Anyone's routine been affected by a break-up?

[Ginger Beer]

If so, how bad? And how long did it last for?

 

Motivation is non-existent and regular eating impossible for me at the moment.

[tman666]

Some of my best workouts were post breakup. While you might be down for the count right now, you need to use your eventual anger for a positive purpose.

 

Life happens. Sorry to hear about your tough time, but it'll pass. Take care of you.

[cerridwen]

My routine was pretty badly affected for about two months.

 

I stopped working out, stopped eating, started drinking nightly to cope with the sadness.

 

Then one day, motivated by loneliness, I decided to go hit golf balls at the driving range.

For the next couple of hours I hit the piss out of those balls, Ginger Beer.

I put my ex's face on every one of them and I sent them sailing.

Two big buckets later, I had blisters forming but felt great.

 

And that triggered something in me wherein I channeled all the anger, all the hurt, all the disappointment into exercise. It helped me sleep better, it brought my appetite back, it made me look incredible.

 

Try to shoot for that, okay? Maybe just start off small and go for a hike. Being in nature is therapeutic anyway. But by just getting up and moving, you just might be motivated to keep at it.

 

Hope you feel better soon.

[TaintedHeart]

It has been 2 weeks for me, I made myself so unwell that my blood pressure dropped and I passed out due to lack of food, I also didn't shower or get dressed for days, I didn't want to be awake nor did I want to sleep because I dreaded the feeling I woke up with each morning, you probably know thae one I mean, right?

 

I'm eating a little better now, my blood pressure isnt great but it's better and I want to sleep, but still don't like waking up.

[Ginger Beer]

Some of my best workouts were post breakup. While you might be down for the count right now, you need to use your eventual anger for a positive purpose.

 

Life happens. Sorry to hear about your tough time, but it'll pass. Take care of you.

 

Same mate, I was doing alright until last week then just drank and smoked all week.

 

My routine was pretty badly affected for about two months.

 

I stopped working out, stopped eating, started drinking nightly to cope with the sadness.

 

Then one day, motivated by loneliness, I decided to go hit golf balls at the driving range.

For the next couple of hours I hit the piss out of those balls, Ginger Beer.

I put my ex's face on every one of them and I sent them sailing.

Two big buckets later, I had blisters forming but felt great.

 

And that triggered something in me wherein I channeled all the anger, all the hurt, all the disappointment into exercise. It helped me sleep better, it brought my appetite back, it made me look incredible.

 

Try to shoot for that, okay? Maybe just start off small and go for a hike. Being in nature is therapeutic anyway. But by just getting up and moving, you just might be motivated to keep at it.

 

Hope you feel better soon.

 

I'm going to go for a walk in a bit. At the moment I'm just trying to go 1 day without smoking and work my way up to training again. I've bounced back before but this time because I've been off my routine properly for about 3 months it feels so much harder to do.

 

Maybe I should hit some golf balls.

 

It has been 2 weeks for me, I made myself so unwell that my blood pressure dropped and I passed out due to lack of food, I also didn't shower or get dressed for days, I didn't want to be awake nor did I want to sleep because I dreaded the feeling I woke up with each morning, you probably know thae one I mean, right?

I'm eating a little better now, my blood pressure isnt great but it's better and I want to sleep, but still don't like waking up.

 

Yep, I know it.

 

I was feeling dizzy too, it's not that I didn't want to eat it was because I actually couldn't, the thought makes me feel sick and every mouthful is like swallowing a brick.

[Sivok]

I absolutely know how that feels. After the horrible ending of my first relationship, I lost about 20 pounds just from lack of eating - alot of muscle was part of that. Once I was able to turn that emotional fuel from depression to anger, I started working out again.

 

Most recently, I broke up with a gf two months ago. It took me a few weeks to get back where I was, but I tried my best to force myself to go - blasting music which got my adrenaline going really helped, along with forcing multivitamins down for some energy

[tman666]

I like Sivok's suggestion about the music.

 

For me, music has always been a journey of self reflection through the exposure and experiencing of a wide range of emotions. (wow, that sounded emo)

 

But really, use music to your advantage. Listen to your sad songs in private and allow yourself to be sad. In the gym, allow yourself to be angry.

[TaintedHeart]

 

 

 

Yep, I know it.

 

I was feeling dizzy too, it's not that I didn't want to eat it was because I actually couldn't, the thought makes me feel sick and every mouthful is like swallowing a brick.

 

It's like you just keep chewing and chewing....

[FinOuch]

Oh a breakup can absolutely wreck HAVOC on your lifestyle - in both eating and activity. It took a number of weeks for me to get back on steady ground.

 

For the first couple weeks I couldn't eat. What little I did force down wanted to come right back up. I was a wreck. And as the days/weeks passed I started forcing myself to eat a little more and more every day just to keep from wasting away.

Any sort of activity was simply not going to happen. My running schedule went all to h*ll.

 

Then I completely reversed. Even though I still had no appetite, I was able to force myself to eat a minimally healthy number of calories so that I could start running again. And my drive to work out at that point became obsessive. I don't know. There came a point where I could really see a major difference in my depression levels from running, so it became an urgent daily need.

 

 

Eventually all this tapered off. I started nomming like a fatty again in the past couple weeks or so. (lol, who would've thought I'd ever be GLAD to be able to pound away a whole Qdoba burrito??) I went on my first run in over a week, and it wasn't a struggle like it was when I was being compulsive about it.

It felt good. Things do, eventually, return to normal.

[Ginger Beer]

Upadte: Last night was the first night since I posted this thread I went to sleep without smoking a cigarette.

 

Might train on Monday depending on how my lungs feel.