Continue them until they don't serve your goals or side effects get bad. Not a lot of info here other than "I take wxyz drugs. I've stopped w drug should I keep taking xy drugs because z is new?" we don't know how you're feeling, what your blood work looks like, what your goals are (don't just say "cutting" give time periods and/or weight metrics as goals need to be specific), etc.
Most definitely! Opens up a lot of opportunities for advancement as well, hopefully get involved with department research. I need all I can get in terms of clinical experience (my main job), research, and extras to pad my med school application next year!Nice! You must be feeling stoked
Alcohol is effectively a metabolic poison. It disturbs a lot of the hormonal processes on its own, impedes quality sleep which has its own cascade of negative effects, along with shifting energy substrate from fats and carbs to ethanol which requires your body to stop processing carbs and fats (thus storing them) until you've run out of ethanol in your system to use as energy. Alcoholic beverages are also pretty calorie dense as well.
Ideally protein according to the desired goal weight, HOWEVER in times of caloric restriction and in your case utilizing very high rate of physical activirt, higher protein should be utilized to prevent muscle loss. Often times the fear of muscle loss is overstated in the general population but with your volume of exercise and consistent high volume exercise it is a very real possibility. Will it be a lot? Who knows as it largely is based on one's conditioning but the environment in which you are putting yourself in is prime for protein usage as an energy source.
Keep up the good work! And great job on moderating your goals with living a fulfilling life without guilt of your behaviors. Even when I'm dieting hard, I'll still celebrate the birthdays and other social events. Life's too short to miss out on.
I have OCPD and it is associated to body image issues and anorexia and such and I DEFINITELY feel that force, but I know it is delusional and irrational logic modulator iterates into when it tells me I should skip the dinner now I have reached my goal, even if I have cleaned up my flat so vigorously I could get muscle gains if I just feed my system with nutrients.
Their presence has brought so much stability and happiness and health to my life, I have been able to also go down to 0,3-0,5 mg/day IN bupre from 1 mg I got stuck to when starting taper from like 1,2-2,5 mg/day (0,3 mg/day caused remarkable but tolerable withdrawal symptoms) I was messing with for a while, which made me miserable. I have now kinda relapsed to higher dose for a week almost because I experienced personal crisis but I am stabilizing again, it was just paranoia and trauma triggers and stuff, nothing serious. I am not expecting boring drugs to make me happy now so it makes it easier to stabilize and eventually taper down this madness, again, either to something like 0,3 mg/day, or just quitting.
I had the same issues with both naltrexone and bupe. Endogenous opioids were not binding tk receptors and I felt little joy in things. That was a big reason I got off naltrexone and I experienced the same results you are having with lowering bupe doses. Stay the course my friendYeah, maintaining weight is going great. I did amphetamine for a while like 2-5 times a week, but even tapering down habit, I have gone even lower, I think lowest has been like 70.8 kg. I feel good about dipping slightly every now and then, I could drop at least 7 kgs more and it wouldn't be unhealthy weight. It feels like I don't even need to do much work to maintain this position, weight maintenance habits have stuck and they come naturally. And I can compensate a lot by these kind of days where I ride 50 kms by fixie and manually move 2 square meters of sand dust and dig two holes.
I gotta be honest, I think I should acknowledge my dear cookie crumble too
As we are on this forum, I feel like daily doses lower than 0,5 mg/day IN gives your own endogenic runners high chance, because I believe endorphines are part of it like many other neurotransmitter systems. On high doses of bupre I had this problem where I got easily sweaty, and was really damp when doing cardio, and because my own endorphines were not produced enough and they were competing with bupre, I didn't really get that warm feeling to compensate for sweatiness. But I have been feeling that rapidly becoming less of an issue on lower doses of bupre.
