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I have a few friends who've switched off shampoo completely and just do baking soda and cider vinegar. They say it works really well and I'm seriously tempted to try it because my hair is so oily-- does the vinegar dry your hair out at all?
Sparklekitty / Julie / Nerdy Little Secret (#42)
Roller derby - cycling - triathlon
VSG 2013, RNY conversion 2019 due to GERD. Trendweight here!
Love coconut oil. I use it for so many things. Even baking. I use bacon grease for my eggs but if I don't have that - then I use coconut oil. It is very stable in room temperature and in high temperature. Breast for skin and hair. Breast for animals also.
I buy mine now from Costco or Sam's.. Specially when thgery have as sale.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
I love eating it right out of the jar. Just like peanut butter. In fact, I haven't bought any for a while because I tend to take a spoonful or two every time I pass the kitchen. Not that it's bad for you but at $7 or so a jar it gets spendy. Funny but peanut butter and almond butter doesn't have the same attraction for me. I can have a jar of those for months but coconut oil disappears quickly.
I love cooking with it, too, and using it instead of butter. I haven't tried it on my skin. Probably because I don't want to waste it when I can eat it :)
WLS 10/28/2002 Revision 7/23/2010
High Weight (2002) 240 Revision Weight (2010) 220 Current Weight 115.
on 4/27/14 12:49 pm - WI
I'm a ... girl too. I think all those dot, dot, dot's are the "pause" in my brain while I think of something to say. 
HW 270 SW 236 GW 160 CW 145 (15 pounds below goal!)
VBG Aug. 7, 1986, Revised to RNY Nov. 18, 2010
My skin is super dry too, more so since surgery. Speaking of hair, I've been doing this to mine once a week & it's really soft. I shampoo it first as normal then do the baking soda, rinse & then spray on apple cider vinegar then rinse. I don't think I would do this if I had colored my hair but I haven't put any color on in over a year.
http://andreajoy.hubpages.com/hub/Natural-Hair-Care-Baking-S oda-and-Apple-Cider-Vinegar
Yeah I'm afraid to use the coconut oil on my hair; I did a VO5 oil treatment once & like to never got all the oil washed out of my hair.
With God ALL things are possible! VSG 3/13/14 Dr. John Mathews
Thank you Leisa:) That is how we also felt!!
Rny 2003
come join the new R&R 3.0, where the fun is:)
I used it occasionally right after surgery when I was having trouble getting in enough water. I was REALLY ashy for a couple of months. Coconut oil works GREAT and leaves your skin super soft, but be warned! If you use it, you have to use some serious soap to get it off. I wouldn't just leave it on as it's pretty greasy. I would put it on when I first got in the shower, leave it while I washed my hair, shaved, etc., then wa**** off right before I got out.
I've heard it's good for dry hair, but I'm too chicken to try it out after how much I had to scrub to get it off my skin!
VSG 7/1/13 with Dr. Jack Rutledge 28 y/o female - 5'10" - HW: 298 - GW: 174 - SW: 290 (-8) - M1: 262 (-28) - M2: 247 (-15) - M3: 235 (-12) - M4: 228 (-7 ~First Stall: almost 2 wks~) - M5: 218 (-10) - M6: 209 (-9) - M7: 199 (-10) Onederland on 1/31 - M8: 196 (-3) 100 lb total loss on 2/2 - M9: 192.6 (-3.4) - M10: 188.6 (-4) - M11: 182 (-6.6) - M12: 175.6 (-6.4) - M13: 173.8 (-1.8) CW (7/8/15): 167 - GOAL reached in 1 Year and 25 Days! - TOTAL WL - 131 lbs
Been doing some research about using coconut oil on dry skin. Bought some Spectrum organic coconut oil today at Wal-mart down the cooking oils aisle for $6.98 it's the consistency of crisco & melts on the skin. Here is a helpful youtube video I found about it's uses;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cQDAZQIDH4
With God ALL things are possible! VSG 3/13/14 Dr. John Mathews
Hmm, maybe that means we need a secret "tough love" symbol. From here on out, when I post a link to something by Metallica with instructions to turn the volume WAY UP, that means I'm serious about preventing failure! :-D
Sparklekitty / Julie / Nerdy Little Secret (#42)
Roller derby - cycling - triathlon
VSG 2013, RNY conversion 2019 due to GERD. Trendweight here!
Wanted to add a significant point. When you take the journeys of others seriously, help with the accrued wisdom you have..... And you get weighed down with the wasted effort you've repeatedly expended (and the endless repetitive post - THOUSANDS OVER 10 YEARS), then a bit of comic relief is most definitely needed to recharge your batteries.
I really am enjoying the fun threads created for that purpose. Hilarity, being silly, outrageous, releases a lot of endorphins, feel-good hormones. I always have a lot less muscular tension & mental stress from my own life that is alleviated after a great belly laugh.
When I opened & moderated my first online support group, I formed a casual social/silly nonsense group as a place to make friends - at some of the members request. It was for victims of committed relationship emotional & mental abuse (sometimes physical). Many were socially isolated and really needed that bit of community in the extra safety of that private protected safe group.
But again, it was where I was annointed as momma bear. 
It shrunk the distance between us.
The warmth - and playfulness 
of off-topic groups.....
