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Easy Going... 14 y
easy does it
I feel good today. Mood is up, up, up and energy is as well. Not bad for just after 7 am in the morning and deprived of coffee. Surely, this augers well for the rest of the day.
Pulsing back on iodine. I shall be the red-eyed monster (which is better than the green-eyed one, although thankfully jealousy isn’t in my emotional repertoire). And, my irises grow ever clearer and more intensely grey/green/blue. I need to find something less damaging to help my eyes stay clear (visine does NOT come to mind). Body temp is good, for the most part, with a dip into the lower ranges every once in a ... read more My head is just splitting 14 y
but this too shall pass
I haven’t a clue whether it’s from iodine supping (bromine detox, anyone?) or because my job becomes incrementally more stressful with every passing day. I wanted to pulse off of iodine supping yesterday but the day’s emotions had their way with me and I took supplements purely by rote. So, tomorrow I am iodine free. We shall see.
As for my job? Every day there is a crisis, a fire that needs putting out metaphorically, every day there is something else that I simply must sell, every week my job security is dangled over my head like a performance based sword of Damocles. Usually I laugh ... read more Hard to believe it's been a year 14 y
since my Dad died
And oddly, a lot of my fatigue and energy issues started when my Father died a year ago today.
He was such a cool guy. A Pathfinder at Normandy in WW2, an enormously charming, bright, witty and funny man who had a way with words in the sincerest and caring of all manner. He was a people-whisperer (and a damn good dog whisperer too). In his later years he became the most positive person I’ve ever known. Not in a Pollyanna sort of way, but because he believed that life was meant to be fun, to be lived, to be savoured.
He wrote for TV when TV had a little more to say. Shows before my ti ... read more Through the roof with energy today 14 y
in spite of stresses everywhere
In spite of a longggggg day of work meetings and will-calling product for clients, energy is abounding.
The weirdness of the day is my lack of appetite. I can only assume that it’s on the heels of the toxic dump into my liver the other day from an insane niacin flush.
Mood is up, up, up. Connecting well with people and myself. I took all of my usual supplements AND my temp is a lovely 98.4.
YES!Now if I can just get a little weight off of my hiney. Ha. visit the page Insomnia reared its ugly head 14 y
but sleep ultimately prevailed
I awakened at 3:30 am to the unmistakable droning rah-rah sound of a TV pitchman. J had apparently fallen asleep with the tv blaring and somehow I incorporated some get-rich quick real estate scheme that some con artist was espousing into my dream landscape. I guess I snapped to when said con man was shouting directly into the camera and...voila. Unable to return to sleep-land.
Up at 4, downed a cuppa green tea, an adrenal glandular, some iodine and took my temp. Not great at 97, but certainly ok. By 5 I was chilly but didn’t want to turn on the heat so toddled off to use J’s body heat ... read more Sunshine 14 y
no rain!!! Metaphorically too.
It was a good day today for me in all regards. Blue skies with a few white fleeced clouds, hawks abounded (3 stunning Red Tailed Hawks and 1 Coopers Hawk). Felt even better than yesterday. Where the hell have I been? It’s nice to be back, nicer still to have energy and not feel as though I could lie down and sleep for hours, days, or months at any given moment.
Humour comes easily to me when I feel good. I joke and laugh with people and my interactions are easy and fun and silly. Yes, it’s why I had a successful sales day. I just expected it, knew that they would laugh at my silliness a ... read more I am a new woman today 14 y
not the draggy wretch of yore
Wow. Who would have thought I would feel so amazingly great today given how crappy I felt yesterday. I am clear headed, feel as though my energy levels are nicely topped off and have zero fatigue. I was dragging myself around (barely) yesterday and fell asleep at 8 pm.
Honestly, I haven’t felt this ALIVE in ages. I don’t even remember feeling this good in at least the last year, or so. Plus, I don’t feel all jacked up from caffeine, so that is even weirder for me to have energy that comes from me and isn’t manufactured briefly by caffeine or ephedra.
I can push through future detoxes ... read more Awakened this morning with a splitting 14 y
headache!
Ugggh. Hopefully, this will go soon. Having a hard time focusing, being, relaxing into myself. visit the page The Iodine Supplement Forum Soothes Me 14 y
inspires me, elevates me
After this intense day of DETOX (hey, who cares if it’s from caffeine, bromine or what-have-you, it’s detox) I was feeling worried that I am destined to feel like crap for the rest of my life.
The waves of detox are maddening and coupled with getting off of coffee, I may just hold up the local Starbucks for a grande cappucino. I hate this headache at the base of my head, the throbbing behind my ears. The hesitancy to eat because it makes me even more tired. My eyes which burn, burn, burn. No depression, the only emotional thingie has been this sense of disassociation that comes and goes ... read more Red eyes, I look like someone 14 y
from another world...
It’s been a weird day so far. Pulsing on at the moment at 100 mgs iodine for the day. My eyes look otherworldly as though I could act on one of those vampire series and not need special contact lenses. Red and this odd sort of glassy. Makes my grey green eyes look pretty strange (they get greyer and greener the more I do this...the last little flecks of gold are diminishing).
I worked out, yay. Came home and ate breakfast, took some supps (iodine’s companion supps, vites that help the adrenal cascade) and then promptly took a half hour nap. Truth be told, I could go lie down right now a ... read more The Time Has Come 14 y
to give my best
I started cutting down on coffee today and will be completely weaned off of it by next Saturday. If I don’t sound excited about it, I’m not. See, I’ve done it before and the headaches haven’t been the funnest. ’Course, once I get from here to there and am caffeine free...voila!
As though cutting out caffeine weren’t enough, I am also waving au revoir to whipping cream (I used it in my coffee, unwhipped of course). This morning’s meagre cuppa had no cream. Brings to mind that little whippety kid in the movie ”Oliver” who holds his empty tin bowl up shakily and implores, ”Please Sir, I wa ... read more Bad day at Black Rock 14 y
Eh, not that bad, just a good blog entry title
I thought my cycle was going to be easy and I was wrong. It’s actually worse than usual (and it’s been bad for a while). I have been a little lax with what I eat/drink and haven’t been taking my DIM and voila, heavy cycle. Just going to push through and continue with iodine.
I would like to cut out the Queen of All Estrogenic beverages, coffee. From what I read, organic or not, it’s highly estrogenic plus your liver has a difficult time filtering it. My fear is that if I give up coffee I won’t be able to function because of messed up adrenals (yes, I know that they are even more messed ... read more Made it through another day 14 y
brilliant!
Oof, what an odd 24 hours it’s been. A lot of emotional stuff has come up on the heels of a tremendous fight with my Mother. And, it’s draining. I slept poorly last night, fitful sleep rife with anxiety as well as a boyfriend who seems to snore regardless of his sleep position and in spite of repeated soft kicks to his calves.
Still, I awakened with (drum roll, please!) a temp of 98.2 and within a half hour it was 98.6. Ta-frikkin-da! I seem to be semi fatigued until the adrenal pills kick in and then tired again when it’s time for round two on said pills. So, one wonders, is it thyroid ... read more Back to iodine today 14 y
hello red eyes
Slept poorly. Frantic work dreams infused my dream landscape. I woke up a few times thinking I had actually been experiencing what I had just dreamed. Finally tore myself from my bed at 5 am feeling as though I had just worked for 7 hours instead of slept.
Back to iodine after a couple of days off. Think the pulsing is a great idea. Just not myself today, although I havent any clue who I am. My eyes should be a nice red by later today. Wonder what causes that??
Anyhoo, am sure my energy will improve as the day goes on. Well, relatively sure, anyway.
visit the page Just like valium... 14 y
only sweeter
I could blame it on my PMS. But, if I was going to be completely honest I would say that I distinctly heard the agave syrup calling me by name. And, I succumbed.
I actually only savoured the first spoon of it, dolloped over some coconut milk/cream/whatever-you-call-it. The second and third tsp seemed overly sweet. Hello?
Just like valium, I was out cold about 20-30 minutes after I gulped it down. Live and learn, right? Well, not like I didn’t know it was sweet. And not like I didn’t know better. Bleeggh, I feel all sludgy, headachey and whiney.
Lesson being that one really does fe ... read more Self diagnosis is a slippery trail 14 y
Or, a little knowledge is a confusing thing
I keep reading that it’s difficult to cure yourself of AF or mild hypothyroidism. Jeez, it’s hard enough to figure out what the hell is going on, much less heal it. We’re all just voyagers down the trial-and-error highway, it seems. Really, the minute you veer away from allopathic medicine you are confronted with many different roads, no map and very few signs along the way.
Last night was a first for me. I didn’t fall asleep at 8 pm and actually was able to watch a movie on DVD and relax and laugh. My temp was a lovely 98.6 the whole day so wondering if that had something to do with it ... read more You have to start somewhere 14 y
getting healthier
I blame it on my crap response to my Father’s death almost a year ago. A bit of it on my anger toward the allopathic community in not seeing his hip pain and edema as sure signs that his cancer had returned, this time with a vengeance. I discovered the correlation on Google right after my Dad let me know the bad news. Really, blame is the wrong word, because gone is gone and there is no rewind, baby.
I had just started a new job in Oct of 2008 and two weeks later my Father called to let me know that his cancer had come back and that it didn’t look so hot. Then he proceeded to tell me po ... read more |