Congratulations to you! I loved being pregnant - hope you do too! Beth

Congrats TennesseeLeigh enjoy every moment even the bad ones! and don't forget to take pregnant belly pics!

Well I'm back from WI #7 and I'm down 5 lbs!! I am so thrilled after last week's small loss. So that is a little over 27 lbs in 7 weeks!
Onederland here I come! Have a great evening everyone!

Yumm I cannot remember who it was who suggested this but I just tried the chocolate pudding with cayenne pepper and it is soooo good! Thanks for the tip!

Had weigh in 9 today and lost another 4.5 lbs. for a total loss of 48 lbs. I am shocked everyday at how wonderful the IP plan is. Finally I have found something I can do for life. I haven't felt this good in years!

I tried the chai tea vanilla pudding shake thing tonight - OMG. My favorite way to have the vanilla shake - so yummy!

Thanks for this EXCELLENT explanation of what wheat can do to us... you're right, it really won't apply to those of us still in Phases 1 & 2, but I wanted to reassure everybody that giving all that up from the beginning was a good thing... I gave up all wheat products about a year before I started the IP protocol, so that part was not difficult for me... I had started noticing that the day after I ate any kind of wheat product, I felt like heck... as soon as I gave it up, I started feeling lots better... I probably thought of it because my daughter-in-law has celiac sprue & I knew her symptoms (which were a lot worse than mine ever were).. being a wheat farmer's daughter, I went on a bit of guilt trip for a while, but I just had to make the change... reading your post makes me REALLY glad I did... thanks again....

hugs

getting late, I know, but had to add my congrats to TennesseeLeigh on your pregnancy.
Blessings to you!!

I'm glad you're looking for ways to make it through surgeries! The patients probably are too. I did a fourth or fifth packet some days when the time gaps between meals were long, and I used alternative product. One thing I found that worked for me to was add a little fat to my breakfast -- an egg mixed with the omelet packet, or some olive oil right off the spoon.

I'm relieved that you're ok with the information -- I hesitated to post it. I'm very glad that you've eliminated/reduced something that was negatively affecting you without your knowledge. It's so pervasive and we never really know how it's affecting us until we stop or we get really sick. It's been recommended to me many times and I never did it. Even 5 months ago, my June self would have looked at my November self and said, "Are you crazy -- give up wheat and flour products?" And yet, here I am!

I can't swallow either the Mag/cal or the K/cal. I asked a pharmacist; he looked them up in a huge book he has; and said they could be safely broken in two.

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This plan does work and will continue to change you and your family. I cook the same thing for my husband as I cook for me, except I will make him potatoes or rice, or some other thing that he likes. That way I am not cooking two meals all of the time. That would get very old after a while. You will do great -


I use RTD EAS Carb control - just grab it and run - Walmart $4.28 for four. It comes in vanilla, strawberry, a milk choc, and a dark choc. I love the dark choc.

When I first started this plan I had a hard time with pills getting stuck in my throat. I can take a hand full of supplements now and swallow them. It must have been either the disc I had replaced in my neck in June or the dredded "F" word.

Thanks for the info about stevia - I stopped using it and am already back into ketosis and am losing poundage again. It feels good to finally know what the culprit was.