Hey girl, well where to start, I was going to make a thread about this, but you got to it first Aries
Well the first signs actually happened about 6 weeks before the show, because of the problems with my digestive that I had, I had to work even harder than normal to get my bodyfat down (diet and training wise). I started becoming tired, I didn't want to do anything outside of what I had too (train twice a day), I started becoming irriated, and well it's hard to tell when you're in comp mode if it's overdoing it, or it it's the normal stress of comp mode.
1 sign to look for before you go overboard is heavy legs, if it feels like you're carry 2 cement blocks for legs just to go to the bathroom, you better take an extra rest day.
So anyway now for what happened after the show after the deplete, playing with the sodium, depleting the water and loading all those carbs, fats and SUGAR!
I was so sore, my muscles ached every last 1 of them, the pain was insane it felt like my hardest workout times 20, I couldn't move, it hurt to get up to go to the kitchen, and this lasted like 10 days, my muscles still hurt but not at bad as the first 10 days.
I am super tired all the time, it's actually a task and takes alot of energy to get dressed.
Sometimes I'll sleep 14 hours straight (at the beginning) only to wake exhausted and not rested at all, I feel and look like I've been up all night, heavy eyes. Or I have restless sleeps where I can't sleep more than an hour at a time, regardless of what I do to relax before bed, hot baths, lavendar oil, ZMA, sleepy time herbal teas, and this has been like this for the last week. And it's driving me crazy I just would like 1 good sleep, I feel like I forgot what good sleep is.
Any little thing that would never stress me before stresses me out like crazy, like not being able to take the vacuum out properly. And I can't control my stress at all, or calm down, like last night I was awake all night cause every little noise was scaring me, I was literally shaking and crying.
I don't know if anyone remembers me asking about low blood pressure not that long ago well that's another sign.
I have difficulty concentrating, my boyfriend the another day asked me to send an email for him, and he was telling what to write and I couldn't figure out how to spell important.
My hands and feet are always cold and I get "pins & needles" in them often.
My hormones are definiately out of wack, I lost my period like 3 months ago, and it still hasn't come back.
I would suggest to the ladies that train hard, I know some of your don't take very many week breaks, but every 3 months you should really have a week off.
So hopefully someone can learn something from the hell I'm living on a regular basis.
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