...eliminating soy. Total change of topic from anything that I've written about before, but it's become a fairly central part to my existance as of late. Eleven years ago when I was pregnant with my son I stopped drinking milk and switched to soy milk exclusively. Struggling to lose the weight I'd gained with kid #2, I began trying to focus on "healthy" protiens like soy smoothies after a workout; soy meal replacement bars; edamame as a snack. I ate canned tuna frequently, soups for lunch and generally focused on a low calorie, high protien world. I ate salads with low fat vinagerette. And, I gained weight. I exercised like mad and still nothing. And so, last November, I visited an endocrinologist because I felt like something was off. I hoped upon hope it was something as simple as hypothyroidism and it could be turned around. But, I didn't have a lot of the symptoms, except the stubborn weight. Much blood was removed from my arm (which is a