Sorry I have been away from the blog for almost a week, but it’s been a tough one. Continued experimenting with Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Caffeine-Free Living and there have been tough days with some pretty harsh withdrawal symptoms. But one of the good outcomes to surface was in learning that I was anemic due to an iron deficiency. Prior to this I’d eat very clean during the week and have one off-day during the weekend. Turns out that upon analysis, my weekly diet (not counting the off-day) supplied about 50% of the RDA of iron..seems that the off-day was actually saving my butt.
However, since going on the new diet the total iron consumed plunged. This ended up causing extremely severe upper leg pain at night and general weakness throughout the day..This has been fixed so that I’m getting more iron and B12 than ever before..pain & weakness have disappeared and am able to up the workout level at the gym by several notches.
Apparently, people pursuing a healthy lifestyle often have deficiencies in critical nutrients (one of the most common is B12 deficiencies among Vegans)…We all need to check with our doctors/dietitians to make certain that our healthy lifestyles are truly healthy. Usually, all that’s required is some minor tweaking to optimize things.
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