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I am all for donating and encourage anyone who safely can to do so but the reason that there are guidelines for blood pressure to donate are for your safety. No donor technician wants to jeopardize a patient and we worry when our patients have reactions or poor outcomes. Also, those events have to be tracked and reported…

This is also usually the culprit for me. It seems like the 3 or 4 days before shark week I am starving and my calorie needs go way up. Once shark week arrives I am hardly hungry and my intake goes way down. I even end up doing a 2 or 3 day fast sometimes because I just didn't think about eating and wasn't hungry.

I actually have worse vision the last month or two (started Keto 1-6-17). I am normally a little bit farsighted but not so much that I need glasses. Lately I have a very narrow range where I can see small things up close (for me that is about 12-15 inches away) and I can't see as far away as I am used to. Maybe it is just…

Olives are another great source of sodium, I love them and probably eat way to many but it sure helps me keep my sodium in line.

What Sunny_Bunny_ said. Dietary intake of electrolytes will show up in blood tests within an hour, often less than that. Yours look great. Also don't worry about the RBC, and H&H. Those are part of a CBC (complete blood count) and are barely outside the normal range. Red Blood cell production and destruction can fluctuate…

I work in a lab and have training in blood donation and processing. The most important thing post-donation is fluids. We give you liquids to help your body replace lost blood volume while it ramps up production. In reality you should drink a little bit extra for 2 or 3 days after you donate. The food is because some people…

You may be craving because you are deficient in something those foods will provide. They are healthy foods so it won't hurt to enjoy a little more of them. Also, I find that I am more hungry the 2 or 3 days when I ovulate as well as just before TOM. I eat enough to satisfy without going crazy and usually it is followed by…

It would be interesting to add these to bath bombs when I make them. Gonna have to think on that.

It is important when looking at lab results to know that "normal ranges" are based on a population that the lab tested when they set up the test. A lot of testing is pretty standard and there have been thousands of people tested since the test was developed but a typical lab tests 100 patients who are not known to have any…

It is important to remember that home BG meters are not as accurate as lab testing. 15%-20% variation in results is normal for this equipment. The results I am seeing posted are all within the normal variation of the meter. Even lab testing will have as much as a 10% allowable difference, don't stress small (less than 20…

This may be a silly question but since you said that you can tell it is going to happen before you go to bed have you tried taking some caffeine and doing some gentle neck/shoulder stretches before bed? If not that might be worthwhile. I have had similar migraines that only responded to a specific medication that is…

Mu husband had gastric sleeve surgery in Nov. His post op diet was low carb, moderate protein, filled in with healthy fats and very few veg (they are harder to digest post op). At this point he can eat pretty much anything except raw veg but isn't in a hurry to add that back in. Helping cook for him and looking for recipes…

My schedule is all kinds of crazy because I work graveyards for 7 days and then I am off work for seven days and switch back to a traditional schedule. This caused a lot of trouble for me before I started doing LCHF because I found that on my switch days, and on days when I didn't sleep enough I pretty much ate nothing but…

Congrats on sticking with it and losing weight so quickly. My husband just had gastric sleeve surgery in November and had 6 weeks of a pre-op diet very similar to yours. He was only 2 weeks in before he started to get bored and we needed to get creative. What we did was change up the veggies portion of his day. I went…