I’m getting a little allergy. I took a generic Zyrtec. I’d taken a little dose of diuretic last night, considering 4 pounds of water weight from our foray to Scotty’s. I was feeling a little malaise before I took the ice. I skated 10 feet and was shaking so badly I wasn’t sure I could make it back—must’ve not laced my boot tops tight enough. Got back to the hockey box, sat down and laced tight. Skated out and was shaking worse than before. I got off the ice. Jane kept skating…SHE apparently can tolerate generic Zyrtec, and SHE didn’t take the diuretic.
I sat in the lobby in my civvies, reading a newspaper while Jane skated, began to get a rapid pulse, and decided to go after Jane to get home and lie down. I had a little dose of some electrolyte stuff, which helped.
We left, went over across the street to pick up her routine meds and essential groceries, and by then—well, shall we say, I was chilled, wobbly, and not feeling well at all. I put on a loaf of bread to bake, then caved and went to bed. I’ve been worthless most of the day, chilled despite it being warmer; and I am here to tell you I never want to try generic Zyrtec [allergy] again. Particularly in combination with the other stuff.
I think what happened—we have been way low-sodium; we had that killer high sodium stuff two days running; and right now I swear I can feel my whole system rebelling at the sodium level and the screw-up of my electrolyte balance: high salt, high fat, and, I’m willing to swear, some sort of seasoning salt that contained MSG, which just finished the deal. I’m sensitive to that stuff, and more than one restaurant has resorted to it and meat tenderizers when on the skids. Not only that, MSG is, yes, sodium.
I’m feeling better now, though still wobbly: took my vitamins, my minerals, electrolyte stuff, and I’ve been, shall we say, shedding water weight fast, while drinking fluids like crazy. You can, I swear, ‘feel’ a meal of really high cholesterol, high-sodium stuff, like a lead weight on your system.
I can no longer even imagine living on a diet of those hamburgers, fries, etc. If this isn’t enough to turn us back to the virtues of the straight-and-narrow diet, I don’t know what it takes.
Be aware that there is some sort of flu-like object making the rounds. One after the other (depending on their resistance) the guys in DH’s shop came down with this creeping crud, and DH is the latest to succumb. It settles in your chest and gives you 2-4 days of cough and sore throat, then malingers for another week where you aren’t 100%. Friends on the mainland have also reported catching it, so stock up on whatever juices and fluids you might be allowed and hope it misses you. I’m hoping my own resistance is enough to give me a bye; tending DH while sick my own self is not fun.
Yuck! WE can skip this little freebie!
I had a Sprite after not having soda at all for about 12 years (ok, so occasional rum and coke doesn’t count) and the predominate taste to me was salt of all things. I used to love Sprite.
After testing the selection we have available for free at work I find that Sierra Mist Natural and Coke are the most palatable. I guess I’ll add them to my list of things I can drink if there is nothing but soda available, but I don’t seem myself making a habit of it. When you go without something so long like that you have to go through a nasty readjustment period before it even tastes “right” perhaps you were just fine doing without it.
I agree.
One brighter spot to the day—I finally let Jane talk me into a new pair of jeans. I was feeling lousy, so she tried ’em on, and I’m always one size more. So I fit absolutely perfectly into a Levi’s Misses size 14. Let me tell you, I’m ecstatic. First decent fit in a good-looking pair of skinny jeans I’ve had in years. Well, let’s be honest. Decades.
Is there an :envious: emote? Last time I was size 14, I was gutting and remodeling our house!
Hope you are feeling better. Sometimes I think general malaise (my words for it) is worse than being sick. At least then you know you have something. With malaise I feel too lousy to do much but not sick enough to go to bed and rest.
You have reminded me to start paying attention again to what I eat. I got rid of all my fat clothes, so *gaining* something that besides being unhealthy would be far too expensive! 8)
Most of my diet is salads, or veggies, with balsalmic vinaigrette or Caesar, and at this stage of it, bread. No potatoes or starchy veggies. Meat is mostly chicken white meat. We’re using broccoli slaw [sold in packages] as a noodle substitute.
OTOH, it’s trending down, down, down, I haven’t lost a substantial pound in a month, that’s how slow, now that we admit bread to the diet, but—the direction is downward by ounces. And we have bread, butter [moderate] and jelly for breakfast, because Jane’s cholesterol count could no longer accept the eggs. I blew off 6 pounds of retained fluid yesterday, and am now back where I was. Onions and MSG will do that to us, and I still feel as if I had a hangover, yet have had no alcohol. It’s that kind of feeling, and I think many people learn to live with it, because they think it’s normal. I once did. Sure, the hamburger/fries diet tastes good. Ours did Sunday. It’s the aftermath that does you in, and if you keep piling it on, and react to it as we do, you still don’t ever get the feeling that tells you “this is bad,” because you’re never not-bad. I’m talking about our reaction to the fannish-food-groups of sodium, fat, carbs, chocolate, and alcohol. Alas we’ve had to cut out the first 3, but still do fine on the last two, in moderation. [Chocolate—unsweetened cocoa]. It’s number 1 and 3 that were most killing us, not mentioning the amount of onion hidden in many recipes. Sigh. Getting older is not for sissies, either. The things we used to scarf down without apparent consequences.
The side bennie is, I’ve started baking all the bread we consume, and I mod all the recipes to include wheat bran, bulgur wheat, or almond/flax meal, which means we get a bread a whole lot better than they can afford to sell commercially. And fresh every few evenings when I’ve baked another loaf. That Cuisinart breadmaker is a gem.
I am sorry you had such a bad time after your indulgence in nostalgia. But I am SO happy you have found this diet and that it is working for you. I think it is not only healthy in that it is promoting weight loss, but just healthy generally. It’s giving you all those phytochemicals that aren’t even discovered yet, in that mixture and high level of veggies.
I do wonder, if you can have bread now, if you couldn’t try a potato now and then? NOT French-fried!! I add them to my mixed-veg 1-skillet dinners to good effect. They’ve got all that lovely potasssium, lots more than bananas, I think. Only cantaloupes have so much in a serving, and it’s sadly not yet the season for a fresh-picked, not-from-Mexico cantaloupe (making myself hungry just THINKING about the farmers’-market cantaloupes of July).