Anxiously awaiting

04 Friday Apr 2025

I’ve been feeling chubby, exhausted, emotional, pimply:

Chubby – I’ve been eating like a horse and my fat % has steadily crept up to ~20% (although could it be linked to me reloading on training, and therefore feeling hungrier?)
Exhausted – I’ve felt slow and heavy on runs, really struggling with weights at strength training. This type of underperformance is often linked to pre-period bloating. But I have been training more, and sleeping less, and less well this week, so maybe those are coming into play. I woke up at 5:30 this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep
Emotional – I’ve been feeling quite irritable, and also emotional. Last night I cried over some segments of Virgin River, then cried due to overthinking before I went to bed, and when I woke up at ~5:30, I cried again and couldn’t go back to sleep. So I flew off the handle when O was insolent and snarky this morning. And had to apologise for my poor behaviour.
Pimply – I am a zit fest, which one humongous zit and a number of smaller ones.

These are my typical “period” signs, even though it’s not yet officially due. But I’m really hoping I get it soon, so I don’t get it during my upcoming race – I’m currently due to be Day 2, my worst day, on race day!! 😫

So I’m doing everything I humanly can to accelerate and induce it… hang out more with a friend who is on “shark week”, eat pineapples (how many can I eat??), and drinking turmeric shots…