Inter-related

Nothing to say today, really, but since it's been a week I thought I should probably at least post something. Everything's fine, I'm mostly managed to convince myself that there's nothing actually wrong with me, and I've mostly been successful.

I've had a couple of conversations with other people who've been on the Atkins diet, and they said that while they hadn't had exactly the same problems I've had, they've had enough similar ones that my theory seems to make sense. I've pretty radically changed my diet, even without the weight loss (nearly 30 pounds at this point, since July), so it makes sense that at my age (nearly 50, and already fairly screwed up, hormone-wise), it would have some effect. The fact that I didn't anticipate it doesn't change the reality.

Oh, and one of the people I talked to said she'd experienced what she termed "brain fog" when all this was going on, and it was like a lightbulb going on above my head. For the past few weeks I've been feeling very spacy, very, I don't know--"disconnected," maybe. Finding it hard to concentrate, hard to get things done. More than usual, I mean. And maybe that's all part of the same symptomology.

In any event, yesterday I started feeling almost normal again, good again, and today I feel fine, too. So while I'm not looking forward to going back to the doctor on Monday, I feel like at least I'm on the right track.

The woman who talked about the brain fog mentioned that she was participating in NaNoWriMo this year, partly due to reading about my participation in it last year, and I said yeah, I really wish I could have gotten it together to do it this year, too, but I just couldn't wrap my brain around it . . . and then I thought: "Oh." I made about four false starts, and finally just gave up. Now I wonder whether it was all part of the brain fog thing, and I have to assume that it was. Or blame it on that, anyway. Everything is inter-related.