Only a 2km Saturday swim and 8km Sunday run this week. The amount of training I'm doing daily is catching up on me. Loving the high fat low carb thing through the week though. Has done absolute wonders for my hormones I think.
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Alright, I've made it pretty clear in the past that I had a borderline eating disorder. I was around 120kg at my heaviest and when I started training wanted to strip down. I had no foundation as I never did a single bit of exercise until I was about 28. I had no idea what I was doing so learned about nutrition as I went. I was losing weight which I thought was good as the scale was dropping.
Whatever strength I gained in my short time in the gym was going and was losing the strength rapidly. I thought this was okay, but it's not. I would hate to think what my caloric intake was but it was low, and I wasn't seeing how much weight I was losing, I just wanted to lose more. The misses was getting worried and said one day how thin I was and something needed to change. She said I looked 'hungry' all the time. Saw a photo and it shocked me. Battling food addiction to going the complete opposite direction was a rollercoaster and now I had to put weight back on. At that point I was about 67kgs at 6'2.' Thin as fuck. Thought I had to keep losing to see muscle, but I just fucking had none, that's why I was thin and still looking like shit. During this time, my sexual function was awful. Couldn't get it up and when I could, couldn't keep it up and premature as hell. Having this at like 30-32 years old was shocking and I felt like there was nothing I could do. My diet at the time was consisting mainly of some chicken and mostly green salad. Maybe an egg or two here and there and a protein shake here and there. Thinking back now, the fat intake was non existent.
I then fought with my body dysmorphia and started eating more. I got eventually back up to 85kg. Strength went up but so did the fat but I had to get some sort of foundation back in the gym. I looked fine and got some good strength going. This was all over a number of years obviously being 35 now. I decided about 6 months ago to try and cut a little again to see if I had made any progress and if I could strip and look better with a bit of muscle this time. This time really concentrated on what I was doing and watched my strength. As soon as I felt a little weak, have a refeed or short break. Anyway, now, I'm down to about 76kg and while very lean, look SO much better than the last time around. I'm stronger than I was and my running is there which is wasn't before. before I was that thin but couldn't run 500m without passing out.
Now, since adding the fat, thanks to Gregg really inspiring the keto back a couple months back I must say, I feel my testosterone is higher than it's ever been. I'm still cutting yet in some lifts I'm stronger and getting stronger again. My performances in the bedroom I'm being told are the best ever and sex has been the best in 14 years, and I think that's an achievement. Without going into detail, it's amazing what I'm able to do now compared to a few years ago. I really think it comes down to the fat content in my diet. I feel it's restarted my hormones and feel almost 18 again, maybe better. It took me years to really understand nutrition and what I was doing and dealing with body dysmorphia along with borderline anorexia but getting over those hurdles has been quite a journey. While still learning even now over the last 6 months and this higher fat thing right now.
I'll add sleep too. I'm getting good sleep but making sure you're getting 8 hours a night is critical also. I don't get that a lot with work, but luckily I haven't suffered, the diet is keeping things working regardless. Yet, if I need to get up at 4am, I'm in bed by 9pm if I can.