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Hi Robin, thanks for the reply, seems you are doing very well, good you are on the 6 monthly shots, and so glad you are seeing improvements, like you I had some doubts about the meds after reading so many stories, but I had a long chat with my sister, and at the end she convinced me to go for it, I so wish they give me the yearly or 6 monthly shot instead of weekly oral tablets, but here int he UK they wont do it unless you have a huge health/ mental reason for taking pills, the weekly ones are a pain, I sometimes forget and have to take it the next day, also you need to take on on an empty stomach and not eat or drink anything but water for 30 to 60 minutes, which is not a problem unless I absent mindlessly forget and have my green juice (which I am used to having on an empty stomach most mornings automatically, been doing this for about a couple of months now) so I keep thinking when I messed up I ruined the dose for this week etc!!
I tried going vegan so many times and failed, mainly because I ended up being like a human baloon, beans and lots of greens (especially smoothies) really contains too much fiber for my digestion, and yes I do all the proper soaking preparation etc, this is why this time am going for juicing instead of smoothies, last month I tried the green smoothies again (I too have a high speed blender) I wanted to get all the calcium from lots of greens, but again I looked like I swallowed a football lol, so back to juicing, its the only way I can consume a lot of greens, and am hoping the calcium is not lost too much through the juicing.
Wow about your ability to consume 1.5 cups of beans, not sure what great northern beans are called in the UK, maybe someone here can let me know, but at the moment I can only consume 0.5 easily, going to 1 cup means lots of bloat, nd I do make all the recommended preparations, I just need to ease into it and really hope it will be OK, I know some people never managed to digest beans, if it didn't work at all within a couple of months (ie not able to process beans at all) then I need to see what else I can do.
Wonder if people here recommend starting with specific beans?
As for soy, I am totally confused about it, a lot of people and sites on the net frown upon it, almost all diet plans warn against soy, what complicates things for me is that I actually gained about 20lbs the last couple of years, which makes pushed me slightly into the overweight category, so am 150lb now instead of my usual 130lbs, so I want to lose that as well, and on top I have a small batches of psoriasis on my skin, so ideally gluten free ... mind you been gluten free for years now and my skin has its good and bad times, so that makes high nutrient/ high calcium / low fat/calories/gluten free vegan to be healthy and lose the 20lb, its a bit of a challenge.
As for tofu, (perhaps UK people can help me here) I know many years ago Cauldron used to have organic tofu in the supermarket for a reasonable price, but I looked yesterday and I can only see the non-organic variety, there were some other soy products which were organic, but they were sort of fried or something, I just wanted a block of tofu... I saw some a while back at a health shop, and also Chinese shops have lots of tofu, but it doesn't say organic, can any UKer tell me where to buy it best?
I am thinking of doing a DXA scan in a year time, I know its early, but where my sister lives she can get one done quite cheaply privately, so I can go and visit her and arrange for one to be taken, they say its too early, but as long as I know its stable or hasn't got worse, I'd be happier.
Best wishes to you too, hope we can still come and update this thread.
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