Post Mom Test Rebound

Still Need Some Thyroid. Weight Falling. Not Fast Enough.

11/09/24 96.1 36.71 0 0

10/09/24 96.4 36.66 0 0.25

09/09/24 96.7 36.63 0 0.25

08/09/24 97 36.84 0 0

07/09/24 96.6 36.58 0 0

06/09/24 96.8 36.76 0 0

05/09/24 96.5 36.56 0 0.25

04/09/24 97 36.66 0 0.25

03/09/24 95.9 36.83 0 0

I've put my thyroid dose back up a bit because I'm getting hypometabolism symptoms, sluggishness mainly, plus plantar fasciitis (a very recognisable type of foot pain that's always been a low-thyroid symptom for me), in spite of having a waking temperature that I would once have considered normal or even a bit high (seven day average 36.67C = 98.0F, absolutely bang where Broda Barnes said it should be but my way of measuring it gives slightly higher readings than his method so I think he'd still think I was a bit low.)

That does seem to have fixed the problem, so I reckon I still need a bit of exogenous thyroid assistance, and maybe the fact that it's still maybe 0.2C lower than he said it should be means that I'm still a bit underpowered even with the assistance?

My weight is pretty clearly dropping, maybe 1/3 of a kilo/week?

So I think I'm currently slightly above set-point, but not much.

I'd describe my current diet as whatever, moderate-protein swamp (no PUFAs, no sulphites). Mostly carbs, buttered toast and porridge with a bit of cream and coconut oil, not much animal food apart from the cream, the odd egg and bit of black pudding. Almost vegan. I think there might have been a block of cheese. And I naturally drink lots of milk and put it in porridge, so lots of milk. OK maybe not very vegan. Oh yes butter. At least a couple of blocks of butter.

So I'm guessing, high-protein fatted calf diet at Mum's put my set point way high, spectacular weight gain resulted. My attempts to eat low-protein at home were failz because it turns out that bread and potatoes have lots of protein in them. But they did help a bit.

Back home and choosing foods for myself, I'm naturally less protein-seeky, and that's moderated the PUFA-effects and now I'm slightly above set point and not eating that much. But I'm not food-averse like I often am on ex150ish.

I've been experimenting with rice. I don't like rice. Nasty gloopy stuff that they eat in places that are too crap to grow potatoes and wheat. But it's low-protein carbs so I was wondering if there was any way of eating it.

Turns out rice pudding is nice. You boil rice to buggery in a little pan and then add lots of milk and cream and honey and spices and butter and coconut oil. Lovely. Low-protein swamp!

I think I just invented vegetarian curry.

Anyway, weight dropping slowly, the epistemically virtuous thing to do would be to keep my hands away from the controls and watch what happens, but I don't like being this heavy. I can feel it and I don't like it.

So next week, ex150ish-7, the 'let's take off and nuke the site from orbit diet'.

I expect this to work.

Mild headaches on ketosis entry, so a few days of keto-electrolytes to moderate this 'keto flu'.

Non-existent appetite, rapid weight loss, excellent mental clarity, overheating resulting in dropping remaining thyroid dosage, the "two fuels" problem where I can get my mind tired while still having plenty of physical energy. If any of these things don't happen I'll be surprised.

Mostly that's a bit subjective, but weight-wise I can make predictions.

I expect it to work like ex150-5 did, when I started from a similarly ponderous position, except without the disruptions caused by pickled cabbage.

So I expect to lose around two kilos of actual body fat in two weeks, plus a 1.5kg water-weight loss due to glycogen depletion, followed by a 1.5kg water-weight regain at the end.

Current seven-day average is 96.6 kg, so in two weeks time I expect to be 93.1 kg, and then to bounce back up to 94.6kg in the following week.

Carbs into the forbidden cupboard, off to Sainbury's for supplies. Wish me luck.