***Friday Bites, Vites & Exercites***

Hi guys,

BITES: (DS Maintenance Mode)
B - 2 protein coffees (60g)
S - Fage Greek yogurt w/slivered almonds and blueberries, and protein coffee (30g)
S - peanuts
L - protein shake (30g)
S - popcorn
S - edamame
D - homemade taco salad
S - 

VITES:
morning batch: done
4 calcium batches: done
heme iron: pending
evening batch: starting

EXERCITES:
none

How do you make your protein coffee?

Brew a pot of your favorite coffee

In a 20 oz blender bottle with wire ball, add 4 oz of 1/2 & 1/2 or 2 oz of heavy cream and 2 oz of water, a packet of Truvia or Splenda, a healthy dash of cinnamon and a scoop of Syntrax Nectar protein powder. Cover and shake 5 seconds to blend. 

Pour the protein slurry into a huge mug and top off with hot coffee (or chai tea). Stir to blend and enjoy.

(Always add hot liquid to cool protein liquid to keep the protein from clumping)

Yay, happy Friday.  My plan is to sleep this weekend - if my DS will allow me!! ;-)  I'll even take a lie in 'til 06:30!! 

Well I'm doing 100,000 of Biotech Vit D3 a day.  My extra K2 is still en route (from the US I suspect as it's taking a while - I thought I'd getting it faster ordering it from Amazon.co.uk - doh!!).  I suspect there may be bisphosphonates in my future, but I'm at least gonna do everything I can before things get to that stage.

B Protein shake	30
S Yogurt	10
L BK Whopper	30
S Cheese	15
S Pizza slice	10
D Protein shake	30
Protein:	125
F 72+
V All in (inc 7 batches of calcium) night time iron, vit C & copper pending
E 15 min walk @ lunch

 

I sure hope you can avoid the osteo drugs, they will turn your pretty labs upside down and backwards.  : (

Here's to a relaxing weekend!

 

Osteo drugs mess with your labs? In what way? I thought jaw necrosis was the 'only' issue?

The stuff made my D3 level dip and my PTH rise. I had pretty lab levels but a crappy dex scan. Vitalady said it could happen with massive weight loss. Perplexing but happens. I had osteopenia pre-op so the weight loss my first year post-op was the problem that dipped me into osteoporosis. I took the drug for a year and stopped. Increased the vitamin K2 for a year until we started seeing movement on osteocalcin. The drug seems to stop all bone turn over and I equate it to turning your bones to cement. It's taken a couple of more years for all the labs to return to pretty and to see dexa scans move from osteoporosis to osteopenia. I'm hoping this year will be even better.

--gina

Yikes - sounds scary.  I just ordered Shaun T, T25 I'm gonna see how some load bearing exercise works for my bones.  I'm thinking about getting back on the strontium despite the possible heart concerns.  I'm doing 6-7 batches of calcium a day and my calcium levels are and my PTH is up... argh!!

Are you on strontium?

I'm not on Strontium.  One thing, when you get a dexa scan you're supposed to tell them you're taking calcium and Strontium. I think they have to note it and perhaps make some adjustments to their tests for the Strontium.

--g 

BTW I'd want injectables.