gym bro diaries

[Hilmaam]

Been going to the gym infrequently lately whilst being more strict with my diet:

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Quite lean but not remotely at the strength and size I used to have years ago when I was in my early to near mid 20s but gonna slowly work my back there. It's very effortless being this lean when you eat just animal fat and protein. The vascularity's pretty wild, though. I used to be that way years ago but it's just funny how I'm like that even when I'm not really getting a pump from lifting. Just mildly straining myself or just being normal a lot of the time has my arms looking like that.

My diet is basically:

• Fatty, bony, gelatinous cuts of red meats
• Similar cuts of chicken where I compensate for its leanness by covering it generously in butter before oven roasting it
• Things like Salmon and Liver occasionally like once a week or once every 2 weeks
• Water
• Vit. D3 (5K IUs once a day)
• 10-12 grams of Taurine a day (yes, I have prior digestive issues I've been trying to heal)
• 4-6 tabs of Betaine HCL with my one meal a day

Back in the day I used to add on a lot of yogurt, milk and eggs but I'm taking a bit of a break from those to give my gut a rest and go full elimination diet with a more "strict" carnivore approach for a while. I'll re-integrate them eventually though I don't recommend dairy products like milk, yogurt and carbier cheeses if you're not very active/athletic; you won't be overweight but you won't be as lean if you're not (difference between effortless 10-13% and 13-16% body fat). I've recently cut out salt as I've noticed it started causing me to retain water and bloat in certain areas and made me abnormally thirsty. A lot of people who eat this way eventually notice they do better if they cut out salt despite needing it initially due to all the water and electrolyte loss from giving up carbs.





My lifting routine is basically upper-lower splits. One day of stuff like farmer's walks, bench-presses, pull-ups, chin-ups, dips, dumbbell arm exercises, calisthenic core exercises, barbell spins for the forearms and I'm out. Another day where I do deadlifts, weighted wall-sitting, squats, calf-raises and leg-extensions and I'm out. Nowadays I've been mixing it up a bit and just working whatever muscle groups I want on any given day just so long as I work them all at the end of a 3 day interval. One day gym, one day rest, one day gym, one day rest and so on. But I'm not as consistent as I'd like; sometimes the rest days turn into 2-4 or a week or more. Demanding Master's program but it's getting chiller now.

What do you do for fiber? All that meat withoutj fiber sounds like painful bowel movements to me

 

[Shimbiris]

What do you do for fiber? All that meat withoutj fiber sounds like painful bowel movements to me

Plants and fiber helping with bowel movements is completely unfounded stuff based on no actual evidence, as far as I know. There's like one actual half decent study that's still weak and it shows the opposite:



I implore you to go vegan and try whole foods plant based eating. Like most vegans who do this you will suffer eternal bloating, general gut issues including likely constipation, lots of pain and quit for junk food veganism or even fruitarianism. Those vegan fruitarians in Thailand aren't crazy. They just clocked a while back that most plants go down terribly when you have enough of an abundance of them in their whole food form and just chose the easiest to digest plant option which does tend to be less fibrous fruits:

 

[Hilmaam]

Plants and fiber helping with bowel movements is completely unfounded stuff based on no actual evidence, as far as I know. There's like one actual half decent study that's still weak and it shows the opposite:



I implore you to go vegan and try whole foods plant based eating. Like most vegans who do this you will suffer eternal bloating, general gut issues including likely constipation, lots of pain and quit for junk food veganism or even fruitarianism. Those vegan fruitarians in Thailand aren't crazy. They just clocked a while back that most plants go down terribly when you have enough of an abundance of them in their whole food form and just chose the easiest to digest plant option which does tend to be less fibrous fruits:

Vegan to hard. I try to eat like 100 grams protein a day mostly eggs and chicken breast , salmon. Try to limit red meat doesn’t go down well even though taste so good. I struggle with fiber consumption but try to get 30 grams a day. Chia seeds, avocado and beans get me there most days.

I believe it. I think if you limit sugar pasta and rice maybe fiber not deal breaker. Probably how are ancestors did it I’m guessing even though not sure what their longevity or overall health was

 

[Farah717]

When I started working out, I trained way too intensely and forgot to work on hypertrophy. It gave me really bad acid reflux and bloating I got some probiotics, and in 3 days I was cured. If you want to bulk up quickly without getting fat eat tons of red meat, eggs, milk. Stay away from pasta/rice.