Swollen legs

I would check to make sure that you do not have any weird food intolerance or an allergy type thing. My wife has Hashimoto's and she decided to cut gluten and see what would happen. I thought she was full of crap because I thought this gluten thing was totally a stupid fad. It seems to have helped her in many ways, but I noticed one big difference. It is like I quit carrying water weight or something.

I did not change anything as far as calories in or out, I just replaced my gluten products. I have lost 30 lbs (200-170 at 6'2) and feel much better. Took a year to drop the weight. No spike in mileage I have ran ~1500mpy every year for the last 3 years. Very strange.

Have noticed some swelling in my legs and joint issues when I kind of go back to eating gluten products. Once I change back after a day or two I drop a little weight and notice less swelling. Almost like it is water weight. I don't know much about it.

I assume that it isn't just gluten that does this to people, and that different people have issues with different foods.

Not sure if this helps but it is an idea.

I hardly ever recommend seeing a doctor for running aches and pains... but in this case, see a doc. Probably not- but could be a liver disorder, or any number of other things that cause edema. You need a blood test.

I go to the doctor regularly and get blood work. Nothing is off except for low estrogen and high cortisol.

He seems to think it is inflammation from overtraining and under eating, retaining water. I guess I’m looking for a little reassurance and seeing if anyone has experience with this...

You run 50-70mpw, take in 1200-1400 kcals, and your doctor mentioned under eating...

I run around 70mpw and take in 1200kcals for breakfast. If your doctor mentioned under eating as a possible cause then that might be worth looking at.

Trails&Tribulations wrote:

You run 50-70mpw, take in 1200-1400 kcals, and your doctor mentioned under eating...

I run around 70mpw and take in 1200kcals for breakfast. If your doctor mentioned under eating as a possible cause then that might be worth looking at.

Sounds like diabetes.

Nah, I'm good, but thanks for your concern.

Actually, it's probably more accurate to say I eat that before 9am; it's usually spread across 2 meals. For the record, I wasn't suggesting the OP eat 1200kcals for breakfast. That works for me, with my build and physiology, and with my training and lifestyle. I was simply suggesting that if the OP's doctor had suggested under-eating as a possible cause then, given the OP is taking on an extremely low number of kcals for 50-70mpw, that looks an awful lot like the smoking gun.

1400*7=9800kcals for the week. Even assuming a relatively low burn of, say, 80kcals per mile, the OP would be burning in the region of 4000kcals for a 50 week. That leaves 5800kcals just for existing, across the week. 828kcals a day. That's starvation mode.

molls880 wrote:

I track prettyreligiously and generally intake 1200-1400 cals per day.

i think out little daughter eats much more than that

eat more and i bet you'll lose weight