08/02/25 96.2 36.78 0 141/82/47
07/02/25 96.6 36.72 0.1 0.1 131/79/53
06/02/25 96.3 36.67 0.1 0.1 137/76/51
05/02/25 96.4 36.68 0.11 0.11 121/81/58
04/02/25 97.1 36.55 0.104 0.104 138/89/46
03/02/25 97.2 36.9 0.1 0.1 132/68/58
02/02/25 95.6 36.66 0.1 0.1
01/02/25 95.9 36.66 0.1 0.1 128/80/54
31/01/25 96.6 36.64 0.11 0.11 126/79/61
30/01/25 0.11 0.11
29/01/25 95.6 36.41 0.11 0.11 129/74/49
28/01/25 95.4 36.65 0.1 0.1 127/72/52
27/01/25 95.9 36.43 0.136 0.136 135/80/46
26/01/25 96.3 36.81 0.1 0.1 129/80/49
25/01/25 95.3 36.71 0.12 0.12 126/83/51
This last three weeks I've gained roughly 2kg. I've no idea why. It's definitely real, I can feel it and my belt and clothes seem too tight.
0.7kg/week is a stupidly fast rate to gain weight. Something must be causing it. But what?
Not, I think, anything to do with food.
As far as I can tell I'm doing exactly the same things I was doing before Christmas, when for roughly a month my weight was so stable at around 94.5kg that I got bored of it.
Working 9ish-5ish, cycling to the office (about 25 minutes bike ride each way), mainly living on coffee and cream during the day, not taking much of a lunch break normally but if hungry mid-day a bag of croissants and a piece of cheese.
Dinner often a pizza in the Picturehouse or a steak-and-baked-potato in Wetherspoons. Big pot of beef and vegetable stew permanently boiling on the stove.
Weekly bag of organic vegetables (and sometimes some fruit) which are so delicious that they often get eaten raw. Vegetables which are not delicious raw get stir-fried in butter and usually then go in the stew.
Sometimes making toast and fried eggs and black puddings.
That's actually pretty much everything I can remember eating since I got back. Oh yes biscuits at choir on Thursdays with tea....
And that's exactly what I was eating before Christmas too. All ad-lib, I'm always ad-lib.
My post-viral fatigue is clearing slowly. I'm not quite back to my pre-Christmas energy levels but I'm not needing an afternoon nap most days and I feel that I will be back to normal soon.
Thyroid dose is stable, waking temperatures are where they should be. That in itself is a bit weird. After a year of dropping continuously, my thyroid dose has gone perfectly stable for about three months, at about a tenth of what it once was.1
I'm not going to change anything deliberately, and just wait and watch and see what happens.....
Actually now I think of it, it’s Winter, and although it’s not very cold I do seem to be tolerating the cold better than most of the people around me. I get the impression that our office is quite cold from what other people are saying, especially the bit where I am, sitting near the main doors, but I’m comfortable… And I haven’t used very much coal so far this winter compared to usual. And now I look my thyroid graph also had a stable period last winter. So maybe I’m keeping myself slightly hyper to make up for the cold ambient temperature. If that’s true then the decline should restart when the weather warms up.
You eat a very interesting diet
I am experiencing a similar phenomenon. I have been reading about butyrate producing bacteria. They need fiber and resistant starch. They help regulate glucose sensitivity and appetite. The resistant starch in potatoes and rice can be increased by chilling after cooking.
Perhaps my moderately low fiber diet has changed my microbiota?