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

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?

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).

I'm cosigning this. Lift more. Eat more. Leave all these Beachbody programs behind and get a solid lifting program with the proper volume of lifting for your current fitness level AND STICK TO IT. Of course the fitness magazines have a new workout every month. That's because they have to sell you a new magazine every month chock full of ads for supplements that you don't need. Use the mags for motivation but not for information.

I repeat, get a solid lifting program and stick with it.

^This. All of this

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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.

Sorry, I know its off topic a bit, but insulin is a peptide hormone made up of amino acids. So you've just said that one peptide hormone (insulin), is not absorbed in the GI tract, but that another peptide hormone (RBST), can be?

Did I miss something?

Dammit you beat me to it! Agreed.

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).

I'm cosigning this. Lift more. Eat more. Leave all these Beachbody programs behind and get a solid lifting program with the proper volume of lifting for your current fitness level AND STICK TO IT. Of course the fitness magazines have a new workout every month. That's because they have to sell you a new magazine every month chock full of ads for supplements that you don't need. Use the mags for motivation but not for information.

I repeat, get a solid lifting program and stick with it.

^^^ this

and regarding the gut, to get rid of it you need to lower your body fat percentage. The way to do that is to do the above, i.e. a proper lifting programme, and eat at a very slight deficit, e.g. TDEE - 10%... this means calculating how many calories your body burns each day, and eating 10% less than that. The threads "in place of a road map" explains how to calculate how much you're burning each day (i.e. your TDEE)

If you're not doing the lifting, then when you try to cut (i.e. eat less than you burn) you'll lose lean body mass along with the fat, you'll get lighter, but the gut won't go away. There are lots of people with 6 pack abs on this site and they all do heavy lifting. Also, even if you're lifting, if you're eating too little, you will lose lean body mass along with the fat. To lower your body fat percentage, you need to do everything you can to protect your lean body mass, while burning only fat. Hence, very small deficit (only 10% less than you burn off each day) and doing heavy lifting so your body knows you need those muscles. And you need the prescribed amount of rest. If for psychological reasons you feel unable to take rest days, then please seek counselling/therapy for that before you run your body entirely into the ground. Try to focus on health, first and foremost. Exercise is extremely healthy provided you give your body a chance to rest and recover and also feed your body properly.

If you're eating less than you burn off, you won't bulk up. Bulking up doesn't happen by accident, you need to eat more than you burn off for that to happen.