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I've been backing you this whole time, I just think you need to grab your spine and be blunt with him. Approaching things in a delicate manner only diminishes thier importance, and this seems rather important to you.

When I pulled out of my 2 year depression, I was 300lbs. Before I quit lifting and eating right, I was a fit 205 at about 15% BF. *kitten* what people think. It will quickly show that you know what you're doing if they're watching. You still know good form, you still know how to build a routine - and muscle memory is a…

I meditate 10 minutes a day...helps with focus/anxiety, but it takes a few months of doing it every day to really notice the benefits, and they're very subtle.

You need to say exactly this to him, not to a bunch of strangers on some food tracking app/fitness forum.

This. Walking and light hand weights aren't enough...they really aren't. If can't join a gym you need to at least work with bodyweight exercises, resistance bands, running, hiking etc. The human body evolved to walk 40 miles a day and hunt sabertooth tigers. It's made for SO MUCH MORE than brisk walking and 5lb dumbbells.

That would work, or you could just include more red meat in your diet and get it without supplementation.

I completely disagree with this. You can't fault her for her attraction/non attraction to a person. Attraction happens on a subconscious level. Call it superficial all you want, its not.

This: If you're genuinely losing attraction because of his physical appearance (and also because his unhealthy habits aren't attractive to you and don't mesh with your lifestyle) then that is nothing to be ashamed of. It needs to be said, hurt feelings or not. Don't swallow your emotions to protect his

Chicken, brown rice, and broccoli. The original bodybuilding staple meal gets so much flak and is actually delicious - I'm eating it for lunch right now and do almost every day.

You're getting some flak for this so I'm gonna back you up. You have every right to say something about all of it.

Water weight fluctuations can count for a lot. Every gram of carbs makes you retain 4g of water (I think it's 4g). Salt, glycogen stores etc. All affect that stuff. I wouldn't worry about it, the scale doesn't tell the whole picture.

There's a certain "in tune with your body" sort of intuition that can be gained from long term athletics and eating for a goal over time...you shouldn't ignore it.

This.

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I run a bro-type split with a specific focus on strongman events. I don't do a Monday/Tue/Wed etc. Schedule because life can get in the way I just do day 1/2/3 etc. - In order no matter the day of the week. My training is actually bare bones simple at the moment. DAY 1: Shoulders- Log clean and presses, sledgehammer tire…

The wider the grip, the more it engages your lats, the closer the grip, the more bicep centric the movement is. Try using the assisted pull-up rather than lat pull down and slowly decrease the weight until you can do one on your own. Once you can do a few, get a doorway pull-up bar and make it a point to do them every time…

Kind of both, we all buy stuff separately but if someone eats someone else's stuff it's not the end of the world. One of my roommates is kind of struggling financially a bit so I let him raid my food on the regular too, as long as he doesn't take the last of anything I don't really mind. Edit: Also, I'm not made of stone…

Arms/shoulder accessory work. Lame, no big compound movements.

I actually, truly, honestly love lifting weights. I get really down without it, and I absolutely dread rest days.

You're not sedentary, you're lightly active plus workout calories or active and don't count workouts cals cause they are factored in. Also, what does your overall lifestyle look like? For instance I call myself very active and dont bother with exercise cals because my job often involves a fair amount of heavy lifting and…

I would almost agree that it sounds like you are under eating. I also realize that I am terrible at relating to these issues with people with Lower calories being that my current cut diet is between 2800-3300 cals a day.

I have a unique perspective on this: I trained in commercial style gyms for a long time and I would occasionally say something to someone if I thought they were going to hurt themselves. I fairly recently switched to a warehouse style strongman gym. I'm still getting used to the equipment (logs, stones etc)...now I'm on…

When I was doing my big cut from 300-230 I pretty much ate the same things at the same times every day with meal timing geared towards later in the afternoon/evening because I find it easier to deal with hunger in the mornings. It was boring but it worked. I just remind myself that "food is fuel, not therapy"

I believe there is a line between being disciplined with eating and listening to your body. If you really are craving sugar, you might actually need sugar. I often go "off plan" and slam a Gatorade or something because I can just tell I need it by how drained I feel.

This. Seriously. Although there are like 3 caveats. Multivitamins are worth taking because you're not always going to hit all your micronutrients, and joint support stuff actually does work. Pre-workout DOES give you energy but it's also not that great for you and an XL black coffee would do similar and is healthier. Other…

Focus on the main lifts like squats, bench, overhead press, barbell rows, and deadlifts. Bodyweight stuff like dips and pull-ups are also important to a strength base. Your core will get hit by the squats/deads/ohp but planks are worth doing until you can do 2 minutes each left/front/center. Also, it's not necessary for a…

AA could help you, but there are other ways to get treatment as well. The thing that helped me the most was finding out I was self medicating untreated MH issues. Didn't fix everything and I'm definitely still a partier/weekend drinker but ever since getting help I haven't been much of a weekday drinker and I definitely…

I have a similar situation but with going out. During the workweek it's 12 hour workdays, then gym, errands, house chores, meal prep, dinner, shower, chill, bed...I have absolutely no problem there. But when Saturday rolls around- oh boy I wake up at 7am and knock all that stuff out by 11 and then usually find myself at…

It's still one adult asking another adult to go out of thier way for something that person shouldn't have to. If someone offers me food, is it thier fault if I eat it, or mine?

I'm seriously skeptical he's giving away that stuff all the time to everyone. A 30 serving tub of pre-workout is 30 bucks, and it's really 10-15 servings for anyone with a caffeine tolerance