Whos stabilized at 98.6?

I would guess it could easily take longer than that. For me my temps would only go up if I ate and then rested immediately after eating. If I got up and did almost anything, it would go back down. That went on for weeks at least. Eventually it started going up when I was up more of the time and then even going down when I lay down, which is more how it’s supposed to be. I still have waking temps around 97.6 to 97.8 most of the time. I gave up on trying to force that any higher and just hope it happens someday as I become healthier and rebuild years of damage. I remember being 98.6 a lot when I was younger. like that really was the number. Now I’m all over the place often experience temps 98.9 to 99.5 during the evening rise sometimes between 4:00 and 7:00 pm. I think there is a lot of variety in people’s temps, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in 98.6 in particular. I’m assuming your day time temps are still low, and not just waking temps? In a phone consult, Matt didn’t seem particularly disturbed at my low sleeping and waking temps as long as my day time temps were pretty normal. I really did have to eat unrestrainedly to get them up. Now my appetite is normalized.

Yeah, I think it’s going to take a little bit before you temperatures start stabilizing. I’ve been raising my metabolism for about a year now, and I still wake up in the low 97’s. My general feeling of being warm however, is very good. Usually I’m one of the warmer people in the room. Just make sure you’re eating enough, and eating whatever you want. Things will start working better soon

I’m reading this with keen interest because I’m just now starting RRARF. My waking temps have been 95 and 96 degrees the last three mornings and I’ve been slowly making changes cause I’m coming off 2.5 years of the HCG protocol and it’s a real mental shift I’m having to make.

@Della
Who knows how I wrecked my metabolism. I’ve symptoms of low metabolism as long as I can remember, but I felt energetic as a kid. I always ate enough because I couldn’t go long without food. The healthier I ate the worse I felt over the course of three years. Then I got tired of putting time and effort into being healthy, when it wasn’t paying off. Then I found Matt Stone, and started eating whatever I wanted as much of what I wanted. I have put 55 pounds in the last year, but little of it is body fat. That might me because I never have dieted?

It took me 5 months to go from 96.8 to an average of 98.6, (Vicks oral). I’ve hit 99.0 some mornings. Keeps getting higher every month. And I’m eating 15 servings of raw fruits and veggies a day. Adding in the raw produce lowered my temp to 98.2 for a few weeks but it came right back up and surpassed previous highs. I add a 1/4 tsp of salt to each serving though. I have to sleep 10-12 hours a day to get those temps though. Hoping to need less sleep as time goes on. A combo of HIT weight training and lots of walking keeps my temps up. Medium intensity exercise makes it plummet and gives me insomnia.

You’ve judged wrong Paul. It clearly doesn’t work for everyone, but it works for a lot of people, including me. My life is way better post re-feeding and right now I’m running around outside in a tee shirt digging an 8 foot hole in the moonlight at 1800′ feet on a not super warm night because I’m FUCKIN’ STOKED! http://www.theonion.com/video/report-most-college-males-admit-to-regularly-getti,14386/ You are probably right that pigging out and Matt’s other suggestions are not going to work if the thyroid is truly broken, but it is just turned down in a lot of people by an unhappy body that needs some rest and re-building. If someone is low temp, it seems a lot better to give lifestyle modifications a try rather than just go on meds indefinitely, when it does work for so many people. Your sampling of information here may be a little small. I’ll go back to my hole now.