BZButterfly79

I have Xylitol, Stevia, Splenda, and my FAVORITE one, AGAVE Nectar(looks like honey), look it up it is much much closer to the real thing chemically speaking and does not spike your blood sugar.

I want to ask you not to cry but I know I probably will soon too, I am thinking of making my own extensions when my hair starts to fall I'll start collecting-lol Did you know that Gelatin which is a Protein is absorbed quicker by the hair follicles than other Proteins, I learned this from people in the Dermatology field. Another thing I wan to mention to you is your physician or dermatologist has meds that actually slow down or stop the fall out, I forget what they are called right now but one sleever I know was on them and she said it helped tremendously. I really don't understand why when people have thinning hair and falling out hair they chop what they have left shorter...I would rather do extensions. Let me give you a glimpse of my future so you can feel better, I was was raised in Hawaii and danced the Hula throughout high school so you can imagine the type of hair I had to have well...when I noticed some falling out 3 years back and found out PCOS was the culprit I was so angry at this point I was losing every time I washed it, I started on GNCs woman multi and it slowed down, then the Nioxin and it reaaaally slowed down, so while I still have a lot of hair I know what's coming it will be a nightmare I am sure. If I don't go bald I will certainly come on here to share. Hang in there, have you seen Beyonce without the WEAVE? And she is BEAUTIFUL that's the way I look at it, if I end up with a wig and a hot little body I'll be alright. Keep smiling, stress not good for hair either!

Well, it could be the Splenda lab studies have found that sweeteners actually made mice hungrier. Personally, from my experience with sugar free this and sugar free that, I am really careful because it triggers me to want more for some reason not long after eating some. Here is a link to a site I was reading from it is very interesting...I sometimes think caveman would have rather been chewing on a sugar cane stick why do we have all this laboratory produced crap. Splenda Exposed Splenda Dangers

What you described about and the time frame post-op sounds like what is supposed to be happening, I am early out but I am already expecting this to come my way in the future. If you put hair loss in the forum search tab it will pull up lots and lots of hair loss links. It may seem that you are balding but you're not, the girls say on here that the hair comes back, maybe not the same thickness and amount but it returns. Did you take zinc, iron, and biotin? I am though many say it does not help I at least am trying my best. Good luck and congratulations on your weight loss!

I ate more, precisely the day before I broke my stall I had a grilled cheese sandwich-serious.

Kassie- Hi! I am excited for you even in the research stage, what the other wives have said is accurate, I've been an Air Force wife for a little over 12 years and at our last duty station where I still had not heard about the sleeve I was looking into the lap band, and THANK GOD did not go through with it but they told me that my primary needed to make a letter to tricare stating I had tried dieting and blah blah and then I would wait for approval and blah blah-point is, the entire thing turned me off. I was so irritated mostly I don't like the third class treatment some physicians have with us because we're just fat wives. I moved and live close enough to a MTF with honestly better docs than I have seen in the civilian sector. Basically I waited, I am still in disbelief that I had a $15,000 procedure but at the same time they probably saved money on all the health problems that were to be. Oh, let me tell you about how I got this thing done from start to finish in less than a month, you can message me if you wanna know.

Took me 4 days don't feel bad what goes in must come out! LOL I never took anything just kept drinking and walking and eventually happens.

Forgive me, but my mouth dropped when I was reading your post. Your sister is an RN and she said it would be fine for you to go to TJ get medications that mess with your neurotransmitters, cause increase in heart rate, dehydrate you, and on top of all that can affect your mood severely. If she has a Drug reference book laying around ask her to look up side effects. RNs do not prescribe, there is a reason for that, and I hope to God that you see with your own eyes not through mine or anyone else's what you wrote up there make you sound delusional. Take this from someone who has done it all to lose weight, taken it all to lose weight, that if this surgery and therapy are not being the tool you need not even God can come down and strike you thin. Someone who is sipping Margaritas post-op tells me that you don't care. This is the same thing I would tell you if we were friends sitting at Starbucks! Stop the insanity!

That is puzzling, if you energy expenditure has not increased than it is safe to assume that your body functions better with the carbs, I would just be careful when it comes to playing with fire, for some people carbs have been the problem. As far as insulin too much of it would actually cause you to store the carbs you eat as fat he might have to give you medical reference on that one...I had an overproduction of insulin due to PCOs and never heard of that it has always been the complete opposite. If it is working and you are certain it has to do with the carbs then stick with the plan you currently have. Oh! I just read something on obesityhelp(not a member but I read) and it was a doctor telling the pt to avoid low carbing because he did not want her in Ketosis. Well, the only rationale I could think of is he doesn't want her kidneys overworked but the thing about it is I have been brainwashed by Dr. Atkins about Ketosis being good cause that's when you burn fat for fuel. Some days I feel guilty if I have carbs(SERIOUSLY) because I used to follow Atkins on and off and my brain is like BREAD=HELL which is not true you gotta get a healthy kind etc, so now I am thinking having my Melba crackers with my liver pate is probably been a great thing.