ex150ish-7 week one
All Pretty Much as Expected
19/09/24 95.2 36.71 0 0.33
18/09/24 95.3 36.75 0 0
17/09/24 94.9 36.55 0 0.33
16/09/24 95.4 36.67 0 0
15/09/24 95.8 36.61 0 0.25
14/09/24 96.4 36.85 0 0
13/09/24 96.4 36.66 0 0.25
12/09/24 95.6 36.84 0 0
11/09/24 96.1 36.71 0 0
ex150ish-7 is going roughly according to plan, on Thursday 12th September I made my beef and tomato stew, added a kilo of beef for the week (237 grams of protein), drank the last of my milk and the last few carbs in the morning, and put the remaining sources of carbohydrate into the forbidden cupboard.
Ketosis entry was initially pretty smooth, assisted by keto-electrolyte pills. The first day (13th) I felt great, and ended up going to the pub, drinking 4 vodkas and going to bed at 0200
The following day I got up far too early to accept a coal delivery, ended up going back to bed, and when I finally woke up the second time I was listless and unmotivated and stupid and sniffly. So it that might have been sleep deprivation, was unlikely to have been a hangover, might have been keto flu, or might have been real flu.
Whatever it was an afternoon nap fixed it and after that I felt excellent all evening. And again the following day.
I am definitely getting some mental benefits, I'm interested in technical things again in a way I haven't been recently. The contrast is not as marked as it used to be, but it is definitely there.
After four days I should have added some more beef to my stew, but I found that I wanted black puddings instead, so I bought 4 of Waitrose's amazing black puddings (29g of protein) and dug up a couple of eggs (10g) to go with them.
A couple of days later I bought a couple of steaks (87g of protein). I've been getting mild cravings for carbs but they go away if I eat steaks, which is weird, so maybe I'm a bit protein deficient. (29+10+87)/4 = 32 grams over four days is similar to the 33g/day I'd get from consuming a kilo of beef per week, but my appetite seems very low, so maybe I'm not eating enough cream (probably two 600ml pots over the entire week) and have taken my total protein intake a bit lower than usual.
I got the predicted "two fuels" problem playing chess on Tuesday night, a terrific hard-fought game drawn right at the end in a winning position because I made a stupid pawn move despite having already seen how to win several moves before. Grrr. It felt like my brain had just given up after four hours of playing, but I still had plenty of energy to cycle home, I just couldn't think straight.
When I woke up the following morning I still felt like that, but breakfast and coffee sorted it out and I felt great all day.
I've put my thyroid dose up a bit because I still feel a bit hypometabolic, occasional isolated hours of listlessness and depression, despite having waking temperatures that are consistently a bit high for me, 36.6+. I've been rewarded by breaking into a completely unnecessary sweat and feeling far too hot twice, both times just after eating. I don’t think that taking tiny bits of desiccated thyroid every so often is a good way to do this.
Over the last week I don’t feel I’ve eaten very many calories, apart from the things mentioned the rest has been roughly a block of butter and lots of tomato passata. I just don’t fancy food apart from occasionally thinking how nice a piece of toast would be.
Obviously I can’t claim to be eating entirely ad-lib since I’m avoiding all carb sources except the passata, but I’m certainly not hungry.
My weight is clearly falling, but once you allow for 1.5kg of glycogen-associated water weight it may actually be falling more slowly than it was, or even rising. That would be a surprise! Time will tell.
I’ve also noticed that my prediction of falling thyroid dose was silly. In ketosis I probably am unblocking glycolysis a bit, but it doesn’t matter, because I haven’t got any carbs to burn. ex150ish never seemed to make my thyroid dose drop much in the past, and I don’t expect it to now. I don’t know why I thought it would this time. I withdraw that prediction.