I don’t hate the way I look anymore.

I'll skip the gym today. I'm sore as fuck, very tired and have a shit ton of stuff to do, so I'll direct my energy towards getting those things out of the way.
The reason for that is that yesterday, instead of doing the things that I was due for, I just said fuck it and spent the entire day out with my wife going to places and using the city as a playground. It was so nice. Sometimes I work so much all the time that I neglect that kind of stuff, like obviously generally having fun should be the last priority and something you do only after you have nothing pending, but there's always shit to do and if you don't say fuck it every now and then and just forget about everything and live in the present for a moment you'll always be stuck working and grinding neurotically and live a miserable life.
So I'm glad I did that. It made me happy. So what if I'm pressed to do stuff today and have to skip the gym to make time for it. I go to the gtm every day.

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>>76944096
Pause benched 245x5 today for a personal high score
My grip has met its match rowing the 125 DBs, left side can barely handle one uninterrupted set of 8, have to fail and then do makeup reps on later sets and holy shit does that bloat workout time

Blah blah 25 yr old traveller blah blah

I nearly have veins coming out on my lower stomach though the last bit of fat is quite hard to take off. Hopefully I get fully ripped by New Year's, if not, I'll still be lean enough that the subsequent lean gains I'll be seeking will actually look good. My face looks a lot nicer and my body has more vitality. I'm hoping that some level of applied confidence will carry me going forwards since I have unironically noticed even less aesthetically gifted guys get laid just by being able to talk to chicks.

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found some networking events to start off the year strong. also going to put in some time with the knights of colombus because i should be doing that anyway and its also probably going to have some networking effects.
studying for the PMP is going okay. about 20% through this dumb course i have to do.
my sleep is incredible lately. i fucking woke up to my alarm today. still haven't recorded my snoring but at this point i dont even care.
skipped my 10k run this weekend because me and wifey took a weekend trip. was going to try to make it up yesterday but i figured a weekend off isn't the worst and i just wanted to relax.

haven't been dutifully stepping on the scale but im close to a week out from successfully staying under 205 pounds. i'd have to eat like a massive fucking pig over the next week and skip every workout to screw that up.

started reading Jordan Peterson's second book because i bought it years ago and never got far into it. it's fucking painful to read knowing what a massive faggot he turned into but slowly trudging through it.

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Left elbow is injured, right shoulder is impinged, both traps are injured, and I didn't sleep last night. I'm going to hit the fucking gym anyway.

>>76944096
I'm gonna keep the same goals as the past week.

I'm reading "los cuatro acuerdos" and i'm thinking to purchase crime and punishment after reading the current book.
wake up at 7am and going to the gym is the usual daily goal for me.
Also, I'd like to try a new language like portugués.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcVxcwXpC_8

tomorrow is my driving test

>>76944096
Kids are on Xmas vacation, wife has several days off this week too. My goals are to stick to my regularly scheduled workouts despite these gains goblins being around. I wouldn't sweat it too hard, it's a holiday after all, but I got sick before turkey day and haven't managed to get back to full power since, so I feel like I need to make that effort.

Otherwise, I guess my goals are to enjoy the holiday parties and time with my family. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.

>feel like gooning every time I want to work out
Why is the gainz goblin like this? I already gooned earlier I don’t need to do it again

I normally stop lifting in the winter due to severe depression but I’m continuing to lift and not get depressed, despite certain life circumstances.

I’m doing better about loving and taking care of myself, and hopefully this year I’ll move out of the shitty apartment I've been in for 4 years and get a nicer place. One day I’d like to have a house again with a few pets and some chickens.

>>76944344
No children

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I WILL STUDY HARD
I WILL PASS MY LEVEL 3 CFA EXAM THIS TIME
I WILL MAKE IT OVER THIS MOUNTAIN
I WILL HAVE A GREAT 2026

Last week I met a client in person for the first time. He praised me in front of my boss, complimenting my tenacity. Later on, my boss gave me a glowing end of year review. I’m proud of how hard I’ve worked this year to succeed in this position. Next year I’m going to improve even more at this job so that I feel less stress towards it.

I’ve passed both of my practice exams so far. I’m feeling confident about my exam next month. But there are still 4 more practice exams for me to take. I need to take advantage of every day to maximize my chances. The peak is in my sight, I just need to push a little further to reach it.

The new year will bring us new opportunities to grow! Stay confident frens, we’re making it to the top of the mountain in due time! WAGMI!

>>76944396
What a winner!

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Five weeks ago I did a 1 rep PR of 50kg bench press (I started recently).
Two weeks ago I did 3 x 5 sets of 50kg bench press and I felt really good about it
Today I only did 3 x 5 sets of 50kg bench and I was absolutely at my limit at the end. No real progress.

I ate like shit last week. I have not been sleeping well.

>>76944096
>>76944582
Oh and also, I got my annual bonus for 2025.
Our revenue is +60% from 2024 and yet my bonus is -30%.
The boss thinks we had a bad year.

It's depressing but all I can do is find a way to send him a nice thank you message. After all, it's better than nothing.

>>76944115
Congrats! A little confidence in yourself will go a long way

>>76944344
Good luck mate.

>>76944344
Czech'd and good luck! Remember to keep calm and drive defensively.

>>76944248
There's nothing with prioritizing other parts of your life over the gym. It sounds like you made some good memories. Appreciate whatever happiness you can grasp.

>>76944588
if its any consolation im pretty much considering my employment to be a bonus this year.

>>76944096
I have until the first week of January off from work. I spent my first 4 days of this break doing nothing. I went on a walk this morning for 10 minutes, did a bicep workout yesterday. Kinda cleaned today and that’s it.
I need to make the most of this guys. Christmas will be spent with my family which is something I don’t normally do. I’m doing it for them.
I need to exercise every day, get my apartment cleaned too to bottom, eat right, begin working on my apartment prep it to paint and reorganize. I really don’t want to waste this break. I also need to take advantage and quit nicotine and caffeine while I can afford to, get past the worst it while I do t have work.
I also need to get outside and stop laying around playing video games all day. At least a couple fishing days. I may swing by a farmers market if it’s open and just dick around maybe buy some raw milk to finally try it

>>76944259
Great job on the pause benching! As for the rows, you'll get stronger eventually! Just keep working hard

>>76944344
I failed 3 times and finally got it on the fourth try. Sending you power. Nice dubs btw.

>>76944294
Congrats on your cut! What abs workouts do you do? Remind yourself that aesthetics are important, but you also need to learn basic social skills

>>76944303
Knights of Columbus is a really great organization. I'm not Catholic, but I used to go with my buddy to his events and had fun. Plus it will help you get a better job. There's no shame in appreciating life with your wife. You owe her some happiness after her miscarriage. Good luck in the next year! Good news will surely come your way

>>76944320
Don't push yourself too much. If you're truly injured, rest up. You're only going to make your condition worse

>weight dipped below 89 kg for the first time in years
Dunno if it’s the diet, the running, the other kind of exercise or everything combined that made the difference, but it’s nice to know I’m doing something right.
Goals for this week: keep working out on Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, don’t get too wasted on NY party on Friday, enjoy my solo trip on weekend. And fix my sleep schedule, since I’ve been staying late for a few days in a row now.

I can't goon anymore because this chick keeps hijacking my goon system anytime I try to until all I see is her face and body. I can't fall in love with her because she's already taken and I don't wanna involve myself with that type of drama.

>>76944330
Keep pushing forward. Incorporating your goals into your daily routine is how you maximize your odds of success. YGMI

I still live with my parents at an age too humiliating to admit, and they’ve been away on vacation for a week, tonight Monday was my last day here alone, so I’ve had a week to see what my life would be like if I moved out and lived on my own

Every weekday: Wake up alone in a cold dark house. Commute to and from job alone on subway, surrounded by people who are all more attractive, happier, richer and more successful than me. Spend all day at my horrible job doing nothing, talking to no one, feeling as worthless as possible. Go to the gym, alone. Come home and eat, alone. Spend evening, alone. Go to sleep alone.

This past weekend: repeat the same, except for going to work, instead just staying in the house, alone, not venturing outside, doing nothing, wasting my life

The most talking I’ve done for a week is the endless talking out loud to myself that I do. I sincerely need to kill myself

>>76945988
Ehh I know it’s cliche man but it gets better. Give me a chance to elaborate.
I’m a lot like you. By pure luck I got to move out earlier this year at 29. It’s been 10 months. Pretty much the same as you is how it’s been. I talk out loud to myself. I’ve had times when I had my parents house to myself to see what it would be like and it was the same.
But there’s just a difference in it. When you’re the one responsible for the bills, for the groceries, for the place staying clean, for the place looking nice etc. it does something to your brain. You suddenly have SOMETHING. Something to lose something to maintain.
The sense of privacy is also really fucking good.
It makes you feel like someone your age, or more like it.
All of this leads to you naturally interacting with and meeting people, if you consistently go outside anyways. I started randomly talking to people while out I was never that person before. It took a while to start that but it just started happening.
The mindset you have and will be hard to shake is
>I’m this age and I live at home I’m in no position to date or worry about friends until I move out
There’s only one way to shake it

My goals for this week are to enjoy as much as possible. Going out with friends today, family tomorrow and after tomorrow, resting, eating, laughing as much as I can to enjoy the Christmas season in my town before moving back out to waste away in the rat race. Merry Christmas to all reading this!

I'm 35 this year and it feels like weight sticks to me more. I bought a weight rack and setup and am going to hit 225 bench for once in my life. I'm going to make it

>>76946220
>Something to lose something to maintain.
Sure, but it also is stressful as fuck. I'm constantly on the edge, wondering when I'm going to lose my job and lose everything.
>The sense of privacy is also really fucking good.
Thats a good point. I will never again live with anyone else (other than my woman, not that I will ever find one) if I can help it.
>All of this leads to you naturally interacting with and meeting people, if you consistently go outside anyways. I started randomly talking to people while out I was never that person before. It took a while to start that but it just started happening.
Guess this happens to some people then. Been living on my own for like 3 years now and been trying to go outside too. In bars I sit alone, in cafes I sit alone, in parks I sit alone. Everywhere I go Im alone. After a while of trying to see if I can find people to talk to I stopped trying so much, sometimes I go to the city center on a weekend night and its always the same.

>16 consecutive days off thanks to mandatory days off
>managed to undepress the cave
>sleep getting almost fixed
>figured out what to do for micros
>not always drained
>caught up with normal social backlog
>got next few steps for the big project outlined
it's not impossible that things might work out
now, morning shower, salmon, groceries

>>76944096
Jesus, stretching is hard to make it into a habit

>>76944372
Never mind, wife got unbelievably pissed off at me about something that was completely her fault, linked it to a long running gripe she has against me that is also completely her fault, and now I guess my goal for the week is to avoid a divorce.

>>76946813
>>76944372
Enjoy your week off. Try not to get pissed at your wife, it's a difficult time of the year. Don't kill yourself if your workouts don't go perfectly, you're getting back in the saddle. Merry Christmas!

>>76944372
Based.
>>76946813
Not so based because your wife sounds like a cunt. I would reexamine myself to see if shit is actually her fault; if it is, I wouldn't sweat too much about avoiding a divorce. Even rapey divorces (as in the ones you get divorce-raped) are less painful in the long run than spending the rest of your life with a cunt of a wife.

>>76946916
I'm not enjoying the dynamic of this one, where I'm coaching our adolescent kids through supporting mommy during her meltdown and the aftermath of it, but yeah, we just love and care for her and she'll come around.

>>76946944
Nobody's perfect, and some of what happened was circumstances outside of our control, but those circumstances were 100% set in motion by her. She's not a cunt, and I'm not actually afraid of divorce (and I'd do a lot better than she would if it came to that). Life with her is pretty good mostly, but stuff happens when you're with someone all the time. It never feels good to get bitched out by her for things she decided on years ago, but woman brain, I guess.

My prediction is, she'll pout today, fall apart tomorrow, and Xmas day will be fine.

>>76946220
I get all of what you’re saying but the thing is it really doesn’t change something in my brain. With respect to being responsible for the bills groceries and staying clean, I already experience some of that. I pay my parents a lot of money in rent to live here, it isn’t like I’m freeloading, so “in a way” I do pay for these bills and groceries. I know it’s not exactly the same, but I do. As for privacy, there’s really no need for me to have any. It isn’t like I live a life where I would be dating or having random sex with women if I had my own place, or inviting friends over for parties and such, that I’m not doing because my parents are here, or that I would have to answer about “where I’ve been”. When I was in college I lived with roommates. Even in the most forced social time of your life to meet people, make friends, meet girls and date hem and have sex, I never did any of it.

I’m not trying to excuse living with my parents in my 30s, I know how completely pathetic and shameful it is. But when you’re a loser in the rest of your life, I just look at it and say what’s the point. I have no interest in owning my own home, not like I ever will anyway. If I can even afford to live in an apartment without roommates, I will be just as alone and miserable as I am with my parents, so what’s the point. Something isn’t going to “click” in my brain that will suddenly make me feel like an adult, a complete personality 180 where now I am happy, confident, socially adept, oh now I’m gonna go make so many friends, oh now I’m gonna try to get with women. Nothings going to change.

>>76944378
You gotta quit gooning bro, it's killing you. Congrats on your other progress though, next year will be even better

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How do normgroids even get girlfriends? Dating apps literally don't work for men, dating events are just dating apps IRL, friend groups dissipate after university, the club scene is dead and - in as far as it still exists - full of sluts and only PUA retards recommend cold approaching because it's an easy grift that keeps clients paying.

It feels like you either get lucky in high school, university or you just ropemaxx.

>>76947005
Can confirm, pouting today, moving into depression. Quiet one word replies when asked a direct question, otherwise refusal to engage. Not a big fan of this game, but I guess it takes time.

I will lift 185lbs on bench on Jan 1st. Book it

>>76944383
The fact that you're pushing through with your goals despite your life proves that you're a champ :)
You're doing a great job. Hopefully you achieve your dream next year

Please, please, please let me hit 2pl8s on bench before the New Year.