If the goal is gaining muscle, it’ll be harder if eating food is hard. I’m a lifelong sufferer of this. I can cut down alright but building muscle requires me shoveling food with urgency. I’ve probably increased my stomach’s distensibility from years of eating til I was uncomfortably full, but it’s still hard for me to meet my macros most days.
@Frank_C, @flappinit, yeah, I’m not in a rush. I just found it funny I think those things. I’m taking it slow. I think one limiting factor right now is stress. The stress of board exams and other things really take away from my appetite. But yeah, thanks for the advice!
Eating bigger meals was the key for me, and snacking less. I found that made me hungrier, where as before I would eat slightly smaller meals and a snack in between, that made the second meal much harder to eat. Moving what ever snack I had planned to be eaten with the actual meal instead and giving me a longer time for my appetite to come back.
Luckily I’m back in the swing of things and I’m embracing hunger as progress. I guess it’s more tolerable when you’re looking for physical changes compared to being hungry for maintenance.
I hadn’t realized this until this week. I quit tracking my food and weight in September because I was tired of being hungry and OCD about it. I was in maintenance mode from May til then. I hated it.
Now I’m trying to shed a few lbs and I find myself perfectly okay with the hunger.
I don’t know what that instant coffee is called freeze dried I think. Anyway, I hadn’t had that stuff for a decade and just considered it quite terrible.
Had some today and I thought it was pretty good haha
Not sure if anyone else gets those ads for the imitation Hypervolt massage guns on their IG feeds but about a month ago I bought one impulsively from a company called Booster Gun. Read reviews online and they were all good, including third party reviews, but after not receiving it a month later I’m thinking the link I followed on IG and bought from was a fake.
My confession is that I feel like an idiot because I’m 26 and I thought only Boomers and old people (whatever their generation is called) got scammed online.
I gambled $15 on supplements awhile back. Everything was free for your first order. I knew it was probably a scam, but Ioaded up my cart. It was a risk but my winnings would’ve been way more than I bet - and that’s the only way you can beat the house.
This reminds of the scene in Nightmare on Elm Street when the girl is sitting there eating instant coffee with a spoon and washing it down with Pepsi (I think) to stay awake.