It's the start of the week again, take a deep breath in, hold it and exhaleWere you thinking of giving up today? No you weren't. You made it through last week, you'll make it through this one as wellWhat are your goals for this week? What do you plan to achieve? List it all down.Take a deep breath, hold it and exhale, move at your own paceWe're ALL gonna make itThe motivation thread is openLast week’s thread >>76720129
>>76744854WAGMIFUARRKmorning, gentlemen.
>>76744863WAGMI Good morning fren
>>76744854I quit drinking forever 3 weeks ago, I'm feeling fucking great!
>>76744968Congrats! Keep up your momentum and don’t relapse
I am still a 24 year old virgin traveling the world.As has been, I have continued my regimen for aesthetic improvement during my quasi hermit arc as I convalesce. I've been on .5mg of fin for 2.5 weeks and have had no ill effects or any at all beyond reduced oiliness of the skin and possibly slightly higher libido. I've been lifting consistently and at the gym 6x a week, and walk 10-15k steps per day which seems to be helping the lbs come off. Eat the sames shit everyday mostly excepting days where I get stoned and enjoy a lone smoothie or milkshake as an addition to keep me sane. I find I have better self control with substances than I initially thought. I've never been lean before so I'm hoping I can finally do it this time, as I've had some mixed signals from girls before even with being too doughy and with less than ideal skincare or style/fashion. So I'm gonna see how I fare if I can fix all that. I know socializing matters, but it doesn't hurt to make things easier, right? Who knows what kind of reception I might get? But I'm doing it for me first and foremost.I went to a bar on the weekend and drank with some boomer expats who I befriended quickly and they took a liking to me. One of their Thai wives said "you so handsome like movie star" which can be construed as a silly passing remark but I've heard that one in different forms like 3 or maybe 4 times in my life so I'm gonna take it in stride. This bar girl was hovering around me now and again and I'd clink glasses with her when she'd say cheers but tried to play it cool, at least until I started getting drunk and then lost much of my self control. When I asked her to take a selfie with me, I kissed her on the cheek, and I cringe in hindsight, but I guess she was ok with it? I drank with this Thai guy and he shared some of his beer with me, so I got like 5 or 6 drinks worth from both him and the boomer expats despite only paying for 3. Not that I'm proud of mooching, but it's nice when people share.
>>76744854just failed 315 on the bench... twice... but i think i could have gotten 300 if i didn't waste the energy on those two attempts
>>76745094>kissed her on the cheekMaking it with women is 90% pushing boundaries until they say no and finding out the line is a lot farther away then you thought.
>>76745159then get 300 next time brother
>>76744854Today's lifts>Bench 245x6 255x3 255x3>Incline DB bench 3x6 @ 90s + DB rows 3x10 @ 120>Incline front raises 3x16>Face pulls 2x20Must have gotten another random strength level up over the weekend because those are all PRs, the big stuff anyway. idk how I did 6 when my previous best was 4 by the skin of my teeth, must have been the big chocolate donut I ate yesterdayAlso heavy DB rows - heavy enough to be an average gym girls bodyweight - are OP for farming mires if you didn't knowAlso wtf are these captchas
I WILL SUCCEED IN THIS JOB I WILL STUDY HARD Work continues to improve. I feel that I’m growing more independent. This cycle I’m more confident in meeting deadlines and completing tasks. Yet this role is still challenging. I can’t get too arrogant but I need to be confident. I’m going to continue growing. Close to 100 days (exactly exeggutor days) until I take my exam. This week I will complete all of the remaining new material. Afterwards, I will begin a process of review and refinement, practicing every day until I’ve mastered the content. Im confident so far, I haven’t faced any massive obstacles. I need to carry that confidence with me into the exam. I have plenty of time, now I need to work hard so I can pass my test. This time I’m going to make it. We’ve come far on our journeys, acknowledge our progress. But we still have new peaks to reach. Keep working hard frens. WAGMI!
1st week of my cut was very successful, down from 193 to 187, although I'm gonna take my foot off the gas a little bit I'm proud I had the discipline to stick with it thus far. WAGMI.
Another great week. Had two interviews and a phone screen, not sure if any of the interviews are going anywhere but the phone screen seemed pretty promising. At the very least it's nice to talk to actual recruiters again so I feel confident the market is at least finally improving past the jeet ridden hellscape. Actual job is still shit but its Diwali so all the retards are out. Going to spend this week researching how to grow the consulting calls. If people think my time is worth hundreds an hour i need to find more of those people. Thought I'd be seeing under 200 on the scale but I did see 200 twice so I'm close to a breakthrough. vo2 max had an increase after Saturday's 10k. Going into the third week of Madcow, I like the program and squatting three times a week is definitely easier than once. Going for my second body scan on Tuesday, so in addition to the five-ish pounds lost I expect to see some gains. I feel fucking fantastic - this may not be the slimmest shape of my life but in terms of all around fitness it's damn close, especially as I close in on 40. wife dropped the bomb on friday that she wants to wait until early next year to try for baby again (we had a miscarriage), so she can focus on her new job and certification. no talking her out of it, it wasn't even a discussion, told her i don't support this and that I dont want to wait past January. i didn't get married to be a support system for a girlboss. trying not turn this into a self fulfilling prophecy but also need to think about a plan to leave. i think she's also getting insecure about my fitness and i'm definitely getting more mires. between this and the snoring/separate beds im basically at my breaking point. goals - escape plan and expand consulting biz
>>76745171even then they basically have to say no until you tire out and give up
>>76745226Congrats on those lifts! I’ll follow your advice and start doing db rows
>>76745440Good job! What have been the biggest factors in losing so much weight so quickly? WAGMI
>>767457661400kcal daily budget lol. Maintenance calculators always tell me my maintenance is around 2800-3000 but I was eating at ~2300 and completely stagnating (tbf I wasn't weighing food so it was probably over) so I went nuclear. First couple of days were rough but it got easier towards the end, this week I'm aiming for a weekly average of roughly 1650kcal/day, eating more on heavy training days and less on moderate days. Biggest whitepill was waist (at navel) went from 99cm to 93cm.
>banned for the weekend (jannies randomly enforce no racism rule)>have a productive weekend. Feel mentally better too>come back after ban>start feeling like shit again May I should just never return here. It's cringe to say, but I've been using this site for so long that it's hard to imagine not.
>>76744854Well, I'm gonna head out to my old electrical company and ask them to put the slave shackles back on me. 1 year after quitting my analyst job with nothing lined up and I'm burnt out. Fuck HR women. Fuck multi-round interviews. Fuck getting ghosted. Fuck, "Well I've got several other people to interviews (AKA: Get fukt, you're not getting this job)". Fuck the fakeness of office politics. I'd rather KMS physically knowing exactly what the problems are vs having to tard wrangle several retarded office cunts and boomer managers. Do I wan to? Fuck no. I'm I going to continue to play this libshit game of "Modern Job Market 2025"? Absolutely not. I can already hear the ghetto ass nigger trap rap being blasted by someone on the jobsite but I'll take it with a smile. I cannot stand not working.Will update as time goes on.
>>76745856Am I going to*
>>76744968>>76745079But if you do relapse, take it as a momentary lapse in judgement. Falling sucks, but not picking yourself back up is the kicker. Proud of you anon, I’m glad sobriety has already been fruitful for you.
>>76745856did you quit without something lined up?
>>76745474Keep applying and practicing. The fact that you’re getting interviews is proof that you’re competent! Sorry about the news but your wife is still very much recovering from her miscarriage. Don’t start giving up on the relationship. Try to figure out ways to mend it.
>>76745856>>76745866Update: Anyone who says the trades are actively hiring is full of shit.Anyone in the trades who says, "Hurf durf I can find another job easily" is full of shit and hasn't looked in the past year or 2.I worked for this fucking company for almost 4 years and upon entering get directed to contact HR. WHY THE FUCK AM I CONTACTING SOME STUPID FUCKING WOMAN WHO DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO WIRE A FUCKING BATHROOM?! >"And BTW, we only have 2 HR sluts; 1 of which just gave birth and the other is out sick so basically you're on Stacey's time."It's fucking over. Fuck the USA.Fuck the West.Fuck all of it. Burn it all to the ground already.>>76746060Correct. Had i known how bad this market was I'd never have done it but here we are. In a way, it has been a blessing to be free from the normie world. Too many vaccinations have destroyed their ability to think logically and now an already bureaucratic has been made even worse. Amazing how "free" people are in this shithole third world country until they need to go through a million regulations boom booms put in place AFTER they fucked everything up.I'm tired. So fucking tired.
>>76744854Today I raked leaves in my local church
Got a job interview tomorrow,I'm not expecting much but I will still try my bestHere's to doing well this week
27, been ugly and fat my entire life, ive been dieting properly for the past month and im down 5 pounds, and im gonna start going to the gym and being better about hygiene (using moisturizer/cleanser/sunscreen, cologne, etc)maybe if I'm lucky, i'll be actually noticeable to women before i'm 30
I'm quite unwell, but I've got the start of a neat little start up going.
>>76744854Tomorrow I have the final exam of my master's degree, it's been a fucking painful process so I hope I pass and i'm finally done with it. Also going to start my cut because I'm starting to look chubbyGood luck this week everyone
>>76746317go get em tiger ! good luck on your journey
>>76745781You’re insanely strong willed. Good luck on the rest of your cut!
>>76746231I'm proud of you, anon
>>76744854my goal is going to the gym at least 6 days this week and not drink until Friday
>woke up>had a quickie with a BJ finish in the shower with my wife>finally got to raise weights on the shoulder press after plateauing for about a month, also hit a new pullup PR with 12 reps>hung out with some old friends back home in the afternoon, got mired pretty hard for losing weight by this couple we haven't seen in about a year>had another short but intense quickie with my wife after they leftI couldn't have asked for a better Saturday.
I miss having friends but I feel like isolation has made me much more mature than most people my age, so I'm not sure I will really like having new friends, I'll just find them stupidProbably me having some dunning kruger effect but still
>>76744854I’m terrible at benching for some reason, but finally managed lmao1pl8 for reps today, first time in my life. Will try to pump out a full set end of the week.1/2/3/4 for at least one set of 5 each is my goal, and benching is definitely the one that’s least on track. Still happy to keep piling on the plates, slow as it goes…
>>76746698>has made me much more mature than most people my agemade me think of this pictureIn my younger years I thought I was more mature than my peers and...I was kinda correct; I was more mature about certain topics and less mature about othersI don't think you're a teenager but your post was quite edgy
The worst part about being lonely is that you're 100% dependent on others to solve it for you, yet these others are the same people who abandoned you in the first place. It's not like being fat or scrawny, where eating less or lifting more fixes the problem and only you can change it. You can do everything right and still be alone simply because others do not want you.The only thing you can do about it yourself is ropemaxx.
>>76746773>there is only one group of people that you can interact with yousurely you can't be THAT stupid, right?!
Went bald and started shaving my head and it's pretty grim, I can grow a beard but reddit ruined that and if I take care of it it looks pretty try hard and if I don't it looks really bad and basement dwelling neckbeard tier. Clean shaven and bald I look like pretty subhuman too.Would rock a van dyke but don't have enough personality to pull it off.Will not take trannypills and will not give my money to turks and get an hair transplant so what are the other options?
>>76745843the final step in making it is graduating from 4chan. but there's no shame in sticking around a little longer
>>76746292Good luck! Don't count yourself out yet. Go in with a positive attitude. They wouldn't want to interview you for no reason
>>76746405The best is yet to come. Stay positive and approach the next opportunity with optimism
>>76747117I registered my domain and business name, both for the maximum terms of 10 years and 3 years respectively. Guess I'm in it for the long haul.
Gentlemen, we're so back. After more than a year of neglecting my health, I'm back in the gym with a purpose. Did lower body today, doing upper body tomorrow, full body on Thursday. Gotta take things slow so I don't hurt myself, but I'm fired up.IBD has once again seized my life, it's been getting set off more and more often in recent months. I had some bourbon last weekend and that made me sick all week, a little liquor has never done that before; and so that was the last straw, no amount of idle pleasure has any worth if it can be recompensed with a week of suffering. I'm fasting often, eating incredibly selectively, regaining my strength, reclaiming my health, and getting absolutely ripped. WAGMI
>>76746438Good luck fren! You're gonna crush it. You've worked hard and will now reach the summit
>>76746652That's a good goal, you better commit to it
>>76746735Congrats bro! Celebrate your victories since they're proof of your hard work
The constant shit weather here is truly making me suicidal. I was barely out all of summer because it was constant rain and storm winds. My house also had to have several repairs done due to the storms and it drained my wallet so fast I don't even have any savings left. Now I'm looking at moving back into a shit apartment again.
34, feel old. Broke up with my fiancé. Heart hurts but I'll be back in the club for Halloween. Thinking of learning how to Shuffle and Tango, both for weightloss and partying
>>76747009Thanks but I'm not so optimistic about that last part, a lot of the time hr bitches just wanna fill up their schedules and waste applicants' time but I will do my best nonetheless
Today's lifts>Squats 365x3 x4 x3>Front squat 3x6>Dragon raises 3x17>Weighted bck extensions 3x12Yoinked my lower back on the right side because I nearly lost the bar on one of the front squat sets, did an emergency shimmy to save it but felt it pull on the next rep, not serious but this will annoy me for a few days, sometimes deadlifts fix itAlso somehow ripped my boxers from the right side of my crotch almost all the way through the leg during the dragon raises, needless to say they've been retired. Rip sweet prince, 9 years of service well performed
There's this pixie chick that works at a place I go to and she smells so good and is so cute bros.
>>76747267Welcome back! The most important part is that you genuinely want to improve. You’re taking all the right steps. Don’t fall back into your old habits. WAGMI
Ive written here before about people bumping into me while walking etc. Today while i was going to the shop i was walking at the right side of pavement minding my own business and i saw a nafri immigrant on the left side of the street walking so there shouldnt be any reason whatsoever for us to clash paths. Well, thats not what his pea sized ape brain thought. He proceeded to change directions and go RIGHT at me. At the moment the collision was inevitable i jerked my shoulder forward and he fell like a bag of bricks to the floor. He said something on arabic, i have no idea what.Should i be worried about a retaliation and about those guys following me in the hood?
>>76750398Brown midgets love playing David and Goliath. I've had to deal with spics in my area nonstop like this.
>>76747127So there’s no turning back now. Good luck on your journey!
>me waiting for a career woman to gently dominate and tenderly love me Guys, I don't think it's going to happen.
>>76748121Sorry about your situation. Would you ever consider moving to a place with constant weather?
>Of course she starts dating a guy 100x better than me.>Of course he’s significantly more handsome than me. >Of course they feel romantic connection. >Of course I never stood a chance. >Of course he makes more money than me. >Of course he’s better than me in every way>Of course she’s excited about him>Of course no one feels that way about me>Of course I’m just a friend>Of course she just calls me her buddy
This might not be the 100% correct thread for this, but it something just happened to me that will propel me through the next three months of lifting and I felt like I had to share it with you dudes:>walking out of the grocery store after picking up some prescriptions and malk>wearing loose comfy linen slacks and a black v-neck that compliments my body but isn’t too crazy tight, sunglasses and a beanie>carrying malk making my bicep pop just a little bit>pass a liquor store on my way to the car>pass some girl walking in there>arthoe/emo chick that grew up, still has dyed black hair and bangs absolutely cute as fuck>wouldletherruinmylife/10>wearing sunglasses, so I can angle my face away but still look at hers>honestly just in awe of how fucking cute she is>thinks I’m not paying attention>she is THIRSTING at me>looks me up and down, cheeky lil smirk doing that “smile with your eyes” thing>it takes all the effort I have to not buckle when she literally bites her lip and smiles at me>maintain my composure all the way to the car>grin like a fucking goober all the way homeIs this what making it feels like?I didn’t even know women did that irl and not just for pictures, it was like it was reflexive on her part.If I see her again I’ll say hi, but I was stifling my autism and had I broken stride I would’ve absolutely spaghetti’d the situation.
>>76750603>gently>dominatePick one, homie.
>>76745843what was the post? jannies can be total faggots sometimes, but i'm curious.
>>76746231im not even religious and never have been but i am getting warmer and warmer to the idea of religious people because they are less likely to be the typical milennial genderfluid faggotbut i digress. good job volunteering to do something.
>>76746652similar boat here, i am not working out enough and i am using too much weed. i used to have a better relationship with both fitness and weed back when i first experimented with it (back in the early days of the pandemic)i wish someone would explain how your relationships with things change over time. and it happens so slowly it's almost invisible, but 5 years later and my brain is burnt out on marijuana. i get 10% pleasure and 90% dulled fatigue when it used to be the other way around.
>>76747267holy shit i didnt even know megalo box had a sequel
>>76750398As someone who bitched out a couple years ago (yes, I STILL remember it) when a big homeless junkie did that to me - good work.Fuck Oakland, I need to move out of here.
>>76750699>Of course you can ignore her and move on and lift hard
>>76746152Dude I got told to get a job by my psychiatrist and literally got three jobs that day, each one better than the last.They basically all told me I was hired and all there was to do was complete some paperwork, and I felt bad because I had to call the other two back and tell them that someone else had offered better compensation for my time.I did include that I was grateful for their consideration and would reach out if things didn’t work out. Most people that swear it’s impossible to find a job are expecting too much or are trying to leverage their skills for more pay, having a delusional value of the worth of their time.>walk around with some resumes>ask to speak to whomever’s in charge>introduce yourself and pitch a few of your strengths casually>wa-la, job acquired I hadn’t worked in about four years, I just said that I’d been handling my late grandparents’ estate after completing an associate’s degree.>inb4 you got three minimum wage jobsFirst of all, some work is better than no work and complaining that nobody is hiring.Secondly, by the time I leveraged the second offer against the third I was up to $23/hour in a state with $12 min wage, which I don’t think is all that bad considering I just walked in and asked if they were hiring.I didn’t even go to four places. Just go talk to people, man.
>>76750790Missing your chance to talk to a beautiful girl is NOT quite making it, I am sorry to say. Make sure you say something next time. Don't worry about sounding retarded because you ARE retarded.
>>76750844I’m happy with the way that things went, all of this happened in less than ten seconds.I didn’t fumble a chance to talk to a grill, I just noticed a really serious mire in real time.She didn’t even see that I noticed her because of the sunglasses/ my face being angled slightly away, I think it might’ve been weird if I stopped in my tracks, pulled out my headphones, and struck up a conversation.I’ll probably see her again and have the chance to smile back, and if I don’t- it is okay.I’m not in a good spot for a serious relationship anyways, and definitely not with someone I met at a liquor store.But I will share my benzos and go on a fuck bender if the stars align.Only time will tell, fren.
>>76748148F. You'll find someone better eventually. Just keep honing yourself on all aspects
>>76744968Good luck anon. 3 weeks is awesome, and thinking>forever was too much pressure for me. Im a little over 9 months no booze, and my prevailing thought is>not TODAY.
>>76745474You're not even gonna read this, but I'm afraid you'll need to Chad it up. >My wife is doing a cert and will be getting a job plus she wants to wait till next year>Oh and btw, she had a miscarriage Nah nah. This shit reads like something out of an NTR story. I have seen this shit happen to way too many men. My personal philosophy is: one red flag is already one too many red flags. >The solution You're gonna need to be aggressive with how you live life. Pregnancies just happen when they need to happen. The best ones come from natural instinct, not this 3 month or year long planning process. You need to act like a wigger and looksmax NOW. And get fitter of course. >No I don't wannaOkay but I have seen this exact fucking thing happen with too many men before. It would be a shame to see it happen again.
Up to 128lbs bodyweight from 122lbs after 2 weeks of the 'stripped 5x5'. First time Ive stuck with the same workouts this long, Ive confused my body for too long.I kind of want to go to the gym to just work on arms tonight, but I also know that fiddling with the program might not be a great idea. But happy Im actually making breakfast with eggs and bacon instead of just microwaving shit. Thats a good step for me.
>>76750843This is bait designed to hurt me.
