I have that comic. It’s a good one. Punisher is Batman done right.
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Lol nah I didn’t draw it anna.
Quoted for emphasis, @tlgains. This helps, big time.
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Recently, I started playing video games again. I played Super Smash Bros Ultimate with two of my roommates last night and I also played Doom Eternal. It makes absolutely no sense why I stopped playing video games. The initial thought was to put all my responsibilities with lifting, school, and career related stuff above activities like video games/Movies/TV. After training last Friday it made me realize how I can have an abundance of time if I really put in a lot of effort of managing it. The school work and lifting related stuff discourages me from trying other things but I truly believe it is because I have it mastered time management.
List of things I have interest in
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Learning how to play chess
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Martial Arts
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Volunteering with Habitat for Humanity
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Reading (For self improvement purposes)
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Writing (I made a blog a couple weeks ago lol)
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I really just don’t like the fact that I’m putting myself on a hamster wheel, it bothers me a lot.
Pizza has got to be one of my greatest weaknesses as far as fast food is concerned. In fact it has always been for awhile. Something about eating pizza, some kind of garlic bread with or without cheese, and to dip both of those in marinara sauce just hits different. Also, if the pizza is stuffed crust then that is a bonus.
This dastardly combination has been in my head for a couple days. I will admit I downloaded Door Dash today and was very tempted to order Little Caesar’s. I recall how it feels after eating such a meal like this, I feel bloated and like crap. I have to question myself “Is this really what I want to put in my body?”. Luckily, today I got a grip and I whipped out the cottage cheese and my jar of peanuts when I felt this urge 5 minutes ago. Perhaps I was just hungry.
I’m typing this out to hold myself accountable and to remind myself of how I want better control over my eating habits.
Is there something in fast food that makes it addicting? Why is it like a drug?
I also feel that without set goals I am destined to fail. First, I should start by going for 2 weeks without fast food, then three weeks, then four weeks.
Cravings, as you’ve noticed, are momentary. Something I like to do is make promises to myself for later.
“I want pizza? Awesome: I’ll order one this weekend”. Weekend rolls around: I don’t want that pizza anymore. If I DO want it: then I’ll get it, but most often, I’m good.
As for fast food addiction: it lights up the dopamine centers of your brain, because it’s full of fat, simple carbs and salt. Your body and brain like that stuff.
I feel that may have the opposite of intended effect. You’re fetishizing fast food here. It’s just going to stay on your mind if you’re basing your goals around not having it.
I’d say, instead of focusing on denial, focus on DOING/ADDING. It’s not “2-3 weeks without fast food”, it’s “for 2 weeks, I’m going to eat ALL of my Deep Water approved meals that I made for myself”. Here, you accomplish the goal by DOING something: every meal you eat gets you closer to your goal. On top of that, there’s a fair chance that, once you get all that food in you, you won’t want any fast food.
And as much as I don’t like the idea of using food as a reward, as it’s honestly demeaning (it’s something we do with dogs and very small children), you could have that promise to yourself. “I can have fast food IF I eat all my Deep Water meals”. Because, again, there’s a fair chance you won’t want any when the time comes. I went out to my favorite pizza place tonight, which also serves great burgers and onion rings. I love ALL those things. I got chicken wings: no sauce. I wasn’t denying myself at all to order that: by the time dinner rolled around, I was so goddamn sick of eating I just wanted to get in some protein and fat and call it good.
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It was for me too. You are in better shape than me, but I had some serious serious serious struggles leaving junk food.
For around 18 years (until I moved out) I only had junk food, and maybe at most 30-35g protein per day (vegetarian family), diet sky high in carbs and fats, always ridiculed in school etc.
I eventually lost a lost of weight (down from almost 100kg to 65kg) but then immediately ballooned to 90kg following the IIFYM style.
What finally has been helping me the last 5 weeks (not a single junk food) is that I completely quit all junk food. I found that having junk food “once in a while” never worked for me. Maybe I live on extreme ends of things but this is what is working for me now.
Diet tastes bad, but not having the taste of good stuff every and then (+ i’d say some serious new found motivation) has helped me kick that habit.
I used to eat Pizza Hut every week (1-2x per week on average) for years, it was really hard to quit but at some point I had to look in the mirror and realize this shit just isn’t going to work.
This is probably not the best method for everyone (completely quitting all junk food) but it is what is working for me. Out of sight, out of memories, out of mind. The one junk snack per week really keeps it in my head, now I don’t even think about Doordash anymore, its a bit extreme not having any restaurants but it has seriously helped my mind, focus and not to mention, wallet.
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I will eat all of my Deep Water meals until the end of this program. It has been a week (last thing I’ll eat today, which is right now, is a crap load of chili) and I will not order fast food today.
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@T3hPwnisher Mr Pwn do you have any advice on how to stop ab cramps during squats.
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Do you wear a belt? And do you salt your food?
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Yes I wear a belt. I do not salt my food. I will start doing that since you asked. I’m sick of getting lat,forearm,tricep,shoulder, and ab cramps during squats. Sometimes It all happens simultaneously.
On a low carb diet, salting food is critical. You’re sweating a lot and don’t have many carbs to hold onto glycogen and water. You also don’t have much for potassium sources, outside of spinach, so consider an electrolyte powder.
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Deep Water Intermediate
Day 1 of Week 3
Squat
290 lbs x 13
290 lbs x 11
290 lbs x 11
290 lbs x 11
290 lbs x 11
290 lbs x 11
290 lbs x 11
290 lbs x 8 (ugly set and majority high reps, cramps in lats, triceps, and shoulders)
290 lbs x 13 (was pissed from cramping so I went berserk. These reps were solid. I was cramping a lot after this)
60 second plank - 20 sit ups - 3 sets no rest
Light Deadlift
135 lbs x 10
135 lbs x 10
135 lbs x 10
I am pleased with this training session. Unfortunately I did not get 20 reps of 290 lbs the first set but it doesn’t matter. I’m extremely happy about getting all 100 reps . I only had to take extra rest before set 8 because I was cramping like crazy.
Lol I was hoping to share a video of myself squatting 290 lbs for 20 but you’ll get to see me do the first set of 13. I’ll treat this session as a warmup for Week 5.
Without a doubt, the strength for 20 was there but not the mentality. Lol and you got some people on here who squat 20 reps so casually. I definitely gotta get pass that mental barrier.
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I will take action after reading this. My parents (mostly my mother) treat salt like the boogeyman so I guess the fear of it rubbed off on me a little. I will add salt to my food, besides that chili I made yesterday was pretty bland.