What next?
All right folks here’s the deal. I’m tired, but I just had two babies in the last three years. I’ve lost a lot of sleep. I also had anemia. I have low thyroid. Probably a vitamin D deficiency and maybe some micro nutrients. I need help. I think my weight is fine at this point because I’ve lost 30 pounds in three months. But now I need more muscle and more energy. I’ve lost a fair amount of muscle, and I still have higher muscle than average for my height and weight and age and sex. But I still have lost a lot of muscle and I want to gain it back. I’m a long distance Runner and the way I run. I do a lot of sprints and hills so I do believe that I can gain some muscle doing my running. However, I probably need to do a lot of lifting, but I don’t belong to a Jim so I’m thinking of doing bodyweight stuff and a Thera band. I don’t feel healthy. I feel tired. I feel kind of depressed like that side effect it has that’s kind of like numbing to your emotions. I also don’t want to get a bunch of weight back. Can I get off this thing and not gain the weight back? I didn’t ever really have terrible habits, except when I was pregnant so for the last three years. I also didn’t have great habits. I relied on my running to keep me slim and I did eat decently. But I was never at a weight I wanted to be at. I would like to lose these inner thigh, fat pockets and just get really toned and muscular, but not gain any weight. I just want to trade the fat for muscle. Should I stay on a maintenance dose of 2.5 and Hope that the zest for life comes back? Or should I quit altogether and resume the struggle with food? I’m not a traditionally overweight person, but I was always slightly heavier than I wanted to be.
TLDR does anhedonia last forever and if I go to a maintenance dose and just build up my muscle and fitness will it go away? If I’m just a person who was only overweight for a couple of years out of my 48 years of life will I need to take a maintenance dose?
Edit: can someone just please answer the question of whether lowering your dosage gets rid of that depression side effect and also for a person who doesn’t have a history of being very overweight if the weight will still creep back up? I’m getting a lot of criticism but no answers for the original question.