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I had a middle of the night snack of sunflower seeds and chocolate chips to try to get some magnesium in. I woke up in bed this morning at about 7, so at some point between 3am and 7am I went back to bed and fell asleep. I don't remember going back to sleep, though. lol And I am lax about carbs in the middle of the night--I ate semi-sweet chocolate chips. Doh! I am a little afraid of magnesium supplements because my stomach is so iffy on low carb, anyway. I wonder if an epsom salt bath would help? I have been eating lots of avocados to get potassium in, and drinking broth to keep sodium up. I'm not actually that low in carbs right now, I doubt I'm anywhere near ketosis.

Does anyone else get restless legs when they are low carb? I have only been able to sleep a few hours a night. Last night I googled, and the first result was a post that I made on a low carb message board, asking the same question in 2008. Lol

Yeah, low-fat low-carb and high-fat low-carb are very different. :) I was way over on both carbs and calories yesterday. Today is a new day!

We are using Rod and Staff 1 alongside the Ronit Bird materials. This works very well for my dyslexic ds. While he learns his facts, he uses the little glass "dots" we use with the RB games to set up the patterns.

I would like your recipe for low carb granola bars, soror. I have been feeling a bit out of sorts. I have a lunch confession. I just ate most of a jar of Clausen kosher dill pickles. Then I drank the brine. I guess I'll see how this turns out. Lol

Last night my family went to Wendy's, and I tried the strawberry fields salad. It was surprisingly good for a fast food salad. I skipped the dressing because it was sugary, but the salad had enough goodies that I didn't miss it--strawberries, bacon, blue cheese, etc. I ate too much dark chocolate yesterday, so today I'm going to try to skip it.

We tried the big nine-square shelf with the fabric boxes, but everything ended up on the floor every day. Now all of the boxes are in a big cabinet that the 7 y/o can open but the younger kids can't. I think that what I may do is to go through all of the boxes with ds7, and let him pick the pieces that he usually uses for his games out and keep them separate. I will have to do more research on the dev. opt. stuff. I am not convinced that it is supported by the research. And if the exam is $60 where you live, it's probably $300 here. lol We have more evals scheduled for the fall. Fortunately, the school is really stepping up and we will be doing lots of different tests and questionnaires to figure out what is going on. I'm relieved, because the ABD psych who diagnosed his dyslexia/dysgraphia is now trying to get more money out of us, three months after we paid in full. :confused1: Edited to add the questionnaires I'm supposed to fill out during the summer: BASC-2 Parent Rating Scales-Child This looks like general behavior questions. CONNERS 3- Parent Short ADHD screen. Parent Questionnaire for CARS2-QPC Autism screen. The school psych is also going to do a nonverbal IQ test and some more achievement testing.

I had to look up burrata cheese, and now I neeeeeeeed some. The wii balance board says that I've lost 5.8 lbs in the last three days. I was kind of shocked when I stepped on it on Tuesday night, and glad that the extra weight was water and not fat.

I am so sorry. Your family will be in my prayers.

Ha! When I was living in China, one of the teachers from Japan told me that nobody could tell that she wasn't Chinese until she started to speak.

I've been asked if I'm Italian while in China, and asked if I'm French by the owner of a local Indian restaurant. I think that unless the non-native English speaker is intimately familiar with different English accents, they guess nationality based on how loudly the tourist is speaking, their manners in general, how they're dressed, and....weight.

How about the old flaming bag of dog poop on the front porch trick? No, depending on the neighbor, I'd ask them nicely to come pick it up, or call animal control. Or post a passive-aggressive rant on Facebook. :blushing: Not that I've done that or anything.

I'm on day three, I'm pmsing, and I just received a $175 bill from a medical provider we already paid in full three months ago. They are out of the office today so I get to stew about it all weekend. Grrrr. I'm on track for eating though. I've almost convinced myself that a square of 90% dark chocolate with a smear of cream cheese is *just like* eating a delicious chocolate cheesecake. Almost.

Pbbbbbttt, you are not helping. :glare: :lol: I could get behind these suggestions, except that when it's time to vacuum, there is an EPIC MELTDOWN. It is actually overwhelming to him, not just me. There are also small daily meltdowns when he can't find something that swears he just had, accuses someone of stealing it, etc. when it's just in the middle of a pile of random stuff.

Things are reaching the boiling point here as far as toy organization. My seven y/o plays by taking everything apart into its component parts, then playing with the little pieces--random legs, a single lego brick, a monopoly piece, one car from the traffic jam game, etc. I have put most of the games on high shelves or in my closet, but the way he plays drives me crazy. There are tiny pieces of everything all over his room. He probably has ADHD, has low working memory, low perceptual abilities....a recipe for a messy room. Once there are more than a few things out, the mess is too overwhelming and cleaning up causes a meltdown. I can't blame him--I have an internal meltdown every time I have to clean up the mess. I am strongly considering putting a padlock on his toy closet in order to enforce the one toy out at a time rule (otherwise he forgets, or Dad comes along while I'm working on something else and tells them they can get more toys out. :glare: ) I thought that by seven I wouldn't have to do the locking up toys thing. What have you done with your kids with ADHD or other organization issues to keep the toy mess under control?

:hurray: :party: :wub:

In the US, almost nothing exists for the purpose of helping people or making a just and good society. It's all about putting money in someone's pocket. The ultimate purpose of insurance is to put money into administrators' and investors' pockets. Providing health care or reimbursement for accidents is secondary.

Did he receive medical care? If so, it may be out of your hands. Your medical insurance company may go after the camp's insurance.

I'm strict about meat that's left out, but cultured dairy? I'd probably cook with it.

We live on a main road. Well, we live on a small side road, but our backyard faces a main road. I don't even notice the traffic noise, unless there are sirens.

I'm glad that your recovery is going well. :)

I saw an interesting article come up on fb yesterday--it was a description of a meal plan by someone who eats the same thing every day. No breakfast, smoked salmon with cheese and avocado for lunch, eggs, bacon, and vegetables for dinner. This seems yummy and doable to me. Does anyone here eat the same thing day in and day out?

I'm so sorry. This is one of my biggest anxieties. :(

I need to get back to lc. I've been spinning my wheels for months and months, stuck right at the overweight/obese border. My totally shallow motivation: my 20 yr. reunion is in a month. Gulp. I'd like to be down a size by then. I've been doing Ttapp, which has taken an inch off my waist and given me muscle definition, but I need to step it up. It is so much harder to lose weight after three pregnancies than it was when I was younger. I'm going to pout about that for a few minutes, then plan meals for the next few days. :)