Oh yes, I totally forgot:

I didn't try the second week of intermittent fasting. I posted in a rosacea group asking if anyone else had tried it & it had gotten much worse like mine, b/c my skin was freaking out & not having it. The problem with the group is they're all fat. Intermittent fasting tends to be very good for obese people, & it was only after I tried it & it wasn't great for me that I saw it also isn't recommended for people who only need to lose 10 lb or less.

Someone else posted that it didn't work well for her because she has adrenal fatigue. So do I! That was the first I heard that IF isn't good for that. Naturally, when I looked it up, a few sites said it was fine to do IF with adrenal fatigue, but maybe again for some people it's not helpful? SO helpful getting so much contradictory data, plus the fact that there's almost no research on how it affects women, but the few studies that do have women showed that all the benefits men get from it women just don't.

& I definitely lost ground on my workouts, particularly my one-leg wall squats, which I almost can't hold at all anymore. Also has me worried that I have what dad has. Here's hoping it's just one of those stages where everything is harder & sucks. I watched a bodybuilding motivation video today after my shitty wall squat session where he talked about the stage where everything gets harder & you're frustrated & irritated. I KNOW I've had off days before, but I can't really recall off WEEKS. So here's hoping it's the shittiness before things get better & easier. Really wondering how much of this can be laid @ the feet of IF, but really lots of shit hit the fan for my body from that week, so hopefully forging ahead & now giving up potatoes too because FUCK THIS SHIT HOLE will keep the breakout recovery going along & I'll feel like I'm getting better/stronger again.

So no IF for me. I learned my lesson, I'm definitely one of the women for whom it just doesn't work.