Good morning lovely community! I've been having a conundrum this week. I have been SO good lately. I have exceeded my maintenance calories just once in September, and only by 300 calories (beer when friends came to visit). I ran in a 10k race on Sunday-- and due to a freak tornado, the power was out at my building all weekend, meaning I took the 8 flights of stairs up to my apartment 5 times in ~48 hours. Including before and after the race.
I was expecting some soreness, but not this. I think I've pulled a muscle in my groin on the right side. It hurts SO badly. I've been trying to go to yoga every day to stretch it out. I did another lifting workout on Tuesday in the hopes that lifting would ease the DOMS. Nope, definitely made it worse. I can barely walk, but I still need to live my life, so I've been shuffling the ~10k I walk on a daily basis.
All of this would be fine if my weight wasn't up 4-5 lbs! That's insane for water weight, especially on a small person (5'3", regularly 110 lbs, down from 138 lbs). Is it all being caused by the soreness? It has to be, because I haven't gone over my calories anywhere close to that, and I haven't been overeating at all. I am so disappointed and a little offended, tbh. I'm working this hard in maintenance and I have to deal with this BS? It's bad enough that I'm sore, but this is literal insult to injury. Am I over-eating on a maintenance of 1500-1600 calories with a lot of mild exercise? Did I really gain 4 lbs? It doesn't look like it, but the scale is making me sad this week.
Additionally, is there anything else I can do to alleviate this soreness? Because I really need my life and my energy back, I've been knackered all week. I've been doing yoga, as mentioned, and taking magnesium and potassium supplements, and taking painkillers. I even got a massage. STILL hurts.
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