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If you really want to be able to eat it, I suggest building up slowly every day with more and more fibre in your diet. Once you reach at least 25g a day, it should be safe to add in kashi without too much stomach gas. If you go from a fairly low fibre diet to one with kashi that's major stomach trouble! lol

I'm from Calgary too :)

Hi there, I'm from Calgary as well :)

I hear you, I'm in the same boat. Single Mom, can't afford to spend tons on clothes for myself. So happy about the weight loss, but its very expensive to replace clothing. When I'm really stuck and enough inches/pounds have come off, I do what I can to purchase things that will last longer regardless of weight/inches…

I use body fortress like the first responder. Depending on what else you want to do with it, consider which flavor you want to purchase because vanilla goes the farthest as far as uses. IE: I make protein smoothies, protein whole wheat no sugar carrot muffins, added protein peanut butter balls.

I too am polycystic. I try very hard to avoid refined sugar. I've found the more of it that is in my diet - the more I crave it, and that's not a good thing as it leads to binge eating. Fruit does not have this effect on me, but I always choose fruit that is low on the glycemic index (ie: eat apples, oranges rather than…