LauraCoth Member

OK. Took in 5,000 MG sodium in bouillion cubes yesterday plus whatever I had in food plus on food. No cramps but very puffy today around eyes and waist and chest, the latter making me short of breath because my bra is too tight. I literally gained a size overnight. Obviously this was too much sodium. Should I start to…

I use Vitamin D, though not for the last month since it's been sunny and hot here. I get morning sun when I walk my cat (yes, I walk my cat daily.

I can't use any more oral magnesium or I'll be in trouble :D . I take 600 mg of the bisglycinate form (which is highly absorbable) and I cover myself liberally in magnesium gel every night. And I've been using magnesium to bowel tolerance for many years, so I can't imagine that I'm all of a sudden in dire need of it. I was…

Last night just before bed I was really hungry, but 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of butter shut that down fast. I couldn't believe it.

You could try making some. There are tons of recipes for low-carb protein bars. They may not be super low-carb, but some of them are definitely lower than the grocery store variety. And some of them are pretty darned tasty.

Thank you. I regard it as a sort of food, given that I use a healhy dollop of 18% cream in it.

We can see whales from our living room window. Can't beat that.

Does coffee count as liquid? I always thought it was too diuretic to count towards fluid intake.

I don't want to have to go back to eating more carbs. It's just so much more diffult because of the constant hunger. But I have to sleep. I must have lost 50 nights to this over the past two months.

The idea that treatment is not given until TSH is 5 is nothing short of patient abuse. Most thyroid patients feel their best when their TSH is within the 0.5 to 1.5 range. Waiting until someone is very ill cannot even remotely be considered good health care. Where do you live? Are naturopaths licensed in your…

It would be very helpful to the rest of us if you would use punctuation. Your posts are almost impossible to read.

I've been keeping myself at around 30-40 carbs. Most of my carbs are from salad and dairy. I eat a huge salad every night at dinner, with our own greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers, some radishes and red pepper, and avocado. I use a balsamic dressing that includes a small amount of a balsamic reduction, so my dressing has a…

No, this started a couple of months ago, a few days after I started the low-carb diet. I also started a new medication at the same time, but I've disontinued it to rule it out as the cause. It's definitely the diet. No question at this point.

I've been struggling with it for two months. I should be adapted to the diet by now, but this just goes on and on. I'm sure I'm taking in at a minimun 2500 mg sodium daily, and sometimes a lot more than that. And all the salt water nauseates me. I'm up all night. I sleep for an hour and get a cramp, and then I'm awake for…

The Okanagan is lovely, but we decided on Vancouver Island in the end. We don't have great wineries like you do, but we do have salmon, and whales.

Well. the camps are back, with a vengeance. I really thought it was the thyroid medication because the cramps stopped for a week after I stopped taking it. Now I'm back to less than 2 hours' sleep anight because of the cramps, just non-stop all night. I was drinking very salty water ALL NIGHT LONG but eh cramps never…

You've already been through the crash and burn cycle a few times, so you do know it's not the way. To lose weight and keep it off, you need a slow and sustainable loss. If your husband sees you taking it seriously, he may understand. Regardless, I do get how you may not be feeling sexy because of a less than perfect body.…

Congratulations on getting through the cancer treatments. It's such a long haul, and so hard on the body and soul.

I live in a small city on Vancouver Island, mid-Island. We moved here last year from Vancouver, B.C.

B) Talk about motivation.

We bought one of those little 4-cup egg steamer-poachers at the hardware store, and that's been a success for us, after years of failure.

I've been looking for a good vitamin C that isn't an ester-C, which always seems to have calcium in the mix. The calcium makes it impossible for me to take it, simply because there is never an 8-hour period in the day in which I take no supplements. Any suggestions?

I'm pretty much convinced I'm too alkaline, given that antacids never worked for me, but ACV does, in a flash.

This isn't a bad idea. I love meat. Here in mid-Island we have many farms that produce grass fed meats of all kinds, so it's easy to come by. Free-range eggs and chickens, too. I have an appointment with my ND coming up in a couple of weeks, and I think I'll run it past her. In the past we've discussed the possibility that…

I uncovered the solution to the cramp mystery -- it was my new thyroid medication that I started around the same time I started low carb (both at the recommendation of my ND). Thank goodness for that. Just that alone made my life a living hell.

I so would like a lift. No matter how small I was in my earlier life, I could never wear what I wanted because of my chest size. The Spousal Unit is a boob man, so he's happy, but me? I'd rather not have to deal with a couple of wobbly bowling balls on my chest. And now, gravity+big boobs=yech. And wearing good bras all…

Yeah, I think I'll have to focus on better conversion instead. The seleno-methionone should help, and L-Tyrosine also helps. ACV, too. I spent rather a lot of time Googling to find out if there is a desiccated thyroid version of T3, but I couldn't find anything. Maybe it's impossible to separate? Bummer, anyway. I…

Hah. Thought I was going nuts (nutser?) After all that, with little relief, I decided to stop taking my new thyroid meds, the added time-release T3. And the cramps stopped within 48 hours. I guess I just cannot tolerate any of the synthetic thyroid medications. Synthroid did the same thing to me, which is why I decided to…

This is absolutely true. Most allopathic doctors have no idea how to treat hypothyroid diseases. They think it's a simple disease with a simple treatment, and it isn't. I was told my thyroid levels were fine on Synthroid for 20 years, with no explanation as to why I was still symptomatic. It wasn't until I finally got a…

I use avocado oil for cooking, olive oil for salad, and butter. Sometimes we use coconut oil if a dish can take the flavour. I won't touch canola oil -- to me it stinks of rotten fish and I can't imagine how anyone can use it -- or safflower oil. I don't eat anything made from soy except the odd bit of soy sauce for…