I remember when I first started teaching and I was good friends with Mr. Wright and I had just really started hitting the South Beach diet hard because I was in charge of my own groceries.
It was summer time just before school started and I was noticing a terrible taste in my mouth. Mr. Wright explained to me that is when your body goes into ketosis. It’s your fat burning phase.
I remember telling him that it tastes disgusting and he agreed as he ripped a piece of gum in half and gave me half of a piece of gum and said that it tastes like, ”Dead rabbit.” I remember that I laughed and agreed with him as I ate my half a piece of gum.
I am really having a hard time dealing with the change in my nutrition needs! The new development is that as I am getting ready for the day, my tongue begins to feel coded and I need to run my tongue across my teeth to get that faint but unmistakable, ”Dead rabbit” taste.
This fact is startling to me because I am not doing anything to consciously burn the fat stores in my body! But, it’s happening! I get paid tomorrow and I am ordering the new nutrition shakes so as to maybe have more energy.
I’ve been listening to Gavin DeGraw as I am trying to get okay with all of my disease progression and things I have to do because of that. As I run my tongue over my teeth with the faint, but unmistakable ‘’dead rabbit’ taste:
It’s a song that does not fit with how I’m feeling except for this line:
It’s the strangest feeling to get faint doing very easy things but the fact that I am getting paid tomorrow so I will order the new nutrition shakes and maybe The ‘dead rabbit’ taste will go away.