Message from @Nix
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Or some good quality mead
I've been lazy for the past week and took off from exercising. Made me feel like shit. I'm going read, exercise, and practice piano each for an hour everyday. Between these, school, work and scouts, I should be pretty busy with an hour or two to relax.
I finally was able to start exercising again last week(I'd been in the middle of a move and hadn't been able to for about two weeks) I was surprised how hard it kicked my tail
Good news is I'm already bouncing back to where I was
The human body is a marvelous thing
I am proud of myself today. Started dieting and adding in some cardio last month, and have been sticking to my plan like a damn limpet... And I went from 155 to 149 lb. It's the first time I've been under 150 since 13ish and honestly, it is so cool to see. I've still got 10 more to go before I'm comfortable, and I know the holidays are coming up, but I really think I can be 140 by Christmas Break. Dunno how much y'all care, but I'm really happy, so.
Keep up the good work @Nix! Don't let holiday get-togethers throw you off your plan! How tall are you?
Don't worry! I'm quite stubborn when I put my mind to something, and the smaller portions have been great for me just not being capable of eating so much. 5foot 5 inches, which is just about average for my demographic.
Nice, I started dieting too, gained weight in conjunction with my wife and got up to 198 which is the heaviest I've ever been. Currently back down to 185 and still going down. Feels good
I went for 2 weeks with only breakfast each day and it had interesting effects (not in an attempt to lose weight).
I've only eaten dinner each day for years now, for some reason I have a really hard time eating breakfast. I'm just never hungry in the morning. It's not for lack of effort or laziness, since I regularly prepare breakfast for the kids almost daily.
Awesome to hear
I'm going to start making an 8 week cutting video series in which I detail dieting, supplements, routines, and my thought process as I go through each week, sort of VLOG style. Half will be me taking, half will be training footage. Big emphasis on scientifically sound information. Can post if anyone here is interested. Don't want to just shill my vids on you guys though
@StaysafeTV - 191 lb Muscle Man better if you mix the audio of you talking with the video of you training
Well, I was supposed to get up early to go do a bunch of errands, but I ended up sleeing in and even missed a class at university.
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).
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
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