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How did RFL work out for you?
How did RFL work out for you?
What do you mean by "45 minutes of sprints?"
4 minutes of Tabata interval sprints leaves me near death. lol
Sprint. Wait a few minutes. Sprint. Wait a few minutes. I basically do this until I can't walk anymore. Usually the whole thing is 45 minutes. Do it on my lunch break at work.
It's pretty amazing that you can do that daily.
Keep up the good work.
Have you sat your current girl down and straightened out some facts about you and your diet? Judging from your posts in here and displayed dedication, eventually you will have to, unless you want your work to be undone continuously. If push comes to shove, you've gotta be prepare to drop her if she's not displaying any understanding for, or even sabotaging of your ambitions. Fuck - I could've opten out of moving to another city to start studying psychology because I had an at the time great girlfriend, but that would've landed me in an otherwise miserable existence. Six months later, now single, I wouldn't have changed a thing. Company is nice, but if it interferes with your goals, you gotta make the sound choice, which always is to put yourself first.
Advanced primary hypothyroidism can lead to hyponatremia, most frequently associated with myxedema. Milder forms of hypothyroidism can lead to a decrease in renal blood flow, glomerular filtration, and a decrease in maximal solute-free water excretion. However, these defects generally are not of sufficient magnitude to lead to hyponatremia in association with a normal fluid intake. With normal fluid intake, hyponatremia generally results from the inability to decrease urine osmolality below plasma rather than a defect in maximal solute-free water excretion. The failure to dilute the urine below plasma generally is due to a failure to suppress maximally the antidiuretic hormone AVP (27). The failure of some hypothyroid patients to suppress plasma AVP during an acute water load was reported initially by Skowsky et al. (28).
Recently, experimental studies in rats with advanced hypothyroidism (serum total T4 0.6
SD that's possible (although I take exception to animals studies being extrapolated to humans), and for the longest time I thought I had a problem with my thyroid. I got a test once, years ago, and they said it was fine, but maybe i'll get another one to see if the first test was fucked up.
You have to get the full panel done (tsh, t3 (bound and free), t4, rt3). Lots of docs will only test TSH, which is a huge mistake. Then there is also a differentiation between subclinical and clinical hypothyroidism, and many clinicians ignore subclinical.
Another ultra-low tech solution is to take your body temperature upon waking. If it's consistently under 98.6F it can indicate subclinical hypothyroidism. This was the gold standard test before it was replaced by serum tests, and has more reliability than a once off serum test because it's repeatable.
How exactly do I request such a test? i can't just walk into a lab and ask for them to do various things and then expect my insurance to cover it, unless i'm missing something.
I have no idea how insurance coverage works in the states for you... we have socialized health care up here, so it's simply just a matter of asking your doctor nicely for those tests and hoping they agree, and if not, heading to another doctor. My advice would be to engage your doctor and tell him what you want and ask him if it's covered by insurance... tell him your story (lots of weight loss, ultra low calorie intake and stalling despite exercise and activity levels), tell him about the literature to support metabolic downregulation after prolonged dieting and weight loss (check out the links I posted in the metabolism reset thread in the main diet forum) - hopefully he will go along with it... if he's a good doctor he should be checking this regardless given your history with weight.
You can always try out the thermometer route first (oral temperature after waking up), and if you find your readings are consistently under 98.6F, go get the thyroid workup to confirm it, then maybe get treatment for it.
Yes I forgot you were canadian. Thanks for the advice, I will see about getting some bloodwork done. I feel quite good, but am just bloated right now. In the past STOPPING exercise and over-hydrating has often led to a "whoosh" where I shed 8-10 lbs in a week's time, and then consistently the rest would come off as long as I remained low carb. But this also effects my gains obviously - and I love to lift iron and generally go animal mode in the gym.
I'm sure I would make a fascinating lab subject.