Posts by robynanne

Hey folks.  If anyone wants my spot, please take it.  I don't have a good feeling about this.  Not enough communication.

 Thanks anyway,

Robyn

Ohhh... I just made the YUMMIEST dinner last night!  Even the kids ate it!  If you like: Pita pockets, chicken, garlic, green peppers, cooked onions, apples, and maple syrup, you might like this.  It was EASY!  (I'm usually cooking with at least one child being carried around so ya, gotta be easy.)

1) Chicken pita pockets

whole wheat pita pockets

~2 chicken breasts

~3 garlic cloves

~oregano

~2/3 cup chopped onions (I used frozen pre-cut because I feel so wasteful using a whole onion and throwing the unused parts away.)

~1 large green pepper

Take the chicken and slice it into very thin (think cardboard box width) long slices.   Cut the green pepper and de-seed it and cut it into fairly thin long slices too.  Heat up a skillet with some olive oil and toss the chicken and onions and some oregano in and mince the garlic cloves in.  Stir those until the chicken is mostly cooked.  Toss in the green peppers and turn the heat down and cover.  Let cook on low, stirring occasionally while you make the apple salad.

2) Apple Salad

~2 apples, red, green, both - up to you.

~1/4 (or less - just drizzle over really) cup maple syrup (real stuff, dark amber is best, but again, up to you.)

Cut apples into small bite sized cubes, leaving the peel on. Toss into a bowl and pour syrup over them.  Stir slightly.  The apples will thin out the syrup to a nice thin sweet liquid.  Very yummy.  We did this with 2 green and 1 red apple for the whole family and they loved it.  You could probably also put some yogurt in the mix  but we didn't.  My 3 year old made this (I cut the apples) so it is very easy obviously.

When you're done, fill the pitas with the chicken and YUM! :)  You could easily mix this up with ANY vegi in with the chicken.  I'm thinking asperagus, zuchinni, red or yellow or orange bell peppers, tomatoes, hmmm.. eggplant?  Not sure about that one.  You could probably even put cold avacado in with the chicken.

Hi Under.

Thanks.

Actually, I am in that Missing GRACE group that does a large number of things.  One of them is advocating the use of home heart rate monitors that can monitor the fetal heart rate overnight for longer periods of time.  Dr Jason Collins has studied cord related stillbirths most of his medical career and he has identified a number of fetal heart rate patterns that indicate fetal distress.  Fetal distress comes from many things, including but certainly not limited to velamentous insertions, nuchal knots, loops, etc.  By monitoring these things, the multitudes of healthy babies that die due to cord related issues would all be saved.  We host conferences every other year to teach the medical world about these issues and to teach the mothers and families about these issues.  The medical world will NOT listen.  The head of the Med School at some college (forgive me please, but I don't remember at just this time exactly which college it was and I don't want to get it wrong) that basically puts together the corriculum for all med school nation-wide has repeatedly told Dr Collins that she has no intention of ever putting cord care into the OBGYN studies.  Why?  She doesn't want to.  So, anyway, we've put part of our focus onto just informing the mothers.  Arm them with the information to protect their babies and then they can go to their doctors and say "I want you to know that the umbilical cord isn't going to kill my baby."  Enough mothers demand this, and the doctors will start searching out the training, and the medical world will be forced to incorporate cord care into perinatal care as a whole.  This way, not JUST velamentous insertions or vasa previa will be better dealt with, but any cord related issue as a whole.

So, please don't go under the impression that I am not working towards that.

In the meantime, I just try to tell every person that I can; have your doctor check the cord insertion point to the placenta.  Don't assume they will do that because not all do.  They have to do it if you ask, and it isn't hard at all.

As for the support postings - I'm all for someone getting support.  I don't even mind giving my own support to someone else starting their own thread.  It's just that THAT won't support me - which isn't that person's issue. 

I'm NOT a mod here (goodness knows I haven't even tried to be neutral anywhere) so I'm not required to always give and not want anything in return.  I'm just hoping for my own place to belong.  I feel as if I'm butting heads with the popular kids in high school in this place for crying out loud.  Apparently I'm not allowed to sit at the 'big' lunch table.

-Robyn

Corn and carrots aren't actually vegitables.  Corn is a grain, like wheat or bread.  Carrots are roots, like potatoes and other starches.  Both are still sort of good for you, so eat them because you like them and they are natural!  YAY!

2 subway subs a day is horrid in nutrients alone, not to mention processed bread products.  It isn't a matter of putting more vegies in your sandwhiches, it's about getting vegies and fruits and fish and nuts and etc that aren't stocked in a subway shop.  There is a whole world of foods out there that are fresh and natural and good and healthy for you.  Try them.  Many of them in many different ways and combinations and find ones that you like.  You keep eating like you are and by the time you die, no one will have to embalm you.  You'll be nicely preserved allready.

Totally unglued is pretty incorrect.  I mean, cripes, I'm not refusing to get out of bed or anything.

I'm just frustrated that I'm trying to find my place in this niche of the web and it's not working.  Probably because I'm trying to get something that isn't here - ya know - keep doing the same thing expecting different results. 

As for the other thread - I was frustrated because they weren't understanding me and they kept posting comments that made that clear.  I wasn't trying to convert - just explain my position and it was like la la land in people not understanding me and then belittling something they didn't take the time to make sure they understood in the first place.  THEN I was pissy because people were saying that I was becoming unglued because someone "dared" (creepy ohhh ahhh fingers) to dissagree with me.  That was really aggrivating because all *I* wanted was to be understood and taken seriously instead of made fun of and THEY were invalidating me and demeaning me just because *I* dissagreed with them.  The irony is breathtaking.  AND, it was the MODS that were cheerleading the regulars on in attacking me and really... one can only take so much insanity.

Luzing, of course I want to talk about the issues in getting pregnant and the waiting and the suspense and whatever, but my main purpose was to just find a group of people that were in the same boat I am, and I'm not actively trying to get pregnant so it just seems buggy to me that they would banish my post here when it isn't even ACTUALLY about BEING or even TRYING to become pregnant at the core.  It is about losing weight to think about trying, at the core.  It's not about agreeing with me, it's about hounding and following and stalking me and all my posts and not allowing me to be a member or to get support for my own things.  And I'm not becoming unglued, I'm just letting them know that I'm frustrated and not happy and they can do with that as they please, I guess.  Worst case scenario, hey, I've got a cool graph tool to track the weight loss, I guess.

As for starting a new post - do what you want Luzing.  I'm not here to police your posts.  If you like the idea and the location, awesome!  I'm glad you could get support.  Actually, I'm happy to give support to anyone going through pregnancy or infant loss, adoption issues, and infertility.  I belong to a group that does just that.  After about 6 months as a volunteer moderator and support coach at a fertility website I certainly have the knowledge and experience to help.  After having gone through a heart wrenching loss myself, I have the background and history and personal trauma to know where people are coming from.  Going through this as a surrogate to help people that feel they have no other options helps me to feel like I'm doing something to alleviate some of that pain.  I know how much people need the support which is WHY I wanted to do something.  I'm angry because of all the people that could benefit from this that won't ever even know it is here because of the back alley they stuck it in.  Like I said though, you can do what you want and I'm certainly not going to take offense with it.  I don't mind helping out other people and supporting them.  It just won't be a solution for ME because it won't be supporting me.  If you find plentiful support in doing so, more power to you.

SO.... no one wanted to review the threads that were deleted and get back to me?  I only ask because clearly THIS thread isn't going anywhere and I'd like to get a real one started in the weight loss forum where non-pregnant-not-even-sure-when-they-are-plan ning-to-be-pregnant-yet people talking about pregnancy as a motivational tool for losing weight belong.  Plus - in the only forum where it will be seen and used.

I hate it when people tell you something is not doable TEMPORARILY until they get a chance to review it and then they never get back to you so basically, they are ignoring you hoping that you go away.

*shrug* Not sure why it matters to me.  It's been made pretty clear that new people aren't really wanted at this site - at least - new people with new ideas that try to add their own things.  Just trying to see if I can finish what I've started here I guess.

Thanks,

Robyn

Charlington, ya, only we're talking about WANTING to TRY sometime in the future, and we have to LOSE WEIGHT FIRST before we can.  It is a question of motivation.  Go and have your little "dissabled procreating women" group here in the health forum.  I would like to discuss LOSING WEIGHT with the goal of ultimately getting pregnant in mind.

Also, I have, oh, about ZERO confidence in medical professionals regarding trying to concieve, pregnancy, and labor and delivery.  First, they rarely ever know anything about temp charting and us women knowing our own bodies and how they work.  Well, they either don't know or don't care, the care part being more likely.  Docs like to be the only ones to know anything.  Second, They refuse to learn new things or admit to being able to do things that might mean they should've been doing it all along.  IE - Doctor Jason Collins from the Lousianna Pregnancy Inst that comes to speak at our Missing GRACE conference every other year and how he is working to STOP cord related stillbirths and how NO doctor will listen to how you can do that.  Third, it was the medical profession that allowed my baby to die 3 days before her due date at 8 pounds 12 ounces (pic of her in my profile, Anily is beautiful) because they didn't feel like it was worth the ultrasound tech's time to check cord implantation on every woman because velamentous insertion and vasa previa are just so rare.  What's 1/3000 babies dying anyway?  Nothing, aparently, compared to the pain in the butt it would be to have checked all those moms in the 17th week.  But, as you say, that is not a debate related to this thread or why it is where it is.  That has nothing to do with any of this. 

I just want my weight loss club for people that are intending to get pregnant and I'd like it where it won't stagnate and die.

That's kinda messed up Ria.  I can totally see why people think this to be straight from the mouth of God himself.  *gag*

You know, I took a course on Witchcraft in college. (I needed an extra liberal arts credit and being a pagan I thought it'd be a hoot.  Turns out, it was pretty interesting.)  Anyway, one of the lines in the bible states "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."  (I don't know where - I've never read all that much of the bible and I don't care to.  My professor told me of this and you can look it up if you want to.  Judging by the nature of what we were talking about, it may depend on the version of the bible that you are using.)  Anyway, in the class we were talking about translation and that the actual phrase was something like You shouldn't let people that work with potions or poisons live - and it had something to do with small communities only having the one well that they used for all their water and thus, if anyone poisoned that one well, it would kill off the whole community, or at least make them very sick.  So for that sake, they were kinda paranoid about people messing around with poisons and over time all context was lost and the phrase because "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."

I can assure you, however, that I've stepping into many many churches without being smote by lightening or anything.  I've even poured holy water on me.. I wasn't willing to drink it though because... gross.  I have a thing about my water being clean and not touched by all sorts of people.

I've lost 36 pounds.

I started in a size 22.  I just went to the store to look for some different sizes to try on and see what size I was fitting and I fit into.... the size 22.  That was horribly depressing.  Why is it that when they add spandex to the denim, all of the sudden the jeans ALSO need to be skin tight?  Like I need to walk around in denim colored leggings with these thighs.

If I go to the dress barn, the size 14W are loose so I'm figuring I'll need to go to the non-womens sizes soon there.

Who knows. I'm baffled at this point and totally depressed.

-Robyn

Hello mods.  wanting to get pregnant, indeed, pregnancy itself, is not a medical condition.  It is not a disease.  It is a natural state of being.  This was a weight loss group.  Not some group to talk about women are medically dissabled while trying to procreate.

Everyone else,

Sorry, they moved this thread and now no one new will find it.  I've started a new one in the weight loss page.  If you can search on it and find it there, we'll meet up again.  Soooo sorry!

-Robyn