I tell people I don't work out, to embarrassed on progress

I don't take a day off either, I do a lighter one on a "slow day" but it's still pretty intense.

that may be where you are going wrong. your body grows and repairs itself when you rest, not when you work out. If you are constantly working out, your body's never being given the chance to finish the growth and repair process. This leads to physical and mental exhaustion and also a lack of progress. If you're eating too little for the amount of exercise you do, that's going to make it even worse.

Try taking a week off and eating at TDEE. Give your body a chance to recover.

Then start again, take 2 rest days a week. (Walking intensity only days if you really can't have a proper rest day)

If you want to gain muscle, try eating 10% over your TDEE for a while. If you want to lose fat, then check out the latest in the "in place of a road map" threads, and calculate your TDEE and what deficit to subtract from it... if you're already quite lean (you look pretty slim in your picture) then maybe just eat 10% less than your TDEE while hitting the weights to preserve lean body mass.

Above all, feed yourself properly and ensure your body has adequate rest/recovery time. That is when your body grows. Exercise is not a pennance or a punishment. Nurture your body, don't beat it half to death.

There is some weird information on this thread

It sounds like a combo of over training/under eating. You don't need crossfit or some crazy non-soy non-gmo diet. Up your calories, get more protein, and look into some heavy lifting programs (I think someone mentioned Stronglifts).

If you take one piece of advice from this thread OP, take the advice i've quoted please. It sounds like you want to build some muscle , and looked 'ripped'. Get in the gym, doing some compound lifts (as stated Stronglifts is beginner friendly) learn about eating to fuel your body and help build muscle. Thats all there is to it. Please don't listen to all the over complicated advice on this thread. Keep it simple.

Degree in sports med and you still think that dietary hormones can influence endogenous hormones? Guess you didn't cover digestion. Adrenal glands don't regulate metabolism.

Lots of odd information in this thread.

OP, exercise is stress. Chronic stress induces changes in hormones that can reduce your metabolic rate and prevent protein synthesis. You need a rest day or two at your level of intensity. You don't need to spend exorbitant amounts of money on antibiotic-free chicken.

Everything that goes into the gut is, to some degree absorbed from the gut, or eliminated as waste. Endogenous refers to hormones that are "self" produced--so doesn't apply to this scenario--because the OP is consuming hormone, not producing it. Eating animals, or products of animals that are treated with growth hormones--meaning the hormone is in the muscle tissue/milk, etc. is going to be ingested. This affects humans after consumption. There are many clinical studies on this. What does happen on an endogenous level is consumption of antibiotics, and toxins such as arsenic. Both of these particular items ingested are again absorbed. Antibiotics--even at a low dose--affect the flora and fauna of the gut. Breaking that down further, this disrupts the ability to absorb the good and essential nutrients, and can actually cause toxins to more readily pass into the bloodstream.

Adrenal absolutely affects metabolism--and is one of the "regulators" of metabolism. Working out is a stress on the body, which triggers inflammation. Your body considers it stress, which causes a rise in the stress hormone cortisol. This hormone will cause the body to maintain fat levels, even increase fat levels. This is why diet, rest days, and proper sleep are all a delicate balance.

For anyone who invests time and money into working out, why would you fail to see the wisdom of investing in the food quality that fuels the machine and long term health? Do some research, and you will find that there isn't a more crucial thing that you can do to improve your health and fitness level!

Okay, so why can't diabetics take their insulin orally?
What level of antibiotics are traceable in consumable meat, how much of it enters the consumer, and how much is required to knock out the gut microbiome? What strains are reduced by what antibiotics fed to consumable livestock?
Yes the adrenal glands affect metabolism, but they do not regulate it.

There is some weird information on this thread

It sounds like a combo of over training/under eating. You don't need crossfit or some crazy non-soy non-gmo diet. Up your calories, get more protein, and look into some heavy lifting programs (I think someone mentioned Stronglifts).

If you take one piece of advice from this thread OP, take the advice i've quoted please. It sounds like you want to build some muscle , and looked 'ripped'. Get in the gym, doing some compound lifts (as stated Stronglifts is beginner friendly) learn about eating to fuel your body and help build muscle. Thats all there is to it. Please don't listen to all the over complicated advice on this thread. Keep it simple.

Yep

My diet is an issue, I know, but I am worried about eating more, if you look at my picture which I really really really did not want to post, you can see that I have a gut there and no formation, arms are flabby to besides all the other things you can point out.

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Offdays, they scare me. I look at myself and figure " do you deserve an off day?" probably not, so I go ahead and do a workout.

these quotes are worrying to be honest.... "do you deserve an off day"... do you exercise to punish yourself, or to be healthy? If you exercise to be healthy, then having an off day is essential to good health, as is eating the right amount of calories. You don't earn off days, you need them because you are human.

Men can get eating disorders too... now I'm not saying you have that, but the above statements I would class as the kind of thinking that can lead to eating disorders, and the kinds of things people with eating disorders say. So if you believe those things strongly enough that you're going to carry on undereating and never taking rest days, then counselling/therapy should be the next step.

Seriously, if *health* is your number 1 priority, you will eat enough to fuel your body and your workouts, and take rest days so your body can recover properly.

If you want abs more than you want health, then understand that you need to have strong, healthy muscles in order to get abs in the first place. If you're undereating, constantly punishing your body with the most difficult workouts you can find and not taking rest days, then how are you going to be developing your abs muscles? Or any muscles? How are your bones going to remain strong? What did your body do to deserve such treatment?

To get visible abs, 1. train strategically. Not necessarily harder, in your case you need to take rest days. You can get visible abs working out with weights just 3x a week, less is more, sometimes. 2. eat right. That means enough to fuel your body, but with a small calorie deficit, so your body burns up the fat.

see all the "in place of a road map" threads for more information. If you only take one thing from this website, then that thread is it. This method works, there are many, many people on this forum who have visible abs and fit strong healthy bodies who followed the plan on that thread, or other plans that are basically the same method, but not from that thread. You calculate how much energy your body needs, eat slightly less than that, and lift heavy weights, and give your body adequate time to recover between workouts.

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Okay, so why can't diabetics take their insulin orally?
What level of antibiotics are traceable in consumable meat, how much of it enters the consumer, and how much is required to knock out the gut microbiome? What strains are reduced by what antibiotics fed to consumable livestock?
Yes the adrenal glands affect metabolism, but they do not regulate it.
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*edit to add, silly quote isn't posting for me! : )

Insulin is a protein, rbst is a peptide hormone--proteins are digested, peptide hormones are absorbed. Assuming that you are referring to rbst? I am sure you have read about the clinical trials for oral insulin?

As for your other questions, you can research the answers for yourself. It seems that after reading your profile that you might be aware of the answers. Since antibiotic use in livestock was completely unregulated for over 30 years--and over 30 million pounds of these drugs are used in livestock in just one year, it isn't hard to believe that it is absolutely traceable.

Pituitary regulates metabolism.....adrenal assists directly....which is also a regulatory response.

Actually it is highly regulated. 5 livestock : 1 human = more antibiotic use in humans than consumable animals.

Without modification proteins don't pass the pH of the stomach with any functionality left.

I would type more if my hand wasn't in a full cast.

You probably need to eat MORE (since you are a guy and since it seems like you are trying to bulk up), but continue to eat healthy...

and lift weights.

Insanity is cardio. DYEL?