Just wanted to say thanks to @The_Mighty_Stu @BrickHead @Yogi1 @robstein @EyeDentist ; For noobies like me, threads with discussions and information like the one here are great;
Hopefully this does not interfere with the great discussion, but I can’t help not asking for advice from you guys.
I am 18yo, play soccer competitively and do calisthenics; I move a lot, and, unfortunately, in the last several months, I was apparently undereating plus I did some crash dieting. This lead to fatigue, poor sleep, constipation, flatulence, poor concentration, poor motivation to train both soccer and calisthenics, low libido, feeling cold, and, as of the last month, stalling on my reps and a lot of muscle soreness for the same volume of calisthenics. Last two weeks, my reps actually decreased, so I went get checked at the doctor in fears of so-called “metabollic damage”.
According to my doctor, the blood results were “ok” and just needed vit D and iron, but the TRT forum suggests otherwise based on my TSH and T4, so I went again and got another panel with more in depth thyroid/t related hormones. For now, I am currently doing 15 minutes of soccer (reading around the website, it seems equivalent to cardio, hence why I reduced it) 5 times a week, about 1/5 of what I used to do, and doing half the volume of calisthenics I used with the same frequency (4x per week) and just eating at my estimated current TDEE (the TDEE taking into account I drastically reduced my excercise).
It is nice to know I don’t have “metabollic damage”, that it is adaptive thermogenesis and that it can apparently be reversed. Again thanks, and any opinion is appreciated.
Btw, blood work: