[nisha]

Dear Roy and Nancy,
I am so grateful to both of you for all the time and thought you put into responding to me. Your messages have certainly helped me to figure out how to work through these changes. Support like this is so so wonderful. I really can't thank you enough. For years I have been haphazardly trying to follow a macro diet and I feel that it is only since I have started discussing on this forum that I am really understanding macrobiotics.

I have a question for each of you.

Roy you wrote about how

"If you hold your hands straight down against your sides you will see that the WRISTS are level with the PELVIS region."

and I am wondering why that is relevant and how these two ailments can be linked?

Nancy, in my initial message I asked about the impact of detoxing on my nursing baby. The idea of following diet #7 makes me fearful for that reason and especially because you wrote,

"For women, it is often the breasts that will accumulate unexcreted excesses that the body cannot efficiently remove."

I am also concerned that you said that I may feel weak, sad and low on energy and I wonder how that might impact my milk production.

I want you both to know that my pelvic pain has lessened considerably since I have tried to eat less yin and less salt. What I think has made a big difference is giving up tofu.

Thank you again for you energy,
Nisha :p