Back in my day I used to workout with only a stick and a rock! For the whole gym!!!

Ironically this is what the Boomers did in the US.

I use the Boomer method. I'll climb the ladder before pulling it up and burning it for my own warmth. What, there are other people behind me? They should build their own ladder like I did.

It’s not that she doesn’t deserve the effort I was working out semi-regularly when I met her. Covid took me out of my routine for a while and I’ve been pressed for time, the weather has been shit, and my motivation just isn’t there anymore.

Also I’ve matured and realized muscles aren’t everything to attract a girl but that realization also made me realize working out isn’t as important as I thought it was which is a factor for why I haven’t picked it up again.

Lastly my body still looks fine. My stomach isn’t perfectly flat anymore and my chest and arms look a bit smaller but I still look skinny I’m not really to worried yet but I want to get back into it.

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Yeah honestly if anything my carb consumption increased due to more alcohol (beer) and the dining hall. I was working over the summer burning weight and barely eating due to my schedule while also working out.

I don’t ‘crave’ anything but I want to keep my body at an the baseline I was at last year.

Pretty shit tbh, I've always struggled with weight and eating healthy, plus I have several other conditions that aren't particularly serious, but do impact my daily functioning and mood. I've lost some serious weight in the past (almost 100lbs), but I always gain it back. It feels impossible for me to sustain anything long term.

Completely disagree with this guy. As a former d1 athlete, we are different, we crave the competition, and “fame” the athletics give us… after all its what makes us who we are.

I was benching a bit over twice my body weight, working out once a day at least on top of training. The issue is, when you’re young and have a great metabolism, the will to impress, and crazy workout schedules, you eat as much of whatever as often as you can.

This is thought because when you get injured, sick, lazy, etc. your workout regimen changes, but your diet does not. I ate close to 2.5x the amount of recommended carbs for myself, but it was needed because of how active I was, now I’m not and getting fatter by the day.

Climb out and pull the ladder up, disguise the pit and await unsuspecting victims to fall in. Ladder down, collect, repeat.

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He had debilitating dementia. He got to choose a peaceful, dignified death

This kind of resonates with me. Stayed too long in a comfortable decent paying dead-end job when I could have been moving up and making a lot more. Didn't burn the opportunity but I did waste time. The comfort was nice but in retrospect not worth it. Thankfully I got my ass in gear.

Maslow rolling in his grave right now

Plot twist: The ladder's too short for the wall

Sounds like a lot of work though

♬ Down in a hole... ♬

go up the ladder and pull it up and burn the entire ladder, youre out and have more to burn

He can still put his feet on the little stumps that remain from the ladder. Win win

Basically the plot of Elden Ring

Translation: them dirty poors wasted all their money on booze and uber eats instead of spending it on a drop-shipping course or investing in crypto

Don't keep holding on to future opportunites if you have an existential problem in front of you.

You had a standard you expected of yourself before you had a girlfriend. Now you have one, and in one hand you say you have gained weight and your body is nutcracker different from last year (in a different comment), but you also think you look 'relatively good'. This sounds like rationalization to me, and I don't think you are looking at this the right way. You were willing to work hard to impress a bunch of strangers (in hopes that you would attract one) ... but now that you have someone who loves you, she doesn't deserve the effort?

This is the same kind of thinking where married people don't think they need to feed their relationships... and then wonder what happened to the love and fun times. My ex-husband admitted to me once that since I had stood up before everybody we knew and said I would be his forever, he didn't need to keep me interested like when we were dating. Notice I said ex-husband... because who would want to stay in a relationship with someone who thought love equals no effort.

Based just on your own comments, I would wager that if your relationship ended, you would be plenty motivated to get back to your previous standard.

I mean I could still probably use that ladder if I really had to.

Too late