Over the past 2 years I made very good improvements. I was working out and eating right. I felt a lot better about myself. But over the past 6 months everything has gone to shit. I’m too stressed out and I don’t have time to eat enough food so I’ve lost a lot of weight and I look and feel like shit. I don’t have the energy to go to the gym because I can’t eat enough food. I’m suppose to be going to the beach with my gf in two weeks but I feel too uncomfortable to take my shirt off infront of her
this thread appears every 3rd day. I'll save you the time, here's how it will go:
advice friends: user just start going back to the gym, even without proper nutrition it's still better than nothing OP: ye, but like I don't have the time. How can I be happy with shitty body advice friends: you really can't just go to the gym OP: ye, but like some people just accept themselves and are always happy! Look how girls react to the dad bod of advice friends: user you're not go to the gym
then you make the same thread on a different board so that people can tell you that it's ok to be mediocre
But if I go to the gym and I don’t have proper nutrition it won’t benefit my body. It will actually cause more harm
Blake Rivera
Hey user, I'm surely not an expert, but something like this happened to me (but gaining weight). I highly recommend you to change your lifestyle and be a bit more optimistic, maybe take out what's estressing you. I know its not easy, but its better than not trying it. Also going to the doctor may help you. If you dont feel confident with your body while going to the beach with your gf, you should talk that with her, I mean, it's not healthy to hide things to your partner. Hope it helps
Adrian Jenkins
Going to the gym is barely even about improving your physical appearance. The mental improvements you will get from regular exercise are worth it, even if you can't bring yourself to eat better. Suddenly your brain will stop telling you you're worthless as often and you'll look in the mirror and see the same thing, but be less insecure about it.
Henry Stewart
The problem is my job. It’s a high stress job, I’m too busy to get a lunch break, and i’m always being roasted in the summer sun. So I sweat a shit load too. By the end of the day I’m completely exhausted, dehydrated, and starving. The thing that sucks is I have to put up with this for another 14 months then it will be over. But it’s just so unhealthy right now
Samuel Parker
kek, tell us what harm it will cause user give us your height & weight for better advice
Kayden Campbell
That’s bs. The gym is beneficial when you’re able to actually gain from it. When I was regularly going to the gym and eating right. My body felt healthy, so I naturally felt better. But going to the gym and using more energy when my body already feels depleted is going to make me feel better. Only worse
Chase Martinez
The post below yours explain it.. dummy.
188cm (5ft 11) 65 kg (145lbs) was the last time I weighed myself. I’m sure I lost weight since then though
Mason Jackson
>THANK YOU SKELETON
I assumed you were fat. Ok you won't gain much muscle without proper nutrition but going to the gym still beats doing nothing. If you don't believe me just start doing calisthenics in the morning / after work you'll see a difference after 2 weeks.
no I won’t. My body literally feels like shit. It actually aches. Spending MORE energy will make shit worse
Easton Reed
I managed to go from turbo skelly manlet to semi shreddet manlet in 4 months after a long break of no gym. I'm 166cm "tall" went from 58kg -> 72kg since March. It's not like I'm eating tons of protein either. I basically get about 1/3 of the recommended protein most days.
ok don't change anything. I'm sure that'll work for you. Stop being a bitch OP
I know how to work out, and I was lifting regularly for the past year. I was eating very well too. And I could see increased muscle mass and just overall my body felt great. But the last 2 months have destroyed me. I can’t even sleep well at night because I have muscular aches from lack of calories and protein.
Lucas Jenkins
>Spending MORE energy will make shit worse that's literally not how it works. If your body notices you're suddenly spending a lot of energy, it will kick off all the processes that naturally draw on all the stored energy and suddenly you'll feel like you have all the energy in the world. By making your body feel like it never needs to exert itself, it just shuts down and doesn't try.
Nicholas Lewis
You’re retarded. That’s not how it works. The more energy you spend, the more energy the body needs. The body gets energy from food. But if you don’t have food it will convert stored fat into energy, after your fat supply becomes low, the body begins to break down muscle and converts that to energy
Colton Baker
yea, and that breaking down of fat is what the fat is there for in the first place. That's why one of the effects of keto is "feeling more awake and alert" because breaking down fat and getting energy that way instead of subsisting on just the things you eat gives you way more energy and feels much better.
Cooper Robinson
But I don’t HAVE the fat to be broken down anymore.....
Angel Miller
I get about 2500 calories & 100g of protein a day. Most of the protein is from low availability plant sources tho so it's the equivalent of sth like 60g of whey protein.
>And I could see increased muscle mass and just overall my body felt great. But the last 2 months have destroyed me. Before I started working out again I had a 2 year period during which I got out of my home 1 per week. and programmed like 16 hours a day. Literally no physical activity and I felt so much worse. It's not worth it.
>I can’t even sleep well at night because I have muscular aches from lack of calories and protein. Are you sure that's because of the low calories? Low potassium/magnesium/zinc can cause the same shit. Get a multivitamin.
I had a 1-2 year period during which I did strength training 6 days a week and ate below maintenance (like 500c below) cuz I was poor. I didn't have problems with sleep just my DOMs stayed for much longer. I used to have DOMs for like 48 hours, when I eat properly I usually don't get it. Of course it wasn't optimal but I still made a lot of progress during these 2 years.
Can you post a pic of your abdomen, I'm legit curious how you look at such low weight with normal height.
