Update

Foods Eaten: Eggs; clarified butter; canned pear in syrup, drained and rinsed; chicken; Napa cabbage; celery; leeks; garlic; instant decaf coffee (whoops).
Calories: 1436 Fat: 119 g Carb: 28 g Fibre: 4 g Protein: 69 g
Weight:152.5

Well, I feel better today. My face is still slightly inflamed. Last night, I had an epsom salts bath, plus I applied my homemade cream to my face, concentrating on the inflamed areas and today the irritation pales in comparison to yesterday. I had some calcium and potassium to balance all the magnesium. My mood is fine and physically I feel fine again. My spots are reducing a bit. I find the cream really helps with those too. They just shrivel up!

I find it hightly disturbing that I can go to a restaurant, pick out all the food myself and watch the cooks make the food I'm eating and still have such a drastic reaction. What the hell was in that food?? Were the vegetables or meat treated with some kind of preservative? The meat was actually shaved in frozen form and the frozen shavings were piled into a big serving dish that you serve yourself from. If it were thawing and being refrozen, it would all stick together and be hard to remove from the dish, but it wasn't at all. It seemed (and tasted) very very fresh. I really think the culprit was the grill because the reaction was very much an MSG-type reaction (only 1000 times worse than I'm used to) and the grill is the only place my food could have come in contact with anything of the sort.

I'd love to go out for a walk today at lunch to try and rid my body of some more toxins through exercise, but I have a busy day ahead of me. We'll see.

Oh, and my period has disappeared again... (?!?!?!)

Epsom Salt Cream

Foods Eaten: Eggs; egg yolks; clarified butter; cabbage; rutabaga
Calories: 1713 Fat: 161 g Carb: 32 g Fibre: 5 g Protein: 45 g
Weight: 153.5 lbs

I made my own epsom salt cream last night. What brought this on was that I realised the offending party in my recent bad mood may have been from scented candles that I've been around a lot lately (and I was around last night again), plus I had a run-in with some salicylate -containing foods that I couldn't avoid last night, so I decided a bit of a cleanse was in order. So last night I had a big glass of bicarb, applied the epsom cream, popped some calcium citrate and some potassium and went to bed. This morning my skin is as soft as can be and I feel better. In fact, my skin, which had recently broken out with 5 pimples (which is quite rare for me) looks much better. I did have a bit of a rush to the bathroom this morning (from the magnesium, I'm sure). If the bad mood comes back, I'll just repeat the process today.

My recipe for the Epsom cream:

4 tbsp Epsom salts
3 tbsp water
2 tbsp glycerin
1 small tub (215 g) vaseline

In a saucepan, dissolve the salts in the water over low heat, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat. Stir in glycerin, then vaseline, until smooth and homogenous (this will take a bit of patience). The mixture will be very runny. Pour into a jar (or back into the vaseline tub, but you'll have some extra because of the added ingredients) and let cool. This cream takes a long time to soak in and feels a bit gnarly, actually, but when it finally does soak in, it feels awesome.

Epsom Salts

Foods Eaten: Optimal pancakes (egg yolks; eggs; unbleached flour; salt; clarified butter); lard; clarified butter; potatoes; decaf coffee; ascorbic acid; sodium bicarbonate; coral supplement
Calories: 2250 Fat: 189 g Carb: 89 g Fibre: 4 g Protein: 54 g
Weight 154.5 lbs

Just had an epsom salts bath and I feel much calmer and more relaxed. My headache is still there, but not as pronounced.