Calorie and food limiting diets, and weight gain Update in post 14!

[Bubblingbrooks]

I am going to try and share on here what I have been learning about why diets that limit calories and limit the kinds of food you can eat are detrimental to the endocrine system, and the reason why the same weight lost, plus some, is easily gained back again.
And why this causes adrenal exhaustion.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

I highly rec reading Matt Stone's book. This will help in conversation here.

http://www.180degreehealth.com/uploads/eBooks/Rrarf.pdf

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

I started RRARF (Rehabilitative Rest & Aggressive Re-Feeding) two weeks ago.
I started at the beginning of week 2 of my cycle.
My basal body tempature has been 97.2 or lower in the first two weeks of my cycle. At ovulation, it would rise to maybe 98.0
It has been this way for many years, and according to the powers that be, I was considered totally normal.

2.5 weeks later, after first implementing RRARF, my temp is now 98.2 prior to ovulation.
I do not know if I wil ever achieve 98.6, but I am very close.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Basics... from Matt's book.

RRARF is Rehabilitative Rest & Aggressive Re-Feeding
Most people crave refined sugars, sweets, junk food, rapidly-absorbed white flour products,
caffeine, alcohol, and other drugs because they are tragically undernourished and their adrenal
glands have been overtaxed by everything from dieting to working too much to experiencing
some major emotional trauma. RRARF attempts to combat all of this in one fell swoop (the
saying fell swoop makes no sense, but hopefully you know what it means).
In the rest of this book, I hope to lay out the framework for RRARF in greater specificity than I
have been able to do in the past. Whether you choose to go full-RRARF is up to your discretion.
If not, thats fine too. A long-term approach is fantastic. All you have to do is eat wholesome,
quality foods to appetite, not make any major dietary restriction such as eating a low-carb or
vegan diet, keep your exercise and workloads within reasonable parameters, and go about living
your life. Over time, you will almost certainly see improvements.
RRARF is definitely not a rite of passage for anyone wishing to participate at 180DegreeHealth.
It is simply an experimental protocol that is lifting people out of the pit of metabolic despair, and
helping lots of people improve digestion, mood, sleep quality, sex life, skin health, appetite
regulation, hypertension, high blood sugars, and all the things that can and often do fall into
place as mitochondrial activity rises. Despite such claims, it is not necessary for many to be so
aggressive.

 

[CJW]

Funny-I was just reading about this today. Here is a link to a study that was done showing that it is beneficial:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15741046

 

[MsPony]

My adrenals are horribly shot, my thyroid is shot too. YAY for being a vegan/main stream low fat person for most of my life!! Last week I got the bright idea to go off coffee, honestly the hardest thing I have ever done I replaced it with tea, but I could barely keep myself off the floor. A week later, I am finally awake all day, and have had no tea today. Well, making myself a cup of Yogi's calming, which has no caffeine. It was an exhaustion of no other then just that, and whats worse is I couldnt sleep either.

I have a great stomach/intestinal tract, a great immune system, but my adrenals and thyroid are screaming for help.

Looking forward to this thread!!

 

[CJW]

I have been on a short fast before, and I want to fast for longer. I felt great-even though it was only for a few days. Now that I am somewhat settled, I might give it a try once my next cycle comes along. (I want to do my next fast during my cycle because you should refrain from "doing the laundry" while fasting.)

The only thing I have issues with is the frequency of the enemas. Without enemas, the toxins and impurities that your body is purging, stay in your body. (I didn't administer them as often as I should have, but it isn't my favorite thing to do.)

All I ingested was purified water (no tap water-not even filtered tap water). When your body doesn't spend energy digesting food, it uses its resources to heal other parts of the body. That is why eating before bed isn't advised, since repair happens while you sleep.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Just got back from hunting, so I will be getting back to this thread soon.

 

[Mackay]

I have been on a short fast before, and I want to fast for longer. I felt great-even though it was only for a few days. Now that I am somewhat settled, I might give it a try once my next cycle comes along. (I want to do my next fast during my cycle because you should refrain from "doing the laundry" while fasting.)

The only thing I have issues with is the frequency of the enemas. Without enemas, the toxins and impurities that your body is purging, stay in your body. (I didn't administer them as often as I should have, but it isn't my favorite thing to do.)

All I ingested was purified water (no tap water-not even filtered tap water). When your body doesn't spend energy digesting food, it uses its resources to heal other parts of the body. That is why eating before bed isn't advised, since repair happens while you sleep.

I strongly disagree with water only fasts. It is the nutrients in juices that protect your body from free radical damage that will excellerate when fasting as your body detoxes. In our dirty world filled with chemicals not only do you have to battle the chemicals your body will start to release but also pollution you are in every day.

Green juices are the best but pamegranate and apple and grape can be taken also along with a wide variety of herbal teas.

If you really want to do a healing cleanse/fast get some Homozon and use it twice a day. You will not need to do enemas. It will clean and heal like nothing else.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Enemas used to "clean" are not a good idea.
The intestine/colon absolutely must have bacteria in it for good health.
Cleansers and "anti's" do not know the difference between good and bad bacteria, so its a far better thing to feed with good probiotics, rather then cleansing.
The body will balance itself out all on its own if its fed properly.