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@heavenlyboheme I think you went a little hard on this response. I was just asking a question about what someone said on YouTube, not continuously comparing myself to him in any matter of depth you describe.

@blesslee This post has a 83% upvote rate and I've been reading every single comment; I'd have to disagree. It's been mostly encouraging (or at worst, dismissed as a non-issue). Only 1/96 comments thus far explicitly mentioned something about "needing to unpack that" and it was in reference to...

@dawn16 That's all true! It's not so much about having a specific number on my pants. It was more so lamenting on the realization of change I wasn't expecting, in a direction I had never previously considered a positive thing. I just kind of felt defeated when I ordered a pant size bigger than...

@twinmama That body was until I was about 24 or so. Then I graduated college, got married, and started a new desk job all at once (plus COVID happened soon after), so maybe I could stand to be a little more lenient on myself for all the changes I had to endure all at once. I think it's more...

@gomikey89 I only lift with my trainer for 1 hour each week. He wants me to do more than that, but honestly, I don't really like lifting that much. It's not exactly fun for me (in fact, I find it pretty boring), even if I sometimes do feel really good afterward. My trainer is just a fun guy so...

@kurtschultz Interesting! I'll look it up and ask my trainer about it.

@cmoby Oh yeah, I find the movement of deadlifts to be really weird and unnatural. Even when my trainer will say I did some perfect reps, it feels weird. Maybe I'm just too used to the type of movements of yoga/pilates (where something like that this completely foreign). Even the concept of...

@cmoby Honestly I never used gym equipment before the 6 months of personal training I've had (solely body weight exercises like pilates, yoga, and running before then). By PPL do you mean push-pull-legs? Maybe I don't know enough about it to understand the differences but I'll ask my trainer...

@anon103 It can also be a wallet problem... rip

@whroll I'm 5'8" and when I was size 0 I had very little body fat and was generally at the lower edge of healthy weight and I would generally just eat when I felt hungry. With very modest workouts and just a lot of walking from college plus my PTJ that required me to walk all over campus. My...

@egm3248 Well, I guess you could consider this me asking if lifting might not be compatible with that.

@jewish_inquirer 20 lbs from what was previously my normal weight over the last several years, not in 6 months. I've been working out at various consistencies through all of this time, it's just that I started lifting 6 months ago and noticed the most change from that activity. But hey, you're...

@russel The rules only mention ED/body dysmorphia. Being bummed about your body changing unexpectedly doesn't seem to me like it would count as body dysmorphia. Idk what your post was about but maybe someone interpreted it as being more related to that topic and reported it. But yeah it's more...

@waiting_soul Sorry I might have explain it wrong in my post; I've gained about 20 lbs in the last several years, it's just been 6 months since I started lifting. But besides that, you have a good point. I don't think I've fully figured out the nutrition component now that I'm lifting...

@x That's exactly it! It's mostly my butt that's bigger which makes finding pants kind of difficult because they either don't fit my butt or they're extra loose in the waist. I have one pair of dress pants I wear to work (alternating with leggings... no one has called me out on it yet lol) and...

@christian33 I’m realizing just how dang complicated this actually is! I took a pregnancy test this morning just in case and it was negative so luckily that’s out. But others have said increased activity can also mess with hormones so I’m not completely out of the water there just yet.

@velvety777 Honestly, no, not intentionally. I figured I would focus on getting a base level of fitness first then try cutting fat later. I thought that focusing on losing fat while I’m having the energy problems would be a recipe for disaster. So I’ve been taking the route of just eating when...

@i_need_god I mostly wanted to lament on the realization I had the other day when I bought new pants, even in a size up from what I was expecting, for them to still not fit. Like I had to go through the mental exercise of being okay with that higher size in the first place, then I come to find...

@velvety777 I’d say so. I’ve gained almost 7 lbs in this time frame of about 6 weeks. Some of it is surely muscle, but I do have a tiny bit of stubborn pandemic belly fat as well, which has reduced mostly. I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been right now, actually, but also the strongest. Currently...

@velvety777 I think I average like 5 days a week usually. So I do have some rest days. The double classes happen maybe twice a week. I’m just wondering why it’s a problem in the first place. Like I said, the classes aren’t very challenging yet I’ll see people talk about hitting the gym hard 6...