Guest guest Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 There is something you can do about cramps. It's called low-fat, high- fiber diet. Skip the buttermilk pie and the potato salad (or go for small portions) Seriously, Dr. Barnard of the PCRM has done studies and it works very rapidly (1-2 months) for a large percentage of woman. You will also be lowering your chances of cancer and other degenerative diseases when you get older. Fiber helps your body eliminate excess hormones which could be causing your cramps and causing fluctuations in your cycle. You also might find that pau d'arco tea or other herbs help, but a low-fat diet will definitely make you healthier in the long run. Try to get 40 grams of fiber every day. You can easily guestimate the amount of fiber you eat daily with the following method from the Cancer Project's Survivor's Handbook. Fruits and vegetables and whole wheat bread don't have as much fiber as you may think. Beans are your fiber champions. If you would like some great easy recipes for bean salads, let me know. Also check the recipe section on the website. http://www.cancerproject.org/resources/handbook/section2.pdf Quick Fiber Check The Quick Fiber Check is a handy little tool. Using its simple scoring concept, which takes only a minute or two to learn, you’ll be able to estimate the fiber content of virtually everything in the grocery store and calculate your own fiber intake. To check your meals, write down everything you eat or drink for one full day on the form that follows. Next to each food, jot in its fiber score, using the following guide: Beans: For each half-cup serving of beans or lentils or any food that includes about this amount of beans or lentils as an ingredient, mark 7. One cup of soymilk or one-half cup of tofu rates 3. Vegetables: For each one-cup serving of vegetables, mark 4. An exception is lettuce, for which one cup scores 2. A potato with skin scores 4; without the skin, it scores 2. Fruit: For each medium piece of fruit (e.g., apple, orange, banana, one cup of apple sauce, a banana smoothie), mark 3. For one cup of juice, mark 1. Grains: For each piece of white bread, bagel, or equivalent, score 1. Whole grain breads score 2. One cup of cooked pasta scores 2. One cup of rice scores 1 for white and 3 for brown. One cup of cooked oatmeal scores 4. Score 3 for typical ready-to-eat cereals, 1 for highly processed and colored cereals, and 8 for bran, or check package information. Meat, poultry, or fish: Score 0. Animal products do not contain fiber. Eggs or dairy products: Score 0. Sodas, water: Score 0. Quick Fiber Check Food (one food or ingredient per line): Fiber Score Total Interpreting Your Quick Fiber Check Score Less than 20: You need more fiber in your diet. As it is, your appetite will be hard to control, and you may have occasional constipation. Boosting fiber will help tame your appetite and can cut your risk of many health problems. 20–39: You are doing better than most people in Western countries, but as you bring more fiber into your diet, you will find that it makes foods more satisfying and cuts your calorie intake a bit. 40 or more: Congratulations. You have plenty of healthy fiber in your diet. It tames your appetite and helps keep you healthy. Fiber also reduces your risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and digestive problems. On Nov 22, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Kadee M wrote: > I'm trying to get Jeff to think about having a vasectomy once we > decide one way or another about a third baby. Insurance covers it, > but not a reversal. Every time the subject comes up he crosses his > legs and looks frightened. I don't even know what a vasectomy > actually does. I will have to look that up. > > Even then I would be stuck with irregular cycles and bad cramps > every month. With the Seasonale I only have to deal with cramps > every three months, and I know when to expect it. I haven't had any > problems with the Seasonale after the " adjustment " time. > > On another note, tomorrow I am going to eat like a pig. I nearly > had to resort to threats and violence, but I have at last gotten my > wonderful grandmother to give me the recipe for the stuffing she > makes. I'm going to make that and a buttermilk pie, potato salad, > and probably something else good. Can't wait. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 We usually eat better than this... I probably sound like a real pig. We usually eat good things and all that, I've recently gotten on a spinach kick and I eat the stuff like candy. And tomatoes... and canned peaches and succotash. And no, I'm not pregnant!!! I am just splurging big time since we don't have our families with us for Thanksgiving... not that we wouldn't eat like pigs if we were with our families, but hey, once a year... and Christmas.... If I do end up getting off birth control and have to deal with this every single month I will definitely try to up the fiber content if that will help. Hopefully it won't come to that, but if it does, well, yeah. I agree beans are great, we have them two or three nights a week! Just put them in the Crock Pot, chop up some tomatoes and onions, and there's a whole meal that cost around a dollar for all four of us! Too late on the pie, I've already started making it... and I'm going to eat a lot of it too, I haven't cooked anything like this in forever. And as for the potato salad... it's really good, it has pickles! You can't not like potato salad, can you? Plus I leave the skins on the potatoes so I get a four!! I love Thanksgiving. Especially my grandmother's stuffing. I could eat a whole bucket of that stuff right now. Speaking of that, I need to go finish making my pie!! Thanks for the info, I will remember that if I end up off b/c. Tracy Childs <tracychilds wrote: There is something you can do about cramps. It's called low-fat, high- fiber diet. Skip the buttermilk pie and the potato salad (or go for small portions) Seriously, Dr. Barnard of the PCRM has done studies and it works very rapidly (1-2 months) for a large percentage of woman. You will also be lowering your chances of cancer and other degenerative diseases when you get older. Fiber helps your body eliminate excess hormones which could be causing your cramps and causing fluctuations in your cycle. You also might find that pau d'arco tea or other herbs help, but a low-fat diet will definitely make you healthier in the long run. Try to get 40 grams of fiber every day. You can easily guestimate the amount of fiber you eat daily with the following method from the Cancer Project's Survivor's Handbook. Fruits and vegetables and whole wheat bread don't have as much fiber as you may think. Beans are your fiber champions. If you would like some great easy recipes for bean salads, let me know. Also check the recipe section on the website. http://www.cancerproject.org/resources/handbook/section2.pdf Quick Fiber Check The Quick Fiber Check is a handy little tool. Using its simple scoring concept, which takes only a minute or two to learn, you’ll be able to estimate the fiber content of virtually everything in the grocery store and calculate your own fiber intake. To check your meals, write down everything you eat or drink for one full day on the form that follows. Next to each food, jot in its fiber score, using the following guide: Beans: For each half-cup serving of beans or lentils or any food that includes about this amount of beans or lentils as an ingredient, mark 7. One cup of soymilk or one-half cup of tofu rates 3. Vegetables: For each one-cup serving of vegetables, mark 4. An exception is lettuce, for which one cup scores 2. A potato with skin scores 4; without the skin, it scores 2. Fruit: For each medium piece of fruit (e.g., apple, orange, banana, one cup of apple sauce, a banana smoothie), mark 3. For one cup of juice, mark 1. Grains: For each piece of white bread, bagel, or equivalent, score 1. Whole grain breads score 2. One cup of cooked pasta scores 2. One cup of rice scores 1 for white and 3 for brown. One cup of cooked oatmeal scores 4. Score 3 for typical ready-to-eat cereals, 1 for highly processed and colored cereals, and 8 for bran, or check package information. Meat, poultry, or fish: Score 0. Animal products do not contain fiber. Eggs or dairy products: Score 0. Sodas, water: Score 0. Quick Fiber Check Food (one food or ingredient per line): Fiber Score Total Interpreting Your Quick Fiber Check Score Less than 20: You need more fiber in your diet. As it is, your appetite will be hard to control, and you may have occasional constipation. Boosting fiber will help tame your appetite and can cut your risk of many health problems. 20–39: You are doing better than most people in Western countries, but as you bring more fiber into your diet, you will find that it makes foods more satisfying and cuts your calorie intake a bit. 40 or more: Congratulations. You have plenty of healthy fiber in your diet. It tames your appetite and helps keep you healthy. Fiber also reduces your risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and digestive problems. On Nov 22, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Kadee M wrote: > I'm trying to get Jeff to think about having a vasectomy once we > decide one way or another about a third baby. Insurance covers it, > but not a reversal. Every time the subject comes up he crosses his > legs and looks frightened. I don't even know what a vasectomy > actually does. I will have to look that up. > > Even then I would be stuck with irregular cycles and bad cramps > every month. With the Seasonale I only have to deal with cramps > every three months, and I know when to expect it. I haven't had any > problems with the Seasonale after the " adjustment " time. > > On another note, tomorrow I am going to eat like a pig. I nearly > had to resort to threats and violence, but I have at last gotten my > wonderful grandmother to give me the recipe for the stuffing she > makes. I'm going to make that and a buttermilk pie, potato salad, > and probably something else good. Can't wait. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 hm...with your cravings, sounds like your body is looking for iron in all the right places. On 11/22/06, Kadee M <abbey_road3012 wrote: > > We usually eat better than this... I probably sound like a real pig. We > usually eat good things and all that, I've recently gotten on a spinach kick > and I eat the stuff like candy. And tomatoes... and canned peaches and > succotash. And no, I'm not pregnant!!! I am just splurging big time since > we don't have our families with us for Thanksgiving... not that we wouldn't > eat like pigs if we were with our families, but hey, once a year... and > Christmas.... If I do end up getting off birth control and have to deal > with this every single month I will definitely try to up the fiber content > if that will help. Hopefully it won't come to that, but if it does, well, > yeah. > I agree beans are great, we have them two or three nights a week! Just put > them in the Crock Pot, chop up some tomatoes and onions, and there's a whole > meal that cost around a dollar for all four of us! > Too late on the pie, I've already started making it... and I'm going to > eat a lot of it too, I haven't cooked anything like this in forever. And as > for the potato salad... it's really good, it has pickles! You can't not like > potato salad, can you? Plus I leave the skins on the potatoes so I get a > four!! I love Thanksgiving. Especially my grandmother's stuffing. I could > eat a whole bucket of that stuff right now. Speaking of that, I need to go > finish making my pie!! > Thanks for the info, I will remember that if I end up off b/c. > > > > Tracy Childs <tracychilds wrote: There is something you can do > about cramps. It's called low-fat, high- > fiber diet. Skip the buttermilk > pie and the potato salad (or go for small portions) Seriously, > Dr. Barnard of the PCRM has done studies and it works > very rapidly (1-2 months) for a large percentage of woman. You will > also be lowering your chances of cancer and other > degenerative diseases when you get older. Fiber helps your body > eliminate excess hormones which could be causing > your cramps and causing fluctuations in your cycle. You also might > find that pau d'arco tea or other herbs help, but a low-fat diet > will definitely make you healthier in the long run. > > Try to get 40 grams of fiber every day. You can easily guestimate the > amount of fiber you eat daily with the following method > from the Cancer Project's Survivor's Handbook. Fruits and vegetables > and whole wheat bread don't have as much fiber as you may think. > Beans are your fiber champions. If you would like some great easy > recipes for bean salads, let me know. Also > check the recipe section on the website. > > http://www.cancerproject.org/resources/handbook/section2.pdf > > Quick Fiber Check > The Quick Fiber Check is a handy little tool. Using its simple > scoring concept, > which takes only a minute or two to learn, you'll be able to estimate > the fiber > content of virtually everything in the grocery store and calculate > your own fiber > intake. > To check your meals, write down everything you eat or drink for one > full day on > the form that follows. Next to each food, jot in its fiber score, > using the following > guide: > Beans: For each half-cup serving of beans or lentils or any food that > includes > about this amount of beans or lentils as an ingredient, mark 7. One > cup of > soymilk or one-half cup of tofu rates 3. > Vegetables: For each one-cup serving of vegetables, mark 4. An > exception is > lettuce, for which one cup scores 2. A potato with skin scores 4; > without the skin, > it scores 2. > Fruit: For each medium piece of fruit (e.g., apple, orange, banana, > one cup of > apple sauce, a banana smoothie), mark 3. For one cup of juice, mark 1. > Grains: For each piece of white bread, bagel, or equivalent, score 1. > Whole grain > breads score 2. One cup of cooked pasta scores 2. One cup of rice > scores 1 for > white and 3 for brown. One cup of cooked oatmeal scores 4. Score 3 > for typical > ready-to-eat cereals, 1 for highly processed and colored cereals, and > 8 for bran, > or check package information. > Meat, poultry, or fish: Score 0. Animal products do not contain fiber. > Eggs or dairy products: Score 0. > Sodas, water: Score 0. > Quick Fiber Check > Food (one food or ingredient per line): > Fiber Score > Total > Interpreting Your Quick Fiber Check Score > Less than 20: You need more fiber in your diet. As it is, your > appetite will be > hard to control, and you may have occasional constipation. Boosting > fiber will > help tame your appetite and can cut your risk of many health problems. > 20–39: You are doing better than most people in Western countries, > but as you > bring more fiber into your diet, you will find that it makes foods > more satisfying > and cuts your calorie intake a bit. > 40 or more: Congratulations. You have plenty of healthy fiber in your > diet. It > tames your appetite and helps keep you healthy. Fiber also reduces > your risk of > cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and digestive problems. > > > > On Nov 22, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Kadee M wrote: > > > I'm trying to get Jeff to think about having a vasectomy once we > > decide one way or another about a third baby. Insurance covers it, > > but not a reversal. Every time the subject comes up he crosses his > > legs and looks frightened. I don't even know what a vasectomy > > actually does. I will have to look that up. > > > > Even then I would be stuck with irregular cycles and bad cramps > > every month. With the Seasonale I only have to deal with cramps > > every three months, and I know when to expect it. I haven't had any > > problems with the Seasonale after the " adjustment " time. > > > > On another note, tomorrow I am going to eat like a pig. I nearly > > had to resort to threats and violence, but I have at last gotten my > > wonderful grandmother to give me the recipe for the stuffing she > > makes. I'm going to make that and a buttermilk pie, potato salad, > > and probably something else good. Can't wait. > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 I think the way I've been eating spinach I might get iron poisoning. earthmother <earthmother213 wrote: hm...with your cravings, sounds like your body is looking for iron in all the right places. On 11/22/06, Kadee M wrote: > > We usually eat better than this... I probably sound like a real pig. We > usually eat good things and all that, I've recently gotten on a spinach kick > and I eat the stuff like candy. And tomatoes... and canned peaches and > succotash. And no, I'm not pregnant!!! I am just splurging big time since > we don't have our families with us for Thanksgiving... not that we wouldn't > eat like pigs if we were with our families, but hey, once a year... and > Christmas.... If I do end up getting off birth control and have to deal > with this every single month I will definitely try to up the fiber content > if that will help. Hopefully it won't come to that, but if it does, well, > yeah. > I agree beans are great, we have them two or three nights a week! Just put > them in the Crock Pot, chop up some tomatoes and onions, and there's a whole > meal that cost around a dollar for all four of us! > Too late on the pie, I've already started making it... and I'm going to > eat a lot of it too, I haven't cooked anything like this in forever. And as > for the potato salad... it's really good, it has pickles! You can't not like > potato salad, can you? Plus I leave the skins on the potatoes so I get a > four!! I love Thanksgiving. Especially my grandmother's stuffing. I could > eat a whole bucket of that stuff right now. Speaking of that, I need to go > finish making my pie!! > Thanks for the info, I will remember that if I end up off b/c. > > > > Tracy Childs wrote: There is something you can do > about cramps. It's called low-fat, high- > fiber diet. Skip the buttermilk > pie and the potato salad (or go for small portions) Seriously, > Dr. Barnard of the PCRM has done studies and it works > very rapidly (1-2 months) for a large percentage of woman. You will > also be lowering your chances of cancer and other > degenerative diseases when you get older. Fiber helps your body > eliminate excess hormones which could be causing > your cramps and causing fluctuations in your cycle. You also might > find that pau d'arco tea or other herbs help, but a low-fat diet > will definitely make you healthier in the long run. > > Try to get 40 grams of fiber every day. You can easily guestimate the > amount of fiber you eat daily with the following method > from the Cancer Project's Survivor's Handbook. Fruits and vegetables > and whole wheat bread don't have as much fiber as you may think. > Beans are your fiber champions. If you would like some great easy > recipes for bean salads, let me know. Also > check the recipe section on the website. > > http://www.cancerproject.org/resources/handbook/section2.pdf > > Quick Fiber Check > The Quick Fiber Check is a handy little tool. Using its simple > scoring concept, > which takes only a minute or two to learn, you'll be able to estimate > the fiber > content of virtually everything in the grocery store and calculate > your own fiber > intake. > To check your meals, write down everything you eat or drink for one > full day on > the form that follows. Next to each food, jot in its fiber score, > using the following > guide: > Beans: For each half-cup serving of beans or lentils or any food that > includes > about this amount of beans or lentils as an ingredient, mark 7. One > cup of > soymilk or one-half cup of tofu rates 3. > Vegetables: For each one-cup serving of vegetables, mark 4. An > exception is > lettuce, for which one cup scores 2. A potato with skin scores 4; > without the skin, > it scores 2. > Fruit: For each medium piece of fruit (e.g., apple, orange, banana, > one cup of > apple sauce, a banana smoothie), mark 3. For one cup of juice, mark 1. > Grains: For each piece of white bread, bagel, or equivalent, score 1. > Whole grain > breads score 2. One cup of cooked pasta scores 2. One cup of rice > scores 1 for > white and 3 for brown. One cup of cooked oatmeal scores 4. Score 3 > for typical > ready-to-eat cereals, 1 for highly processed and colored cereals, and > 8 for bran, > or check package information. > Meat, poultry, or fish: Score 0. Animal products do not contain fiber. > Eggs or dairy products: Score 0. > Sodas, water: Score 0. > Quick Fiber Check > Food (one food or ingredient per line): > Fiber Score > Total > Interpreting Your Quick Fiber Check Score > Less than 20: You need more fiber in your diet. As it is, your > appetite will be > hard to control, and you may have occasional constipation. Boosting > fiber will > help tame your appetite and can cut your risk of many health problems. > 20–39: You are doing better than most people in Western countries, > but as you > bring more fiber into your diet, you will find that it makes foods > more satisfying > and cuts your calorie intake a bit. > 40 or more: Congratulations. You have plenty of healthy fiber in your > diet. It > tames your appetite and helps keep you healthy. Fiber also reduces > your risk of > cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and digestive problems. > > > > On Nov 22, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Kadee M wrote: > > > I'm trying to get Jeff to think about having a vasectomy once we > > decide one way or another about a third baby. Insurance covers it, > > but not a reversal. Every time the subject comes up he crosses his > > legs and looks frightened. I don't even know what a vasectomy > > actually does. I will have to look that up. > > > > Even then I would be stuck with irregular cycles and bad cramps > > every month. With the Seasonale I only have to deal with cramps > > every three months, and I know when to expect it. I haven't had any > > problems with the Seasonale after the " adjustment " time. > > > > On another note, tomorrow I am going to eat like a pig. I nearly > > had to resort to threats and violence, but I have at last gotten my > > wonderful grandmother to give me the recipe for the stuffing she > > makes. I'm going to make that and a buttermilk pie, potato salad, > > and probably something else good. Can't wait. > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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