ex150ish-5: Aftermath

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16/05/24 94.9 36.55 0.5 0.5

15/05/24 95.2 36.34 0.5 0.5

14/05/24 94.8 36.75 0.5 0.5

13/05/24 95.4 35.76 0.5 0.5

12/05/24 95.3 36.78 0 0.5

11/05/24 94.6 36.65 0.5 0.5

10/05/24 95.1 36.68 0 0.5

09/05/24 94.5 36.69 0.5 0.5

08/05/24 94.9 36.9 0.5 0.5

This week I've been feeling generally well: no headaches, slightly hot and irritable mostly, thyroid dose is probably a bit too high but I'm not going to reduce the dose until I'm forced to by high waking temperature readings. Better to be hyper- than hypo-.

I've been eating pretty “normally” ad lib, lots of buttered toast, black pudding, eggs, cheese, milk, liver, porridge, the remains of my everlasting stew, and a couple of meals out including PUFA-laden chips boo, but what can you do when friends call wanting to go for lunch?

I've had various encounters with smallish quantities of malt vinegar over the last week, with no apparent ill effects, which is very good to know (my favourite condiment ever...), but it leaves me without an explanation for the rash of headaches that I got during ex150ish-5.

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My weight seems to have been dropping slowly and the seven-day average is now 95kg.

Looks like I went from 97.3kg down to 93kg during ex150-5, rebounded quickly to 95kg implying around 2kg of water-weight, rebounded slowly to 95.5kg over the following week implying Christ-knows-what, and then have spent the last week losing another 0.5kg of weight for no particular reason.

That's interesting I think, it implies that a couple of weeks of ex150ish has a continuing effect after it's over

That's certainly consistent with what I saw last year, now that I'm fairly convinced that all that weight loss was not just a straightforward effect of giving up PUFAs per se.

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I'm currently leaning towards the idea that there are two different effects going on here.

The first is that the renunciation of (almost) all polyunsaturated evil is what's been causing my apparent ongoing smooth metabolic recovery, which has been progressing steadily for nearly a year now without much relation to any diet-related shenanigans.

Whereas the changes in weight I've been seeing are all to do with ex150ish, and probably as much if not more to do with the protein-restriction part as the ketosis part. After all I'm not in ketosis now, but I may still be carrying a protein deficit from two weeks of not eating enough.

(I speak loosely of course, I think the various things are probably interacting a bit, but those are maybe second order effects. Or of course it may be that ex150ish is only working because I don’t have much in the way of PUFA in my bloodstream, and the protein restriction and ketosis are somehow both necessary for the full effect.)

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There are now a number of things I want to try:

What happens if I just drink a large amount of malt vinegar? Sulphite effects or not?

And what happens if I try ex150ish but carry on eating just enough carbs to keep me out of ketosis (ex150ish-spuds, or perhaps the 'Broda Barnes' diet...)?

But for the moment, I find what I really want to try is another couple of weeks of OG ex150ish, this time without the pickled cabbage in the hope of not getting a week of sodding headaches.

So, off to the supermarket to load up on minced beef and cream and tomato-based things.

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My predictions for ex150ish-6 are much the same as last time, but less confidently now:

Thyroid dose continues its slow decline, maybe a little faster?

Possible mild headaches during ketosis-entry but not after.

Speedy water-weight loss of around 1.5kg.

Clarity of mind and endless but strangely thin energy once in ketosis.

Actual body mass loss of around 1-1.5 kg steadily over two weeks.

Recarbing gently with occasional glasses of milk avoiding any unpleasantness once I decide to can it.

Water weight regain of around 1.5kg over recarbing period.

And probably eventually end up around 93.5kg once everything settles down.

Followed by a period of mysterious weight loss for ‘free’.