Einstein, eat your heart out (unless it has added salt)

I finally did it—I defied the laws of physics!

Well, one of them anyhow—the one that has plagued me for the last several years.  It’s that pesky law that says matter can neither be created nor destroyed.  Here’ how my body interprets that—when someone else, namely my husband, loses weight, namely because of his thyroid issues, then that matter, namely pounds, leaves his body, and rather than just disappearing (that law, remember—matter can’t just be destroyed?), it goes straight to me!

Well, not this time! Since his cancer came back, my husband has lost a few pounds, as I suspected he would.  And I figured they’d find their way to me. But thanks to my dutiful, supportiveness as his wife, they didn’t! Not for lack of trying, though. I actually joined him in his iodine-free diet for a few weeks (I knew I wouldn’t be able to figure out food for him if I weren’t doing it for myself, too). 

So, no seafood (easy for me, harder for him, especially as we just took a trip to Boston), no dairy products, no processed food, nothing with added salt.  Yeah, pretty much the fruits and nuts diet.  I think I’m growing a bushy tail and buck teeth—I feel like a squirrel.  But a healthy squirrel!

This was all in preparation for his radiation treatment he had this week.  But now that it is over, I just want to gnaw on a stick of butter!  Not really. But I could certainly go for some melted over a nice big bowl of salty popcorn, maybe with a side of hot chocolate and cheese dip.  Oh, yeah. I can feel the matter coming back to my thighs already!

I’m kind of thinking Nobel Prize for science, defying that physics law, and all.  I wonder which one I will attempt to beat next?  Maybe gravity.  There are definitely parts of my body that would be quite happy about that.  And I’m thinking that bowl of deep-fried chocolate-covered cheese isn’t going to help much.  But it will be SOOO worth it!