mugatea said:
Thx Fluffy.
How long have you been doing it (about 5 weeks for me)? It is good to know that this might just be part of the adapting. I think my bowels are inflamed, there is defo discomfort and I've been lucky while dog walking today that I managed to get to a toilet fast on 3 occasions. BAd bad bad.
It's just occurred to me that the gut plays a huge part in our moods and I wordering that this depression I've sunk into is related to my bowel discomfort/diarrhea?
Jamie
Apparently 80% of serotonin is made in the guts.
I have had probems on the other end of the scale with constipation for most my adult life.
It's better by about 50% now but sometimes I have the runs and then just back off my magnesium and it dries up... There's a fine balance though because if it dries up too much I get constipated again.
I've been doing keto for may be 3 months, but I've fallen off the wagon may be 10 times because I'm not over my sugar addiction and still crave sweets, so I use erythritol to make low carb things with loads of fat and coconut flour, cocoa etc, and then I eat too much- not because of hunger but because I'm greedy.
I weigh 55kg and in the last few weeks I've started counting my macros because I'm sure I was eating too much protein as well. I'm not tolerating all the fat very well so I reduced it to about 100g a day and feel less sick in the stomach. My lean body mass is about 43 kg, that doesn't add up to much protein on a plate at 1g per lean body mass, I look at my meals and think 'where's all the food???' . I have about 10-15 g of carbs from lettuce, avocado and whatever low carb dessert I have in the fridge.
I'm tempted to start training like an athlete so I can eat more protein, I love meat, I'm never hungry I just feel unsatisfied. It's all psychological and I guess that programming is playing a bit of a role in why I feel so shifty in my moods...
And I should mention that I've had every eating disorder going (apart from eating tissues and things to feel full) and I was a heavy party drug user for many years... My intestines and serotonin would be even more messed up from this as well as the sugar abuse.
I was really low last night, it was so service to self pity so I youtubed for an hour footage of babies killed by shellings. I got over myself pretty quickly, as morbid as it was it helped me put things into perspective.
Every moment of every day is differnt as far as moods go. If I don't walk I feel worse. I sleep pretty good and have ample energy to do life, must say that when I ate too many carbs a few weeks ago it too me days to feel good energy again and I had to have day time naps.
Have you considered doing an over eating day once a week?? Maria Emmerich suggested that this helps our bodies from becoming stagnant and boost it's ability to burn fat better. She does her overrating with cheesecake but suggests any high protein food is good. I'm pretty sure she said 500 calories of protein so about 125grams. I kinda do this on the weekends when we are all home, not on purpose but because having everyone around makes me want to eat more. I am usually happier on the weekends too.
I hope we get over the moody blues soon.
Emma