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Hi there! I’ve joined this forum after quite a lot of reading on it, to learn more and join discussions. If you’re reading this, please let me know if anything below chimes with your experience or happened to you or might be caused by something you know about! Thank you!
I’ve been following RP for about 6 months after reading everything I can get my hands on, and all his articles on his site. I’m eating this way because it makes me feel better, and I like the food! I’m 2.5 years into recovery from a long and damaging diet history starting as as child who thought she was fat and wasn’t, but made herself that way eventually thanks to dieting. The low points of which were low carb for 7 years then hcg on top of that. I’m 50 now, and I put on about 60 pounds to a total of around 200 (guessing) when I started eating again after finding Matt Stone. Although I realize that I had to go through some of the difficulties of recovery I really wonder whether I had to get as bad as I did in terms of weight gain (notably stomach), exhaustion, aching, and insomnia. I wish I had started with Peat, not found him 2 years down the line!
Initially I did clear up a few problems(‘hypoglycemia’, constipation, mood, regular migraines) but added in a bunch more, some of which were worse, and still with me. I am still kind of mystified as to why my strength and muscles vanished. It was and still kind of is, hard to get out of a chair. My voice went husky for a while which really sounds like an inflamed thryoid to me. I’ve rebuilt a lot of my lost strength, slowly and with difficulty and setbacks, over the past nearly 2 years.
In a nutshell, weight, sleep, strength and aching got worse on refeeding, and weight and sleep are still bad. Aching is much better thanks to aspirin, vitex, vit B etc. Strength better thanks to weights in the gym once or twice a week. Migraines are helped by BCAA. It’s been slow and with lots of setbacks and strange reactions, like a bad reaction to anything new, when on a second attempt it agrees well with me and becomes a pillar of my diet, eg sugar. Breakthroughs include understanding that a ‘protein food’ like steak is only 20% protein so I was not getting enough before. Normalizing BG about 18 months in. Then being told about BCAA and vitex which have helped me a lot. I think my thyroid was low but not according to the tests. I think it is now functioning much better. NDT had the reverse effect on me and I’m sort of keeping away from thyroid in its direct form. I’ve learned that serotonin is an issue for me, but prolactin and estrogen I’m doing better with (coffee, sugar, vitex)
On holiday over Christmas I had a big setback, inexplicably seeing as I was resting! For many years I’ve been prone to feeling ‘liverish’ which is why I no longer drink (never did, much – always felt so bad afterwards). I had a week of ‘bad hangover’ - nausea and migraine and ‘feeling like an old lady’ not helped this time by my usual measures (more BCAA for the serotonin, liver and eggs for choline, lots of B complex). Funnily enough, pacing the floor at midnight trying to keep the nausea down, the one thing that worked was a mixture of rice and tomato, no fat. Next morning I woke up feeling well again. Anybody know what that might have been?
Insomnia – I’ve read everything I can find, tried everything. I’m not stressing about it anymore. It’ll come. Weight – I dropped a bit recently but during that setback I can feel it all came back on.
I’ve learned to hold onto the good milestones and not let the setbacks get me down. I’ve got used to the slow progress but I’m happy it’s getting faster. I’m looking forward to learning more from some of the great commenters on this site!
I’d welcome any comments! Thank you!
I’ve been following RP for about 6 months after reading everything I can get my hands on, and all his articles on his site. I’m eating this way because it makes me feel better, and I like the food! I’m 2.5 years into recovery from a long and damaging diet history starting as as child who thought she was fat and wasn’t, but made herself that way eventually thanks to dieting. The low points of which were low carb for 7 years then hcg on top of that. I’m 50 now, and I put on about 60 pounds to a total of around 200 (guessing) when I started eating again after finding Matt Stone. Although I realize that I had to go through some of the difficulties of recovery I really wonder whether I had to get as bad as I did in terms of weight gain (notably stomach), exhaustion, aching, and insomnia. I wish I had started with Peat, not found him 2 years down the line!
Initially I did clear up a few problems(‘hypoglycemia’, constipation, mood, regular migraines) but added in a bunch more, some of which were worse, and still with me. I am still kind of mystified as to why my strength and muscles vanished. It was and still kind of is, hard to get out of a chair. My voice went husky for a while which really sounds like an inflamed thryoid to me. I’ve rebuilt a lot of my lost strength, slowly and with difficulty and setbacks, over the past nearly 2 years.
In a nutshell, weight, sleep, strength and aching got worse on refeeding, and weight and sleep are still bad. Aching is much better thanks to aspirin, vitex, vit B etc. Strength better thanks to weights in the gym once or twice a week. Migraines are helped by BCAA. It’s been slow and with lots of setbacks and strange reactions, like a bad reaction to anything new, when on a second attempt it agrees well with me and becomes a pillar of my diet, eg sugar. Breakthroughs include understanding that a ‘protein food’ like steak is only 20% protein so I was not getting enough before. Normalizing BG about 18 months in. Then being told about BCAA and vitex which have helped me a lot. I think my thyroid was low but not according to the tests. I think it is now functioning much better. NDT had the reverse effect on me and I’m sort of keeping away from thyroid in its direct form. I’ve learned that serotonin is an issue for me, but prolactin and estrogen I’m doing better with (coffee, sugar, vitex)
On holiday over Christmas I had a big setback, inexplicably seeing as I was resting! For many years I’ve been prone to feeling ‘liverish’ which is why I no longer drink (never did, much – always felt so bad afterwards). I had a week of ‘bad hangover’ - nausea and migraine and ‘feeling like an old lady’ not helped this time by my usual measures (more BCAA for the serotonin, liver and eggs for choline, lots of B complex). Funnily enough, pacing the floor at midnight trying to keep the nausea down, the one thing that worked was a mixture of rice and tomato, no fat. Next morning I woke up feeling well again. Anybody know what that might have been?
Insomnia – I’ve read everything I can find, tried everything. I’m not stressing about it anymore. It’ll come. Weight – I dropped a bit recently but during that setback I can feel it all came back on.
I’ve learned to hold onto the good milestones and not let the setbacks get me down. I’ve got used to the slow progress but I’m happy it’s getting faster. I’m looking forward to learning more from some of the great commenters on this site!
I’d welcome any comments! Thank you!
and capsules are expensive so that's not really an option. I'm still interested in this route and will carry on experimenting. I see my feed merchant has biotin but with methionine unfortunately. It might have improved the strength of my hooves ... 
