Mon, Apr-18-11, 14:14
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Senior Member
Posts: 880
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Plan: modified Peat
Stats: 202/214/180
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Progress: -55%
Location: Wyoming
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Also, you should be checking your pulse and temperature several times throughout the day, and blood sugar, if you are diabetic. These are all important tools for measuring your progress.
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I will start monitoring pulse and temps.
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Is your blood sugar and temperature higher BEFORE your first meal, and lower after? This is a sign of elevated stress hormones. Staying up late will aggravate this situation and I have found since I followed Peat's advice about having ice cream at 9:00 P.M., I am able to get to sleep by 12:30, for the first time in several decades! And since I have been doing that, my temperature and blood sugars are now lower before the first meal than after, which shows that my stress hormone levels are declining. YAY! And interestingly, since that happened, I am losing weight now, but I am also battling an intestinal infection, which is contributing to the weight loss, no doubt!
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Unfortunately, I could not control my skin reactions with my normal measures, so I'm now weaning off a high dose hydrocortisone "taper". Even with high dose HC, I still itched, still had some skin texture changes, which was dismaying. Usually a brief period of HC will stop the allergic reactions very quickly.
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Also keep in mind that if your body temperature and pulse do not reach optimal levels by following the dietary recommendations, then Peat recommends thyroid supplements and for some people, pregnelone. I am planning to wait a couple more months before doing that, especially now that stress hormone levels are declining and I am losing some weight.
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I may need to go back on thyroid supplements/medication, but really do not want to add thyroid in at the moment. It confuses things, and makes my pain medications much less effective (or so it seems from experimentation). I've now been off thyroid for over 5 months, with no hair loss, good eyebrows, etc. so thought I was fine.
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But in the meanwhile, as my body repairs itself, I am sleeping soundly and at "normal" times for the first time since I was a teenager, all of my psoriasis and other skin rashes have completely cleared up for the first time in 35 years, my hairdresser says I have "tons" of new hair growth, my body is much stronger and much less prone to injury, I have gained a lot more mobility, my nurse practitioner is doing cartwheels over my blood sugars (I do not take medication for my type 2 diabetes) and I am eating food that makes me feel satisfied and happy. Not a bad track record after 5 months.
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How long until your skin rashes and sleep improved? I expected my high dose hydrocortisone to make my bad insomnia worse, but instead I slept much better until I started weaning down the dose (which was on the third day of the "taper"). I'm wondering if, instead of being high cortisol, I am once again nearly flatlined...........AND, since my skin rash got so much worse since trying to eat at least partly Peat fashion, I now worry I simply will not be able to tolerate the diet.............I'm going to keep weaning down the HC, and see what happens, but meantime, I'm off all gelatin, off half and half, off cheese, off beef, off all my known allergens, with fingers crosssed. Last night I didn't get to sleep at all until after 4 am, at which time I took an extra pain pill (though not in any pain) and finally was able to sleep for a couple of short periods, until 8:30 am. I am back to using nut milks, which increases my intake of PUFAs, which is not the direction I wanted to go. And back to some grains, such as sourdough bread and oats, which, while I may have some reactions to them, do NOT cause me to get the hives/eczema that have been plaguing me recently. Once this is all past, I will start again, from scratch. Meantime, I will also be pursuing mfrs of the half and half I use, and also contacting Haagen-Dazs to see if they have changed ingredients without changing the ingredients labelling. I have run into that before, finding that skin reactions I could not account for were due to a half and half mfr adding carrageenan to the half and half without changing the labelling, causing me months of misery.
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