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3/15/2013 11:26:24 AM .


Natalia Gecas

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Leptin Reset

I started the new year with clear intentions and a positive heart. Lately that has been going sideways. To put it bluntly, I keep getting caught up in anorexia. I was sick and tired of feeling puffy and fat so I decided to do a week of calorie restriction which I rationalised in my mind as 'detox'. I wanted to do the liver flush so I thought that going low fat would be a good way to build up pressure in the gallbladder and get the best results from a cleanse I was planning to do at the end of the week. I also wasn't digesting fats well and this was making my skin break out.

Turns out that this week of detox was way too detoxing, and I managed to break the detox with a binge. Then I started another week with the same thing, same result. And another week, same result. Then I realised what I was doing (actually I had realised it all along but just couldn't admit to it). I was putting being skinny before my health again. I am sick of this. Enough is enough. I still looked puffy and bloated after losing 3.5kg because I was still so toxic. I was dumping oxalate every day and HEAVILY, of course I would be puffy.

So I'm starting the leptin reset today. I have noticed white marks on all of my fingernails, so when I get home from house sitting in 2 days I'll start supplementing with zinc too, since all my supps are at home. I don't particularly want to start the reset. I don't want to gain weight. At least I'm being honest. But my health is more important and I'm going to have to shut up the anorexic voice in the back of my head and just do what I have to do.  

Fermented vegetables

Lately I have been going a bit crazy with making fermented vegetables. It's summer here now and I crave raw, crunchy and cool foods but don't exactly want to eat the vegetables I can tolerate raw, so I've been fermenting them!
I've made beet kvass (which has been a tasty wonder tonic), sauerruben with turnips and swede/rutabaga, red sauerkraut, pickled marrow, bok choy kraut, pickled summer squash, turnip with kale and garlic and swede with kale.
The only one I didn't like was the bok choy one. Never really likes bok choy anyway but it was worse a try. I reused the brine in another ferment and buried the rest in the garden.
It will be interesting to see how the addition of garlic goes!

A week of gentle detox

I've decided to do a week of gentle detox. I really want to clean out my liver, gallbladder and general gut so I can be tolerating more foods and improving my digestion. 

As of tomorrow I'll be doing GAPS intro diet. So- broth, cooked veggies, slow cooked meats, fats off the meat, ghee, sea salt, lemon & ginger tea. I don't want to be eating a TONNE of meat. I've been on GAPS for 2 years now and my meat requirements have dropped, yet I over-eat it just because I can. I haven't got any ferments going at the moment so it'll just be the Custom Probiotics 11-strain in the AM. I have a habit of over-eating and feeling really stuffed after a meal, so I'm going to try be more 'intuitive', and have 3 meals a day and maybe 2 if I am working (I don't like eating at work because it's stressful to eat in a busy environment). Intro foods fill you up quickly because of all the liquid in the broth. 

I lost ghee about a year ago due to oxidative stress in the gut, but today I had about a tablespoon at once and didn't get that nasty headache. I'm actually 100% certain I'll be able to tolerate it fully soon, if I'm not already.

I'll also be aiming to do at least 4 pro-b enema's and 4 epsom salt baths. Supps will be 1 tsp cod liver oil, 1 tsp butter oil and 2 caps of fish oil a day. 

The first thing I want to try out of this detox is cauliflower. My fructmal got worse with the oxalate problem and I lost a lot of veggies! 

Well, a lot has changed since my last post. My supplement experiement has gone down the drain- I couldn't tolerate anything! Back to Dr. Natasha's view on minimal supplements. I got thinking (not sure why I didn't think of this sooner) about what made me heal when I was doing best on GAPS. LOTS of good fats (tallow and ghee mainly), low starch/low ox veggies veggies (no pumpkin or peas but I think rutabaga will be ok since it doesn't kick up cravings/binges), eating 3x a day and not snacking, and moderate meat intake. Then I think back to this one day I had a few months ago where my eyes were so white and bright and my skin was clear, everyone was looking at me differently- like I was a different person! I was happy and cheerful too. I had just made a great batch of turnip kraut and was having some with every meal. I have no doubt that's what it was. I haven't had kraut in a long time.

I cannot tell if I am in better or worse condition than before the supplement experiment. I know I continued to dump without the supplements. It seems the supplements were stopping the dumping in a way and creating more oxidative stress. Anyway I am glad to say I am back at GAPS intro diet which is kind of like my 'safe house'. No supplements except for oils (vit E, CLO and fish oils) for a week, having meat broth and veggies every day. It is warm here atm so if I get the organic veggies on Saturday to make the kraut, it should be ready by next week.

Oh and the fluid retention is a TONNE better. Bloating not so much, but I'm not expecting that problem to go away any time soon. I have some chopped up kabocha from yesterday that I will have today but after that no pumpkin until I can do ghee confidently again. I won't be doing kabocha either I don't think, but butternut squash first since I've always digested it better.

Mum's back is getting better! She's showing no signs of taking it easy though so I hope it doesn't go again.

This morning Susan went over my OAT with me. She taught me all about the oxidative stress/glutathione/b6 pattern. I will have to look over my notes and try to decipher it another time, right now I am too tired to wrap my brain around it..not to mention I am dumping pretty hard right now. 

I have to take reduced glutathione, B6 in the forms pyridoxine and P5P to a total of about 580mg a day (10mg per kg of body weight) in order to 'get out' of oxidative stress, allithiamine (Vit B1- to assist in the proper metabolism of a higher meat diet and prevent protein/meat(?) from being converted to oxalate, a lot of biotin (probably around 20mg a day), enzyme CoQ10 and maybe some msm sulfur but I am a bit scared of that one just yet. 

I have no idea how I am going to increase to that amount of B6. Right now..I'm taking 50mg and dumping with minor rashes, GI distress, insomnia, ravenous hunger, mood swings, depression etc.. I have a feeling though, that I am not getting myself out of oxidative stress enough. What I think might be happening is that the B6 is helping me to dump some but I am continuing to make endogenous oxalate, so I have oxalate production coupled with oxalate dumping and it's making me feel even more lousy. 

Although, when I stop making endogenous oxalate I know I will dump a tonne of stored stuff from all this time in oxidative stress. And that in itself is going to put me in more oxidative stress and will be counterproductive. Step in biotin. This is meant to be the lifesaver..along with all the other antioxidants that will be helping me reduce the oxidative stress caused by dumping. Phew!

In other news, I LOVE yoga. I've have done 20 mins of hatha every day for about a week and my body is feeling so much stronger now that I am doing it regularly instead of once a week (which I've been doing for about a year). Why didn't I do this sooner? I also go for 20 minute brisk walks every 2nd day or so. I won't brisk walk if I don't feel up to it, which has been lately with the dumping...I'll just go for a steady 15 minute walk.