Easter Mom Test Aftermath

yo down

05/06/26 97 36.9 0 136/75/54

04/06/26 97.8 36.6 0.005 0.005 142/84/50

03/06/26 97 36.5 0.004 0.004 129/78/55

02/06/26 96.7 36.5 0.002 0.002 121/77/56

01/06/26 96.7 36.95 0 0 126/82/60

31/05/26 96.6 36.2 0.002 0.002 140/86/50

30/05/26 96.2 36.65 0 0

29/05/26 95.9 0 0

28/05/26 96.4 0 0 137/82/52

27/05/26 97.3 36.6 0.004 0.004

26/05/26 98 0 0 149/85/58

25/05/26 98 0 0 142/88/51

24/05/26 97.8 0 0 142/88/54

23/05/26 97.4 36.7 0 0

22/05/26 98.2 36.4 0.006 0.006 130/77/60

21/05/26 97.5 36.8 0.006 0.006 132/81/53

20/05/26 98.6 36.4 0.01 0.01 123/73/43

19/05/26 97.8 36.5 0.007 0.007 138/79/49

18/05/26 97.1 36.7 0.005 0.005 126/78/51

17/05/26 97 36.9 0.007 0.007 133/83/55

16/05/26 97.1 36.9 0.005 0.005 136/84/53

15/05/26 98.9 36.9 0.006 0.006 131/78/58

14/05/26 97.4 36.9 0.006 0.006 129/84/59

13/05/26 97.6 0.006 0.006 129/81/53

12/05/26 36.9 0.006 0.006 141/83/53

11/05/26 98.5 36.75 0.003 0.003 141/83/53

10/05/26 99.1 36.8 0.003 0.003 138/79/51

09/05/26 98.6 37.1 0 0 141/84/55

08/05/26 99.8 36.7 0.006 0.006

07/05/26 98.3 36.8 0.003 0.003 141/80/57

06/05/26 99.1 36.8 0.006 0.006

05/05/26 100.3 36.7 0 0

Predictions From the Last Post

Once I’m back in Cambridge and in control of my own diet again:

I predict that my appetite will collapse, I’ll lose all interest in food and my weight will start to fall at around 1kg/week.

At that point I’ll be living on my own considerable body fat, which is still full of PUFAs.

I predict that that will make me feel unwell in various ways, most notably a remarkable increase in fatigue.

I predict that I’ll start suffering from hypometabolism symptoms again and need to take small amounts of thyroid again to make them go away.

If the fatigue is really unpleasant, then I might try going into ketosis (which reliably gets rid of the fatigue) and see if that helps.

Otherwise I’m just going to ‘take my hands off the controls’ and see what happens next.

I imagine that the weight loss will continue until I get down to about 96kg, which is where things seemed to stabilise last time.

What Actually Happened

All of that pretty much bang on, almost immediately I got back my appetite disappeared and since then I’ve been losing weight at just less than a kilo a week. Seven day average has gone from 100.65kg to 97kg over the last month, which is about as fast as you ever want to lose weight. But the last few days it’s felt like my appetite has come back, so I may be approaching a stable state at 97kg, but time will tell, there was a previous little plateau so I’m going to wait and see.

The first week back I was about as tired as I’ve been since I first discovered that thyroid would fix my fatigue. It’s more a question of ‘I need to sleep a couple of hours in the afternoon most days’ than ‘full-blown chronic fatigue syndrome’. I never did decide that it was bad enough to go into ketosis, mainly because I’ve been curious as to what would happen if I just left my hands off the controls. The fatigue does seem to be getting better as the weeks go by. I’m still a bit generally sluggish, but although three times this week I’ve felt tired enough to try going to bed, I haven’t actually slept during the day this week at all.

I did start to get hypometabolism symptoms, and started taking tiny amounts of thyroid again, and the symptoms went away, and then the weather suddenly got a lot hotter and I started overheating, so I dropped the dose further.

I’m now taking 1/500th of the original dose, which is such a tiny amount it’s difficult to measure, and I can’t really believe it’s doing much, or say whether I’m hyper- or hypo-metabolic at the moment. I don’t have any symptoms except the tiredness itself.

Waking temperatures are about normal, but sometimes a bit high. And the weather can’t decide whether it’s going to be hot or cold at the moment, so it’s all very confusing.

Predictions

I think if the PUFA-release idea is true, then my weight should probably stop falling about now, at 97kg, a little higher than it was last time, but then since I’m not losing weight any more, I won’t be releasing much in the way of PUFA, so the tiredness will start to clear up, and also my lipostat will start to work better, so I’ll start losing weight again, which will of course release more PUFAs.

On the other hand if it’s not true, then I think I’d still expect to carry on losing weight until I hit 96kg or so, a bit lower than it was last summer when I was stable at 97kg, while the fatigue just clears up on its own.

So either way I’m expecting to lose more weight and get less tired as time goes on, and I can’t really see any way to distinguish those two cases.

I would be surprised if I just hit a plateau at 97kg and carried on like that for any significant length of time, or started to go back up, or if the tiredness just continued and didn’t improve.

The responsible thing to do would be nothing, and see what happens with no intervention.

But after a whole month of not doing anything, I am really getting quite tempted by the idea of trying a bout of ex150ish anyway, just to be done with the fatigue. If I do that, then I’d expect to as usual lose 1.5kg of water weight very fast, stop being tired and then lose fat at the usual 1kg/week rate for as long as I keep it up. That actually sounds pretty good so I might do that instead. I’ll see how I feel when I next run out of carbs and have to go shopping.

Sorry! That’s really not much of a plan.