Facebook is awesome. It reminds you of stuff that you posted a year, two years, three years ago… Just recently, it reminded me of a workout that I did almost a year ago. I remember that day and workout very well, because I was actually extremely tired when doing it and had in fact just … Read more
Your hypothalamic amenorrhea story isn’t over the minute you get your period back. There’s still work to do because now you have to keep your ovulation and period. If you want to start working out again – and most of us do – then finding the right amount of exercise is one of the most … Read more
Hey there! It’s time for another video, and in this one, we talk about working out while recovering from hypothalamic amenorrhea. The main thing is this: You need to slow down a lot, and preferably cut out any intense exercise – as recommended in NPNW. Here are the five topics that I cover in this … Read more
What exactly are the exercise burnout symptoms? How do you know you’re overtraining? And why should you deal with it at soon as possible? In this post, I speak from my experience and share other women’s experience on overtraining. I’m sure that many (not all) of the symptoms are same for men too, but obviously … Read more
I don’t know about you, but when I had hypothalamic amenorrhea, many of my workouts sucked. Definitely not all of them sucked. I had hypothalamic amenorrhea for ten (yes, ten!) years and during these years, I worked out 5-6 days a week. I couldn’t have kept working out that much of all the workouts sucked. But … Read more
Commitment and consistency are the keys when you want to achieve something. Want to have great grades? You have to study a ton. Want to be good at writing? You gotta practice every day. Want to learn a new language? Put in some hard work and learn as much as you can. Want your period … Read more
There are times when fitness professionals’ “advice” does more harm than good. Being a personal trainer myself, it sometimes blows my mind when I hear what some trainers have told their clients to do in order to “get in the best shape of their lives”. That’s because sometimes their advice can be downright dangerous. I’m … Read more
If you really want to recover from hypothalamic amenorrhea as quickly as possible, let go of all the numbers related to eating and fitness that you’re currently tracking, You’re a perfectionist. Am I right? Perfectionists are generally more likely to develop disordered eating habits, eating disorders, they’re more likely to overtrain than non-perfectionists and lose their periods… … Read more
A little over two months ago, I wrote a post about my workout regimen while I’m trying to recover from hypothalamic amenorrhea. Today, it’s time for some updates. I wrote this post in March. By then, I had worked towards recovery about 3.5 months. What comes to fitness, here’s what I did back then: Walking every day. … Read more
For many women who are experiencing hypothalamic amenorrhea, gaining weight and losing the physique they’ve worked so hard for, are the biggest sources of fear and stress. But losing strength can be equally frightening. I haven’t been lifting weights for a looong time now. Four months, to be specific. I stopped training in December when I realized … Read more
When we’re used to exercise almost daily and be active outside of our workouts too, our understanding about the exercise we’re actually doing every day, may get twisted. It’s funny to write this post and frankly a lot of other posts where I talk about hypothalamic amenorrhea, because they are 180 degrees opposite to those what … Read more
For many long years, I used to workout first thing in the morning. And while exercising is a great way to kickstart your day and get it out of the way, there were days when it would have been smarter to sleep in. Now as I’m not hiding from myself the truth that I have hypothalamic amenorrhea, … Read more