tue food

brunch
chicken liver
large slice bacon (last one)
egg
fried onion
broccoli

snack
smoked salmon
carrot, raw
beetroot

dinner
trout, grilled
courgette
mushrooms
celery stick raw
slice coconut cream

sun food

l
trout fillet fried
scrambled goose egg
red cabbage

snack
fig,
square 90% chocolate

dinner
2 lambs kidneys
slice calves liver
scrambled hen egg
a carrot
an onion, caramelised

Purple carrots, duck eggs, goose eggs -are these also from farmers markets? BTW what happened to the other 1/2 of the duck egg.
I'll report on the rabbit which is tonight's dinner...

wed food

breakfast (got up early)
2 eggs scrambled in ccnut oil

lunch
small parsnip mashed w creamed ccnut
trout fillet fried
broccoli

dinner
venison stew with chorizo, cocoa, red wine, carrots, celery
courgette

been a little more lax with eating recently and am reviving the food journal as an attempt at accountability!

Notes - was banned from my doctor from eating less than 1400 cals and 50-100g of carbs a day after over a year of amenorrhoea.  After 3+ months of less fat and more carbs (fruit and root veg) and protein I finally had a period.  I will let my cycle stabilise for 2-3 months before attempting any kind of weight loss or carb reduction.  My current weight is about 115 pounds, goal weight is 105.  I'm 5'1''

8th feb
3 carrots raw
2 celery sticks raw
brussels sprouts w coconut oil
2 beetroot
tenderstem broccoli w butter
6 dates
2 duck eggs scrambled

dinner
chicken liver pate
slowcooked lamb (a very large amount)


9th Feb
11am - 2 dates, broccoli with goat butter, carrots with goat butter, celery raw, cocoa
7pm - 2 beetroot, chicken liver fried in coconut oil, roast together - parsnips, brussells sprouts, 2 chicken thighs.
10pm - not paleo - a cocktail

Hey Celticcavegirl! Good to see you back. It's because of you I found caveman forum. Was looking for before/after pics of paleo transformations and yours came up and then caveman forum. So I must thank you. Nice work by the way.

Good luck with your health issues. Could you eat more calories but exercise more? Good to hear your body is getting back to normal. Will be staying tuned in!

Oh dear, does that mean that I'm lurking in google images somewhere?!

I really do need to exercise more.  I've never been sporty in my life and finding the motivation to walk 2x20 minutes in sub zero London temperatures to/from the gym to bore myself silly doing weights alone is difficult...I guess I'm just lazy and I really don't like exercise!  Maybe time to set myself a 30 day challenge re: exercise...

I feel a lot better (mainly peace of mind) now that I've got my cycles back.  Carbs and sugar are pretty vilified on this forum (including, in the past, by yours truly) but I think it's clear that there is such a thing as too low carb and the general advice given out to ladies to cut all carbs and fruit can be a little misguided in some cases!

I kind of thought that advice was specifically for women trying to lose weight

Yes sorry, that's what I meant!

I also wonder whether women who are obese would lose their periods from a very low carb diet, or whether it's just for women who don't have a lot of fat reserves.

The way I see it from my research is that in my case (and in many others) it's related to leptin and thyroid hormones.  Very low carb results in the body going into starvation mode and have very low levels of leptin, which in turn results in not enough active T3 and an excess of rT3 and T4 (an alternatively theory is that the liver is too knackered from ketosis to convert rT3 to active T3) and the hypothyroidism causes amenorrhoea and a weight loss stall (which I had last winter when I was eating 900-1100 cals daily for over 2 months and didn't lose a pound).  This theory is supported by the fact that normal treatment of hypothyroidism does not help hypothalamic amenorrhoea - because of course there is nothing actually wrong with the thyroid gland!  Injection of leptin apparently does help but is a 'fringe' treatment

I think in overweight women amenorrhoea is less of an issue because the body doesn't go into 'starvation mode' so readily, and also the fat cells produce oestrogen.  Certainly the numerous reports I've read online of hypothalamic amenorrhoea following very low carb were in women who were not obese...in fact low carb is recommend for obese women, especially because of their risk of PCOS