>However, my mom and I are both experiencing intense low back pain for the
>last few days.  I wonder if it is a calcium shortage or maybe potassium
>imbalance due to water loss.  Any ideas or common experiences?


Karine,
Hi! Welcome to the list.
Is the back pain muscular, skeletal, or something else? What I wonder is if
one can experience low back pain for no reason other than rapid weight loss
(because your center of gravity has changed). Perhaps it is a subluxation in
your spine? When your body adjusts to a new diet/food, it can affect your
spine.
When I eat something that I should not be eating (like when I eat out, and
the food is contaminated by gluten), I have inflammation in my sacrum and
coccyx. It takes about a day or two to remedy itself, IF I drink plenty of
water and do some gentle yoga stretches. Or, I see my chiro. I wonder if one
can experience this inflammation as a result of the body adjusting to a
paleo (healthy) diet, not just when eating something out-of-the-ordinary
("bad").* How unlike paleo was your WOE before Jan 1? Perhaps your body is
still adjusting to the change. (*wondering if David has an answer to that?
Or I will ask my chiro when I see her tomorrow.)

Another possibility: menstruation. This is one way that a woman's body can
eliminate toxins. If you've switched to paleo just in the last month,
perhaps your body is still flushing out various toxins (hormones from dairy
for example, or Nutrasweet, or any number of things). If this is the case,
the body's elimination of these toxins can cause uncomfortable cramps for a
cycle or two, IME. But IME, my periods became totally painless for the first
time in my life, just two months or so after switching to a paleo diet.

Probably drinking lots of water will help a lot anyway.

Best,
Stacie

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