Oregondaisy

If you want to count carb grams, most doctors say 30 grams and under is best for losing. There are a lot of people who don't watch carbs at all, and feel it doesn't make any difference in their losing.

Are you drinking bottled Water? You need to experiment with different brands. They say it's the PH balance of water that's off for our new tummies. Usually, warm liquids will work better. I still can't drink things cold after 3 years. Most people do say they can get in more liquids if they drink something with flavoring in it, such as G2, crystal light, etc.

I'm pretty freaked out. I had to pick up a container at the lab today so I can collect my urine for 24 hours. Can you get potassium citrate over the counter? I can't drink cranberry juice. It makes me feel like I have a UTI. That's what started all of this. I get UTIS so often, and there is always blood in my urine when I get one. The Dr. had me get a cat scan. He is checking for bladder cancer. He's going to look inside my bladder at the end of the month. Then he'll tell me what we're going to do about the stones. I'm afraid it's going to move, and I can't pass it. He already said it's huge.

No I was asking how you file them in a recipe box.

I just found out I have one in each kidney and the urologist said the one in my right kidney is very large. scary! I'm not even sure what they're going to do about it.

You can buy a really good pudding at the Vitamin shoppe. It's Pro Pudding by body tech. It's 25 grams of protein and 4 carbs. It's really good.

Its the ph balance of plain water. For some reason, our new tummies don't like that ph balance. You can try different brands of bottled water, and see if that helps.

If I eat sugar, it will make me fart. Not always, but it will if I over indulge.

I've had a Protein Shake for breakfast every morning for over 5 years. lunch is usually leftovers from dinner. If not, I have Greek yogurt, lunch meat and cheese, sometimes 1/2 sandwich, sometimes salad with chicken mixed in, sometimes some sort of frozen lean cuisine but I don't eat the rice or Pasta . Dinner I make all sorts of stuff. Just regular recipes that my husband likes and I eat smaller portions without the potato or rice, etc. Meatloaf, steak, chicken fajitas, . I love those new cooking cremes with chicken or fish.

I take a probiotic, but I am 3 years out. How far from surgery are you. You can take big capsules after a couple of months, as long as you're able to get a lot of liquid down with it.

You can always google net lingo and get a huge list. There are certain ones that are more WLS specific though, that aren't on there. All the common ones you'll see on other message boards such as DH and IMHO (in my humble opinion) type ones are there though.

DH dear husband DS could be dear sister but it could also be another WLS that has malabsorption.

Yay!

Sugar alcohol is nasty. I can handle a tiny bit but I have to really watch the amount if it's in something. I get the caramel nougat Atkins and those only have 4 I think . I don't know why they put it in there. They had them before without sugar alcohol.

Honestly, and A cup is too big for me. It's insane.

If she is your friend, and not really his, I don't see why you can't just say "Hey, Joe is uncomfortable with you contacting him on fb. After all, he doesn't really know you, the way I do. Or he's not friends with you , the way we are. Good grief! She should just understand!

I had to take stool softeners to get things going.

You're lucky. It's miserable when it's not controlled.

I am with you Susan. The thought of them make me gag. It's what they're made of that grosses me out.

What kind of Vitamins are you talking about. You do need to spread calcium out so that you're not taking all of it at once. We're supposed to have 1500 mg a day, 500 at a time. You can't absorb more than 500 at a time. You also need to make sure it's calcium citrate, not calcium carbonate. Iron should not be taken within 2 hours of calcium. You can take calcium with a mulit though, and take iron separately. Iron is also absorbed better if taken with vit C. Mine has vit C right in it, It's from Bariatric Advantage.

I am still taking Protonix and I am past 3 years. I have tried to go off of it and it was no fun. I was off of it for 6 months and had horrible heartburn and acid problems the entire time. I thought it would go away, but it never did. I decided to start taking it every other day, and that works fine. I can sure tell when it's time to take one though.

What is a vagal response? I've never heard of this!

I've done a lot of dating over the last 5 years. I always waited until I was sure we were in a relationship, until I told the guy. It's pretty easy to cover it up, by using all the excuses everyone mentioned here. If I did have to eat with someone, I usually ordered salad. I can eat a lot of salad, because lettuce chews up to nothing. Online dating can be fun, and it can also be sort of stressful. There are free sites, which are just as good as the paid sites, depending on the area you live in. I found that the same people were on all the sites here. Plentyoffish.com is a free site. So is okcupid. You can hide your profile and just look at guy's profiles, until you feel ready to drop someone a line, or see if anyone messages you. You can also search as a guy looking for a girl, so get an idea of which kinds of pictures to post, and get the hang of writing an upbeat, cheerful, friendly profile. obesityhelp.com has a singles forum that's pretty active. Everyone talks about all their dating adventures on there. I enjoy that forum, even though I met my bf from plenty of fish. We've been together for over a year now, and I am done with dating. We are getting married soon.