Hi,
I'm new here having heard about Ray Peat via Matt Stone/180 degree health.
A bit of background:
I'm a breastfeeding mother (baby is 8 months) in my mid thirties, I'm generally looking for a little weight loss without crazy restrictive dieting/effing up one's metabolism. Everyone and their dog seems to be all about low carb thesedays but I find any kind of carb restriction really unpleasant, I seem metabolically wired to need a high carb intake just to feel well. I was happily a high carb low fat vegan for 10 years, but stopped several years ago because of iron and B12 deficiencies.
I understand grains are best avoided? I like and crave starch primarily (prefer potatoes, white rice, squash, cornflakes, homemade waffles/pancakes - I sometimes use a gluten free flour mix because one of my household is gluten free and it's just easier to make stuff we can all eat) and don't feel well without it, but I also like a small amount of sugar, usually after meals. I don't tolerate fruit well at all so have been avoiding it (I seem to have some FODMAP issues and tolerate table sugar better than fruit/juice). I've been good at avoiding PUFAs as I cook from scratch and have done since my 20s.
I have a strong aversion to animal protein (especially red meat, oily fish and eggs) I also don't like cow's milk, but will have it in coffee or mixed into a food like mashed potato or waffle mix. For protein I often eat Quorn (weird fungal protein food!), I have no idea if that is considered healthy or not, it seems to be a new food without much research. But, it is usually free of PUFAs (the non breaded kind) and soy free.
For fat I mostly eat coconut oil, coconut cream and kerrygold butter. I think I could cut back on the fat if that would help shift some bodyfat?
I think hormonally I'm a bit out of whack, post-partum I seemed to be in a constant brain fog with low motivation until I went on the progesterone only pill and that actually improved my mood and energy levels somewhat.
Re: exercise, I like short bursts of Yoga, walking and occasional kettlebell circuits, but burn out quickly with longer workouts.
Sorry for the essay! I'm just in need of something that will actually help me, I've been on all sorts of health forums and got all sorts of conflicting advice, this Ray Peat stuff seems the only thing that actually resonates with how I feel about food. I just want to shift a bit of body fat but continue to feel like a functional, happy human being :)
p.s. I take a low dose cod liver oil capsule every day, I suffered with a lot of joint/muscle pain post-partum (Post partum arthralgia) and the CLO really helped, should I stop that?
I'm new here having heard about Ray Peat via Matt Stone/180 degree health.
A bit of background:
I'm a breastfeeding mother (baby is 8 months) in my mid thirties, I'm generally looking for a little weight loss without crazy restrictive dieting/effing up one's metabolism. Everyone and their dog seems to be all about low carb thesedays but I find any kind of carb restriction really unpleasant, I seem metabolically wired to need a high carb intake just to feel well. I was happily a high carb low fat vegan for 10 years, but stopped several years ago because of iron and B12 deficiencies.
I understand grains are best avoided? I like and crave starch primarily (prefer potatoes, white rice, squash, cornflakes, homemade waffles/pancakes - I sometimes use a gluten free flour mix because one of my household is gluten free and it's just easier to make stuff we can all eat) and don't feel well without it, but I also like a small amount of sugar, usually after meals. I don't tolerate fruit well at all so have been avoiding it (I seem to have some FODMAP issues and tolerate table sugar better than fruit/juice). I've been good at avoiding PUFAs as I cook from scratch and have done since my 20s.
I have a strong aversion to animal protein (especially red meat, oily fish and eggs) I also don't like cow's milk, but will have it in coffee or mixed into a food like mashed potato or waffle mix. For protein I often eat Quorn (weird fungal protein food!), I have no idea if that is considered healthy or not, it seems to be a new food without much research. But, it is usually free of PUFAs (the non breaded kind) and soy free.
For fat I mostly eat coconut oil, coconut cream and kerrygold butter. I think I could cut back on the fat if that would help shift some bodyfat?
I think hormonally I'm a bit out of whack, post-partum I seemed to be in a constant brain fog with low motivation until I went on the progesterone only pill and that actually improved my mood and energy levels somewhat.
Re: exercise, I like short bursts of Yoga, walking and occasional kettlebell circuits, but burn out quickly with longer workouts.
Sorry for the essay! I'm just in need of something that will actually help me, I've been on all sorts of health forums and got all sorts of conflicting advice, this Ray Peat stuff seems the only thing that actually resonates with how I feel about food. I just want to shift a bit of body fat but continue to feel like a functional, happy human being :)
p.s. I take a low dose cod liver oil capsule every day, I suffered with a lot of joint/muscle pain post-partum (Post partum arthralgia) and the CLO really helped, should I stop that?