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Old 02-25-2006, 07:27 AM
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None of this makes sense.

Starvation is the *last* thing you want to do before a cycle.

You must operate at least on maintenance calorie intake. Deficit is going to deplete all of your residual liver and muscle glycogen stores.

The stress has depressed your appetite. Now courts takes breaks, even if they are short. You need prepared food to take in with you that you can quickly eat when court is on break. Taking extend - and any creatine, if you're using it right now while not working out, is going to turn off fat burning.

A lovely paper, a little sleeper, appeared in the literature in 2001, which demonstrated that creatine, when used during rest breaks, seemed to conserve fat, even when calories were reduced.

The mystery wasn't solved until a review article was published in 2004, when one of the authors finally determined that a redox couple involving creatine wasn't present in liver and muscle. This caused a shift in pH via a rather tricky set of reactions, which shut off fatty acid metabolism and caused cells to rely on glycogen and glucose instead. Its corrected by taking NAC during the day to scavenge the protons released that make cellular pH plunge and results in Ca+2 channel blockade of fatty acid and ion transport. Fat cell metabolism goes into storage mode.

Problem is, Matt, you're not the most efficient carb burner.
That Dicana is going to come back and bite you in the ass as well.

What you need to do is to up your calories, aiming for slow release whole carbs, whole proteins would preferable here as well, but in the bind your in (low hours in court - the suggestion that you try protein isn't a bad one - except that whey, casein and soy have recently been shown to be insulinogenic, meaning that they incite production and release of insulin - not good if you're not getting aerobic exercise. I would suggest you find an meal replacement shake of mixed carbs (Probolic SR might work, its slow release), put it in a water bottle and sip on it, as inconspicuously as possible, between breaks. Explain your situation (attorney) to the court if necessary, that you need to eat every two hours due to reactive hypoglycemia.

You need to have mental sharpness for this court situation. You've got your priorities skeedaddled here, if you expect to be fit to take on a cycle afterwards.

That would be ill-advised, going into a cycle after a protracted period of high stress and inactivity, eh?

Right now, you have more on the your plate than you can typically handle. You need to eat to sustain your immune and mental capacity (due to stress), your supps should include idebenone, a form of brain coenzyme Q10, ALCAR, vitamin C, moderate quanitities of vitamin E, a good multivit/multimineral - and one more, sam-e. Not only will this help with stress, this sam-e, but it will kickstart, when combined with selenomethionine and DHA, thyroid function - which you have inadvertantly damaged by impairing liver lipid metabolism from previous, ahh, chemical use. If you must use creatine based supps, add NAC in small doses, 2-3 times per day to keep creatine from shutting off fatty acid metabolism and switching on fatty acid synthesis and storage.

When liver isn't working well, both adrenals and thyroid function slips, and this is hastened by prolonged acute stress. You're on the cusp of acute stress here - metabolic and mental. Be very careful. Shutting down thyroid - causing thyroid resistance, which has, I believe occured in you, will also lead to impaired adrenal function. Eventually, even ECAs and other stimulants will fail to work. You can think homeostasis states as being something of a domino effect. Start the cascade, and you slide through these setpoint regulatory nodes, one after the other, over th course of months to years.

Eventually, you have hypogonadal state, thyroid hormone receptor resistance, norepinephrine receptor hypersensitivity and adrenal fatigue (which is really again, a sort of receptor insensitivity.

You are left with a state of very poor cellullar energetics, depression, hypoglycemia, and insulin resistance. VAT, the worst kind of fat, skyrockets, made worse, not better, by calorie restriction.

You will not like what I am saying here, because you have attained the point where you must chemically nudge your systems to function.

I urge you to reconsider your game plan for this upcoming six weeks of hell, as you put it, and your pending cycle.

Attend to your body, to the business at hand, to stress management, and to fostering a more productive and healthy situation for your bodybuilding efforts later on.

Last edited by trouble; 02-25-2006 at 08:00 AM.
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