Primal Challenge Journal (MamaGrok) page 74

[MamaGrok]

tomorrow night, a hoity-toity fundraiser party for the Children's Museum. I saw who the caterer was and lft them a mssage asking if they could let me know what would be available and if anything would be without gluten and dairy. Looks like a great caterer if you can tolerate those things, but I want to know if I should eat before coming.

Funny, I have three parties this week and don't feel there's any chance at all I'll eat off plan. That's a great feeling. I suspected a diagnosis would help me with the "well a little bit can't hurt ... oh YES IT DID!" and yes, it did help!

I just realized a few days ago that it's been months - well over half a year! - since I had jelly of any sort, much less half a jar at a time. Thanks be to God & Dr Kruse!!

[MamaGrok]

Week 3, Day 3
BBT - thermometer's batteries are dead
142.5
82 days binge-free


Leptin Resistance goals:
- Breakfast w/ 50gm of protein yes
- Breakfast w/i 30m of rising not even close. Sick babe would not let me stop nursing her, so I got out of bed and directly to the couch to catch up on the computer, and stayed there for nearly two hours.
- 5+ hrs between Breakfast and Lunch yes, no lunch
- 5+ hrs between Lunch and Dinner yes, no lunch
- 3.5+ hrs between dinner & bedtime yes, about 3
- no snacking yes
- exposure to morning sun no
- darkening the house at sunset ish
- 100% primal diet miniscule amount of sugar in jelly
- <50g carb per day, anti-candida (no sweeteners, starches, or fruit) miniscule taste of prickly pear fruit jelly
- no PUFA's other than fCLO yes, unless some in green beans (catered)
- teaspoon of coconut oil if I start fading 2 extra TB at bkfst

Morning
D (5000IU) - 8000IU
HCl -
Dig Enz - Considering another brand and/or ox bile and/or bile salts
Organs, broth, ferments: 1+C chicken broth, some chicken liver, sip of SKJ

Midday
Mg (700mg) - 1/2t before dinner
Selenium (200mg) - yes
ACV -
OOO -
Green tea -
Salt and/or potassium - heavily salted broth
Seaweed -
GFCF? yes

B - 4 eggs in 3?T CO, bit of chili (no beans or mater chunks), big bowl of chicken soup, taste of cactus jelly. feel very full.

D - roast beef (did miss the horseradish sauce!), green beans, bit of yellow squash, <1/2C fruit. I called the caterer yesterday to find out what was GFCF, and she generously told me what fit the bill.

Results
- energy 4/10. Mostly wanted to curl up all day which was convenient since dd was sick and wouldn't let me up, anyway!
- bloating = 2mo. Bit more at night.
- skin = smooth!!
- <8hr in bed, far less sleep than that. Babe thrashing and nursing all night with fever. Sleepy & draggy.

Ready to get back on routine tomorrow ... or as soon as WeeGrok starts sleeping peacefully at night again.

[Lex26]

Man, getting 50 grams of protein plus enough fat is pretty hard. I'm gonna have to work up to it. Was it easy for you from the start?

[MamaGrok]

Yes, it was,, but it's not that easy for everyone. I had already been doing 25gm for several years, and even when I went to 50, and then to 65, I still had a voracious appetite. I felt li ke I could double my meal and still not be full. I think part of it was HCl deficiency, and probably some other things in play, too. Now 65 takes me through lunch and to dinner. Once dinner starts to seem to be too much food, I'll back down to 50 and then wait there for LS! That's my plan, anyway.

[czev]

So how are you doing with your weight loss goals? Are you currently at 142.5?

Happy to hear you went from bingeing to being able to go to parties without falling off plan, and without horrific suffering. So inspirational!

[MamaGrok]

Yes, that's my current weight. I was just telling dh today about an incident that comes back to me from time to time. I was at a restaurant with a girl about 15 years ago. She was very overweight and I was very thin. She passed up cookies that were being offered around, and said she was really committed to losing weight (sadly, she never has succeeded). I was amazed she could do that. I couldn't possibly pass up a cookie.

I thought about that many, many times since then. Since going WAPF, then primal, then LR, I thought about it again and again and knew I wasn't there.

I'm there now. No way I'd take the stinking cookie! Now, I'm not under the illusion that I'll never have a moment again where I accept food I'd choose not to have if all my wits were about me, but where I am now, I absolutely would pass it up, and not care, and not miss it, and I've been there for quite a while now, and don't see anything coming in the near future to change it.

[MamaGrok]

[QUOTE=MamaGrok;685161]Week 3, Day 4
BBT - thermometer's batteries are dead
142.25!
83 days binge-free


Leptin Resistance goals:
- Breakfast w/ 50gm of protein yes
- Breakfast w/i 30m of rising yes!
- 5+ hrs between Breakfast and Lunch yes, no lunch
- 5+ hrs between Lunch and Dinner yes, no lunch
- no snacking yes
- 3.5+ hrs between dinner & bedtime needc to stay up till 11:30!
- exposure to morning sun yes, <5m, but no lenses and no shoes, just a coat, 40 degrees
- darkening the house at sunset now!
- 100% primal diet yes
- <50g carb per day, anti-candida (no sweeteners, starches, or fruit) way less
- no PUFA's other than fCLO some evoo
- teaspoon of coconut oil if I start fading 2 extra with bkfst

Morning
D (5000IU) - forgot
HCl -
Dig Enz - Considering another brand and/or ox bile and/or bile salts
Organs, broth, ferments: NEED TO THAW MORE GOAT LIVER!

Midday
Mg (700mg) - 1/2t
Selenium (200mg) - yes
ACV -
OOO -
Green tea -
Salt and/or potassium -
Seaweed -
GFCF? yes

B - 4 eggs in 3T CO, 5.5ish oz sausage + chili (almost entirely the beef)

D - bkfst & dinner ssausage, cabbage in co, salad w/ DV sherry pecan vinaigrette

Results
- energy 6+/10 morning, but got very, very sleepy. Sleepy again around 9pm.
- bloating = 3mo
- skin = still smooth, still some bumps on my arms
- 10+hrs sleep. Dreadfully sleepy by 1pm.
- body feels good & trim(mer)!
Back on routine now. Pondering my very unexpected cortisol test results...

[MamaGrok]

Cortisol Morning (8am)___7__(3.7-9.5)
Cortisol Midday (1pm)____0.9__(1.2-3.0)
Cortisol Evening (5:30pm)_1.7__(.6-1.9)
Cortisol Night (10:30pm)__0.7__(.4-1.0)




If my morning cortisol and nighttime cortisol are so normal, how can my energy patterns be so totally upside-down?

And what does the midday blip mean? Could it have anything to do with my not eating lunch? I haven't been hungry for lunch in two months. If that's it, is it a problem that it causes a dip, or no? GAH, this makes no sense!

[Lex26]

How are you measuring your cortisol levels like that?

[MamaGrok]

zrtlabs diurnal salivary cortisol. I ordered through canaryclub.com for $109.