Wheatgrass, Clinics

Kat, my Wheatgrass juicing is going great. I’ve been doing it for about 3 months now and have juiced it almost every single day. The only time I haven’t is when my tray isn’t quite ready. I have developed a pretty good schedule for growing it and always have two trays on hand. One in the short stage, and one that I am cutting and juicing. I go through a tray about every 10 days or so. I’ve noticed a huge difference in my skin alone. And you know what, for my age, I have very little grey hair, I have a small patch at my temple, and I don’t know if I am imagining it or not, but it seems to be getting smaller.

Now the other factor to add in here is that I also started the Bikram Hot Yoga in January and it too helps with detoxing your body so the skin difference could be a combination of the two. Have I mentioned before that I like Hot Yoga?

As for my composting, well that is something I’m struggling with. Anyone ever had those small fruit flies in your home? Well if you compost, they can become a HUGE pain in the butt. I’m struggling with killing them off because I have a perfect feeding ground for them. I almost have it under control but every once in awhile, one little bugger shows up. In the spring, I’m taking my large bin outside for and keeping it there until I can get my house completely fruit fly free. I know sounds gross but it isn’t all that bad. My tomatoes that I’m growing in my little grow op (herb garden is done) have finally flowered and hopefully I can pollinate them right and I’ll soon get a bunch of cherry tomatoes. And every morning, after I juice my Wheatgrass, I juice an assortment of veggies. So I guess I drink a “green” drink every day twice.

Basically, I feel I’m pretty healthy but the last two weeks I was fighting a cold, and my immune system was down. I’ve finally come to the realization that if I’m not feeling well, drinking any amount of beer also helps to lower that immunity because even if I don’t feel “hung over”, it still takes my body a couple of days to recover from it.  I’m going to not drink at all for the next while and see how things go. I know I’ve said this in the past posts, but this time my mind is also involved. But I also have these three social events coming up that I need to decide what I am doing and I know I will decide at the last minute. Will see what's stronger...

On Monday morning, after my shower, I noticed a red rash on the inside of my forearm. It wasn’t itchy or anything but kind of sore to touch. Nothing too bad but I do have a pretty high pain tolerance. Well by the end of the day it blistered out. Now I was concerned. So yesterday afternoon, rather than go to Yoga, I decided to find a walk-in clinic that could take me and have a look at my arm to determine what the rash was. Now finding a walk-in clinic that actually took any patients was a huge challenge. Some were closed due to the lack of available doctor’s, those that were open weren’t taking any walk-ins. It was frustrating. Fortunately my regular physician belongs to this HealthLink network and after 4:00 p.m., I could call this number and they made an appointment for me at their afterhours clinic. I got there at 7:30, walked in, filled out a form and immediately saw a doctor. Oh so much better than waiting 4-5 hours in any walk-in clinics.

So the prognosis is that it is a mild case of shingles. L When I went to my biofeedback on Tuesday the machine picked it up as some type of virus but it wasn’t clear. I suspected that is what it was so that’s why I wanted it taken care of as soon as possible. I didn’t want it to breakout more. I was confused why I got it in the first place but after talking to the doctor, it makes sense. I had chicken pox as a young girl and although my body built up an immunity to the chicken pox virus and killed 95% of it off, the other 5% sits in your spinal cord and your immunity can’t get to it there. So it waits there until your immunity is low and will venture out into your body along a nerve. That’s why shingles are usually in a patchy line on some part of your body. Mine is mild because it only broke out along my inner forearm and not all along the entire nerve. What I can’t get is why now? I’ve been rundown a LOT more than I was last week but I guess you can’t tell what your body is going to decide to do and when. At least now, I’ve got an immunity to this and will never get it again. I’ve got a prescription to speed up the healing process because he said if left to heal on its own, it can cause permanent damage to that nerve, it would cause me discomfort for  the rest of my life if left untreated. So I’m on drugs that aren’t natural L but if it works, I’m game to kill it off.

I mentioned the other day that I had good news (it’s about time eh?), well I got a caliper test done on Tuesday as well and I’ve gained 6.3lbs of lean body weight and lost 7.6% body fat. I personally don’t agree with these numbers but according the caliper, most of my fat loss is in my core (which my tape measure agrees with). When she used a different system to put the caliper numbers in, the % seemed more realistic to me but the point is, as long as I see those numbers go down, that is what matters. So whether I’ve gained 6.3lbs of lean body weight or whatever the number is, the more LBW the better. My body must start burning this fat off soon. All the more reason the scale numbers should not matter.

Again, I’ve rambled on in a post – I hope you all have a fantastic day.

Ttyl

Sandra