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user-inactivated  ·  2213 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 28, 2018

I was told to eat more red meat and saturated fats, and minimize carbs. (yay bacon and eggs and venison sausage dinners.) My T went from lowish normal to above normal. The other issues are starting to move in the right direction as well. I've gone cold turkey on all sodas, artificial sweeteners, everything but coffee and a touch of half and half. I went three weeks at 1800 Kcal, for a body that should intake 2700-3000 and it FUCKING SUCKED. AND! I did not lose weight but got thinner, but lost mostly muscle. Also, I think I lost grey matter and dropped a few dozen IQ points. Back to eating what I should. I'm still not losing weight and the next step is to get my old fat decrepit walking corpse to the gym and lift weights again.

The doc I have is now reading a ton of crap on insulin responses and how they interact with men's endocrine feed-backs. Why is my blood pressure low? Why am I not losing weight? Why can I eat animal fats by the damned pound and have a total cholesterol under 200? Shit like that. It's kinda fun to be the enigma for a change.

This growing old crap is nonsense, ain't it. Beats the alternative tho'.

    As far as the Keto diet goes, I have hit the 3 month plateau, after losing 30 pounds.

Then you hit the whoosh and notice that you feel better, sleep better, are less moody and start writing sappy shit on small social media websites. Grats on moving in the right direction.