The Living Daylights

I wanted to follow-up from my previous post and just let you all know how great it feels to be healthy again. After 48 hours of fasting and taking the Super-B Complex, I felt a mental clarity and balance that I have not felt since before I became pregnant with Baby H. The fasting was not extreme, and it felt so amazing that I have permanently adopted a few of the things. First, Super-B Complex is AMAZING. If you have not had a solid night of sleep in 3 months, I highly recommend looking into taking this supplement. Talk about an instant mood-booster! Second, I have significantly cut down on my cheese intake :) Yes, even mozzarella. One serving a day is not much compared to what I was eating. Third, almost no sugar with the exception of a little bit of chocolate, which I now eat with a few nuts of some sort. I wasn't consuming a lot of sugar, compared to most people, but even a tablespoon or 2 in my morning coffee was, I think, just too much for my body to process right now. 

Don't underestimate the toll a lack of sleep can have on your body. Aside from making a person susceptible to illness, I think it can actually make a person start thinking differently (as in, not thinking). The big one I overlooked was that it can also make your body kind of hyper-sensitive to certain things like sugar, caffeine, and processed foods.

My first response to this experience was to eat a block of cheese a day and try to discipline and organize the living daylights out of myself and my life. It's like I was kicking myself while I was down, haha. Yes, this is pretty funny :)        

Back to our old selves, Baby H and I have been running and dancing to an old favorite, John Lee Hooker. Baby H keeps time by slapping his hand on his leg, which I think he learned from Gymboree. The gritty predictability to this music is relaxing and somehow powerful. Enjoy, and be well, sleep or none :)