You just have no idea how terrible you feel until you start to feel better. I find that odd, but very true.
I’ve been on cortisol supplements for about a month. I’ve noticed all kinds of improvements but today I’m very excited about just one.
I have more energy.
For about 4 years I was a regular at the gym. Never less than twice per week, 4 days was the norm. I’m not an athlete by any means, but I enjoyed what I could do and regular progress towards doing better. It felt good to do things and feel strong and healthy.
Then it got easier to skip days. And then it got easier to skip weeks. To take breaks. Until finally I just wasn’t going at all because it was so exhausting. It got to the point where I could either make a trip to the gym, or get in a productive work day, but not both.
I felt terrible. Like a lazy slob. Like I’d given up.
I’m glad now that I did.
I’m not sure how we get so conditioned to always believe the worst of our selves. I’m not lazy. I don’t have a particular problem with procrastination (not that I’m not happy to ignore housework or filing for a while, I’m human after all). Why did I believe that it was a problem of motivation when that isn’t really my personality?
Now I know that a lot of other issues like food sensitivity and too much extreme dieting did a number on my poor adrenal glands and wore them out. The car just won’t run if there’s no gas in it. No amount of will power will make it. So pushing made things worse instead of better.
I’m just glad I’ve found a way to make things better. The gym on Friday was good. Saturday when I was sore from it a little less so, but by Monday I was ready to go back and have another good workout. And I did. And it felt good. Wednesday will feel better.
If just cortisol supplementation feels this good, I can’t wait to see what happens when I get my hands on some T3
No kidding, cortisol? I have so much chronic stress in my life I’d think I had way too much of that, as opposed to not enough.
Lack of energy to do any freaking thing is my biggest gripe. I want to work out. I can’t believe it should be difficult. I LOVE doing it. Yet, it’s like some herculean thing I have to spend the entire day encouraging myself toward before I can accomplish 60 seconds of it. It’s like it requires some energy that the batteries I am using just don’t put out.
I am easily confused by ‘reverse T3′. I actually spent a bunch of money to have bloodwork done, I still have the kit from literally almost 2 years ago (I think they might still honor it but I don’t know), but they don’t do reverse T3 and someone on the forum convinced me that without that the whole measure was useless.
PJ
By: PJ on April 1, 2011
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