Stability

But not a very stable sort of stability

11/05/25 95.9 36.5 144/83/54

10/05/25 97 37 0.1 0.1 159/93/52

09/05/25 97 36.99 0.11 0.11 149/91/58

08/05/25 98 36.46 0.1 0.1 133/80/54

07/05/25 96.2 36.79 0.094 0.094 132/85/56

06/05/25 95.9 36.53 0.11 0.11

05/05/25 96.9 36.54 0.104 0.104 137/81/50

04/05/25 96 36.54 0.1 0.1 146/88/45

03/05/25 97.3 36.59 0.1 0.1 145/87/51

02/05/25 98 36.68 0.1 0.1 141/76/47

01/05/25 97.4 36.33 0.1 0.1 143/83/50

30/04/25 98.1 0.088 0.088 137/80/50

29/04/25 97.2 36.57 0.092 0.092 142/80/48

28/04/25 97.1 36.63 0.094 0.094 159/80/49

27/04/25 96.8 36.91 0.09 0.09 150/93/50

26/04/25 97.6 36.71 0.09 0.09 135/84/52

25/04/25 98.1 36.81 0.09 0.09 149/73/61

24/04/25 96.9 36.63 0.1 0.1 142/82/54

23/04/25 96.9 36.6 0.094 0.094 143/85/51

22/04/25 97 36.6 0.088 0.088 139/84/49

21/04/25 0.136 0.136

20/04/25 96.2 36.87 0.044 0.044 152/82/45

20/04/25 96.2 36.87 0.044 0.044 152/82/45

19/04/25 96 36.84 0.084 0.084 137/82/48

18/04/25 97.3 36.68 0.09 0.09 135/80/48

It's been about four months since the new year. That's the longest period I've gone since I started this blog where I've just not done anything.

I really am eating totally ad-lib apart from no-PUFAs, no sulphites. This morning I fried a load of fruit in butter, added brown sugar and flour, and stirred it up until I had frying pan full of a sort of biscuity fruit crumble, and then figured it needed salt and cinnamon, and ate the lot for breakfast.

On the other hand the only thing I remember eating yesterday was cheese toasties. I’m just not paying much attention at all, apart from ‘what’s closest’.

I'm cycling to and from work every weekday, often twice, so that's around an hour and a quarter of fairly gentle exercise every day.

But then all my adult life I have always walked or cycled everywhere in town, so although that's a bit more than normal, it's not loads more.

My seven-day average weight is going up and down apparently at random, which is annoying, because the whole point of calculating a seven-day average was to get a number which would be stable against day-to-day variation. The last two highs have both been 97.4kg and the last two lows 96.4kg and 96.3kg.

My thyroid dose is also stable. Occasionally I feel a bit too hot and drop it a smidge, occasionally I get hypo symptoms and raise it a smidge. But it's basically stable at about a tenth of what it used to be.

I think I'm going to call it now for stability. It appears that I now have a weight fixed-point at around 97kg and that I'm stable there. I suspect that in order to get higher than that I'd need to exert willpower to over-eat.

That's a BMI of 30.6, still technically obese, although when I was young and healthy it was always around 27, so although I'm obviously still rather too heavy I'm actually fairly happy at this weight.

That's an improvement over the situation two years ago, when first I successfully renounced all polyunsaturated evil.

The original picture was 99kg and rising rapidly at about 1kg/quarter. Losing 2kg is nice, but not gaining rapidly and uncontrollably is a major win.

My general health these days is good. Looking at my notes I'm usually just writing 'fine all day'. I have plenty of energy most days.

The exceptions seem to be associated with my occasional experiments with beer. It makes me feel crap for a couple of days afterwards. Whisky and vodka have no such effect, so I think it's the sulphites in the beer rather than the alcohol itself.

I've twice recently drunk an entire bottle of scotch and got hardly any after effects at all, but a couple of beers can poleaxe me. I think I'm going to stop experimenting with beer and just stick to hard liquor for the foreseeable.

I'm currently worrying about my blood pressure. It had been falling slowly but steadily for the second half of last year, but now it's rising at about the same rate it fell.

Latest seven-day average is 143/86/54 (systolic/diastolic/heart-rate, measured on waking), for a pulse pressure of 57. That's too high and moving in the wrong direction.

I wonder if it's just tracking my weight. It would make sense that it takes more force to push blood round a larger body, but that's not what seems to be happening. Pulse pressure is largely stable. It's the absolute pressures that are rising. I can't see why that would be. That’s not what you’d expect from clogging arteries either!

Anyway we will find out soon enough. I'm bored with not intervening, and want to try something crazy again.

I'm putting all these various improvements in my general health down to having stopped eating almost all processed food. I strongly suspect that they're actually down to slowly depleting the polyunsaturates stored in my body fat, but more conservatively I think there is some poison in processed food that I'm not eating any more. It could be the sulphites.

I'm getting the strong impression from various sources that PUFAs don't actually deplete that fast when you're weight stable, but that losing and then regaining weight can burn them off more quickly.

I've always been against yo-yo dieting on principle. There seemed little point. But if it's true that your stored PUFA percentage stays the same as you lose weight, then that means you're getting rid of a lot of the stuff at once, and then when you regain the weight you'll dilute them down with new fat.

So maybe yo-yo dieting is the way forward. I'm going to try another bout of ex150ish, which seems to be a reliable way to lose a lot of weight quickly.