[JeorgeNoxeref]

Lilly... have you tried adding chicken liver to your diet? One 3.5 ounce serving has 70% of your daily requirement (12.8 mg). It also contains the more readily absorbed heme iron.

Vegetables get iron from the ground... that's nonheme iron and it's less readily absorbed. Meat protein and vitamin C will help absorbtion of nonheme iron, so you should be taking your "juice" with meat. The lemon would provide the vit C but you might consider taking a supplement of C as well. Avoid drinking tea because that reduces absorbtion of nonheme iron. So do legumes and whole grains (which won't be an issue if you're doing Atkins). One other thing that reduces absorbtion of NONheme iron is the proteins found in soy.

So... Avoid tea, legumes, whole grains and soy (read packages, it's in EVERYTHING). Add vitamin C and animal protein.

When you took an iron supplement, do you remember if it was ferrous or ferric? Ferrous is more absorbable. Of course, the side effects of iron supplementation aren't always pleasant. :wink:

Good luck! I hope you're able to make this work... both the weight loss AND the iron issue. You need to get your iron up before you get pg!!! Stick around here and we'll help as much as possible by supporting you.

Tril