arewethereyet Member

Raises hands, yells AMEN!

Thanks:drinker:

Here is a good one for you. Ready? I have allowed someone to help ME! :noway: While married with 2 paychecks, I went out of my way to help people whenever I could. Was very blessed to never need anyone to help me back..............OR..................I never allowed them the joy of helping me. I am not in a horrible place…

Pardon me, may I say you are beautiful, inside and out and give you a hug?? We never know why we are where we are, do we? :heart:

May I point out to people who are stopping here trying to decide if they want to try this challenge, but fear pushups, that there are many variations of the method. I started on the wall-stock upright! It was in a physical therapy appointment when I told the therapist I always wanted to do a push up but with my neck injury…

Hi my friends call me AWTY. I sure could use some arm exercises and encouragement to get started on it again! Thanks for having me. I started about 5 years ago, lost 35 pounds and got into the best shape of my life. I had a mini stroke, heart surgery and a divorce and just quit exercising. Gained back about 15 pounds,…

My doctor recommended the So Be Diet when I inquired. When I showed him MFP, explained I was eating more protein, good fats, a bit lower carbs (from fruit and veggies) and logging it all, he LOVED it. I lost about 35 pounds then and now am back to lose the last of it. If a special diet gives you a starting point, then use…

It was weird. I didn't know I have reflux at all until I had an endoscopy as an after thought while already going under for a colonoscopy. They found a hiatal hernia and an erosion. When I awoke, he asked if I was nauseas in the morning, or had sore throat, coughing, or burning. I told him I thought I was sick from…

When I started taking the reflux meds at bedtime, my throat and coughing stopped. I was simply amazed I had lived with what I had thought was allergies for all those years when in fact it was acid slipping into the throat at night.

I was going into a deep depression and my friend bought me b12, folic acid and d3. Honestly I thought "Oh yea, right" and rolled my eyes :laugh: Then I went to my dr and asked if it was ok to take these and he agreed. He also drew blood and told me my D was very low. Go figure! It has been 2 weeks on the supps, walking 1/4…

tagging for later. Thanks. Never occurred to me to get an app for this. Learn something new every day:wink:

Welcome! :drinker:

Wow, not in the US that I know of. I have to pay $5.99 for a box of crackers with 6 servings compared to $3.99 for a box of saltines with 4 tubes of probably 10 servings in each. I love the Udi's bagels as they have a good texture. $5.99 for 4 in the freezer section. Of course I went to buy another bag and I guess I was…

It's ok. Calm down. Everyone is just at the beach swimming or hiking the mountains or riding their bikes or crossfitting or HIITing or speed walking or jump roping or heavy lifting or elliticaling or ......................well you get the picture :laugh: No worries, everyone will be back when the snow hits the…

Gotta give it time baby, everyone East coast USA is cooking or eating :laugh: I truly hope you take your healthy body out and have fun with it. I spent WAY too much of my healthy young beautiful years worried about my fat butt. NO one else was worried about it but me! One trick I used to get myself to wear a bathing suit…

This was a very helpful explanation.

You are welcome to add me. I am a moderator so do not post much on the regular boards. I have learned I am gluten intolerant recently. Amazing how eliminating something from your life can change it so drastically (think I would have learned that during my divorce :laugh: )

Well that is excellent! Amazing when we do figure it out ourselves, huh? I read on this group that it takes about 6 months for all the symptoms to subside, so I felt a bit better about that. I know I am SO much better, but hope to be 100 percent in my life once again. :drinker: here's to us for using our noggins to figure…

I am glad I found this post! I started in March to remove gluten due to severe IBS, Reflux.....so bad at one point I was afraid I was going to be on disability. Went to Gastro, Neuro, PCP, Psych, Endo, ENT........a different script from each and every one! I don't want to take Prozac, anti nausea meds, anti spasm meds,…

There are blood tests and biopsies for Celiac. Not sure if they Wheat/Gluten is included as the dangon doctor will not return my calls. My experience was that I was Gluten free for a month when my Gastro appt came up. I TOLD him (not that he heard me) that I had not had gluten for a month, and all my symptoms I had been…

just starting out here with GF, and the crackers out there are :sick: I will have to pick up these ingredients at Whole Foods and see what I can do! SOund delish with my hummus:drinker:

thanks, that is what I thought. just makes common sense!

Wow, I feel so bad for you having to stick to it, but know how important it is to have a correct dx also. I knew this dr was blowing me off. He also wasted my copay for the testing, as I made it very clear I had not had a drop of gluten for over a month. Sigh- when will doctors learn to listen to the patient? I knew it…

My typical day is Greek yogurt with honey/blueberries/pistachio nuts (so yummy with the mix of flavors but be sure the nuts are GF) or Scrambled eggs or boiled eggs. I work, so I do them real quick in the morning and have a yummy breakfast. Deviled eggs are :love: too as a treat Udi's bagels are the closest to 'real' but…

Not as impressive? HAH!! VERY impressive! You look 10 years younger, and so healthy. Your success is every bit as impressive as any I have seen. Keep up the great work!!:flowerforyou:

I came in as a moderator, and chose not to remove the 1st post as people have answered with such great responses that it went beyond what I can do with removal of the post. I would ask that we get back to the OP and subsequent SUCCESS posts and say: WOOT WOOT!!!!!!! AWTY

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IMHO that is because people stop eating and don't watch their vitamin and protein intake. I love my hair, and I only went on the Topamax as a last resort after a full month of migraines. NOT a day....... or a few a week.........a MONTH on a migraine day and night. Thank God for MFP because I knew to watch my macros, and I…

The soda side effect has stayed, as has the loss of appetite, but food tastes good so all is well. I am only on 25 mg for my migraines and it is working because I also have drastically changed my diet. I think I found my biggest trigger by accident. GLUTEN! When I had no hunger, I chose to not eat white. I figured I would…

Bragger, next thing you know you'll be saying you lost 83 pounds :huh: :laugh: