What Is Wrong With My Diet?

[Lucas]

Hello.

Male, 38 years old, 72 kg, and still cold, 35.9 Celsius at wake up, peaking to 36.4 at 15 pm.

Can my diet keep me hypo metabolic? I am trying to increase my sugar consumption, but can something that I am still eating braking my metabolism?

These are my typical day of eating:

08 am Breakfast:
A shake whit:
200 ml whole milk;
1 teaspoon of cinnamon;
2 tablespoon of albumin egg protein
2 tablespoon of honey

An omelet whit 3 whole eggs cooked whit butter.

An orange juice made from 2 oranges fresh squeezed whit a little salt

1 tablespoon of coconut oil

12 am Lunch

A plate with rice, lentils and chicken breast or meat

100 ml whole milk

1 tablespoon of coconut oil

1 tablespoon of honey

3 pm Snack

A Cheese bread (around 100 gm)

6 pm

200 ml of salted orange juice made from 4 oranges

1 tablespoon of coconut oil

8 pm Dinner

350 g of white potato mashed cooked for 1 hour

An omelet whit 3 whole eggs cooked whit butter.

1 tablespoon of honey

10:30 pm

200 ml of whole milk whit 1 tablespoon of honey and a little salt.

Supplements:

K2 Mk4: 5 mg every day
Hydroxocobalamin: 1.000 mcg every day
Vitamin D3: 5.000 iu 3 times a week.

So, or is my diet, or is the b12, or is my 2 times a week weight training, or is the egg whites, or is the potatoes, or I am born whit a low thyroid function that is pushing my metabolism low.

What do you think? I am trying to up my temperature whit diet alone.


Thanks’ for any help.

 

[Richiebogie]

Do you get hot in bed at night? Maybe your body slows down to compensate? Perhaps you have too many blankets and too thick pyjamas or keep the room too warm?

Have you tried doing some gentle exercise when you wake and then take your temperature again? Eg knee lifts, sit ups, push ups?

How many calories does this diet add up to? How much protein, carbs and fat? (You can create a user on nutrition data self tracking).

You only have 6 oranges = 300ml juice.

Try adding another 14 oranges during the day to bring this to 1 litre.

Maybe try ditching the rice and lentils and adding some other fruit sugar.

4 large ripe bananas could cheaply boost fruit sugar, potassium, carbs and vitamin b6.

100g dried figs are tasty and provide some other nutrients you may be missing.

3 oysters a week (approx 150g) should boost your zinc, selenium and other rare elements found in the sea.

2 teaspoons of gelatin can add some healthy amino acids which your chicken breast is low in.

Otherwise it is great that you have a routine. Maybe make one change every 3 days to see what it's effects are.

 

[Blossom]

In addition to Richiebogie's response having six eggs everyday seems like a lot to me.

I would consider plugging your food intake into a nutrition calculator as already suggested and see what your calcium to phosphorus ratio looks like and aim for 1:1 or greater in favor of calcium. You could have more milk, cheese or use an eggshell or oystershell calcium supplement to get more calcium.

 

[Lucas]

Thank you very much!!

Is banana a Peat approved fruit?

Here where I live, oranges and bananas are very cheap and always ripe (Brazil).

 

[Lucas]

I am 36.8 Celsius at 7:30 pm now and I fell hot and amazing. I think is the orange juice that I drunk one hour ago. I started the day at 35.8 celsius.

My temperature always peak at 6 pm. Interesting.

 

[Lucas]

I get a response from Ray Peat. Amazing !!!

My question was identical to this post, and his response:

“I think the ratio of phosphate to calcium is high. Two liters of low fat milk would improve your calcium/phosphate ratio, and provide more protein. The higher calcium intake will probably incease your temperature and metabolic rate.”

Ray Peat is really a god man. Responding emails to strangers, for free!!

 

[Blossom]

I get a response from Ray Peat. Amazing !!!

My question was identical to this post, and his response:

“I think the ratio of phosphate to calcium is high. Two liters of low fat milk would improve your calcium/phosphate ratio, and provide more protein. The higher calcium intake will probably incease your temperature and metabolic rate.”

Ray Peat is really a god man. Responding emails to strangers, for free!!

That's great. Do you care if we put this in the email section?
Either you or I could copy and paste it here:

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