Mom Test: Weeks Two and Three

Fine! But putting on weight ....

27/09-10/10/2023: no weight records taken

No more tiredness, my notes just say "fine" over and over again. Occasionally they say "bouncy" or "too hot".

I think the three days of tiredness just after I came home must have been the result of getting sulphited by Mum's cherry chocolate tiffin, which apparently had "Fake Maraschino" cherries in it. No need to cast aspersions at Golden Syrup after all.

These “Fake Maraschino” cherries are kryptonite to me, because of their very great sulphite content, and I'm surprised I didn't get worse headaches to go with the tiredness.

I'm occasionally slightly too hot, and thyroid reductions continue accordingly. I'm almost not taking T4 at all now, two pills in the last fourteen days, but I am still taking one grain of NDT split into two every day.

Not long ago this kind of dose reduction would have resulted in utter catastrophe, but my temperature is staying high, my mood is fine, and I've had no thyroid or fatigue symptoms except for my legs ached a bit last Thursday.

This is remarkable, and I still think it's too good to be true. It's either a very good sign or a very bad sign....

Weight-wise, I think I've put on a huge amount of weight over the last three weeks, my belt has literally gone out a couple of notches and I feel heavier. Sigh. When I get back to Cambridge I will see what my scales tell me....

I really wouldn't be surprised to find that I'm back to 100kg or even heavier.

If I have put a huge amount of weight back on over the last few weeks, then that really argues against the 'broken homeostat now fixing itself as PUFAs clear' idea.

I've eaten an awful lot more carbohydrate over the last three weeks than usual, but everything’s been PUFA-free as far as I know.

I do feel overfed, in an 'Oh God I never want to eat again' sort of way, but I always get that after a few weeks at home, and last time that resulted in a gain of about 0.5 kg.

I can't explain away any more than that by overfeeding, the rest must be the traditional 'Whatever you do to lose weight you get it all back the minute you stop dieting' effect.

But I'll wait until I've got a week of weight measurements to look at before I go jumping to any conclusions.