ex150ish-4-sour-cream-lowish-protein-recarb
Respect the Epicycle
23/11/23 92.6 36.44 1 1
22/11/23 92.2 0 1
21/11/23 92.8 36.52 0 1
20/11/23 92.9 36.65 0 1
19/11/23 92.8 36.24 0 1
18/11/23 92.3 36.84 0 0.5
17/11/23 92 36.18 0 1
16/11/23 91.9 36.62 0 1
15/11/23 91.7 36.81 0 1
Eyeballing my graph, it looks like my weight at the end of ex150ish-4-sour-cream was around 91.7kg
Normally I would celebrate the end of a bout of ex150ish by
(a) incautiously eating a load of carbs and passing out
(b) going and buying a load of cheese
This time, I tried and failed to recarb gently, carefully eating some shortbread on the 16th, and then on the 18th, suffering what history will refer to as the 'Big-Ass Burrito Incident'.
For the first couple of days after that, eating carbs made me tired, but that's gone now. They're just food. I have a date with a pizza pencilled in to check.
Looks to me like all the water-weight is back on now, and things are just bouncing around as normal, and it looks like my 'true weight' has settled down at around 92.5kg.
Weight before experiment was around 95kg, so that's 2.5kg in roughly four weeks total elapsed time (including the recarb week).
That's not quite enough water-weight (0.8kg) to agree with my pre-experiment prediction of 1.5kg, and I wonder what's going on there.
But it's rather more actual weight loss (2.5kg in four weeks) than I predicted beforehand (0.5 kg per week)
I declare ex150ish-4-sour-cream to have been a success. For me at least, soured cream and crème fraîche seem to work the same as double cream. Which is nice, because they taste better.
It looks like three weeks of “Mom Test”, eating what I always used to eat and gaining weight rapidly can be easily undone by three weeks of ex150ish, which is nice to know.
In view of my new epicycle, I haven't gone and bought a load of cheese, yet.
I've bought loads of empty carbs, bread, potatoes, those sorts of things, and I've bought a big container of milk and am putting it in tea and drinking it freely from the bottle as and when the urge takes me (probably a pint or two a day, I like milk).
But I'm not deliberately adding a load more protein to my diet, just not deliberately restricting it any more and letting myself eat it at will. But the minute I start wanting to eat protein-containing foods or experiencing funny cravings or see any other symptom of protein deficiency I will.
I just expect this to work as normal after an ex150ish bout: magic weight loss continues at 0.5kg per week until something changes. But until I start over-eating protein I expect the effect to continue indefinitely.
Thyroid-wise, I feel absolutely fine, quite bouncy and energetic in fact once the recarbing was over, but I’ve noticed that my waking temperature has been consistently a bit low, and I’m getting plantar fasciitis (hurty feet), which is usually one of my early symptoms of slow metabolism, so this morning I took a T4 pill, the first for 16 days.
In an attempt to fatten me up for Christmas, Mother has sent me an advent calendar in the post. Enclosed are lots of tiny bars of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk:
One for each day of December.
Some protein, some PUFAs, some incomprehensible chemicals represented by E-numbers. Sigh.
I’m tempted to throw them all overboard.
Rule IV: Don’t be a Psycho.
I will eat the damned things. Knowing what I now know about sucrose, I will eat them while drinking tea and I will brush my teeth carefully after every one.
A Christmas Mom Test is looming, by the time I face it I expect to be around 91kg.
Nice success. I'm jealous that apparently you can just eat "normally" after a bout of ex150ish and still lose weight (at least for a while). Sort of an afterburner effect?