It's Nearly Spring editionIt'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 pace, always remember it's never too late to make a change in the right direction.We're ALL gonna make itThe motivation thread is openLast known thread >>77109188
Top o' da morning, my nigga
Got drunk at the weekend, made a fool out of myself and got my credit card stolen. Ah well, this week my life will finally turn around
Today I WILL talk to my old man :)
job is absolutely soul-crushing at this point. got my review last week and didn't get the highest mark but they're going to pay me like it. great news that they're not making it any harder to leave. bad news is this is how you string along someone you can't afford to lose at the moment without really pissing them off. golf lessons are happening and it's fun but frustrating as hell. its a nice way to end a long week, hoping to get outside and hit some balls soon. running is going well, my knee and ankle were hurting last week but i'm starting to get stretched out now for those long runs. my goal is to get my best time ever for this 10 miler, and it looks like it's just going to take a 9 minute mile pace to get it done which should be extremely doable. no baby made this month. going to test my stuff again and make sure i'm good plus i ended up getting some kind of health testing membership so i can check just about everything else. beat another game in the backlog. Goals for this week: Renewed focus on job hunt with lowered salary expectations. Get to the driving range. Run 5k under nine minute pace. Run first mile of my long run under nine minute pace. Stay under 203 and aim for 201. Continue whittling away at next game.
my cut is going just bad manmy 1pl8 ohp is goneboth my triceps are hurting now with db tri extensionsmy lifts are shiti am still skinnyfatfuck
>>77151818Happy Monday, ya Brosephs. New week, same goals:>touch/taste/fuck wife's butthole>treadmill until abs>big lifting, little eatingKind of an odd start to this week. Didn't drink a single drop of alcohol over the weekend, and diet wasn't perfect but it was better than most Sat/Suns. Today's weigh in was good.Wife is WFH today, so that puts a damper on my treadmill for the day. I will still get some time there, but I don't really want her seeing me playing PC vidya for 3 hours. Will still get the lifting in.But when she's home all day, that's when the sex happens, ya know? So right away as I'm waking up to her telling me she's home today I'm thinking, fuck yeah, gonna re-up my ask to eat her ass today. Unless she says we gotta be quick, which is fair, she's got days where she's busy, in which case I'll take whatever and let it go.So now I've got a belly full of cialis and too much water, and I'm a bundle of nerves because of the asslicking thing, all of which means I'm just feeling...bleh.Anyway. This could all go great, and butttlicking or no, any sex I didn't expect is good sex. Just gotta go sit in a corner and do some deep breathing whilst simultaneously giving her the illusion that, oh yeah, I'm always a busy guy so don't get any ideas about trying to foist more chores on me.WAGMI(UHB)
Lately I've been feeling very nostalgic about my past and at 33 years old it feels like much of my life is behind me, many doors are closed and it feels like there's very few novel things to experience. I miss the brotherhood I had with my friends as a high schooler and in my early 20s, I miss when everything seemed so new and exciting, I even miss "scrounging" for money and having to figure out the money game (whereas now I'm pretty much set for life). I feel like I am at the top of the mountain having won the game of life, but all I can think is, "is this it?".Sometimes I get in these ruts of rumination and the weight is so heavy that I just break down and start crying. I haven't cried in front of my wife or kids obviously since I am a MAN but I really don't know how to finally find resolution. I wish I could go back do things differently, and at the same time I am so grateful for it all, that I wish I could go back and do it all over exactly the same way.Sorry for the emotional post bros. Back to the topic at hand.Fitness>I've been going on walks every day, both for exercise and to normalize getting out of the house more; my kids have started coming with me on the early morning walks and it's been great>Todays upper strength day will put me back at 1pl8 bench and 95lbs OHP. I dropped weight a lot when starting this new routine>Meal prepped yesterday so this week should be a great diet weekFinance>Got paid friday, put $5K toward mortgage and made some equity allocations>Going to drop my checking account's "zero" number to $15K from $20K. I'll probably throw the extra $5K either toward my mortgage or into money market fundsPersonal improvement>I've been reducing my THC use to only a few times per week. This week I'll go 4 days THC-free.>I've begun scheduling self-care tasks on a regular cadence (skincare, shaving)>Making an effort to talk to 1 stranger per day outside the house. It's been easy but definitely having a positive impact
>>77152216you need a friendgo run outsideand stop playing video games like a child
>>77152205>mp4 of a gif
>>77151818Last 3 weeks have been chaos for me. Traveling with my fiance for 2.5 and then a buddy's bachelor party this past weekend. Good things but I'm happy to be back to normal life. Cut starts today, goal is to get from 255 to 230. Locking in on my business as well. Making it is a choice and I'm going to, out of spite if nothing else.
I lost 0 lbs this past week despite being in a calorie deficitdemoralizing but i must persevere
>>77152238>plenty of friends (that won't ever hear the full length and breadth of this ridiculousness)>routinely work outside on all manner of productive projects>deliberately picked vidya as a way to keep myself happy on the treadmill for excessive amounts of time during slack work hoursThanks though.
>>77151856Let’s do our best this week!
>>77151869Oh well. Try again this week, it’ll be better :)
Today was arm dayAnd it was good
How is it fit? Just finished a good session with my therapist and realized lots of stuff. Hard to put on words, but basically it made me realize that i can't justify myself anymore, i must do my stuff. I always hid behind my fears of being not enough and "not fit for life". Now those fears are more distant and i feel a bit better with myself. I will end my degree, i will get the job of my dreams, i will read tons of books, learn languages, socialize and be happy with who i amWAGMI>alsoI struggle a bit with my routine. Can someone give me tips to make habits (studying, working out etc...) and stick to them? Unfortunately i always write down excessive goals for the day and end up tired after two days. How can i build a routine that gets progressivily stronger and harder?I hope everyone has a good monday, and that this new start of the week might be a new start in life!
>>77152216This just in. Sex yes, asslicking no. "Not appealing" were her exact words.Ah well. Something of a pathetic personal victory for me to have even asked. I'll let it go, stop talking about it, maybe get her sometime months from now when the stars completely align and she's clean, available, and frisky. Will leave off of her butthole in general for a few weeks then return to my regularly scheduled sporadic anal finger blasting.In the meantime, I've entered the phase of my cut where lifts are truly in the dumpster, but also can't deny that I'm successfully losing weight. Feelsbad/goodman.
>>77152622In acceptance of NGMI lies a WAGMI in spirit.I suppose that's the whitepill for ya. The bluepill is naively believing shit'll get better when you're a 35 year old NEET. The blackpill is being a pathetic faggot about how bad you got it in this bed you made for yourself. The whitepill is pursuing whatever QoL can be found in the absence of making it.
>>77152622hey hey fake it til you make it amirite anons? heeeeyoo
>>77152703That's what I'm saying. You ind surrogate activities to occupy your time and create a semblance of, if not purpose, then direction
>>77152706I optimized for surrogate activities by moving in with my mom at 34. Normally I'd spend weeks just to muster the motivation to tidy up my apartment, but now I'm outsourcing menial tasks to my family, freeing me up to whole-ass my short term lock-ins.Conventional markers of success (career, family etc.) are now farther away than ever, but I'm having a hoot and a half just gamifying my day-to-day life.
It's my 4th day without porn. It's not my first attempt, so I know the first few days usually feel good because this is the point when you realize you were drowning and now you can finally catch some air. But the majority of the 4 days were weekends, and that's easy, because weekends are busy. But once WFH starts and you just wait for the code to run in the empty house it's going to get harder. Especially when asshole colleagues start coming with stupid requests and the stress are going to start building up. That's the point when my mind usually starts looking for a sedative. I've set up timers on most social media sites so I don't doomscroll endlessly. I just hope I can hold on until my mind learns to handle stress, boredom and isolation without pornography, and can also learn to live without endless novelty seeking and being always high.Another change I started is scaling down. I know that self improvement is great, but I think I've overdone it. I had too many "good" habits and goals and standards they turned against me. I was overly critical of myself and if I missed even just a day or half a day of the strict schedule I've set for myself I hated myself for it endlessly. It felt suffocating. So I throw stuff out, like meditation and ditched veganism (being vegan is not hard if you just don't want to eat animal products, but keeping it high protein, clean AND compatible with thyroid medication is an optimization hell I just couldn't live with anymore). I also downscaled my goals. No more chasing marathons and having 2-3 calisthenics goals ahead of me, reminding me daily what a piece of shit I am because I haven't achieved them yet. So now my main focus is "just" pumping up pull up reps, maybe learning the front lever, and trying to palm the floor as a mobility goal (I can already thumb the floor after like 3 months of practice, but that stalled, but anyway), and cardio is strictly on maintenance. Maybe less is more as they used to say. We'll see.
>>77152205You have to keep looking for a new job. I know it's discouraging getting rejected/ghosted, but the only way to escape is to keep applying. Good luck!
>>77151818I just keep thinking maybe there's no point lifting anymore. No point getting bigger. She still won't Want be no matter his big I get.
>>77152208Are you getting enough protein? Maybe you're trying to lose too much too quickly
>>77152236It honestly sounds like you need new goals and quests to devote your time to. You have admirable goals already, so keep building on them
I WILL LEARN THAT I PASSED MY LEVEL NEXT MONTH I WILL RETURN TO THE GYM I WILL REGAIN MY GYM STRENGTH EVENTUALLY I WILL SURVIVE THIS JOBRoughly 3 weeks remain until I get my level 3 CFA results. I’m hoping for the best simply because I feel worn out. I’m so close to the peak, I can almost see the top. But for the time being there’s no point in trying to torment myself. Whatever happens, happens. I’ll reach the top. Just as I was beginning to return to the gym, I got hit with a nasty cold. Working 60+ hours a week or having to study couldn’t prevent me from missing the gym but this illness has. I hate that my return to the gym has been delayed, but I know there’s no point in pushing myself too hard. I’ll return to the my regular routine when I’m ready. I know that my strength will return, I just need enough time and focus to succeed. Stay strong frens! We must face obstacles and take alternative routes, but eventually we will reach our destinations. WAGMI
>>77151818Ive lost 17 lbs in 8 weeks, I'm gonna lose weight and get jacked so I can be racist in public and beat up people who disagree with my correct opinions.Also I got a boner for no reason while eating snow yesterday. I like to eat fresh snowfall, it just tastes so good.
>>77152208Hey man, I was feeling bad about my cut today. I don't know about you, but I hit up ChatGPT for some talk about what to expect and what's normal. Turns out my FFMI is pretty ok. Not stellar, but better than average. Lifts and fat free mass come back quick after the cut if you keep lifting and eating the high protein diet, so apparently I can expect to look pretty good once I'm shredded. Lifts are terrible right now, yeah, but that's short term and all in service of the higher goal.
