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Thank you, I’m hopeful that by my 50th I’ll have finally figured how to deal with this unique body of mine.That's great, @Blossom! I'm really glad to hear that!
Me as well.You have been an inspiration for me as someone who doesn’t give up and listens to your body’s feedback!
You have been an inspiration for me as someone who doesn’t give up and listens to your body’s feedback!
Oh my gosh! Hi Kram! I've wondered how you've been getting on. It's nice to see you here. :)Me as well.
Haha! Me too! It has taken some time, but I'm finally learning to love it quirks and all.Thank you, I’m hopeful that by my 50th I’ll have finally figured how to deal with this unique body of mine.
Yeah, I can understand that. I recall you being tall — 6'? I was eating 12oz of meat at one point and felt no difference between that and 4oz, but I do feel a difference if I don't get enough fat. I had roughly 3000 calories today but very little fat so I'm currently sitting here with hunger pangs. Have you noticed needing a certain amount of fat and if so, do you think you consumed enough of it during your vegan stint?Yeah all animal products tend to cause me problems. Eggs probably even more so than beef. Probably because it is high PUFA. But even beef, the effects become very noticeable with anything more than 8oz a day. The problem is, 8oz of beef is not enough to meet my protein needs as I am quite heavy, with not only a lot of fat but also tons of muscle which need to be fed.
The best day I have had, since tracking data the last 3 months ago, judging by not only pulse and temp (98.6F waking temp and 90 bpm pulse) but also mood (Very motivated, energetic, great mood), corresponded to a vegan stint I did for a month or so. It was the best day I had in a year actually. It is way easier for me to achieve higher temps and pulses on vegan. However, vegan also causes me muscle pains and some hunger also. So that's what I'm trying to solve, via direct amino injection (and avoid the bad 4 ones).
Could you expand more please on celery juice? I am curious because I recall reading something about the sodium in celery being magical somehow in another book I have that I skimmed through but didn't read yet. When I put celery in cronometer, I don't see much sodium? The guy in this book basically said celery juice was almost a miracle product. How much do you have a day?
Yes, almost anything is better than the standard american diet haha.
Thank you, I'm tired of being sick and tired lol
Yeah, I can understand that. I recall you being tall — 6'? I was eating 12oz of meat at one point and felt no difference between that and 4oz, but I do feel a difference if I don't get enough fat. I had roughly 3000 calories today but very little fat so I'm currently sitting here with hunger pangs. Have you noticed needing a certain amount of fat and if so, do you think you consumed enough of it during your vegan stint?
Oh, is that the Medical Medium — 16oz of celery juice on an empty stomach, first thing in the morning? I think he claims it contains a special salt that hasn't been discovered by scientists yet that helps rebuild stomach acid or something like that. I picked up the habit while doing RBTI. My practitioner had me juicing one full bunch of it with pineapple for the potassium (for my kidneys) and I still typically juice one bunch.
I found my cravings for veggies/baby lettuces would dissapear after having the celery juice so it seemed to me it was giving me nutrients I needed that I wasn't getting from fruit alone.
Okay, gotcha. Yeah, I'm at a healthy weight but I did refeed (more like force-fed) for a year and a half per youreatopia guidelines (I was also inspired by the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, Billy Craig and Matt Stone of 180 Degree Health) right before I started Peating and gained well above my normal weight — I average 99lbs and gained to 145lbs — eating upwards of 10,000 calories a day. Technically, I gained a total of 76lbs from my lowest weight of 69lbs. I lost the extra 46lbs just eating based on appetite. So yeah, I have some experience with weight gain and loss and the concept of "metabolic damage." lolYeah 6". I'm actually not really having issues with no fat. But it does require a ton of calories, and maybe some starch. Starch seems to meet some of my needs that sucrose does not and I can't make do with JUST sugar/fruit. Are you at a healthy weight? If you're at a healthy weight then you may indeed need more fats. I'm fat, so the way I see it, my body can use its own body fat lol. Also, because I eat so high carb, any fats I truly do need that my body fat stores can't handle, my body can always convert excess carbs to SFA's. My only issues seem to crop up around protein not so much fat. I historically would get strong protein cravings. Sometimes I would eat up to 300 or even 400 gram of protein on a "protein binge day", and then gain a ton of weight and inflammation thanks to all the detrimental amino acids that I consumed. I think I was in what Ray calls basically a protein deficiency despite eating higher protein hence the huge meat cravings. Sometimes I miss fats, and I probably will add them back in one day, but for now, I gotta dump my body fat. It's been sitting around far too long. But doing so while keeping metabolism high.
Yeah medical medium. Maybe I'll try the recipe in the book. I think I may also start using more sodium bicarbonate, instead of salt, since chloride seems unhelpful in large dosages (from salt). Maybe I'm also in a functional sodium deficiency and yet toxic in chloride? Doesn't Morse and Ehret speak disfavorably towards salt? I know Nathan Hatch makes a note that you should probably balance sodium intake between salt and baking soda and he definitely has said chloride is not helpful in large dosages. Keeping in mind, that free-form chlorine is highly anti-thyroid, so when the body breaks the bond between sodium and chloride to utilize the sodium, you could well find yourself in a chlorine toxic situation.