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Am I the only non-pregnant Mommy with swollen ankles? Even though I'm still carrying too much "baby-weight"  , I"m pretty active, involved in a couple of sports and exercising at one of those circuit training places 1 to 3 times a week. But this ankle thing is making me crazy: ankles puffy and achy all the time. My ankles have always been pretty trim (except during pregancy). In the old days, women were discouraged from having careers because standing around all day would swell their ankles. I don't know about the career part, but I do know about the discouraged part...
Kelly with her achy ankles in FL
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Vitamin B6 taken several times a day and drinking good fluids helps me. I get achey feet and feeling of swelling, although not always visually and the B6 helps right away. Oh...and I'm not pregnant either.
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Jenn, thanks for the idea. I will try the B6. I've been doing the water and squeezed lemon, which helps. I suspect this is coffee and weight (and age...) related.
Kelly in FL
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It's also REALLY hot...at least up here. The three H's--hazy, hot and humid. Isn't FL like this frequently?
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One thing that I do (from the Fat Flush Plan) is drink four ounces of cranberry juice (not cocktail) with four ounces of water and a tablespoon of psyllium husks. This helps eliminate the water retention problem and trims an inch or two off of your waist within days. Just be prepared to be running to the bathroom all day.
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I've heard about the psyllium husk/cranberry juice/water concoction. Love that inch off the waist plan!
And yes, it is REALLY hot and humid here. Mega humidity.
Thanks again for the ideas, all.
Kelly in hot, hot, HOT Florida
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I'm finding that if I drink 8 ounces of cranberry mixed with 24 ounces of water every day, it helps with swelling. Not so sure about an INCH off my waist though...Fat Flush worked really well for me two years ago. I'm not having the same results the second time around. Also, Kelly, I tink it's the sugar in my coffee (and maybe the milk too) and not the coffee that's the problem. But I can't stand coffee without sugar so to eliminate one, eliminates the other.
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Hmmmm. I can do coffee without sugar, but not so sure about coffee without milk.  Still, it might be worth some experimentation. I know drinking coffee (and I drink a lot) is not good, but to cut way down is a works-in-progress kind of thing. In the meantime, the cranberry juice mode sounds like a good plan. My sister-in-law, who is a "beauty person" (owns a salon) swears she can tell who drinks a lot of water and who doesn't by one look at their skin. With women, she says it makes their skin look so much younger (I like it, I like it!). So even if it doesn't help with the waist-line or swelling, it obviously has other benefits.
Where does one buy Psyillium husks? At the health food store? Is this the same thing as metamucil (not sure if that contains psyllium husks or some other psyllium derivative).
Thanks for all the ideas.
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Psyllium is easy to find at any grocery store with the laxatives. I think Metamucil has psyllium in it if it's not all psyllium. I find that psylliuim bloats me, fwiw. The cranberry juice needs to be unsweetened--nothing but the berries. I buy mine at Trader Joe's--and they have psyllium there too:-).
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I bought the Psyllium at a health food store. You might be able to get it at the Vitamin Shoppe as well. Metamucil probably has additives, I am not sure. Plain psyllium does not.
When I drink the cranberry I notice the difference in my waistline within a day or two. Unfortunately I have put on enough weight that even the slightest variation means the difference between getting my jeans buttoned of not. 
I need to commit to a plan, be it Fat Flush or something else. I am looking forward to my new house. I will have two flights of stairs that I am counting on to shed some pounds quickly. I live in a rambler now and attribute some of the weight gain to the lack of stairs.
One other thing that might help for the swollen ankles is to get a pair of light compression hose or socks. I don't have swollen ankles but my legs often ache, especially at certain times of the month. I get my hose from www.healthylegs.com.
Hope that helps.
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Elizabeth,
How much do you pay for the Cranberry Juice at Trader Joe's? I by mine at Shoppers and it is very expensive. I don't have a Trader Joe's near me, but my mom does.
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Molly,
Just under $4 a bottle I think. I do know that a bottle lasts 4 days the way I dilute it. I'm trying to get down a gallon of fluid a day, with half of that being cran-water. My ankles don't swell but my hands sure do (and they never, ever did when pregnant) and my waist does too...Can't really figure it out...
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