Hi All,
I'm new to this type of eating. I've been eating high fat low carb in the last 1.5 years and I just changed to Peating 10 days ago.
I'm 37, and I have quite bad hormonal problems. I have fibrocystic breasts, meaning that after ovulation, as my estrogen levels rising rapidly, my breasts become full of very painful cysts, which goes away with menstruation. During these times my estrogen, adrenaline, cortisol levels are very high (confirmed with saliva tests), my body retains lots of water, my muscles are very tense, cramping, painful, and it's hard to fall asleep.
I've been using progesterone cream in the last 5 months that helps a lot. However, my hormones still fluctuate a lot and I can have high cortisol and adrenaline regardless of my menstrual cycle.
In the first couple of days starting Peating I felt quite good. My body temperature was high when I started (37 C in the morning that went up to 37.3 C during the day - oral measurement). However, after 4 days on this diet, my body temperature started to drop and decreasing every day.
Morning / Max daytime / Salt
day 1 : 37.01 C / 37.15 C / 2 tsp
day 2 : 37.00 C / 37.50 C / 2 tsp
day 3 : 36.97 C / 37.37 C / 2.25 tsp
day 4 : 37.07 C / 37.30 C / 2.25 tsp
day 5 : 36.92 C / - / 2.25 tsp
day 6 : 36.79 C / - / 2.75 tsp
day 7 : 36.62 C / 37.15 C / 3.25 tsp
day 8 : 36.59 C / 37.20 C / 3.25 tsp
day 9 : 36.65 C / 37.07 C / 3.25 tsp
day 10 : 36.40 C / 36.87 C / -
As my body temperature decrease I feel terrible. I have constant headache yesterday, my muscles are very tense, when I wake up in the morning I full of sweat while my temperature is dropping, sometimes during the day I feel cold, my body retains a lots of water. My menstruation has started 2 days ago so these symptoms should be improving not getting worse.
On the day 1-3 I eat 2 tsp of salt, 2.25 tsp on day 4-6, and on day 7-10 I increased the salt to 3.25 tsp. I increased the salt because I had more water retention and my estrogen level also raised quickly (my breasts become very painful ans swollen) so I though I should increase the salt according these symptoms.
I drink about 1-1.5 liters OJ, 1 liter skim milk with sugar and honey, coffee, and I eat 2 eggs, some cheese, gelatin, some meat, grapes, dates, little raisins, 1 tbsp coconut oil, 1 raw carrot.
I don't know what to do. Whether am I doing something wrong? I'm very afraid gaining more weight, because in the last year I gained a lot, and I totally freaked out gaining more weight due to this huge amount of sugar (about 300 gram/day). It is hard for me to believe that I won't gain weight with sugar especially if my metabolism is slowing down. I already cannot fit into most of my dresses.
But my biggest problem is that since I started this diet my temperature is dropping and I feel terrible. I don't know whether this is just a coincidence and this would have happened regardless of Peating. Or I'm just eating too much salt. But how could my cortisol and adrenalin increase if I eat this much salt and sugar?
Should I further increase the salt and sugar, or should I decrease the salt?
Vivien
I'm new to this type of eating. I've been eating high fat low carb in the last 1.5 years and I just changed to Peating 10 days ago.
I'm 37, and I have quite bad hormonal problems. I have fibrocystic breasts, meaning that after ovulation, as my estrogen levels rising rapidly, my breasts become full of very painful cysts, which goes away with menstruation. During these times my estrogen, adrenaline, cortisol levels are very high (confirmed with saliva tests), my body retains lots of water, my muscles are very tense, cramping, painful, and it's hard to fall asleep.
I've been using progesterone cream in the last 5 months that helps a lot. However, my hormones still fluctuate a lot and I can have high cortisol and adrenaline regardless of my menstrual cycle.
In the first couple of days starting Peating I felt quite good. My body temperature was high when I started (37 C in the morning that went up to 37.3 C during the day - oral measurement). However, after 4 days on this diet, my body temperature started to drop and decreasing every day.
Morning / Max daytime / Salt
day 1 : 37.01 C / 37.15 C / 2 tsp
day 2 : 37.00 C / 37.50 C / 2 tsp
day 3 : 36.97 C / 37.37 C / 2.25 tsp
day 4 : 37.07 C / 37.30 C / 2.25 tsp
day 5 : 36.92 C / - / 2.25 tsp
day 6 : 36.79 C / - / 2.75 tsp
day 7 : 36.62 C / 37.15 C / 3.25 tsp
day 8 : 36.59 C / 37.20 C / 3.25 tsp
day 9 : 36.65 C / 37.07 C / 3.25 tsp
day 10 : 36.40 C / 36.87 C / -
As my body temperature decrease I feel terrible. I have constant headache yesterday, my muscles are very tense, when I wake up in the morning I full of sweat while my temperature is dropping, sometimes during the day I feel cold, my body retains a lots of water. My menstruation has started 2 days ago so these symptoms should be improving not getting worse.
On the day 1-3 I eat 2 tsp of salt, 2.25 tsp on day 4-6, and on day 7-10 I increased the salt to 3.25 tsp. I increased the salt because I had more water retention and my estrogen level also raised quickly (my breasts become very painful ans swollen) so I though I should increase the salt according these symptoms.
I drink about 1-1.5 liters OJ, 1 liter skim milk with sugar and honey, coffee, and I eat 2 eggs, some cheese, gelatin, some meat, grapes, dates, little raisins, 1 tbsp coconut oil, 1 raw carrot.
I don't know what to do. Whether am I doing something wrong? I'm very afraid gaining more weight, because in the last year I gained a lot, and I totally freaked out gaining more weight due to this huge amount of sugar (about 300 gram/day). It is hard for me to believe that I won't gain weight with sugar especially if my metabolism is slowing down. I already cannot fit into most of my dresses.
But my biggest problem is that since I started this diet my temperature is dropping and I feel terrible. I don't know whether this is just a coincidence and this would have happened regardless of Peating. Or I'm just eating too much salt. But how could my cortisol and adrenalin increase if I eat this much salt and sugar?
Should I further increase the salt and sugar, or should I decrease the salt?
Vivien