Most people on this site are in a minority, we actually try to improve are bodies. They will never understand until they try it themselves and realize how great it is. So we are the freaks of the world, I don’t mind though.
Excellent post.
I also feel people need to spend time mastering the iron before being so nitpicky with diet and shit (salad with water and boiled eggs for breakfast? good lord…how many mass monsters started out that way I wonder) and once youve put on the size, people will stop questioning.
[quote]anonym wrote:
One more reason to get big. Now, I’m not huge by any stretch, but I look like I lift. And, it seems the more muscle I put on, the less weird my massive eating habits and protein shake consumption seem to other people.
I guess it’s kind of like seeing a 150 lb beanpole walking around the gym sipping from a gallon jug of water…looks kinda odd. But, when looking at the 250 lb juggernaut doing the same thing, it just kinda makes sense.[/quote]
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
Um, no. You will only have to say it once because everyone will avoid you thereafter for being so needlessly unpleasant and superior.[/quote]
My choices are superior to their’s. They know it and they hate it. Why else would they try to sabotages my diet?
[quote]tribunaldude wrote:
Excellent post.
I also feel people need to spend time mastering the iron before being so nitpicky with diet and shit (salad with water and boiled eggs for breakfast? good lord…how many mass monsters started out that way I wonder) and once youve put on the size, people will stop questioning.
anonym wrote:
One more reason to get big. Now, I’m not huge by any stretch, but I look like I lift. And, it seems the more muscle I put on, the less weird my massive eating habits and protein shake consumption seem to other people.
I guess it’s kind of like seeing a 150 lb beanpole walking around the gym sipping from a gallon jug of water…looks kinda odd. But, when looking at the 250 lb juggernaut doing the same thing, it just kinda makes sense.[/quote]
Yep, and one of the worst things you can do is get defensive about the way you eat (hint: getting paranoid that your coworkers are envious of you/secretly trying to sabotage your success is not the way to go).
I always find it odd when people post here complaining about how much shit they get for eating the way they do. I, personally, have never had this problem - my friends and family just find it mildly curious and accepted it easily enough after my initial explanation.
Sometimes I wonder if people here are blowing things out of proportion or just can’t do a good enough job explaining themselves to others.
Who knows, maybe I just have thicker skin than some, but I think people should be able to take a step back and think, “Yeah, what I do must look pretty weird to others.” Doing anything out of the ordinary on a consistent basis usually warrants some questioning from those around you - it’s not envy, it’s curiosity.
I think most people would be better off by having a sense of humor about themselves and should work on putting themselves in the shoes of others every so often…explain yourself clearly and crack a joke about it - don’t be so fucking serious. Hell, my daily ransacking of the dining hall after dinner became a running joke between my friends and I…they even donated tupperware to the cause.
i get annoyed with the shit too. it was much worse when i was on the AD but ive left it and now just eat whatever i want. lol on the carb up days i used to just eat an entire loaf of wheat bread. id be at work drinking a gallon of milk and eating a loaf of bread. i know how rediculous it looked but w/e i wasnt trying to bang any of em and i said on a couple of occasions that ill care what someone has to say about my diet choices when theyve achieved more than me.
even now, its like ill bring up the fact that i eat raw eggs and everyone freaks out. at every party i have to hear some guy accuse me of being on steroids and then tell me his steroid life story.
if they want to critisize how you eat and look because of it just do it back to them but instead of make Arnold comparisons just call them a fatass or scrawny. chances are that if youre the biggest guy in the room when push comes to shove they arent going to wanna fuck with you. i have a pretty good sense of humor about it so i usually just let it slide and joke around too but every once and a while people just need to learn to shut the fuck up.
Thats a biiiiig IF. Most of those who feel obliged to explain themselves to people around them are probably not raising eyebrows as they walk past a crowd of “normies” anyway.
After all, to quote the great Ian King, many people nowadays just want to look big with their shirts off and with no one else standing near them.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
chances are that if youre the biggest guy in the room when push comes to shove they arent going to wanna fuck with you.[/quote]
[quote]msd0060 wrote:
…and yes each day begins with 4 whole eggs, with the murderous yolk intact."[/quote]
What about the future chickens rights? You heartless bastard.
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
There was one woman who worked out and had the best snack drawer in the universe,
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What does this mean? Is it code for her hoo-hoo?
I work with a bunch of older women(I’m 20, they’re 40 plus, well the majority), at first they were interested in what i was eating and why.
They think my protein shakes are energy drinks lol and at first couldn’t believe i was eating 4-5 eggs at least a day, then one of the women went to a nutritionist about an unrelated topic and the nutritionist agree with everything i said.
If one of the woman brings in something they have actually cooked themselves I’ll have some, its not the end of the world.
I’ve copped more grief from my friends the past week(i’ve started a diet that is influenced by the keto diet) they dont understand the basic concepts and last night tried to bargain with me to drink…the good old one night a week wont hurt, yet these are the same friends who want to get bigger/fitter/leaner
[quote]tribunaldude wrote:
I’m not suggesting joining your friends in everything they do, but once in a while, taking a bite with your coworkers or an unplanned ‘cheat’ meal will not throw you completely out of gear…
And will prevent you from 'looking like a martian" to your friends, so you only stand out in a crowd because of the muscle youre carrying. Unless youre 10 weeks out from a show…or are doing a severe diet like the V-Diet/GSD whatever.
Ive observed that a lot of weekend warriors start looking at themselves as competitive bbers once they begin to lift weights and subconsciously walk around with a ‘holier than thou’ attitude.
On the other hand, ive seen really massive dudes who actually join in the fun with friends and family once in a while…youve got to find that fine line where you’re willing to tread without complaining.
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I think you’re imagining a situation vastly different than what I understood we were talking about. I’m happy to go to lunch occasionally with coworkers or friends, I go to parties and eat and drink party food. I like dinners out and I particularly like them when they occur at a Mexican restaurant, where chips and salsa make for a fine cheat.
But the store-bought cakes with white whipped frosting and blue gel “Happy Birthday” that keep popping up, the kettle potato chips I was offered last week (“OMG, I can’t stop eating these, try one!”), the cold pizza that showed up in the front office, leftover from some meeting somewhere, the Sams Club bag of fun-size candy bars that was rolling around on Thursday…I’m just not interested, particularly since it’s hard for me to eat that sort of thing moderately.
I bring Wheat Chex and a protein bar to snack on most days, they fill me up and provide me with nourishment. More importantly, they TASTE better to me than the things being offered.
If someone slaps down a homemade blueberry buckle, or something of similar temptation value, I’ll happily and gratefully eat it. But two hour old Dunkin Donuts? Eh. Pass.
[quote]905Patrick wrote:
EmilyQ wrote:
Um, no. You will only have to say it once because everyone will avoid you thereafter for being so needlessly unpleasant and superior.
My choices are superior to their’s. They know it and they hate it. Why else would they try to sabotages my diet?[/quote]
Sabotage your diet? Dude, people are just offering you a piece of cake because it’s polite to do so.
AlteredState, I agree about avoiding comparisons. I tend to avoid the issue of why altogether. It’s easier for me to say “Oh, no, thanks. I just ate,” than talk about my food preferences. I think it’s different for women since they’re always on diets. Discussion leaves me open again for “But you don’t need it!” which I never know how to handle.
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
Sabotage your diet? Dude, people are just offering you a piece of cake because it’s polite to do so.
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First off it’s doughnuts and secondly the ones who try to do it get up by getting other people down. That is not a polite thing to do.
[quote]msd0060 wrote:
I may as well be a fucking Martian to my coworkers.
Everyday, I get gasps of horror as I eat almonds, broccoli, and a random chunk of animal.
“Oh, no carbs? Atkins didn’t work for me.”
“What are all those pills? ::pill diatribe::” (Fish oil!)
And I swear to God an old fat man was borderline pissed off that I refused to eat the hotdogs and chili and white buns and nachos he brought in. I thanked him profusely, but I was not going to eat it. People fucking hate that you eat healthy but they don’t.
I am not didactic or holier than thou in my life journey to other people so I don’t get the animosity toward me for it. Fuck 'em. What does suck is when they ask what I do. “Thib’s carb cycling”. Or whatever. It’s all a waste of breath.
“I eat few carbs. I lift weights. My cardio is sprinting, slow jogging, then sprinting again over and over. I take a lot of fish oil, and yes each day begins with 4 whole eggs, with the murderous yolk intact.”[/quote]
Don’t explain what you do, ask them why they don’t do what you do.
It’s funny after awhile at work, I stopped getting asked to go to lunch or even if I wanted anything when folks get take out.
It’s like a whole social ‘dis’ (is that too 80’s?). There are a few folks who are generally interested in what I eat, but have no desire to curtail they’re donut habit. One older lady, who likes to tease everyone calls me ‘fish boy’ or ‘fish face’-- it’s in
a nice way, but it illustrates that people do look at what you eat.
One woman, who is easily 150 pounds overweight was curious as to a vegetable I was eating-- raw fresh picked snow peas.
She had never had one before, nor zucchini.
She asked if you could fry them, not jokingly either, but in a serious, contorted face. For the record, she only likes broccoli when smothered in melted cheese, despises peppers, and thinks cucumbers are disgusting. She only likes celery in turkey stuffing…
She was concerned that my cholesterol was going to skyrocket, what with all the eggs and steak I eat.
I guess I have it pretty easy because it’s rare to have someone ask me why I’m eating the way I am. Then when they do ask, after a brief explanation they get it, or at least act like it.
Shit, bring me the food. I am trying to get huge, after all.
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
Discussion leaves me open again for “But you don’t need it!” which I never know how to handle. [/quote]
Just get naked and start dancing.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
EmilyQ wrote:
Discussion leaves me open again for “But you don’t need it!” which I never know how to handle.
Just get naked and start dancing.[/quote]
I do better with music and a couple of drinks.
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
I do better with music and a couple of drinks. [/quote]
(plays Barry White and opens a bottle of Tequila)