I feel pretty shitty about missing class, the errands aren't a big deal. I think this is due to my lack of energy lately.

So I'm going to start lifting weights again, I've stopped for like three months, and I've been feeling low ever since.

Cartesians and a lot of general leftists say that the body and mind are two seperate things. Think about all those people who say you can have a healthy mind while being overweight, the body positivity people. We know that the body and the mind are connected, and if you take care of one, you ultimately take care of the other. It follows that if you neglect one, you neglect both.

Well, so long as you didn't miss an important class, you should be fine, no? I'm guessing the class isn't a no-absence-policy class, or somehow I doubt you'd be that calm about it. And good for getting back on that! As someone in the biological sciences I can confirm, mind and body are in no way separate. The health of your heart, lungs, and the ability of your body to balance and create the cerebrospinal fluid all is a factor of main-body health. Fat activists are full of shit.

@Rin Only eating dinner is a lot different from only eating breakfast (and the former carries a lot of health risks).

Happy medium-- only eating lunch.

Yeah, I'm aware. It's just a habit I've settled into and havent got around to doing anything about it. My body seems to do fine, but I can't help but feel I would be even better off if I ate more regularly. The thing is either I'm too busy or just not hungry during the day.

I used to have a loss of appetite for about 6 months and it was due to minor kidney problems.

Everyday I drink a class of pure cranberry juice + a milk thistle pill for kidney support because of some bodybuilding supplements I take

Never had any problems

I can attest to how great cranberry juice is.

I just like the taste of it. What're the supposed benefits?

I love the dryness of cranberry juice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZka5fft2OY&lc=z22pulfqgqawehp1hacdp4332dazmjsyvloco0abf5lw03c010c.1509526340565950

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23dArPpXgCM

OKay.

I need more help.

I started working out, but I can't seem to be able to stop eating.

Drink no cal drinks or waters to fill you up, eat low calorie foods to fill you up

I can't seem to stop. And I eat HUGE amounts.

Gain some self control

@StaysafeTV - 191 lb Muscle Man hey have you tried or looked into fasting?

agree with Chris, drink no-calorie drinks. If you stuff yourself with something like sparkling water then you won't be as hunger all the time. It will give you a liquid belly but that passes. It's a way to help with eating too much food.

I had a similar problem at the start. I can tell you the smaller portion size does absolutely suck at the beginning, and you will feel hungry. However, I can tell you hunger is a physiological reaction triggered in good part by the weight and tautness of the stomach ("stretch" of the stomach) and that your stomach can and will acclimate to differing norms in relation to that stretch. So after a couple weeks of eating less overall, you will feel the hunger less as your stomach acclimates to a different stretch.

The other option, if you find it's a boredom reaction and it's missing chewing, is to chew cinnamon or mint toothpicks, or celery. I prefer celery, because one stick offers a lot of those little celery fibers that you can just crunch on, and there's decent-enough hydration (as far as snacks go) and good fiber, provided you actually eat the fiber glob at the end. And yes, it's kind of gross to think about, but so is being a wild hambeast.

When im on a cut i just kepe myself busy, eventually the hunger kind of zones out, then your stomach shrinks

Or i drink lots of diet cola

Bro aspartame is death

Yea i know

Good advice.

@chris Try Zevia, they're sodas sweetened with Stevia

Better tool to wean yourself off with

@Marlow from all the research I've done, meal timing has no effect on metabolic rate (can provide sources) but I actually fast like 16 hours a day just sort of coincidentally just because of my schedule

recently I did two periods of extended fasting a lost about 40 lbs really quickly, combined with a plant-based/whole foods diet

the first was a 5 day fast, strictly no calories, and lost 11 lbs (I measured it with a dexascan)

the second time was a 25 day fast, but I allowed myself a piece of fruit now and then or a slice a bread if I was baking (I bake my own sourdough every weekend)

and I lost like 20 lbs that time

where you're at, you could probably get to yor 7% bodyfat goal in about 5 or 6 days

that first time, I didn't lose any muscle mass at all, but the 25 day fast I did lose some, and I think it was because I ate here and there

and also it was a really long time to be fasting

right now I'm 200 lbs (I'm 6'3"), I ended my last (25 day) fast at around 190