What addiction is holding you back from your fitness goals. Is it internet surfing? Porn? Gaming? What will you do to cut it out?
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What addiction is holding you back from your fitness goals. Is it internet surfing? Porn? Gaming? What will you do to cut it out?
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i cant stop raping men
gay gay gay
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that counts as cardio
My condolences town rapist. Hope you go back to women soon 🙁
Alcohol, I'm probably drinking about 1000 calories of booze a day, and that's after I shifted off beer and onto cider and white wine.
it's hard as frick
i'm trying to quit as well, i drink only whiskey and hard seltzer for no carb/low cal
Same here, I know I'm more like 1800 calories of light beer when i drink, at least 3 times a week. It's hard to quit but I'm still seeing progress in my lifts. Alcohol really hurts your cardio system the day after drinking.
my body is addicted to mediocrity
same body type but I don't even lift
yeah. imagine lifting for 4 years to have less muscle than people that don't even lift
that's me
im simply a dead end genetically
at least i can make sure that these genetics will never pass on
>My genetics
Aka you didn't work and eat hard enough
i lift to failure and lift 5 times a week
i eat more than enough protein
do you really thinki have any trouble eating food?
you're not special anon. I hate to break it to you.
this anon is right
You need a calorie surplus, not just "enough protein". Protein is not the only macro utilised your body in the growth process.
Please stop being a fricking moron.
>You need a calorie surplus, not just "enough protein"
gaining 70lbs isn't enough of a surplus?
>Black person
You're supposed to cut after a bulk not endlessly bulk.
i didn't gain any muscle
Building for strength vs building for muscle mass requires different regimines.
i barely got stronger either
BOOBA
Cant pushups fix that?
Chest exercises basically. Bench press and pushups to name a couple.
You'll probably want to consider an estrogen blocker like DIM as well. Virtually every dude living in a first-world country has higher estrogen levels than what would normally be expected, so things like gynecomastia (moobs) are pretty common. With testosterone lvls being tanked across the board, anything that (reasonably) boosts test is probably a good thing
>Chest exercises basically. Bench press and pushups to name a couple.
ive been lifting for 4 years but its perfectly understandable if you could not tell
I could list a bunch of things but the biggest would have to he my sleep schedule. I prefer going to the gym in the morning but I wake up super late (12-2). I've tried going in the evening but too many life things and/or personal demons (porn, laziness, etc) get in the way. In the morning, you just get up and go.
I know going to bed takes discipline but everything I mess up, I essentially have to try again tomorrow, and the next day after that, and the next day after that...
WAGMI. Keep going!
Too much good food and also alcohol. Like today. I couldve had my protein requirements in a 1000 calorie deficit. But instead I made 4 eggs, a tablespoon of cottage cheese, sausage (fresh from wild boar), two slices of sourdough, and a couple protein pancakes. Shit was so good. But then I ate some seasoned sunflower seeds, and leftover japanese chicken wings. I definitely did not need all that and basically I'm at maintenance for the day.
Addiction to not sleeping properly.
Work. I work at a startup and it consumes most of my time. The timea that I forced myself to workout while being tired I got injured.
>I work at a startup
Been there, done that got the coffee mug and T shirt. Real talk, you can likely get better pay for less hours and hop off the equity roller coaster.
Thanks for the advice. I'm currently just trying to get most of my options vested at the moment just so I don't kick myself in the ass for jumping ship too early. Got a good 20x so far, but in reality, it's just numbers on a screen if till the company goes public.
i cant stop smoking weed and its shitty
wEed'S nOT adDIctiNg bRo???!?!?!
Same bro!
I knew a very attractive woman who wired herself to use it for postworkout doms
Just don't smoke until you've actually worked out for the day bro
I try be healthy as frick, but I still get health issues.
I try to lift and be aesthetic, but I still look like garbage despite lifting for years.
I try to get wealthy, but I end up even poorer than I began.
Dont even get me started on women.
It makes me very blackpilled.
Negative experience after negative experience, do some people just have a life like this? I cant even imagine a life where positive stuff happens.
it's better than doing nothing i guess, that's how i cope, at least i tried, it just not works out, that's how life works
Relatable anon. Ive been like that for most of my life and im finally starting to see small changes for the better. Address your physical and mental health. Do things to make yourself happy. Dont put success at the forefront of your life becahse it will only make you miserable. You need to heal yourself before you can go down that path and theres no shame in it
At least you're trying, a lot of people never even make it that far
Jerking off. My dick has lost so much feeling. I keep doing it because every time I have a bad day I jerk off to get some relief but every day happens to be a bad day. I need a better job, and to move out of home.
Meditate
try reading this, may help out
https://easypeasymethod.org/
This book has the start of some good ideas, but is woefully incomplete and undeveloped. I keep thinking about writing an addendum/new book about some more advanced tips, but that's hard
i think it addresses the main issue of porn addiction well enough, which is that people fear quitting because they think they're giving up something when in fact, they aren't giving up anything at all but rather gaining back their mental well being. It does lack specialized methods or tips on how to be consistent, that's for sure.
It’s beer/drinking. No hard liquors but beer. In the past 18 months I’ve gone sober for 2 month stretches 3 different times but always fall off at that 2 month mark. I hate it. I clearly have the discipline to start and get going but I can’t get passed this 2 month mark.
Experience: First week sober I sleep A LOT. Body is healing? But after that first week the urge to grab a beer comes up, but by then this like excessive sleeping has done the trick. Energy levels are way up, my skin looks visibly better. Two weeks in every time I’ve dropped 5 lbs without doing anything else.
Alcohol is slavery in a can. Tomorrow is Day 1 again. I’m going to see it through this time. I love you IST bros
i believe in you anon clearly you actually and genuinely want it and know what you need to do/what works for you and thats half the battle godspeed brother
I hit 1/2/3/4 and can't be bothered to eat more to continue gains, so I've been cruising for almost a year now.
Same except with kratom. Kratom nukes your test levels but life is so fricking boring without drugs that I can never tolerate more than 2 weeks off it. Shame because I feel much stronger and energetic when I come off it.
Yeah kratom is like coffee x1000. Confident, funny and just make you feel like the man.
Love Kratom but it nukes your test. I look softer all around when im on it. When I'm off it I look jacked again.
Try AA. You won’t be able to stop without Gods help
Fast
smoking pot helped me quit drinking. But careful going down this route, you dont want to just become some homosexual stoner that smokes pot all day.
I eventually weened off the pot and not I'm not drinking or smoking these days.
gaming,youtube,cooming.IST uhhh it'll fix it self when i become homeless
Internet, mostly youtube at this point. Really doesn't seem like it should be too hard to just stop fricking watching stupid videos all day, but here we are.
Dame problem here. The best solution I found was uninstalling the YouTube app and blocking the site on my computer. That's how I ended my Instagram adiction.
Food.
I've been meticulously counting calories for the past year, but I eat maintenance on so many days that I'm only halfway to my weightloss goal.
too much weed. go in these cycles of months of heavy use and then a period of withdrawal and being clean for like 2-3 weeks. by the time i take a break, my performance in the gym is so bad i'm like taking 10 minutes in between sets. best way for me to begin a cut is by taking a tolerance break
Only addicted to getting pussy. Solved that by getting a girlfriend that is equally horny without any signs of that changing even after two years
And before you ask, she is very supportive when it comes to me lifting weights
Food addiction, duh. Everyone from shitty processed name brands to legit chefs and restaurants to recipe book authors etc etc are spending thousands of hours a year to perfect dopamine triggers for their food. Shit tastes good and our lizard brains are instinctual honed to go after high sugar/fat shit.
sleeping addiction
whenever it's time to lift (like now) i start to *yawn*
but whenever it's time to sleep
BOOM
i'm a terminal sleepyhead
Aimless browsing, especially on IST legit ruins my mental health.
I'm kind of happy with my 7-8 hours of sleep, compared to the fact that I barely had 4-5 before, however I hate that it comes at the price of skipping movies and serieses. They are just too long nowadays, and they not only shorten my sleep but makes me excited before bed so the sleep quality drops.
I wish I could stop watching porn and half naked girls in general, because it undermines my relationship with my wife and women in general. I wish I could see women as people, but I only see them as sex objects...
I want to consume more protein, but it's fricking expensive and I'm also worried it's going to frick up my kidneys...
giga satan addicted to literal everything hahaha
i can't remember a single case of excess protein causing kidney problems
go nuts
Apple cider vinegar, also get a hobby, also realise that you’re taking your partner for granted fantasizing about other women. Love her man. She might be gone like mine left a huge hole in my life.
>She might be gone like mine left a huge hole in my life.
I think this is happening to me right now
How did you cope?
how do you even "get a hobby"?
I was deep in thought about this subject the other day, and one thing I thought of was dirt biking. (used to have a roommate that would talk about dirt biking all the time, kind of want to try it)
However, my concerns are that "oh i'm probably going to rent a dirtbbike, waste all this money, and next thing you know the bike's just gonna collect dust in the garage"
Like shouldn't hobbies be natural? My dad never took me hunting or taught me how to work on cars, and honestly he himself doesn't have many hobbies. I played some varsity sports in high school, but shit, i'm not like a collegiate athlete. I literally have no natural hobbies. I enjoy lifting weights in my spare time, but that's not a fricking hobby. I enjoy cooking as well, but thats not a hobby either.
Another example of this shit is that I bought a bass guitar years ago trying to "get into a hobby". Next thing you know, its collecting dust in my room, because honestly, I don't play in a band. I like music, but honestly after half a year of practicing I couldnt be assed to "practice" and get better.
I feel like trying to "get into" a hobby is weird. All of you that say "oh find a hobby", well its not that natural to people like me. In my free time, I'm do loser shit like play videogames, watch a movie, ect.
Hobbies don't have to be complicated shit. Get in your car and drive somewhere and walk down a trail and back.
Do this a couple days a week on a few different places and you'll just feel better about life. Sitting on the internet and games fricks your brain up.
If you look at a female stranger and go up to talk to her with a heart full of conviction saying "you're going to marry her" then conversation is going to be awkward and uncomfortable. Your first date with a girl you're interested in should be fun. Maybe it costs a little money you wouldn't spend otherwise. You do something new and see if you enjoy spending time with her. If you do, set up a second date. After a while you can see each other on a more regular and consistent basis until one day you find that fundamentally part of being you is being that woman's partner.
I'm saying you should try putting your dick in the exhaust pipe of the dusty dirt bike.
i mean its not supposed to be easy, i definitely know...getting good at something requires hours of painstaking effort. playing bass, piano, drawing, whatever it is just make sure you cant get enough of it. but you gotta be honest with yourself about what you actually like and dont like.
Protein won't Frick up your kidneys if you consume it from real food and not from powders.
Yeah it's expensive. But you can reallocate your money from entertainment (going out/booze/etc) into your grocery shopping.
You realize that it's just one more sacrifice you need to make on the path to "making it", right? This isn't something you'll want to be "filtered out" by after all the effort you've put into working out, is it?
if i ground up onions chunks into powder and drink it with milk
is it still real food?
whether the protein is from real food or powders, unless you already have pre-existing or major kidney damage, there is no possible way for you to create a problem.
yeah it's the internet surfing for me. super hard to cut out sometimes. Right now I'm stressed for various reasons so I end up surfing more to cope. Mostly this site. Sometimes watching TV hours on end.
When this current stress causing thing passes I might have the mental relief needed to pull back a bit
Mostly grass. I need to clear my head so I can talk to people again. I think many men wonder if they act the same way as their ancestors or maybe had similar frustrations. I go in and out of awkwardness and confidence. I'm unsure what it is.
Anon, your distant ancestors developed one of the largest proportional brains in the animal kingdom to feel a complex series of awkwardnesses so they could live in technological tribes
Nothing really getting in the way of training but I wish I wasn't jerking off 30 minutes a day
Age. I'm 40 now and it's much harder to keep weight off.
> Cooming to futa porn
Patrician taste my friend
FoM?
Food(i love to eat, lots of food and good) and masturbation(15-20 per day), both can be solved, food by exercising more, masturbation by having sex
this and a blunt
>electronics about to fall off the bed and not on the nightstand
fricking black people
Anyone else find that when they get into fitness they become ill with a shitty cold after a month and lose their progress?
God doesn't want me to get ripped.
Chocolate
porn
I have to work too many hours to have enough money to survive.
food, im started OMAD 3 days ago
it's going well and easy even tho i'm eating around 1.5k calories a day
I really dislike being at the gym, I still go but I know its killing my gains
I also know home gym was a huge waste for me
My diet. I'm down 15lb since start of May, but have stalled for past two weeks. Really need to cut out junk calories and make healthy decisions when going out.i have a problem with binge eating and portion control.
I workout just fine with my addictions intact.
None, social anxiety
I drink every week, smoke every day, do drugs, edge for hours, watch anime all day
Still hitting the gym and getting massive gains despite it all, don't see how it would interfere
I feel like it’s being comfortable, I’ve been so uncomfortable all my life and during the past two years I thought I found some form of peace but im realizing now that it’s just complacency and stagnation. Im trying to reach out more and hit some goals I’ve set for myself but it feels like it’s at the expense of my joy
>Is it internet surfing? Porn? Gaming?
I do all of that and have achieved my fitness and career goals... just stop being lazy.
Not an addiction but I'm afraid of change
Just get addicted to working out lol, I feel like shit if I don't get a sick pump
Nothing because I don't let it. I crave pizza and ice cream every day. The local pizza hut has a new cheese stuffed crust with potato chips stuck on the crust. I wanna try it so bad, but I won't.
I'm cutting right now, already lost 4kg in about a month. Working a physical job, lift 5x a week, cardio 3x a week, 1900 calories a day.
I'm not letting anything stop me from looking lean. Frick addictions.
ironically this site is distracting and a waste of time. You jump on IST for a few lulz and next thing you know, youre scrolling on IST or /biz.
I also don't have much friends, so this is sadly a form of socialization for me.
I go to sleep at a reasonable time, but for some reason I wake up at 3-4AM because I need to piss. I don't know if this is normal, but I'd like to stay asleep from 11PM-6AM.
>addiction
No real addiction but for me it's stress.
Sometimes I wake up and I swear I feel the fricking cortisol in my veins
I'm beginning to wonder if drugs or alcohol would be better for me than letting stress run rampant
My gf
Rn? Slightly cold weather. I've been skipping the gym and MT for about a week and a half now because I just can't bring myself to get up on time.
My ADHDoomer brain. my line of work (graphic design) doesn't have very strict deadlines, even though I have a 9 to 5 job, in reality I can do my work whenever I like, takes like 4 hours, for my 9 to 5 I just need to be "present" so I can respond to messages/edit something for the entire work-day. this is horrible for me, because I just procrastinate all day, start working at like 2 or 3 PM (at best) or literally frick around on facebook/youtube/instagram all day and then finish everything in a rush at 5PM.
I'm "lucky" in a sense that I have an easy job which pays an average wage, but requires very very little work. though I'm so disorganized I barely have any free time. I always feel like I'm not doing enough, and I can't really force myself to work in the morning.
I'm addicted to fricking YouTube, how can I fix this?
get an addon to block certain websites for yourself, and find something else to do than sitting on your computer or else you'll substitute it with a different website
Eating at night
While on a night out drinking, i tend to smoke a lot
Hate it
I tend to eat as a coping mechanism if im feeling down
First it was alcohol and ciggs. I kickeed ciggs last year and alcohol I keep relapsing and going back to it. Hopefully I'm done.
Then I started to cut back on sugar. Just like alcohol though every once in a while I go back to the sugar. But I found a way to beat it: you have to fast once or twice a month. I don't know why, but this virtually eliminates all sugar/bad food cravings. They start to come back every once in a while (like every month or so) so I just fast again.
I want to stop jerking off so much. I quit porn for months and then one day took some zinc supplement, and my boner popped out of my pants and I jerked off like 5 times to porn. Last time I ever take zinc. But the strange thing is, since going back to porn, I have extreme urges to look at it. It's seriously addicting. So instead of looking at porn, I just jerk off without it. So after I break the porn addiction again, I'll stop jerking off as much.
fricking runescape
Im injured.
literally nothing. I live alone and have almost no friends anymore. going to the gym is basically my second job at this point
escapism, but running out of money should take care of that
Nicotine, I have no plans to stop tbh
Technically my
>weed
>video games
>porn
Addictions are holding me back from being in a loving fulfilling romantic relationship but everything else in my life is great. I feel like it’s more likely that a relationship would ruin my life.
I'm addicted to my phone, I'm in it all the time easily 9 hrs a day. I'm just going to try and go cold turkey on it. Wish me luck.
warhammer 40k....
porn and video games, i've cut video games out of my life for 3 months but eventually caved and went back. I'm going to see if just keeping video games to sunday might work better for me.
As for porn, its the worst addiction I have, I can't seem to get that monkey off my back no matter how hard I try. I'm thinking about going to get professional help about it.
I cut vidya almost completely too. Sometimes I go back and play some indie game or something when I have free time.
Unstable life situation rn, makes it easy to miss sessions semi regularly
Too much alcohol, and I don't know if I care to do anything about it.
Anal masturbation
Jannie gaygie time to eat up your cummie wummie
I live with a loving gf of three years, but I still seek out casual sex on the internet. I like the novelty I suppose. Probably gonna propose in another year, but idk bros. I love some cougar action.
>YY4DJ
grilled cheeses, snack chips. Used to cope and tell myself it's fine because cheese has protein but in truth it's almost straight fat and carbs.
broadly speaking, selfishness
in the times of my life when ive been the most self-centered, i was weighed down with the anxiety of not having what i want, and was terrified of death and despite satisfaction being my goal, satisfaction eluded me
the more i live for the things and people that are greater than myself, the less im afraid of death because i feel like ive done things worth more than the chemicals in my own head
i am secretly fricking a girl from my work that my best mate is in love with, ive stopped going to the gym as much as i actually cannot stop fricking this girl
I cant stop fapping to this girls breasts
When I got a gf I lost all my fricking gains because I didn't work out for the last 2 years of our relationship. I got fricking complacent and I fricked up 100%
I got my heart broken and hit the gym hard af for the past 6 months and I'm about where I was when I stopped. So unironically my ex gf stole my gains (even though it was my fault).
Gonna lift these feels and never stop lifting them until I'm as shredded as can be.
my gf. she's hot but was a tatted pot-head hoe who i got together with because she was easy and she decided that my dick was made of gold and pulled out every stop possible to make me committed to her. other than turning herself into the literal tradwife meme, she takes every opportunity to prove she's the greatest girl on earth. my mom ended up in the hospital with kidney failure for two months and despite working full time, my gf volunteered to spend every evening and night she could with her to keep her company, which I think was a manipulation tactic to get my family to fall in love with her, which they did, but w/e, ig I'm grateful
she spends enormous amounts of money on my birthday and christmas gifts and she wont stop. I literally cant find a flaw with her, i guess i have to fricking marry her
i wanted my future wife to be some pure innocent 19 year old doll but nooo, i had to frick around and get a roastie (i say that with love) addicted to me. frick.
moron. she genuinely loves you. yeah too bad about her past but dont take that shit for granted
I have no addictions and honestly it might even be a bad thing considering I have no edge to my personality and therefore I am a very boring person
For me, it's the goyslop & goyslurp
chain smoking like an idiot. still getting lean and working out, but in reality, I'm dying inside
not really stoping my lifting but kratom is defiantly becoming an issue for me.
Thinking
I maladaptive daydream, and because I'm a NEET I essentially live in fantasy land. I'm learning how to control it and feel better in general, but it's still really difficult.
I can't stop jerking off over my ex. Haven't had sex with anyone in 4 months after having a slam pig every weekend for years. I can get laid if I really wanted to but it's not the same because the sex was that good with her. Finished every time and she orgasmed multiple times every session. Part of me wishes I married her, then I realize she's too old and fat
Binge eating disorder tbh.
I’m trying to substitute it with kratom and mushrooms.
I got up to 70 days clean before my last relapse.
On day three now.
Supposedly people that make it to 90 days free from any addiction are in the clear statistically.
I just need to do 90 days.
Porn
I'm an INTP with an overdeveloped amygdala. I see anything cute and I practically explode with glee.
homosexual
>What addiction is holding you back from your fitness goals.
My severe social anxiety. it has ruined my entire life. My entire life is utter and complete shit, and ALL of it is caused by my friendlessness, lack of relationships, etc., because I see no point in doing anything without friends, relationships, there's absolutely zero motivation and drive. Just nothing.
>not making friends
>not talking to women
>not having hobbies or picking up basic life skills
>not trying to improve my horrific humiliating job
>not driving a car
>not moving from my parents despite being nearly 30
There's no point to anything on the planet when you don't have friends or relationships.
I cannot stop staying up late. I know what I need to do but I cannot be bothered to do it.
I just want to be angry and lash myself until I'm red and raw. I hate being weak minded I hate my weakness my sin my softness my lust. I wish I could manifest my weakness into a separate entity and just kill them. Because when I try to live with it I have to fight it every day and I lose.
I'm tired of losing and being a loser.
>TFW computer exploded in December.
>Had to emergency use a old craptop for 3 months untill I finally found a job and burned the first paycheck on a new rig.
>A craptop so unpleasant I essentially went 3 months without vidya and with barely any visits here.
>This quitting cold turkey means that vidya simply wasn't all that fun when I got back to it.
>Vidya is fun by tricking your brain into believibg it has accomplished goals, and come back to them after three vidyaless months spent achieving actual IRL tangible goals (got new job, went damn well) they are simply lackluster.
Internet surfing, gaming, porn, and wasting time in general. It's not just holding me back from my fitness goals, but my overall goals for life. I've cut back on porn and games, but my moronic ass instinctually opens IST, youtube, etc. and once I realize that I'm slacking off I've already wasted 2 hours. Time that I could've put towards my goals. It's so damn hard to stop bad habits though, because they've been persistent in my life for so long. I've shortened my attention span and fried my dopamine receptors after years of doing these things. I used to browse IST, play games and jack off for pretty much the entire day, and I did this for years. I think that doing this for so long has made me stupid. Doing simple shit like even writing and reading is really hard for me. I'm constantly fumbling over my words, and overall my brain is very much slower than it used to be.
These bad habits have also gave me a weird sense of apathy towards EVERYTHING. I want to succeed, I want to draw, journal, meditate, go to the gym, and work on my hobbies everyday but at the same time I just don't give a shit about accomplishing anything. This was never really an issue before I developed these habits. I'm sure a lot of you anons can relate to the things I've said here.
I've definitely made progress to stop my bad habits though. I've been forcing myself to journal, meditate, and work on my hobbies. I'm slowly regaining my old self, and I'm confident that I will also be able to regain my old appreciation for life back. I wish you all good luck on your journeys.
Hey man that's great you're focusing on your goals and all but holy frick you wrote a lot of words and I didn't really wanna read them all so I didn't - you see I've accepted the simple fact that I am a hedonistic animal living in the moment. So uh, here I am. In the now. Cheers lad. Rolling for push-ups because I feel like it.
Fair enough. I write mostly for myself.
I have a weird addiction. I stopped watching porn for good 6 months ago, so I finally managed to kick that one. But this one I can’t kick.
I meet women (usually foreign) online. I text them, call with them, seduce them, and make them fall for me. I have down this with probably hundreds of women over the last 6 years. Young women, older women, students, career women, rich girls, poor girls, you name it. After my initial move-in, we sext a lot. I am a manipulation master, and it’s pretty much all for my own validation. I have met 3 of them in person in the past and fricked them hard.
This can’t be healthy and I feel like a piece of shit but I keep doing it. I usually eventually get bored and they cry and send me long messages. They’re sweet and loved me so I feel bad.
For the last 2 weeks, having to study nonstop is getting to me. I can't properly study nor properly socialize. Can't feel relaxed around my friends. Always tense, afraid of saying wrong things.
I guess I fear losing them and the fear is ironically pushing them away from me. I started to constantly think about what others think of me. I guess I got too lonely lately. I live alone.
What do bros, any advices?
Whoopsies about the reddit spacing, Black folk.