Day 47

Meal #1 12:45pm
banana and pepper slices



Comments:
I woke up this morning and felt awful. That full of water and nothing else feeling from last night remained and my legs hurt a lot more than they have before. I tried to eat these peppers at 9am, but after one slice, I thought I was going to puke. I went back to sleep. I haven't felt that bad in awhile.

The sleep helped the nausea, but I still want to be careful. It's hard to find normal "I don't feel good" foods when you're Paleo. I can't have toast or crackers, rice or spaghetti. I wasn't keen on the banana with its high sugar content, but I knew it would be mild enough to potentially keep down at least.

Meal #2 2:30pm
smoothie*
chicken soup
three slices of bacon
orange juice*





Comments:
I only drank a small portion of the smoothie. Not even a quarter of it. It was just too sweet and too...I dunno. It just wasn't going to sit well. So I thawed out the leftover chicken soup and made some bacon, which did sound good, surprisingly. I tried to drink orange juice with it, but my body was rebelling against more fruit at this point, so I only had half the glass.

While my head is starting to feel better, my leg pain is otherworldly. See EotD Comments below.

Meal #3 5:45pm
Chipotle salad with:
Romaine, carnitas, and limited cheese, mild salsa, sour cream and guacamole



what I threw away




Comments:
So this was all mostly Paleo. I barely ate half of the last four ingredients listed. I didn't get the hard tacos which, in the past has been my staple. No grains, especially today.

I should also mention that this was so freaking tasty. I love Chipotle.

Snack #1 7pm
2.5 slices of bacon
a whole pepper

*no picture*

Meal #4 10pm
two scrambled eggs
vegetables with turmeric and pepper
cranberry sausage



Comments:
When did I stop using turmeric on my vegetables in the morning? I don't think I documented it. I don't even know why I did it. All I know is that I haven't been doing it and now I wonder if that has contributed to my leg pain. I doused my vegetables in it tonight. I'll see how that goes.

Snack #2 10:45pm
small baked sweet potato with butter, cinnamon and nutmeg



Comments:
I read today that sweet potatoes might help with leg pain. I'm really just covering all my bases at this point.

Snack #3 11:30pm
banana
two square Green & Blacks

*no picture*

Comments:
I just kind of wanted something else.

EotD Comments:
The pain in my legs was unbearable by 3pm. After two hours of crying hysterically, I finally caved and took an Advil. The pain in my left thigh intensified and the pain in my right leg extended from my hip, down through the front of my thigh, along the right side of my knee, down through my calf and into my ankle. Pain from hip to foot is so much more horrible than the localized pain in my left thigh. Also my right arm started hurting a little bit too.

It was like this deep ache that engulfed my limbs. I don't know what's wrong with my legs, but I couldn't tolerate that kind of pain after so many hours. I haven't been in pain like that since elementary school when I was "diagnosed" with growing pains afters months and months of testing (with results within normal limits and months and months of the worst pain I had ever felt. I loathe that kind of debilitating pain.

I bought some Natural Calm today (a recommendation from Robb Wolf and various people at PaleoHacks)and have already taken a dose. I'm hoping the magnesium supplement will help. It's on my agenda this week to get a Vitamin D3 supplement as well. I need to be able to fix this and I refuse to overdose on Advil to dull the pain and cause a crap ton of other ill effects in the process.

I've spent a lot of time today doing leg pain research, but it's a broad subject matter with limitless possibilities. I limited it to Paleo to see if maybe there was any correlation. It could be a decrease in carbs or a mineral/vitamin deficiency. It could be an absorption issue causing the deficiency. It could be something more life threatening and less easy to treat. I just don't know yet.

So far what I do know is that I'm going to take the magnesium and Vitamin D supplement. Also, I read that eating sweet potatoes might help. I'm going to try to get better sleep and I'm going to take it easy working out. I'll start using turmeric again and probably more cinnamon as well. And then I'll see.