But if a weirder rate thread. I’m a straight man, but I’m recovering from anorexia. This is my most recent photo 5’7”130lbs I can’t help thinking I look fat and disgusting in this photo and I hate showing my body to people.So be honest, be as brutal as you want. I need to hear what people actually think about my appearance
you are 100% not fat at all brogood luck on your recovery, ana is a fucking demon that warps your brain. you are gonna make it fren.
>>34994254You are not fat at all, I don't know why you even think you are fat. You seem to have a perfectly normal and healthy body
>>34994300It’s my stomach and my legs. My upper chest always looks like I have man boobs too, I look at myself and want to never eat again. I unironically cover my entire body with thick clothes so no one can see the shape of my body. Jackets and jeans every day regardless of the heat, and I’m in SoCal so I’ll be dressed like it’s a snow day in 90 degree weather
>>34994305Clearly you don't have much fat in your legs, neither in your stomach. "Man boobs" aren't necessarly caused by fat, it can also be genetic or hormonal, and if you don't take your nipples into account your breast don't stand off at all. You don't have to wear thick clothes, your shape is absolutely normal and even if it was not I can assure you that no one cares.
>>34994325No one ever sees what I see. The love handles are another thing I can’t stand to look at.But I’m not trying to trauma spiral, you asked so I wanted to explain why I see myself as fat. I’ve been managing to eat, but still only small amounts more than usual.
>>34994330Get in the gym dude, focus that autism to make yourself ubermensch
>>34994353The gym bros on /fit/ said I need to eat more to get built, which is the issue
>>34994254Look great
>>34994374Yes and no, exercise until you're hungry and then clean eat and you won't get fat, that's over a period of time, not one days hunger. Don't bulk first just react to the amount of calories your body craves after doing a decent workout routine over time
>>34994392Good advice
>>34994254Very relatable thread. I used to weigh 120 pounds and I'm 6'5.It's a horrible horrible mental illness you're recovering from.Seems like you're making progress by the sound of it, but you need to eat more still. Think other posters here have given some very sound advice.Just eat good, high quality foods when you're hungry and avoid shit and you have no reason to fear getting fat.When you look at how people who are fat eat and live, while also observing how freely regular sized people eat, it makes it a lot easier not to worry so much.
>>34994428For the last 10 weeks all I’ve eaten every day is 3 cups of rice, 1 8oz chicken breast, and two eggs. I drink no liquid calories, I use no oils because they have calories, and I avoid all sugars and as much sodium as possible. I use a little bit of Tabasco to flavor it since the heat curbs the appetite, but that’s it. I measure my meals so I know the exact calories I’m eating at all times.
>>34994445Definitely not enough man. I know it's easier said than done to get back on track though. I found when I was really underweight, it was hard to dig out of it because it does impair your thinking quite a bit. Have you tried to use one of those metabolic rate calculators? Where you enter height, weight, activity level and they tell you how many calories you should eat for goals?I think that may be helpful to start ensuring you're eating enough. Counting and tracking is fine for now, it should start helping you see what a healthy amount of eating should look like for you.Ultimately, calories aren't your enemy. They're a unit of energy. If people store too much energy they don't use, then they start putting on fat, but you're a far ways from being fat. You're at the point you probably need more to keep your body functioning healthy.
>>34994254nigga how tf is ur dick getting blood when ur 130 pounds
>>34994547Idk, it just gets hard like any other dick I assume. I’ve never had issues with my sex drive
>>34994254>twink/10>>34994445Macronutrient profile is more important than calories and not all fat is equal, you can easily fuck yourself over with a diet lacking in essential fatty acids. Excessive sodium restriction can be harmful if you're losing a lot of it through sweat, and based on >>34994305 you could be at risk.
>>34994889I drink my daily amoint of sodium with LMNT and I take multivitamins, always have
i'm 5'8 150 and I think I'm a tad skinnyfat but you're like completely average to thin. if you did planks or pushups you'd probably just tone up and look shredded with minimal effort
>>34994305>My upper chest always looks like I have man boobs tooI can relate to this but I think in my case it's more of a gyno thing from when I was fat as a teenager. I'm still extremely insecure about it but looking at yours it's honestly not even comparable. I'm too depressed and lazy to ever work my chest properly and that would probably make it a little better but in your case you would need to work at it way less.
>>34994254a straight man with anorexia? kinda hot
>>34995868I don’t think it works that way.>>34995881It’s less the work and more the eating which is what holds me back. According to calculators I’d have to eat 2200-2500 calories a day to build muscle, that’s such an alien amount of food to me. I’m still working at eating a normal amm
>>34996064I'm kind of lazy and ignorant but I thought it was just protein you needed for muscle. I have a really hard time gaining any as well but if you're just doing simple calisthenics I don't think you really need that much food to maintain what you already have going. I'm a NEET and I don't even lift but when I've actually had the motivation to just do prison tier calisthenics in my bedroom I'd get really visibly toned for entire summers before I'd inevitably go back to eating garbage and sitting at my computer doing nothing all night. We're both manlets so it's really not that hard to do. My diet was not even remotely as healthy as you said yours is either. You're very clearly not fat or disgusting and doing a few sets of planks and pushups would reinforce that.
>>34996122Well like, here’s my thing. Part of my anorexia was ensuring I worked out to offset ant calories I ate. These days I work out 45 minutes each day using Apple fitness+ to track my heart rate and calories. I don’t like Apple as a company, but the watch + that app is the cheapest method to do this reliably.My routine isMonday-full body strength + coreTuesday- upper body strength + HIITWednesday- Lower Body Strength + CoreThursday - Upper Body Strength + PilatesFriday - longer Full Body strength sessionSaturday- Upper Body Strength + HIITI burn between 300-400 active calories a day in these workouts with average heart rates between 165 and 170, a max for my age and height being roughly 188I know from my hyper focused meal that I consume 145g of protein each day in about 1300-1400 calories. Thanks to this, I manage to either lose weight or just barely maintain my low weight while maintaining muscle so I don’t become so frail I can’t move. But after months of doing this, I have not gained any notable muscle definition, and you don’t really gain muscle in the deficit I exist in. I would need to eat more calories which I am workin on(I ate only 1000 a day for years) but it’s taking a long time for my brain to allow myself to eat without immediately punishing myself by doing a harsher workout.>>34995887Umm, thanks? Not really sure how to react to that
I’ll continue by saying one of the hardest parts about eating for me, water weight.Water and sodium can easily make me gain 2-5 pounds in a day. I know it’s not fat, but any time I see such a massive jump on the scale I freak out and I spiral out of control wanting to eat nothing, calling myself fat, and forcing myself to work out to remove that weight from my body.I know I sound like a lunatic when I say that, but it’s really hard for me
>>34996227You might enjoy running, it will shrink your gut and shed water weight in the short term
>>34996275I don’t like to exercise I do it to punish my body for gaining weight
I hate giving a genuine response in this shithole, but you're not fat at all, you just have no muscle. Since you already have issues with body dismorphia you shouldn't become some gym rat, because you probably wont like being big no matter what, and your body would be screaming at you to eat, which you would hate. That said you should do something active so you have some muscularity showing, since being so... smooth(?) Probably makes you feel like you look fatMaybe. I don't really know. Stop being a fag or something
>>34996991I do, as I said here >>34996218I exercise pretty vigorously actually
I’ll be honest. This thread might have been a mistake. I just spent an hour yelling at myself for not being 125 pounds and wanting to stop food intake until I reach that weight
>>34997161post kik for chat/psych evaluation
>>34994374not true
>>34997418I don’t like kik, too many ads
>>34997161as someone who has family with anorexia, yeah, this thread probably didn't help. no amount of outside noise (whether assurance or not) will change the fact you have faulty neurological wiring. just from personal observation of family, people commenting seems to highlight the issue to the anorexic regardless of the type of comment. its good you seem to be recognizing you have a problem. i would personally recommend you seek help or at least mention this to a doctor if you have not already. recovery alone is a beast. the beginning is horrible but getting better is worth it. i am glad those close to me powered through the hardest parts of the disorder so they could be present with me today
>>34994254post dick
>>34998168My family is partially the cause. I was mocked for eating pretty much any time I ate anything as a kid to the point I started to hide and eat alone in my room which lead to me being punished when I ate, so I ended up stopping eating all together >>34998237No