• djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    33·
    3 天前

    why is it soooo much exercisee 😭 I’m in the gym twice a week and think I need to up it to three times to hit those kindsa goals

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        10·
        3 天前

        that’s exercise six times a week! I don’t have even close to the time for that! nor the money to support the necessary caloric intake!

        • ceenote@lemmy.world
          10·
          3 天前

          caloric intake

          I have good news for you: you can cut that to save money and get, well, cut.

          • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            10·
            3 天前

            honey what do you think I’ve been doing, if I cut any more calories out I think I’ll end up in the hospital. I’ve already got days where CI:CO = less than a thousand.

    • Fei@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      16·
      3 天前

      During my pre-transition journey trying to figure out why I never felt satisfied with my body, I pursued body building. Your diet and nutrition is like 70% of the process 🫠 someone can spend 6 days a week in the gym and make no progress if their nutrition isn’t tuned to their goals.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7·
        3 天前

        I’ve mostly just been trying to lose weight, and I know a big part of that is diet, but I feel like that’s the part I’m best at. I’m poor as fuck and can barely afford to feed myself, it’s like the best form of dieting cuz I can never cheat 😭

        • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
          8·
          3 天前

          Diet in this case doesn’t mean eating less necessarily. It means getting the macronutrients that you need and cutting out empty calories if you aren’t in a bulking phase. Even if, as you are, you’re just trying to lose weight, doing so with good nutrients will only be positive to your goals

        • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          4·
          3 天前

          well they say abs are made in the kitchen. ive been on a weight loss journey for a few years now and its really fucking hard. i love sweets so much and they’re so dense with calories.

          one important thing ive learned is the importance of refeeds. basically if you are in a caloric restriction for a while your body will go into starvation mode, so to speak. it starts cutting down on energy expenditures to prevent you from losing more weight, and this is what people are experiencing when they hit a plateau. the mistake they make is trying to cut calories more, which works a little, but pushes their body further into starvation mode. that isn’t sustainable and you end up thinking about food all the time, in an unhealthy way, and eventually your food impulse will get so strong you cant ignore it and you binge. lots of people quit at this stage and end up gaining back all the weight, if not more because their body is still in starvation mode.

          the solution is to refeed. basically you take a couple days to eat a normal amount, not quite a binge but enough that you feel satisfied, then go back to the restriction. this tells your body “hey everything is ok look we are getting enough food you dont need to freak out” so it stops with the starvation stuff, or at least lessens it. you do that every two or three weeks and it keeps your body from getting too starved. its also much easier psychologically because you get to have breaks and feel full sometimes. it works especially well with only a small caloric restriction, so you’re consistently losing a little bit of weight over a long period of time, adding up to a lot of weight loss without much perceived effort in the long term.

          the upside of dieting this way is that its much more sustainable. i lost ~20-30 pounds over the course of a year a few years ago, and ive been able to maintain my weight very consistently since then. i still want to lose a bit more for my own aesthetic goals, which has been hard recently for a variety of personal reasons, but being able to maintain any amount of weight loss has been huge for me.

          the main thing is to be gentle with yourself and acknowledge that losing weight is not something that can be achieved through pure willpower forcing yourself not to eat. we evolved over hundreds of millions of years to have robust biological processes to prevent us from expending our energy stores unless absolutely necessary, and to compel us to seek out more. losing weight sustainably requires understanding your body and using that understanding to avoid getting in a wrestling match with your survival mechanisms.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
      13·
      3 天前

      Only recently my wife got ripped like this. Bottom line is that she does ab work throughout the as a habit. I mean, constantly. She also does elastic band work, pilates box, and slack board throughout the day. Add to that the fact that she barely eats carbs and is on a whole food plant based diet, and that’s how she got there.

      The only way to get ripped like this is if that’s just your default mode of living. She enjoys the constant physical activity as it helps her manage stress and is good for her mental health under her workload.

    • Foreigner@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 天前

      Going three times a week is better (assuming you’re weightlifting and increasing the load progressively) but you might also need to lower your body fat. You can be hella ripped but if your body fat is above a certain percentage the muscles won’t show through. It takes time and discipline. Though sustaining very low body fat levels is unhealthy, and some super ripped folks are also very dehydrated. It’s not something you want to sustain long term.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 天前

        I’m actually only trying to lower body fat, I’m not that interested in getting abs, and yeah time and discipline is right 😭 been going at it for two years now and while I look better than before, I still long for the perfect twink body I had in my early 20s before my damn metabolism betrayed me.

      • belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        2 天前

        I use Mullvad, seems like it’s working after I switched servers? But I could’ve sworn I was on a different server previously where it also didn’t work… weird

  • MrOtingocni@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 天前

    Pic on the right… Oh snap, neurons activate! The whole of the aesthetic is greater than the sum of its parts!

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    13·
    3 天前

    Listen, it’s the middle of the work day. I cannot be this thirsty this early in the day.

  • squeeG@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    3 天前

    i’ve found working out is a lot more fun now that my goal is aligned with my mindset, and i’m not just going thru the motions :)

      • squeeG@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 天前

        I really didn’t care about my body before, working out was a chore because I didn’t care about having the body in picture A, but now that I am aiming for a more feminine form, which works better with my body’s natural composition anyways, I find the results much more pleasing and as such it’s more fun. I also enjoy doing stuff like aerobics and yoga much more than lifting weights :)