iodine and gluten free=happy me!

Some changes in my recent past:

I'm now on a 100% gluten free, over 50% raw vegetarian diet.
In the past, for a long time (since before I started Iodine therapy the first time) I was "avoiding gluten" which for me meant being careful sometimes then pigging out on pizza others.
I've learned that those cheating times were doing myself in.
It wasn't until I really began being religious about avoiding gluten that I got a grasp on what it was actually doing to me. I felt so horrible ALL the time before I didn't even know how much better "better" could feel. Now that I feel what it's like to have a diet that is truly gluten free, I am amazed. I have gotten glutened by accident a few times and it immediately sickens me and I know the feeling now, and can't believe I lived forever like that before. Because of my lack of awareness, it became the norm. All that Liver Flushing and cleansing and Iodine I did was good, but I was still poisoning my body with gluten the entire time.

I am now back up to 31.25 mgs of Iodine most days of the week (usually about 4 days in a row, then a few days of "wash out".

No horrible detox anymore. No horrible zits either, the only zits Ive gotten were either minor ones from stress or the "reaction lesions" as I now call them which are directly connected to getting glutened.

I woke up this morning after about 7 hours sleep feeling refreshed. Usually I have that horrible never want to wake up feeling, but this time I was ready for my day. I took my iodine (which I could already feel my body craving), and made myself a raw vegan protein shake, and headed to the gym. I was able to easily do the three sets of twelve for almost all my weight machines, at the weight level that I was struggling with last week. I can't believe the strength and endurance Ive gained. After the weights I did almost twenty minutes on the eliptical trainer (not long enough but seriously I would be DYING after 5 minutes before) and was dripping with sweat at the end! You don't know how great that feels as before iodine I could run twenty miles and never break a sweat and was ALWAYS cold! Now I feel my body is capable of regulating it's temperature normally!

Also, I'm a few days away from my period right now and I am completely PMS FREE. I used to get raging, bordering on psychotic for two weeks of the month before my period. Now, nothing much is different. I can't even believe its PMS time. Sure I did cry watching "Georgia Rule" yesterday (lol) but thats about it!

Im so glad I finally figured out a huge peice of what was killing me all this time. It was hard to accept that I needed to be gluten free. It was hard to not blame iodine for all that horrible detox and breakouts I went through in the past. But now I've accepted that a mostly raw, gluten free vegetarian diet that includes cage free eggs is what my body needs. Iodine is what my body needs.

I can't believe the change in my life. I enjoy life now. I look forward to each day.
My body feels like its healing. I can feel it. I have an order of Humaworm on the way and I can't imagine a better time to be doing some cleanses. What a wonderful spring this is. I'm 25, healing, and have my whole life ahead of me. I'm no longer just waiting to die, or waiting for the pain to stop.

I just wanted to post something positive and once again thank all you guys for helping me so much in the beginning with my iodine journey. It's an amazing, wonderful, beautiful thing and we are truly blessed to have the knowledge we do.

Take care! <33