Keeping strength training going on a plant-based plate

Started 21 October 2024 · 23 replies · 273 hearts · read 4.2k times

MorayElgin, UK · 21 October 2024

1.7 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Keeping strength training going on a plant-based plate Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

11me too 1

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

TanviMumbai, IN

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

NoleneDurban, ZA

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

MableBolton, UK

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

PietPretoria, ZA

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

10me too 2

NemoneLewes, UK

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

CloverTotnes, UK

#10

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

MorayElgin, UK

#11

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

#12

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

IvesPenzance, UK

#13

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

TanviMumbai, IN

#14

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

NoleneDurban, ZA

#15

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

9me too 8

MableBolton, UK

#16

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

#17

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

PietPretoria, ZA

#18

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

#19

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

NemoneLewes, UK

#20

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

14me too 4

CloverTotnes, UK

#21

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#22

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK

#23

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.