I really cannot emphasize enough how this works like a reverse feederism thing, every day I wake up and run my hands over my...
I really cannot emphasize enough how this works like a reverse feederism thing, every day I wake up and run my hands over my belly and appreciate how not big it’s getting.
“Ew you’re making it sound sexual"– bitch it’s definitely sexual, since the personality change left me bisexual, "a hot, fit male body” is a major turn-on and object of desire and I am experiencing a transformation where I am gradually, helplessly becoming a hot, fit male body.
please please please see a doctor, losing weight this fast and this easily is concerning.
I mean don’t for a second think I understand this as just how things are, I have the explicit understanding that this is the effect of a complex and mysterious disease, but I might as well appreciate it
But yes, to those of you concerned, I have a fairly good understanding of how this is working and it’s looking like it’s going to come in good.
I know why I’m losing weight! It’s because [black box] Covid issues mean I can’t generate ATP from the blood sugar off the food I’ve eaten to power my body functions.
But I CAN still generate energy anaerobically. Normally that’s limited but the limit is the supply of creatine, which the body creates naturally and uses for this, but I can pump my levels above normal by taking creatine monohydrate, sold as a bodybuilding supplement. It gets metabolized in about 24 hours, but I can just take more the next day!
The way it works is by breaking down stored fat. When bodybuilders use it, it means they have more energy available for their very extremes of exertion – they do 15 reps of the superheavy weight instead of 10, but then leave the gym to go to Bible study or wevs!
Because I’m patching a hole with it im basically drawing on that extra energy 24/7 – my normal resting energy consumption is higher than I can sustain without it.
Which means that I am burning fat at a constant, PRODIGIOUS rate.
I pray you, however, keep this in mind:
This has actually been going on for 2 years already, as an aftereffect of each Covid infection, and I have had experience with how it progresses. It begins with such a deficit of energy I have to take a lot of creatine to support a lot of anaerobic generation each day, but gradually decreases until I don’t need it anymore
The first time this showed up i suddenly needed 8 scoops of creatine to anaerobically generate enough energy to even keep breathing regularly, the time that started this wave I needed 5, I was down to maybe 2 ½ until this last case took me up to 4
It gets easier every time, and judging how this has been going I’m very confident to say it’ll end up with me at a “yeah, I played soccer matches after college” physique
AND HOW FUCKED UP IS THAT?
Like I was faffing about and then the 2010s looked mean and I was like “gather about, kids, I have a sense how this goes” and then from astoundingly correct prediction or SOMETHING I suddenly transformed into my ideal self
FUCKED UP