Hi everyone :) Since I've been spending the last few days attached at the hip to this forum I figured I'd start my own little log.
I've been paleo for ~4 years. I've got some issues with food. I'm 5lbs heavier than I'd like to be. Husband and I are TTC and getting nowhere. So that about sums things up - I'm reasonably healthy (I think?) but am not sure why it turns out apparently I'm not so good at growing a tiny human (hubs has passed his tests with flying colors). A few months ago I finally found an MD who would prescribe Nature-throid (after 4 years of paleo and crossfit and "not -responding" a different MD order a full thyroid panel and my FT3 was 1.8. My TSH was 1.8 or so so according to him I was "fine"). So I started on the Nature-throid and lost about 5 lbs over 3ish months. Getting down to 137 (I'm 5'2", 37 yo, F, pretty muscular). But the last month or so I've felt kinda "meh". I'm more tired than I'd like to be, my eyes are puffy in the morning, my weight is creeping back up. So I decided to try Peat because if you let me choose what to eat I'd eat cheese, fruit and meat. If you said you can be skinny and eat what you choose I'd add ice cream to the list :) So that rules out Whole30!
I'm going to keep a log of food on here just so I have something to reference for my n=1 if it turns out to be an epic failure or success.
I'll start with yesterday:
Sleep - pretty crappy according to my Misfit - 7hrs light sleep, 2 hrs good sleep (this has been happening more - lower sleep quality - I'm not sure the Misfit is the gold standard but it is a change in my Misfit sleep data - I used to get 4ish hrs of "good" and 4ish hrs of "light".
Weight - 137.
Woke up around 7.
2 small cups of coffee with 2/3c skim and 2 tsp molasses added.
9 AM - 2.5 mile walk with the doggies.
10 AM - 9 oz cherries, 1 oz fancy shmancy cheese from the farmers market that smells like feet!
11:30 - sample cup of coffee with ~1 tbsp half and half at TJs. And a square of some other delicious cheese from the sample station.
12 - crossfit, hard workout: 5 x (2 push press, 1 split jerk) @ 95lbs, 5RFT 14 wall-balls, 4 squat cleans, 8 lunges with barbell @75.
3ish - 16 oz 4% Friendship CC (no fillers), 1 med banana, homemade gelatin "gummies" (~7g of gelatin in there, 1/4 c juice), apple. Still hungry, ate ~3oz slow cooked stew beef
8ish - apple on the way home from TJ (yes, I went again...), 5 light string cheeses, 2 lbs clementines, 10 oz cherries
~2250 calories, 140g protein, 340g CHO, 47g fat
Short on Vit E (24%), K (29%), D, folate
I take methylated folate every day because I am homozygous for that MTHFR mutation and I try to take my vit D but always forget.
Overall I don't drink juice (no satiety for me) and am trying to avoid falling face first into "good" quality milk chocolate and ice cream since I'm trying to get body fat to go down not up.
So, Peatstars? Am I off to a good start? Any major changes I need to make because I'm totally missing the mark? I'd love any feedback :)
I've been paleo for ~4 years. I've got some issues with food. I'm 5lbs heavier than I'd like to be. Husband and I are TTC and getting nowhere. So that about sums things up - I'm reasonably healthy (I think?) but am not sure why it turns out apparently I'm not so good at growing a tiny human (hubs has passed his tests with flying colors). A few months ago I finally found an MD who would prescribe Nature-throid (after 4 years of paleo and crossfit and "not -responding" a different MD order a full thyroid panel and my FT3 was 1.8. My TSH was 1.8 or so so according to him I was "fine"). So I started on the Nature-throid and lost about 5 lbs over 3ish months. Getting down to 137 (I'm 5'2", 37 yo, F, pretty muscular). But the last month or so I've felt kinda "meh". I'm more tired than I'd like to be, my eyes are puffy in the morning, my weight is creeping back up. So I decided to try Peat because if you let me choose what to eat I'd eat cheese, fruit and meat. If you said you can be skinny and eat what you choose I'd add ice cream to the list :) So that rules out Whole30!
I'm going to keep a log of food on here just so I have something to reference for my n=1 if it turns out to be an epic failure or success.
I'll start with yesterday:
Sleep - pretty crappy according to my Misfit - 7hrs light sleep, 2 hrs good sleep (this has been happening more - lower sleep quality - I'm not sure the Misfit is the gold standard but it is a change in my Misfit sleep data - I used to get 4ish hrs of "good" and 4ish hrs of "light".
Weight - 137.
Woke up around 7.
2 small cups of coffee with 2/3c skim and 2 tsp molasses added.
9 AM - 2.5 mile walk with the doggies.
10 AM - 9 oz cherries, 1 oz fancy shmancy cheese from the farmers market that smells like feet!
11:30 - sample cup of coffee with ~1 tbsp half and half at TJs. And a square of some other delicious cheese from the sample station.
12 - crossfit, hard workout: 5 x (2 push press, 1 split jerk) @ 95lbs, 5RFT 14 wall-balls, 4 squat cleans, 8 lunges with barbell @75.
3ish - 16 oz 4% Friendship CC (no fillers), 1 med banana, homemade gelatin "gummies" (~7g of gelatin in there, 1/4 c juice), apple. Still hungry, ate ~3oz slow cooked stew beef
8ish - apple on the way home from TJ (yes, I went again...), 5 light string cheeses, 2 lbs clementines, 10 oz cherries
~2250 calories, 140g protein, 340g CHO, 47g fat
Short on Vit E (24%), K (29%), D, folate
I take methylated folate every day because I am homozygous for that MTHFR mutation and I try to take my vit D but always forget.
Overall I don't drink juice (no satiety for me) and am trying to avoid falling face first into "good" quality milk chocolate and ice cream since I'm trying to get body fat to go down not up.
So, Peatstars? Am I off to a good start? Any major changes I need to make because I'm totally missing the mark? I'd love any feedback :)