Craziest Health Site- Raising temps, reversing insulin resistance w/FOOD!!

[cbuffy]

Peggy that's FANTASTIC! You know what's going to happen. You are going to get a healthy, hardy inside and THEN your body will start working on the landscaping. And then watch out! It'll be teeny tiny sizes for you! Way to hang in there for the long haul.

[calgirl]

wow Pegy that is SO wonderful isnt it nice to actually see change and results? Good for you!!

Blessed mama thats so great that your daughter is seeing a difference. And i agree listening to the body is so central to getting better- one's man medicine is another's poison if its not what the body needs.

Looking forward to hearing from anyone who actually begins this- would love to hear how your temps are impacted and other things too!

[Callicrowe]

Callie, I've been taking my temps morning and evening for several days now while I'm preparing. I would take them midday, too, but I haven't remembered yet. One site has a chart I wanted to print off to track it but now I have find it again. I got distracted the day I was looking at it and haven't been back to it since. Next I'm going to read the book. I actually started reading it the other day but haven't gotten into the "meat" of it yet. When I went to read some today something was all funky and it wouldn't open on my desktop computer. I might have to download it again, or send it to that computer from my laptop. It's always something.

[calgirl]

how are things coming callicrowe? Here is an excerpt from testimonials page on the site.




"Included here are a few testimonials that I have gathered over the past few years to highlight the breadth of health conditions that can be alleviated and overcome with simple changes in nutrition and lifestyle. Most of these changes took place, presumably, due to an increase in metabolic rate from following some of the general guidelines promoted on this website. They highlight the power of simple modifications that give the body the tools it needs to perform its healing work and conquer even the most obscure and seemingly-unrelated conditions.

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I must agree that eating like a fiend cuts out all cravings -and- I’ve lost 100 pounds over the last year eating like a fiend. The weight is coming off naturally and I’m never deprived and I don’t waste hours at a gym. People think I’m lying to them when I tell them how I lost the weight.

Sasha

Hello Matt, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your work. I quit dieting 2 months ago. I eat what I want, when I want, as long as it’s nutritious. I was shocked when I got on the scale the other day. I’ve lost 14 pounds! My family has been on a diet called Isagenix for the past few months. They only eat 1 meal a day and drink meal replacement shakes for breakfast and dinner. Their average calorie intake is 1,000-1,200 a day! I’ve lost the same amount of weight they have, eating a ton of food! I eat around 2,200 -2,500 calories a day.

Tiffany

Sorry to bother you gain but you’ve got to know about this!! This morning I had a big plate of potatoes, meat and fat for breakfast (50-60cl of olive oil, 150g of beef, 500g of potatoes and a lot of cabbage) and 55min after my meal, my blood glucose was 114 and 1 hour 50 after my meal it is now 95!! It is not quite your ideal readings you had on overfeeding but it is pretty much amazing I think compared to a few months ago. Keep in mind that I had nearly 120 4 hours after my meal in early march and 95 after a whole night of sleep!!

Looks like I’m getting more and more insulin sensitive !! At least, I’m not getting worse but better. I must be the ideal HED subject: actually lean with improved glucose readings.

Take care,
Martin

I followed the Isagenix diet for a month and am so glad that you introduced me to this blog and lifestyle before a went too far in that direction (Tiffany is my sister-in-law). After just one month of the Isagenix diet routine I was completely devoid of energy, my hypoglycemia was at its worst, and my basal temperature was only 96.4 (the low basal temp might also be partly due to a lifetime of dieting mishaps, but I’m sure this recent venture didn’t help much). As soon as I found this site I quit dieting, put a stop to my 5 mile a day running regimen that I hated (but believed was completely necessary for me to maintain my weight), and started monitoring my basal temperature daily. After three weeks living this new lifestyle my basal temperature leveled off at a nice 98.1 and I have had more energy than ever. And it’s funny that you mention that you lost relatively the same amount as a family member on the Isagenix diet because after I stopped dieting I lost twice the amount I lost during the 1 month I was on Isagenix. Hooray for real food!

Amanda

I was pretty shocked to see my blood pressure drop from like 175/95 three months into the HED, to 130/75 six weeks later, even as I was eating as much as ever. That was the first solid evidence that overfeeding was actually setting things straight in my body, and not just causing damage like the conventional wisdom would have you believe.

Gustav Collden

Just wanted to give you a quick update: My mom is down from 140 to 126lbs and my sister is down from 158 to 140lbs eating the 180 degree way! They are eating thousands of calories a day of fat, starchy carbs, and animal protein. Both have found that a weekly “high sugar day” (pounding natural fruit sugars and some white sugar) has helped keep their metabolisms running super fast.

As for me, I’ve put a little weight back on because I have been eating out almost every day. I try to make good decisions at restaurants (no fried anything, order beef as much as possible, whole wheat, etc) But this is proving to me that sugar and PUFA’s are hiding in everything! I just found out the restaurant I work for cooks their eggs in canola oil! I’ve been ordering omelettes there for months! My strategy now: Go back to eating mostly homemade foods. (I had gone down from 146 to 134lbs and now I’m back up to 145). I would still really like to be 130lbs. I’m 5’9 but also an actress and model, so it’s more for industry standards.

I still notice improvements in my health every day. My hair and nails grow faster and stronger, I’m rarely fatigued, my skin is clear, I sleep like a baby, and my temperature is consistently 98.6 (hot girls club??) My mom’s hair got very thin after she gave birth to all of us, and now her hair is super thick and healthy. Her stylist noticed right away! Now that our bodies have a surplus of plentiful, healthy calories, things like hair, nails, and skin receive more of the body’s attention. Why would a human body care about hair and nails when it only has 1000 calories to work with? It’s only going to be concerned with the most vital functions.

I am constantly referring people to your site. It is a very hard thing to convince someone that fat is good and calories don’t matter. I guess we need to lead by example The proof is in the pudding!

Take care,
Ellyette

First of all I gotta commend you on the quality of your blog. I first found out about you from Jimmy Moore’s Livin La Vida Low Carb blog where he was mentioning something about your post where you pinpointed the pitfalls of a low-carb diet using his current weight as an example. First I thought “how rude”, but deep inside I was thinking the same thing – how come he looks the way he looks and he’s one of the most famous low carbers out there.

Personally I have been on a low carb diet for a while, and for some 6 months it was great (fat loss, better muscle tone, more energy etc…) but after that I started putting the weight on back (slowly though) and I also became more prone to allergies, afternoon tiredness etc… I also have to say that my diet was basically “perfect” in quality – only grass fed local organic beef, butter and cream, wild fish, limited pastured poultry/nuts and seeds, a lot of coconut milk/oil organic cruciferous veggies and other greens – absolutely no cheat meals, no junk food, no effective carbs basically….and it still started failing me (which took me long while to admit to myself).

Anyway, I began reading your blog just to see what you’re all about…and I was a bit put off at first (being that I was so deep in the low carb dogma) but after a while I started doing a lot of research on my own and started coming to very similar conclusions. I was also doing a lot of research on refeeding, carb cycling etc and two months ago I decided I’m going to start introducing sweet potatoes and yams once a week – that limited carb choice is now expanded to regular potatoes, oatmeal, rice, sprouted/sourdough breads with some fruit and I’ve gotta say it’s been almost a miracle – I feel like the first time I got on a low carb diet, just much more fun the fat started burning off, my energy levels and libido are back up, all in all it head a great general effect on my health. It was quite emotional for me to eat grains after almost five years of complete avoidance, and I gotta say it’s liberating being outside of the dogma – especially when experiencing all these benefits.

So basically I wanted to say thank you for your blog, because it was one of the key things that made me do some more research out of the low carb realm that I thought to be the alpha and omega of nutrition. I think you’re on a great track with all of your research and you’re right on the spot with your decision to research into carb cycling/anabolic diet/refeeds… there’s definitely a lot to the whole body fat set point regulation and leptin and I believe this is the right way to go in to further research."

[calgirl]

Ive read these all before and was just gonna post a few but i got sucked into reading them again so here are more. its just so darn cool and encouraging!

"Hello Matt Stone,

I just wanted to extend my gratitude towards you for all the wonderful and witty information you’ve provided to those confused souls seeking solace from the infinite number of restrictive diets floating around in this declining empire. Count me in as one of those confused souls. I was a vegetarian for 11 years (2 of those years were spent as a raw vegan). After my wife’s B12 levels were found to be dangerously low coupled with some insidious health issues made worse by chronic exercise, I decided to ditch vegetarianism and luckily my wife followed shortly thereafter. Did I say “luckily”? Actually, it took plenty of convincing, debate, and downright arguing before my wife embraced the carnivorous side of her being. As you know, there are some horrible consequences if one has extremely low B12 levels. You see, my wife and I became vegetarians for political and moral reasons. Health was also a concern, but it took a backseat to our ideology. Lierre Keith’s book “The Vegetarian Myth” was crucial in refuting our perception about vegetarianism being on the side of environmental sustainability. After 20 years of vegetarianism, my wife began eating fish after reading Lierre’s book and shortly thereafter she made the leap to chicken, red meat, lamb, etc.

Unfortunately, we decided to replace our former vegetarianism with the primal/paleo diet. We were riding high for the first 3 months- plenty of energy, increased muscle mass, increased strength, etc. Yes, primal/paleo felt like the holy grail of diets. But something happened in the past month which greatly disturbed me. I started to suffer bouts of insomnia culminating in a 2 week stretch of little to no sleep. Of course, my irritability increased. Before my bout with insomnia, acne began to surface on my face and food sensitivities appeared out of nowhere. My energy levels were up and down. In short, the honeymoon was over.

Now some might say, “You didn’t correctly apply the tenets of the primal/paleo diet.” Well, I always bought top quality grass-fed beef and pastured chicken from a local farmer, wild alaskan salmon, pastured pork, organ meats like liver, beef heart, and kidneys. All vegetables were organic and locally grown. I ate sweet potatoes every day to meet my carb needs and other starchy vegetables. I stayed away from grains and ate only good fats like coconut oil, beef tallow, pork lard. No processed food whatsoever. Strict prmal/paleo. My wife did the same. Incidentally, my wife also suffered from similar ailments, i.e.- sleep problems, acne, etc.

I suppose by default I had become “low-carb.” I bought into the misconceptions purported by the likes of Panu, Free the Animal, and Mark Sisson’s “insidious weight gain” label with regards to consuming more than 150 grams of carbohydrates. It’s hard to know exactly how many carbs I consumed in one day. I ate 1 1/2 to 2 sweet potatoes per day along with starchy vegetables at every meal + blueberries. Some days I would binge on 3 or 4 large sweet potatoes with tons of ghee after eating dinner.

It was only after I read your free e-book + your blog entries and the comments written by the 180 Degree Health online community documenting the pitfalls of low carb that I began to figure out what the hell was wrong. As a result, I have started a week long HED experiment to restore some sanity back into my life free from the shackles of nutritional dogma. So far so good. My sleep improved immediately, no more insomnia! My wife was spot on when she said to me over a heaping plate of quinoa + red lentils in curry sauce that you have liberated us from yet another dietary prison.

Of course, I will continue to eat the most nutritious food I can, but no longer will I demonize carbohydrates or meat or whatever the undeserving scapegoat is for the current diet trend. Your free E-book and tireless research has saved my life and wife’s life from a potential health hazard of burnt out adrenals and god knows what else. I would also like to thank your readers for their insights and their willingness to share their experiences. I’ve learned a lot from them as well. I’m going to buy all the 180 Degree Health e-books as a show of solidarity to you and your work, but also because your wit and insight are hidden treasures in the world of health and wellness.

Sincerely,
Ron

Please help. I hit day 39 yesterday of RRARF and need advice. I’m looking at trying to get my blood sugars normalized (among other things). I have come from lowish carb GAPS for over 6 months and on RRARF have been eating high carb, lowish fat, not super low but less than I want. I have been eating red potatoes, quinoa, brown basmati rice and yams for my starches. I’ve cut all fruit, nuts, seeds, stevia and honey. My temps are great going from 96.4 up to 97.8 and even 98.0 on some days. During ovulation I was 98.5-98.7. My fasting glucose started in the low 100’s and has only dropped to a consistent 93, better but I still obviously need it lower. Then my 1 hour postprandial glucose reading jumps all over from 199 at first and then on different days 140’s or 150’s. It has been in the 110’s and low 120’s lately and I get excited it’s improving but then will jump up to the 140’s again.

So my question is if I should keep going or can I start eating to appetite? I want to fix the problem and not just put a band-aid on it but it’s getting really difficult to eat this much. What do I do?

(On a side note, here is what I have to report so far on RRARF. I sleep a million times better, have less joint pain from an autoimmune disease and didn’t have cramps during my period for the first time in years. I have gained 5 unwanted pounds but oh well. My husband has increased his temps from 95.9 to between 97.0 – 97.5 depending on the day and also sleeps a million times better. Poor thing really packed it on with a whopping .2 pound gain- not even a half a pound. His fasting glucose has stayed even at around 87. His postprandial glucose readings have gone from the 120’s and 130’s to a typical 103. We have nothing negative to say about our experience so far and are very thankful to you, Matt, and everyone here at the 180 blog.)

Oh, one more thing to report on rrarf so far. I hope poo talk is okay here, it’s applauded on the GAPS boards I’m used to so don’t read any more if you can’t stand toilet talk. For those that deal with constipation, I have been constipated my whole life and needed enemas just to go. I’ve done daily enemas for over 2 years now and by the 2nd week of rrarf I was going by myself once a day. Now for the last 2 weeks straight I not only didn’t need an enema but am consistently going 3x a day on my own. The pride I now have as I leave the bathroom-well formed, good consistency, a joy that can be truly appreciated by the constipated.

-Sheri

My breastfed baby went from pooping once every 4-7 days…to 2-3 times a day.

-Stephanie

OK…. So one month after eating a lot, sleeping slot, and watching my temperatures, I hit 98 degrees today! Was averaging 96s and even high 95s when I started.

-Shulamis

I just thought I should let everyone know that I am officially over my adrenal fatigue! Just got back from a doctor’s visit to go over my saliva test results!

Every day I wake up effortlessly around 6am, sans alarm clock, and get sleepy right around 8pm. No more brain fog, lethargy, or mood swings. No more panic attacks, heart palpitations, etc. I am so happy, and feel oh-so vibrant. Everything just seems so much more clear, almost as if I’m experiencing life for the first time (sorry if that sounds corny, or cheesy… but it’s the truth!)

Thank you Matt Stone. Doubt I could’ve done it as effectively without you!

-Katerina

Hi Matt,

I first emailed you about 2 months ago, wanting some advice on how to add carbs back to my diet. I wanted to give you an update on how things turned out for me. You originally advised me to do carb cycling, but I’ve never actually been great at following other people’s advice, so after trying carb cycling for a few weeks I just went for RRARF.

So in the past 2 months I’ve pretty much been eating HED or RRARF, whatever it is called now. It was rough at first but now it’s great. I gained weight but it seems to have stabilized. I only ended up gaining like 10 or 15lbs of fat, which is not that bad or even noticeable. I moved my belt out one notch. No big deal. But, here’s the really cool part: I’ve gained a lot of muscle too. I haven’t been working out. I’ve been sitting on my ass eating starch and meat for 2 months straight, and I’ve gained more muscle in those 2 months than I did in 4 months of eating zero carb and lifting weights. It’s not only water and glycogen either. I can tell when I move around that my legs have better power and explosiveness: it’s easier to jump. It’s AWESOME. Haha, does my excitement show?

Also, my energy is starting to come back. I worked 3rd shift all summer, and now I’m adjusting to being awake in the morning and afternoon for school, so things aren’t perfect. But my god, things are so much better. I get incredibly fidgety if I sit still for too long and the feeling that my limbs are made of lead and it can’t possibly be worthwhile to move them is gone. And my digestion! It’s better than it has ever been in my life. I literally didn’t know it could be this good.

Finally, my blood sugar control is better. A lot better! When I used to eat ice cream, I would immediately get the high blood sugar headache and thirst, and then the crash would come an hour later followed by the insane desire to eat more ice cream and anything else that gets in the way. I don’t get the headaches anymore! Nor does my blood sugar crash and nor do I feel the desire to go on some psychotic ice cream binge. I have no idea why eating starch would improve my blood sugar control like this, but it does. It could be elf magic or nanobots for all I care, it works!

So anyway, thank you so much for putting the word out there and taking the time to answer my emails when I first started. You rock. Keep being awesome!

-Katie

Yo Matt, since stumbling upon your blog a few months back I have really been able to take control of my health and live in a way that allows me to be healthy but not obsessed with the pursuit of weight loss and health. I have been able to keep my weight down and pack on muscle in a more efficient and less time and thought consuming way than ever before.

-Alex

Everything Matt has said in the last few weeks is true. It doesn’t matter…I can eat 10 potatoes for dinner and my body still wants food, even though if I did eat I would probably throw up.

I honestly have seen such an accelerated rate of healing with the more food I eat, even if some of it is crap…it has completely fixed my bowels and I actually have the energy to deal with the stresses and situations of everyday life.

As for the grains, I gave them up completely and for a while I wasn’t even able to go back to them because I was so intolerant. It took a while, but now I can actually eat a sandwich without feeling awful.

…I tried everything… I spent around 12,000 dollars on colonics, supplements, chiropractors, biofeedback, and other procedures. I had the mayo clinic tell me that my colon would most likely have to be removed…

-TGraham

Hey bro.

How’s it going? My temperature went from 36 to 36.8 upon waking now. My regular temp is 37 to 37.1 which means my thyroid is working again good I think. It’s been only about a week.

-John

Been an exercise freak my whole life. In fact, I worked out myself into stage 3 adrenal fatigue with a body temp of 97.0. On month 3 of focusing on health. Eating all the foods that I once thought were the devil (potatoes, brown rice etc.)

Results so far…avg basal temp 97.7 – my all time high 98.1. Cravings completely gone. Lost a couple pounds but mostly inches. Clothes fit looser and the jiggle factor is reduced.

But most of all I feel great and I don’t have to peel myself out of bed in the morning. Also am really enjoying focusing on my health for a change instead of striving for that illusive six pack. Doing the same for my clients. Would like to be known as the Anti-DIET Health and Fitness guru instead of just another metabolism destroyer.

-Deb

When I started reading 180 Degree Health about a year ago my glucose was hovering dangerously in the 400-500 range. I was doing “low carb” at the time. After making adjustments in my diet to include starch in proportion to protein (with the fat intact )and eating to appetite my sugars are now in the 200s. Big difference. As I continue to heal I expect to overcome my Type II diabetes completely.

-Lisa

After reading your blog, I cut out all Omega-6. I eat burgers, lasagna, fruit, veggies, bread, butter, and ice cream. All sorts of evil saturated fat! Ha! I rest. I do some weight training. I take long walks. No excessive running. I quit drinking coffee to get my cortisol down.

I now have a flat stomach! And I don’t do anything! I don’t even know how to do sit ups properly!

I thought it wasn’t supposed to be this way. I thought I should get fatter. I thought my metabolism would’ve slowed (I’m in my mid-30s now). Not so.

-Mark

Anyways, is been a little more than 3 month since I started your recommendations and my health keeps on improving every day. I am starting to feel normal again after 3 years of being super sick (if you have any clue of what that means). Man, it is pretty cool feeling normal again! I have gained a little over 30 lbs. I am at my normal weight before I got sick which was at 145 lbs. I look more muscular, have a butt!, increased libido, better sleep, better digestion, etc. I still have 3-5 b.m.’s a day. I sometimes see a little bit of blood in my stools too, but my adrenal fatigue and hypothyroid symptoms have pretty much disappeared.

-Jonathan

I grew up and was never fat, we were actually really skinny kids, ate good nutritious homecooked meals and were always outside playing. About 9th grade, I started not being as skinny and then it all started after my mom said I couldn’t eat like a kid anymore (ie, anything, anytime etc). She wasn’t being mean just saying to watch it. Well this started the next 10 years of my life being obsessed with exercise, dieting, ups and downs, hating myself/body, constantly worried about what I was eating, when I was going to eat, how much fat and then bingeing and then hating myself bc I did. I tried all the diets out there -Atkins, WW, my own calorie counting. At one point I was obsessed with running and would run twice a day in high school. I was down to 112 lbs and am 5’6 and I remember a kid in my neighborhood saw me running and was like “why do you run so much?” I said “to lose weight”…he goes “FROM WHERE?”. But to me, I needed to stay slim or else I’d “be fat” and “ugly.”

And this was normal – I don’t remember a friend, (save one in college) that wasn’t obsessed and in bondage over food and body image.

So when I was 24, I was so fed up I remember crying and I said, I’m not dieting for the rest of my life – EVER. I don’t care how much I weigh, I don’t care how much I gain, I REFUSE to live like this anymore and REFUSE to ever pass this destructive behavior down to a daughter some day. I said, I am stopping this NOW because the mental and emotional pain of obsessing and hating is worse to live with than if I ever would become “fat” by not dieting.

Even though everyone thought I was crazy and it took a lot of discipline in the beginning, I literally ate whatever I wanted whenever my body wanted it. I have never once been on the scale since. I realized the more of anything I “allowed” myself to have the less I wanted it bc my body knew that if it needed it, I could have it and it would tell me.

Long story short, I am now healed from that destructive behavior and never eat unless I’m hungry, it’s just second nature now. The irony is that in the first two years after I started my “no diet for life” – I went down two sizes and have stayed that way no matter what I eat or how little I work out – I’ve consistently been a size 4 for the last 7 years, something I NEVER did prior – I would always balloon up to an 8 then diet and lose weight, balloon up to a 8 and go down – all over the place, my body was a mess. Also for a big chunk of that time, I had very sporadic periods until I was 21 bc of my crazy body and dieting mess.

Anyways, I’m telling you all this to say thanks for getting the word out. I have spent the last 7 years helping a bunch of my close friends rid themselves from all the food and body bondage just based on my own random personal experiences and it’s great to hear someone like you, that has the attention of many people, preach the truth!

I love all of your research and blogs, keep up the great work and let me tell you – I’m a living example that what you just wrote WORKS. I’ve by no means “arrived” at some health utopia but it’s a work in progress just as all life is and its cool to just learn how to be kind to your body and love yourself bc it’s the only body we’ve got!

Sorry that got kind of long, just wanted to share. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Bayleigh"

[Callicrowe]

Wow, Callie. I just read all these testimonies and am quite impressed. I'm especially glad to have found this now, as just a few weeks ago my doctor (MD practicing holistic med) told me to severely limit carbs because my A1c had gone back up to borderline again. It just hasn't felt natural to cut out all grains, and from this it looks like I could do some real damage if I continue to eat this way. I'm going to make time today to get further into the ebook (read some more of it last night) and decide what I need to do. I'm actually looking forward to eating carbs again. It's kind of scary to think of eating this way, as it goes against all the stuff we've been told for a long time, but what I've been doing isn't working so well (or my numbers wouldn't have gone up!), so I think I'll just take a chance and see what it does for me. Thanks for posting these... I may not have read them, at least not today, and I think I needed to read them.

[calgirl]

You are so welcome Peggy!

Its weird isnt it, the complete opposite of what we are told. But with the rate of disease and obesity it does seem we need something completely different from the usual recommendations.

I have noticed the days i eat a lot of good food my body looks leaner and my abs look flatter the next day. In fact I feel like ttapp combined with eating this way is a double whammy because i can see changes immediately.

[Callicrowe]

Whew, I got through the ebook tonight. Lots to think about. I was surprised to learn that my diet, which I consider healthy, contains a lot of Omega 6's. Nuts and peanut butter being big offenders in that area. I'm wondering why he recommends refined CO over virgin CO. I'm curious now to read further and see what else I can learn about this way of healing the metabolism. Taking a "spa month"? I might be able to talk myself into that.

I don't know about the exclusion of all sugars and sweeteners. Oatmeal without something to sweeten it? I don't know. That part seems like it would be hard, even though I've cut out a LOT of sweeteners in my diet already.

It's late, and I'm tired, so I'm going to bed and think more about this tomorrow. I know it's New Year's Eve, but I don't think I'm going to try to make it to midnight.

[calgirl]

yeah honestly i wouldnt worry about the sweetener thing. I know that lots of people get great results while still eating junk as well, the point is to really aim for the unrefined foods first and as you fill up on that the other stuff just ceases to be appealing. i can attest to this. But i am doubtful i will ever give up my stevia lol. I think baby steps are key here! as long as your temps are rising with this you are making progress and ultimately your body will be able to process less than optimal food choices easily and naturally a high metabolism will help keep your body detoxing. glad to hear you were able to read it Happy new year!!

[Callicrowe]

OK, I won't sweat the sweetener thing. I think obsessing about the details is counter-productive anyway, isn't it? I'm supposed to be getting rid of stressors, not finding new ones. It's part of my make-up, though, to have to try to do things "perfectly". I'm getting much better about things being "good enough", though.

Does he go into more detail about this way of eating in his books? I'm assuming the ebook is basically just an introduction. I'm going to check out his website in more detail in the next day or so and see what else I can learn. I was surprised that he recommends under-the-arm temperature taking, as I thought it was less accurate, but I may just be remembering wrong from something I read. He does say that armpit temps will be lower than oral, so when he talks about getting the temps up to normal, is he referring to armpit temps? If so, I have farther to go than I thought. My oral temps are usually in the 96.-something range, maybe up to about 97.2.

Have to go eat lunch. Something quick, as it's later than usual and I don't want to spend too much time preparing.