Too much water ='s sick Carolyn

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I had a disturbing experience today. I drank too much water...which I've done before so you'd think I'd learn. About 3:30 I started to feel dizzy, my monitor at work started to get fuzzy, and bright like I'd stared into a light then looked at it. I felt nauseous, headachey...which I suppose is not a word, lol.

Fortunately I'd brought my potassium with me. Two pills got me straightened out, then rushed home and cooked steak and grilled onions on my Foreman Grill. Glad I broke that out and dusted it off. It was great! And so fast!

Then had apple pie--oven at 375, cut up apple sprinkled with a mixture of cinnamon and stevia, and apple pie spice...cooked 30 minutes. A little too long for Granny Smith actually--was perfect for the Cameo apple.

I had also skipped my afternoon fruit in order to enjoy it tonight...won't do that again. Seriously messed me up.

I am still feeling a little wonky. Hopefully by 8:30 I will feel well enough to write. This sudden-illness-thang was NOT on today's gameplan!

Tomorrow...less water, regular potassium, and apple-snack at 3:00. No more repeats of this nonsense. Geesh. Idiot.

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I feel soooo much better today (and yesterday) that I could cry. I have to make a doc appointment, see if this potassium thing is something I shoulda been doing all along...it has made a world of difference. I feel clear-headed, I don't feel like I am so exhausted I am going to puke (sorry--but that's how I've felt, well before 7 every night...for a long time...), I feel bright and shiny. If this is why, I could seriously cry.

Stevia--meh. I am thinking it is a weird fakey taste, but I have ordered some stevia-drops, flavored, to put in fizzy bottle water. Make my own soda without all the bad stuff. It should be interesting!

It has happened several places, the water-chug thing...last year or so, maybe a couple, a radio station had a water drinking contest. Someone died, because of the horrid loss of electrolites, and everyone got fired. I'll have to look up that case and see what happened.

I felt so good to day I actually updated Andy and Navarre. I simply have been too worn out and sick feeling to have the energy for seaside.

Diet so far: down 8.8 lbs. I had a 2 lb. drop overnight and I have no idea why. BOOM. That I've lost this much this fast proves to me how baaad I've been eating, for too long.

Today: day 2 of no caffeine, too... what has come over me! I FEEL AMAZING!!!!!!