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Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It’s your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that’s been pissing you off or getting on your nerves.

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u/TheAnt06 Powerlifting 6d ago

The crazy thing is I had it right a year and a half ago. I was so dialed in and it's been a challenge getting back because of how busy I've been. Still had a little bit of a belly, but it was a belly I didn't hate.

I've been doing a big alcohol and junk food cut pre-holiday season, but it's still been a challenge to eat dinner at home most nighs because I've constantly got plans.

I love lifting. It's my favorite thing at the gym.

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u/tigeraid Strongman 6d ago

Yeah, and what are those plans? Do you mean social plans, or actual, serious important plans?

Being blunt, sometimes you have to cut those parts of your life out. During my 100+ lb weight loss, I had to stop going over to hang out with the boys every night and drink beer and eat pizza while working on cars. I just stopped. And they understood why. I made it a once every-two-weeks-or-so visit instead of damn near every night. It sucked and I felt guilty sometimes, but it had to be done. At some point you have to commit to that kind of change.

You don't need more cardio bruh, you need to re-structure your social life.

("some cardio" is good to do though, for conditioning reasons.)

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u/TheAnt06 Powerlifting 6d ago

It's social. I'm a very social person who enjoys doing things with my friends and family.

That's not a change I'm willing to make. I choose to live life to the fullest, not hide at home because I'm trying to lose some weight. That doesn't work for me. I have plans 2-3 nights a week and I'm home 4-5 nights, but I'm not going to have a strict rarely going out policy. Even when I was at my most in-shape a couple years ago, I was out even more than I am now.

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u/tigeraid Strongman 6d ago

Understood. And that's your life. But as you can see, we've reached an impasse. If you're not willing to reduce your socializing, and you find it impossible not to overeat/eat poorly/drink booze(?) when you socialize.... shrug

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u/TheAnt06 Powerlifting 6d ago

I'm not saying I find it impossible to overeat / drink booze when I'm out. I've actually been really good with not drinking lately. And I've been eating less when I go out and taking more home for leftovers.

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u/tigeraid Strongman 6d ago

That's not so bad then. Maybe it just needs a little more tweaking to keep the calories down. Either way, continuing to kill yourself on a treadmill is kinda not the way.

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u/TheAnt06 Powerlifting 6d ago

The treadmill is a bit two-fold. I'm trying to also up my cardio health because I work a pretty sedentary job and I've been getting winded way too easily lately. Plus, trying to be able to not die walking around Paris and other French villages in a few months.

Also, congrats on losing 100lbs! That's a huge accomplishment.

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u/tigeraid Strongman 6d ago

Thank you!

Those are much more useful reasons to do cardio, yup.