2024 is the year, IST. Gonna lose the weight and get in shape, just gonna eat chicken and rice with veggies, also gonna buy lots of eggs and tuna, plus high protein plant-based milk. The New Year energy is building up, I can feel it. I just gotta actually stick with it this time and defeat my fast food demons.
I don't care if I get sick of the same meals everyday, just gotta power through it. And I don't even care if girls start finding me attractive anymore, at this point I just want to do it for myself and feel better about myself.
The reason people like you fail is because you try to overturn your entire life all at once. Make a small change that you can life with until it becomes a habit. Then change something else.
I somewhat agree, sadly it's difficult for a lot of people to accept that change comes slowly. A lot of people want instant/quick results, so when you tell someone "Hey, if you lose 10 lbs in a month that's fantastic." But to them, 10 lbs is nothing as they want to lose 30 lbs in a month. Or if you said "Realistically, it might take you 3-6 months to lose 30 lbs" well that becomes discouraging if they realize it could take half a year to lose 30 lbs.
I personally just don't want to be fat anymore, and I can live without looking muscular. I'd be happy just being skinny with little fat, and THEN if I reach that goal I can think about building muscle. I think it's more realistic to focus on one or the other. Do you want to be muscular? Or do you want to be skinny?
>2024 is the year, IST. Gonna lose the weight and get in shape, just gonna eat chicken and rice with veggies, also gonna buy lots of eggs and tuna, plus high protein plant-based milk. The New Year energy is building up, I can feel it. I just gotta actually stick with it this time and defeat my fast food demons. I don't care if I get sick of the same meals everyday, just gotta power through it. And I don't even care if girls start finding me attractive anymore, at this point I just want to do it for myself and feel better about myself.
Thanks for the new pasta
>makes a blogpost instead of actually doing anything
Ok bud, whatever u say
>I don't care if I get sick of the same meals everyday
Learn to cook
What i found helped me avoid fast food is that it’s not even good anymore and it’s stupid expensive.
A double quarter pounder with cheese is 730kcal, and it’s fricking $7.79 on its own now. It’s just not worth it, it’s not worth spending that much money on what? A mediocre burger that accounts for over a third of my daily caloric intake?
There was a point in my life where I would sit down and eat two of those frickers and a large fry, and what really got to me was the health aspect, is was that the meal I ate was israelite tier highway robbery.
Holy frick I can’t type
>what really got me was not the health aspect, it was that the meal I ate was israelite tier highway robbery
Why is the new fit ideal body so skinny
Make every year your b***h, even if you lose you don't lose if you learn from it, be a winner, always. All about mindset.
You won't change shit, all this should have started today long ago, rather than next year.
Always start on January 1st, I do it every year, well I started like 2-3 years ago attempting to do it on New Years, and it kind of became a habit. This will be like my 4th time attempting to go on a diet and lose weight as a New Year's resolution.
If you can't be dissuaded from this pattern, at least consider taking some of that perception and applying it to the first of every month. Even better if you can apply it to the first of every week.
One opportunity a year to reset versus twelve opportunities versus fifty-two opportunities.
>building this whole "new thing" up in your mind
>setting major expectations
>relying on motivation
>making drastic life changes all at once
>making a new identity based on this new thing
>haven't done anything yet
>setting an arbitrary start date (this coming up year 2024) for no reason
Doomed to fail like the rest of them. Quit building up all of this mental attachment to all of this shit. The second you can get to lifting and never miss a day even if it's boring or you don't feel like it then you're set for life. The important part being that it is simply routine and not some kind of Herculean fricking feat. You're picking up inanimate objects in an air conditioned building and eating food that doesn't suck dick. It's not hard or spectacular. Remove putting health on a pedestal and just think of it like brushing your teeth and you won't have to overcome the mental bullshit that comes along with "trying" to do something new and "failing" because you're not reaching arbitrary goals.
>and eating food that doesn't suck dick
I disagree on the food aspect. Rice, chicken, veggies, tuna, and protein bars are not nearly as delicious as greasy fast food and junk food. Taco Bell and Jack in the Box taste better to me than chicken, rice, and veggies. There are so many things you can't eat on a diet, like pasta. I love pasta, and pasta is so good.
>you can't eat pasta on a diet
what is portioning?
If you like meat, carnivore works like a son of a b***h. You'll never feel like you're sacrificing anything. You could also eat super lean meat with low/no fat fruit, which also tastes very good. Feels like king shit. There are also tons of recipes online you can find to make those same foods that taste just as good or even way better, but make them with lower calorie substitutes, 0 calorie sweeteners, and lower carb or lower fat variants. If you get consistent and good at making those, then you would never feel like you're cutting back. You can literally indulge on low calorie protein ice cream all fricking day and be on the right track. If I had to eat boiled boneless skinless chicken breast and rice all day, I wouldn't do this shit either. Just experiment with some of the dieting options and find something that works, that tastes good, that doesn't feel like sacrificing, and that you will actually do for the rest of your life. There are so many ways to split it up. You can even find multiple different types of diets and jump between them if you get bored of what you're doing. Key point being that you get sufficient protein and calories and everything else is optional, which is very easy to do.
Also, fast food legit tastes fuxking terrible, but you're so deep in the matrix you can't even see it yet. Just eat good ass food for a while and you won't want that shit anyway, which doesn't mean bland trash, but just real whole food in general with a focus on meat. Pasta is a scam. Rice is useless. Vegetables are a scam. Steak and eggs mostly
You douches end up coming in about 3x and spend most of it clogging up the leg extension scrolling your phone.
Ill be starting 2024 off 30kg better off than how I started this year. This time next year will define what type of man I can be.
If you are not at natty peak by 30 then it's unironically over (same goes for your career).
Change at a reasonable rate, to avoid burnout and in turn failure.
Hello newbie.
Goodbye in a month, newbie.
why did it have to be a white yaris... literally me
Sure bud.
Actually my gym was extremely crowded today. everyone wants to escape their families and the college guys are back home
>le highly optimistic new years post
same shit different year huh buddy
>high protein plant-based milk
You’re entire reality is a lie.
Thinking about stopping going to the gym.
I've been going for years now but I think it might be time to stop soon. It just doesn't do it for me anymore, it's not really helping me in any way. I don't get any benefits, hasn't helped me with women, money, or meeting people. I'm not getting any joy out of it anymore like I used to It also costs me about $600 a year.
So yeah after lifting for many years, on and off I admit, it might be time to finally call it quits and move with my life, so my new year resolution is to quit the gym.