Will my body tell me when I need to eat?
I have recently gotten a new job where I don't have many opportunities to eat. I usually stress a sandwich i the morning, follow up with another sandwich during lunch and finish with a good portion of some potato-based dish in the evening before falling asleep, half dead. I work at a call center and don't do any training except a 30 min walk in the afternoon so I don't expend much energy during the day.
I've recently started wondering if my eating habits really give my body the energy it needs, since my only large meal is when I get home in the evening, when eat as much as I can. Can I trust my body to make me hungry early during the day (I only get hungry upon coming home) to make me increase my food intake, or should I start counting calories? Since I don't eat prepackaged food and don't follow precise recipes, I'd find it hard to make a good estimate. I eat a multivitamin pill every day so my vitamin/mineral intake should be fine.
Might be worth noting that I smoke about 5 cigs per day and eat a 200mg caffeine pill in the morning and another 200mg pill after lunch. I've been doing this for quite a while and still manage to feel hungry despite the caffeine and nicotine, probably because my tolerance should be rather high.
I could rephrase the question as will my body tell me that my calorie intake is too low, or will I slowly lose muscle mass/weight? I am a 20yr old male with a 22.7 BMI.
The total of 400 mg caffeine and cigs do still curb your appetite considerably, compared to the average stimulant free person, and while tolerance can be built up, it effects more the energy you get from caffeine, not the effect it has on your hunger levels. As a solid drinker of at least 3 large coffees a day (for at least 4 years now), the use of caffeine as apetite surpessant is still potent. Couple that with the effect of cigs on your apetite (which can never be gotten used to, source is my dad, a smoker of 20 years, who still uses them instead of breakfast. If the effect deteriorates in time, this should not be possible.) Couple that with your job, which I gather is exhausting in its mental aspect atleast (provides considerable distraction away from your biological needs) and I can safely say yes, you will need to at least eat smart and with a purpose, as in track calories in at least a rudimentary way, so you can be sure you don't start losing weight. When I started my factory job, I lost like 5kg in 2 months, simply by going to work and being too exhausted to care about food. Its a serious problem for people with normal eating habits ( not obese people! mind you, I know people that gain/maintain weight at incredibly intense and physically demanding jobs, its part of their personality to think about food intently).
>>42236394
Continuing, your body will give you signals that it craves energy, but not in the usual, straighforward way (intense hunger). You will get winded easily, your blood pressure will drop, you will start getting dizzy when getting out of bed, and the surefire way to notice you're losing weight is to sometimes hear ringing in your ears or they start to pop or get that out of plane/bus feeling in your inner ear. Its related to blood pressure and its the precursor to feeling sleepy more, losing sleep, feeling distracted and if you're like me, straight up lose endurance in the gym/ any kind of physical activity. Be careful, be smart, and gains will stay with you.
>>42236394
hmm, alright, thanks for the fast and elaborate answer.
Hoped I could avoid it, but I guess I have no choice but to count the calories I ingest. And yes, the job is mentally exhausting (compare it to explaining that 2 + 2 = 4 to 50 new and different 6 year olds a day, who are sure that 2 + 2 = 5 and don't really care for math). Off to read food packaging!
Does /fit/ use ZMA? Have you had any success? Asking for a friend
>>42236117
I use it but you have to cycle it. You get crazy vivid dreams with it, but they get weaker after a while with use, so you have to take time off of it. I recommend doing NOFAP for a while and then starting to use ZMA so you get those awesome wet dreams
You sleep like a log and wake up really refreshed as well. Great supplement
>>42236117
I have not. Best sleep is when I actually (rare) stop drinking alcohol (1 - 12 beers) for 3 days. Non Alcohol Influence Sleep is so amazing... (and yet I still get plastered).....
I use a CMZ supplement from Solgar Vitamins. Cal-Magnes-Zinc. I eat enough red meat to get my zinc, but shun dairy, so I need the cal and I need the magnesium to help with everything else.
>lemme get back to you when I decide to end my love with Guinness.
will I get a body like pic related if I do this?
Push (Chest/Triceps/Shoulders):
Flat Barbell Bench Press: 3x5
Seated (or Standing) Barbell Shoulder/Overhead Press: 3x5
Incline Barbell Bench Press: 3x5
Dumbbell Side Lateral Raise: 3x10-12
Rope Pushdowns (circuit machine): 3x10-12
Overhead Dumbbell Extension or similar triceps exercise: 3x10-12
Shrugs(circuit machine or dumbbells): 3x10-12
Pull (Back/Biceps):
Barbell Rows: 3x5
Lat Pulldowns with (Long Bar or V-bar) (circuit machine): 3x8-10
Seated Rows (circuit machine) - optional if already doing barbell rows: 3x8-10
Face-pulls: 3x-10-12
Barbell Bicep Curls (Alternate between close and normal grip): 4x-10-12
Choice of one other bicep exercise (typically Hammer Curls): 3x10-12
Legs (Quad/Ham/Calves):
Barbell Squats: 4x5-6
Leg Press (optional if already doing above squats): 3x8-10
Leg Extensions (circuit machine): 3x10-12
Hamstring Curls (circuit machine): 3x10-12
Standing Calf Raises (circuit machine): 5x10-12
with P/P/L/P/P/L[Rest]
>>42236044
Just do some situps and eat kale
>>42236044
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG who is that, goal body right there even if genetics means I will never achieve it.
>>42236044
>will I get a body like pic related
no
19 yo, since I've got into puberty my body developed this chest and stomach hair, I feel so insecure, I barely ever take my shirt off in front of people. How bad is it? Should I do something about it or is it actually fine?
You look an average guy OP. I don't see anything weird.
Yea I don't see any problems here. Great frame, look greater with more muscle on you
>>42236009
lift and eat 1000 cals above your TDEE
I heard some friends that have "sleep problems", they are all sedentary people. I feel this is bullshit, if you exercise enough you get so fucking tired that you need to sleep.
Does anyone here have this problem?
Nitro max real or fake?
Idk but the photos just look like he cut and used a better canera+pose+flex
I need motivational shit /fit/, specifically guy with gyne that have lost it or had surgery.
Also gyne thread, it controls my life.
Pic related
Lots of football players have gyno (not just fat tits)
Doesnt seem to matter to them
>>42235863
>Work on training chest everyday all day
>After you can bench 300+ cut down to 8% bf
>"""gyno"""" suddenly gone
You need more surface area on your pectorals for the fat cells to disperse.
>>42236844
You can train chest everyday? What about recovery?
>>42235847
Master QTE like Leon
Just bought 10 vials of this. What kind of gains should I expect and should I inject it directly into my bloodstream?
Expect to start seeing dyle lizard people stealing your gainz, and you'll also start yelling about the globalist during sets.
>>42235995
>>42235846
sunburn, also buy a belt
Hey /fit/
/v/tard here
I want to get fit and have started exercising recently
There's one problem. I feel like it's hard to keep track reps and shit
Is there a good app that helps with that?
>>42235603
Use a notepad and a pen. It's more concrete that way.
Don't worry elementary school should start in month. They will teach you how to count to 5.
There's an app called Strong that is supposed to be good, haven't used it though
Why the fuck does /fit/ consider a program like TM to be a good intermediate program? Shit barely has any volume.
/fit/ knows exceedingly little about programming
>>42235618
What do you consider a good intermediate program?
What supplement memes did you fall for?
Which ones will you keep falling for?
Personally, besides the obvious protein I just do BCAAs, preworkout, and fish oil.
tried bio-gro realised i had fallen for a meme now i buy straight colostrum (which is the same thing) for a quarter of the price
Creatine but I honestly think it's doing something
>>42235594
Test E + tren, working good so far
Trying to fight this illness so I can get back to lifting. What do you anons do to cure yourselves quick?
I ate 1kg of chicken today. What can I expect?
>a generation can be held responsible for "destroying" a housing market
>a generation can be held responsible for tuition prices
>a generation can be held responsible for a meme that isnt happening
faglenials really make me think
>>42235537
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji7Koeqlgeg
but you really only posted this thread because you wanted to gauge reactions to that image, didn't you
>>42235537
Dying, lots of it
>6th day of nofap after the gym
>>42235495
you got this, senpai
>>42235495
NOFAP man back at it again
You got it, just don't touch your dick, period
When you are about to cum, your body extracts a lot of precious proteins, minerals and other goodies from your organs, including the brain. All this is send into the sperm for the most holy purpose of creating a new human being. When you masturbate every day you are constantly leeching important nutrients from your body, zinc for example. You are also depleting your testosterone and other hormones. As the days go by, your brain becomes cloudy and more stupid, your organs become weaker and weaker. Sicknesses await to sprout in your body and alert you of your wrong living. Your eyesight worsens. The hormonal disbalance makes you easily upset and reactive, like a woman.