Introducting Alice B. Toklas

Behold her pocky nature:

The left one is Gertie (short for Gertrude Stein).

Seemed only fitting to name them both, even though I only have a picture of the right one.

Results of visit with crotchacologist:

• I've gained seven pounds since 2003 (truthfully that's a healthy bowel movement away from maintaining my weight)

• Thanks to me and my big mouth, admitting the four month lapse between cycles, I had the above ultrasound done; Uterine lining perfect save for one fibroid too small to measure.
  
• Nothing else noteworthy to report.

I Darest Thou...

Yay Capitalism

Nestle to buy Jenny Craig for $600 million
Swiss company seeks to capitalize on weight-loss trend

GENEVA, Switzerland - In a move that recognizes the modern world’s twin obsessions — indulgence and guilt — chocolate maker Nestle said Monday it would purchase weight loss product maker Jenny Craig Inc. for $600 million.

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This is no different than say "Big Tobacco" hooking folks on cancer-sticks when they're young, and then hooking them when they're older and emphysemic on "the patch."

Corporate America will get their money out of you one way or another...

Day One: Low Glycemic Diet Gels

I saw The Low Glycemic Diet gel capsules today at the pharmacy, and figured I'd give them a whirl. They contain, among other things: Bitter melon, cinnamon, fennugreek, gymnema, Indian kino tree powder, Neem powder, and syzgium cumini.

I bolded the things I already knew were good for insulin response. Though the bitter melon I cannot take if I am pregnant, I am not pregnant currently, and I doubt that it is high enough of a dose to be a concern at this point in attempting to get pregnant, because let's face it, I'm not fucking at the rate of an olympic porn star. If it happens, it happens.

So I figure these gel caps (1 cap twice a day between meals), in conjunction with my Alpha-Betic vitamins, alpha lipoic acid, and my Omega-3 fish oil caps, I've got my bases covered.

Next visit with the specialist: July 6th.

Note to self:
Onset: June 3
Offset: June 9

How Do I Look? How Do I Feel??

Crime Scene Monday: Flow-Gasm

Ever have a 'gasm so intense it brings on your flow?

Four months of nothing but bloat and irritability, and nothing to show for it.

Now-show-flow.

Last night I, quite literally, felt a piercing explosion of sorts in the area of my right ovary.

VOILA! Self-cleaning womb!