When I first started my journey, I had no clue what I was doing. All I knew is what I wanted the outcome to be. I wanted to be healthy and after Andrew passed I was left with this fear I dying. Yeah, every couple hours I would go into hypothetical situations in my head of me or someone I knew dying and it was always something preventable. Like bones shattering from osteoporosis, dropping dead from climbing up stairs and not being able to breathe, or just something ridiculous that my brain told me was possible. All day. So I started working out. Not only to get my brain from going down a morbid path that would leave me teary eyed and in fear for my life and my friends and mom's, but for the sake of my health. And you know what, there are some shitty things that happen to your body.
Like SAUSAGE CASING THIGHS
Now, I'm no scientist, trainer, expert phd in kinesiology. But I can explain in the best way possible what the fuck is happening to your thighs. I know that feel, that gross feel. It's like your bloated from PMS in your thighs and not your stomach. All your pants make your thighs feel straight up like kielbasa when you try to put them on. I get it. We all do.
Let me guess, you are three weeks into a program ( starting strength or new rules for women?) and someone told you that you should be eating 500 a day more above maintenance.
Let me guess this too, you are eating totally "clean" and give yourself little snacks once a week as a cheat meal. Only egg whites, chicken, asparagus, and broccoli. And it somehow totals like 2700 a day.
LIES
Please, you arent eating 2700 calories worth of plain white chicken boobs a day. Not unless you live on a chicken farm and hate pooping. Everyone likes pooping and no one likes protein poops.
But with the pooping and programs aside, congrats on your newly found muscle. Feels weird right? Well, welcome. If you are choosing a bulking program then yeah, you will get bigger. If you do a recomp then its going to be slower and you wont even have the scale move.....I gained weight because I now have more lean muscle than I previously had body fat. Pick what you want, but dont complain half way through that you are gaining weight. You will. You will also lose a shit ton of inches, hell I lost 6 off my waist. There is no use complaining anymore, you have to plow through it and suck it up. When you start picking up weights you really need to stop relying on what the scale is telling you. You need to be looking at your lean body mass, inches not pounds, and for fucks sake, take a picture. Take them at the same time of day, in the same light.
Like SAUSAGE CASING THIGHS
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| Look mom, I'm deadlifting 185. |
Now, I'm no scientist, trainer, expert phd in kinesiology. But I can explain in the best way possible what the fuck is happening to your thighs. I know that feel, that gross feel. It's like your bloated from PMS in your thighs and not your stomach. All your pants make your thighs feel straight up like kielbasa when you try to put them on. I get it. We all do.
Let me guess, you are three weeks into a program ( starting strength or new rules for women?) and someone told you that you should be eating 500 a day more above maintenance.
Let me guess this too, you are eating totally "clean" and give yourself little snacks once a week as a cheat meal. Only egg whites, chicken, asparagus, and broccoli. And it somehow totals like 2700 a day.
LIES
Please, you arent eating 2700 calories worth of plain white chicken boobs a day. Not unless you live on a chicken farm and hate pooping. Everyone likes pooping and no one likes protein poops.
But with the pooping and programs aside, congrats on your newly found muscle. Feels weird right? Well, welcome. If you are choosing a bulking program then yeah, you will get bigger. If you do a recomp then its going to be slower and you wont even have the scale move.....I gained weight because I now have more lean muscle than I previously had body fat. Pick what you want, but dont complain half way through that you are gaining weight. You will. You will also lose a shit ton of inches, hell I lost 6 off my waist. There is no use complaining anymore, you have to plow through it and suck it up. When you start picking up weights you really need to stop relying on what the scale is telling you. You need to be looking at your lean body mass, inches not pounds, and for fucks sake, take a picture. Take them at the same time of day, in the same light.
