***Thursday Bites, Vites & Exercites***

Hi guys,

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

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

EXERCITES:
walking

I'm off out for a works dinner tonight (I already made my selection) so I probably won't manage to post later.

Bloodwork went smoothly this morning - I barely felt anything and was concerned at the needle being taken out early.  When I asked what about the other vials that needed to be taken I was shown they'd already been done (I looked away while it was done coz I'm squeamish).

lol  I'm glad the blood draw went well. Have fun this evening.

The plan....

I just ordered the sample pack from syntrax nector I hope thats my protein answer!

Vites: iron copper missed I can imagine this is why im bruising

Mid day: working on

Evening pending

Bedtime pending

Cites: working

Oh, good! Don't be afraid of mixing with equal parts 1/2 & 1/2 and water for the creamy ones and CrystalLite for the fruity ones.

Bruising can also be low vitamin K1. We need to take a dry form. I take 1000mcg a day in a little capsule I get from Vitalady.

Gina,

Never had this problem until about 2-3 weeks ago.  Easily bruised and bruises showing up that I have no idea how I got them.  When I was playing the rough dog sport I got bruises but I knew where they were from.

What is your guess?  What labs would you check?

Thanks,

Becky

The usual iron markers--iron serum, hemoglobin, hematocrit, ferritin and vitamin K1.

When do you take your iron? Its the hardest for me to get in because there is five of them and my stomach is still to small to pop them all at once. So I would only take two in the am will still waking up. Then Id take two when I'm out of bed and moving. I took them too close together on Tuesday and threw up. GROSS GROSS!

I usually go to bed with a full tummy from my bed time vites and by the time im ready for my iron batch ive fallen asleep. DO you take them all at once?

At first they made me sick too. So, I started again and I only took 1 capsule a day for a week, then 2 capsules the second week, 3 the third week, etc. 

They don't really make me sick... Its the quantity that fills me up.... Five capsules is alot at once. im trying to figure out how to break them up.