When the size 8 jeans you took in the dressing room are TOO BIG! (happened yesterday!) OMG....I lived for the day when I could ask the sales woman to bring me a size 6. Which freaking fit and of course I bought!
When the size 8 jeans you took in the dressing room are TOO BIG! (happened yesterday!) OMG....I lived for the day when I could ask the sales woman to bring me a size 6. Which freaking fit and of course I bought!
When the size 8 jeans you took in the dressing room are TOO BIG! (happened yesterday!) OMG....I lived for the day when I could ask the sales woman to bring me a size 6. Which freaking fit and of course I bought!
When the size 8 jeans you took in the dressing room are TOO BIG! (happened yesterday!) OMG....I lived for the day when I could ask the sales woman to bring me a size 6. Which freaking fit and of course I bought!
When the size 8 jeans you took in the dressing room are TOO BIG! (happened yesterday!) OMG....I lived for the day when I could ask the sales woman to bring me a size 6. Which freaking fit and of course I bought!
When the size 8 jeans you took in the dressing room are TOO BIG! (happened yesterday!) OMG....I lived for the day when I could ask the sales woman to bring me a size 6. Which freaking fit and of course I bought!
When the size 8 jeans you took in the dressing room are TOO BIG! (happened yesterday!) OMG....I lived for the day when I could ask the sales woman to bring me a size 6. Which freaking fit and of course I bought!
When the size 8 jeans you took in the dressing room are TOO BIG! (happened yesterday!) OMG....I lived for the day when I could ask the sales woman to bring me a size 6. Which freaking fit and of course I bought!
It is not always a benefit to have your amount of medical knowledge going in as you know all the bad stuff that can happen...a little ignorance IS bliss! But on the other hand you know the right things to do after surgery. I was out of bed walking 2 hours after I got to my room and started hitting the incentive spirometer right after that because I KNOW how important it is to get moving and to breath deeply.
Good luck with your surgery...I will send healing thoughts your way tomorrow! Think what a great source of inspiration and information you will be to you patients after this. You are truly walking the walk.
Good for you! I pop onto the scale every day and I am trying to break the habit and weigh only once a week. I can't imagine just weighing at your doctor's office but I see the attraction to it. It definitely takes the pressure off those darn numbers!
The Consumer Reports article on Protein drinks (July 2010) is scary. I won't type the whole article here but I will try to capture the main issues. My comments are in blue...the rest are direct quotes from the article.
"Some Protein Drinks can even pose health risks, include exposure to potentially harmful heavy metals, if consumed frequently. All drinks in our tests had at least one sample containing one or more of the following contaminants: arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury. Those metals can have toxic effects on several organs of the body. For most of the drinks we tested, levels of those contaminants were in the low to moderate range, when we could detect them at all. But with three of the products, consumers who have three servings daily could be exposed to levels that exceed the maximum limits for one or two of these contaminants in dietary supplements proposed by the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP), the federally recognized authority that sets voluntary standards for health products..."
"The amount of lead in a single daily serving of eight of the Protein supplements we tested would require that the products carry a warning in California. State legislation known as Proposition 65 mandates that manufacturers notify consumers when products contain toxic substances at levels the state say pose even a low cancer or reproductive risk."
"But federal regulations do not generally require that Protein Drinks and other dietary supplements be test before they are sold to ensure that they are safe, effective, and free of contaminants, as the rules require of prescription drugs" A lot more was written about regulations or lack thereof that I will skip over to get to the results.
" We purchased 15 protein powders and drinks mainly in New York metro area or online and tested multiple samples of each for arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury. The results show considerable range, but levels in three products were of particular concern because consuming three servings a day could result in daily exposure to arsenic, cadmium or lead exceeding the limits proposed by the USP"
"We found that three daily servings of the ready to drink liquid EAS Myoplex Original Rich Dark chocolate shake provides an average of 16.9 micrograms (mcg) of arsenic, exceeding the proposed USP limit of 15 mcg per day, and an average of 5.1 mcg of cadmium, which is just above the USP limit of 5 mcg per day. Concentrations in most products were relatively low, but when taking into account the large serving size suggested, the number of mcgs per day for a few of the products we tested was high compared with most others tested."
"The samples of Muscle Milk chocolate powder we tested contained all four heavy metals, and levels of three metals in the product were among the highest of all in our tests. Average cadmium levels of 5.6 mcg in three daily servings slightly exceeded the USP limit of 5 mcg per day, and the average lead level of 13.5 mcg also topped the USP limit of 10 mcg per day. The average arsenic level of 12.2 mcg was approaching the USP limit of 15 mcg per day, and the average for mercury was 0.7 mcg, well below the USP's 15 mcg per day limit. Three daily servings of Muscle Milk vanilla Creme contained 12.2 mcg of lead, exceeding lead limits, and 11.2 mcg of arsenic. A fourth product, Muscle Milk Nutritional shake Chocolate (liquid), provided an average of 14.3 mcg of arsenic per day from three servings."
"Cadmium raises special concern because it accumulates in and can damage the kidneys, the same organs that can be damaged by excess protein consumption. And it can take 20 years for the body to eliminate even half the cadmium absorbed today.
The products they tested are in a chart which I will try to reproduce. Here are the maximum daily levels of the heavy metals for reference: arsenic 15 mcg; cadmium 5 mcg; lead 10 mcg; mercury 15 mcg;
Product Name (heavy metal values) Arsenic Cadmium Lead Mercury
BSN Core Series Lean Dessert Protein 3.3 3.7 2.5 0.3
Shake Chocolate Fudge pudding
Six Star Muscle Professional Strength 2.3 - - -
Whey Protein French Vanilla Cream
Solgar Whey to Go Whey Protein Powder 0.6 - - -
Natural Vanilla Bean
Hope you can interpret the chart as I have typed it. It is worrisome to read about all of these heavy metals in our protein drinks and I wonder about all of the ones that they did not test. I haven't tried any of the products on this list but I'd love to know what is in mine. It is probably worth your time to get a copy of this from your local library if you don't subscribe.
Good luck on your journey and wear the lightest weight flip-flops you can find to your next appointment if they are going to make you weigh with your shoes on!!
4 days is a long time in the life of a cold and assuming that you have already had it for a day or two...you may be fine by Monday. Your doctor may or may not go ahead anyway...totally depends on the doc. I had major abdominal surgery with a fresh cold and my surgeon said, "he wasn't worried about it". It hurt like heck when I coughed a lot after the surgery but I didn't split a stitch! Honestly, if it was ME, I wouldn't call the doc this early because this might be a mild cold and you might be feeling fine the day of the surgery and I would HATE to have them cancel my surgery needlessly. I'd wait until the day of surgery and show up and let them assess you then. Rest and take care of yourself in the meantime.
Add one more to the list of April Sleevers! I saw my surgeon today and now I am scheduled for April 12th....I am doing the happy dance and counting down the days! :party4:
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