Lately I have been making great strides to take better care of myself. I am not where I want to be as far as my marathon goal but I am beyond where I want to be in other areas. I have given up refined foods, white foods and junk food. I have replaced them with whole foods, more fruits and veg, whole grains, lots of fibre and heart healthy supplements. I am also getting out walking for anywhere between 30 minutes and 3 hours per day with Olivia. It's not exactly marathon training but its a hell of a lot more than I was doing before and I feel the smartest move for me at present. As much as I would like to run that marathon, its going to take a lot more time to get this body in that kind of shape.
I am taking a multi-vitamin, 500 mg of DHA, 600 mg of EPA, 2000 IU of Vitamin D, 4 mg of Folic Acid. This is the mix I have been taking for about a year now.
Tonight I added a big vitamin B 100 complex (100 mg of all the B's) and 500 mg of Niacin. WELL, these were recommended in a book I just finished (400 mg of Niacin was the recommended dose but I could only find 500 mg dose) and my GAWD I had an awful reaction. I am sure it was the niacin as the bottle says it might cause some flushing, itching or burning sensation on the skin. They say take it before bed to lesson any reaction. So I did.
A half an hour after I took it I was started shivering. That turned into what I would compare to the kind of reaction one would have being naked in the arctic. I was out of control almost like seizing! Teeth chattering, body absolutely out of my control, rigid and shivering for an hour and a half. It was so bad that I had to wake Ben. I was not physically cold but I felt it on the inside. Poor guy was trying his best to warm me up while sweating buckets because I was not actually cold. My insides and my outside were at opposite ends of the spectrum and neither of us could do anything about it. I was under 2 duvets with Ben curled up to me and I felt as if I were freezing to death, literally. I am sure that if i could have made it to the bathroom to get into a hot shower, I would have likely burned myself as no amount of heat was warming me up. It was a very, very odd experience. Eventually it calmed down to a panic and eased up. Then the heat set in. I am now incredibly hot and cannot sleep because of it. I laid there with the window cracked (-5 out there), the fan on, all the covers off and still could not get cool enough to sleep.
This is insanity at its finest.
The niacin is in the garbage.
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