The Activia Challenge!

[Suu]

As most of you know, my digestive tract is borked. Especially after living in a house with 2 crazy diabetics who just mixed shit in a pot for dinner and not eating more than one maybe two meals a day, I basically got IBS and my ability to digest red meat, the little that I had left, just sort of  flew out the window.

So I'm doing probiotic therapy the cheapest way I can right now, and that's with Activia yogurt. For those people who don't know, it's those commercials with Jamie Lee Curtis eating yogurt and talking about regularity, for those that live outside of the US, it's a yogurt with extra creepy crawlies added to it to aide your digestion.

I've been having a yogurt and a banana for breakfast now for a little over a week. So far the results are great. I'm no longer getting an upset stomach from drinking milk in coffee (I've been lactose intolerant since BEFORE the antibiotics killed my intestines), I no longer need to spend 15 minutes + in the bathroom and when I wake up in the morning I don't feel like my bowels are going to explode or have that feeling any other time during the day, and of course, thanks to the bananas (which ALSO used to upset my stomach but don't now) well, you all know what bananas do. But I'm only having one a day.

So yeah, this stuff works. GS said that he noticed my face was looking thinner again, but I don't believe boyfriends when it comes to weight, because they lie so that they won't lose their testicles.

[Freeky]

but I don't believe boyfriends when it comes to weight, because they lie so that they won't lose their testicles.

Otherwise, that sounds great, Suu!

[LMNO]

ITT, we learn about Suu's fecal habits.

[Richter]

Verynice!

[Jenne]

I eat a shit-ton of live culture plain nonfat yogurt (Middle Eastern cooking ftw!), and that has kept my IBS in check for years now.  Good on ya, Suu.  I'm happy to hear the Activia + bananas is a win for you.  I should try some banana as my leg cramps have been godawful the last week or two.

[Suu]

I suffer from bad leg cramps too, so the bananas are a win-win. Also: Pickles, eat moar pickles. There's something magical about pickle juice for cramps.

[Jenne]

I'm a huge fan of pickles.  Dill, though?  Or do bread-and-butter cut the mustard (nyuk nyuk)?

[Freeky]

I'm a huge fan of pickles.  Dill, though?  Or do bread-and-butter cut the mustard (nyuk nyuk)?

YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

[Jenne]

Oh you think THAT's bad, you should see the punnery that goes on around cheese on this subforum.  Ok, all over the board, actually.  I think even ECH got in on that one. 

For some odd reason, puns and cheese just can't stay away from each other. 



...in the end, it's all gouda.  /odeargod

[Freeky]

 

[Suu]

I'm a huge fan of pickles.  Dill, though?  Or do bread-and-butter cut the mustard (nyuk nyuk)?

I think it's more about the acids that occur during the pickling process not so much as the flavoring agents, so you should be fine.

[Jenne]

I'm a huge fan of pickles.  Dill, though?  Or do bread-and-butter cut the mustard (nyuk nyuk)?

I think it's more about the acids that occur during the pickling process not so much as the flavoring agents, so you should be fine.

Cool.  I recently bought a jar of the bread-and-butter kind and have almost accidentally the whole thing down  my gullet.

[Suu]

Pickle juice has saved my ass on more than one occasion. My sister taught me about it because she's also prone to calf-locking cramps which we think are because our muscles are getting taut after years of martial arts training we really don't participate it anymore.

Yes, you have to DRINK the pickle juice, but holy shit, it's like MAGIC, the cramps go away in minutes.

[Jenne]

Must be the salt is all I can think.  Just don't do that if you end up hypertensive.  But I know you already know that.

[PeregrineBF]

Bubbies makes good pickles. No vinegar, actual salt brine. Haven't found any other brands sold near me that do that. Vinegar pickles are terrible.