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I had a perfect day today:

Had a protein shake for breakfast (I can't take my medications with food.) 2 WWP
No morning snack.
Sandwich (reduced fat cheese, sandwich thins, lettuce, meat) with 14 reduced fat Pringles, and 2 reduced fat Oreos. 8 WWP
100-calorie pack afternoon snack. 2 WWP
Veggie supper (sauteed butternut squash, carrots, zucchini, onion, with seasonings) and bread. 6 WWP
All-bran brownie for dessert (bran flakes soaked in water and then added to brownie mix). 3 WWP
Drank 8 servin… Continue

I made a bowl of cereal this morning that was the recommended serving size. It was laughable! 1 cup of cereal with 1 cup of milk. I couldn't believe how tiny the portion looked! I'm someone who puts as much cereal as I can in the bowl and only allow enough space for it to rise when I add milk. I wanted to giv… Continue

After about a year of messing with recipes, I finally found out the secret to having moist baked goods with no oil or eggs. What I was doing was adding the bran right in the recipe with the flour. NOW, I figured out that you have to soak the bran with a liquid (I prefer almond milk) for 5 minutes and let it get really soggy/mushy. Then you add it to the recipe. That way it acts as an egg substitute, not a flour additive. This last batch of muffins were amazinly moist.

After many years of buying… Continue

Wow, I haven't checked in for three months! Crazy. In that amount of time, I had two more jaw procedures to correct some TMJ pain/issues and went back to college. I believe I'm all done with jaw surgeries forever! Unfortunately, I've had an annoying cough for the past 4 weeks and haven't slept through the night once in that time frame due to coughing. There's always something keeping me from being 100% rested!

Let's see, I'm back up to 197 pounds again. I'm back to drinking 4 cans of soda a day… Continue

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Thyroid: I don't have a thyroid, so I'm on thyroid replacement hormones. That was all fine and dandy until the decided to change my dose. I got hugely depressed as a result. The specialists swear it has nothing to do with the dose change, but I'm still very suspicious. They told me to go on antidepressants, because they are not putting my thyroid dose back to where it was.

Depression: So after several weeks of depression, I ended up on an antidepressant. I hate it. Don't… Continue