Bev, About not drinking until you are thirsty.  I've heard that is like
waiting until your oil light comes on in your car before you put oil in it.
Riki
-----Original Message-----
From: Beverle Sweitzer <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 10:33 AM
Subject: [P-F] Salt/Water


>Hi Guys:
>   I was reading the letters about salt and thirst and stuff with
>interest.  I am on a different computer now so I can't refer back to
>them.  Since I got really strict, Feb. 25, I have noticed many changes.
>All positive, but while I was reading I realized that I had not had
>anything to drink, i.e. not thirsty, since lunch yesterday.  I know, I
>know, not good.  But it still is interesting.  I think it is because for
>so many years I have partaken of beverages as a form of entertainment.
>Diet soda, coffee, etc.  Now that I don't drink them there is not much
>entertainment in just quenching thirst.  Naturally, if I get thirsty I
>will drink, but not if I am not.  I practiced Macrobiotics for a long
>time - how far away can I get? - and their thinking is that drinking
>just for the sake of drinking - such as "8 full glasses" per day is hard
>on the little kidneys.  They say that kidneys are not plumbing but
>delicate "sponges" that can get overworked processing a lot of fluids
>and will back up water (fluids) into the rest of the body until they can
>get to it.  Actually I was pretty thin and healthy on Macrobiotics, but
>bored to tears and much younger.  If any of you are familiar with the
>theories you will know that in some ways they are similar to us.  Eat
>only local foods in season.  Not paleo but there is a similarity in
>thinking.
>    P.S. The scale is not changing much, but my clothes are looser and
>even my new shoes fit better.  Scales are not a very good indicator of
>what is really happening.
>Love, Bev
>