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post #16 of 27
6/11/09 at 5:07pm
I don't think it's possible for anyone to look worse after lifting weights for a while. give it a shot.
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post #17 of 27
6/11/09 at 6:08pm
Learn to love the gym, complex carbohydrates, various protein powders, and every sort of protein source under the sun, particularly the lean ones.
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post #18 of 27
6/12/09 at 11:17am
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Originally Posted by lee_44106 View Post
That's sounds very improbable. To weight 150lbs and have a 34 waist. Are your clothes fitting you like a tent?

I was 150 with a 33.75 inch waist... 37.5 inch chest at one point... pretty horrible proportions... then again i have huge hips
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post #19 of 27
6/12/09 at 12:39pm
I am currently 5'9", 180#, 41 chest 32 waist. I think I could lose another inch around the waist but I think I'm the size I want to be for a long time.
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post #20 of 27
6/12/09 at 1:15pm
Listen carefully - this is primo advice:


think about what lifestyle you think you can maintain comfortably, let that dictate your weight. are you going to be running 3 times a week? are you going to be lifting 3 times a week? or one of each? what is a diet that you can maintain for the next 40 years or so? plan that, and live it for two months - that is the weight that you should plan on being.

when I was your age, I was in the gym every day for an hour or so. I had a bunch of clothing made, then I got married and had kids and changed my lifestyle dramatically. plan your life around a lifestyle that you can maintain, allowing for your career and your family/social commitments. a reasonable amount of discipline is good, expecting that you will get up at 4 am every day for the rest of your life is probrably unrealistic.

good luck
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post #21 of 27
6/12/09 at 6:43pm
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Originally Posted by Fat-Elvis View Post
The reason people are saying you look sickly is because at 150lb, even at 5'9, you're going to start looking somewhat emaciated. It's not a great look on a guy.

Not really. I'm 6' and 150 lbs. Yes, I'm a tall, thin, lanky guy, but I'm far from emaciated-looking now. If he's the same weight and has three inches knocked off, then I think he would look 'normal'. I'm also around a 31" waist, so I could easily see a 33-34" waist on a shorter guy.

Personally, I think Globetrotter's advice is great. Plan around your lifestyle, it makes things much easier. Though working out is easy to fit into your lifestyle, and never hurt anyone...
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post #22 of 27
6/19/09 at 6:36am
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It's good advice to go to the gym. I had considered that myself prior to deciding in January to lose weight by counting calories. However I've been putting gym membership off because my local gym is a boxing gym with ridiculously high membership fees to me considering that I wouldn't be boxing there (and their fee includes the boxing charges by default), and the only way for me to get a decent deal with them is to sign-up for a whole year. But I also want to move yet I always get caught up doing other things and end up not moving.

Hence I don't wanna get ripped off by paying for a year at the boxing gym and then moving and losing all that money for the portions of the membership I didn't use because I moved.

I could get a membership at other non-boxing gyms, but then I'd have to spend $110 a month on a public transit pass in order to get to and from them; which in effect makes their prices as expensive the boxing gym. My University also has a gym that I think I have a membership to as part of my tuition, but I don't really have space in my bags to haul around binders & books & gym clothes as well, hence that option has problems with too --- that's why I never used it in my previous semester.

Although if I take full-time studies in September I'd have to buy the public transit pass anyways, which means it wouldn't matter that much if I signed-up for a non-boxing gym that is a bit out of my ways. But then I'd have a lot less free time available to spend at the gym due to full-time studies being an insane amount of course work.


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Originally Posted by bbaquiran View Post
If we told you exactly what to eat (provided a 1-week meal plan, etc.), do you think you could do it?

I'm not sure because I am clueless about cooking and I don't even have most of the basic items required for cooking like sharp knives and cutting board and pots and pans. I never know what good pots and pans to buy are (and also I wanna make sure I don't buy any with aluminum in them since it causes alzheimers...but many of them don't say if they have aluminum in them or not) so I end up not buying them. I have one pan and one pot from years ago that others have gave to me so I mostly just use that and dull cutlery on my frozen food item or canned items.

Actually I think that principle I mentioned in this post causes a lot of my problems: I run into obstacles with every option I consider, so then I avoid choosing any option, and hence keep doing what I've been doing.
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post #23 of 27
6/19/09 at 9:23am
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Originally Posted by stylemeup View Post
Actually I think that principle I mentioned in this post causes a lot of my problems: I run into obstacles with every option I consider, so then I avoid choosing any option, and hence keep doing what I've been doing.

You need to develop some problem solving skillz, SON.

You only need a skillet to fry shit in and a pot to boil the rest your shit in. The paragraph of you talking about your cooking utensils is pure fucking gold. Stop using dull cutlery on frozen LASAGNA and start boiling chicken. Go to Walmart and get you a kitchen for $10.
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post #24 of 27
6/20/09 at 12:38am
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Originally Posted by stylemeup View Post
I'm not sure because I am clueless about cooking and I don't even have most of the basic items required for cooking like sharp knives and cutting board and pots and pans. I never know what good pots and pans to buy are (and also I wanna make sure I don't buy any with aluminum in them since it causes alzheimers...but many of them don't say if they have aluminum in them or not) so I end up not buying them. I have one pan and one pot from years ago that others have gave to me so I mostly just use that and dull cutlery on my frozen food item or canned items.

Your life must suck.

Like db_ggmm said you need a skillet/frypan and a medium sized pot (for boiling vegetables). If you're concerned about aluminum get stainless steel cookware. Also get a George Foreman grill (any model) so you can grill steaks, chicken breasts and pork chops.
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post #25 of 27
6/20/09 at 1:15am
yeah, those are pretty dreadful numbers.

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Originally Posted by constant struggle View Post
I was 150 with a 33.75 inch waist... 37.5 inch chest at one point... pretty horrible proportions... then again i have huge hips
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post #26 of 27
6/20/09 at 7:34am
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Originally Posted by stylemeup View Post
A final consideration is that all this presents a problem when I am buying clothes. I used to fit a 42 blazer and 36 pants and now I fit a 40 blazer and 34 pants AFAIK. But if I buy clothes at my current size and then decide in the future I wanna get bigger again, I'll have wasted a lot of money. If I buy clothes at my old size I could still wear them although it wouldn't look perfect, obviously. I don't have a lot of money to throw around hence knowing what to do about this is very hard for me.

I would like to hear your advice about how I should best reconcile all these matters.

Thank you.

I'm in a similar position as you OP, in that I'm bulking up and having trouble deciding what to buy. Atm I'm only buying necessary items (replacements), shoes and non-skinny pants as they won't be affected by bulking.

From what I can interpret in this thread, you're biggest problem is that you're trying to tackle all of your issues at the same time. I think you need to prioritise and this is how I would do it:

- Decide how you want to look. Internet forums can help you on how to get there, but you need to decide what figure you want. The rest is easy if you have motivation.
- Next worry about exercise. You might not need to join a gym, you might just be able to get away with some free weights at home. This can't be determined until you address the first question.
- Now concern yourself with food. So long as you do the exercise part right, you don't need to count calories unless you've got an extreme body type in mind. Honestly speaking I think this is the least important issue.
- Once you know your target body type, and are on track to reaching it, you can look at buying clothes. In the mean time, I'd say do what I'm doing and buy only what's necessary.
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post #27 of 27
7/15/09 at 11:15pm
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Originally Posted by db_ggmm View Post
You need to develop some problem solving skillz, SON.

You only need a skillet to fry shit in and a pot to boil the rest your shit in. The paragraph of you talking about your cooking utensils is pure fucking gold. Stop using dull cutlery on frozen LASAGNA and start boiling chicken. Go to Walmart and get you a kitchen for $10.

hahaha +1000

look, I dont mean to make light of your situation but your attitude comes off as disgusting to me. You indicate you 'eat like crap' and justify it by not knowing what to eat. You indicate you dont have even 'basic cooking utensils' so you dont cook. you cant afford a gym membership so you dont excercise. you have a gym at school that is paid for but you dont want to have to carry around gym wear with your books. you dont have enough time to excercise because of course work try throwing in a full time job, night school, and a wife and kids.

we can always cite hundreds of reasons why its easier to do nothing or the challenges we might face...either you want to make improvements or you dont - its up to you.

You dont know what healthy foods are? Have you tried buying a book that would provide some guidance? You dont have any cooking utensils? buy some simple freaking pots and pans. you cant cook? there are hundreds of beginner-level cookbooks out there. you cant afford the gym? Have you tried buying a home workout book that includes excercises that just rely on your own body weight?

again, hopefully its just the way your posts come across but you dont seem to be interested in doing even the very basic things that every adult with common sense is capable of figuring out.

You are 29 - not 9. i hate being such a rah-rah person because im a 'dark' person myself...but man-up, dude!
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