mini-growth phase?
I’ve been toying with upping my calories along with my carb intake for the rest of the month to see if I can stack on a bit of lean muscle to replace what I lost with my injury. I’ve upped from about 1500 to 2000 which should be just above my maintainance level. I’ve been feeling mainly hungrier (especially early in the morning) so I’m hoping this is my metabolism revving up. I’m a bit worried this is a stupid thing to do 16 weeks out, but I figure I can cut hard for 10-12 weeks and make the grade. I’ll be running this all past the master of my destiny, Joe, tonight.
I’ve also booked an appointment with my GP for next-next weekend to just get a check up. I want to be on top of anything that might spring up while I’m prepping and so I’m gonna see about getting all the bloods done. I’m also a bit worried about my circulation after my physio pointed out that I was blue all the way to my elbows! I’ve always had blue hands in winter but I’ve been paying a bit more attention to the symptoms since he mentioned it and I seem to warm up and cool down with food. This ring minor alarm bells with me as my Grandmother has a lazy thyroid and react the same way to food. Dad tells me that she’s also always had dud circulation. I’d love for this to be an excuse for my metabolism to be crappy, though I somewhat doubt it. My metabolism must be OK as I’ve been sitting at 15-17% bf for over a year. Looking back I don’t even think I’ve fried it too bad by dieting as I’ve varied between lows of 1400 and highs of 2000 pretty solidly.
This is all speculation. I’ll report back with the result from my teams of experts!
