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Ideally, goats milk would be best. It is the closest to human milk and has a better blend of protein/carbs then nuts milks, etc. Sheeps milk would be an option as well, if you can find it. I do not like goats milk, but my kids tolerated it because we gave it to them so young. That said, my one child that had a severe milk…

I don't eat my step calories back. In fact, I unsynced my Misfit with MFP because it was messing up my calorie counts so bad. I ended up gaining 5#'s back of what I'd lost because I didn't realize what was happening. Now, when I add my exercise to MFP, I just automatically say I did less. If I walk 3mi at a vigorous speed…

I'm exactly where you're at weight wise and I'm set for 1550. I exercise daily and I do eat back my exercise calories but I do not count my step calories. I'm still barely losing at 1/4-1/2# a week. I weigh and log meticulously but I also have several health issues that probably mean I should set my cals at about 1300-1400…

We live in a hybrid. The original 1400sq. ft home is a double wide manufactured home on a foundation. We added 1480sq ft stick built to it (this includes an upstairs bonus room). The manufactured home part of our house was built in 1996. I have been in newer ones (2005ish) and they were built so differently from ours! My…

I have a PCP that can do everything. That said, I haven't been to him in 7+ years. I still haven't gone back for my post birth exam from baby number 3. She'll be 16 in two weeks. :D I have an NP that I take copies of my blood work to so she can prescribe my thyroid meds. I do talk with her about my weight loss efforts.…

The online lab sites I use are not "shady supplement sites" and don't offer anything but blood work. www.healthcheckusa, www.directlabs. There are others I use, but those are two. Neither sells supplements. Life Extension has a long history in the supplement industry. I don't use their lab orders because others are…

I lift and do cardio 5 days a week. There have been a few weeks where I missed all but one day. On those weeks the weight literally dumps off of me. As soon as I go back the next week I slow to almost a stop again. For me, it seems like about every 6-7 weeks I take a 5-6lb weight drop. But in between that time? Forget it.…

Doctors are for trauma care. I appreciate them for broken bones, trauma care, etc. They work for me, I'm not there to do what they tell me. I take their advice, weigh it against my research, and decide what is best for me/my family after that. I'm not hesitant to seek a second opinion and I use alternative medicine doctors…

Sending you a PM with the info.

My knowledge of health, soy, and hormones leads me to believe that as one's estrogen drops in peri-m that a small amount of soy would in fact be prudent. Soy is estrogenic or as most people in the natural realm refer to it, a phytoestrogen. So knowing that, I think having some would be wise to increase my estrogen levels.…

I'll answer this but I won't get into a debate with what anyone thinks about it. It works. It works for me. And I care more about having my peri symptoms abated then I do to argue with people about how I make that happen. This is not necessarily directed at you, LAWoman. It's a generic statement to anyone that would like…

Sorry. This source made me laugh. Whenever someone posts a link that isn't from a "scientific" site people jump all over them. And then someone posts a link from wikipedia. I don't care what it's about - I looked - I'm just commenting on the source of the info. Surely there are more "scientific" sources. LOL (and I'm not…

Oh man. Love our derringer! It's fun and cute.

I've been doing body for life lifting off and on for years. I do not follow his diet plan but I totally credit how I learned to lift/exercise with helping me lose baby weight after each of my kids. When it came time to lose this time (I gained after a severe injury) I just naturally went back to BFL. I've never met too…

We've gotten to the point where if I haven't started cycling by day 35 I go ahead and induce a cycle. I find so much relief being able to do this. Otherwise it's PMS and water retention until I do start (and like you, it could be a long time if I let it go......). Sorry you're going through the long phase. It's so…

Progesterone cream works right away if it's enough (OTC's are pretty mild so it depends how low a person is if OTC's will work). Yes, it can make things worse. The bummer is, symptoms of too little progesterone are the same as too much progesterone (moody, weepy, anxiety, anger, etc). So if someone gets worse when they use…

It's not uncommon to get a uti with no other symptoms. It's hard to imagine bc we're so use to the idea of burning, etc. A longstanding uti can back up into the kidneys. But, it also would cause a fever at least intermittently bc of a bacteria being present. I am the LAST person to recommend someone go to the doctor, but…

Thanks for letting me know. I don't always get back to follow up on reading (even though I'd like to!). I'm not sure I completely understood what you were saying in terms of your fitbit and steps. I understood the part about how many steps you were normally taking, etc. Just not sure I understand what you meant about your…

Look into a Misfit Shine. They just came out with the Shine 2, but you can get a plain Shine on ebay for like $30 or $40 now. I LOVE mine and have never had reliability issues with it (I've had it 1.5 years). Fitbits seem to have unending reliability issues. That was a large part of the reason I bought the Misfit (mine was…

I had mine synced with MFP and was not "double dipping" and I ended up gaining 5#'s before I realized what was happening. MFP was giving me calories for my steps taken and I don't normally do that. Even though I exercise on top of my regular steps taken, I was gaining. Once I un-synced my tracker from MFP and just recorded…

I was enjoying Starbucks coffee for quite awhile before joining MFP. I don't even do the fancy ones but my "unfancy" peppermint hot chocolate would have 400 calories to it which I was not willing to drink after starting MFP. They have a venti strawberry acai refresher that has 130 cals in it that I have come to love. I am…

I found when I synced my fitness tracker to MFP that I ended up gaining weight. I would recommend un-syncing your fitbit to MFP and ONLY logging actual exercise and not logging your steps walked according to fitbit. When I fixed this I started losing again. I think the error rate of fitness trackers makes them not a…

I literally would gain 20#'s in a month when my thyroid tanked. Even now, if my armour needs adjusting up I can easily gain that in a month. Anytime I start seeing unexplained weight gain I immediately check my thyroid. The thing you have to watch is you can test your TSH and have it in the "normal" range but if it's above…

Interesting. I wonder if they teach both methods then? I dunno. I just know I don't do bone cracking. :#

This. ^^^ I have not read every post but have tried to skim most of them. Parenting is hard work. And it IS work if you want to raise productive, well adjusted, hard working people. 1. Getting up in the middle of the night is definitely butt training. Period, end of story. Get up, get butt training. Consistency. A child…

I also don't feel great when my bp is low. I loved being pregnant bc it was the only time my bp was normal and I felt great the entire time. My son has issues with low sodium and bp. We use bouillon multiple times a day to get our bp up. It can almost instantly make us feel better.

I found your story interesting since my son was diagnosed with ITP with a platelet count of zero 7yrs ago. I don't lie to doctors. I flat out ask them what they'd do in my situation (or whatever is going on) and then tell them I'll be doing the exact opposite of what they say. It saved my son more then once from bleeding…

Thankfully, mine are all teens. While I don't get specific with my boy, I have explained to my girls about peri-men, etc. I also homeschool so we are together 24/7. I try to be very aware of my moods. If I know I'm being hormonal I'll tell the kids I need to teach and not talk much. I'll tell them I'm in a mom mood which…

I like the palmer trained because they don't do bone cracking. For lack of a better term they use computer aided muscle manipulation. Yeah, I've been to the ones that want you bc of insurance. It's frustrating. But like every other doc out there, there are good ones and bad ones. Definitely a person needs to do their…

I second and third the Palmer trained chiropractor. I do NOT do bone crackers. I have too many friends that have been injured by bone crackers. And a friend that had a stroke caused by a chiro. No way, no how, is somebody cracking my bones (especially my neck). But I swear by my Palmer trained chiro. He's been fantastic…