I'm late posting the FTMF because to be honest with you, I thought I registered a loss but I couldn't remember what I weighed last week so I had to wait until the posh gym weight loss contest posted their weekly results. The good news is that despite the cold hard truth that I managed to gain 3 pounds of water weight in 24 hours by eating restaurant food twice in one day on Friday before weighing in on Saturday, I weighed in an astonishing 2 pounds lighter this week than last week! Woo Hoo. I think what was key for me this past week was trying to be active twice a day a few times and also adding in that all important extra protein in the form of egg-white protein smoothies. I tried the rice and pea protein version but it didn't agree with my (world's fussiest) stomach. Whey is not an option and soy makes me nervous. So, egg white it is!
Even though I have been off the chelation therapy for a couple of weeks I can still tell from time to time that metal continues to leave my system. One tip is a nasty metallic taste in my mouth. It is less intense than before but still obviously there. The other very weird symptom, I turn the soap suds pink. I had myself convinced that there must be some kind of red reflected light in my home shower until I noticed the pink lather in the posh club shower too.
I dread the possibility of going back on the chelation after the break from it, but the truth is that I feel more human than I have felt in years. I'm more excited about spending the summer in utopia than usual because this year I'm thinking about how much cleaner the air and water is in utopia than in stepford.
Mother's Day sucked for me. The goddess reminded me that last year sucked too. I looked it up. I didn't really write details. I can't even remember. Whoops. I'll go into this year's suckitude tomorrow, but I will tell you one important thing. We are going to have mother's day again next sunday and then again every day until they get it right. There will be mother supervised cramming this week. I'm confident they are going to get it right the second time.
The pink soap sud thing is fascinating! I am glad the metals are leaving your system...even tho the road has not been smooth, at least you know good things are happening.
Hey...this is actually unrelated to the pink soap thing...but I wonder if you need to come soak in Soap Lake in Ephrata, WA. Google it..... I went there last summer and it was weirdly amazing. If you come....you must let me know and I will join you. Heck...I'd drive you the couple hours there from the airport. We'd have a blast...soaking away our toxins while listening to langages from all of over the world (it draws quite an international crowd).
Posted by: greta | May 10, 2010 at 05:30 PM