Right after the cleanse, I noticed an increase in anxiety
and general feeling of dissatisfaction. At first, I attributed this to the lack
of running due to shin splints and inability to do some upper body work due to
an inflamed case of tennis elbow. After
further examination of my daily routine, I came to the conclusion that although
injuries play a big part in my disheartened feeling, what makes an even bigger
impact is diet. I can't say that I slipped. I still eat clean (except for last
Saturday. I paid dearly for that one), I just don't eat enough.
I realized that as I switched from running to swimming and
elliptical for my off day cardio and eliminated certain exercises from my upper body routine, I have been feeling
less hungry. Naturally, I started eating less. What I didn't take into account
was that I am still burning about the same amount of calories. Basically, my
feeling of "satisfaction" had to be completely mental.
Today, I made a concentrated effort to get my food intake
back on track. It would be traumatizing to wake up one morning and realize that
I began to lose all this glorious muscle.
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