5/21/12 Joints and Hormones

Monday

Daily Totals: 1913 calories @ 148 P/27C/136F

up at 630 am...8.5 hours of sleep.

My joints have been bothering me for about 4 weeks. This is what started me on my keto-venture and doing the full leptin reset. They haven't gotten better. In fact, my right hip and my right elbow started really aching yesterday. Today it's both hips and my right elbow and shoulder. To the point that normal activities are a bit uncomfortable. Sitting is unpleasant. Moving my right arm makes uncomfortable twinges. A little online research pointed me to this article (http://www.womentowomen.com/understandyourbody/symptoms/stiffnessjointpain.aspx?id=1&campaignno=jointpain&adgroup=ag13ache&keywords=aching+joints&gclid=CKypzLmRkrACFWQ0QgodYiejnw) which talks about how joint pain in woman my age is usually a mixture of two issues:

chronic inflammation and hormonal imbalance.

OK. I have eaten paleo for 4 years, so I have less inflammation than many. However, I just realized the effects of omega-6:omega-3 imbalances and their effect on inflammation and just started addressing that last week when I cut out poultry and olive oil.

As for the hormones...well, obviously they're imbalanced! That's why I'm doing the leptin reset. Even more importantly, I just stopped that birth control about 4 weeks ago.So I'm pretty much sure that after being on birth control for thirty years, my body's going through some huge hormonal changes right now. And this statement was a good guess until I literally just re-read what I'd written and realized that the onset of my joint pain dovetails perfectly with the cessation of my birth control. BIG SIGH OF RELIEF!

So hopefully I just need to get through this transition and let my body get balanced and then things will stop hurting. Until then, I will just figure out how to deal with it.

700 a.m.: 4 oz tilapia, 1 can sardines, 4 oz onions, 2 oz kale cooked in 1 Tbs coconut oil. D, probiotics, digestive enzymes, NAC, fish oil.

478 calories @ 51P/16C/24F

1 pm 8 oz chuck steak and 1 tbs coconut oil, 1/2 cup frozen blueberries with cinnamon

215 1 snack pack of seaweed

3pm 3 pieces of bacon. YUM!

430 pm 6 oz tilapia, 1 tbs coconut oil