Had a little break from blogging there for a week. Exam revision and stress has been taking up the vast majority of my time.
I now have three weeks to learn four years worth of Chemistry in the hope that it's enough to pass my exams. OH GOD.
On the weight front, though, I'm now down to 129lbs using those T5 super slimmer pills. Which I was super excited about, as I've lost 4 lbs in a week. But then I went for a run...
Bad idea. I got half way back and had to sit down. Every thing was spinning and coming in and out of focus. I felt somewhere between fainting and throwing up. To make it just a little more dangerous, this came on as I was running the massively steep stairs on the way back to my house - so I was a little worried I was going to tumble over backwards.
That has never happened to me before!
I'd only run around 7K and I've run a half marathon last year. Only thing I can put it down to is the slimming pills increasing my blood pressure, the coffee I'd had that day increasing it more, and then the running increasing it as well?
Anyway, it was horrendous! Gave me a massively bad headache the next day too.
I'm sure I overreacted a little bit, but the next morning a small part of me was thinking - SHIT, what if I've done some serious damage here?
But I took a day off the pills and I feel okay now. Going to take it slow.
It was probably more of a hypoglycemic moment or a drop in pressure. If you've been eating significantly less while on these diet pills, you may have depleted your glycogen stores in your muscles. Which has been fine so far but, when you ran, your muscles started using the glucose in your blood, which is the main fuel for your brain, leaving you light-headed and nauseated. if you haven't been drinking enough, could have also been a drop in pressure; caffeine is a powerful diuretic, especially if you aren't used to taking in as much. You might want to dry drinking more water and having a small-ish snack about an hour before your next run. Hope you feel better!
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