It is crazy how much eating bad affects me.
Basically we have big thanksgivings and so we have been eating thanksgiving leftover food for days for basically every meal and my energy during the day is all over the place and I can’t sleep well and I just feel like I’m unwinding back into depression brain.
This is in stark contrast to the weeks prior to thanksgiving where I was focusing very hard on getting all my health routines in as ideally as possible.
Its crazy how fast it flipped too, it was within a week, its not even anything to do with weight or body fat changes because my numbers have not changed at all, its purely the fact that I’m eating the wrong things.
I haven’t lost any gains from the training i was doing for running and I did even get a better than expected time so I wasn’t starting in a worse position, it just really was a matter of eating the wrong things.
What’s confusing is in this case cronometer wasnt so helpful. I can see that before thanksgiving I was meeting like 80% on everything if I did all the right things, I could be better but that’s soooo much better than what I sued to be which was like 30s.
And when I eat the Thanksgiving food I’m actually hitting a lot of it, in the 60s but that means nothing apparently because I actually am functioning worse all around, so despite being somewhat rounded and somewhat filling, its putting me near when I was in the 30s.
I guess this means that the timing of food is probably equally as important as hitting macros/micros.
My sleep was getting up into a score of 80s even if I didnt do a proper wind down routine before and now after I’m in the 60s and still doing a nosedive of both quality and duration.
Its interesting how stuff like this is all still basic stuff but it turns out its still complex and probably explains why people can never agree on ways to do health because its too variable to be able to just say do this and that and also too complex to just tell people the variables, they have to figure out how to improve for themselves.
Yeah I’ve wanted to try those but havent.
At this point I’ve done enough experimenting that I don’t need it though because I have a handle on blood sugar now.
I had a issue in the past thst I didnt know was a issue for a long time because I just thought it was normal to be forcibly sleepy no matter what a couple hours after lunch.
What turned out to be was that I was hugely undereating probably because I was in depressed nihilistic moods and my metabolism of a tall skinny dude churning through every little ounce of food, I eventually figured out which foods to eat and when to keep it up once I realized this was the problem.
I remember one time getting a detention in school for this and at the time I was fine with the detention because I just didn’t understand the dynamic here but after figuring this out it makes me lose faith in schools because this could be preventable if there was more slattention to individual needs and it would have boosted the schools rate of better grades because I could have been a more functional student by a lot.
But anyways I don’t have an issue with eating right now, this is just the original post was an intentional result of dropping my habits and seeing what changes, turns out it is quite a huge difference.