A Sudden Reversal of Fortune

Bugs that go away on their own come back on their own

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Eek! Two weeks after finishing heart-attack keto it's obvious that the mysterious rapid weight loss I've been experiencing has reversed, and my weight, although noisy, is trending upwards as fast as it was previously falling.

There's no obvious reason for this, and I find it fascinating. It's like a switch has been tripped.

My previous best guess at what was going on was that coincidentally, the first bout of ex150ish coincided with, or caused, my stores of polyunsaturated fat to fall to the point where my body realized that it was overweight, and started dumping fat as fast as it could.

Another possible explanation was that I've cleared out a load of stored sulphites since I stopped eating them in May, and that that had put things back to normal.

I think both those ideas are now totally refuted. I haven't voluntarily touched a PUFA (except maybe those pizzas had the crust cooked in some sort of oil, and maybe a bit in the pepperoni, but either way, not much) or a sulphite for ages.

But suddenly my body is in fast fat-gaining mode.

Very fast! Eyeballing the graph, it looks like it's going up at least as fast as it had been coming down.

So, is there something magical about ex150ish and heart-attack-keto? Did they both cause a switch to flick in some way?

I should try ex150ish again.

But not just yet. I want to see where this trend goes, and I'm planning to visit home again quite soon, which is not compatible with any kind of freak diet.

General health wise, I've been feeling overwhelmingly bouncy and energetic these last two weeks, once the post-keto "refeeding syndrome" stopped. It's been like being young again, or more likely just becoming a healthy middle aged man. I was feeling pretty optimistic about this.

But I've also had a couple of episodes of just suddenly feeling really really tired.

One of these was clearly caused by drinking far too much coffee late at night while playing chess, and not really sleeping as a result. The following day was a bit of a write-off.

But that’s also weird for me, coffee doesn't usually have that effect on me. Or any effect at all really…

The other bout of tiredness just suddenly came on for no reason, midway through a conversation with a friend, and I went home as a result (sorry Alex!). But when I got home I remembered that I hadn't eaten all day and eating fixed the problem almost immediately. I felt better within an hour and went out drinking.

I find all of this a bit weird: sudden rapid weight gain, sudden extra energy, at least one weird energy crash, and sudden sensitivity to coffee.

I'm getting more and more confused...