I don’t understand how you can claim that what you are experiencing is normal. A “normal” and healthy girl menstruates and does not suffer from exercise bulimia.
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I have been meaning to express this.
She looks like she lifts.
She doesn’t look like she ever recovers.
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Yeah, something like that.
Reminds me of a girl who frequents my local gym. She works her ass off, and by many definitions is fairly muscular. But she has a disorder similar, but probably more severe, than what we see here. The thing that crosses the mind when seeing her is not “damn, she lifts”, but rather it is “damn, she looks like death on two feet”. Being seen as someone who lifts seems a distant second.
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I legit can’t look at people suffering from anorexia. Something in my lizard brain gets physically revolted and I have to look away in fear of doing something drastic. Mrs has actually had to warn me on occasion when she spies someone like that.
Brains suck.
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I won’t dig into what you mean by “drastic”, but yeah, it is natural for people to react strongly to someone who looks that way, because we perceive them as sickly or near death. Our lizard brains are automatically repulsed by it.
Physically run in the opposite direction or vomit. Just gives me the willies. I get the same way when I see a video of a wasp/hornets nest.
Lol, that’s all kind of stuff to unpack there.
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I"m not claiming that. I’m claiming that I look like a normal teen girl who’s on the thinner side
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Week 2: Day 4
2x(3/side, 4/side, 5/side)-32lbs w/ intensity modifiers
- had 2 midterms today so rushed. a lot easier than expected. should have warmed up better b/c shoulder feels wierd
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Yup. Lifting is the easy part: recovery is where the work happens.
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The discussion on @garagerocker13 's log got me thinking. Should I invest in one of Wendler’s books?
I read what you said. Your idea of what generally constitutes normal in any sense is so out of whack at this point that there is no way that what I said is irrelevant.
I don’t think a training book will solve anything.
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I don’t get how ppl feel/ look better after a cheat day. I only went 300kcal over last night but feel horrid and look puffy
Terrible sleep too- weirdly sweaty
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Because those people aren’t in a state of dying.
And your 300 calories over is still a deficit.
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I thought it would be the opposite- I was hoping that I’m “in a deficit” so my body would respond well to extra carbs
… guess not
That is because you ignore the things you don’t want to hear and only listen to things that confirm your bias. You then ignore these variables when you observe them in others.
Your body has to not be dying before it prioritizes adding muscle. You won’t do what it takes to get there. You can’t be upset with this outcome.
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It may work like that if your body was healthy.
But, as far as I recall, your body is not healthy.
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That’s not a cheat day. A cheat day should at least accomplish some refeeding. If it doesn’t undo at least a day’s worth of a deficit, then how could there be any supercompensation? It’s about replenishing, not about just being within the window of adaptive thermogenesis.
Here’s something worth considering about harsh deficits, in an already healthy body,
- Lowers BMR & LBM (which furthers lowers BMR)
- Lowers sodium/potassium pump efficiency
- Lowers electrolyte efficiency
- Decreases lipolysis
- Increases gluconeogenesis (creates carbs from non-carbs - muscle-wasting)
- Increases lipogenic activity (this is the underpinnings of rebounding, i.e. eating normally → fat gain)
- Can decrease immune system function
- Does not improve insulin sensitivity
- Catabolic hormones increase
- Leptin sensitivity decreases (experiencing satiation becomes harder)
- Increases activity of ghrelin, and therefore hunger increases
You keep expecting your body to function, and respond, as if it were healthy and you were perhaps in a relative deficit rather than an absolute one yet the evidence continually suggests you are in an absolute deficit. Break the pattern. Break the loop. Reap the rewards later. To stay with the harvesting analogy, there’s nothing to reap at the moment without first sowing the seeds, ensuring there’s adequate nutrients for something to spring up, and whatever is sown has to be given enough time to bloom.
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Those items come from a book that also writes this,
“[…], this is where biofeedback becomes so important so you don’t do any long-term damage. You can’t make it just about numbers and then not pay attention to your own body and the messages it is trying to send you.”
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Also, you seem to be spinning your wheels in the opposite direction of the very positive direction you were heading in. Better make like this plane and full reverse
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