26/09/24 95.3 36.72
25/09/24 94.3 36.66 0.13 0.13
24/09/24 94.5 36.45 0.06 0.06
23/09/24 94.4 36.57 0 0.33
22/09/24 94.8 36.71 0 0
21/09/24 95.8 36.81 0 0
20/09/24 95.2 36.78 0 0
19/09/24 95.2 36.71 0 0.33
ex150ish-7 came to a crashing halt one day earlier than I'd planned, and not for social reasons this time!
Even though my waking temperatures are now quite high usually and have stayed there, I've been feeling a bit hypometabolic in patches this last week, sluggishness and hurty feet and depression, and I've put my thyroid dose back up a bit more, and I've also decided that taking random tiny bits of pills every so often is not a good idea. T3 is fast-acting and should be taken twice-daily to smooth out the effect.
So I dissolved 1 grain of NDT and 100ug of thyroxine in 500mls of water, which was my old ratio, put it in a bottle in the fridge, and I've been drinking a tiny little bit of that morning and evening to get a balanced smooth dose. Although I'm a bit worried that the dissolved hormones might rot in the bottle before I can finish it and make a new one, since the dose that I used to take every day is now enough to last me weeks.
After a couple of days that seems to have worked, no more up-and-down and just generally feeling fine. But:
On Wed 25th I felt excellent all day, and then in the evening I found myself looking at a delicious tasting buttery creamy beef and tomato stew/soup/stroganoff with all sorts of interesting spices and vegetables in it, and not wanting to eat so much as a spoonful of it, let alone double cream, which seemed the epitome of bland and uninteresting.
But I did keep thinking about bread, and biscuits, and potatoes, and fruit, and milk, and how nice any of those things would be.
And I thought to myself: "Hang on, you're using willpower here to resist cravings. Don't do that. Ever. Even for Science."
So I headed to the shops and bought a nice big piece of fresh-baked sourdough bread with nothing nasty in it, and some all-butter shortbread biscuits, and some milk.
And I pulled off a bit of the bread and dipped it in the stew, and suddenly the stew seemed like the platonic ideal of nice things to dip bread in, and I wolfed half the loaf and half of the remaining stew in about two minutes flat. It didn't touch the sides. At which point the hunger vanished and I had a big swig of milk straight out of the bottle to wash it down, and then went out to meet a friend for a game of chess.
When I got back, I settled down in front of the fire with a cup of tea, with blessed milk in it, and ate an entire packet of shortbread biscuits over the next couple of hours to keep the tea company.
No effects at all apart from fixing the carb cravings. No crash, no increase in temperature, no loss of alertness, no nothing. But I stopped having carb fantasies and gained an entire kilo overnight, which is likely glycogen stores replenishing.
This morning I ate the other half of the loaf, again dipped in cream of tomato and beef curried stew stroganoff ghoulash, and today I have been dogsitting, and Sam and I have been for a long walk in the rain and shared another packet of shortbread biscuits with coffee, and we are both fine.
Me lively and alert, Sam extremely intent on getting biscuits, alert for every rustle and the slightest sound of quiet chewing. I'm sure he can actually hear a biscuit being dipped in coffee from a room away.
Too early to say what ex150ish-7 actually did to my weight, but I have the strong impression that the previous 0.5kg/week downwards trend just continued unaffected, with 1.5kg of water-weight off and then back on decorating the curve somewhat. I'll wait until I've got more numbers to pronounce.
I'm going to stay vaguely high-carb for a bit, to see what that does. I enjoyed it the last time, even though I'm a bit scared of it. Mmm, fruit, honey, potatoes, mmmmmm……
Some things I've done recently that have had good success (in order of impact).
Let me know what you think.
1) Reduce salt (by never mixing it)
If you (think you) want it: eat it seperatly, away from other food.
Don't mix it in anything, not even water. If you mix it, it will start cravings.
Modern bread/food has become an important delivery vehicle of mixed salt.
It is addictive when mixed, foodmanufacturers know this.
Reduce it as much as you can.
This is independent of keto or other diet.
2) Don't live in the swamp (don't mix your main sources of calories (fat and carbohydrates))
Switching from keto to a regular carbohydrate diet takes time and has a penalty.
Modern bread/food is very swampy.
Pick your place on the side of the swamp and stay there for a few months.
3) Reduce the volume of protein
High protein volume used to be a signal that a large kill was made and it needed to be eaten before it spoils: time to fatten/build up and start the cravings
This is independent of keto or other diet.
4) PUFA is evil
It breaks something in the metabolism.
Reduce it as much as you can.
Modern bread/food is an important delivery vehicle of PUFA
This is independent of keto or other diet.