Heart Attack Keto: Rebound

Refeeding Syndrome? I can't even tell if I did the water-weight thing or not

26/08/23 95

25/08/23 93.2

24/08/23 93.9

23/08/23 93.9

22/08/23 94.9

21/08/23 94

20/08/23 93.3

So on Sunday the 20th of August I had a cricket match to umpire, and there was tea. And that tea involved sausage rolls and then a couple of very large meringues. And also some gin.

So heart-attack-keto ended at around mid-afternoon that day.

And an hour or so after the meringues, I actually forgot to count the balls in the over. The scorer had to tell me that there'd already been eight legal balls. At that point I thought there were still three to come.

I'm normally pretty good at counting the balls. I mean, I am a maths graduate, and I’ve played cricket my whole life on and off. Usually umpiring, because if you’re a crap opening batsman you get to do a lot of umpiring.

Counting to six is a core skill. I usually maybe get one seven-ball over in a game when something interesting happens and I forget to pocket a stone.

I wasn't drunk. I'd had a couple of gin and tonics at that point. OK they were stiff ones.

And that evening, I was more tired than I would have believed possible. I couldn't stand up for more than a few minutes, and I left the pub where all my friends were drinking and talking happily and went to bed without saying goodbye, because I hadn’t got the mental strength to speak.

Weirdly I then cycled home fine.

I think this is the "refeeding syndrome". Apparently a fairly well known effect of going without carbs. And apparently ten days without carbs is enough to cause it.

On the Monday I woke up feeling a bit woozy, but cheered up pretty speedily after a coffee and was fine all day.

And then on Tuesday I woke up fine, and then later went into a state of totally exhausted lethargy that lasted all day. I missed my chess club! I was too tired to face playing.

Since then I've been pretty good. In fact, unusually energetic and enthusiastic, which I would have attributed to ketosis if I was in ketosis.

A repeat of the pizza experiment went well. As did some porridge. And various bits of toast. Carbs seem to give me energy now.

Weight-wise I got a huge spike of about a kilo and a half the first couple of days. I would think that that was regained water-weight. Totally expected.

Except that it all then went away again, and on 25/08/2023 I recorded a new low of 93.2kg. Which is slightly lower than the lowest reading during the heart-attack-keto period.

And then the day after it all came back again.

Eyeballing my graph, I could believe that heart-attack-keto had no effect except to stabilize my noisy weight measurement for a ten days, while the mysterious trend of continuous slow weight loss continued unaffected.

I don't know if there was water-weight loss. I don't know if I was in ketosis at all. I certainly didn't get any kind of energy boost like ex150ish gave me. I don't know why not eating carbs would stabilize my weight.

I do know that it caused "refeeding syndrome", or something that could easily be mistaken for "refeeding syndrome". That seems kind of odd if there was no water-weight loss.

I am confused. I notice that I am confused.