Hey ladies!
Fresh off the runway from paleo fx, Noelle and I are back with episode #011 of The Paleo Women Podcast.
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This week, Noelle and I discuss the relationship between autoimmune paleo and disordered eating, pistachio oil, and the relationship between exercise and hypothyroidism.
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Topics:
[11:49] Autoimmune Paleo and Disordered Eating
[28:14] Pistachio Oil
[35:57] Exercise with Hypothyroidism
[51:00] Sunscreen
Links!
Eating Disorders and the AIP: A Conversation with Stefani Ruper
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause by Isabella Wentz
Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms When My Lab Tests Are Normal by Datis Kharazian
Good Fats vs Bad Fats: Which Fats are Good For You
Recommendations:
Sunscreen
Stefani’s Recommendations:
Noelle’s Recommendations:
• Badger
• Keys Sunblock
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So happy I found this website!! I love your podcasts 🙂 thank you!
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Hi Stefani,
Thank you very much for your complete answer. I just listened to it and got very excited (and at the same time shy…) when I heard my question. You are 100% right that I have body image issues, I have had them since I was about 15 and I also must agree with Noelle, that I never really and fully recovered. I would love to work with a specialist that is also familiar with Paleo/ the Autoimmune protocol but am not sure where to find one here in Portugal. So far my doctor just told me to take my medication and not worry about gluten or other nutrition approaches. It is quite frustrating however listening to your kind words has given me motivation to continue.
Thanks a lot!
Charlotte
Hi Charlotte! The Paleo Mom team has some great autoimmune specialists if youre looking for one to work with online 🙂 https://thepaleomomconsulting.com or https://thepaleomom.com. 🙂
Hi – I love both of you! I like it when you talk about matter, Stefani. Noelle, you are awesome not a fat beep…. I am trying to learn to be more relaxed and less messed up around food, body image and crap like that. I read and read and listen and listen, and slowly it will happen, right?
Thanks for being funny, sweet and lovely.
Candy
i absolutely love you two! I look forward to listening to you each week during my work commute. I loved today’s episode! I’ve been struggling BIG TIME after doing the whole30 successfully. i do not have any auto-immune diseases or food sensitivities. i feel like i’m struggling with my food more now than before doing the whole30 b/c i’m almost scared to eat the “non-paleo” foods. i feel like i’m going to screw something up when i eat ice cream or a sandwich or something. any ideas how to move past it?
Hey Stefani,
Listening to this episode made me think of a few things. I have thyroid issues. When I was 4 years old I was diagnosed with hyperthyriodism, they treated it with radio-iodine pills that targeted my thyroid and thus “killed it” and now I have hypothyroidism (which after 20+ years is seemingly under control). I take synthroid for this now. So when all of this happened I gained weight and was overweight but not horribly for most of my childhood. I did play 3 sports growing up (& was pretty good) thus was always active. Then when I was 12 I was diagnosed as not producing any growth hormone and took GH for 1.5ish years. I took birth control (loestrin-fe) from like 18-24 years old. I discovered paleo around 22 & I started crossfit at 23. Since 22 I have lost ~10-15lbs (and I was trying to by eating better) but gained about 5 back after starting CF although this is most likely muscle b/c my body has changed. I recently stopped taking my birth control and even got a period the first month off it (i hadn’t had one in 3+ years). And after this I lost another 5lbs ish. So currently I am sitting at 158lbs at 5’8″.
HERE’S MY Q: So my goals right now are 2 fold: 1) be healthy & 2) to lose fat. BUT I find this difficult. I would really like to lose fat to look better but I don’t want to sacrifice my health or sanity (or bank account). Knowing my background, are there things I could do to make reaching my goals easier?
B/c you girls always want more background here ya go:
24 years old 5’8″ 158lbs
Crossfit 4-5X per week for the past year & love it! I am all about the muscle gains.
Eat paleo: but i still eat dairy b/c it doesn’t seem to bother me (have a family history of celiacs thou haven’t been tested myself) I have been told I might have gallbladder issues (issues with breaking down fat) so I take bile supplements and have purposely been eating more fats (and beets!)
getting a masters in biology studying hormones (mainly stress) for conservation of salamanders, so i understand the HPA axis and hormones, kind of. & since I am in grad school, I experience a lot of stress too.
THANKS!
Also I won’t tell you I love your podcast b/c I know you hate that, but one day I’d love an awkwardly long hug.
Megan
Hi — I love you ladies and your podcast! I learned about Stefani from Abel James’ Fat-Burning Man podcast and looked for this podcast. I am waiting for “Sexy by Nature” to arrive so I can read it.
Stefani — Congratulations on being accepted to such a prestigious grad school program. I am a scientist/geek/Renaissance-woman, so I appreciated your interest in theoretical/philosophical physics. Richard Feynman has been my hero since I was a teenager. I hope you are able to bridge the gap between philosophy and physics; from what I have read, people on starting from the philosophy side lack the math background to understand the physics and end up on tenuous ground. I am a biochemist/chemist; not a physicist, but I have had physicist friends explain things to me in a way that made sense — I have gone pretty far in math — just not as far as a physicist/mathematician (I don’t know how far you have gone in math). I think/hope you will find good people to talk with at university this fall — maybe some interdisciplinary crossover between philosophy and physics. Michio Kaku’s books are a good place to start for reading on popular theoretical physics topics, although I don’t recall what he has said about the Higgs-Boson. Best wishes; keep us (me) posted on what you find out.
Noelle — Thank-you for your honest portrayal of your non-6-pack abs. I am not lean now. When I was underweight and could have had a 6-pack if I had cared about it back then, I also had prominent ribs and you could have counted every rib. This didn’t look good (115 and 5’5″ with medium-large bone structure) and was me during high school and early college. I gained 10 pounds in college and thought I was really overweight so I didn’t enjoy it as much as I should have. I had my son at 24, lost most of my post-pregnancy weight within 6 months but never went below 130 pounds after I stopped breast-feeding (I maintained this for 7-8 years). I exercised and had a stomach as flat as yours, but felt fat. Now I really am fat.
My story: I blame the anti-depressants that I took after my divorce started 6 years after my son was born. I gained 12-15 pounds for every year I was on anti-depressants. When I periodically went off them, I didn’t lose/gain weight, I maintained my weight. (I took anti-depressants so that I could function at work and stop crying myself to sleep.) I have been off anti-depressants for about 7 years, but have never been able to successfully lose weight. I am currently in my early 50’s and I am new to Paleo. My husband (remarried 8 years) had about 10-15 pounds to lose and since I have switched our food to Paleo, he has lost what he needed to without exactly knowing why. I initially lost weight (I have been ignoring gluten issues, but am now gluten free) and have lost 15-20 pounds — I have been fluctuating up and down for the past month. I am very overweight (235 pounds), but I don’t have bad bio-markers (no c-reactive protein etc.); I don’t have joint/back problems due to my weight (I have degenerative disc disease in my neck, but have had it for decades and carpal tunnel — much better without gluten). I don’t look as fat as should based on my weight because I am solid (strong bones/muscles +fat); people (fitness trainers etc. assume I am just over 200 lbs). Also, people guess that I am in my early 40’s not 50’s (my husband is ~20 years younger than I am because he didn’t know how old I was in the beginning. I have always eaten high quality good fooe (lots of veggies -especially green leafies, good. clean protein source, nuts/seeds + bad food: bread/corn/cheese; no soda; limited fruit juices; little sugar/candy — except dark chocolate). I cut out the bad food categories (except cheese has been difficult). My hormones are in flux now due to my age. I don’t have hot flashes or other symptoms of peri-menopause, but my period is tapering off and I can go several months without one. Up until 2 or 3 years ago, I had my period like clockwork every 29 days with rare exceptions (+ the one pregnancy).
I think that peri and post menopausal women likely have the most difficult time with weight loss. I am struggling to find the right daily food. I want to have a healthy old age and I am stressed that I will be 60 and still fat and not live to my potential. Please give me any pointers that you can. I will be going to see a holistic doctor to have all of my hormone levels checked. (3 years ago my cortisol and insulin by saliva were ‘normal’; I had other hormones checked via bloodwork, but don’t think anything was abnormal) I assume (rightly or wrongly) that most of your listeners/readers are younger than me because many people my own age or a decade younger stare blankly when I mention ‘podcasts’.
Thanks for your podcast. I appreciate your information and your positive attitudes. You are doing a good thing by disseminating this information.
What a beautiful comment! I loved it for so many reasons!
I agree with you that peri and menopausal women have the most difficult time with weight loss. Unfortunately there’s a lot we can recommend but also a lot we cannot… the body simply slows down for a lot of women as they age. We can do things to support weight loss… but it’s just NOT AS EASY. Perhaps as with all things.
My interest in the Higgs Boson is more recreational than professional. My math isn’t much beyond Dif EQ, though I can do relativity and theoretical phys pretty well … best when above the planck length. 🙂 I just find this to be so damn intriguing. My own work focuses on the relationship between religion and science. My dissertation is on ways in which science can be said to be religious. Anyway.
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