Some background:
I discovered Peat and his practices in my search to right some extreme dietary practices I had taken on when I begin to suddenly put on some weight and experience cold hands and feet and digestion issues about 3 years ago. I have always been slim, 120-125 lbs as a 5'6" female. I never had any food allergies but suddenly developed digestive issues and constipation and had intolerances with dairy and gluten. I then went overboard in trying to lose weight with chronic exercising, low calorie diets, a stint of raw veganism/fruitarianism and still haven't been able to shift the weight successfully. I suspect a low thyroid and stress being factors that have impeded results. I am currently between 145-150 lbs and my symptoms are as follows---
*Difficulty losing weight
*Depression
*Varicose veins
*Cellulite
*Fewer BM's
*Gluten and dairy intolerance
*Delayed recovery from exercise
*hair loss/thinning
I had some labs done recently and while I did not get my T3 and T4, reverse T3 and antibodies, I did get my TSH and a few others which I will post here:
TSH: 0.10
Sodium:141
Potassium:5.0
CO2:23
Glucose:75
Calcium: 9.7
Cholesterol:191
Although I don't have the full picture from the labs as to what is up with the thyroid , it's obviously low so why am I having hypothyroid symptoms? Since eating the Peat way for 1.5 months, my temps have been up to 97.7-98.0 upon waking and hit 98.6 on most days before noon although they still can be 98.4 in between meals.
I have recently been taking 81 mg of aspirin every other day or so, 800mg of Vitamin E, some supplemental magnesium and have, within the past 1.5 weeks, been eating very low fat. Here is what my daily diet looks like:
1.5L Fairlife fat free milk (lactose free) w/1 tbsp hone and 1 tsp salt
1 L orange juice
Fage 0% fat free yogurt or a 4 oz cod fillet
1 cup of grapes
2-3 dates
2-3 cups of coffee with 1 tsp of sugar and some non-fat milk
carrot salad with 1 tsp of coconut oil
20 pieces of shrimp with 1 tsp coconut oil
2 altufa mangos
2-3 tablespoons of Great lakes hydrolyzed collagen
Total calories are between 1800-2070
Macros: protein 126.8g, carbs 372.3, fat 4.8 g not counting coconut oil because it stimulates metabolism
Some things I have noticed is that I will seem to have days where I am full of energy and temps are pretty consistent and then some days where I am very tired throughout the day and temps are low. Would the "bad days" correlate with PUFA release? I should mention I am also doing 45 minutes of medium-intensity weight lifting 5x a week since starting the low-fat experiment and noticed that after doing a particularly intense weight day like, say legs, the day after is when I will experience lethargy and lower temps. I try to walk outside to be in the sunshine for at least 15-20 minutes daily as well.
I am wanting to lose weight but also increase metabolism and I'm thinking fat free will help me with that but I am feeling like I should maybe only weight train 3x a week instead of 5 to mitigate stress and improve recovery but it seems ironic that activity is supposed to help with metabolism yet in my experience, it seems to have the opposite effect, at least with training 5x a week. I should mention I have a mostly sedentary job as well.
Any tips or insight would be much appreciated. I haven't noticed much effect from the low-fat experiment as of yet, it's only been 1.5 weeks. Just wondering why I seem to have lower energy days and if it is corresponding with the heavier work outs, should I just stick to lower calories on the days I don't work out because from others in the forum who have tried the VLF diet, they advocate consuming close to your caloric recommendation and even over and that you can still lose weight. I fill satiated at the amount I am consuming now and don't feel the need to overload the carbs but I am open to critique.
I discovered Peat and his practices in my search to right some extreme dietary practices I had taken on when I begin to suddenly put on some weight and experience cold hands and feet and digestion issues about 3 years ago. I have always been slim, 120-125 lbs as a 5'6" female. I never had any food allergies but suddenly developed digestive issues and constipation and had intolerances with dairy and gluten. I then went overboard in trying to lose weight with chronic exercising, low calorie diets, a stint of raw veganism/fruitarianism and still haven't been able to shift the weight successfully. I suspect a low thyroid and stress being factors that have impeded results. I am currently between 145-150 lbs and my symptoms are as follows---
*Difficulty losing weight
*Depression
*Varicose veins
*Cellulite
*Fewer BM's
*Gluten and dairy intolerance
*Delayed recovery from exercise
*hair loss/thinning
I had some labs done recently and while I did not get my T3 and T4, reverse T3 and antibodies, I did get my TSH and a few others which I will post here:
TSH: 0.10
Sodium:141
Potassium:5.0
CO2:23
Glucose:75
Calcium: 9.7
Cholesterol:191
Although I don't have the full picture from the labs as to what is up with the thyroid , it's obviously low so why am I having hypothyroid symptoms? Since eating the Peat way for 1.5 months, my temps have been up to 97.7-98.0 upon waking and hit 98.6 on most days before noon although they still can be 98.4 in between meals.
I have recently been taking 81 mg of aspirin every other day or so, 800mg of Vitamin E, some supplemental magnesium and have, within the past 1.5 weeks, been eating very low fat. Here is what my daily diet looks like:
1.5L Fairlife fat free milk (lactose free) w/1 tbsp hone and 1 tsp salt
1 L orange juice
Fage 0% fat free yogurt or a 4 oz cod fillet
1 cup of grapes
2-3 dates
2-3 cups of coffee with 1 tsp of sugar and some non-fat milk
carrot salad with 1 tsp of coconut oil
20 pieces of shrimp with 1 tsp coconut oil
2 altufa mangos
2-3 tablespoons of Great lakes hydrolyzed collagen
Total calories are between 1800-2070
Macros: protein 126.8g, carbs 372.3, fat 4.8 g not counting coconut oil because it stimulates metabolism
Some things I have noticed is that I will seem to have days where I am full of energy and temps are pretty consistent and then some days where I am very tired throughout the day and temps are low. Would the "bad days" correlate with PUFA release? I should mention I am also doing 45 minutes of medium-intensity weight lifting 5x a week since starting the low-fat experiment and noticed that after doing a particularly intense weight day like, say legs, the day after is when I will experience lethargy and lower temps. I try to walk outside to be in the sunshine for at least 15-20 minutes daily as well.
I am wanting to lose weight but also increase metabolism and I'm thinking fat free will help me with that but I am feeling like I should maybe only weight train 3x a week instead of 5 to mitigate stress and improve recovery but it seems ironic that activity is supposed to help with metabolism yet in my experience, it seems to have the opposite effect, at least with training 5x a week. I should mention I have a mostly sedentary job as well.
Any tips or insight would be much appreciated. I haven't noticed much effect from the low-fat experiment as of yet, it's only been 1.5 weeks. Just wondering why I seem to have lower energy days and if it is corresponding with the heavier work outs, should I just stick to lower calories on the days I don't work out because from others in the forum who have tried the VLF diet, they advocate consuming close to your caloric recommendation and even over and that you can still lose weight. I fill satiated at the amount I am consuming now and don't feel the need to overload the carbs but I am open to critique.