Thus far all goes well on our journey into a healed gut – a bit too well in terms of my body weight. I stepped on the scale yesterday before my Slow Burn workout and weighed in at a trim 162.5 pounds. The week before I weighed in at 167. I thought “WTF?!”
I’m not sure what is going on here exactly. The first week I went from 168 and change to about 166 and change. This loss seemed a lot to me as I don’t have a lot of fat to lose – maybe 15 pounds tops. But 4 more pounds in one week? Yowsah.
And I am eating quite a lot of food. As much or more than I was before having added coconut butter to offset the calories lost to removing all dairy (even butter – sigh). My wife Linda is down 11 pounds and perhaps more since it is that time for her this week.
Here’s what I ate yesterday:
Breakfast:
*2 tins of sardines in olive oil
(I drink some of the oil in the can adding some Euphoria oil. )
*2 tablespoons of coconut butter (93 cals per tablespoon)
*Black coffee
Snack:
*Half pound of roast beef drizzled with Euphoria OO
*2 table spoons of coconut butter
Lunch:
*2 large chicken breasts, half sweet potato all drizzled with Euphoria OO
*Can of seltzer
Then I worked out for 20 minutes.
Post workout meal:
*Half pound of smoked salmon
*1 table spoon of coconut butter
Dinner:
*1/2 pound sous vide cooked wild caught salmon drizzled with Euphoria
*Large portion of cabbage sauteed in grass-fed stock with chopped apples, garlic, shallots
*4 tablespoons of homemade green chimichurri sauce made with Euphoria (sans red pepper flakes)
Dessert:
*1 mandarin orange
Doesn’t sound like I am under-eating right?
Certain nay-saying experts I’ve talked to about this have already claimed that the weight she’s lost is mostly water (as is common when high carb eating folks lower their carb intake either by reducing calories or going low carb) but nuh-uh. She is already a low carber and you can see that she has lost a huge amount of size from her belly. I really wish I’d have had the forethought to have measured and documented this with photos.
We are a very good example of how the calories in/calories out folks are just dead wrong. As I mentioned in my first post my wife had gained nearly 30 pounds in a little under one year. This was due to contracting Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. She was not eating any more than she ever did but due to the hormonal imbalance and dysfunction of her thyroid, most of the calories she ate went to fat storage. Thank Allah that she’s a low carb, fat eating gal. Who knows how fat she’d have become if she followed the USDA food pyramid.
She feels a lot better but is still getting systemic joint pain. We thought we had this licked but apparently not. She has been very careful not to take in any gut irritants going so far as to not take certain supplements if they even have a smidge of rice flour or potato starch. But two weeks is not that long to be on an elimination diet we’re told so we’re staying the course.
Thus far it has not helped my arthritis a jot. I fear that my condition is a localized degradation, completely separate and apart from leaky gut. But again, it may be too soon to tell so…
