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Hello guys,
I'm new here and I want to tell you why I'm here.
My problems: I suffer from hypothyroidism for nearly 2 years now, acne and underweight. I'm 19 years old (20 in a few weeks). When I'm eating something, it goes out really quickly and my stomach always feels really really full.
Also a few hours after eating something I'm hungry again (probably because it's going out so fast?) and despite eating ~2700 kilocalories a day without being really active (unless I do sports and when I'm doing so I just eat more to compensate) I'm really, really underweight - I weigh around 123 pounds / 55 kilograms while being 1,8 meters / 5 ft 10 in tall.
What I'm eating currently: Until now I eat what people here would completely consider 'anti Ray Peat': a lot of PUFAs (100g nuts/seeds per day and fatty fish 1-2 times a week), a lot of grain (whole wheat bread, 150g oat flakes a day, a lot of pasta or rice for EVERY dinner), a lot of anti-thyroid lean meat (especially chicken breast nearly every day), some vegetables and legumes like kidney beans - and I'm completely missing milk for over one year now (thought it would be bad for my acne and it wouldn't hurt to withdraw it - I replaced it with a lot of calcium-rich mineral water) - however when I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism milk was a component of my diet.
The only 'good things' I eat (according to a Ray Peat-inspired 'diet') are fruits and especially orange juice (however, I only drink one glass a day)
My conclusion: So after finding out about Ray Peat and what he says about the thyroid - everything makes sense for me and now I completely understand why my TSH value (without taking any supplements) is so high and my thyroid so 'weak'. My endocrinologist wondered why my TSH value is so high, because he noticed nothing wrong on my thyroid - I don't have a (chronic) thyroiditis, no goitre, not any typical symptoms - even when I didn't take any hormones - in fact after finding out about my increased TSH value (I originally presumed the opposite - hyperthyroidism) I didn't take any hormones, only when ~8 months later my hair started to fall out.
Well now you probably know why I'm writing here - I definitely want to change my nutrition protocol, but obviously I can't go from 0 to 100.
Now I would like to hear your opinions about my 'clinical picture'. I definitely think everything is correlative and I hope that with my new nutrition, based on Ray Peats recommendations, I can solve my problems.
My plans: I thought about increasing the milk intake from around one glass a day to over a quart in a month, while gradually decreasing my grain consumption and instantly removing all PUFAs. I also want to eat more fruits and drink more orange juice, while adding gelatine to meat.
The difficult thing is that I can't afford to lose any more weight - so do you think I need to stay on 2700 kilocalories a day or can I afford to lower them when I'm not eating so much indigestive food like nuts, seeds, grain and legumes and more animal food.
And also some 'facts' about my acne: It seems that the more I eat, the worse it gets. I also only have it on my face and the severity is comparable to this guy: http://www.dermacaregainesville.com/gai ... _photo.jpg
Hello guys,
I'm new here and I want to tell you why I'm here.
My problems: I suffer from hypothyroidism for nearly 2 years now, acne and underweight. I'm 19 years old (20 in a few weeks). When I'm eating something, it goes out really quickly and my stomach always feels really really full.
Also a few hours after eating something I'm hungry again (probably because it's going out so fast?) and despite eating ~2700 kilocalories a day without being really active (unless I do sports and when I'm doing so I just eat more to compensate) I'm really, really underweight - I weigh around 123 pounds / 55 kilograms while being 1,8 meters / 5 ft 10 in tall.
What I'm eating currently: Until now I eat what people here would completely consider 'anti Ray Peat': a lot of PUFAs (100g nuts/seeds per day and fatty fish 1-2 times a week), a lot of grain (whole wheat bread, 150g oat flakes a day, a lot of pasta or rice for EVERY dinner), a lot of anti-thyroid lean meat (especially chicken breast nearly every day), some vegetables and legumes like kidney beans - and I'm completely missing milk for over one year now (thought it would be bad for my acne and it wouldn't hurt to withdraw it - I replaced it with a lot of calcium-rich mineral water) - however when I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism milk was a component of my diet.
The only 'good things' I eat (according to a Ray Peat-inspired 'diet') are fruits and especially orange juice (however, I only drink one glass a day)
My conclusion: So after finding out about Ray Peat and what he says about the thyroid - everything makes sense for me and now I completely understand why my TSH value (without taking any supplements) is so high and my thyroid so 'weak'. My endocrinologist wondered why my TSH value is so high, because he noticed nothing wrong on my thyroid - I don't have a (chronic) thyroiditis, no goitre, not any typical symptoms - even when I didn't take any hormones - in fact after finding out about my increased TSH value (I originally presumed the opposite - hyperthyroidism) I didn't take any hormones, only when ~8 months later my hair started to fall out.
Well now you probably know why I'm writing here - I definitely want to change my nutrition protocol, but obviously I can't go from 0 to 100.
Now I would like to hear your opinions about my 'clinical picture'. I definitely think everything is correlative and I hope that with my new nutrition, based on Ray Peats recommendations, I can solve my problems.
My plans: I thought about increasing the milk intake from around one glass a day to over a quart in a month, while gradually decreasing my grain consumption and instantly removing all PUFAs. I also want to eat more fruits and drink more orange juice, while adding gelatine to meat.
The difficult thing is that I can't afford to lose any more weight - so do you think I need to stay on 2700 kilocalories a day or can I afford to lower them when I'm not eating so much indigestive food like nuts, seeds, grain and legumes and more animal food.
And also some 'facts' about my acne: It seems that the more I eat, the worse it gets. I also only have it on my face and the severity is comparable to this guy: http://www.dermacaregainesville.com/gai ... _photo.jpg