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Full Mental Normality

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:16

Kubricking it.

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 17:58

Wow. Don't know what happened. Am at gym in the middle of a workout and have just gone flop. Confused not tired, not hungry, no pain, just - flop. Hot sweaty flop.

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 26/01/2015 17:59

As in fainted or as in a mental sort of flop?

SnowyMouse · 26/01/2015 18:02

Oh dear enpo

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 18:20

Bastard phone losing my posts

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SnowyMouse · 26/01/2015 18:20

Are you feeling any better?

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 18:23

No fainting luckily just completerefusal of limbs to do proper stuff after about five minutes and its weird because I was fine earlier and danced two miles back home from town. Luckily resistance training ability seems intact or if anything improved so went and did weights Confused but am bothered by sudden physical inadequacy. Maybe this sort if exercise needs more sleep? Stupid bloody sleep. So difficult to know just the right amount to get and then go about getting it.

How is everyone else doing?

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 18:25

Yes after a rest was able to do a different sort of thing. Bleh.

Now have to avoid dinner without DP noticing as am up to calorie limit AGAIN.

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SnowyMouse · 26/01/2015 18:32

Net calories, or gross?

Are you getting enough food for the exercise?

Mitchy1nge · 26/01/2015 18:53

how do diabetics increase their glycogen stores?

have never hit A Wall (it sounds like that) but apparently can expect it during marathon

the horsebeasts have cheered me up :) and some of my friends with their presents and cuddles (mainly the presents Grin)

#1 is on her way here from work AND she is bringing dinner because she was afraid I would celebrate with an omelette

(now that have Moved On will try to stifle my yawns at all the calorie chat as politely as I can)

knitting is an old obsession, I could revisit it but don't think it works that way, these things never really leave us anyway

Mitchy1nge · 26/01/2015 18:58

I don't monitor my mood, that would put cpn and OT and so on out of work, is better to be the last one to know because then you have longer to enjoy it

apart from the bits where you are rocking back and forth pleading for death

Mitchy1nge · 26/01/2015 18:59

an ex has sent flowers and balloons with a simple 'happy birthday' message via inter flora

nice touch

or

creepy?

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 19:02

Far too much food. Is it's all a mystery.

Chap I feel the same, I feel like noticing these things makes them happen,moods especially, and its a self perpetuating thing to a certain extent, and while I only used to worry about going low, now I worry about being too high. As a teen and young adult any time I started losing touch with reality and not sleeping and getting agitated it was always dark and horrible and nasty and so I was very keen to get help/treatment (mostly, unless I was scared people were in on it) but with the supposed hypomania I had a few months ago, TBH it didn't feel like help was needed or anything that I might possibly want, because why would you, and it scares me that a mental illness could be happening without me noticing or realising I needed help, so iconstanyly poke at my self mentally now to check, and worry slightly that I'm a little too high up at the moment on the dose of antidepressant I take while fearing the consequences of reducing (as depressive symptoms started appearing when I tried to go below the current dose I'm on). I'm also not keen on augmentation therapy because of the interactions and enhanced side effect profiles and general potential for unintended effects and multiplicative effects on say weight, but also don't want to stay on the phenelzine alone as my weight is inexorably increasing it seems Confused but at the same time, a truly mentally normal person would just notice they felt dancey and energetic and productive and competent and think "ah, good" rather than "hmm, am I being normal?"

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SnowyMouse · 26/01/2015 19:03

Seems nice and harmless, mitchy Smile

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 19:05

Nice touch.

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 19:07

Prawn dumplings sound nice

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Mitchy1nge · 26/01/2015 19:09

I love birthdays :)

am back to normal self

so for future reference am making a note to Go Out and See People even just the horse-shaped people next time am feeling factitiously despairing

SnowyMouse · 26/01/2015 19:09

They were, steamed so good calorie wise.

I try not to think about how I am except for the questionnaires twice a week. I agree dwelling on it doesn't help, just makes me feel mentally abnormal.

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 19:09

Can glycogen stores be increased?

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Mitchy1nge · 26/01/2015 19:13

well am supposedly working on increasing mine

I can't remember how it works but it involved some formula to calculate implausible amount of carbs each day - in some ways I think I'd rather stop running but am sure that feeling won't last long!

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 19:13

What are you watching Snowy?

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SnowyMouse · 26/01/2015 19:14

New Zealand masterchef, it's getting interesting.

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 19:20

I remember you mentioning that before - you follow it regularly?

Period still hasn't turned up. Wonder if it's just not going to bother this month Confused

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SnowyMouse · 26/01/2015 19:22

I do, it's each weekday evening at 7.

Mine turned up a week early this month Hmm I hope it turns up soon for you.

Mitchy1nge · 26/01/2015 19:37

maybe you've stolen enpo's?

because I love you enpo I will share the secret formula for doubling one's glycogen stores from Advanced Marathon Nutrition or whatever it is called:

Example man runs 80 miles (129 km) per week and weighs 154 lbs (70kg), his average daily training time is 80 minutes. Carb requirement is 490-560g (70 x 7 to 70 x 8) each g supplies 41 cals so example chap's calorie supply from carbs should be 2000 t0 2300 per day

this should supply enough glycogen to run 20-22 miles without the need for fuel during the run but then there are rules about replenishing in good time

Mitchy1nge · 26/01/2015 19:52

and then it's a lot of high GI foods

is prob not a very suitable diet for anyone but this example chap with his heroic weekly mileage?