Hi, Huggy.
Didn't see your reply here until today.
Funny that you mention donuts, and yes, I'll lead with that. ;-)
I used to love Dunkin's. More recently, found Honey Dew. But at this point? After eating "clean" for a few years now (mostly, I still indulge in occasional soda and cookies, but Banting approach of adding fat helps avoid the worst now) - Well, I'm noticing not only are donuts not remotely important, but more importantly: I can't eat them without HORRIBLE effects. I went to a DD and got a chocolate donut and one of their Coolattas, and ate them while waiting on a ride from the train.
And spent the rest of the evening wishing I could punch something, ANYTHING, into oblivion. Angry, hostile, grumpy... I haven't gone back for anything, needless to say. (Starbucks has better coffee, I think. ;-) So it's easy.)
It's going to be interesting, if we ever find out the truths about Monsanto and GMO and RoundUp.... (E.G., I'm told that farmers drown their roundup-ready GMO wheat in roundup to kill the plant, which increases yield... but the wheat is never cleaned from that poisoned to death state... So we're eating it in all the refined products...)
Yeah, makes it far easier to stay "on diet." Problem is a day like today, where I tried to stay on diet despite belly telling me it needed food... Yogurt is a sugar product. LOTS of sugar, some protein, NO FAT. So today wasn't a win after all...
Not to mention, due to multiple causes beyond my control I haven't done a decent workout in about a week. (down to 221, though...) Need to get back to that, and keep the momentum. The woman wants in on the morning exercises... I was hoping to get in some belly dance to work hip mobility, maybe not now... (And her daughter might move back, which is just SO lovely...)
But, back to hormones - yeah, wish I could get that moving now. Weird thing is, from Mom's side, I get the coordination and the athletic ability (not much as a male, but more than Dad sent my way.) Dad was a cerebral type...
The males on that side of the family had a tendency to be erratic in weight, shifting regularly. Heavy in June, maybe, light in November, then more heavy in May, light by July... Who knows? Not working for me - my body likes the 200+ range. After HS, anyway - I was 175 in HS. But I eat well, and I put on subcutaneous fat, and it's just not willing to melt away on its own. ;-)
Hope your recovery is going well. As long as the joints are OK, all should be good, I'm guessing - if the body chemistry goes back to normal?
And, for me, if I could go back to my college years or even better, HS, and tell me what i know now (where to buy, what to buy, and where life would take me if I went "male"), I'd do it in a heartbeat, and take my chances. I'd be a different person,and I don't think that'd be a bad thing...
But one of the most important things? CURVES! Have an actual WAIST, for example. Boobs can be bought; feminized skeleton is impossible to come by later in life. :-(
But if I'd known I was going to fall, I would've sat down.
I'm not sure about losing muscle. With my current BF%, I've got a sh!tload of body to burn. I'm trying to follow the advice I'm giving out, but... I only really KNOW swimming and lifting. Swimming Butterfly gave me traps like King Kong. (Didn't like that when I was a teen...) Lifting is OUT until (if) I can get a clear understanding of what happened, and get my shoulders put back together. Both rotator cuffs are in trouble, and the deltoid feels like it shrank to a woman's size... I used to (2 months ago) have a nice cap. Now, the size reduction would be great, IF - Only IF - I didn't feel like I'd lost my strength completely. It's like I can't lift the BAR any more, and 2 months ago was a 125# OHP. For warmups...
No huge size loss, either, so it's upsetting. But I'm realizing all my fat is in my upper body, and I know ways to fix that... :-)
I'm thinking I'll also buy PM and use it as a "hair tonic." See where I get with a few drops every day... As a diagnostic.