I think you might want to have your hormones checked out. I’m not a doctor. It’s just that when this happens to me without any external triggers, it’s when my prolactin is too high. I don’t know what your problem is. 2 endos have told me this happens to me because of dopamine suppression.
My point is this is not normal and there may be an underlying medical issue so go see a doctor.
Maybe the cause is hormonal, but her hormones could be out of whack as a consequence too.
I was feeling really atrocious, sleep was poor along with everything else and my testosterone came back almost bottomed out when I was checked out. At this point I’d lost touch with how long I’d been underfeeding, and was actively living through the beginning of my eating disorder. I saw no flaws with how I was living, the cause had to be medical.
By the time I started HRT it should have been evident that I was sick, in a mental sense, regarding food and exercise. Some healthcare providers nibbled at the idea, but I wish now they’d trusted their gut and pushed back more.
I wish I had to supply them with a food log, and an activity log, and that it had been a pre-requisite to bring activity levels down for a while before starting the treatment.
The thing is, I might need HRT, because one of my nads is very small. However, the only way to figure it out is to go off, and it’ll take my body a long time to start producing again on its own because the test I’m given has a really long half-life and in my country there is no such thing as PCT through legal channels (and the ramifications of engaging with it illegally are disproportionate). I’m not looking forward to that stint.
If I could go back, I would have much rather eaten at a macro split of 40/30/30 for a few months as that is going to be neglible long-term. @anna_5588 lifts weights, does conditioning/cardio, and walks a lot, so for her I’d say the “prescription” should be 3x full-body workouts (~90 minutes) and 8-10k steps/day. No conditioning, no cardio.
For me, as I engage in a sport alongside my lifting, maybe 2x weights, 2x sports.
Occam’s razor and what not.
And, if a person can’t conceive of eating 40/30/30 for a while for medical reasons/diagnostics then that’s a red flag in and of its own. The amount of stress it causes to live with a brain that frets about that to such an extent is a punishment in and of its own.
@dt79 my hormones are out of what but not the ones you mentioned. This was still an issue when I was ON hrt.
Last nights dream was whack. Sleep paralysis every time I “closed my eyes”, but apparently I was in a dream the whole time
@Voxel i have definitely been eating more carbs. Can’t say I feel much of a difference
In isolation this would be a valid counter-argument, but I’d like to offer in return that you routinely add extraneous work on top of already demanding programs and that’s just the stuff that you log.
Maybe you aren’t doing the same thing as me, maybe you are, but I’ve upped my carbs unable to tell a difference but then I’ve “allowed” myself to do additional stuff because hey, carbs.
Similarly, I’ve “cut” down on volume but then all that extra anxious energy is repurposed into other activity anyway. Or less sleep. Or less food.
When I haven’t adapted in similar ways, then that’s been genuinely uncomfortable.
Week 8: Day 3
Week 8: Day 4- makeup accessories
Lunges: 1/side to 5/side back down, 5 burpees as “rest”
Pullups/chinups: 10 min emom- 3 pullups odd, 4 ng chins even
curls: 2x5-35lbs
Updates:
I don’t know if this is smart.
I don’t necessarily care if you defend having done this, I expect you to have rationaled it somehow anyway, and I can’t tell you do not do something you have already done.
But, under the assumption that Thursday is a rest day you went and hit the same muscles again while they should be recovering, rebuilding, and exceeding their previous ability and you just restarted that process from where it was at. Presumably, in a net-sense, you still hadn’t synthesised enough to offset the degradation, and you burried yourself deeper into a hole.
You would have been better off either doing the lunges on Wednesday, or not doing them at all.
The deadlift hit your back, and the bench press too if you do it as a powerlifter, so the pull-ups/chins also hit muscles that are already recovering.
I’d be positively amazed if there was some “extra” that wasn’t being logged.
Steps come to mind.
Week 8: Day 5- easy cardio
30min incline walk: 35min, 3.0-3.7 mph, 3-6.5% incline, hung around 5-6 most of the time
Bottom’s up KB press: 5x4/side- 22.5lb KB
@Voxel I really am not any extra workouts on top of what is logged. Steps don’t really count since I’m accustomed to them. I’m also not really doing that much work, especially considering I’m a uni student with minimal classwork and responsibilities.
those like pwn and sven do far more
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I eat far more too. And spent MANY years building to that point. It’s an unfair comparison: please stop making it.
Unless you’ve figured out how to break the laws of physics, steps very much do “count”.
Good
Disagree, but if they don’t count would you be open to foregoing some of them then? (playing devil’s advocate here)
Have you disregarded entirely the eating habits and training habits @T3hPwnisher had during his college years? I don’t keep track of your respective ages but, for the sake of argument let us postulate he is twice your age. I’m guessing I’m close enough to make a point. He’s spent almost your entire lifespan building up to the workload that you seem truly desperate to emulate.
Anna, you should go look up T3hPwnisher’s youtube channel and see where he was 14 years ago.
It’s the channel where he posts his lifting videos on.
Easy now.
You have to remember that @T3hPwnisher is now over 30 though, and as such he has to keep it real.
Haha, I couldn’t remember if the Lee Boyce article was lifters over 30 or 40. I just went with the most boisterous option to make my point. I don’t know what his capabilities where in his uni age, but he himself has said that he had to build to this point, so I’m fine with continuing down that street.
Genuinely though, I’d wish the comparison game would stop, but I doubt that it will anytime soon. Personally, I sincerely hope I’m not making things worse.
If we’re going to be serious for a second, @T3hPwnisher has been training for longer than @anna_5588 has been alive, your point is valid.
Society has spent thousands of years developing this, it’s going to be a hell of a battle to get rid of it.
This. Is. Not. Correct.
Edited to add something more useful: Let’s put it another way, because technically you are sort of correct, but…just what EXACTLY do you think your body is doing in order to make itself “accustomed” to 30k steps? I am not being rhetorical.
How do marathon runners get “accustomed” to running marathons?
I think we have talked about this before. Try hard not to play this comparison game. There will always be someone smarter, stronger, faster, whatever… Playing the comparison game leads to a nasty mental health position (in my own experience, I think it contributed a lot to the development of depression). You said yourself that math is not your strongest suit academically, where it appears as if it might be his.
Also - eat more. More calories fuel the brain too.
Well, it’s an intro game theory course, very little maths. I’m struggling more than I should… this kind of the inking is something I always thought I was good at.
Something isn’t clicking. I’m doing all the readings and going to office hours but it’s still not really sinking in.
I get that.
Just can’t help thinking that there might be some kid at another uni with better qualifications to higher gpa who gets into the grad program I want and I don’t
To be extremely conservative, 30K steps per day is 15 kilometers, and that’s with super short steps. There’s no world in which that ‘doesn’t count’.
