Hormones

I'll try not to make this too weird...

I am not taking any kind of hormones. 6 weeks ago, I stopped taking birth control pills. Without getting too personal about this, there were two main reasons:

1. It was just making me really weird and I wasn't happy after replacing my own hormones for 10 years (that is probably just too long)....

2. AND officially a study came out saying that basically, if you are on any type of hormones for birth control - well you won't gain as much muscle mass as someone who is not.

Number two made me so mad when I found out that I made a doctor appointment one month later. Basically, there was a study done and proved that women not taking any kind of hormones gained 60% more muscle mass than those that were in a 12 week time frame. So basically all this time that I work out, I wasn't getting my full benefit. That just plain pissed me off.

So now I'm hormone free. But man is it weird. After 10 years of not really feeling my own hormones, there is one hormone in general that is messing me up: Testosterone. It was hidden away for awhile and now that it is coming out, it is really crazy. Like I get mad. Not just mad, but enraged. It is really weird. So, I really don't know how women can take steroids to be in body building. That must make them really messed up. No good.

Hopefully the testosterone is going to help me lift that extra weight and be extra pumped up. I'm counting on you, testosterone.