02-20-2012, 01:03 PM
The Appalachians; the cosmos. My mind could rush from one to the other instantaneously from as far back as I could remember. I was always fairly bright.
Then over the past year or so... Life started getting hard. School got difficult. I actually had to take notes and study. So I got by, working hard. But then I stopped being able to think and focus for long periods of time.
I started losing interest in physical activity. I start alienating people and isolating myself. Eventually I ended up just barely get through school. My last semester was terrible and if I plan on going to any respectable university, I need to step my game up. My academics aside, I failed to secure a job for the summer, get into a program over the March Break, lost my debating competition (W/L - 1/5) and overall bombed anything that had this misfortune to be allocated into my responsibility.
So how does health fit into all this?
I decided that exercising would be a great way to get back into 'the zone', so I signed up for a couple free gym classes and a free personal training session.
One of the first things we did is measure my body fat percentage. I look like a fairly skinny guy, but the machine printed out that 41.9% of my body weight was fat. Worse yet, only 40.4% of my body was water (The average human needs 60-78% body water). That's when it made sense, I had felt almost every side effect of being dehydrated there is short of death. (Tiredness, dry mouth, inability to focus, lack of urination (I did so at most once a day))
So clearly I've been doing something wrong. I started drinking more water. I think I had something like 3 liters yesterday and the day before...
Is that enough? Should I do anything else?
I really don't know where to go from here. I request a vacation ban on HackForums so that I wouldn't be tempted to spend all my time online, but I still find ways to waste time. Luckily I remembered about Support Forums so that's how I got here.
Anyways, I know this is all rather long-winded, I'd just like to end off with a thanks to Omniscient for creating both these forums and ask anyone reading this what steps I should consider taking from here.
Thank you.
Then over the past year or so... Life started getting hard. School got difficult. I actually had to take notes and study. So I got by, working hard. But then I stopped being able to think and focus for long periods of time.
I started losing interest in physical activity. I start alienating people and isolating myself. Eventually I ended up just barely get through school. My last semester was terrible and if I plan on going to any respectable university, I need to step my game up. My academics aside, I failed to secure a job for the summer, get into a program over the March Break, lost my debating competition (W/L - 1/5) and overall bombed anything that had this misfortune to be allocated into my responsibility.
So how does health fit into all this?
I decided that exercising would be a great way to get back into 'the zone', so I signed up for a couple free gym classes and a free personal training session.
One of the first things we did is measure my body fat percentage. I look like a fairly skinny guy, but the machine printed out that 41.9% of my body weight was fat. Worse yet, only 40.4% of my body was water (The average human needs 60-78% body water). That's when it made sense, I had felt almost every side effect of being dehydrated there is short of death. (Tiredness, dry mouth, inability to focus, lack of urination (I did so at most once a day))
So clearly I've been doing something wrong. I started drinking more water. I think I had something like 3 liters yesterday and the day before...
Is that enough? Should I do anything else?
I really don't know where to go from here. I request a vacation ban on HackForums so that I wouldn't be tempted to spend all my time online, but I still find ways to waste time. Luckily I remembered about Support Forums so that's how I got here.
Anyways, I know this is all rather long-winded, I'd just like to end off with a thanks to Omniscient for creating both these forums and ask anyone reading this what steps I should consider taking from here.
Thank you.
