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Old Oct 19, 2005, 03:41 AM
Anonymous29319
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Glad to hear its stabilizing for you I struggle with anemia too, and know how hard it is keeping those counts up where they belong. Right before I was diagnosed with Mucosis Associated Lymphocyitc Tissue Lymphoma (cancer) I was severely anemic (which led to early diagnosis of my cancer thankfully.) anyway we took care of the cancer and achieved remission but I was still severely amnemic. after many types of diet plans and vitiamins and iron supliments we finally found what works for me - the diabetic 2 diet plan. this plan lays out specific serving sizes and how many servings per day of each item in the food pyrmid for example basically what this plan does is the food is broken up into portions ate throuout the day so that constantly as the body uses the nutrients and so on they are being replaced just as fast. For example I am on 2000 calories a day. by catagory I get 9 servings of start, 4 servings of fruit, 3 servings of milk products 4 servings of vegetables 6 meat servings and 5 fat and sweet servings a day. for a typical day breakfast is one egg (one ounce meat serving) one slice of toast (one serving size starch) a half cup V-8 juice and one half cup of fruit juice. a couple hours later I have a yogert cup (one milk serving) one ounce slice of ham (one meat serving) two slices of bread (2 starch servings) a banana (one fruit serving) and either half cup v-8 again or one cup raw cut up carrots or celery sticks. This goes on every couple hours or so, with my picking one item and serving size from each catagory each time I eat so that nutrieants are constantly being taken as my body uses the supply. Sounds like I am eating alot. But I am actually losing weight by eating more becuase its being matabolized through out the day instead of the body storing it as fat reserves, and my blood counts have registered as normal each time since starting this diet plan. Though I have been known to slip off the diet for those mcdonalds and taco bell runs. Luckily I know that I have blood work every 6 months and by the time its time I am right where I should be. hang in there. you're coming up on those counts and thats all that matter the speed at which they come up don't matter, just that they do.