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ex150ish unambiguously works: more mysteries

15/07/23 94.9

14/07/23 95.3

13/07/23 96.2

12/07/23 95.1

11/07/23 96.4

10/07/23 96.1

09/07/23 96.8

08/07/23 96.3

07/07/23 96.8

06/07/23 95.4

05/07/23 95.6

04/07/23 96

03/07/23 95.4

02/07/23 95.3

01/07/23 94.9

30/06/23 95.6

29/06/23 94.6

28/06/23 94.2

So I stopped my second go at ex150 on the 1st July, in order to attend a friend's 50th birthday barbecue. And ever since then I've been back on my standard 'Heart Attack Diet'. No PUFAs, no sulphites. Apart from that anything goes.

I broke my carbohydrate-fast by eating a couple of pastry-wrapped hand-made sausage rolls (more like Beef Wellington than sausage rolls really), and also some biscuity tortilla things (maybe doritos?), and probably some sugary things too. Don't really remember.

About two hours after that I suddenly got so tired I went to sleep in a garden chair, woke up feeling bleary, decided I needed to go home to bed, cycled home, went to bed, slept for an hour, and then woke up feeling full of energy and headed back the barbecue.

This is weird even by my standards. Probably something to do with the carbs?

At that point I was feeling so energetic and enthusiastic that I started drinking pastis, and I ended up drinking whisky til five in the morning.

I reckon in total I probably drank about a bottle of spirits or thirty units of alcohol. I wasn't even that drunk, we were still chatting happily when the whisky ran out.

The next morning I had a bit of a hangover, but not even as bad as I deserved, nothing like what I would have expected, more like the sort of trivial hangovers I used to get when I was young and well.

So I think the sulphites thing is true. I don't actually have a problem with alcohol at all, it's the sulphites in wine and beer. As long as I stick to spirits I'm fine.

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I thought I'd try to keep off anything stereotypically carby, like rice and chips and pasta and potatoes, and just reintroduce things like yoghurt and fruit.

For the first week I did keep to that, and I was largely feeling fine according to my notes. The overheating problems stopped, and my thyroid dose and temperature seem stable even though I'm taking less thyroid than before.

After that for various reasons I've started eating heavy carbs, and they're obviously a problem!

My habitual occasional tiredness is back.

And on at least three occasions in the the last three weeks I've had a pizza, or a carb-heavy meal, and suddenly about an hour later I've crashed, either an afternoon sleep or in the evening just going to bed even though I wasn't tired before eating.

There's clearly some sort of problem here, maybe reactive hypoglycemia or insulin resistance, or diabetes, and I should go to the doctors. The NHS does not make that easy these days..... But I will, promise, Mum.

On a couple of occasions I've had a late night tray of chips and tzatziki from Gardenias, PUFA-laden carbs, and they *don't* seem to produce any ill effects, but maybe they are making me tired at the point I was going to bed anyway, so I just didn't notice. Certainly they taste great, not like the Matlock Bath horrors.

Anyway weight-loss wise, the week 9th-15th July is clearly out of the water-weight regain period, and my weight is 95.8kg averaged over that week.

I said I'd call anything below 98 success, so that's unambiguous.

In fact I have the distinct impression that my weight is still going down, even though all I'm not doing anything to make it go down. Eating normally ad lib, avoiding PUFAs, avoiding sulphites, plenty of salt.

It seems that ex150ish not only works for me as a weight loss technique, but that the weight lost thereby then stays off without effort.

It's easy to stick to, in fact I felt so much better in ketosis that I'm longing to do it again.

I think that's probably a sign of an underlying brokenness with my carbohydrate metabolism, so I should investigate that fairly urgently. Whatever it is may have been my whole problem!