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I Really Do Know Nothing

18/04/25 97.3 36.68 0 135/80/48

17/04/25 96.7 36.6 0.09 0.09 153/79/48

16/04/25 96.3 36.57 0.084 0.084 139/82/52

15/04/25 95.3 36.75 0.09 0.09 127/79/50

14/04/25 96.4 36.62 0.08 0.08 135/77/49

13/04/25 96.7 36.68 0.12 0.12 120/75/48

12/04/25 96.1 36.79 0.04 0.04 141/77/44

11/04/25 97 36.62 0.08 0.08 137/81/47

10/04/25 96.3 36.64 0.08 0.08 136/83/48

09/04/25 97.4 36.5 0.066 0.066 147/94/62

08/04/25 97.9 36.77 0.07 0.07 128/80/60

07/04/25 97.5 36.74 0.08 0.08 137/78/50

06/04/25 97.6 36.47 0.09 0.09 139/84/49

05/04/25 36.65 0.08 0.08 134/84/51

04/04/25 96.9 36.49 0.07 0.07 131/72/50

03/04/25 97.3 36.61 0.06 0.06 129/75/44

02/04/25 97.5 36.69 0.064 0.064 136/76/47

01/04/25 97.3 36.58 0.07 0.07 131/82/49

31/03/25 96.7 36.53 0.07 0.07 137/80/47

30/03/25 96.4 36.83 0.03 0.03 138/88/50

29/03/25 96.1 36.93 0.03 0.03 128/76/50

28/03/25 97.2 0.064 0.064

27/03/25 97.1 36.83 0.06 0.06 136/81/54

26/03/25 96.3 36.55 0.06 0.06 132/74/47

25/03/25 96.4 36.63 0.06 0.06 126/72/47

24/03/25 96.8 36.91 0.06 0.06 126/68/56

23/03/25 97.8 36.7 0.124 0.124 154/90/46

22/03/25 96.5 36.94 0.05 0.05 129/72/57

21/03/25 96.1 36.82 0.04 0.04 131/78/53

20/03/25 95.2 36.91 0.08 0.08 147/84/67

Over the last month or so my seven day average weight has drifted from 96.7kg up to 97.4, and then dropped back to 96.4

I've no idea why. Apart from recording it every day I wasn't really paying attention. Certainly I haven't made any deliberate changes recently, I'm just plodding along eating no-PUFAs, no-sulphites, and otherwise just whatever I fancy.

I started to get hypometabolic symptoms (afternoon tiredness and plantar fasciitis) so I raised my thyroid dose a tiny bit and they've gone away again.

I have failed to get rid of 'PUFAs cause Obesity' as a hypothesis, since my maximum pre-no-PUFAs average weight was 99kg. I've never been that heavy since.

On the other hand, my current 96.4 is only 2.5kg lower than that, so if no-PUFAs does fix obesity it seems to do so very slowly. Still, I think we already knew that. I'm the only person I know who ever claimed that giving up PUFAs caused immediate rapid weight loss, and I seem to have been wrong.

Still, something interesting happened in the first six months of this, I wonder what it was.

I'm still an anti-PUFA fanatic, the fact that although I still need thyroid drugs to function I'm only taking 9% of my original dose make me think that giving up PUFAs is straightforwardly fixing my curse.

A few weeks ago I drank four pints of beer ('Level Head') after a particularly good concert we gave and although I felt woozy for the next couple of days I didn't get the horrible headaches and nausea that I usually get from sulphite poisoning, so I wondered if that aspect of the curse was fixing itself too.

A week later I drank a single pint of beer (not sure what sort, some IPA or other) with a friend and got no after effects at all.

And then a week after that I had a single pint of Level Head with a different friend and got the full-scale all-day headache and nausea and ended up taking the day off work. Sigh.

So it seems that I do still have a nasty sulphite problem, although it's a bit less reliable than it used to be. Oh well.

Apart from that I have nothing to report. I'm still curious about what happens when I just leave my weight to float around on its own, and I'm going to go and visit Mum soon, so I'm not going to try anything until I get back, to see what happens.

I am curious about the idea that losing a lot of weight doesn't affect the percentage of linoleic acid in your fat. If that's true then deliberate yo-yo dieting might be a way to get rid of large quantities of LA quickly. So I'll probably try something like that soon.

Happy Easter!