After a very stressful day on the hustings, I came home and enjoyed a nice half a joint. About a half hour later, I was looking down at my stomach, and it suddenly seemed that I looked like I had my old fat again! (I used to be rather fat with a bulging gut, but have since lost much weight and a good few inches of stomach.)
This being intensely weird and troublesome, since I hadn’t noticed it at all before (if indeed it was gained weight), I poked and prodded and by and by it seemed to me that it wasn’t fat at all, or it was at least lot firmer than my old fat.
So I mentioned this to my roommate Moishe, and he said that my stomach muscles had gotten relaxed due to the pot, and they were bulging out in front of me and looking like a beer gut.
Is this true? Should I avoid smoking up before going on dates or clothes shopping? It WILL go away when I sleep it off, right?
I never heard of pot making your stomach muscles more relaxed, but I guess it’s possible… I do recall reading that pot causes breast tissue to build up in males…
Come to think of it, I have had that feeling, but I’ve always put it down to psychological reasons rather than actual physical change.
First of all, we both have a history of being too fat for our liking. Second of all, I always get the munchies big time! So after pigging out and feeling terrible about my self control (and often being woosy from eating too many oreos or something) I tended to feel really fat.
When I woke up the day after the feeling had gone, but seems to return after a big munching session. With time of course, I became too fat again! So in that way it’s a chronic change, but also a temporary one for me…
Hope this helps, which it probably doesn’t. However, the stomache muscle thing doesn’t sound too wild to me, after all, it relaxes every other damn bit of you don’t it!
It may be that the dope is causing stress on your liver. Because all drugs have to be run through the liver for detox. When the liver is stressed with too much detox, its many functions for the rest of the body are impaired. One of the main symptoms of liverishness is abdominal bloat. If you drink alcohol and eat too much fried food and junk food, your liver gets even more stressed and you get more liverish and bloated.
I am well and truly mortified that a candidate for Federal office admits to RECREATIONAL DRUG USE! Why, it undermines the very moral fiber of our society and erodes the foundation of what made this country great! I…
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What? Which country?
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Oh. Nevermind.
I’ve never felt or seen any immediate weight gain from indulging in such activity. However, stopping the munchies will give you a coupla pounds for sure. My guess is you latched on to some good stuff and just went off on a tangent.
I don’t think the dope made me fat, but the dozen Krispy Kremes and the Top Ramen straight out of the package might have had something to do with it :eek:
So in that way it’s a chronic change, but also a temporary one for me…