Posts by ChasingPeace

Another supporter of MyFitnessPal!  I've lost 61 pounds (so far ;-)) using it.  It has everything!  I eat a lot of ethnic foods, and I've found them in their database.

I'm just wondering.  I"m a few days late and my cervix hurts.  I don't remember this being something I felt as a symptom in my earlier two pregnancies, but my breasts have also hurt for about a week now, so I'm...

Hi, mamas and dads--I'm a selective/delayed vax-er and my 4 yo dd go DTap and Polio shots about 10 days ago. This was her third dose of both shots (the last was 11 months ago), and she's had both together before without any reaction. ...

Thanks, mamas, for making me feel better! My instincts tell me everything is fine with him, but I wanted to get some feedback.

I don't know if this is "normal" or if it's a sign of my son being exposed to things he's too young to be exposed to somewhere. He's 6, and he's made a few comments to me about girls. The first was the most alarming--he...

I saw Food Inc. and thought it was very eye-opening! I did the 21-Day Vegan Kickstart and Kathy Freston's Quantum Cleanse (also vegan) in January, and watched Food Inc. near the end of it. The story of the little boy who died from the...

I personally would go tell the doctor to go $%&# himself. My ds has always been tall and heavy for his age. The peds I have seen have told me not to worry about it, make sure he has access to healthy foods and not to have a lot of...

A few ideas from my Lebanese MIL-- --make mujadra (usually brown lentils and rice topped with carmelized onions), but substitute the bulgur for the rice. Use generous amounts of olive oil. It is SOOO good! Much better than using...

I've only been at this for a couple of weeks, but I've found that a lot of Lebanese recipes are good vegan, GF/DF options. In addition to the lentil soup, we've eaten hummus with veggies, garbanzo beans with cumin and sea salt, baba...

Here's a recipe I've been using from http://www.habeeb.com/lebanese.recipes.index.html: I skip the sieve for a chunkier soup and add the juice of 2 lemons when I add the onions Lentil Soup SHOURABAT 'ADAS 3 cups lentils 1/2 cup...