About 4 years ago, I started losing weight at a steady pace. In a span of 6 months to one year, I gradually lost about 28 lbs. from a starting weight of 155 lbs. to 127 lbs. I wasn't overweight to begin with, and my BMI was around 25, and my body fat was somewhere around 16-18%. When I was at my lightest, I think my BMI was around 21, and my body fat was in the 12% range. I'm male btw and my height is 5'7". Since this was some time ago, I may be off slightly with my figures, so please cut me some slack if I'm off a little bit. Besides, I have stopped weighing myself for a long time already, nor have been measuring my BMI nor my body fat. I have since slowly regained my weight. 6 months ago, I was at 145 lbs.
I couldn't figure out then what happened to cause me to lose weight. I didn't change what I ate, and I didn't become more active in my lifestyle. In fact, I had stopped running and had already stopped going to gyms for working out. At that time, I've already decided to stop exercising for a year just to see what will happen to me. The only change I could attribute my weight loss was my joining a spa for a year's membership. I joined because the spa had a facility where I could do hot-cold therapy. This was a therapy where I would repeatedly go thru 6 cycles of hot sauna for 15 minutes, followed by 1 minute of being submerged in 12C water. This was intended as a detox for me, as I was undergoing oral chelation to remove lead from my body. I was taking a mixture of chlorella and cilantro daily that time.
I only expected to rid my body of lead. Years prior, I had removed my body of mercury from dental fillings, and had undergone mercury detox that involved intravenous chelation. This time, I learned of oral chelation and didn't want to have another IV chelation, as it was time-consuming and much more costly.
As I've been busily catching up and learning a lot from this site over the past weeks, it occurred to me that a year before I underwent this therapy, I had also stopped taking fish oils and EFAs from flaxseed and hemp seed. However, I had already accumulated enough PUFAs from at least 10 years of supplementing with supposedly EFAs such as fish oils. I however, have continued with taking VCO, and I would continue to eat fats from animal sources.
With this background, I have a few thoughts about how this all fit together to trigger my losing weight that much. But I would rather have you figure it out first than tell you my thoughts so that I don't add any personal bias to it.
By the way, a friend was worried seeing me so thin and suggested my taking a blood test to test my thyroid. The test didn't show my thyroid being outside the normal paramaeters, conventionally medically speaking.
But what spurred me to ask this forum is if my losing weight had anything to do with my body having an innate wisdom/instinct to purge itself of the PUFA toxins I have accumulated for at least 10 years of "healthy" supplementation. I would appreciate if you could shed light by way of your theory on the mechanism by which I lost weight. A lot of the weight lost is the fat as my body fat percentage went down. Thanks.
I couldn't figure out then what happened to cause me to lose weight. I didn't change what I ate, and I didn't become more active in my lifestyle. In fact, I had stopped running and had already stopped going to gyms for working out. At that time, I've already decided to stop exercising for a year just to see what will happen to me. The only change I could attribute my weight loss was my joining a spa for a year's membership. I joined because the spa had a facility where I could do hot-cold therapy. This was a therapy where I would repeatedly go thru 6 cycles of hot sauna for 15 minutes, followed by 1 minute of being submerged in 12C water. This was intended as a detox for me, as I was undergoing oral chelation to remove lead from my body. I was taking a mixture of chlorella and cilantro daily that time.
I only expected to rid my body of lead. Years prior, I had removed my body of mercury from dental fillings, and had undergone mercury detox that involved intravenous chelation. This time, I learned of oral chelation and didn't want to have another IV chelation, as it was time-consuming and much more costly.
As I've been busily catching up and learning a lot from this site over the past weeks, it occurred to me that a year before I underwent this therapy, I had also stopped taking fish oils and EFAs from flaxseed and hemp seed. However, I had already accumulated enough PUFAs from at least 10 years of supplementing with supposedly EFAs such as fish oils. I however, have continued with taking VCO, and I would continue to eat fats from animal sources.
With this background, I have a few thoughts about how this all fit together to trigger my losing weight that much. But I would rather have you figure it out first than tell you my thoughts so that I don't add any personal bias to it.
By the way, a friend was worried seeing me so thin and suggested my taking a blood test to test my thyroid. The test didn't show my thyroid being outside the normal paramaeters, conventionally medically speaking.
But what spurred me to ask this forum is if my losing weight had anything to do with my body having an innate wisdom/instinct to purge itself of the PUFA toxins I have accumulated for at least 10 years of "healthy" supplementation. I would appreciate if you could shed light by way of your theory on the mechanism by which I lost weight. A lot of the weight lost is the fat as my body fat percentage went down. Thanks.