Does your body rreally tell you what it wants?

There have been a number of times that I've had a strong craving for an egg and then realised that I couldn't remember the last time I'd had one. It's certainly made me wonder, Teetime.

My body often fancies a cream cake.

I recently discovered that someone I used to know has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. I remember them as being a person who craved sunshine, always had their 2 weeks in the sun every year. The NHS site says that lack of vitamin D or problems making/metabolising it have been linked with MS, although not proven.

Perhaps their body recognised a need for Vitamin D.

Many, many years ago when I was working with horses and doing a lot of physical labour, I noticed that my carbohydrate consumption had gone through the roof!

We would go to a local cafe for lunch, I would eat my lemon meringue pie while waiting for the ham egg and chips as it saved time, and also buy a round of sandwiches to eat mid afternoon.

I looked and felt as fit as a butchers dog, slim and very little body fat, muscular (not over done like a body builder, think of a Caucasian Michelle Obama, but 5' 2")

Very different picture now!

A soft boiled egg is the ultimate comfort food, especially when you are ill. Easily digested too so, yes. Quite possibly.

I haven't fancied coffee since I started a virus. The thought of it turns my stomach. Caffeine weakens the muscle at the bottom of the easophagus. Just what I don't need at the moment.

Listen to your bod.

What my body thinks it wants and what it actually needs seems to be at some variance! It demands chocolate, crisps and cake which are the last thing it needs. I have to have a firm word with it sometimes!

I firmly believe we do since DS3 was 4 months old. In those days we weaned them at that age and he didn't want any of the usual weaning foods. I had heard that weaning could be hard work but had had no problems with the other two. I had to force him to eat anything other than me.

He had always been happy to see his brothers when they came in from school but now started being grumpy and progressing to screaming mid afternoon. After a couple of weeks I went to the doc and he said there was nothing wrong with this previously very happy, easy baby. I went again after another 2 weeks and got the same response. In retrospect I think the doc thought I was neurotic because of all my miscarriages and a lot of bleeding during pregnancy.

After 6 weeks I went to the clinic and spoke to the health visitor who understood perfectly and did the sums to recognise when I had started weaning. She gave me some soya milk and said he was allergic to cow's milk which was in pretty much everything I gave him. She was right and the only time we had a problem after that was if someone gave him a biscuit.

He knew he shouldn't have anything with milk products. Animal instinct. He grew out of it but still has some allergies.

Yes, why is cow milk in SO many things? I have colitis and use goat now.

Recent stress has made me want salt. I never used to put salt on my food, just a little in with potatoes etc....suddenly I need more. Looked it up. apparently to do with adrenals and the stress!

Its telling after this afternoon horrendous round of golf that I need juice of the fruit of the juniper with some quinine and a few cashew nuts without salt.

I'm taking tonic and potassium salt for night cramps today....up at 1am last night...ouch!

Since taking magnesium tablets at night I've not had cramp at night. It might stir up your colitis though Alieo.
Never bothered salting my food till a few years ago when I started craving it. Not long after, a blood test revealed that I did indeed have low salt levels.

Yes, I had considered Mg and decided against it!

Teetime Dr Phoenix will prescribe that for you, but suggests you add some citrus fruit (lemon or lime your choice) as part of your five a day!

Teetime a little of what the doctor ordered....may partake of the grape as part of my 5 a day...what my body really needs is WD40 I am stiff and creaky in parts I didn't know I had today...

Am I confused with pregant women or is this craving called Pica,I have seen it called this in pregnancy

I sometimes crave salt(I put this on another thread) because, I think, I have low blood pressure.
And definitely something sugary if I start getting symptoms of dizziness/nausea/headache because I haven't eaten. I'm not diabetic but do tend to drop my blood sugar sometimes (I did a random blood sugar, borrowing a friend's glucometer and was 2.3 )

When I am ill I crave carbohydrates.

Thank you phoenix but just looks what happened tonight. Gave body grape juice instead of quine and juniper with vit C and am feeling very silly and tired now!!