endurance athletes out there? - I am nearly three months post op and have all sorts of exciting adventures lined up for the new year.  Pre-op I was working my way through the Adirondack 46 and had done some go...

Great recipe alert! Herbed Laban!! - I used to make these all the time and had forgotten all about them.  they are perfect for post ops of all stripes and beautiful and tasty too.  I don't know the exact nutritiona...