Started the day off with a run during the early morning hours. It’s been hot, muggy, and stormy here lately and a beautiful clear sunrise was the perfect time to be out and moving. After the past few days of not feeling up to par, it was good to be moving again.
The events of the past few days have affected my endurance within the various exercise circuits of the day, but I did make it through each one. I’m still having trouble with the exhaustion by night, though. Given the work that I need to do after the day job is done, that is bothersome, but I’m pressing on today and going to work on the bibliography for my paper during my odd free moments today.
The scales have moved back up a few pounds and I’m not sure if that is due to the hormonal part of my current cycle or if the earlier “loss” was only a water-weight fluke. In any case, discouraging because I just can’t seem to break that 130 pound limit, I’ve been sticking with the diet and exercise, and I still have the bulging lower abdomen that doesn’t want to budge. Unlike many of the other women on the program, I have control of my estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone levels since they are “artificially” supported by my MD. Rather makes me wonder if I should pull out those horrid tasting amino acids again and start to play games with the bio-chemical HGH-stimulating combos. Not exactly an attractive thought at the moment, particularly as I recall the niacin flush and standing under a cold shower so I would resist scratching my skin off for the fifteen minutes that it would last – not to mention the light-headedness that accompanies the vasodilation.
Fasting tomorrow and I’m going to start the “calorie awareness” and cut myself back to 1200 per day during the remaining days of the cycle (1500 max for those days when I allow a bit extra). I’ll follow that regime for a couple of weeks and re-evaluate whether I should continue it until I get down to the lower 120s. All based on how I look and feel.
Here’s hoping the mild depression and discouragement lifts somewhat once the schoolwork is completed.
You seem to be doing really well – so focussed. Well done and keep up the great work!