hermitcrab posted:

Holy hot Linux! Love that tummy!

I found that perhaps extreme is not for me. Putting on muscle has never been difficult for me and I became obsessive about it 3 years ago where I believe I peaked.
I mentally melted though and dropped into a depression and went from 180 lbs to 135 lbs in a week. I don't believe it was the training alone but I felt foriegn about it. Now I am just maintaining cardio and indurance with some boxing and not so much of the weights. I still enjoy my weekend beers and am back to 180lbs.

Thank you hermit, took a long time to get it, lol


Wow, you've lost a lot of weight in a short period of time. I've also had periods of depression in the past where I ate less and loss lean mass because of it, not healthy [but do we really think of that in moments like that?].

Did you take a multi-vitamin?

[always a worthy note; a good multi-vitamin can compliment any diet/or routine, when you cannot get what you need from foods. And Gatorade is good addition while doing cardio.]

hermitcrab posted:

Did I take a multivit? Yes and other suppliments as well....
But it is either all or nothing...whether it is wasting way or being healthy.
I believe that in the last month or so I may be on a path of the inbetween.

What is your motivation?

I have different motivations, the main one being physical fitness. I enjoy the act of working out, afterwards I feel healthier..more invigorated.
Becoming obsessed with the act and the results, pretty much made working out like eating, or brushing my teeth. Because at first it was something that I had to do for myself, now it is something that I want to do for myself.

The results from working out was motivation enough to keep me at it in the long run. It just took me patience before I found that motivation to continue before I saw results..


In the darker days of depression, when I just stopped working out and loss lean mass [due what was going on in my life at the time..], also noticing that I was becoming unfit, and that my previous hard work was all for nothing was the 'slap in the face' that proved motivation enough for me to get back on routine.

Since then, I've been a workout junkie.

sadly my only real workout comes from walking the 3/4 mile from my car to my building everyday....and besides that sex is my only other workout routine.

2 days a week cardio and weight workout. Damn exams next week so i'll have to study and not work out, argh my self esteem is going to be low

My gym is closed for the next two weeks... to the pool and road it is. Sigh.