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I’m having a [shit] day.
Ran yday trails headlamp pouring rain was nice but calf sore at end and foot and was afraid of bones & looking forward to seeing my physio today and she had to cancel bc her doggo strikethrough baby had emerg vet in van (feels for her!!!!).
No tests show that it’s a stress frac but my anxiety is v high not seeing her.
Morning swim had me feeling so drained and some rhomboid/radiating pec tightness (body’s warning sign).
Must ground myself and meet the needs that parts of me feel aren’t met. Must edge slowly towards the fear, beginning in the state of being in India.
Because I believe it’s possible to reverse my DEXA bone scan from -4 to 0.
Journal entry for today:
4:59am F D18:
Slept early and up early
Tomo is mulled wine
5:52am
Weightlifting 🏋️♀️for bones 🦴
5:06pm
It’s not too late
The body is incredible
The body is incredibly powerful and it has a lot more strength than you think
I’m tired
My body thinks I’m menopausal right now.
It doesn’t trust me.
Recalibrate, then get strong.
Already holding onto fat stores for pseudo-famine.
Email to my medical team:
1 week of daily:
***no fasted bike
• 1 hr cycling/swim
• 2-3x bone strengthening protocol exercises
• 10 mins core work
2nd week:
***no fasted bike
• alternating between 1hr swim/bike and 30 mins bike with 30 mins gym weight lifting
• 2-3x bone strengthening protocol exercises
• 10 mins core work
Thoughts?
This would be very hard for me but I need to do this.
More data:
There are three fundamental rules that govern bone adaptation:
(1) It is driven by dynamic, rather than static, loading.
(2) Only a short duration of mechanical loading is necessary to initiate an adaptive response.
(3) Bone cells accommodate to a customary mechanical loading environment, making them less responsive to routine loading signals.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S8756328298001185
Ugh feel like eating is just such an inconvenience. Life would be so much easier if we didn’t have to eat 😏
I feel so disconnected from my own hunger cues and am finding that I just go from not hungry to literally starving.
I have to reconnect with my body.
***Also: I had an intense workout on the stairmonster today and actually scared myself at my strength and ability to override exhaustion. In contrast, yesterday was an easy swim and my standard AM Bike. Honestly, I felt ill all day today whereas I felt energized yesterday. My body didn’t well-tolerate the high cortisol of today and I’m glad I recognized it. Tomorrow will be easy. ***
Physical symptoms are the body’s language.
Sensations are asking to be experienced.
And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Underrecovery’s slowing my mastery
And having to pee so damn constantly
Creating this inner conflicting monstrosity
Always go moderately
Bufferless bossery
Seldom ferocity
Tamed restrained velocity
Fuck all this monstery
So much animosity
Prepostery
Diagnostically
Stuckery
Suckery
Yuckery.
Ate enough➡️had a nice trail run.
Facts:
