That looks exactly like cat food they sell in supermarkets.
Confession:
It tastes pretty good.
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The old lawn boy 2 stroke mix was a dark dyed blue/black.
Color coded so it wasnāt confused with straight gasoline.
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Haha I appreciate the compliment, but I am FAR from a guru. I just like eating it. IMO, steak is steak no matter how itās cooked. Boil it if you want, as long as it goes down the hatch!!!
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Anyone else noticing a new trend on here of new guys posting about using ridiculous low caloric intake?
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Social media has made a whole new slew of eating disorders a thing. Now that dudes are on display 365 days a year, they canāt POSSIBLY let one SINGLE ab show signs of blur, so itās a quest to survive off as few calories as possible. Otherwise, they lose the followers, and with that the illustrious 10% off yohimbe sponsorship.
āBulkā is a true 4 letter word these days.
How many are true though ?
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Have you seen the show secret eaters? Itās honestly insane how much those ppl underestimate
Iām sure a lot of it is staged, but still
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I would say it has become the most missed understood and missed used concept around anymore.
yeah im questioning that alsoā¦ how much of it is inaccurate counting on their part or slight exaggeration if not complete Bullshit .
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Yup. You say ābulkā and kids immediately assume you mean eating 6k calories of fast food every day. Itās how so many youtube gurus can prey (pray?) on kids these days with promises of ālean gainsā. Doesnāt help that most trainees canāt even boil water and the most basic of cooking is a non-starter.
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Its been going on for years. The idea that you can get everything you want NOW. With no sacrifice. Remember the fad of slimming tablets? They took off as there was 0 compromise. Eat shit - get lean. Whats to hate? And that the thing with a bulk. It requires a compromise.
But it started well before this. Diet food. The idea that a food can be ādietā is beyond me. Food is food. But they started with taking the fat out - and replaced it with sugar. People still canāt get their head into gear and see that you can;t have food that tastes really rich AND that is healthy to eat in such abundance. All people have to do is eat it at the right time or in manageable portions. And its not just food. Its in all aspects of people lives. Take Money and personal loads. the number of kids (sub 30ās) I now with HUGE credit card bills because they want this, want that and buy it no questions asked.
And some of them live at home with their parents. How the hell youāre in debt living at your mums house Iāll never know.
And this. It worrying how many kids I work with that can not cook a roast chicken. Or make a simple mince and tomato sauce meal.
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Absolutely spot on. People donāt understand that the process of transformation is an uncomfortable one. We live such lives of comfort that we interpret any sign of discomfort as some sort of glitch or mistake.
Iāve told this story a few times before, but itās still a good one. I had a buddy that lost like 30lbs and looked great for it. One day, he comes up to me and wants to chat nutrition, and he goes āThe weight loss has really been working, but I gotta ask you: what do YOU eat so that youāre not hungry all the time?ā
And I look at him for a few seconds and go āDude, I AM hungry all the time! If I wasnāt, Iād be VERY fatā
And I saw the light go off in his head. He had been assuming up until this point that HE was the only one suffering and everyone else had it all figured out. And again, you can blame social media there too, because people only put forward the good times, and people observing it in turn believe that this is āreal lifeā.
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Iāve seen you tell that story before. And its SO good.
Any way Iāve made it clear on here that my wife is possibly the WORST person to train ever. And this is why. Sheāll make no compromise. She wants to gently exercise few times a week, but have a 16 week transformation. She wants work out that only take 15 mins a day, but are not too intense. She wants to lose weight but eat all of her favourite foods and not be hungry. Donāt we all.
But recently Ive been having some great āgainsā and whenever this happens, sheās starts the āplease help me - Iām begging youā routine. She now wants to employee my coach to help her and Iām not keen at all. Its wasted money. If it was going to yield results, Iād spend hundreds on the coach. But it wonāt work. Because she does not understand the fundamental truth. Its not a game. Its not easy. Its not quick. She will suffer. She will want to quit. Motorvation will die early doors. So she will pay him Ā£50 a month not stick to the plan and in 6 months time nothing would have changed.
You see I liken body transformation to running a marathon. And the coach as a cheerleader. Its easy enough to compete a marathon. Every year in London a load of people do it dressed as rhinoās. One man ran it in his 80ās. It was tough and took him 4 days. But he did it. And having a cheerleader will help. But ultimately - if at mile 5 you go - blow this I quit they can not make you carry on.
EDIT for grammar
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There is something to be said of the value of outsourcing the coaching. I did that with my kid and martial arts. I had fun teaching them the basics, but beyond that was just straining our relationship. Got them a coach, and I just sit in the back of the class and bite my tongue in half while I watch my kid fudge things, knowing that itās not my problem to solve anymore, haha.
Yeah I can see that. But also - this is now taking something Iām using and sheās going to waste it. I should add that Iām limiting only 1 of us to using the coach. We ācouldā afford both but we are also saving. So Iām not prepared to. And donāt need to. If she takes the coach, I have options. BUT - if she wastes it, its the principle.
As a way of explaining how strongly I feel: My wife and I are tight. Like sickly tight. And I would die to see her happy. My life is set around her and my kids. Every decision I make is made through the prism of āWhat is best for the familyā. But this - honestly if she took my coach and wasted it, it would end up with so much resentment. Because not only would she be taking something I was using and loved. But then sheās be making the decision to waste it.
We are having a heart to heart chat about it tonight as she wants to know why Iāve not called my coach about it yet.
Iāve not managed to find a way to say ābecause if you screw this up I will divorce youā with out coming over like an arse hole.
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Thatās the nature of letting someone else train her, though. You may have told her all this about training, and your coach may say, verbatim, what youāve told her, and yet she might totally buy into him saying it, just because itās not you saying it. Iāve run into the same thing with my wife, and a super jacked lady at the gym whoās a kettlebell instructor told her stuff I had said word-for-word to her weeks earlier, and where she ignored my advice, she listened and implemented it when that lady told her it.
Not saying to spend the $, and I donāt know the specifics of all of this, just pointing out that it might seem counterintuitive but the same advice might have to come from elsewhere. Often times married couples are too used to challenging each other to just change their beliefs like that
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I totally agree about the coach being a cheerleader for women. Sometimes women respond better to cheerleading than tough love. And somebody experienced with ladies might more accustomed to being supportive, and could maybe get better results from women than a drill sergeant type.
And I agree about my woman needing to hear stuff from somebody else than me before she would believe it.
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I can appreciate everyoneās POV. But I really think Iām underselling her attitude towards weight loss and body transformation.
She has this idea (force feed by shitty magazines) that there is a secret / easy method. Or that enough motivation will see her through.
We paid Ā£60 for her to do an eating course. It was actually pretty good, with solid advice. But nothing changed.
It will end badly.
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I think your best bet might be to try and help her find a form of physical activity she actually enjoys- maybe try taking the focus off of aesthetics??
Perhaps weāre all overlooking the obvious solution:
Go full on Glenn Ross mode so that you no longer need to share your secrets/coach
ā¦I meanā¦dude WAS strong as hellā¦
EDIT: This actually ties back to a deal my wife and I had when she was pregnant where she was NEVER allowed to weigh more than me. She was actually a total champ the whole time, barely put on any weight, very strict diet, etc, but I was ready at a moments notice to pull the chalks and put on 30lbsā¦out of love of course.
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She plays netball.
And as an FYI I have 0 care about she looks. Her health worries me a touch. Diabetes in both parents. Heart issues also.
Its okay @T3hPwnisher - I like being able to see my genitals.
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