I like to look at CT’s forum and recently I noticed the same person asking question after question about different workouts, exercises, etc.
I just wanted to tell him “Stop reading. Stop posting. Just go to the gym and freaking do something!”
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Same tbh. I mean I have myself some pig out days but that’s not hunger, that’s just pure gluttony.
The only time I act on hunger is if it’s late in the evening, I’ll put something away a few hours before bed to avoid the hunger pangs keeping me awake.
edit gonna eat everything I see today FYI
Sigh I hate seeing posts turn into eating issues. I’m goin back to sleep but remember to take care of yourselves. It’s your choice what you do or do not put in your mouth. 
WARNING - Incoming woowoo shit.
It is most certainly your choice what you put into your mouth, but often that choice is motivated by something much deeper than hunger for food. And if you’re not mindful, it may be a result of unconscious patterning.
End of woowoo. We now return you to your regular programming.
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Oh, yes I thoroughly agree hunger can be the result of something much deeper. Sweets can be a coping skill for so so many. A majority of people have issues with food which is their own business, but when they turn into a disorder or addiction is when the shit hits the fan. I volunteer with a variety of eating disorder patients, and honestly it is really hard to work with guys as well as girls. Eating disorders are not gender specific. It’s a mental illness and addiction. I am not a professional but I really hate to see someone sliding down that slippery slope. The worst part is so many are in denial. Working with macros, micros etc is fine unless you’re doing it in a self-destructive manner. It’s everyone’s choice to be healthy or not unless they can’t afford food! image|323x500
A lot here. My confession - I had a borderline eating disorder in college. I went from 220 to 158 in less than six months.
As far as addiction goes, warning, incoming woowoo missile, we are all addicts. The root addiction is to self (ego). Pretty much every other addiction has to do with comforting self.
However, the choices being made are often not conscious choices. We do shit because it’s how we have always done shit, it’s a habit developed from self comforting. At least for me.
Love the image, thanks for sharing!
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That’s why most addicts have to hit rock bottom. Sad to say but true. Editing…thank you for listening. I had to change because it was literally killing me…
I think it is this attitude and honesty that draws (and retains) the more serious lifting crowd to TNation. The snowflakes that can’t handle the heat tend to melt back to the BB dot com forums where they can get their 120lb body with abs complimented on (sorry, for the awful pun).
So basically, what I’m saying, is lose the degree of self control and do your part in cleaning this place up!
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Says that Canadian who apologized for a “temper tantrum” after a deadlift that consisted of him saying “Darn it!” 
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Watching you in rymon’s log proved to me that you have a degree of patience not seen in most humans. That you are exhausting it at this point isn’t anything to be concerned about. Most folks start with much less, haha.
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PTSD flashbacks. Is that fucker still around?
I’m at the stage now where I’m just too jaded to reply to most of the threads. There’s only so many times you can read:
-Hey guys, how’s my routine?
-Not good, do this one instead.
-Fuck you what the fuck do you know fucking meatheads all you do is waste your time on a steroid forum lolz
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Or they change the original post to “Fuck everyone who dis me”
I hate that.
At least those guys leave. It’s the guys who post thread after thread after thread asking about 5 million different routines when they’ve been in the gym like 6 months and weigh 130lbs
VI have to admit I fucking cussed someone out a few years ago. It was on an anorexic recovery website. I told them I’d gone from 83 to 100ish and got a reply “oink, oink, pig, pig, and I went off and others said well 100 is “an awful lot to weight to be on this site”. I was so wtf! I wore a kids size 12…puh-leaze I went off. It’s hard to admit you need help and to get those responses actually made me stronger come to think about. Huh, another life lesson. Edit (shaking my head at myself)
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Happy to be from the best swearing Canadian Province.
Must be Ontario! Got pulled over by the RCMP once and he used the f word more than I do…
It was funny as shit!
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@girlgotguns I was the same as that dude a while ago but in the opposite direction. I failed at gaining weight, I blamed it on a high metabolism, declared I ate like 5000cals a day and that my training was perfect. I then started telling people that I don’t train to gain size but to just be strong, which was total rubbish, I was sick of being a 9st adult male and wanted to be bigger! I kept this up for over a year.
I then got honest with myself, realised I was not eating what I thought I was and that my training was a off. I gained around 25lb of mostly muscle in just under a year. If I didn’t have that moment of being honest to myself I would still be 9st and training just to be strong.
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Thanks for your honesty. I think we all reach a point of whether we want to talk of change vs actually changing. I open up a lot cuz nobody can hurt me worse than my dysfunctional and biological family or my learned self-destructive behavior. A couple of times while my sister was visiting she posted under me, and I was pissed, but that’s just her. She flies through here fairly often and had some clothes to give me that she’d received from sponsors that were too small for her. It’s going to be hard to never see her again, but she doesn’t understand why I can’t just do whatever I want and ignore my drs. It’s like arguing with a brick wall 
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I was dealing with this guy yesterday who would find a problem with everything I would ask of him and eventually he had a mega flip out about how we stuffed his plans.
If this guy was more important, I’d probably have tried to smooth things over but I figured I can live without his input. So instead I just kept throwing silly workarounds to his problem then kept “rubbing” my eye with my middle finger as he responded… because I’m an adult lol
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