I am feeling much better today. I did some research on the web for
homemade electrolyte drinks and found
several recipes. Most of them used sugarfree Koolaide, salt substitute (for the potassium), sea salt and baking soda, but the simplest ones used either lemon juice or orange juice (for the potassium), sugar and salt. When I did RenFair, there was always dragonpiss available,which is basically
Country Time Lemonade with salt added to it, or bat's sweat which is pretty much the same thing except using real lemons, or is it the other way around? Thailand has a very similar climate to the Yucatan, and the Thai make
Iced Limeade which has sugar, limes and salt! The very things you need to replenish your electrolyte balance when you are sweating up a storm!
Yesterday, I drank a considerable amount of
Nestea with lemon with a pinch of salt added to each glassful, I also drank plain water with a pinch of salt and a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice (
Real lemon juice, since I didn't have any real lemons), if I had been thinking about it, I could also have had sour orange juice but I wasn't myself.
Today, despite not getting much sleep (gee, could it have been the caffeine in the tea??) I woke up with out a headache for the first time in about a week!!!
Here is my plan:
- A banana a day (either in fruit form or blended in a smoothy)
- Actually take the multi-vitamin that I bought
- Alternate plain water with other beverages, including adding a little salt and citrus juice to my plain water.
Nothing too radical, but it should help!
12 comments:
Interesting Theresa. I just started on a banana kick myself. They are loaded with potassium and they also contain tartaric acid which is what makes the reaction in some kinds of baking powder.
You're comment about the multi-vitamin made me chuckle. I always buy them, but I rarely end up taking them. Sometimes they go bad before I finish the bottle. I like the idea of the vitamin itself, but I hate taking pills daily - even if it is just a vitamin.
Yeah! Good for you and thanks for all the advice and tips to the rest of us.
Bob, Somehow we stopped eating bananas after having one almost every day for years. Now I am back on the banana kick. A lot of nutrition for little money and few calories.
Susan, I have cut back to one multi-vitamin, I have these enthusiasms and find myself taking several supplements until I can't stand it. I am better off eating more fruits and vegetables and the multi-vitamin.
Islagringo, thank you! I am back more or less to normal until the next crisis!
regards,
Theresa
Glad you're doing better now. I think one of the reasons I am doing so well this year is that I've been making vegie smoothies a lot...nearly every day.
Tomato, carrot, cuke, celery, onion, spinach, red pepper, lime, salt, hot sauce, ice, water. Incredibly wonderful. And the whole thing is like 75 calories.
One of my hard and fast rules is a multi vitamin and a b complex every day, too.
But I had a bout of charley horses at night and did some googling and found out they are a common effect of being dehydrated.
Learning is never ending, isn't it?
Glad to hear you are feeling better . Who wants to feel yucky when there is so much to enjoy?
Now I think I will go for the salt shaker ..
Hi Theresa.
Here's a good old fashioned British remedy.......Plenty of carbohydrates, sugar,ice cream alcohol and coffee.
Works for me...........
Paula
Star, it's amazing how much better I now feel! Thanks.
The Dodwells, If anyone knows how to survive in a hot and humid climate, it would be the British! I love carbs, they are my downfall!
regards,
Theresa
I'm thinking lime juice, sugar, salt,...Margaritas around!
Drink for your health!
Debi
T&D, what a great idea! I like margaritas.
regards,
Theresa
when I start to feel the ickies coming on from the heat and humidity, My quick fix is a squeeze of honey and pour salt on top and lick away. I let it dissolve in my mouth too so it absorbs into my blood stream faster.
Glad you are feeling better.
HS, that sounds good to me. Let's hope that I don't need the cure but if I do I'll try it. thanks.
regards,
Theresa
Post a Comment