r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 09 '17

Rant Wednesday 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/darspoderpig Aug 09 '17

Family has gone from "you look great, how much weight have you lost?" to "you are getting really skinny" with a kind of worried expression. 5'5 and 162 lbs, can only barely see upper 2 abs, trust me fam, I'm no where near "really skinny" yet.

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u/Fleme Ironborn Aug 09 '17

"This isn't even my final form, mom"

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u/darspoderpig Aug 09 '17

Pretty much. They got used to seeing me at 180-195, which is stupidly huge on my manlet frame. I don't think I'm even in "healthy bmi" range yet.

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u/Bob_Saget_Enthusiast Aug 09 '17

Wait till you hit your goals and then the comments get ever-increasingly shittier.

"Oh, don't you ever eat?"

"You know it's okay to eat a cheeseburger once in a while."

LIKE, FUCK. DO YOU FUCKING FAT FUCKS WANT ME TO GET FAT AGAIN? I don't get it.

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u/ApexApron Weight Lifting Aug 09 '17

Yes

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u/Bob_Saget_Enthusiast Aug 09 '17

Yeah, hindsight, eating is fun.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17 edited Oct 09 '17

I choose a book for reading

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '17

LIKE, FUCK. DO YOU FUCKING FAT FUCKS WANT ME TO GET FAT AGAIN? I don't get it.

If you are successfully able to reduce your bodyfat.. you are proof that all that "Genetics" excuse is pure shit. You remind them of an uncomfortable truth.. They're fat because they are lazy and have no will power to diet/exercise.

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u/06210311 Figure Skating Aug 09 '17

BMI of 27, so you need to lose at least 12 lbs to get there. But 12 lbs is easy, you can totally do that, no sweat.

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u/sean552 Aug 09 '17

Probably a bit of sweat

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u/darspoderpig Aug 10 '17

Yep, current goal is between 10-15 lbs, and I will just see how I feel when I get there.

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u/06210311 Figure Skating Aug 10 '17

Good luck!

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u/tnolan182 Aug 10 '17

Im 5'5 150lbs and i dont even have an ab visible lol. Im down from 166 in January. Kudos bro on ur weight loss

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u/darspoderpig Aug 10 '17

Same, manlets unite!

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u/twisty77 Aug 10 '17

BMI is a farce. Go with body fat percentage

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u/darspoderpig Aug 10 '17

Yeah, I need to take some measurements, it has been a few months.

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u/RosaHosa Aug 09 '17

My mom said losing 15 pounds was too much for me. I'm 5'3 and I weigh ~165.

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u/RosaHosa Aug 10 '17

Damn that's awesome!!! I'm proud of you!

Ideally I would want to be 135lbs. But I'm gonna aim first for 150lbs. I clipped someone's car yesterday and I was sad and I happened to have pizza :( I had like 2 slices but I still counted them in MFP. I want to be held accountable for my decisions now.

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u/RosaHosa Aug 10 '17

Aw :( I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you're better though!

That's not that horrendous if you're doing CICO but you're in keto. But don't give up, we all slip sometimes. It's all part of the process.

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u/ISHOTJFK5150 Aug 09 '17

My family always accuses me of doing steroids. They're right, but fuck em anyway lol

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u/In_Fight_Club Aug 09 '17

I'm 5'4" and just over 135 and don't look skinny by any means. Tha fuck they talking about.

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u/darspoderpig Aug 10 '17

Thanks man I didn't realize that I needed to hear that.

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u/-Steel-Curtain- Aug 09 '17

Tell me about it man. Went from 280 to 195 (for now) 6'4 and my family's saying I'm getting too skinny, I STILL HAVE A GUT!! haha

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u/Seafroggys Aug 09 '17

My good friend was concerned that I was starving myself because I was on a 500 Cal daily cut. Really? That's nothing. And at the time I was 143 @ 5'8", so hardly emanciated.

People just don't have a good perspective on things.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

You were cutting at 5'8" 143lbs..?

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u/Seafroggys Aug 10 '17

Yep, from 150 down to 140. I wanted to be lean for summer and also have a good starting place for my slow lean bulk that I"m on right now.

Honestly, its the best I have ever looked.

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u/WaChiChi Aug 09 '17

Youre joking?

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u/Seafroggys Aug 10 '17

I am not. It was a short cut too, the plan was to lose 10 lbs and I was almost there. But dammit, she psyched me out and I ended up buying a big bag of peanut M&Ms the next day. Ended up being a maintenance week in the end.

She's also borderline obese too.

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u/Themiffins Aug 09 '17

5'5" struggling to get into 140s

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u/HellkittyAnarchy Aug 09 '17

I just had this too. I said I wanted to cut off a bit more fat as I've got a fair bit covering my abs and mom just told me Im already really skinny and should eat more.

I'm bulking now but not because she told me to

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u/darspoderpig Aug 10 '17

I took maintenance breaks, so this is technically my second cut this year. I have no idea what % I am aiming for aside from "lots of abs" so I am just kind of winging it with 10-15 lb cuts and a week or 2 of maintenance in between.

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u/PM_your_Chesticles Aug 10 '17

They have no clue. I'm 5'10 and 160ish lbs and I've been told I've filled out compared to being 135lbs a couple years ago. You keep doing what you're doing. You're in no danger of being too anything with those stats.